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q.vit is gratuitous; and nothing but sheer ig !lc/ranee, or the grossest judicial superstition would countenance it. The individual who, in slight cases, Bees from justice, and allows a sentence for contu macy to be suspended over him, inflicts on himself a heavier punishment than the law would inflict oe him. Hence it is found in all other countries that the dread of the consequences of a sentence in ab sence is always-sufficient to ensure the presence of a defendant in slight cases. Bail can never be neces sary, ex cept in cases of a ser i ous nature. The hold ingpoor people to bail, causes the ruin of thousands, r b o dy and soul, every year, in this metropolis. The returns on this head are most appalling. We can ' lig% conclude our remarks, without availing ourselves , ; eiT the following truly liberal observations of the Bishop of Lorrclon:—" The grand principle of pre :4w' vendor' is this,—and it is a principle which this r . state can only indirectly enforce; but for the en , forcemeat of which, in every possible direction and , w .uegree, it ought to make provision ;--that men shall d , be convinced, not only of the unlawfulness, but the sinfulness, of crime : that they should be disinclined from its commission, by the influence of more pre vailing, and more constraining motives than die ani mal fear of punishment; that they should be taught to regard it as infinitely detrimental to their own in terests." Now, though enormous sums are taken from the people for the professed object of supplying them with instruction, it is not the less true, that their moral instruction has been almost entirely neglected. The peg: le should be taught, as his Lordship judi ciously observes, that " crime is detrimental to their own interests." But this can only be done by ac quainting them with the principles on which the prosperity of a nation depends, and instruct ing them in the principles of morals. There is no ethical treatise, as far as we know, adopted for the body of the people. The great fault in this country is, that we preach abstractions to the people —we tell them they are to do justice, to live vir tuously, and so forth ; but we do nothing to enable them to solve the difficulty as to what is demanded of them in the various. circumstances of life, that they may live cvell. The Catholic Casuists, and our old Puritan Divines, endeavoured, according to the measure of their knowledge, to -.enlighten the con sciences of the people; and the Christian Directory of Richard Baxter, in particular, might be of great ' use to those who are desirous of benefiting the people by the communication of the more enlightened views of our days: Instead of idle abstractions or mystical nonsense, the people should be catechised in the schools in the knowledge calculated to make them enlightened members of society in their seve ral stations. We repeat it, there is no moral educa tion in this country... Dr.. Blomtield's example will, we trust, - operate. beneficially on his ecclesias tical brethren. We trust also, that as he possesses such enlightened views in: Moral and political sub jests, he will follow up this sermon by other works itt the same spirit.—Aforning Chronicle. If any doubts could have been entertained as to the fulness and veracity of the Russian bulletins, they must be removed •from the minds of the most Incredulous by a short 'publication which has just made its appearance at St. Petersburgh, and which is equally authentic and decisive. This is no other than a manifesto by ", Nicholas 1., Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias," which begins with ra ther a droll declaration, that " notwithstanding the success of our arms in the war now carrying on against the. Ottoman Porte," " our anxious wish to put an aid to the struggle, unexpectedly protracted as it has been by the obstinacy of the enemy, calls upon us to' -- (solicit or offer peace ? for 1 the declarations th en m a d e not hi ng need he added; from them nothing need he taken away. Therefore they are silent. They justly feel that those who presume to infer some change in their opinions, be cause they do not upon every opportUnity, or with out any; reiterate the sentiments they solemnly ex pressed three months ago, offer them a deliberate and' intentional insult. But in the strength of con - scions honour, integrity, and consistency—powerful in the secure awl well-merited esteem and confidence and affection of the British nation, they may and do despise and disregard this and all the other insults of faction. Of the merit to which we have been al luding as one of the most distinguishing merits of the Duke of Wellington's Administration, Mr. Secre tary Peel has had many opportunities, during his tour in the North, of offering the most signal and splendid illustrations. Received wherever he appear ed with unanimous and enthusiastic expressions of admiration and esteem—thus received not merely as one of the most important Members of an Adminis tration deservedly popular, but as the most zealous, uncompromising, and able champion of opinions upon one great constitutional question, with respect to which the Cabinet is known not to be unani mous—upon no occasion, although called upon to bear his part, time after time, in scenes of festive enjoyment prepared to do him honour, and frankly and honourably joining in the social expression of sentiments common to himself and his cntertainers— in no single instance did he utter a syllable that could give a moment's uneasiness to any one of his Colleagues in the Administration—never was he betrayed into a word calculated to compromise the dignity of his Majesty's Government, or to disturb the cordiality and mutual conlidence which prevail among his Majesty's confidential Servants. This, we say, is the proudest triumph to Mr. Secretary Peel, and the highest honour to the Administration in which he bears so distirguished a part ; and we are accordingly not surprised that it should have provoked the displeasure and stimulated the per verse ingenuity of the enemies of Government.— But Mr. Secretary Peel and the Administration of the Duke of Wellington are not always silent. They can and do speak, when it is necessary to the adequate discharge of their official duty ;' and when they speak, they speak intelligibly and with effect. We refer, in proof of this, to the Proclamation pro mulgated by their order in Ireland. The orators of the Association—the personal friends, as some of them have recently boasted, of the Marquis of An glesett—are; it seems, quite displeased and con founded by this Proclamation. Mr. Orator Shiel • thinks the Association would have preserved the peace of Ireland better without the Proclamation _ _ such would be the natural consequence Of such a, announcement —no. such thing, but to) " perso cm. . r "—" Notwithstanding that we have been vic torious," quoth his Majesty, " we feel an anxiqus wish for peace, and are therefore. called Upon' to persevere' in carrying on the contest I" This is pretty well for a beginner. The pith, however, of the document is to come; and here there follows a comfortable communication to the Muscovites, of the Imperial pleasure, that a general recruiting is to take place instanter throughout the whole of his Majesty's dominions—the " success" of the war having been so eminent as to require the peronal service of four individuals cut of every 500 Ritssian subjects, amounting in the whole to something more than 90,000 negociators of the " anxiously-wished f9r" peace, in addition to the 150 or . 