The Sun. — London, England, 1828-01-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS It is now at length perceived and felt, that the country is in a most lamentable situation, being en tirely without a responsible Ministry, and therefore without a Constitutional Government. On the perilous • and urgent affairs cf Greece, of Spain, of Portugal, the diplomatic persons of Russia, Austria, France,—of Spain and of Portugal,--have no on( to converse with,—no one of whom they can et-en ask the question, what are the probable inten tions of England with regard to those countries; unlee.s the Duke of Wellington, as Curator-General of the .Kingdom, in lien of the King's Majesty,— as substitute of the Ministry that was, and is, and is to be,—be that person. And with respect to oin domestic affa;:rs, the singular event has occurred, — which, the more it is thought of, creates the greater astonielment,—of a Parliament prorogued (wl). Hoe dissolved ?) by a Council at which no respon sible Minister was .present,—no President of the Coeurile —no First Lord of the Treasury,— no Secretary of State for Home tar Foreign Affairs. Indeed, we know that theee of the Cabinet Mi nisters were seen and spoken to in town while the Council was sitting at Windsor ley which the Parliament was prorogued, and not one of there. had the least idea of what Was going on. For the sake of the Constitution, if we are to have a Tory Administration, let us have it. Were we in the place of others, however, not so wedded to that faction, we would not suffer the Duke of Wellington, or any tither Duke upon earth, to tinker up such an Administration at our expense, by merely taking us to Till the cracks and holes in a vessel constituted of different materials. We say this, because we have heard that propositions were made to Lords Carlisle and Dudley,and Mr. Huskisson, to remain, for some suet] purpose as that intimated above, and that those persons declined the offer. Their country, we are sure, will approve of their conduct and motives. The express, also, which was despatched to the Duke of Devonshire, was, no doubt, with the same view, to court him to the same compliance of re maining with men whose principles he lisappi oved ; but no human power could tempt him thus to dis grace the name of Cavendish. It s remarkable that Mr. Canning proposed Lord Althorp as Chair man of the Finance Committee; and what but a cabal and intrigues of the basest kind could have now set up arid supported Mr. Herries against Mr. Huskisson, contrary, certainly, to the wise and good intentions of the King, who, as every one kwon s, offered the place- of Chancellor of the Ex chequer to the latter gentleman, on his return from the Continent after Mr. Canning's death. He, there fore, is now sacrificed, whom his Majesty at that time preferred—who was the leader of the House of Commons, and as such had a full right to approve of Lord Althorp as Chairman of the proposed Com mittee. By such unconstitutional manoeuvres, should they ultimately succeed, all hope of an ar rangement of our finances, upon intelligible, frugal, and, consequently, secure principles, will be lost ; as well, also, as all the chance of a reform in the whole "he colonial department already digested, and long so much needed. If the country can look upon this undismayed, it . has either more courage, or more in difference to its own concerns, than we have been used to attribute to it. It has been said that Lord Goderich has written to the King, to know whether it was his Majesty's intention that the new peerages were to be conferred as intended. To this inquiry an answer was returned by the Duke of Wellington in the affirmative. With respect to the Ministry, nothing is settled. Mr. Huskisson, we believe, stated to the Duke of Wellington the plan on which, in hi; views, the Government might be carried on To this no answer was given. —Times. We are still unable to communicate any account of the new Ministerial arrangements. Rumours of all kinds were afloat yesterday, but nothing positive was known. As it, is impossible that an Adminis tration can be broken up without abundance of cri minations and recriminations, it is much to be wished that something like an authentic account of the cir cumstances which preceded the resignation of Lord Goderich were laid before the public, that blame may attach to those who justly merit it. The public have beard yet nothing but surmises and insinua tions ; and though there has been much loud talk with respect to one individual, whose name has been bandied about at a good rate, the materials for judging soberly are yet wanting. It is impossible to conceive that the objections of Mr. Berries to the appointment of Lord Althorp as Chairman of the Finance Committee, could break up a Minist r y which was not already ready to be broken up.— This was not an affair of principle, but a mere mat ter of arrangement; and no man would think of setting up his own individual opinion on a matter of arrangement against a whole Cabinet. We say, then, that the Cabinet which could not get over a difficulty of this kind, must have been ready to fall to pieces at the first touch. When a body has de clined from the perpendicular, a pebble discharged from the hand of an infant may serve to throw it down. No man, however obstinate, would think of disturbing a harmonious' Cabinet with his single pertinacious opposition. The whole affair, then, of the Committee of Finance must' have been merely one of the symptoms of an organic disease. With out pretending to know any thing of the secrets of the prison -house, we could almost stake our exist ence that the real matter at issue remains yet to be told. Mr. Herries has the reputation of being an excellent man of business : he has passed through subordinate situations with general approbation, and it is not in character that such a man should think of acting in the pragmatical manner, which setting himself in opposition to all his Colleagues would deserve to be termed. There is a time for every thing, says the wise mart, and our contemporary, the Times, seems to think this is a time for worrying the individual who has just been named. Perhaps it is necessary that there should never lack some one to be baited for the edification of John Bull; and if Mr. Herries have no objection to be so baited, we can have none. Availing himself of a most ab surdly extravagant eulogy of The Standard, that " Mr. Herries's character was the sole stock in trade of the late Ministry," our contemporary observes, " Now had you, our po-temporary The Standard, instead of saying that Mr. Herries had all the cha racter of all the