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the settlement of the Catholic Question, but mustlie gainers by it, inasmuch as it will restore them the political influence of which they have been 4 deprived by the miraculous union which has taken place among all classes of Catholics. But the body of Orangemen will be losers, be cause their monopoly will be thrown open to all their countrymen, an d th e y w ill have the mo r t i s fication of seeing themselves no longer in greater request than their Catholic neighbours. In this quarter, theref or e, we may expect a very obsti nate opposition. It is all opposition, however which a wise Government would disregatel, be • cause it has for its object to keep su c h overnment weak, by preventing it from Its ti ng f or support eis th e whole people, and rappelling it to take refuge with a part to keep down the remainder, The Irish Orangemen say boldly to the _Go vernment, let us have a Rebellions If the Ca tholics are, at present, unmanageable, you have vnlY to call for our aid, and we will adjust the political balance by the sword. But this is the desperate language of desperate men. In this country th e conduct of the Duke of Wellington, in endeavouring to place Ireland out of danger, by giving Catholics and Protestants one interest, will receive very general approbation. No one can say the attempt will have been made befere it was necessary. Let us suppose the arrange ment delayed for a few years longee, and that there were no cause to apprehend any interrup tion to the tranquillity of the country, %hat would be gained by this delay ? The Catholics will only be more powerful, compared with the Protestants, than they are now. The Catholics form the people everwls,, e ... i e, except in one or two districts 9 ( the orth. Now, as in every country in which castes do not exist the rich are celstatitly falling into the ranks of the poor, while poor men are ascending to the rankS of the rich, the ?number of rich Protestants will be constantly diminishing, while the number of rich Catholics will be as constantly increasing ; be cause the number who rise from the ranks of the poor to wealth will be chiefly Catholics, they be mg the people. An ingenious Italian has taken the Nobility of Europe, in the time of Charlemain, at a given number, and shewn that, according to the laws of probability, not one fa mily of that number could be in existence in the present day. If we could suppose that rich Catholics would never change their religion (a supposition do not entertain, believing that the same Vanity which makes old Catholic families cling to their religion, as a source of diStinction, would lead new families to - be of the religion which has power on its side), no long time would elapse before - the Protestant Nobility and Gentry of Ireland must be extinct. However, the middling classes—the great strength of every country—would, at all events, become exclu sively Catholic ere long. In Swift's time, the Catholics, or native Irish, were deemed unde serving of notice in any estimate of the power of Ireland. Now the Catholics abound in trade, law, and medicine. Our Inns of Court here swarm with Catholic Students; and the Irish Bar is becoming thst Catholic. The disposi tion of the natural force of the country, there fore, leaves in truth no option to the Govern ment as to settling the Catholic Question. Were the Duke of Wellington to leave it unsettled, so far from gaining in reputation by the delay, all sensible men could only compare his conduct to that of the prodigal, who consults his present ease at the expence of his means of exist ence for the future, by allowing arrears of interest to swell the amount of a heavy debt. So long as a great proportion of the Nobility and Gentry were not convinced of the impossibility of rubbing on much longer, there might be some excuse for a Government wishing to spare itself the hazard and the trouble of the experiment of a settlement. But a conviction has been fur nished by the union of the Catholics, must have found its way to the most obdurate understandings. The certainty of the loss of political influence, and a well-founded apprehen sion of the loss of something still more essential, when the alternative is settlement or subjugation through a compulsory rebellion, are not likely to leave the Aristocracy long in doubt as to the most eligible course. The Duke of Wellington has, therefore, the strongest motives now for hastening a settlement, and. no intelligible mo tive for delaying it. To escape from a difficulty continually increasing, he has no way open to him but a comprehensive settlement. With re spect to Mr. Dawson, he must prepare himself for much obloquy. The Orangemen will, as a matter of policy, heap reproaches on him to deter others from following his example. But all their exertions will be unavailing. The tide is set in towards settlement, and men of mark will float with it. In matters of this kind, the earlier the abandonment the greater the merit. If Messrs. Brownlow and Dawson h ave been exposed to much obloquy from those they have quitted, they will be the more thought of, on account of their foresight and determination, by those whom. they have joined. Crammer and Latimer arc apostates with the Catholics; but they rank deservedly higher with the Protestants than those who floated down the fyide stream of conversion. Mr. Dawson is reproached for re peating the very reasons for a change of side which had so often been addressed without effect to himself. Waterford and Clare, no doubt, supplied a motive which came pow er f u ll y i n • aid of the understrnding. But what a havoc would we make in the two Houses of Patn a _ . anent, were we to excommunicate all who act, not from a conviction of what would benefit the public, but what would be advantageous to them selves personally.