The Sun. — London, England, 1828-01-29 00:00:00

PHUT OF THE PUBLIC JOLIINALS, We are informed in a letter from Lisbon, that the l'oung Marchioness of Louie, with her hus band, intend to quit Portugal on or before the Arrival of her brother Don Miguel. The old Queen, likewise, is expected to chan-,;e her quar ters at that time. Her Majesty, it is said, will pro ceed to Rome, and probably occupy the residence in which her father and mother died. The young couple have announced an intention of visiting England in the first instance, and thence pro c=eeding to join their mother in Italy. These arran,geruents (independently c , f the authority on which they rest) are extremely probable. It is ragely that the youne R egen t has now lost a con siderable portion of its veneration fer the autho rity of a parent, who in 1821 urged his inexpe rience to such criminal excesses ; and that she, on her part, would iislike dependence upon a son, over whom her influence must now be rreatly if not entirely annihilated. t 'At the sail;Mg of the packet from Lisbon on the 20th ine"cant, Government workmen had begun to erext in the Great Square a magnificent tent for receiving the Prince Regent on his debarks 'tion. It is the same as that v hick afforded ehade and shelter to his father, King John VI., on his arrival from Braeil. The authorities of the capital are preparing to receive the Infant with expensive festivities and brilliant No people on earth arc more lavish of their rejoicings, or more prodigal of their money on such occasions, than the - Portuguese. When Philip 111. eisited Lisbon, some time efter his eecession, he was welcomed, thou g h a foreigner and an usurper, with such teng,nificent fetes, as not only impoverished the Royal Treasury, but - elesurbed considerable funds collected to con struct an aqueduct for supplying the city with water, We have seen a large volume, published et the time for celebrating those fetes, and de eeribing the triumphal arches throu,Ali which his Majesty passed. In that work the misapplica tion of the public money is boasted of as an act of heroic loyalty:— Times. It is supposed that from the absence of all the ),Ifinisters, except Lord Palmerston, there will be little said or done in the House of Commons this evening. An explanation may probably be given by Mr. Tierney of the circumstances which led to the dissolution of the late Cabinet ; and a similar one will, it is thought, be made on the Lart of Lord Lansdowne, in the Upp e r H ouse . ord Grey, who is in town, has, it is under 7;teod, expressed his disapprobation of the man ner in which this Ministry has been constructed. Sir Charles Wetherell resumes his former office cif Attorney-General ; and Mr. Sugdeu has, we believe, accepted from °Ministers the tender of a seat in the House or commons. The eOlninand of the Army will, according to some reports, be offered to the Earl of Donoughmore. Lord Beresford is spoken of as Master-General of the Ordnance, vice the Marquis of Anglesea ; but in that etee, of course, it will not be a Cabinet office. Sir H. Hardinge and Sir George Clerk return to their old posts.—lbid. We are glad to find that the extreme unfitness and inconvenience of the Public Office, Bow street, has at length attracted public attention. It is most provokingly nonsensical to see public money laid out, apparently without a limit, on useless objects—such, for instance, as some of the goings on in and about the Parks—when places of general resort, where life, property, and liberty are at stake, and in which every possible facility of access should be afforded, are of a de scription far below any thing which could be imagined by those who, fortunately, have no occasion to resort to them. Of course it ould be beneath a Committee of Taste to di eeet their views to any thing so vulgar as utility ; but there is another body, called the Board of Woiks, whose avocation, we should think, might permit them to turn their attention to public buildings such as this, where the art of man 3ould not have contrived any thing so totally de void of every shadow of convenience, both as to :pace and arrangement, as this far-famed struc ture presents. Most, if not all, the rest of the Police Offices, are, we believe, more or less, in the same state ; and a man may almost as well endeavour to essay the one-shilling gallery on a benefit night as to obtain access to any of them On some occasions. i\lr. Peel's return to the Home Office has, we believe, given very general satisfaction to the country ; and it is to be hoped that, among other matters connected with that Department, he will turn his attention to the want of accommodation in those places—and, by so doing, thus enable his own improvements in the law to have something like fair play in places where they are so constantly brought into action. —fforning Herald. We presume, whatever course - is proposed to day in the House of Commons, will, from cour tesy be adopted, as there cannot be more than one Cabinet Minister present. It would be deemed, no doubt, ungenerous to take advan tage of the absence of the Servants of the Crown, to enter on subjects connected with the measures of Administration. In the House of Lords the same reasons do not exist for reserve ; and it would not, therefore, surprise us, if a discussion were to start up in that House. It is impossi ble for any one to say exactly, however, what course will be followed in either House in the present disjointed state of parties. Who are the Opposition ? Who arc the Ministerialists ? Mr. Canning's Administration, composed of Tories and Whigs) led to an opposition of To ries and Whigs. The Duke of Wellington's Administration is too moderate for the Ultra Tories, and we shall, consequently, have an op position of Tories and Whigs. Ministers, by endeavouring to meet the wishes of the violent of the Tories, "ill, in the, proportion in which they gain support from them, lose the support of the moderate, Moderate measures and a dispo talon to economise, will