Ministry, asserted only, that he had all the character of all the Stock jobbers, we verily believe that the gentlemen of that establishment would have been most happy to transfer their great name from themselves to him; and not one word would have been said about the matter." This is rather a ticklish sort of imputation, with a view to the effect' on Mr. Herries's colleagues, to say no thing of himself. None of our readers can have for gotten the rumours on this subject, which were put about, 'Wore the admission of Mr. Berries into the Cabinet, and which, after they bad been adverted to more than once by some of our contemporaries, wc also noti-ced. It was rumoured at that time, that the unexpected delay in the appointment of Mr. Herries was connected with the circumstance now revived by our • contemporary. d Our readers must remember this, and also the Letter which Lord Goderich ad dressed to Mr. Herries in consequence of the public notice in question, contradicting, in the most posi tive manner, the alleged cause of the difficulty in the Cabinet. Now, the revival of this accusation looks very like an accusation against the colleagues of Mr. Herries, for it imputes to them the disposi tion to connive at the introduction among them of one, who, if there was the slightest foundatipu for the rumour, was of all men the most unfitted for the situation to which he was appointed. No one can mistake the meaning of our contemporary. We re peat, that the Cabinet could not have been broken up by Mr. Herries, and that it is puerile tofasten on that gentleman as a scape-goat for the sins of the whole, which must have been many. We feel no disposition to imitate, in matters involving the ho nour and character of individuals, the facetiotHness of our'contemporary, and we shall thqrefore leave him to the enjoyment of his mirth.—illorniiw Chronicle. The messenger.sent by the Duke of Wellington to Lord Mel Ville in Scotland, returned to town with the Noble Viscount's answer on Tuesday. It has been generally understood that :he final arrange ments of the new Administration waited for the answer of the Viscount. The intercourse daily be ween the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of 'Welling ton, and Mr. Peel, continues with the Noblemen and Gentlemen who formed Lord Liverpool's Ca binet, as well as those in the second and lower de partments of Govenrment, who assembled yesterday at the house of Mr. Peel, in Privy-gardens, in con sequence of the Right Honourable Gentleman being indisposed with a very severe cold, ‘l = hiclt increased to such an extent on Tuesday evening, that the Right Honourable Gentleman was obliged to have a hot bath. Mr. Peal has hitherto dined with the Duke of Wellington, at his Grace's public dinners daily, which arc provided whether the Duke be pre sent or not. Mrs. Peel and family arrived in town yesterday, E . :own Maresileld, Sussex, the seat of Sir John Shelley, which had been ltiriid by Mr. Peel for the season, and where several parties were to have been g iven to the Duke of Wellington, the Marqui s o f Chandos, and a number of others; but which have been put off in consequence of the dissolution of the late Administration, and the Duke of Wellington, wishing for the presence of Mr. Peel in London. His Grace has been particularly attentive to all those he has sent for to London express, that their households in London should be in readiness to re ceive them, let them arrive at whatever hour they fright. The greatest public anxiety is excited to know who is to be the First Lord of the Treasury. As it is not yet officially announced, it is impossible to say; but, if we are to judge from appearances, we should say there was strong suspicion yesterday that the Duke of Wellington would be First Lord, for some of the official Gentlemen who always at tend the First Lord of the Treasury were in attend trice on the Duke. Several of the late Admini qration will remain in the Cabinet, as well as the Lord Chancellor—viz. Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Herries, Lord Bexley, Mr. Wynn, and, it has been said, Earl Dudley : however, if the Noble Earl should con tinue, it will not be at the Foreign Office, as the Noble Earl is removing his furniture from that re sdence. Mr. Huskisson has been heard to say, that he does not consider himself attached to any party, and he would act with any who pursued the general principles he approved of. There was nothing known on Tuesday of a Council to be held at the Royal Lodge, Windsor, until the Ministers began to arrive. Had the weather been favourable, and his Majesty in good health, the Council would have taken place at St. James's. His Majesty is still, it is said, anxious for a union of both parties, but it is expected that the Tory party will prevail. He is not a little vexed that the Whigs and the Tcries cannot he more conciliatory towards each other, and says that they have more an eye to the good things of Church and State than they have to the State itself.—Morning Herald. To many the rise in the French Funds appears extraordinary. To us it appears by no means so ; France is at peace with all the world, with the ex ception of Algiers, and having some little to do with the alliance against our old Ally, Turkey; but nei ther of those affairs costs France much, nor is France in any danger of being attacked by either Algiers or Turkey ; consequently her expellees for war cannot be much. France, by the Revolution, got rid of a most enormous load of paper money; she also got rid of her tithe system, and by the sale of the lands of the Aristocracy, and her new law of wills, the land has become divided among the great mass of the people ; consequently France has a great number of small proprietors of land, who, in all probability, arel saving something every year, It is pretty well known that a man will take double the pains with his own land to what he will do with other people's land as tenant. Now the debt of France, and for .10 millions of people, is not more than about 200,000,0001., and by a statement which was exhi bited some time since, it appeared that the great bulk of the holders of that debt were French people, and that each, on an average, did not hold more than front 100/. to 2001. principal of French Stock. It appeared that there were very few people in France who held of the debt a sum amounting to so much as 10,000/. or 20,000/. Now there being, as we have said, a great number of people in France of small proper ties, and as in all probability, most of them are saving something every year, what is so eligible for them as to invest, if not permanently, yet_ temporarily, their savings in