• Perhaps there might be ten men at most in the House of Commons who could stand the ordeal. Mr. Dawson's-connec tiops are Orange; .he could only oleain influence through Orangemen. If he had not opposed th e C a th o li cs , he might have been a more honest man ; but he would never have been Under Se.. cretary of State. - Morning Chronicle. The conversion of Mr. Dawson, the brother in-law of the present Home Secretary, and Pro testant Champion, to the cause of Catholic Emancipation, is one of those events for which the public was certainly by no means prepared by any previous demonstrations on the part of the Right Hon. Gentleman. Hitherto, indeed, he has been an uncompromisin g enemy to any further concessions to the Catholics ; the most violent of the violent against the very cause of which he now professes himself th e ardent ad locate ; and so linked by birth, by alliance, and by office, to continue in the same tract, that the most sanguine friends of the `Catholi cs could scarcely have venture d to anticipate the change which has taken place. But time is a mighty instructor, and when a whole people, such as that of Ireland, which has long groaned un der a heavy load of oppression, awakes from its torpor, and becomes aware of the important truth, that it has only to rouse itself in order to be free, the lesson which it teaches is scarcely less influential. This has been the case; with Ireland.. For years--yea, centuries—she has groaned under the most oppressive treatment which seven millions of people could possibly have borne at the hands of another nation--she now feels her strength, and the mere threat to . exert it has already sent an arrow to the heart of lone of the bitterest opponents of her claims I The acquisition by the Catholics of Ireland of Mr. Dawson's support to their claims, is in itself a matter of tilmost pure indifference. It gives them Qne vote more, and that is all ; for the talents of the Under Secretary are not of that powerful and persuasive character . that would operate very forcibly on the intellects of his colleagues but fr another point . of view hi s conversion is decidedly a matter of the greatest 'importance. As a servant of the Crown. he must be supposed to know something of the sentiments of hit colleagues ; and though it would be 'extremely unfair to infer from the mete circumstance of his conversion, the con- Version of the higher members of the Govern ment, yet coupli ng th a t c ircum s t ance w i t h ot h ers of a similar nature, we think little doubt need be entertained that there is now a serious intention, on the part of the Government, to take the state of Ireland into consideration, and to adopt such measures as, by removing the chief causes of Irish discontent, may effectually put down those revo lutionary agitators who have again and again in cited the people to rebellion, and who only are popular because the people are poor and discon tented. But leaving this point out of view, the conversion of Mr. Dawson is important in another respect. Though it would be uncandid and un generous to charge the Right Hon. Gentleman with having changed his mind simply because Mr. V. Fitzgerald had been ousted, and the Catholics of Ireland had come to the de termination not to send any Member to Par liament who would not regularly oppose the measures of an Administration 'which had resolved against their claims, yet it would be pay ing a sorry compliment to .his understanding to admit for a moment that these circumstances have not had their effect, ,and that Mr. Dawson has not seen much more clearly, since the oc currence of these events, the necessity of settling the affairs of Ireland than he did previously. We therefore say to the Catholics, stick to this point, and there is no fear that you will soon have friends in abundance. Look to your own strength, and to your own good conduct as the surest means of success ; but discard the direc tion both of your priests and your agitators with what speed you may, and above all beware of at tempting to force emancipation on the people of England ; for while you are guided by the for mer, the British Legislature will not listen to your prayers ; and if you resort to the latter, the whole population of the two Protestant king doms will be in arms against you.—Morning Advertiser. The speech of Mr. Dawson, at Derry, con firms us m the opinion we have expressed, that it is the intention of the Duke of -Wellington to take some steps for setting at rest the Catholic Question. It . is absurd to conceive that Mr. Dawson, considering the station he holds, and the ties by which he is bound to the present Cabinet, could have used the words imputed to him—and which have evidently been studied before their delivery—without understanding the intention of his colleagues in office. This speech is exceedingly important, inasmuch as it shows that the Duke of Wellington, in the observations he made the last time the Catholic Question was before the Legislature, was neither so insin cere nor so indefinite as some Journals took pains to prove him to have been, but was then, and has been since, employed in preparing the way for the settlement of this question.—Morn ' iitg Herald. When Mr. Goulburn, in bringing forward the Budget, stated that, from the promising state of the crops, he saw little prospect of any duties being paid into the Treasury, during the ensuing year, on account of imported corn, the state ment, even at that-time, filled with astonishment every one - who really knew any thing of the matter - ; for, laying the subsequent unfortunate state of the weather entirely out of the question, it is quite notorious that the most flattering view of the wheat crop offered nothing like an average. Subsequent events have greatly diminished even that. From all that we have heard of the pro spects of the present harvest, we should say that there may be a deficiency of two months' con sumption arising from it.