obtain them the .support of the Whi gs as as of liber a l • Jones. As they cannot please both Mo derates and Ultras, they must make their election between them. The latter evi calculate on the Admi n i strat i on be dently becoming more ultra, and if disappointed they w i ll oppos e the Government. The Couricr says, Lord Lowther cannot be spared from public life." The English of this, we suppose, i s , that if his Lordship Is not made a placemau, h e w ill oppose Ministers. G o d forbid that w e s h ou l d think of doubting the profundity of a Statesman, who can command a dozen votes. We have elsewhere made some extracts from the country papers on the subject of the New Ministry. They are, like ourselves, exceedingly perplexed what to make of the matter. With respect to his Grace himself, the idea among them is, that he is a mere locum tenons, and that the moment his colleagues can agree as to another head, he will descend from his elevation. Perhaps he will make way for Lord Lowther. The Duke, hewever, has his admirers as well as Mr. Hus kieeon and Mr. Peel. : John Bull goes indeed so far as to maintain that he is the only diplo matist in Europe, who is at all a match for Prince Metternich, anti that under his auspices the Cabinet of James's will rival that of Vienna. But with respect to Lord Ellenborough, we should be a little alarmed for him, if we were not aware that he stands so high in his own opinion, that he can safely dispense with the approbation of others. By his habit of speaking on one side and voting on the other, he has ingeniously contrived to have the good word of neither ; and his call to the Ministry, though it may not have surprised himself, has surprised every one else. In Smith's Theory of illoral Sentiments, there is a passage some what applicable to Lord Ellenborough, which we would recommend to their notice, as it holds out a ray of hope that the case of his Lordship is by no means yet so desperate as they might think it : " Though your son (says he), under five-and-twenty years of age, should be but a coxcomb, do not upon that account despair of his becoming, before he is forty, a very wise and worthy man, and a real proficient in all those ta lents and virtues to which at present he may only he an ostentatious and empty pretender." Now, though tlrc term coxcomb has been applied to his Lordship, and that so late as Sunday last, by the contemporary from whom we yesterday borrowed an account of the Administration, and who gave the following old song as descrip tive of him. A coxcomb, a fop, A dainty milksop, All cssenced and dizencd From bottom to top, NI ho looks just like a doll from a milliner's shop. A thing full of prate, All pride and conceit, All fashion, no weight, Who shrugs and takes snuff, And carries a muff. A minnikin,tinnikin, Finnikin, minnikin, French powder and puff." And though it would be hardly candid to affirm that his Lordship's opinion of himself has not considerably outrun that entertained by the world, yet months must elapse before the ominous pe riod of forty is passed ; and who knows but his Lordship may in the mean time find himself some morning in the possession of all the wis dom that it is desirable a British Statesman should possess ? His Lordship passes for a Whig. He does not possess, it would seem, that indif ference fbr office on which the Whig Leaders have always, in our opinion, very foolishly piqued themselves. It is not a merit, but a po sitive demerit, that men who have allowed them selves to be placed in the front of their party, should be indifferent to office. They either conceive their views important, with reference to the public benefit, or they do not. In the former case, they are bound to neglect no means which will enable them to give effect to them. If tire possession of great wealth indisposes them to the fatigues of office and leads them to prefer the distinction of a leader out of place to a Member of an Administration, it is fitting they should know that this does not give them an additional title to the esteem of their fellow-citizens. We are the more earnest on this head, because it has not unfrequently been the fashion to talk of an indifference to office as a merit—as if men sought office merely as a personal advantage, and as if public men were not deeply responsible for every opportunity of which they neglect to avail them selves for placing themselves in a situation in which they may, by themselves and others sharing their views, render service to their coun try.—Morning Chronicle. The second Session of the present Parliament commences this day, when the Royal Speech will be delivered by Commission. The Address to the King will be moved and seconded, in the Lords by the Duke of Montrose and the Earl of' Chichester—in the Commons, by the Hon. C. - Jenkinson and Mr. It. Grant. During_ the greater part of the last Session the state of the Administration was such as to make it one of the chief objects to silence the deliberative voice of the Legislature. The mask of unanimity, which could for a time be worn with decent composure in the Cabinet, was sure, it was uni versally felt, to drop off in the more animated discussions of the two Houses of Parliament, and the instinct of self-preservation taught a Ministry which could agree in few other things, to agree in this, that the postponement of all matters of national interest was an interest of theirs paramount to every other. Happily for the country, the Session now about to begin opens under auspices exceedingly different from those which overhung and obscured the greater portion of the last. We have now an Administration which will not fear to take a part in the public discussion of any subject of national importance, from the apprehension that points of disunion may be discovered which they deem it essen tial to conceal. The public curiosity will be satisfied early in the Session, probably at its very commencement, as to the circumstances which immediately led to the dissolution of the late