200,000, about a third or one half of whom bare perished within the last four months, in the same beneficent act of peace-making. It is Ordained that the entire of this new corps diploinatique shall be ready for business in two month from the Ist of. November. Now, when it is observed that towards the close of the manifesto the real object 'assigned to this extensive. recruiting party, is to " put into a complete state , the military power" of the Russian empire, it ought to be recollected that before the campaign began, the statements industriously circulated thrOughout Europe of the military force on foot, exceeded . 500,000 men, and that in the course of the cam• paign, with the single exceptirei Otthe assault of Brai low, no greater loss was in any instance acknowledged by the bulletins than some 500 or 600 men, and after fighting a whole day, often no more than tliat of 20 or 30 killed. One marvels, therefore, that with the enormous military establishment which was at first laid claim to by Russia, and after such very trifling deductions. as those which have been made Iron, it by the published bulletins of the war, a fresh supply of 100,000 soldiers should still be re quired to " Complete" a force, assuming to be so tremendous at the outset, and in the sequel to have suffered so inconsiderably. •The fact is, that the Russians are beaten,—against the general expecta tion, we admit,—to the present relief of our own ap prehensions, we acknowledge.—and, in 'spite of what some ignorant Newspapers Prtellll, to the abso lute overthrow of all. the opinions .Which, ru the ear lier periods of the campaign, were professed by the Duke of Wellington as to the issue of the. Rusaian operations. His Grace, as is known to dozens of people, declared over and over, and long sincethe Russians crossed the Danube, that the superi or • ais eipline and organization of' their army must . tably prevail against the tumultuous stud ill-consti tuted troops of . the Porte. )yypentitm it is a will-known - truth,) because certain prints pr .m m e isat labouring to write up the wisdom of the F Mi nister, for having foreseen the wretched results of the invasion, and for having avoided a war, because he knew that a war would b e unnecessary. His Grace knew nosuch thing. His military calculations, in this instance, were as completely baffled as his politica l views have been in every other. We would there fore, at this moment, supplicate his Majesty's Mi nisters, while Turkey is formidable, and Russia weakened, to regime, since they can do so with impunity, the high tone which so well becomes Great Britain; and which no English statesmen for there 70 years have ever before abandoned. If they now mediate seriously, and determine to be heard, their mediation must•succeed. England, if she wills it, i s mistress of the Euxine. Russia, therefore, cannot budge again s t t h e P orte ' without her per mission. England can tell - Russia—and Russia must o b ey —" You shall not gala an inch of Turkish ter , ritory, nor shall you march•one regiment against any point of the Turkish coast until you first give me security for the consequences." We say that if a British Government understood its duty, such would be the language held to the Cabinet of St. Peters burgh. But another part of the duty of Great Britain would be, to provide an absolute freedom of commerce, on behalf of Russia, from the Euxine into the Levant. The Duke of Wellington and the interests of Europe have been saved on this occasio n by Turkish energy, not by British wisdom.—Timex. than with it, while Mr. Orator Lawless denounces it as an ex parts Proclamation, directed exclusively against the Catholic agitators, and not at all against the Protestant Constitutional Associations formed for the purpose of counteracting them. The ora tors are both right in their construction of the Pro clamation, for it intimates clearly enough the deter mination of Ministers to govern Ireland henceforth without the aid of Mr. Shed and his colleagues; and it is so far ex parts as to distinguish the enemies of Government from its friends, in a manner which neither can misunderstand.— Morning Post. It is seldom, we trust, that we bring ourselves immediately before our readers as possessing any exclusive claims to their confidence for the sound ness of our opinions, or the early nature of our com munications. Our readers are better judges of these matters than ourselves, and • to them we fearlessly leave the task of appreciating what little merit we may be entitled to on these grounds; but when a cotemporary, with an audacity which only finds a parallel in the pages of the first political quack of the d ay , an d a contempt of truth which is only to he match e d i n t h e same verac i ous annals, puts forth pretensi ons to - which it -has- no title, and deals t rt sarcasm s w hi c h have no foundation in fact, becomes almost a public duty to strip the piti ful creature of its borrowed plumage, and con sign it to the oblivion fron- which it attempts to escape by such di sre p uta bl e means. Th ose who have h onoured us by a perusal of our columns since the breaking out of the war between Turkey and Russia, arc fully aware that we never, even for one moment, despaired of the cause of the former—that we have represented the enterprize of Russia as fraught with as great danger to herself as it was ambitious and unprincipled towards her allies —that we dese ibed the war as essentially different in its nature !rom a war between nations professing the sam e religions faith; and.that, forming our . judg ment o f t h e probable result from t h e amount of mili tary force which Russia could bring to bear upon the Turkish frontiers—the difficu lties w hi c h she would have to encounter from the nature of the country, the national antipathy of the T ur k s, and the determined and sagacunis - character of the reign ing Sultan, we have always said that the Russians„, nor • • would neither reach Constantinople, Cross the . • •. Balkan, during the present year. The event h a • h la every respect answered our expectations--the Itus sians are already in full retreat, and have by this time, in all probability, recrossed the Danube. We take no merit to ourselves, however, for having prog nosticatcd a result which must have been apparent to every one who chose to devote the same riven tiou to the subject that we . have.paid to it ; but mark