the French Funds 1 3 'We therefore look upon it that there is in France, on such account alone, a regular real demand for French Stock ; and this itself ►would keep up the price. In fact, it operates on the French Funds in probably a greater ratio in proportion even than our Sinking Fund operates on our Funds. Now, on occasion of changes of Ministers, and other trivial matters, we see that, o►ving to this large mass of small holders of French Stock, the Funds do not fall, but, contrary to the supposition of those ►who are supposed to be knowing in these matters, they rise. The fact is, that, except there is something of serious appre hended danger, a large mass of people do not sell that in which each - has so little interest. For instance—a Frenchman may have land and house, &c., worth 2,0001.; his funded property may not exceed 1001.; in case of fright, such a man might sell and put by his 1001. in gold. But nothing but a fright would cause him to do so ; and thus we see that there being nothing to warrant a fright, the selling. and putting by gold does not take place; therefore the French Funds do not droop —but, on the contrary, rise, in consequence, as we have said, of the small annual in vestments by a multitude of little and medium. pro prietors of houses and lands. It is probable that this rising will go on, should there be no revolutionary storm again, of which there is no probability, seeing that an unmanageable load of paper money—an im mense tithe system—and an overgrown Aristocracy, are got rid of. And if the rising goes on, and the Rentes should reach the price of 110, then the Fi nance Ministers might do as Lord Bexley did—re duce the Five per Cents to Four or Four and a Half per Cent., or threaten to pay off certain portions of the debt by a sort of ballot of names and sums, except holders would agree to a reduction of a half or one per cent. But in such a case the Minister would be compelled to have recourse to a new loan, at a less interest than 5 per cent., in order to pay off the holders of the Five per Cents, should they hap pen to say, " We will be paid off, and we will not agree to the reduction." This is the United States plan with their Six per Cents., which they pay off, to a certain extent every year, by means of other loans raised at 5 per cent.; and if the United States people avoid war, and they remain in their present prosperous state, they will next pay off their Five Per Cents. by means of loans at 4 per cent., and so on, till there be no debt remaining—a thing to be wished as well by all nations as by all families in privat e life. Should the present Finance Minister of France proceed on this slow and sure principle of reduction of interest, and should Charles X. have the sagacity to remain at peace—and surely his early misfortunes must have taught him sagacity, inasmuch as bitte r experience is the best of all schools —then we think what we have stated maybe brought about, and France be relieved, so far as her debt is concerned. But if M. Roy, like M. Villele, should attempt at once to go from a five per cent. inte rest to only a three per cent., we are of opi nion that he w ill, like M. Villele, fail, and, like the latter, fall.' Lord Bacon says, " Be ware of sudden changes !" M. Villele split upon that rock of " sudden change;" and it is much if 11r. Iluskisson, on the " Iteciirocity systcni, has not split on the same rock as to popularity. people in general, they are very bigoted, v er y super stitious, and very much in fear of change, lest such change should be injurious to their interests; there fore, all Ministers and Kings should be slow in their measures—even of improvement—leSt they shot+ excite the fears, and bring about the upbraidings the multitude. Before we conclude, and as Wi are on the sratject of France and Charles the Tenth we would recommend the latter to gradually get 4( of the vile, degrading, commerce-impeding passpoil system—for, as we have often said, a man of Lon don will go to, and come from, Liverpool, and tran sact, perhaps, 'a mass of business, while a Paris mer chant would be dancingattendance on impudent clerks to get permission to depart to Rouen, Havre, Lyons, or Lisle. Charles the Tenth . Ought to know that it is the perfect freedom that people in trade in Eng land enjoy, of going when and where they please, that causes trade to flourish with us in the way it does—and that laws made for the protection of trade, .and Court exhibitions of manufactures, rather do injury to than promote trade. Consequently, we would recommend Charles the Tenth to adopt the principle we have first named, and to get rid of all the sesond-named fooleries. Again, we wonld recommend him to allow perf e ct freedom of the Press—and to mind it no more, so far as he him self, his family, and his Ministers, are concerned, than he would have a wife, if he had one, listen to the tittle-tattle, in respect of herself, on the part of her servants. Our King only laughs at treasonable words talked or put into print—Charles the Tenth should do the same. It is better for subjects' thoughts and ill-tempers to evaporate in talk and print, than fOr Kings to bottle them up, and run' the risk of the State bottle bursting.—lbis. We were the first to mention that the crop of Sugar in our West India possessions had partially failed last year, and the account we have given in a subsequent column, this day, of the comparative im portation during the years 1826 and 1827, will suf. ciently prove the correctness of our information. It would appear that from Jamaica, the most important Island from which we draw our supplies, a deficiency of more than 16,000 casks has occurred ; from An tigua, the importation during the last year has been r wo-thirds less than in 1826; from Demerara alone has there been any material increase, so that the total deficiency amounts to about 19,000 casks in the year 1827. The difference in the stock in the West India Dock warehouses, at the beginning of this month, and a similar period last year, is not greater than 8,500 casks, and as the exports have been somewhat less, it clearly shows a decline in the consumption of this article, to the extent of about 11,000 casks. There can be no ddubt that the in creased supply of East India and Mauritius Sugars has in some degree occasioned this falling off, but it is equally clear that the measures likely to be brought for ward in the next Session of Parliament, whereby it is proposed that Sugars, the produce of the Brazils and Havanna'', shall be admitted at a very reduced duty, have also had a tendency to depress the de mand. The prices of the raw West India Sugars exhibit very little difference from what they were twelve months since, when the natural effect of the short supply should have been a considerable advance as the only means of affording the (then not over paid) planter a return for his capital employed.. That the Revenue has suffered materially, i n Conse quence of the uncertainty that prevails on this sub ject, is very apparent, and it is equally true that the prospects of the West India proprietor are very alarming; but as the object in view in admitting Foreign Sugars, is, we believe, to assist the refining Export Trade, which has latterly been declining_ the first may, and no doubt will, recover the effects in the course of the present year, as it is expected that duty will be paid on very large quantities should the proposed measure pass into a law; but it is somewhat to be lamented that a change so desi rable can only be brought about at the risk of invol ving an important class of the commercial people in serious distress.