Administration. These circumstances are, it is true, of no very great importance to the nation now that we know them to have effected the formation of a Ministry, worthy of and sure to possess its unbounded confidence. Yet do we not feel ourselves warranted to pronounce this curiosity altogether idle or useless, since the cha racters of men who hold, or have held, or who aspire, and may hereafter aspire to, exalted sta tions in the Government, cannot be too tho roughly known to the community. As to the principles upon which the existing Government is to be carried on, no honest doubt can exist in the mind of a single individual in the country, and no disclosures upon this head can be re quired. We trust, therefore, that every 'Mem ber of the Administration will be restrained by a feeling of personal dignity from rehearsing the tenets of his political creed—will be content to let his past and his future conduct speak for him, and resolved to leave the affected doubts and the offensive anxieties of faction to their natural punishment and their only effectual cure—ad ministered by a grateful and applauding nation. Faction has often resorted to shallow artifices, but it never before employed one so shallow as t he insinuation that the present Administration is founded upon compromise. To what sub jects,would b eg to i nqu i re , d oes this silly in si ua t 0 wen apply rls it to that of the Catholic Claims ? The last Ad m i n i strat i on , We know, existed by a scandalous comprom i se upon this subject—for the profesSions of its most in fluential members flowed - in one direction, and its active influence inn another; but the present Ministry is of a very diff eren t cha racter. Its, leading members are decidedly op posed to these claims, while ~ the subordinate members who entertain opinions in their favour are left individually at liberty to promote them. A whole Administration cannot wave its opinion upon such a subject without dishonour—indi vidual members, forming the weaker part of an Administration, may honourably and consistently do so. Then, as to the theories in favour of free trade, is there any reason for the supposi tion that the opinions of Mr. I luskisson differ materially from those of the other Members of the present Administration, or that any compro mise on either side can have been necessary ? Can one of the measures which arc called his be pointed out (and it is known that these mea sures have not our unqualified approbation), in the responsibility for which the Duke of Wel lington, Mr. Peel, Lord Bathurst, Lord Melville, and we might add even the Earls of Liverpool and Eldon, have not been united with him It may safely be asserted, that there is not one in this splendid list of Statesmen who was ever capable of shrinking from his individual duty by yielding implicit and unreflecting con fidence to the opinions of a colleague. If Mr. Huskisson has erred therefore in common with many of the greatest men who were ever engaged in the service of this or any other nation ; and if errors, common to so many, have been detected by experience, why should their correction, while it is not yet too late, be considered in one rather than in others, a dereliction of principle ? It is one of the most shallow and will prove one of the most fruitless artifices of faction so to con sider it. But is needless for us to insist further upon this very obvious view of the subject. We are persuaded that no feelings of false pride, no mistaken substitution of obstinacy for consistency, no dread of factious vituperation will induce the present Administration to persevere in any course which experience has shown to be unsafe, or deter them from retracing any steps, whether taken by others or themselves, which have al ready injured or seem likely to injure any impor tant interest of the State. All palpable injuries will honourably be remedied—all proved grievan ces will gladly be redressed.—Morning Post. Parliament will this day be opened by Com mission, and the business of one of the most im portant Sessions ever known in the history of the country will commence. Important, not merely because it will decide the fate of parties, and put an end to that anomalous state in which men of all opinions tried in vain to form a com pact and harmonious body ; but because it must bring into discussion every great public interest, and place the policy of' Government at home and abroad on a fixed, defined, and, let us hope, a sound and substantial basis. That this would be the case without the aid of Parliament, is not to be imagined. However strenuous have been the efforts of individuals, and of individuals most distinguished in the land, and most deeply invested with public confidence, to form an Administration acting on one and the same principle, those efforts have not proved suc cessful. We possess, indeed, a Ministry whose head has sufficient strength to command, and sufficient mind and resolution to impress its own character on all the elements of which it is com posed. But those elements are still too hetero geneous in their natures to combine, without the presence of that controuling force, the continued action of which becomes the law of their united existence. Remove it but one moment, and all those dissidences which broke the strength of former Administrations will appear. Remove it for a length of time, and the operation of dif ferent and even opposite principles must bring the coalition to an end. That it is not more perfect, however, is solely the fault of the times. With the materials presented by the political world, it was impossible for human ingenuity to construct a more solid work. It will b for Par liament to correct its imperfections. As discus sions arise--as principles are abandoned or maintained—as interests are protected or at tacked—the sense of the country will be heard through her representatives, and that sense will be obeyed. It is in unison with the presiding spirit of the Administration, and will increase and double its power. Then, what can prevent it from remodelling its own work—lopping off each incongruous member, and infusing into the whole that perfect unanimity of views and feel ings without which it has now been proved, by repeated trials, the public service cannot be per manently, still less beneficially, carried on, or the prosperity of the country secured ? The time for political coalitions is past. They succeeded indifferently well when they consisted of monarchs —they have constantly failed when composed of subjects. Union is not less wanted in our Coun cils than justice to our trade, protection to our landed proprietors, and repose to our country.