how a Morning Journal lauds itself for the just claims prescience, and throws aside the more claims of - others to the stone intelligence. " We have," 'says • it, " been sometimes accused by our more Wary, because less informed, cunt empo- rarics, of making too bold assertions, and we admit that, in the state of their .knowledge, the language which we have held from the beginning of the con test between the Russians and the Torks might not unreasonably appear bold. So Minch had been said, The price of the best bread now is 13(1. the quarter') loaf; some time since the .price Was only N. Here is a rise of nearly :30 per cent. What . will Daniel Hurdcastle say to this • rise of i)0 per rent. in • what he calls. prices, when, according to Daniel, there was rather a decrease than increase of currency? Or'what will the talented Editor (as he calls himself) of a Morning Paper say, who, when he had used to insert Daniel's king articles in the Morning Paper in questitm a ,;directed the attention . • ..414'L.0 of his readers to them, and called them " most able by almost all that : had spoken en the subject, of ( attielcsr This , unexpected . rise in the Price of the immense power, and still more immense ria " things," as the writ er s on cur r e n c y have it, has sources, of the Emperor of all the Rtissias, the completely proved that th e c urrency writers have discipline and appointment of his troops, the skill been wrong in their data—for they all wrote on the of his Generals, and, above all, the wisdom subject of curr en cy as if m e dium was used for and gallantry of the magnanimous Nichol as him eatables and drinkables only;—they forgot that it s e lf— an d, on t h e ot h er hand, so contemptible, was equally wanted to carry on trade in houses, according to all accounts, were the armies, so land, timber, manufactured goods, household furni- bungling the leaders, so ignorant the Ministers of the Lure, and a vast variety of things. The daily trade Porte, and such was the ignorance and arrogance of in funds alone is, probably, equal to the daily trade the Sultan, that he who did but insinuate or doubt in wheat. We have heard some stockbrokers say of the success of their enemies, nay, h e th a t h e ,j_ that the trade in English funds amounts to 300,0001. tated to believe that, in the course of a few months, a day. This, multiplied by 300, for the days in the the crescent would be torn from the brows of the weeks, amounts to 90,000,0004 And we have Queen of the East, never again to glitter there, was also heard that the trade or returns in wheat do riot treated by all but ourselves as a dreamer." All this exceed 100 millions a year. Now every oce knows is very fine and very imposing ; but it is, unfortu that currency is required as well for th e buying arid nately for , the Morning Journal in question, not selling of funds as it is for the buying and selling of true; and, if our cotemporary would condescend for. wheat; and yet none of the writers on currency have once to take counsel from us, we would advise him to alluded to Funds a t a ll as b e in g a n article of traffic make that the prominent characteristic of his converse requiring currency.—Morning Herald. with the public. Quackery and falsehood never yet succeeded, either in increasing the respectability or The Duke of W e lli ng t sn an d M r . S ecretary P ee l th circul of a aper, and i appear to h ave exc i te d t h e anger o f a ll t h e W h i g and Radical J ourna l s o f t hi s countr y b y t h e i r s il ence to e which atio we n allude , w news econfider ly in ant the icipated nstance a upon the subje c t o f th e C a th o li c Cl a i ms , w hil st t h e change of principle as well as a change ;of name.— Irish Government have in an equal degree offended Morning Advertiser. the Agitators by a proclamation which speaks in Ire land—where it had become necessary that the voice of authority should be raised--a language which they no longer affect to misunderstand. The grate ful thanks of the British nation are due and will be paid to every individual member of the present Ad ministration, for maintaining as they have done, in circumstances which offered no ordinary temptations to deviate into an opposite_course, that prudent and stately reserve which is no less conducive to the efficiency than it.is essential to the dignity of Go vernment. The country has had some experience of Ministers who thought it no derogation to them selves or to their office to coquet with party writers, to wage war with pathphleteers, or to chatter in clubs; and this experience has not - tended .to give any place in popular estimation to va nity, petulance, or garrulity in the list of Mi nisterial 1 - virtues. The leading Members of Administration have openly, fully, and freely, at no remote period, arid in the face of the assembled Le gislature, - expressdd their opinions, and unfolded the principles by which their future conduct will be go verned with reference to the Catholic Question. To POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-lIOUSE.—A tall athletic man, named Minnifie, and another person, were charged with having excited two drunken men to fight on Saturday even ing, at about eight o'clock, at a place near Tower-hill, called Barking- church-yard, and Mr. Minnifie was charg ed with having himself shown off in the pugilistic art, when the drunken men were prevented from indulging the crowd. Mr. Drinkald, and other gentlemen of the neighbour hood, were, it appeared, obliged to interfere for the pro tection of the peace of the vicinity, in which several hun dred persons collected to witness a fight. The pugilists were luckily i❑ such a state as to be unable to do each other Nunn. The fighters had been brought to animosity by glasses of gin which had been supplied to them by some " gemmen" who wanted to see the fun, and to fight them selves if they could.find an opportunity. The defendants were amongst them. Several rounds were 'ought, and the combatants did very little mere than pull each other's hair, and hug like two bears until they tumbled. The fall was, however, a signal for very unmanly dealing. Tl►e unfor ... . . tuuate pugilists the moment they " bit the dust," were as sailed with kicks in the ribs and faces, and victory must soon have been declared in favour of the mob that sur • rounded them, were it not for a gentleman named Christie and Mr. Drinkald, who interfered to prevent the drunken men being kicked to death. Mr. Christie, seeing Mr. Minnifie very busy in stimulating the battle, rushed be tween the fighters, and said that they should fight no mere; whereupon Mr. Minnifi'e clinched his fists, held them up to Mr. Christie's face, threatened to " sarve him out," and endeavoured to intimidate him from taking any part in the settlement of the quarrel. This sort of intimidation did not answer. After having been severely knocked about and bruised, the pugilists were "shoved into their clothes," and the fight was terminated. Mr. Drinkald saw the de