—New Times. We can positively state that the progress already made in the formation of the new Ministry is such that there is no doubt of its being entirely com pleted before the end of the present week. Lord Melville, to whom an important station is assign ed, is expected in town this day from Seotland, and by to-morrow, in all probability, the whole of the new Cabinet will be assembled. The further pro rogation of Parliament was evidently a matter of necessity, and shows the praiseworthy caution by which the Duke of Wellington had been actuated. This is a valuable earnest of what is to follow from vigorous, discriminating, and united counsels ; and we have no doubt the country will fully appreciate the absence of that indecent haste which was the prominent characteristic of the late Premier and his followers. Of Lord Goderich we have always spoken in terms of respect, neither have we un necessarily disparaged any of his Colleagues; but we think they have much to answer for—in holding the reins of Government up to within a few days of the erecting of Parliament, and then throwing all the labour of th e Session on the shoulders of those who, to say the least, had not the slightest participation in their measures. If Lord Goderich were incapable of taking the helm, he should have candidly said so, and not " kept the word of promise merely to the ear" while breaking it "to the hope." He should not now, at the eleventh hour, throw upon his successors the re sponsibility of those proceedings for which he and his co-provisional Ministers are alone answerable to the nation. He should not have coquetted be tween his Sovereign and the best interests of the country—nor lent himself to the flirting adu lation of sycophantic Whigs. But unfortunately he was beset by them. His awful situation as Premier was made to sit lightly upon him during the fair weather ; but when he comes to the pinching point—when he looks to the account which he has to render of his stewardship, he flies from the helm, he deserts the ship, and leaves her to sink or swim as chance may determine. This conduct is not manly—it is not English—it is not just; and yet such conduct has found Journalists who have quite bedaubed it again with praise, and made it the theme of lavish panegyric, It must be obvious to the most careless observer, that a Ministry coming into office upon the very eve of the Meeting of Parliament would labour under inconveniences,—nay, absolute difficulties, with which it would be an arduous task to grapple with entire success; and hence it is a measure of wisdom that even another week is suffered to pass before the different Members are called upon to assemble. It is consolatory, to be sure, that Mr. Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Eldon, and other influential Members of the new Cabinet, have been for many years accustomed to the cares and duties of office ; but nevertheless we should not expect /of them toFput forth all their Herculean powers, in order to contrast them .with the abortive efforts of the soi-disant Liberals. That the Eldons and the Wellingtons will labour religiously and assi duously for their country's good, need not now for the first time be anticipated what they have already done is proudly before the world—and we are satisfied that their futu*a proceedings will add to the lustre which their names have al ready so deservedly acquired. They will have much to do—much more to undo : At home and abroad they will have to exercise the greatest vigilance ; and the more brilliant has been their former career, the more narrowly and jealously will their future course be regarded. However, they are all men of talent—men of business—men of principle. —They will not easily lend themselves to jobbers in politics, who seek a charlatan reputation, which is n o soon er won than it is lost. They will have to repair the 'injuries which their predecessors have in flicted on the vessel of the State—they will have to take the place of those who, in the hour of danger, fled like criminals from a post they should never have enjoyed ; but all this they are fully competent to do —and it is a blessing to the nation that they are able and willing to assist her in the day of trial. ---Morn ing Post. The Kingstown steam vessel from Liverpool, h a 4 moored at the Custom-Ifouse Quay of Newry ; she is the first vessel of the kind that has ever yet attempted to approach the town, and her arrival this week was hailed with loud cheering and congratulation,---Carkt e Morn ing Post, POLICE INVLI,IGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.---A boy, about 15 years of age, named Charles Taylor, was,brought befbre the LOAD Alarm. yesterday, charged with having presented a forged bill of exchange ut the house of Ladbroke and Co., for the sum of 1701. The prisoner seemed not to be at all atvarr that there was any thing either dangerous or disgraceful in his situation. London, Nov. 12, 1827. ' Twoinonths after date, pay to me or my order the sum of one hundred and seventy pounds, value received. HENRY NEALE. The bill was addressed to Mr. Wm. Jackson, rectifier, at Deekhead, an() professed to be accepted by that gentle man, and was made payable at the above banking-house. It was endorsed " Henry Neale, W. Wakefield, G. Hems ley, and Robert Thomas." Mr. John Harvey, cashier at Ladbroke's, stated, that at about twelve o'clock on Tuesday, the prisoner entered the banking-!.