— New Times. Before the Parliamentary campaign com mences, it may not be uninteresting to take a view of the opposite champions now buckling on their armour for the fight. In the Lords there will be, on the one side, Lord Ellenborough, the only debater amongst the Ministerialists, encoun tered by one not less keen, cutting, and pertina cious, than himself, we mean Lord Durham. The more regular and systematic speakers on the right hand of the Throne, are Lords Aberdeen, Dudley, and Bathurst, which last is, bating great deficiencies of manner, a very sensible and dig nified speaker. On the left are Lord Holland, the most impetuous ; Lord Grey, the most eloquent ; and Lord Lansdowne, the smoothest of the Whig orators in the . Upper House. Among the auxiliaries the former will have the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Colchester, and several others—the latter will have Lord King, perhaps the Earl of Lauderdale. The Premier does not pretend to speak, and will not, we arc inclined to believe, attempt it. His brief ad -dresses, however, cannot fail to carry great weight, not only from his station, but ham his high character. In the Commons the lead will, of course, fall to Mr. Peel, and it could hardly fall to one more able to take it. He is not only an able debater, but his exquisite command of temper renders him admirably adapted for sooth ing the storms of opposition. Mr. Grant is no debater, nor is Mr. Huskisson. Mr. Goul burn and Mr. Herries are no speakers. The task of supporting Mr. Peel will fall principally to Lord Pahnerston. The Opposition Bench is strong in speakers. In replying on financial ques tions, Mr. Tierney is singularly felicitous, and Ins talents in dry, cutting satire, arc un matched. Luckily, Mr. Peel's course has been so amiable and consistent—he has done his mi nistering in every office which he has succes sively filled, so gently, yet so firmly, th at th e re are very few joints in his mail that satire can 4 powerful of f fu o l t speaker hers. hope t o pi er ce. On general questions, Mr. Brougham is, p er haps, the most in either H ouse , an d there are Sir F. Burdett, Sir James M ac i n t os h and host ) Ibid. SWINE.—BLUMENBACH brought as a proof that there were animals that had been created since the first general creation ; that the finnen-wurnmr are found no where but in louse swine ; but GOD did not create house swine, ergo-0 most lame and impotent oonclusion ! In Minorca they use swine to plough with. Formerly it was the fashion iu France for the ladies to carry on their arms young pigs instead of lap-dogs.—Lonekba Medical Gazette, Jan, 26. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 28. FRITH V. THRUSH. This was an action by an endorsee against an endorser of a bill of exchange. It was tried at the last sittings in London, before Lord Tenterden, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff. Mr. BROUGHAM now moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not he set aside, and a nonsuit entered, or why a new trial should not be granted. Rule nisi granted. EX-PARTE BAXTER. Mr. ARCHBOLD moved for a writ of habeas corpus, directed to the Governor of his Majesty's gaol of Newgate, to bring up the body of a person of the name of Baxter, who had been committed to that gaol, under a warrant of certain commissioners of bankrupt, before whom he had been summoned to give evidence as a witness. Lord TENTERDES.—Take the writ. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 26. SF4GO V. DEAN. This was an action upon a special agreement, to recover a sum of 20/. which the defendant had pro mised to pay the plaintiff, who is a widow, upon condition of her accepting a lease, which she agreed to do, at the same time undertaking to put the pre mises into repair. This agreement was, however, only a verbal one, and when the plaintiff paid her first rent she demanded the 20/. which had been promised. The defendant, however, did not find it convenient to pay at that time, butassured the plain tiff it should be deducted from her next rent. He had, however, never thought proper to fulfil his en gagement, and the plaintiff was compelled to bring an action to recover the 20/. This action was tried before Mr. Justice Gaselee, at Westminster, when the agreement having been proved by parole evi dence, a verdict was found for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant WILDE now moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside. Rule refused. GOODMAN V. KENNELL. The plaintiff in this action sought to recover com pensation for an injury he had sustained in having been thrown down 'by the furious riding of the de fendant's servant. The case was tried at Guildhall, during the sittings of last Term, before Mr. Justice Park, when it was proved that a man named Cocking, who, it was alleged, was the defendant's servant, was the person who rode over the plaintiff, a labouring man, in poor circumstances. Tine Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 601. Mr. Sergeant TADDV now moved for a rule to show cause why that verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial granted, on the ground that Cocking had taken the horse, which was not the defendant's, without his authority, and that therefore be was not liable for the consequences of any accident that might have happened.