fendant, Mr. Minnifie, most active in the crowd. That gentleman, upon finding that there was a disposition to peace, and that the two drunken men seemed willing enough, after being so well kicked, to shake hands, began to raise a fresh row, and seeing a looker.on quietly regard ing the matter, dealt hint such a clout in the eye as sent him several yards into the street, where he lay motionless for some time. This did not satisfy the assailant. He looked about for more customers of the same kind, and see ing several, he flung his fists at them, and soon had multi tudes around him prostrate. Mr. Drinkald described the conduct of this hero of Barking church-yard as violent and unfair in the extreme. Alderman FAREBROTHER condemned the conduct of Mr. Minnifie. He considered it extremely unfair in that gentleman to put himself into the place of one of the fallen pugilists, after they had retired from the.field, and to dual Isis blows amongst the uneffending multitude. His Wor ship asked what the other defendant did. It was stated that the other defendant felt offended at the interruption to the fight, made a great noise, and swore at the people ; but was too drnuk to knock any body down. He, however, fell down himself. The ALDICRMAN ordered that the harmless defendant should pay ss. for being drunk, and that Mr. Minnifie, who had done such execution in the crowd, should enter into recognizances to keep the peam. A man who said his name was Wilson, but whose real name is Cox, was charged under the following cir cumstances:— A clerk in the house of Messrs. Muggridge and Co. stated, that the pri.oner came to the house and presented a piece of paper, purporting to be an order from a Mr• Curtis for three reams of paper. The witness suspected that the order was a forgery, but ordered that the paper should be made up. This was done, but the prisoner, who evidently suspected that all was not right in the opinion of the house, made some excuse for going away without taking the paper, which, however, he had moved from one part of the premises to another. The witness secured him. The pretended order was signed "E. Em mett," for T. Curtis. Alderman FAREBROTIIEK (to witness.)—Were you de ceived by this order ? The witness hesitated.—He certainly knew it not to be real, and he would not have given the goods upon it. Alderman FAREBROTHEK-Then the charge falls to the ground. It was an attempt to impo`o upon you, but it did not succeed ; you were not deceived. Mr. Holler agreed in this view of the question. The prisoner said he had got the order from a man whom he never saw before. He was remanded. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday a fashionably dressed young man, who refused to :give his name, Was placed at the bar before Sir IL BIRNIE, charged capitally with having stolen two gold watches and a gold seal from the sale-room of Messrs. Robins, Piazza, Covent-garden. Mrs. Jane Kelly deposed, that she has the care of Messrs. Robins's sale-rooms. On Friday morning last, about 10 o'clock, a variety of goods, consisting of watches, jewellery, wearing apparel, being unredeemed pledges, was exhibited for inspection in one of the show rooms. She observed the prisoner in the room, and knew that he was i❑ the pawnbroking business, but could not tell his name. The prisoner was looking over the goods, and she took little notice of him. To the best of her belief no other stranger was in the room at the time. In a short time Mr. Bentley, of Cavendish-square, a dealer in curiosities, came into the room, and referring to the catalogue, desired to be shown a gold watch. The foreman went to the place where the watches were deposited, and found that two of them were missing. The foreman asked who had been in the room, and witness answered bydescribingthe prisoner's person, as he did not know his name. Mr. Jupp, a pawnbroker, in the Borougb„prodaegd two gold watches, hie house on Friday hist. Witness lent 151. upon one of the watches, and 71. upon the other. The prisoner was the person who pawned the watches. He gave the name of John Jones, and stated that he lived at No. 12, Union-row, Kent-road. "Witness at first refused to lend more than 201. on both watches, but the prisoner said be had a bill to pay amounting to 211. 17s. 6d., and he must obtain the amount be required. Believing him to be a respectable man, witness consented to lend the money. Mr. Dicker, pawnbroker, of Charlotte -street, Lambeth marsh, deposed, that on Friday morning, about 12 o'clock, the prisoner brought the watches now produced to his shop, and.dernanded 22/. upon them. Witness at first offered to advance 201. on the watches ; but having spoken to the prisoner respecting them, declined having coy thing to do with them. Sir R.• Bramr. asked if any person was present who could identify the watches as having been in the show-room of Messrs. Robins on the morning in question ? Mr. Robins said it unfortunately happened that the fore man, who alone could give evidence to that effect, had gone down to the country to attend a sale, which would probably last until Friday -next. A young man in the service of Mr. Harrison, pawn broker, Tottenham-court-road (where the prisoner was last employed), stated, that on Wednesday or Thursday last he delivered the watches now produced to a porter of Messrs. Robins. Sir R. Bram): asked Mr. Jupp if he was quite certain the prisoner was the person by whom the watches had been pawned? Mr. Jupp—l have no doubt of it. However, I should like to see the prisoner with his hat on. Prisoner —There is no use in that. I acknowledge my self to be tl.e person : I have committed the offence, and there is no use in concealing my guilt. Sir R. Bixstry. cautioned the prisoner against criminat ing himself. " Have you any thing to say," he added, 4, that you think may serve you ; if so, I will hear you willingly." The case was then - remanded for a week, in order to give time for the production of Messrs. Robins's foreman. When the prisoner was about to be removed, he applied to have his purse restored to him, which the officer (young Bond) had secured when he took him into custody. As the purse contained only three sovereigns and a few shillings, Sir R. tinsirE desired tont! to ristote it to the prisoner ; obServing, that although the money was no c doubt part of the amount he had obtained Upon the watches, yet, al it entild not he identified be might have it. andta i l i d ine the :,ou o l fil d maree r it was s Th al e i prriigsohnte,rantriethatltieaptirsverey, shout matters right with him. • He was then removed from the bar, and conveyed to the lock-up-place at the rear of the office, where Bond, jun., who had observed something strange in his manner, followed for the purpose of cautioning Ford the gaoler not to leave any instrument of self-destruction in hie way. The office's; accordingly returned to the room where the prisoner was confined by himself. Ile was found with his cravat off searching in a bundle which contained a razor, and