- Those two months would be those of June and July in the next The spirit which is gradually arising among the Protestants of Ireland is a theme upon which we cannot too often or too warmly congratulate the public. The celebrations at Derry and at Enniskillen, and the dinner given in Dublin to Mr. Moore, the Protestant Representative of that city (some further particulars of which are given in our preceding columns), arc events of so interesting a nature that we recur to them with umningled satisfaction. At the festivity in Dub lin, where were assembled the noblest, the wisest, and the most loyal of Irish Protestants, one una nimous expression of opinion and resolution burst forth. The zealous and uncompromising support of the Protestant Constitution of the Empire, by the influence, the authority—if necessary by the arms—of the distinquished men there present, is the lofty and honourable pledge which we have the proud satisfaction to record..., These we are perisuaded arc no vain or umneaning professions. The pledge thus solemnly given, will, whenever the oc casion may ar i se , b e g l or i ous l y re d eeme d. Nor is the value and importance of this pledge to be accurately estimated with refe rence merely to the rank, wealth, numbers, or social and politi ca l importance of the persons assembled, great as all these unquestionably were. They spoke the name of the whole body of loyal Irish i ' i Protestants, whose bosoms, witk scarcely an exception, beat in unison with tl'ieir patriotic sentiments and determined resolu tions. Neither do we revi ew t h e proceedings at Derry, in celebration of that auspicious day, which secured to Ireland the blessings of the British Constitution, upon the whole with less satisfaction. If the mistaken doctrines of conci liation were obtruded upon the meeting, if they ded even from a n authority hitherto proceedeemed high, they proved no more than a feeble bulrush, when opposed to the impetuous and resistless torrent ofgenuine, manly, unsophisticated loyalty. Even the respectable and clever individual wh o advanced these disorganizing doctrines could not mislead or corrupt the clear and vigorous un derstanding ()limy one of' his auditors. In ex hibiting the poison, he presented at the same time; iu copious draughts, the effective i and infallibl e an tid o t e . If th e s t a te of society' n Ireland be convulsed—if those ties upon which the well-being of society depends be in a state of diSsolution—if the condition of the country he an anomaly in the history of civi lized nations, having no parallel in ancient or modern times, contrary to the character of all civil institutions, and tending directly to ge neral anarchy and confusion—if it be true that an immense majority of the people look up, not to the legitimate Government,' but to an irre sponsible and self-constituted Association, for the administration of the affairs of the country —if the peace of Ireland depend not upon t.lie Government of the King, but upon the dictation of the Catholic Association—if that Associ ation have defied the Government, and trampled upon the law of the land—if that same power which banished a Cabinet Minister from the re presentation of his county because he was a Minister of the King, can maintain or disturb the peace of the country, just as may suit its caprice or ambition—if the same danger impend over every institution established by law ; if this be, as there can be no doubt it is, an accurate representation of the state of Ireland, to what, we ask, is it to be ascribed, but to that very sys tem of conciliation which has emboldened and strengthened a cabal of Agitators, which has held the laws in abeyance till they have become the objects of contempt—which has condemned the loyal Protestants of Ireland, a body great and powerful in numbeii, a b o dy i n , finitely superior to the confederated ene mies of Government and law, in wealth, in telligence, constitutional power, physical and mental energy, to comparative silenc e and inac tivity, until their existence has been almost for gotten ? When we are told that the incomes of the Clergy and Landowners of a:whole nation depend upon the will of an illegal Association— that the latter have become either ciphers upon their own estates, or have been forced to become the obedient tools of that illegal Association, surely it requires no more to convince us of the necessity of forcibly putting it down. An Asso ciation wielding such powers as Mr. Dawson accurately described, is a monster to be pro scribed and destroyed, not an authority which Government can either with dignity or safety attempt to propitiate. All the evils, great and numerous as they are, which would, in any circumstances, as we believe, flow from what is called Catholic Emancipation, would be in creased and multiplied if the measure were an act of concession to claimants of this de scription. Whatever benefits the advocates of that measure expect from it, must of necessity he frustrated should it be weakly yielded to the cla morous demands of men usurping the powers and functions of Government. The view which Mr. Dawson has presented of the state of Ire land—and its accuracy cannot be disputed—re duces the question of Emancipation to a se condary question. The previous question to be determined is no other than this : Shall the ma jesty of the Laws, and the proper functions and powers of Government be maintained, or shall they be abandoned to contempt and derision ? In the present state of Ireland this is the simple and paramount question, to which all others, in cluding that of Emancipation itself, from which it is evidently distinct, must be postponed. Upon this question we feel that to compromise any thing is to surrender all ; and we do not hesitate to declare our opinion, that whoever at tempts in any way to effect such a compromise, let him be the advocate or the opponent of Emancipation, is in effect, though not in de sign, the enemy of all law and government, and is justly chargeable with the most pitiable cowardice or the grossest folly.