—Rule refused. ARCHES' COURT, JAN. 2S. PRAM} ARD V. DEM:LE. This was an appeal from the Consistorial Court of Bath and Wells, in a suit wherein the office of the judge was promoted by the Rev. Thos. Deakle, rector of Uphill, Somerset, against Edward Prankard, for brawling in the parish church, and smiting, which offence was cognizable by the Ecclesiastical Courts, under the statute of 6 Edward VI. The Judge in the Episcopal Court sentenced the party proceeded against to imprisonment for fourteen days (under the statute of 53 George 111., which modifies the penalties attached to excommunication, by autho rizing imprisonment, for not more than six months), and to the payment of costs. From this sentence the party condemned HOW appealed, on the ground that the proceedings in the Episcopal Court were void as corani non judiec, the appellant being no party to the ulterior proceedings after they had been commenced in the Bishop's Court. After hearing Dr. LUSHINGTON and Dr. JESSE ADDAMS, for the appellant, and Dr. JENNER and Dr. DonsoN, for the respondent, The Court intimated that it would take time to consider the effect of two cases mentioned by Dr. Addams, in the years 1727 and 1732. GRIFFITHS V. REID AND HARRIS. This was originaily an appeal from the Consistorial Court of Llandaff, in a suit in which the office of the judge was promoted by Mr. Evan Griffith (a proctor in that Court) against John Reid and Alice Harris, foe, incest. The articles had been admitted in the Court below : but on the appeal, they were in this Court ordered to be reformed before admission, and the cause was retained. The argument lasted to a late hour, and was finally adjourned till next Court day. POPULATION.—Mr. MERRITT, in a recent very interesting communication, read before the Liverpool Philosophical Society, on British Statistics, asserts, that Great Britain is at present the most populous nation which has existed since the Christian era. We are inclined to doubt this gentleman's conclusions if any faith is to be placed in the accounts given, by most travellers, respecting the population of China, and parts of Hindostan.—London lVeckly Review. COACH ROBBERY.—On Friday morning week a valuable parcel was lost or stolen from the Don caster coach, on its way from Rotherham to Sheffield.— The parcel, which we understand was given to the coach man (GiesoN) in Rotherham, and by him deposited in the fore boot of the coach, on his arrival at Sheffield, was missing. There is considerable suspicion that it was stolen by one of the passengers, during the absence of GIB SON for a short time from the coach, at the public-house of Mr. BANKS, in Attercliffe, on which occasion he gave the reins to the stranger, while he went into the house, who, it is thought, took that opportunity of getting the treasure into his possession : and what strengthens the suspicion, is the fact, that the person took an opportunity of leaving the coach previous to his arrival at the inn to which it runs in Sheffield. The parcel stolen contained bills and hank notes to the amount of between 1,100/. and 1,2001. (not 12,0001.) as stated in some of the papers. —Leeds Mercury. A SECOND HAND COFFIN.—The Resur rection men have been busy about Lichfield, and Walsall, and Wolverhampton. Between the latter town and Willenhall, there has for some time been an arrangement, respecting the funerals of their respective paupers, by which the towns exchanged burials, when the paupers of one parish died in the other ; burying one for another alternately. Last week a Willenhall pauper (an old woman) dying in Wolverhampton, the parish officers of the town buried her, as in duty bound, but it was discovered the next day that the resurrection men had borrowed the old lady's body, leaving the coffin empty. The parish officers of Willenhall claimed the coffin as their property, and took it home! On the death of a Wolverhampton pauper, a few days after wards, the Willenhall men took the coffin and offered it for sale ! but it. was refused, though an ample discount was named ; it being deemed inconsistent with the dignity of a large parish, to drive a " Cheap. John " bargain with second hand coffins for their poor ; the untenanted case is now " On Sale " in a fashionable furniture shop in Willen hall.—Pottery Gazette. MELANCHOLY LOSS OF LIFE BY SW!'" wnEcK.—Early on the morning of Friday last, a large brig was seen from the shore to have grounded on the outer bar of Rosbeigh, at the lower end of Castlemain Bay, in this county, a fatal spot ; a sand bank, amidst shoals, gene rally covered with a f oam i ng b ro k en sea , and as danger ous as any on the West ern C oas t o f Ireland. ft being ebb tide when the vessel s t ruc k, many were of opinion that had the crew used timely ex er ti on , th e i r lives might have been s aved. It seemed, h owever , th a t probably in hope and ex pectation of gettin g th e vesse l o ff, a nd saving the ship and cargo, they preferred sticking to her until high water. Un fortunately, however, as the tide rose, the wind freshened and became tempestuous—the brig was immediately beaten to pieces in the surf, and all hands perished. It is con jectured she was coal laden ; but we have not learned that any part of the cargo was driven or washed on shore. We have seen a letter f rom a respectable Magistrate of that neighbourhood, on shore frommentitohne wreck, were written or painted, that, on the stern of a boat driven the words " Three Friends of Belfast," which leads to a supposition that such was the name of the brig—anti ou the case of a quadrant, also driven on shor e , the name RODERICK MORRISSON was painted, supposed to have been the name of the master. A report is in circulation, (but from no certain authority) that some trunks or chests have been since driven on shore, though we have not yet been able to learn that any further information as to the vessel er cargo, has been obtained...Durgin Morning Register. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday two soldiers, named Rose and In'Kinnon, who are in a Scotch regiment commanded by Colonel Arbuthnot, now doing duty at the Tower, were charged before the LORD AINTOR under the following circumstances : A lighterman, in passing near the Tower, at half-past twelve at night, heard a female call out for assistance, and believing that some woman was in a desperate situation, 1w ran over close to the gate, and there saw Rose and a young woman, who complained of indecent violence which had been offered to her. The moment the lighterman inter posed, Rose drew his bayonet, and, brandishing it, swore that he would use it if any one dared to approach. The watch were called, and Rose was determined to stand against that body, for which purpose he got into a sentry box, and appeared ready to destroy all who might endeavour to pull him out. That gallant body, the watch, sprang their rattles and crowded round the box, but the bayonet, kept them at a respectful distance. At length, one of them proposed that they should get long poles, and rout the soldier out of his citadel, in which he had by this time barricadoed him self most effectually. The poles were brought, and to work they went, poking at the sentry-box, and occasionally starting back whenever they expected that the soldier would make a sally. M‘Kinnon, who was inside the gate, hear. ing a noise, and fearing that one of his comrades was in danger, contrived to get over the spikes, and drawing his 'bayonet he added to the consternation which prevailed in the neighbourhood. The increasing number, however, of the peacemakers put an end to this formidable state of things, and the soldiers were obli g ed to yield. It appear ed upon inquiry that Rose had been addressed by the female, who wished to know what o'clock it was, to which question he replied in such a manner as made her appre hend the very worst consequences. The LORD 'AIA volt handed over the soldiers to the ser geant, who said that they had been both absent without leave, and that in all probability they would meet with severe punishment. GUILDHALL.— William Kinq, an able-bodied young fellow, was brought before Sir PETER LAURIE, charged with begging. The ALDERMAN committed him to Bridewell for a month. BOW-STREET. —Yesterday Thos. Smith, a wither ed dwarfish-looking man, was placed at the bar, charged with forcibly entering the cow-house of John Myers, Esq. of Acton-green, with intent to steal kis poultry. The prisoner was sentenced to a confinement of three months in the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard labour. MARYLEBONE.—Edw. Clarke, a foot-boy, was charged on suspicion with having disturbed the peace of his mistress, at No. 7. Nottingham-terrace, in the New road. The foot-boy was committed for want of bail, to ensure his attendance to answer any charge that may be brought against him. LAMBETH- STREET. —Yesterday evening, just before the office closed, Mr. Vickery, the Governor of the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, entered the justice-room, and applied to the sitting Magistrates, Sir D. WILLI/ats, and M. Wvarr, Esq. by the directions of Mr. Capper, from whom he handed in a note on the following subject • From the substance of Mr. Vickery's statement, it ap peared that a young man named. Samuel Banks, the mate of an Indianian, was in the summer of last year tried at the Old Bailey, for the commission of a very atrocious as sault, with intent to commit a rape, on the person of a re spectable maiden lady, then the proprietress of an extensive female hoarding-school in the Commercial-road. On that trial he was found guilty, and the culpability of his conduct appearing aggravated by the advanced age of the object of his attack, and her having before treated him as a child, the Court sentenced him to two years' imprisonment, and hard labour in the House of Correction. Since his com mitment the maiden lady had died, but previous to that event occurring she signed a petition to the Crown, pray ing that the term of his confinement might be abridged.— The prisoner had also prepared a memorial to time same effect, but derived no benefit from it, as the former document to which be referred as an argu ment in support of the concession he prayed for, had by some means got into the hands of a Mr. Wollaston, an ironmonger in Poplar, who, though repeatedly applied to refused either giving it up or permitting it to be laid be fore the proper authorities, unless he (Wollaston) received 201. for the favour. This the prisoner, from inability, re fused to give him : and having communicated the predica ment in which he was placed to the Home Department, 'directions were received through Mr. Capper, by Mr. Vickery, to call on the district Magistrates, and ascertain from them why it was and under what authority Mr. Wol laston detained an instrument so necessary to the prisoner's advantage; and with that object Mr. Vickery now waited on their Worships. Mr. WYATT said, that the request should be at once at tended to, and gave directions to Norris the officer, to pro ceed immediately to Mr. Wollaston. COTTON MILL BURNED.-SIX LIVES LOST. On Thursday afternoon, at half-past three o'clock, a fire broke out in the cotton-mill at Johnstone, belonging to Mr. Alexander Stewart, of this city, which, in an hour and a quarter, was totally consumed. The fire broke out in the picking-room, being the lowest flat of the building, and so quick was the devouring element, that, before the fire was known to those in the attics, the whole of the tenement, which consisted of three stories and attics, was in a blaze, and the flames bursting from all the windows. The persons employed in the attics were, in conse quence of the smoke and flames coming up the stair, prevented from effecting their escape in that way.