there is no doubt that, but for the timely appearance of the officers, he would have cut his throat. He acknow ledged that such had been his object, and said that nothing should alter his determination to commit suicide by some means or other. The prisoner, it appears., is very reputably connected, but having unfortunately connected himself with a girl of the town, and having lost his situation at Mr. Harrison's, of Tottenham-court-road, .he resorted to the desperate expe dient of raising money by fraud and robbery. It is be lieved that Mr. Harrison, with whom he last lived, and another pawnbroker, ,with whom he had lived previously, had lost goods to a considerable amount, supposed to have been stolen by the prisoner. A great number of duplicates for property, chiefly consisting of jewellery, were found at the lodgings of the girl with whom lie had cohabited, in Bond-street, at the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday a very re spectable-looking man, most fashionably dressed, named Archibald Lung, a journeyman tailor by trade, but who had much more the appearance of a Bond-street lounger, residing at No. 2, Seymour-ereseent, Euston-square, was brought before Sir GEORGE FARRANT, the sitting Magis trate, in custody of Goddard, the officer, upon the following singular charge : Charles Barton, Esq., a gentleman residing in Baker street, Portman-square, on the 3d of this month was making some purchases at the warehouse of Sir. Newman, oil and colourman in Soho-square, and while there he took out of his pocket, amongst other money, a 40/, note of the Bank of England, and held it for some time loose with his gloves in one of his hands, while with the other he selected the articles lie was about to purchase ; hut when he had con cluded his selection, he forgot the 401. note altogether, and it remained still in his hand when lie quitted the shop, nor did he think anything more of it until he reached home, when he missed it front his possession. At first he thought it possible that he mightsiblive left it on Mr. Newman's counter, in which case he knew it would have been quite safe ; but when lie returned there, which he did imme diately, he found that he hail not been so fortunate as to have left it there. This happened about five o'clock in the evening, just as it was getting dark, and it was then too late to take any measure' for stopping or tracing the note at the Batik of England ; the next morning, however, he went to hie own banker's, in the city, from whom lie had received the Mite, and there ascertained the number sif it, which he did not before know, and he then proceeded to the Bank of England, where he stopped payment of the note, and left his address. On Tuesday last he went to Epsom, and did not return until last Sunday, when he found a notice from the Bank of England, informing him that the note had been stopped at the Bank ; and yesterday morning he went there, when they gave him the names of Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co., the bankers, as the per sons who had paid the note into the Bank of England ; and at the house of Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co., he learned that they received it from Mr. Shoolleread, a woollen-draper, in Tottenham-court-road, and Mr. Shoot bread informed him, that the prisoner was the person of whom be had received it. He (Mr. Barton) then came to this office, and procured Goddard, the officer, to accom pany hint in calling on the prisoner, who, however, refused to give any account of how he became possessed of the note. Goddard said, that he accompanied Mr. Barton to the prisoner's lodgings in Seymour-crescent, and they first saw the prisoner's wife, who told them that the prisoner was not at home ; but they watched about the house, and in a little time they saw the prisoner—who answered the de scription given of Isis person by Mr. Schoolbread—come 'from the house, and Mr. Barton went up to him and asked him if his name was not Lang, and lie replied that it was. They then questioned him about the 401., but he refused to give any account of it, and said that he did not consider himself under any obligation to Jo so. They tken brought the prisoner to this office, and. locked him up, while he (Goddard) went back again to the prisoner's residence, and got the keys of some drawers from the prisoner's wife, in which, upon opening them, he found two 51. notes of the Bank of England and one sovereign, and on the prisoner's person he finmil another sovereign and is. in silver. In the drawers he also found x quantity of cloth, which it ap peared the prisoner had purchased at Mr, Shoolbread's in changing the note. Sir G. Fa aassiT asked the prisoner if he would now think proper to give any account of how lie became pos sessed of the 40/. note ?—The prisoner had not the slightest objection to tell where be got it: the fact, he said, was, that on the 3d of this month, about five o'clock in the afternoon, as he was turning out of Sutton-street into Soho-square, on the left hand side, he saw something that appeared to lie silver paper lying on the foot pavement close to the iron-railing, and on picking it up he found to his great joy that it was a 401. note of the Bank of England ; and it was true that he did change it in purchasing the cloth produced at Mr. Shcolbread's. " And did it never occur to you," asked Sir G. FAR RANT, of the prisoner, " to advertise the note in the news papers?"—" Why," said the prisoner, " it certainly 'Rid occur to me to advertise it ; but the truth is, I had not the means of paying for an advertisement at the time, I was so very poor. I had been nearly three months out of work, and 1 had been obliged to pledge almost every article I had to support my family." Sir G. FaitnANT asked the •prisoner whom he had ever worked for in London as a tailor, and he replied, that he had worked for Mr. Rolfe, a master tailor in Dean-street, Soho-square, who still occasionally employee! him ; hut. for three months business had been so very slack, that there was scarcely any work to be done. He was going he said to call on Mr. Rolfe to ask for work at the very time that he picked up the 401. note. Sir G. FARRANT said, that surely if the prisoner had, as he should have done, told Mr. Rolfe of his having found the note, Mr. Rolfe would no doubt have readily ad vanced him sufficient money to pay for an advertisement ; but besides, there was nothing easier than to get the note changed, as it appeared he hail in fact done, and apply part of the amount to paying for the advertisements, which the owner would he very glad afterwards to allow, and no doubt give a handsome reward to the finder into the bargain. The prisoner said, that perhaps he ought to have ad vertised the note, but he had done otherwise. " Yes, so it seems you have, indeed," said the Magistrate. The prisoner considered he had a right to the note or any thing else that he might find, and in fact be looked upon it at the time he picked it up as having been sent to him by Providence to relieve his distress ; if, however, he had erred, it was through ignorance,' and not dishonesty; for be never had been guilty of a dishonest act in his life, as all who knew him could testify, nor was be ever for a moment in custody before this occasion, and it pained him very much to have been locked up in a cell with a parcel of vagrants and other filthy people as he had been since he was brought to the office, which he thought a very unne cessary severity ; he was ready, he said, to give Mr. Bar ton up all the mone y that was l e ft of th e note , a b out 13/., and the cloth he had purchased at Mr. ShoOlbread's. Sir G. FARE ANT asked him what be had done with the rest of the money ?