—Morn. Post. When Mr. Charles Brownlow, in an unlucky hour, turned his back upon his friends and him self, and, from being a zealous Orangeman, be came an active and noisy demagogue, the cha racters of our statesmen received a shock frOm which they have not recovered. The ratting was so glaring, and the motive for it so obvious, that it did much to shatter public confidence, and to induce men to view with an eve of dis trust and suspicion those whose faith and whose honour they had been wont to consider as pure as truth itself. Mr. Brownlow expected that the Catholic Question would be 'carried and settled—he was desirous to stand well in the es timation of Mr. Canning—he wished to come round with a full sail, and be the first of the renegade fleet on the tide of fortune, and, poor man, though he only made himself ridiculous, and evinced the equal shallowness of his morals and his understanding, he inflicted much injury on the reputation of modern patriots. There is something in the " going about" of Mr. George Dawson, which has a strong resemblance to the "yeering"of Mr. Charles Brownlow. The patriot ism of the latter was born " to waste its sweetness on the desert air ;" his hopes were disappointed in the bud ; the measure miscarried, and death levelled to the earth the dreams of his ambition and his patron at the same moment. Mr. Dawson is pretty nearly in the same predicament. At the very instant he is provoking the hisses and the reproaches of his insulted Protestant consti tuents, the cause which he' has abandoned is daily obtaining fresh adherents, whose courage, roused to madness, threatens to bear down be fore it all opposition. The Protestants have at length taken the alarm, and have fairly thrown off their apathy. They yielded to the admoni tions of the liberals as far as they could yield with safety. They were silent to the last extre mity. They calmly contemplated at a distance the designs of their opponents ; but now they find that resignation has only invoked increased resentments and more audacious threats—that their silence is ascribed to their weakness—and that if they do not rally and. exhibit their strength, and declare their principles in a firm and resolute tone, there can be neither safety for them, their, estates, their rights, nor their reli gion. The meetings in all parts of Ireland are a proof of this. ' The sentiments manfully re corded at the meeting of Mr. Moore's friends do honour to the Protestants of Dublin. There was no shuffling —no mincing of mock-patriotic‘ words—no flirting with opposite opinions—no dallying with the fears, or the wishes, or the injunctions of the Government—but that open and undisguised language which bespeaks union and determination. The Protestants of Ireland are at present what their fathers were. At the eleventh hour they arouse themselves, and become sensible of their danger, and they now show that they have the spirit and the power to meet and crush those machinations which have long been secretly directed to accomplish their ruin—the ruin of the Established Church, and the ascendancy of the Church of Rome. From the bottom of our hearts we wish them success ; with our loudest cheer we cheer them on ; and we pray God that they may never re-. linquish the struggle, never sit still in fear under their threatened roofs, till they have extinguished and the drivenabo nin f a r b on le , tirrealaninidy theof tleeelu'rospedislai agitators, who have revelled and robbed, and disorganized all that countrv. is. d T e h ar ey to the have inhabitants theirhands of tothatthe plough ; they can conquer if they Will ; victory is their own, if they pursue it; but woe be to them if they now turn back ! If they shrink from the enterprize, if they again retire to am bush, if they once more skulk in holes and corners, afraid to be bold, reluctant to be un compromising, their fate is sealed, their Church must fall, their enemies must triumph. Union and resolution will overcome every difficulty, and the race of the Brownlows and the llawsons will thid in ignominy and defeat the just reward of their apostacy.---Netu Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—A master baker, who resides in Lombard-street, was summoned to the justice-room, to answer for an assault npon a young gentleman who occa sionally does business on the Stock-exchange. The complainant stated, that as he was passing through Lombard-street, he saw the defendant's 8014 and daughter standing at the hall-door, and he joined them, and walked into the hall, where they were chatting for a short time, when the defendant came down stairs in a hurry, without shoes or slippers, and attacked him in the most furious manner. Complainant was acquainted with the son, and therefore considered himself entitled to stand in the hall in conversation ; but the defendant, without asking him a single question, struck him a violent blow for speaking to his daughter (to whom the complainant supposed his pri vilege of address extended), and bundled him out of the house. He declared that the conversation he had been enjoying when thus disturbed was not of a peculiar nature, so that the defendant was altogether without justification or excuse. The defendant pleaded guilty to part of the charge, but submitted that he ought to be excused, in consideration of his duty as a parent. He had certainly bundled the young gentleman into the street, but he had not struck him. The fact was, he heard the complainant, with whom he was not acquainted, and whom he was not ambitious of know ing, talking to his daughter in the passage, and it occurred to him that he might as well put an end to the acquaint ance at once ; for which reason he ran down, as was said, in his stockings, and seizing the gallant gentleman by the collar, shoved him neck and crop into the street, but with out doing him the least violence, The complainant did not take this very kindly, but had his revenge afterwards ; for no sooner was he removed from the premises vi et armis than a large paving-stone was flung into the drawing.roors through the glass, either by him or hie companions, who kicked up a dust outside. The complainant most solemnly denied the truth of the statement. He never threw or authorized the throwing of the stone. Mr. nobler (to complainant)—And pray, Sir what right bad you to go into the house ? Was it your Own ? Complainant—No, Sir, it was not my house. Mr. Hobler—And why should you go about cater wauling on this gentleman's premises ? You had no busi ness there, Sir. A father is the natural protector of his daughter. The complainant thought the brother's presence a suffi cient security. Alderman ANSLEY said he should net act in this case. If the complainant thought himself aggrieved, he had only to indict the defendant at the Sessions.