— The cries of the people thus situated, were afflicting in the extreme; many of'them precipitating them selves from the windows, and although the spec tators were extremely anxious to render every assist ance, the flames raged with such fury, that assist ance was impracticable. Six persons, it is believed, lost their lives on this melancholy occasion, four grown-up women, and two girls, and a few were, hurt by escaping from the windows. These parti culars, in so far as they go, can be relied on as authentic. The building was insured in the PhGenix and North British Insurance Offices. ANOTHER ACCOUNT CONCLUDES THUS- - a Th e scene was indeed truly appalling, and the screams, which were incessantly repeated, particu larly when some of them were seen upon the roof, Nvere of the most terrific description —so much so indeed, that many were obliged to quit the scene, being unable to stand the shock which their feelings received. Unfortunately, the e ngine was not stop ped, and those in the garret continued at their work, quite unconscious that the flames were rapidly spreading beneath their feet ; for it was not until an emission of smoke near Jean Robertson's jenny (who immediately gave the a larm) that they were apprised of their danger, when they all rushed to the door, but the passage was so densely filled with smoke, that they found it impracticable to procee They then opened a window, and went upon teed oof, but, as the flames were making rapid progress, they were soon enveloped in smoke, and were under the dread ful necessity of throwing themselves from the roof. rhe first, Jean Robertson, was killed upon the spot, and all of them who followed her example were more or less hurt.—Glasgow Courier. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Last week, a man, while attending an illicit still in the vicinity of Lochern, fell asleep while the boiling wash was running into the re ceiver, and no person being present to render him assist ance, he remained asleep till be was immersed in the boil. ing liquid which flowed around him. When found he was scalded to death, and his body in a shocking state. lie has left a wife and three children to lament his fate..— Glas gow Free Press. THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND.- A rumour was prevalent yesterday that Mr. LAMB was to resume the office of Chi ef Secretar y , to th e no small de li g ht, we doubt N, Alderman 11I‘Ktaair , andthe whit e or bl ue stocking coterie. t R i G m A es like the present, that the other I not, of willdi o leading g n I 1 o i : la s a d i members,y, 11 i l n o of thing is impossible—but there are sundry circumstances which lead us to think it not very probable. Mr. LAMB has been hitherto looked upon as belonging to the BESSBO noucir division of the Whig forces; now we can hardly expect that this body have given in their adhesion to the new order of things, and if they have not, it is equally dif ficult to imagine that Lord DUNCANNON, so long known by the familiar appellation of " Whipper-in to the Opposi tion," would permit so distinguished a. member to stray from his pack. Besides, we have reason to know that the domestic arrangements of Mr. LAMB, on quitting Ire land, were of a nature which evinced anything hut a con templation or idea of returning hither. Sir J. BECKET has been mentioned as likely to fill the situation ; but the fact is, there has not been any decision come to on the subject —Dublin Evening Mail. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metrodolis is fad. ( 01 lb. Loaf. There are others who sell from d. to WA' hat price. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—Jan. '2O. 72g. Od. to 100 s. Od. (lover ..... 90s. Od. to 115 i, Straw. 2Bs Od. to 335. Od. PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)—Jan. 28. Kent Pockets —......--....... 41. 4sr. 41. 163. to C (6 Sussex Ditto 3! . 18s. 41. 4s. to 41. 10 1 Essex Ditto 4/. Os. 4/. 10s. to 5 1 . 1) Farnham Ditto, Fine ----- - Seconds Kent Bags Sussex Ditto Essex Dit to 01. oi. 71. 10s. t 0 ` A , 01. Os. 61. Os. to 74 3/. 12s. 41. 6s, to 51. ' 31. fts. nr. los. to 31. 15-' 31. 106. 4/. 4s. to 41. I°_,' PRICE OF 011.. Rape Oil, brown :131. Relined iftS Linseed Oil * 2:3 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand , 13 Rape Cake, per t0n.... ••••••••••••••••••••ww........, 5 PRICE OF POTATOES.—Jan. 28. Kidney[ Scotch Reds Marsh Champions__ Oxnolles and Shaw•s 0/. Os. to 41. Os. per ton. 3/. N. to 3/. IN. ditto. 3/. IN. to 4/. Os. ditto. 4/. 10s. to 3/. Os. ditto. LEATHER. Per lb. Tanned Horse Hides... Sr wish Ditto Per dozen. Calf 3(i to / 8 Ditto 50 to 701 b. Ditto 79 to 80113. 2 1 Small 50.114, (Stvenland 19 IDES. Per Stone. s. (L to s• Ordin a ry Market Calf 7 0 ear PRICES OF Per lb. d. to (11 to 561 b... 2O Ditto 661 b—. 221 231 Dressing Hides 131 17 Fine Coach Hide 5.,,..,,, I: 19 Crop Hides, :15 to 404 14 15 Ditto--45 to 5011). 161 IR; Ditto ----- 18 2nl RAW , Per Stone. s. (1. to s. d. rest 1 leif.4s & Steers :; (1 :3 G Middlings— 2 6 2 9 Down! SHEEP SKINS. t!s. 3cl. to 3s. Od. I O. Od. to Os• Polled 4s. Od. to ss. Od. COAL MARI Adair'a 361.9 d. Beaumont 34 6 Bunton 35 3 Charlotte 34 6 Felling 33 6 Forrest 34 6 Heliburn Main 35 6 35 3 Killingworth 36 6 l.? 0 Ord's Redhugh 'V 0 Pelaw 35 6 Pontop Simpson-- I 4 6 Tanfield 32 35 0 Willington 35 6 Wylam Walls End Bell and Co. 36 Q Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 36 . Ditto Bewieke and Co.— 37 9 Ditto Brown's 36 0 Ditto Clarke and C 0..,, 35 3 Ditto Carr and 33 0 Ditto Hilda 3,5 6 Ships at market, 1331i—shil KET.—Jan. Walls End Newmarch-• 3 65 ', Ditto Henderson----- 33 Ditto Hotspur 33 , Ditto Northumberland 30 Ditto Perkins and Co. 37 Ditto Riddell's 37 Ditto Russell's 35 Ditto W6odside 5:4 Tanfiel l Trader 31 Londonderry small-- V Ellison small Cinders 33 Cowpen - 32 Hartley 38 Ward's 36 Fawcett 33 , Stobart's Primrose Nesham 3 5 Russell's Lvon's . 37 Walls End 38 Walls End Lambton 3 6 _ Walls End L.) ons Ditto Stewart's 38 sold, 66 n--Unsold, 66)‘'=i' COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. NORWICH, Jan. 26. Our market is scantily supplied with Wheat, and g dry samples are scarce and much wanted; such desalt tions are about Is. per quarter dearer, and last week's co l ' rency is fully maintained for all sorts. We were abund3?l suppiled with Barley ; the best malting sampl es o btalo last week's prices, secondary qualities are Is. per q uarts, lower. Fine samples of Oats, Beans, and PeaSe, were s'' at last week's prices, but there being a large proporti ° !. soft, these went off heavily. The top price of Flour more strictly adhered to, but the sale is not brisk. .