--Ife replied, that he had laid it out in redeeming some of the things he had pledged : for instance, the suit of clothes he had on, and in paying some debts ; the hat lie wore, too, he bought out of it; but he hoped Mr. Barton would not take that away; indeed, even now he thought he had a right to something for finding the note. Sir G. FARRANT said not at all; he was entitled to nothing after the manner in which lie had acted ; he must have known that he had no right to keep another person's propel ty because he found it in the streets, at all events without using every means to find out the owner. Goddard said that the prisoner's wife appeared to have a great many new dresses. The prisoner said that the dresses were not purchased out Of the note, but only redeemed out of pawn. Sir. G. FaeitANT asked the prisoner what countryman he was? lie replied that he was a native of Edinisurgh, where lie had once been living very r'spectably. Sir GEORG E asked him if he could give any security for the payment of the rest of the money to Mr. Barton ? The prisoner reall y cou ld not; f or a l t h oug h his fri e nds were re spectable, th ey were, l ik e hi mse lf, ve ry poor. After a g oo d d ea l o f nego ti a ti", by the advice of the Magistrate, b e t ween t h e pr i soner a nd Mr. Ba r t on , th roug h tile medium of Goddard, Mr. Barton consented in the end to accept of th e money remaining unspent and the piece of cloth, in all amounting to about ISt, and submitted to the loss of the remainder. The prisoner was consequently discharged. Goddard said that the prisoner's landlord certainly gave him a very good character, and said that he had lodged with him four years. QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday Edward Allen, a servant out of place, was brought up in custody before Mews. GnEGoittit and WHITE, charged with endeavour.. ink Icitibtaiii it situation, as livery servant, iti tEi service of Miss Augusta Craig, of No. 12, Great George-street, Westthinster, by a forged character from the country. Miss Craig stated to the Magistrate, that on the 29th of last month she advertised in the titra..l newspaper for a liVery servant, and in consequence . had several applicants, &int among the resit the prisoner applied. Front his tespeet. able appearanee she desired him to call on the following Saturday, by which time alit ;Mould be Able to give bins an answer, and to make inquiry into his tliaracter. The pri soner gave her a reference to a Mrs. Tannef, a fatly of great respectability, as he represented, residing at rust Woolley, near Newbury, and she accordingly wrote to her. On the Monday following she received an answer; hut was by no means satisfied with the letter, on account of the hand-writing and spelling, and called on the prisoner and inquired whether Mrs. Tanner was an old lady or infirm. Ile said she was not, but bet age might be hoot 35. On further inquiry he said he had lived as servant at Lord Carnarvon's, in Grosvenor square, and referred her to Mr. Brown, a tradesman, in Marylebone-street, Hay market. She immediately went there, but on bet arrival found the prisoner there before her, and was informed that Mr. Brown was out of town. Mrs. Brown was, at home, and informed her that she recollected the prisoner coming to their shop when he lived at Lord Carnarvon's. She afterwards called in Grosvenor-square, and was informed by his Lordship's porter, that they never had a servant of that name. She had desired the prisoner to call upon her again last Saturday. In the mean time she accidentally met Mr. Lee, the high constable of Westminster, to whom she mentioned the circumstance ; and he wrote down to New bury to make inquiries about Mrs. Tanner, and in conse quence of the answer he received, the prisoner was taken into custody at her house on Saturday evening. Mr. Lee stated, that having accidentally met Miss Craig, who informed him of the circumstances, and showed him the letter from Mrs. Tanner, he was convinced it Was a forgery or some deception, and he therefore wrote to a gentleman in the bank at Newbury, well acquainted with the families around Newbury, and received an answer. Two letters were here handed to the Magistrate. The letter from Mrs. Tanner stated that the prisoner was a. mast excellent character, and had lived with her as livery servant for two years, and strongly recommended him. _ _ The letter from Mr. Lee's friend stated that he had made inquiries at East Woolley, and that Mrs. Tanner was a poor woman, supported by the parish, whose husband was killed some time back while working in a gravel-pit. _ Mr. Lee in continuation, said that when he took the prisoner into custody at Miss Craig's, he admitted Dlrs. Tanner was the person described in the letter, and that he had procured the character from necessity. Several specimens of the prisoner's handwriting, which was found on his person, were here produced, and bore a strong resemblance to the handwriting of Mrs. Tanner's letter, the grammar and orthography of which was so in famous, that it must have convinced any one that it never could have been written by a lady moving in a respectable sphere of life. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had lived in a number of respectable families in London and the country. He had been in the service of Sir Henry Halford, Mr. Metcalf, Lady Grey Egerton, Lord Feversham, and several toiler gentlemen, but was continually laid up with the rheumatic gout, and forced to quit their service in a few weeks. He afterwards went down to his father's at East Woolley, and having recovered his health, he came again of London to procure a situation ; but being aware that no person would take him with a few weeks' character, he got Mrs. Tanner, before he left the country, to give him a character in case she should be applied to. lie had abo been in the employ of Lord Carnarvon, baying worked there as a gardener ; and the only object he had in view was to get employment. Mt- WHITE observed, that the thanks of the public were due to Miss Craig for coming forward. The inso lence and ill-behaviour of servants had arrived at such a height that it was time a stop should be put to their prac tices. It appeared to him. that gerftlemen had combined to allow servants to become their masters. Miss