—The case was then dismissed. A wretched-looking man was brought up under the fol lowing circumstances. Between four and five o'clock on the previous morning, a voice was heard at Billingsgate stairs lustily calling for help. The prisoner was seen struggling rather more than breast high in the water.— Assistance was rendered to him, and he was got out.— From his own statement it appeared that he was a labour ing man, and that he was cursed with a scolding wife, who seized his money and abused him. After having endured a severe infliction from her, he quitted home, and rushed into the river with the determination of destroying him self, but the water at that spot was not sufficiently deep to take him over head, and the sensation it produced recalled his love of life, and made him call out for aid. Alderman ANSLEY dismissed the poor man with an ad monition. The Alderman learning that he had a child, reminded him that it was his duty to live and protect the offspring he had brought into the world, and not abandon it to be wretchedly maintained by others. GUILDHALL.--Dlr. Win. Gilman attended upon a summons before Sir JOHN PEEING yesterday, charged with assaulting a fashionable-looking young man named William Williams. The complainant stated, that the defendant, who keeps the White Bear public-house, in Prince's-street, Red Lion square, had recently been fined 51. at Hatton-garden, for suffering gambling in his house, and complainant, who hail been duped out of his watch and a good deal of money at this house, was bound over in 501. to prosecute at the sessions, and was recommended by the Magistrates I to lay several informations by way of reimbursing his losses. Since that he had not been able to walk the streets without being insulted by the defendant and the gamblers who infest his house, and who were then stand ing about him (looking round at six or seven well-dressed men). On Sunday morning, as he was returning from church, one of them called out, " There goes a perjured villain—there goes Williams the informer." Sometimes grosser terms were applied to him; and on Wednesday last, as he was leaving the Court of Requests in Guildhall yard, with his landlady on his arro, the defendant, who was standing at the door, pushed against him, and finding lie paid no attention to him, called after him, " There goes Williams the informer," and threw a piece of granite at him, which struck his hat. His landlady was tit to drop when she heard what he was called. He did not complain of being actually injured, but of the annoyance, and lie trusted the Magistrate would protect him from it in future. Airs. Burton, the lady alluded to, who was dressed in deep mourning, said she heard the expression " Williams the informer," and saw a stone strike his hat, but did not see it thrown. Defendant denied having used any violence. He had neither elbowed him, nor flung the stone at him. Two friends were standing with him who would positively con tradict what the complainant had sworn. The two persons declared the defendant did not fling the stone. They sawitthrown. Complainant said he was very well acquainted with Mr. Gilnaan's person, and could not he mistaken. He was looking round when the defendant threw the stone, and he also saw him pick up another. SirJonN PERKING said, as the assault was so positively sworn to, he must send the case to the Sessions. He would leave it to a Jury to say which side spoke the truth. De fendant must find bail. Complainant said he had no wish to proceed any farther, and he would withdraw his complaint, if defendant would only promise not to annoy him again. Defendant said he would not come to any terms with him. He would take his trial, and indict complainant for perjury in what he had sworn. The defendant was accordingly held to bail. BOW-STREET.—At a late hour last night, a gentle man named Armitage, who resides at Epsom, was brought up in custody of Ledbitter, the officer, under a warrant obtained against him on the information of a gentleman named Perry, and c}iarged before Mr. H'ALLs under the circumstances which will afterwards appear. The parties were attended by their solicitors. The name of Mr. Armitage's solicitor we could not obtain, and Mr. Roche, of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, appeared for IVIr. Perry. Mr. HALLS, who had had some conversation on the subject, observed that as it was the intention of the de fendant to give bail, it would be unnecessary to go mi nutely into the nature of the charge, which would other wise be expedient. Mr. ArMitage said, be was prepared to give bail, and required to be informed as to the amount that would be expected. HALLs—It must be considerable. " The sum, I perceive, is 2,3001. Suppose I say Mr. Armitage's own recognizance in 2,000/. and two sureties in 1,0001. each, will that satisfy you, Mr. Roche? Mr. Roche—That will do, I think. It will cover the transaction. Mr. Armitage's solicitor said, be feared it; would be im practicable to obtain bail that night. Mr. HALLS--Well, it can stand over until to-morrow. The clerk then proceeded to read the information front the office-book. It stated that John Whitehead Perry, in the month of July, 1827, contracted with William Armi tage for the purchase of a leasehold estate near Epsom, for the sum of 4,000/. On investigating the title, however, it was found that Mr. Armitage, in August, 1824, had grant ed an under-lease of the premises in question to a person of the name of William Stanford, for a term of years, of which 18 remained unexpired. As soon as this discovery was made, Mr. Perry of course declined to complete his purchase, unless a surrender of this under-lease were ob tained, or that satisfactory proof were adduced that it had been cancelled. In order to obviate the difficulty, and to induce Mr. Perry to conclude his bargain, Mr. Ar mitage waited on him and showed him a piece of parch ment, with seals and signatures attached, annexed to an affidavit on the subject. He told him that the parch