-.ouse and presented the bill of exchange for Payment over the counter. Witness suspected that it was a forgery. The acceptance was certainly a good imitation of the writing of Mr. Jackson, who kept cash at the house. He called the boy in, and put several questions to him, to which he answered, that Mr.. Thomas, the last endorser on the bill, had given it to him to get payment for it, and that Mr. Thomas lived in Savage-gardens. As the witness had other business to attend to, he handed over the prisoner to another of the establishment. Mr. Kennedy, another of the cashiers, deposed that the Prisoner said that he went upon messages for Mr. Thomas ; that Mr. Thomas had a counting-house, but he (prisoner) saw no clerk, and that he lived himself with hi s father, who was a corn-factor in Thames-street. It was further stated that the prisoner first said that Mr. Thomas resided in Leadenhall-strect, that his father lived in Upper Thames -street, and that he afterwards mentioned other addresses ; that he pointed out a house in Savage gardens as Mr. Thomas's, hut that no such persons lived there, nor was the prisoner at all known there. The LORD MAYOR. asked the prisoner's father whether he had any thing to say. lie replied that he had nothing more than that his son had gone out in the morning with circulars to persons who did business at the corn-market. He (the prisoner's father) was not in the city during any part of the day, as he was obliged to go to Horselydown. The Loan MAYOR. said that the prisoner should be re manded.---The prisoner was then remanded. GUILDHALL—Another case of some interest to those who " walk in silk attire," was decided at this office yes- terday. It was a dispute between an opulent firm in the silk trade, and a poor weaver : he had woven a piece of silk for them, and they had stopped a portion of his wages on the plea that he had damaged the silk by keeping it so long in his loom that tke colour was faded. Ile had been thirty five days in weaving it, they said; whereas he ought to have completed it in 17 days ; and as it was a puce silk its exposure to the air for so long a time had quite spoiled its colour. To this the weaver replied, that the fading of the colour was not his fault, hut the dyer's. It was awarded that the weaver should allow damages to the amount of 20s. Ladies will do well not to spare their siller upon silk of a flea colour—one of the first houses in the trade having thus publicly admitted that the said flea colour will hop off if exposed to the air, even within doors, in less than one little month. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —John Lee, the driver , of a hackney-coach, who is in custody upon a charge of robbery at the house of the Duchess of St. Alban's, was yesterday brought up for final examination. The house maid and porter were in attendance, but as their evidence was merely confirmatory of that given on the previous day by her Grace's page, the Magistrate (lid not deem it neces sary to have it taken down, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial upon the former depositions. Mrs. Ann Seffert, the unhappy lady whose case has been so often before the public, through the proceedings of this office, yesterday once more appeared before the Magistrate as a complainant against her husband, Mr. Geo. Seifert, a horse-dealer, and owner of livery-stables. Mrs. Seffert, whose manner and appearance are very prepossessing, was accompanied by her two young chil dren, one in the nurse's arms, and the other a most inte resting little boy, about six years of age, whose acute at tention to the proceedings on this as on former occasions, was very remarkable in a child so young. The warrant under which Seffert was now placed within the bar was issued against him for assaulting his wife again, several days ago ; hut the officer in whose hands it was placed could not meet with him until yesterday morning, when ke accidentally saw him in the street, and at once took him into custody, refusing him the indulgence of calling on his solicitor, Mr. Pincro, of London-street, Fitzroy-square, before locking him up at this office, where he remained in one of the cells until Mrs. Seifert was sent for, and arrived from her house in Grove -street, Camden-town. Clements, the officer, in explanation of this seemingly harsh treat ment towards the prisoner, said, that a few days ago he went to the prisoner's stables, in Portland-road, where he had information the prisoner then was, but when he ar rived there the stable-door was shut in his face, and he was refused admittance ; he, however, got a crow-bar, and was in the act of forcing the doer, to execute his warrant, when those within opened it; and on his entering he found there a set of stablemen and this Mr. Finer(); the solicitor, together with two mastiff dogs enough to alarm any one against going into the place; he, however, proceeded to search for Seffert, and soon saw that the prisoner had just made his escape out through the pane of a sky-light win dow, where a cat could scarcely get through, and succeed ed in clambering over the roofs of seven houses, and let himself down from the top of one an amazing height; and although it was supposed that both his legs were broken by the fall, he jumped up and made his escape as nimbly as if he had walked down stairs. For these tricks it was, the officer said, he refused the prisoner any indulgence when he caught him that morning. Mrs. Seifert - being sworn, stated, that on the last occa sion that she complained of her husband at this office, be fore Sir• GEORGE FARRANT, she consented to his discharge on the condition that he would execute a deed of separation ; but instead of doing so, he continues to leave herself and her children without the means of support, although he has got hold of all her property, which he is still spending at the rate of 401. a week upon Miss Emma Carey. Tie never, she said, comes near her except to abuse and ill-treat her, and generally in company with a fellow who has been tried she said for horse-stealing, and whom she forbad ever coming to her house. The other day she was informed that her husband was at the lodgings of the woman Carey, No. 34, Cumberland-street, New road, and she went there to ask him for some support for his children. When she entered the drawing-room, shown up by the woman of the house, about 11 o'clock in the morning, all seemed as still as death, but in a few minutes she heard a rustling in the bed-room, and on opening the door the most horrid sight she ever beheld presented itself to her view. There was Miss Emma Carey standing in the centre of the floor half drunk, without shoes or stock ings, her hair hanging about her shoulders, and nothing on hut a short night-gown, and as she had not as yet put on her paint, she appeared the most frightful object that could he beheld. On the table in the room stood two bottles