Craig now interceded far the prisoner, 'that •he might not be punished ; but Mr. WHITE said it was impossible to overlook such conduct, which might have been attended with most mis chievous consequences. The case was adjourned for about an hour, while Mr. Lee made some inquiries about the prisoner. On being again placed at the bar, a servant belonging to LOrd Carnarvon said he believed the prisoner's story was correct as to being compelled to leave the situations he had mentioned from illness, and that he had worked in his Lordship's garden in the country. Mr. GRI:CORIE said, although he was willing to believe the prisoner had nu other inducement but to get into em ployment, yet the method he had adopted was of such a mischievous tendency, in proemial; a forged character, that the public would not think he was doing his duty if he let it go unpunished. Mr. Wiarz severely censured the conduct of Mrs. Brown, who was sent fur, in stating to Miss Craig what was a gross falsehood. Such practices were only resorted to by persons who expected to get the custom of the fami lies from the servants. Mrs. Brown denied this to he the case. Mr, Wntrr—Then why did you tell a falsehood ? Mr. GREGORIE then convicted the prisoner in the lowest penalty, which was 20!., and in default of pay ment he was committed for one month to the House of Correction. MARYLEBONE.—About three o'clock yesterday af ternoon George Curtis (said to be brother to the pugilist) and Thomas Smith, young men of very dashing appear once, were brought before Mr. HawrassoN under the fol lowing circumstances :--An hour and a half behire they went into shop of Mr. Tutman, watch-maker, 31, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, and Curtis asked how long it would take to put a new spring to a valuable gold watch. Mr. Tutman said two oe three days, but if the watch was to be regulated it ought to he kept longer. Curtis told him he was going into the country for a fortnight, in the mean time the watch should be sent to him for the purpose of being repaired, and he mould call for it when he return ed. The prisoner, Smith, then reminded Curtis that he wanted a gold key, and Mr. Tutman put a tray before them which contai ne d f rom 50 to 60 . S m i t h turned them over, but Curtis said he wished to have one with a large stone in the middle, and there not being one of that kind, they left. As soon as they were gone Mr. T. missed two of the keys, one worth Bos. the other ISs. anti he followed them. lie watched them in and out of the shop of Mr. Wood, a silversmith in the same street, and he asked Mr. Wood their errand. Mr. Wood told him they inquired for mourning-rings, but bought nothing, and he thought they were "on the town." Mr. Tutman then watched them into another silversmith's shop in Tottenham -mart-road, and afterwards into the shop of Mrs. Davenport, a haber dasher, in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, and while they remained there he sought for a constable, and had thein secured. The constable searched them at a public-house before he brought them to the office, and found in their Possession three entire pieces of ribbon, two silver knives, a pair of silver mounted spectacles, a5l. Bank of Eng land note, and some small cash. They were again searched at the office by Stowell, and he found in secret pockets two more silver knives, and one gold or silver gilt ditto, and their persons were divested of three gold rings, a dia mond pin, and a gold brooch. - _ _ . - Curtis refused Co answer the questions of Mr. RAWLIN SON, " because of the respectability of his parents ;" and Smith said he bought the silver knives of a hawker who came to his own place, and gave a " good bit of money for them," but he declined to state where his oWn.place was. Mrs. Davenport lays claim to the ribbons, but was not able to, attend the esatnination ; and to give all parties who may be concerned en opportunity to come forward, the prisoners were remanded till Wednesday. A young man informed Mr. RAWLINSON, last he married a lady who passed for a spinster, and after wards he discovered she had been a mother some, years, and found reason to believe she Was the wife of another. " I have tried to bring her to. confession, Sir," said he, " but she sets me at defiance, and tells me to find it out, and I don't know what to do with her." " I can tell you what to do with her," said the MAGI_ STRATI:, " when you prove she has two husbands, till then I cannot interfere." THAMES POLICE.—" \Vito AssAULTEU Mr."— Mr. Cowderey, the landlord of the Blackamoor's Head in Rosemary-lane, and a Mr. George Andrews, appeared to answer a charge of assault. The complainant, John Berry, of stature at least six feet, and as erect and slim as a May-pole, commenced his tale of sorrows as follows it please your Worship, I went into the sign of the Black's Head, and there I saw two soldiers and one civilian. Civilian, what's that ? inquired Captain RICHBELL. A civilian, please your 'Worship, said Berry, is a man what never was a soldier. Ave, indeed, responded the Captain. Well, your Worship, continued Berry, I was beaten by the said civilian. That was very uncivil indeed, said Mr. Bsonxatr. Berry—And so it was, your Worship ; but in addition to the beating of the civilian, I was beaten by the two soldiers, and the rest of the company. Mr. BitonEatr—Well, and who assaulted you? Rem. Who assaulted me ? why, the civilians and, the soldiers. Mr. Bicoontir—ls there any body idthe dice that ill- c --Z. 11100 1 11 treated you d4Plifile my face. 1? BaoniitiiLl aak -iiii - aga;irs who assaulted I°tam_H did Mr. Cowderay tske any particukr part in it? sde' For I know not, your Worship, that he did; but I col! e rt m , did not, because he was not in the rooru till all 1 1 ' 14 Pe r (A roar of laughter followed this answer.) •Art ac hh i Silvester, an Irish officer of this establishrivi n : a ft 4r ! For thcii now did you not swear that he bate you w: 4 ' Jf. Fo r iota pin when you took out the warrant? Be". For did I swore wrcos, , Mr. Cowderey did not beat un it l r'ri.yfeeted me ; but Ifitzt him in the warrant' Weal° For in his hoUSe I got the beating. 't i n e d Mr. Baur;tmr•—Stand down, Mr.: COVldec e Y s For charge against you is &mimed.: xito;,!• pi k)orni r Berry—As to who assattl•d miy..l!cbarge that on 10 'low. (Andrews) with knocking ml head nearly Wog Fro r wall. - th ' 15' Mr. Andrews, au old nervous man, here, 0 1,1 1 ° I . Nov voice, said—" I knock his head through a wall . Ate could not make a dent in a pound of butter. infer', -1 Htte i vaulted the mars, he does not know who assaulted nj o il far th - gain RICHSEML-80 it • ears. Why ro an yo u Itteet Capt., appe_ know ;tiff, assaulted you. Dt l Berry—" Who assaulted me." He looked NO ,10, obtained no answer ;—again he essayed " who 4 1 . 