ment was cut from the under lease to Sanford, and that the seals and signatures which appeared thereon were the seals and signatures of the instrument referred to. Under this representation, and the confidence which be placed on Mr. Armitage's assertion, Mr. Perry at length consented to pay the purchase- money, and accordingly handed over to Mr. Armitage a bill of exchange for 2,3001. and 1,7001. in money. Since then it had been ascertained, that the under lease to Sanford was still in being, and operative, and not as Mr. Armitage had stated, cancelled. This was the cir. cumstance which brought the transaction under the cogni. Lance of the criminal law. Mr. HALLS -That is the nature of the charge as far as it is known to me at present ; and as bail is to be put in, I desire to know no more on the subject. As it may be an accommodation to Mr. Armitage, he may remain for the night at the watch-house. - Mr. Armitage thanked the Magistrate, and remarked that he was most anxious to meet the charge, and the instant he heard it bad been made against him, he put himself into custody to face it. Mr. Roche admitted this. He said, be that morning was about to write to Mr. Fillet respecting a proposition made by Mr. Armitage, but at the time learned that the warrant had actually issued, and Mr. Perry had been arrested on the bill. Mr. Armitage's solicitor said the writ only issued that morning. Mr. Roche said, he knew that, as Mr. Perry had been arrested coming to the office. Mr. HALLS suggested, that it would be advisable to say no more about the matter then. There was no occasion for delaying Mr. Perry and his friend's departure. (A laugh.) The parties then retired, and Mr. Armitage was conducted by Ledbitter to St. Martin's watch-house. HATTON-GARDEN.—On Monday Mr. Griffith and Mr. Gardener, persons of very respectable appearance, brought before Mr. LAING, the sitting Magistrate, a boy belonging to the Welch Charity School, in Gray's Inn lane, whom they said had been most cruelly and unjustly beaten by the Secretary of that establishment. They understood that the boy had been accused of going out through one of the‘windows with a book in his mouth; and that, as soon as the Secretary was told of this, he beat him with a cane to such an excess, that his arms, and other parts of his body, retained convincing proofs of the undue severity which had been used. The boy had pre viously declared himself innocent, and stated that he was only playing in the yard at the time; and that the nurse had given false information. " It was therefore hoped that the Magistrates would grant some redress for treatment so severe and unmerited. Mr. LAnw—Are boys then not to be well thrashed by their superiors when they disobey their commands ? It is come to a pretty pass if Magistrates will listen to com plaints of this nature. I dare say the boy was in fault, and that he richly deserved a sound beating. Mr. Gardener—The boy denies having been guilty of any fault; and if he was not, chastisement ought not to have been inflicted. Mr. LAING—Who arc you, Sir? Are you related to the boy ? Mr. Gardener—l am not ; but motives of humanity prompted my interference. I did not even know the boy. LAING—How did you come then to know the cir cumstance? Mr. Gardener—The boy called on Mr. Grif fith, with whom he was acquainted, aad informed him of the fact ; and the latter having mentioned the case to me, I thought it deserving of the interference of the Magistrates. The boy was now questioned by the Magistrate, and confirmed the above statement on his behalf, adding that he had done nothing to deserve so severe a beating, and that, after the Secretary had finished it, he toll the nurse to give him his cap, and send him about his business ; he was, therefore, obliged to have recourse to Mr. Griffith, who kept him since Saturday. Mr. LAING (to the boy)—Have you no parents? Boy father is dead, and I do not know where my mother lives, as she has lately changed her lodgings. Mr. Lairrc—l think you are a very bad boy, and I have no doubt you richly deserved the thrashing you got. Mr. Griffith said the boy had been six years in the school, and he understood he was considered a very good and clover boy, and that there were but very few com plaints against him. If there was any doubt of the cruelty which had been used, that would be removed by inspecting the marks on the boy's limbs. Limbrick, an officer of this establishment, was desired by the Magistrate to take the boy into a private room, for the purpose of ascertaining if there were suchmarks as described. - On the officer's return, he informed the Magistrate that the boy had the appearance of having been very badly treated. He had marks on his arms and thighs, and some of them looked more like the effect of kicks than strokes of a cane. Mr. LAING—Let an officer call on the Secretary, and tell him to attend here to-morrow,or;whenever it is his con venience. It would be attaching too much importance to the boy's complaint to issue a summons. If the boy's story proves untrue, it will be worse for him ' • for he will get another good beating, and then pr o b a bly b e turned out of the school.—The parties then withdrew. Yesterday, in consequence of a message from this Of f ice, Mr. Hayward, the Secretary of the Welch Charity-school, accompanied by the nurse, entered the Office at the hour appointed. Mr. Griffith, and Mr. Gardener, and James Davis, the boy, were also in attendance. The latter, who is a child about 14 years of age, of an intelligent and prepossessing , countenance, repeated, in the presence of Mr. Sergeant SELLON, the statement he had made on the former day. The nurse at the Welch School, on being sworn, stated that on Saturday last there was a change of masters, and, as was usual on such occasions, the boys were almost in a state of complete rebellion. She saw the complainant, James Davis, coming out of the school-room window, with a book in his mouth. She informed the master, but he not having chastised the boy, she communicated the fact to the Secretary, who gave him a sound beating with his cane, which she , thought he richly