of gin and wine, and two glasses ready filled with the former liquor. On her entering the room, Miss Carey told her to be off, as her husband was not there, and said she should not search her room. She (Mrs. Seffert,) however, did search, and under the bed she found her husband, and drag ged him from:under it by one of his legs; when he appeared divested entirely of the lower part of his dress. The next evening he called upon her, and'when she asked him even for a few halfpence to buy some coffee for the children, he said that he had none ; and on the little boy saying that he was keeping his money for Emma Carey, he rushed at the child, and on her Ottempting to protect the child, he kicked her, and assaulted her so as to sprain her wrist. She did, she acknowledged, to save her child, become for a time the assailant, and tore his face as well as she could, and the shirt from his back, and sent him, by the assistance of the watchman whom she called, a pretty pickle out of the house. ' Mrs. Seifert further added, that when she told her hus band she should procur e a warrant against him for the as sault, he replied that he did not care for that. Mrs. Seifert now read a letter from Miss Carey to her husband, which had fallen into her hands. It began, " My dear George," and was signed, " Your dear Emma." It stated that the writer had quitted the house in Park-street and paid the " old wretch," am bad got away all her • things ; and as she was safe away, he might pay for the things he broke in the house or not, as he pleased. The prisoner, who contented himself with giving a ge neral denial to every thing his wife said, was locked up again, until he puts in bail for the assault. Mr. Rogers and Mr. &Ms, proprietors of restaurateurs i n the Haymarket, were fined 10/. each, at the instance of Johnson, for selling wine by retail, and suffering it to be drank in their houses, without a proper lidence. UNIUN-HALL___M r . Thomas Lea, charged o n Sus picion with haying been concerned in sending back some part •f the 300/. stolen from Mr. Densham, the hoise dealer, was again brought up yesterday and finally examined. It will be recollected that an anonymous letter, enclosing 1571. in notes, stolen from Densham, was received by Mr. Watkins, the landlord of the Lord Nelson, on Saturday night last. When this letter was produced before the Itla gistrate, which was subsequent to the charge made against Lea, the writing was suspected to resemble that person's, although evidently disguised. Yesterday this letter was again examined, and the writing compared with that of Lea, to which it bore no similarity. On being asked whether it was his writing, he declared most positively that it was not. Mr. Densham, gave the following evidence in addition to that which has already appeared. A day or two after I had been robbed, Mr. Lea came to me at Mr. Watkins's door, and said, " Any assistance that I can render you in getting back your money, I shall be most willing." The neat day I saw Mr. Lea again, at the same time; h e was passing accidentally. He then said, "Densham, the party I suspected knew nothing at all about your money." 0„ Tuesday week I was with Mr. 'Bacon, in the Kent-road, when Mr. Lea came up to me, and said, " Densham, have been down the road looking for you, and am glad I have found you." He then said, " I have been at Mr. Harmer's, and he has appointed to meet us at four o'cloch at his office:" he added, " and your notes will be all right, but I am doubtful about your sovereigns." Lea and I then went up the road together, and he went into Mr. Wat kins's house, where he remained a quarter of an hour or 20 _ . . minutes, while' waited outside. I sent in for him, and when he came out, he said, " I have been with Watkins up-stairs, and should have got more oat of him had you not sent for me so soon ; however, I have a little now to satisfy , me more than I was before, and we will now proceed to Mr. Har mer's house." On our arrival there we had an interview with that gentleman, when Lea advised that the money of which I had been robbed should be advertised, and are • ward of 601. offered for its restoration. Mr. Harmer, however, objected to this mode of proceeding in the busi ness, and Lea and I went away. While walking along towards the Kent-road, Lea said, " Never mind, Den sham, your money will be all right yet; suppose an old woman brings it back to me or to Mr. Harmer, it will make no odds to you so as you get it back again." I re plied, " Certainly not ;" expressing at the same time, that if he got back my money I should reward him well for his trouble. I mentioned that I should give him as much as would keep him for four or five months. Lea replied, " Not at all; I shall leave that to you." At the same time remarking, that although the money was in an awkward channel, yet by Mr. Watkins's and his endeavours, it could be done, notwithstanding there was a woman in the way. Mr. Bacon stat e d a s follows :—" I was with D ens h am when Lea came u p t o him on Tuesday, and th a t p erson said, Densham, I have been looking for you all the morn ing. I have been up to Mr. Harmer, and your money will be all right; we are to be with him at four o'clock." Wit ness observed, " You have brought good news, Mr. Lea, and we shall have a glass of ale on the strength of it." John Coleman said " In a conversation that I had with Lea last Moeday morning, he (Lea) said If the Magistrate gives me a private hearing, I will satisfy him who the thief is.' " Mr. Knowles, clerk to Mr. Harmer, stated that on Tuesday Lea called at the office, and on inquiring for Mr. Harmer said that he was come about Densham's business, and that if Mr. Harmer and he could agree, something might be done in the business. Mr. Lea.-_I said, that should we agree in opinion, some• thing might be done in the business. Mr. CHAMBERS.