1 fir me," and was answered br a roar of laughter, in 1 1 , - ,00 Magistrates most heartily joineA, He then said, give it up." •Dd Mr, BRODERIV—What are you, man ? Berry candidate for the office of a parish watchman. s 0 Cowderey assured the Magistrate that the 1 3 7, 1 03 quite drunk wh e n he entered the house, and•instan tlY an attack upon all the customers in the tap-room. Berry, fixing his eye upon a little drunken batber,oil was under orders'for the tread-mill for a dititurbas ci, 0 . " Did you assault me?" The little barber eyed I'l,ol v escornfully, and ver y inelegantly desired fi:;111 to ask 1 " ! +- n I of his person. br°l4 rnosi * hei At this juncture a soldier bustl e d through the.t . 0 40'. by tve, laughing spectators, and placing himself in orderly' 4 ; 4 d of „ it before the Magistrates, said, " Your honours, 14'x;14 here went to my commanding officer, and reported thAt k ist?' acted unsoldier-like with some civilians, and had ls 41 , 1 1i• hi, d i and I was marched off by a corporal and file of 111 '6 0 e, consequence from my quarters to the Tower, and 0 1 0 0 Cy r fur twenty-six hours in the black hole, and deal . 3 1 but that I may he brought to a drum-head court floa rt :, and I never laid finger on him."--The Magistrat— stoutly dismissed the complaint. 31 THE KING'S STATUE. ‘ 11 44): BRIGHTON, OCT. 12.—The Steyne 714 has been the grand focus of attraction, 0%1 PAST cause the statue of his Majesty, which rec e . l' h i yir t Vith its permanent situation on the pedestal f ront a n i* 1 the enclosure of the northern" compartment v 1 1 ,tigh g Steyne yesterday, th e work h av in g been 0 0 . completed at precisely two o' c l oc k i n the v rf , kr. G noon, and which was announced by rt )1/1 ,,1 ----- peal from the bells of St. Nicholas. The r, rthis pe •a o s p thron e ged yesterday, a i y t all ranks and d , h fromtheperi a o s d cri n p a t iv io ei n k and night-fall ; and the multitude in number tir il; has been increased in a tenfold degree. of i lotf weather has been auspicious—it has heen it . ol i Re, of the brightest days o f th e season , an d the vie of the 10th Hussars have added their har# l e in contribution to the pleasures of the wiP o tii The statue represents his Majesty in hist r O of state, with the. right arm partilly extenv and as addressing a congregat) hiP or, as it may be supposed, of the two Houses of Parliam, ing or close of the Session, mirably formed—the . Count, likenesS to that of the: ing ; and commanding attitude character of the Sovereign served. The folds of the . ture—the tassels which orn, fine effect, and most skilfu; the right foot (the extremit projects a little beyond the tal), the leg and knee, an„ body as the flowing draperil open hand of the extended arm and if the arm itself, in somk may appear as somewhat there are other situations, and ought only to be regarded where the true effect is,ra— coverable. The tout ensoidie imposing and gran is, indeed, a highly finished specimen of art, of sheds addition a l l ustre upon the .profes6l-yo' fame of Mr. Ch antrey. Th e statue is of brqvito weighing, perhaps, three tons, standing feet from the surface of the pedestal, which I ten feet from the earth, and therefore gilo the extreme altitude of the former 19 feet. i o a work which aspiring a rtists m a y conterilf and derive instruction ; it is a,work eVerl, it meriting the proud situ a ti on it now oc cuple oo ,o near approximation to the p a l ace o f the 1 powerful Monarch in Europe, w h om it r e i n . 0 1'. sents ; and as an offspring of gratitude for i t 'ol ! culable advantages received, and of affection o ti loyalty to his person and Government, fray' ' , large portion o f hi s subjects, itivolving the 1 0° bitants of Brighton from one extremity t° other, and Sussex universally. 1 Public a nd p r i va t e entertainments, to cele oe hr'sl 9' the above mo s t gra tifyi ng even t, are i n pr Olt with us, .to disti ngu i s h th e p resen t wee k dud week ensuing. I) ij‘ In the garden of Mr. JAMES Voss, in vaes, Brecknock, there is a codling tree in full 14 with a fair prospect of fruit, a lthough i t b ore a full 0. apples this summer. This is a remarkable eireorusw this afvanced season of the year.— Cambrian. 4 thir exc pro Th, ,10 At th , of ] the Fi n , A_ , Pi 111 the BIRTHS. # On the 12th inst., at West DraYtim,Re' lady or Hubert de Burgh, Esq., of a son and heir. l e. At Chester, the lady of the Hon. C. Napier, uf,,a On the 9th inst., in Mont a gue-squ are , M rs . J. " of a son. AIARRIED. ge t' Oa the Utli inst., at St. John's Margate, by t- e rb ro Francis Barron, William Crowe, Esq., to Misc.' Dailey, of Lambeth. On the 9th inst., at Edinburgh, by the Rev. .I° .— . lstit' hams, Mr. Charles Richards, of St. Martin's-lane, t ° daughter of James'Eceles, Esq., of.Glasgotv. • 01' On the 10th inst., at Clifton, W. Rowland Ai r 10 of Hornetiffe-house, Berwickshire, and Alefusenri e llo conshirt, 4 to Miss Mary Aritie Hanson, eldest d 3 41014 b i 4tal John Hanson.g.N., of Upper Norton -street, r ° ' , ‘ N ttilt . place, late solieiMe to the Board of Stamps. Ad! tt Captain J ose ph Maynard, R. N., to Harriet' d di yp danght er o f Cl ar k Hill yar d , E sq., o f T b orpelan ds r l' amptooshire. I dti 44 ; 1 3 1 At Hollymount chur c h, Rob er t R u tl e d ge , of the cc )i e Mayo, Esq., to Mrs. Elizabeth Watson, daughter ( 0 1 , aki ` late Captain Thomas Bragg, of E g r emon t, Canberlarr ,c te, l On the 9th inst., at Marylebone New Churehrjte ( Dison, of Regent-street, to Mary Lydia Collins, daub of the late T. Collins, Esq. l 4 "" of tit At Peterhead, Thomas Ferguson, Esq., to Barbarso'' with cheson, second danghter of the late James. Hutchttovr due e , Peterhead. , hohltt jag ' DIED. - „rel .( pre % is 13 On the 9th inst., at Brighton, after a few days' illness, Jane Forster, of Tottenham, second daughtetJt is late William Forster, a member of the Society of Frir r i i and On _the 10th in s t., a t h er res id ence , .Lewisham, } ‘itl o neat' the 90th year of her ag e , ,Mr s . Elizab e th P r est, 11 and William Prest, Esq. W' I t o On the 11th inst., at. Mr, Musgrave's, Dread-std Math e w Betts, of Potion, Bedfordshire, aged 63. On the 11th inst., at Widefields, near Guilfordy lung an d li nger i ng ill ness , Pilgrim Mangles, Esq. , I ' years,'harrister-at-law. ► At Edinburgh, Elizab e th, wife of H e n r y Efskt 0 et, son a-1d heir of the Right Hon. Henry Erskine, I sisr Lord Advocate of Scotland, and nephew and heir r 7 tive of the present Earl of Buchan., 075,8 " PRINTED and Pin Isms bil(11.111:130 . YQ0 Sus OFFik F., 112, STRAND, LOttP6l4. Lis yai Vlall y ca,- , 41 gation of his sub), It the It the epresentoo, Noy rliament, at the ?fd 1" 1. The figure P o tenance she's e fi'l 4 terii and in the gro 4 #Pert „ chosen, the nisi' AE; ii is beautifully ! T ° iro robes are r tr u e 0., Pa4do lament them h t i Tully pi op ortione°k4 .4 te a m b' my forward of t hei g ht margin. of theppe t 4 ,/ '144 , 1 v *ith* 14 such parts L Gude cries disclose. arm is well execu, lYin g ae positions a four 13 of extreme 1 01 9 and such in whichep e" t h with a' critical i 3 to ; ost satisfictorilY dealtD Cut er Lo n d oi Po% l and foi l'alu 4 l