deserved. The Secretary made the same statement as the nurse with respect to the state of confusion which arises among the bobs whenever a change of masters takes place, and said that, when he heard of the complainant's coming out of the school window with a book in his mouth, he thought it his duty to make an example of him, in order to preserve subordination among the boys. He therefore gave him a sound beating 'with a cane he had in his hand, and after that he desired the nurse to give hiin his cap and send him away; but he would have taken' him in again it he came back, not with the intention of keeping him in the school, but for a short time, until he could be provided for in some other way. He might have sent him from school long since, and he had been there only upon suf ferance for the last six months. He had been punished on a former occasion for theft, and his taking a book from the school in this instance was considered in the same light. Mr. Sergeant SELLorr said, that had the boy been brought before the Magistrates for the theft, they, no doubt, would have directed him to have been taken back to the school, and to get the 'chastisement which lisd al ready been inflicted. Under these circumstances he should dismiss the complaint. Mr. Griffith and Mr. Gardener were about entering into some further explanation, when they were interrupted by Mr. LAING, who told them they had no right to inter fere in the matter, and added that the boy richly deserved the beating he got. . The boy is now out of the charity school, is without a father, and is ignorant of, the place to which his mother has removed. WORSHIP-STREET.---Mr. Smart, a Member of the College of Surgeons, and who is connected with a Luna tic Asylum called the White House, at Bethnal-green, ap pesed before the Magistrates to obtain their signatures, to enable a pauper lunatic, named Ed wardDorville, to'be placed under their care. Mr. Bantinwron having expresied a wish to see the man, he was handed before him, and evinced strong syrup.. toms of' extreme imbecility of intellect, although in other respects a fine-looking young man. The Overseer of the parish where he was brought from (in Buckinghamshire), informed the Magistrate that the parish had allowed six shillings a week to a person to take care of him ; hut the poor man having become very violent at times, that person (who is now present) has declined to do so any more, al though they (the parish) offered to increase the sum allowed. Mr. BaouGtiroN having signed the document, the poor unfortunate man was conveyed away in a coach. TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK.—Mary and Sarni. Farrel, man and wife, appeared by summons to answer for assaulting and confining a lady named Kelly , the wife of a Captain on half-pay, in Great Union-street, Borough pad. Mrs. Kelly stated, that on Saturday morning last she sent her servant to the shop of the defendants, for a loaf of assailed with a repet i t i on of bread, which being of very bad quality , was returned, and that, in consequence, the female sent back a most insulting message, and not feeling inclined tamely to put up with it, she went herself to the shop to insist u pon an explanation, but instead of obtaining it was assailed the offensive language , and twice threatened with a blow in the face from her clinched hand. At this time the hus band came in, and not only adopted a si m il ar li ne o f con duct, but when remonstrated with on the baseness of it, said he had not done with her, seized her by the shoulder, thrust her into the passage, locked both the front aid back door, and kept her prisoner for n ear l y h a lf an h our ; an d to the Magistrate's inquiry whether any previous misunder standing had existed between them, she answered not the slightest, she never having been in the shop above tl and then scarcely e xchanged a d ozen w o r d s with then3 , l The defendants insisted, in a sanctified tone, that ; complainant had given them a world of unnecessary troy. and, moreover, was quite their match in the artist abuse, calling them, amongst other things, "a wrstl psalm-singing set." " That I most readily admit," said Mrs. Kelly, 0 , nothing further." "But how came you to lock the lady in?" aske d Magistrate of the defendant igistrate of the deten, The husband said it was their custom to lock the e , door every morning after breakfast, for about half an and the complainant refusing to quit, he had no othel! source. The ALDERMAN thought it not much adapted for bri i, ing custom to the shop, and wished to know for whet, pose it was done ; when the wife informed him it vol. the purpose of going to prayers, and hoped all Christie did the same. " Well, that's your own affair; 10 ; must not lock people up at the same time=-mthere's not tr Christianity about that; it's a very shameful affair, you must find bail, unless you can prevail with the to forgive you." The complainant said, she certainly wished then tei bound over; but, at the Alderman's suggestion, cones; to withdraw the charge on their paying 10s. to the Felt Charity School of St. George's, which, after rough 1 :• tation, was reluctantly com pli e d w ith, w i t h t h e e osti in addition. UNION-HALL.,.—Miss Sophia Wemyss, who kee boarding school for young ladies in Carter-street, worth, applied for a summons against tke son of Hall, residing in Cottage Grove, West-street. It apre a that the young ladiei under Miss W.'s charge, had st ruins times been subjected to insults and annoyances I ceeding from Mr. Hall's premises, such as having a' water thrown over them, &c. Miss W. stated as the"! immediate ground of her application, that on the Pre/ evening, a pistol had been tired in Mr. Hall's gardept., ball from which had passed through the parlour wit, of Miss Wemyss, :in which room several of the Y ladies then were—f o rtu na t e ly w i t h out d o i ng any Pe i injury. Upon thi s re p resen t a ti on a summons was j 585 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. MONDAY, AUG. lB.—High water 41 mi n, p a st Wind N.W.