—I don't require any further evidence, for I conceive that a sufficient case has been made out to warrant me in committing Lea as an accessory after the fact. The Magistrate then observed, that the attention of the Ma gistrates to this description of offence had been particularly called by the Marquis of Lansdowne, since the negotiation with respect to the robbery of the Warwick Bank. In this case he (Mr. Chambers) should have the evidence trans mitted to Mr. PhiHipps, whom he considered one of the first judges of law evidence ; and if that gentleman was of the same opinion that he formed of it, lie (Mr. Chambers) had no doubt the prosecution would be commenced by the Crown against the accused. Should, however, said the Magistrates, Mr. Phillipps vary in his opinion, and con sider the case not sufficiently strong to go before a Jury, I . _ shall discharge the bail that I will require of the accused. Two gentlemen, friends of the accused, then entered into sureties of 100/. each for his appearance. TOBAGO, Nov. 23. The melancholy duty devolves upon us this week to add another victim to the list of those who have lately fallen to the effects of fever, in the person of our much esteemed Chi. f Magistrate, his Honour Wm. Brasnell, President Commanding-in-Chief, who departed this life, after a week's illness, at his seat, Sans Souci, on Monday evening last. Mr. Brasnell's long residence in the colony—his integrity and uprightness in his transactions--his mild, engaging, and gentlemanly manners, had procured for him the esteem and confidence of all the inhabitants. As senior member of his Majesty's Council, on the departure of Sir Frederic Robinson, he assumed the reins of this Government; and though, in the course of his administration, he has had the most perplexing and embarrassing difficulties to contend with, yet his moderation and conciliating disposition had reconciled all parties. His remains were borne to the tomb by the beads of departments, civil and military, attended by the Leeward division of Militia, and a numerous assem blage of persons of all ranks, who were anxious to testify, by this mournful tribute, their respect for our departed Chief. From the day (Tuesday, the 13th instant) on which his Honour was taken ill, Mrs. Brasnell never quitted his bed-side, and regardless of herself was most un remitting and assiduous in administering to his comfort. On Wednesday morning last the Honourable Elphinstone Piggott, next senior member of his Majesty's Council, was sworn into the chief command of the island. ( 'Herrings were caught last week iu the South anyton water, and retailed at twopence a dozen. The following statement appears in the Ber wick Advertiser, from a correspondent :—" One of the many absurdities in the late act for regulating measures is, that the imperial fee6l' is now one-third less than the old one, and the innkeepers still charge for it sixpence. lam told that a bushel contains 24, so that while the agricul turist is complaining, (and I believe very justly) of the low price of corn, the innkeepers are selling oats to the public at 12s. per bushel, or 98s. per quarter. Another evil is, that many persons who travel are not acquainted with this alteration, and order feed, as usual ; the consequence is, that the poor horse is cheated out of one-third of his ac customed food, gets out of condition, and is unable to per form his work..— Tyne Afercury. AN AFFRIGHT.—It happened one night last week, that the servant maid in a family, in this city, had retired to rest, and having comfortably thrown herself into the arms of MORPHEUS, at once forgot her domestic labour and the wintry storm. The shivering of her chamber window startled her to a sense of the surrounding cold and darkness—in an instant a hard substance struck her breast, and she started up, exclaiming, " Murder, murder ! I'm shot !" The neighb o u rs were a l ar med, and eagerly inquired the cause of the outcry, fearing, no doubt, that some horrid tragedy was on the point of being developed. After some pacification, her chamber was examined, and it was found, that she had indeed been struck by a ball—but a ball se lected from the ammunition of General Frost, by some wicked wag, who had discharged it through the window. —York Courant. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.---Yesterday morn ing two watchmen brought in a genteelly-dressed young man, about thirty years of age, to St. Pancras watch-house. They stated, that in going their rounds in the ,Hampstead road, at the above hour, they heard some groans proceed from a gateway; and on going up they found the un fortunate man lying on the ground weltering in his blood ; on being questioned, he stated he was returning home, when some ruffians stopp e d him, and after rob bing him, had cut his throat. B TRCHMORE , the watch house-keeper, observed hi s watc h -cha i n; on which, after some hesitation, the unf or t unate young man said that he was acquainted with a young woman, servan t to a family, in Dorset-street ; th a t t h ey h ad h a d a f e w words, and h e then determined t o d estroy himsel f. O n searching hi m , he found on his p erson, bes i de the wa tch, two keys, and a double-bladed pen-knife, covere d with blood ; a n d the blade with which the unfortunate man attempted . hi s lif e broken. a respect able°flnirnSieur,ndina)t'helapsatlristhh,eif daughter , a of tiny mil es f rom Sheffield, eloped with a gallant swain of our own town. The d amse l, w h o b a d been accustomed to a tt en d a Sun d ay school i n th e neighbourhood, went out i n the morning, a , was suppo se d, to instruct her little flock, b ut , instead of reaching and resting at her wonted duties, she was re ceived ou th e w ay by her lover, who was in readiness with a gig a short distance from the village; tiley then drove i anied with a away, acemnimale 'friend, to the c hurch of where the indissoluble knot was tied. The dismay and dissatisfaction of the father may be better con ceived than described when his beloved child did not re turn home at the wonted hour. Suspicions previously existing were now confirmed, and immediately a search was commenced, hnt it was too late; his daughter had transferred her atreetions and obedience to another, who, of course, would not relinquish his right. The parties have returned from their short matrimonial tour to enjoy the honey-moon. --Sheffield Iris, RRIED. On the 14th inst. at MA FotheringaY, b Y the Reverend I' Ainger, Mr. James Ainger, of Whittleeea, to Charlotte , daughter of Mr. Bradshaw of the former place. On the 15th instant, James Duncornbe, E q . to A p o. Elizabeth, wily daughter of John Amies, Esq. of Trancb , Norfolk. C. On the j.Goo 15th i 4hart, j tst. oseip:Ventreamthsecatu ch ondso uh n rc of , j b a y eo t b he R G e o ; "art, Esq. of Manor House, Tooting, to Mary Ann, 011 1 Y En. of . the dat O ig n hte th r e s o te l f i h t i h e ien i la n t T s e t u . j c i tm er ; , tec E N s i elwe : A of st o w e n ' d ,Eo x ii i . g fid t ih m ire a , ri b a y: l l .l Rev. Thomas Re hm "' Welch ' John W elch , Esq. of Grsi ° Inn, London, sin of the late George Welch, E sq . of Le e; House, Lancashire, to Sarah Mary, daughter of the Reg' James Arrnetriding, Rector of Steeple Aston. On the..lsth inst.. at East Wickham, by the Rev. 6 ' ughter of the late R. Clerk, Civil Service. eldest Tucker , d THE ARMY' Detaolnnents belonging to the 3d, 14th, and 54th It tnents of Infantry arrived in town yesterday morning fi Coventry, and received orders to embark this morning, board a steam-vessel in the River, for Gravesend, on ra to Chatham. A Detachment belonging to the 82d Foot is ordered march this morning from Westminster, for Harwich. A Detachment belonging to the 14th Infantry arrived town yesterday, from Hertford, on route to Chatham. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR Beaumont 35.5.0 d. Burdon 38 6 Forrest Heaton 39 6 lieblitirn Main 38 6 Killingworth :IS 6 'l'antield 0 Walls End Bell and Co. 39 0 Ditto Bcwickeand Co—. 40 0 Ditto Northumberland 39 0 Ditto Walker 40 0 Ships at market, 71 -7—. Ships K.ET.—.lan. 16. Tanfiel 1 Trader. 318. 6 j Londonderry small Ellison small 16 6 Perkins and Newmarch 39 0 Hatton, deale-sceened 21 0 Hartley Nesham Main 38 6 Walls End Lambton.... 41 9 Walls End 39 $ Ditto Stewart's 49 6 sok!, 17%--11mold, 53 1 ,x. WEEK COUNTRY BORN MARKETS DUN Tli Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. Beans• Per (uarter. Abingdon--- Andover ----- 13 inninghain— Bridport --- Cirencester ---- Faringdon-----. Guildford s. to s. 54 66 56 64 48 62 51 56 45 58 48 5t t 64 50 65 64 6(1 60 68 42 64. 56 60 48 67 48 58 52 56 55 60 51 60 66 74 55 70 45 60 50 63 52 64 S. to s. :8i 42 34 39 30 34 32 :39 25 30 :36 33 36 45 32 43 46 50 34 42 24 32 30 40 28 34 2:3 32 37 40 36 40 40 42 30 :11 38 4:3 29 :34 29 30 s. to s. 35 42 30 36 2t 40 26 28 2t 27 24 3t 26 37 26 34 42 28 39 18 37 28 36 19 35 21 26 30 32 32 42 33 38 24 32 30 40 21 26 22 30 32 40 - s- o, - 6I 46 60 60 60 60 fib 60 Hereford .. Maidenhead — ' ' Newbury-- Oakingham ~,,M Reading Southampton .M,,,, Stroud Tewke,bitry Uxbridge Wantaf,e Wanninster Windsor Worcester CHELTEXHAM Per Bushel. e. d. to s. Wheat 6 0 6 Barley Oats Beans 7 9 8 Pease 5 0 8 .—Jan. 15. er lb. Beef Mutton Veal Pork 10s. to 5/ d. to e'• 6 t i 6 g e 6 g per ton. LEWES MARKET.—Jan. 15. ••• White Wheat (per quarter) £2 14 0 to £2 18 0 Red ditto 9 8 0 2 14 0 Barley Oats, New 0 19 (1 1 • 2 0 Pease -, 0 0 2 2 0 Oil Cake, New COURTS SITTING AT DOCTORS' COMMONS COURT OF ARCHES. BEFORE SIR J. NICHOBL. I Ist Session, Monday, Jan. 21 4th Session, Thursday, Feb. I I 9d Session, Monday, Jan. 28. By-day, Friday, Feb. 22. 3d Session, Wednesday, Feb. 6. COURT OF ADMIRALTY. lIKFORE LORD srovrzu. Ist Sossion,_ Ttieday, Jan. 22. 4th S ess i on , S a t ur d ay, F e b . 16 Id Session, Tuesday, Jan." 29. By-day, Saturday, Feb. 23. , :3d S , _ , ssion, Thursday, }eh. 7. Def a ult-d a y, F r id a y, M arc h '2'' PREROGATIVE COURT. BEFORE SIR Ist Session, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2d Session, Friday, Feb. 1. Session, Saturday, Feb. 9. J. NICIIOLL. 4th Session, Monday, Feb. IS. By-day, Thursday, Feb. 26. Caveat-day, Thursday, Mar. 7u. COURT OF DELtGATES. BEFORE THE SURROGATES. Ist Session, Friday, Jan. 25. 14th Session, Thursday, Feb. I`4'kJ Session, Satu r d a y, Feb 2. By-day, 'Wednesday, 'eb. 21. 3d Session, Tuesday, Feb. 12. • . • • COfsISISTORY COURT. BEFORE SIR CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON. Ist Session, Saturday, Jan. 26. 4th Seision, Wednesday, Feb. o 2d Session, Tuesday, Feb. 5. By-day, Thursday, Feb. 213. 3d Session, Wednesday, Feb.l3. The Courts of Arches, Prerogathee, Delegates, and ConsistorP to sit at 10, and the Court of Admiralty at 11, each day. —r We understand that an Italian Opera is A t length to be given in Brighton. The arrangements ate at present limited to one performance only (the Bisrbieril (le Seviglia) in which BRAMBILLk Will perform, and it to take place in about a fortnight. We are glad to fid• that our exhortations on this subject have not been svitind effect —Brighton Gazette. o s lame m 1 e 8 vt lemr p S coo i o i r l ir : e e s pa on l n a d p ;. n t e r gr l i , harvest, t e , there is an increase 1 . 11 compared p2e6r,iod,th w e i s t iii h pm tho ent le fro O: the Imports of almost every description of Grain into Li' Ireland to the various English Ports, have.been to an er tent almost unprecedented. MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY. ---.The nual general meeting of this Society was held yesterday the Society's house in Sackville-etreet, Piccadilly. Sir JA$ APG REG OR, Bart. wearing the Star of the Portugueee Orde of the Tower and Sword, took the Chair at two o'clock' The President, Council, and officers were then elected fo i the ensuing year; after which the thanks of the &mitt! were given, by acclamation, to Sir Limns APCJlancioa, and the meeting separated BOOK SOCIETY.—The annual meeting o f this Society, instituted for promoting religious knowledo among the poorer classes of the community, was held W s night at the King's Head Tavern, in the Poultry. 11 0 , mode by which that imp or t an t o bj ec t i s t o b e accompl i s he consists in the gratuitous distribution, not only of Bibles and Testaments, but of other books of established excel' lence adapted to the moral and religious instruction o f the poor. The Report which was read was highly satisfactorf' Very vague op i n i ons of the year at which suicides are most fr equent l y co rn' exist respectin g mitted. Taking a survey of the suicides committed iii Paris during nine years, from 1817 to 1826 i nc l us i ve, till following is the average number for each month :-- January 213 July .......... ........... the time February 2lB August .................. March 275 Septerni*r. April 374 October„„_,,,,, ........ 328 Novemb er May June 336 December SO! 20 2g 19 16 1 01 ••• ••• ..... A Methodist Mission ary meeting• was . held at Blackburn on Tuesday last. Soon after the chair WI taken, the platform suddenly gave way and fell to the ground' Fortunately no lives were lost, nor limbs broken, and 6 4 business was soon after resumed in a less elevated situation' The Rev. ROBER T N EWTON, in his descent, caught one 11 was suspended f or some time, the beams of the falling e rect i on w ith b o th hi s h ands, O w from which painful s it ua tioos when be was re li eved by some of h i s b rethren, the Be Gentleman very good humouredly observed, that he S i not the fir s t person from under whose feet a pl a tf orm br fallen, and that it was fortunate for him that he was sur peuded by his hands. BIRTHS. On the sth inst. at Torquay, Viscountess Sandon, of son and heir. On the 11th inst. at Killerton, the lady of Sir Tlionis i Arland, Bart. M.P. of a son. On the 15th inst. Mrs. D. W. Hurst, of Vauxhall-roak 'of '1 o[7lo 3 th inst. at Bodehvyddir, Flintehire, the laeY lady of G e org' of G Oi e j o t r h g Lucy, ee 15th Esq h i nst, a t a ll. P. t l Chel o t f en a daughter. ham he Murray, Esq. of a son. DIED. 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