„ Wheat (per qr.) 4Bs. 58s. 625. B eans ( per qr.) ...... Barley Oats 24s. 28s. 30s. Flour, tine (per sack) 405._.> CANTERBURY, Jan. 26. Having again a very short supply of Wheat upon our, market, it was held with considerable firmness, and tb advance of this day week was fully maintained. Malt Barley was in good request. Beans, Pease, and Oats, we ri in liberal supply, but without any alteration in value. Wheat, white sBs. to 625. red Barley 3ls. to 355. Oats Beans to 40s. . ' to Pcasc 40s. to 425. Grey 3Bs. to 405, RKET S. DTE.—FRIDAY, Jan. 25. From To n. Ir., ' 2,321, Wheat,per barrel 20 stone 19 0 29 0 25 4 , 890 Bete l6 stone 12 0 13 0 12 ;, 518 Barley l6 stone 11 0 17 0 13 8,880 Oats l4 stone 8 0 12 0 10 12,141 Cwt. Flonr— 9 stone 5 0 21 0 0 704 Oatmeal 11 s t one 11 0 14 A 10 t o Sold to Bakers only. 8,985 Cwt. Flour _ 14 0 21 0 15 3 Average price of Wheat an d Fl our 38 s . 4d . per sack. „ Firsts,lq, „...... —. ffromB'. 01. 1 Receipts of Flour, 14,9091 Sales of Do. 12,141 on Thirds : from ts s: ( 0 k d l : PRICE OF BREAD. Quartern Loaf, 41b. 50z.... "Ilid. j Half-quartern, 21b. IRISH MA DUBLIN MARKET N( tolls. to 16a. to 12s. , 20 W . d s.htaeo Wheat, - Barley. .. s l . B 6 d a s . r t a o e ne . d .. s l . 4 d . O s a t a o:n . . I 1 per barrel per barrel per barrel I e .----$.--...-.. ,1 Cerk -- 19 0-24 610 0-16 810 6-11ed,ti Fleur, per cwt. ..._--...- 1 ---- Limerick 22 6-23 4102- 0 0 89-0 0 15 0-16 0 0 0- ", 5 1 . 6 d 6.... . 1 a e t a t . .. 7 d. s is (1 2 0_ . d a; Waterforil 2 - 2 6-25 0 11 0-15 0 9 6-10 0 15 0-15 6 11 0-.13 Clonmel - 25 0- 0 0 12 0- 0 0 10 0- 0 0 12 0-16 0 „ 0 0- 11 Belfast..... 19 6-20 9 12 0-150 130- 0020 6-21 0 0 0-- 1; c Derry-...... 00- 0 0 128- 00111-129 00-00 00-3,,, Carlow— 20 0-21 0 10 0-15 0 80- 9 0 15 0- 0 0 0 0- 9, Tralee— 00- 0 0 00- 0 0 00- 0 0 0 0- 0 0 0 0- if __„__.__ ..,_________:,_ . ---- --- ----- Eolnlagvtimenrenaellhich22iss, Beef, Mutton, Pork, Butter. _..,.< per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2d. 3d. 4th. 5" Cork d. I IS. 2d. per cwwt.sheC:Ot. Lc s i. <I, a d. S. d. a s. d. s. d. s. d. s. (1. I. d. 6. -5_ 00- 0074070867 OD 50r Belfast 4 -51 0-0 00-00810 SO 0 59 0 40 -' ( 6 -0 00- 00-0-0- -0-- - i 6 mo-00580840710640-7,( W Lim at e e ri ri c o k rd 3 4 -- 6 4 4 4 1 1 - - --- 6 6 5 3. 225 3 4 0 0 -- 0-20 3. 2 00 0 1 83 788 0 0 0 77 7 04 4 (10 0 - . 6483 °8 5858 3 '... 1 325. to 345. per ditto; Wild Tralee 0 -0 0 - 0 00- 0078072064 0 54 0 ty .„. tut.wEiginr MAnxrr, Jan. 22 .—Butter, 86s. to 88f TC B il: rle 7 ,. AR, O K a E ts T . S. per 2 CC 2 al Derr r s ni . °I nyw t w o c—it 2:5:65: .Bacon -1 :3 b.53a Pigs,rr - el Barley, 98 . to 14s. ; Oats, 8s . l'' 10s.; Flour, I le. to 28s. per bag ; Beef and Mutton, 44 to 6d. per lb. ; Potatoes, lid. to 2d. per stone ; Coal'' - -, I Aberdeen ...- 2 - - .32 25 29 16 23 - - 26 Berwick-- 30 35 18 21 16 18 20 21 TZ 26 27 28 22 30 23 2 2.7 .21 - Coldstream - 34 37 22 23 'l7 18 26 28 - ".°_, Cupar ................ 21 31 26 28 23 24 - - -.-, Beans. (L ......., atmtt . Dundee__ 24. 32 18 28 16 19 15 16 -. 30 - 40 ::" Kelso .--...-- 33 36 18 22 15 18 24 26 -", Kirka1c1y.......... 21 31 27 29 22 23 - 26 33 '':, Perth ---- 20 31 18 21 13 16 13 14 - ":,,i At Berwick, Coldstream, Kelso, and Wheat at Aberdeen, w_ l price is given per quarter. The other prices are per boll, excel' ------..____--S BIRTHS. On the 25th inst. at Cheltenham, the lady of Thotna / Cox, M.D. of a daughter. On the 27th inst. in York-terrace, Regent's Park, t lig lady of Charles H. Pilgrim, Esq. of a daughter. per sack of 2801bs. On the 27th inst. at Kensington Palace, the lady O Lieut.-Col. Disbrowe, of a son. On the 27th inst. at Fulham, the lady of Richard Frani‘' lin Poutisett, Esq. his Majesty's Vice-Consul at Buert Ayres, of a daughter. On the 28th inst. in Cross -street, Islington, Mrs. Ci f ' ton, of a daughter. OR the 6th inst. at Edinburgh, the lady of Lieut.-Cot John Leslie, of a son. _.., Shrewsbury, Atßurt"to- on ly daughter of Samuel Anse MARRIED. On the 27th inst. Mr. Charles Burt, to Miss Jane Cad sister to Ambrose Cary, of the Harlequin, Drury-lane. i otherham, after a tedious °our Wm. Wybergh H ow , t' John Alder, of the Castle Tort ' l ' ship of one hour ! ! M. Z. Parkin, chemist and druggis t ' to Mrs. Hattersley, widow of Mr. Hattersley, of that 'pie(' of Esq. A his fewo. _ i , fß e , u da, t ) ~ o . ts Burton-en-Trent . Burton-on-Trent , r ai ‘ r e e t ' i nrt Frances, F I. ; . _ DIED. Av. the Earl of Radnor. On the 27th inst. at his seat in Wilts, in the 78th ye 3 On the -a assistant to Mark-lane tted by his family, and respected by a numeroo' lark-lane : a really highly the needy, sincerely ft , circle of friends. On the 27th inst. Walter Frye Skerrett, Esq. i n t h e 6;,,t1l year of his age. o n the 27th inst. at his house at Carahalt on , Robe ° Honstoun, Esq. aged 78. illnOesns, the e o 2 m 7 a t s h N i N n ri s l t lia i m n , E th u e st° in n ia s n ci t tutr soft after a few hoe of Thomas Blat" Esq. of Doctors' Commons. On the 27th inst. at the house of Charles Coles, Eb 4; Clapham, in the '7sth year of her age , Anne, relict of ti' late Alderman Caleb Jenkin, of Dublin. On the 24th inst. at his residence in Southampto W place, New-road, after a short illness, Mr. James Ilarri‘o° aged 57. On the 25th inst. in Hans-place, Mrs. Janet Gregol a native of Scotland—the trusted a n d f a ithf u l serva nt °‘ Thomas Hector, Esq. in whose family she spent the grea t ' part of her valuable life. d li On the 27th inst. Jane, the wife of the R e v. OUP Jones, vicar of Lewisham, Kent. the SUN Omen, No. 112, Strand. P RINT ED and PUBLISHED by M. 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