—Arrived the Thetis (steamer), Tows from Dublin; London, , from Nova Scotia lia, Ferguson, from Oporto; Elizabeth Cornelia, Pat let, from Rotterdam ; L'Euphemie, Rosseau, from Na' Nottingham, from Jamaica; Matilda, Rothv from Monte Video ; Dorothy, Dearness, from St. .10 11 New Brunswick ; George Canning, Forsyth, from Breadalbane, Hutchinson, from Faro. THE MAR KET COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DUR LNG THE NV] Wheat. Per Quarter. s. to a. Boston. — 58 Gainsborough 61 Grantham 54 66 Grimsby 57 65 Horncastle—. 45 63 Lincoln Spilaby - . 60 66 Stamford 4B 58 54 64, Barlvy. Oats. I 1_3.f.111, 8. to b 5. to s. 19 - 29 30 -3h 25 27 23 30 xt 29 19 22 21 26 24 26 20 24 22 25 20 26 28 82 30. . 34 NORWICH, Aug. 16. Last Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, were goo- -1 vest days, with the exception of a few partial shoviii, and a considerable quantity of Wheat was secured in tiling order, leaving lull half yet in the fields uncut, 0 , nearly all the Barley abroad. On Thursday it rains j, cessantly, and Frithy morning being driscly, the stal l a Wheat has sustained considerable injury : t o -d a y has,,o beautifully fine, which ha s k e pt mos t o f o ur f arm ers w t market, so that we bad but little doing. Old Whe / 0 11 about Se. per quarter, and a few samples of. Nes y l ie ff from h ss. to 60s. per quarter, according to quality. is so little doing in oth er G ra i n , th a t we quo t e d the f l y nominally the same as last week. No alteration is price of Flour, but an advance is - expected: At Wheat (per qr.) s3s. 635. 196. I Beaus (per qr.) ...... i f ) 2 . 4t 4uP Barley Oats 24s. 28s. 30s. Flour, fine (per sack) CANTERBURY, Aug. 16. . einet Wheat t y a s t n i% d ia T z h k u_ i r a sd ne a , y hub oldtise White Wheat, and 725. per quarter for R e d was ges tot,p I' thei r i l e: s i 1 lweoitinlheaotvuhyrelE•alzlinvcaloinalci Wednesday to advance also, 'and 82$. O f er o asked ; but as we have had a most delightful eurnMer fel our millers did not feel at a ll di spose d to make, bu t t' of select sampl es a t our quotat i ons below. ':ily ley and Oat s were 2 s . per quarter dearer, but Beau° w • 11 out alteratio n . O ur samp l es of new Wheat are of vin o 11 e ti qualities — some fi ne an d d ry, whilst others cannot be li for in their p resen t condition. Abouttwo-thirds of the 4 . is safely harvested. • 0 05 ' Wheat, white 67s. to 755. red —s. to 6.5 e. .. .. Old 6Be. WO. Barley —s. to —s. Oats Beans 34s. to 40s. Pease 42s. to 465. LEWES MA RKET.—Ang. 19, 0 White Wheat (per quarter) £3 3 0 to „V, 0 0 Red ditto 3 0 0 3 1 2 0 Barley Oats, New 0 0 0 1 3 o Pease 0 0 0 0 d, Oil Cake, New l2 10 0 per thousall, S S ls CHESTER.—Wheat, per 751 b. Ps. Od. to 9 s . Pd . , Batley , ss. Od. to ss. 3d. ; Oats, 491 b. 3s. 3d. to 3s. 6d. NANTIVICIL—Wheat, per 751 b. Bs. 2d. to Bs. Gd. ; Bart el ' qrts. ss. Cd. to 56. 3d. ; Oats, 501 b. 2s. Od. to 3s. Od. COTTON WOOL. LIST Of , IMPORTS AND EXPC iRTS. IMPORTED. ' Same pe.. This riod Last year. year. ---- &c. Bags, &c. • Liverpool 460,147. 589,403 London , 49,127 52,366 Glasg'w 30,407 49,110 Total exported in 1828 Exico : l l3 > Fre— h is iy Bags, &c. 133 10 1,310 44,197. 46,687, Same peiiod 1927 CATTL. An Account of C a ttl e imported E into Liverpool fro° tbe 10th to the 16th inst., both days included. Cows Calves Sheep Pigs Horses G n °3 1 ,226 307 2,695 2,062 15 ",e BIRTHS. - the On the 18th inst., in Guwer-street, Bedford-square' o , wife of Alexander Llordern, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a , On the 3d inst., at Galenbeck, in Mecklenburg Sehl ver- ,1 % the lady of George Fortescue Turvile, Esq., of Ifue" 3 "" Bosworth Hall, Leicestershire, of a diughter. On the 13th inst., at Sussex House, Fulham, the la" of Captain Marryat, R.N., C. 8., of a daughter. the On the 17th inst., at Spetchley, near Worcester , lady of Robot Berkeley, Esq. jun. of a daughter. it 04 On the 6th inst., at Trellick- terrace, Mrs, Kai of a daughter. MARRIED. 4. On the sth inst., at Berne, at the hotel of the 131;ti 4 Minister, Richard Blair, Esq., to Mis s Emma Cour" °- Johnson. Mt Lately, at St. George's Church, Hanover-NOM" ra Francois Jacques,. to Miss Elizabeth Pen 14 ch : y, oft Her e On the 18th inst., at Hickney, the Rev. J•_,,„ Willoughby, William Tringharn, Esq., of Cunningting place, St. John's-wood-road, to Mary Dale, YotIZ daughter of the late James Parkinson, Esq., of klezw square. —off On the 16th inst., at Li ve rp oo l, M r . J a mes Sh ' t* of Tower-street, Lond on , to L ou i sa , fif t h d aug hter of t l' late Mi. Benjamin Walker, of Mile-end, Middlesex. , On the 18th in s t., at M ary l e b one Ch urc h,•by the vf e c k Rev. the Dean of Bangor, Thomas Browne, Esq., of Mot lington Hall, M ontgomerys hi re; to M ar i anna , e ld es t (laugh," of theiate Major A. R. Hayland, of the 40th Foot; so u Bailin Temple, county of Londonderry, Ireland. t On the 19th inst., at St. George's Church, Ifaiw it o e o ti Square, by the Rev. P. E. Boissier, Lieutenant-Col , Dumaresq, to Elizabeth Sophia, daughter of the late Augustus Richard Butler Danvers, of Switbland Leicestershire. daughter °I DIED. .hr On the 6th inst. at Copenhagen, the infant the Right Hon. Henry WatkinWilliams Wynn. ; 0 0. On the 19th inst., Bartholome w B ar nwell, ES 1 1" .) of Weytnouth-street, Portland-place, aged 30. 6 e lth On the 12th inst., Alexamler Leith, Eq., of Fr ee Aberdeenshire. Pa rt ' On the 17th inst., Humphrey Pritchett,. Esq., o , zurr er mouth-street, Westminster, and Clapham-common , v ta tt On the 15th inst., the infant son of. John Burdero of Parliament-street. u nty On the 13th inst., a t H aw l e i g h P ar k, i n the co oh o Suffolk, in the 70th y ear o f h er age , Eliz t beth Der the wife of Win. Crawford, Esq. of that place. • tY Pun Trim and ,PUBLISIIED, by MURDO YOUNG , _ _ SUN Omer, 112: STRAND, LosnoN• ',~9 / VE Night, SKI The fol 4 *El dri "envie tester, street, a t he uer Bron tiegbou barn Northla Churnle eve, earn Pi th and ttith , 13rb ugh, :later, 4)1 , St ,74ornin, ) arts Paint on and Aft Eteti through ehe3ter, Sutton, ehot an( Exeb evier t Sdlisbui Crewke Glasi 1 3roxvnt dell, arl Coact. 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