The Sun. — London, England, 1828-08-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Our readers have seen within this day or two reports of certain proceedings at Bow-street and in the City relative to the licensing of hotels. It is known to every body that those houses for the accommodation of strangers, which bear the name of " hotel" in contradistinction to " coffee house," are the only class of London inn at which individuals or families who wish to be comfortable would ever think of sleeping. It is equally notorious, that if the inmates of an hotel had not the opportunity of eating and drinking, as well as sleeping there, they would, more espe cially in the case of families, be driven to such inconvenience as must force the hotel-keeper to shut up his doors, and to turn over his guests to some of the fraternity of " licensed victuallers, — that is to say, the tavern-keepers of the metro polis, w here, generally speaking, every descrip tion of noise and bustle, besides port and gin, are sold for a considerable profit, but where a night's rest, in a tranquil apartment, is, from the nature of things, and at any price, unattain able. The hotels thus necessary to the en joyment, we had almost said to the existence, of respectable persons coming for a few days to London, went on for a number of years in the practice of supplying their company with wines, &c. under licenses from the Board of Excise. Informers, however, being " abroad," and vic tuallers licensed by the Justices, and dependent osi the brewers, being at hand to encourage them, a flaw was a short time ago discovered in the legality of the Excise license, as relating to hotel-keepers, which brought that whole body, perhaps the most reputable in the business, un der the penalty of an Act of Parliament 35 Geo. 111. The hotel-keepers betook themselves for redress to Government, which promptly en deavoured to relieve them, and an Act was passed at a late period of the last Session, authorizing Magistrates to take the place of the Excise Board, in issuing licenses to the keepers of hotels for the sale oof exciseable liquors. Under these cir cumstances, it appears that certain keepers of ho tels have applied to the wisdom of Bow-street, as also of the city, to enable them to carry on the same hotel business in which they had been en gaged before the passing of the Act, and before the informers and alehouse-keepers had dragged op the Act of Geo. 111. to ruin them. Now the Act of last Session, he it remembered, was to be an Act of relic:f to the hotel-keepers. That was the declared object and purview of the Sta tute ; it was to be an Act protective of hotels. Not so, however, has it been construed by the sages of the police-office and the Mansion-house. If monopoly has no friends at the Excise board, that it has them elsewhere seems manifest enough : if the big brewers were not so strong at Westminster as to throw out two Acts of Par liament in the same Session, they are at least in force sufficient to frustrate, not a thousand miles' from Westminster, the beneficial operation of the Statute upon those for whose behalf it was intended. One potentate of the police bench understood himself to sit there for no other pur pose, in plain English, than to see that the in terests of the licensed victuallers—i.e. of the mighty porter brewers—received no harm. Mo nopoly for ever ! this is your golden age. The hotel-keepers and their families are nothing, the spirit of the Act of Parliament less than nothing —and as for the public, what care we for that, so the publican, and his master the vat-man, may continue to plunder and poison us as they Tike ?—Tinzes. Mr. O'Connell has announced that it is his intention to agitate a question of rather a delicate nature with the aristocracy of this country. The Borough of Tralee is the property of the Denny Family, and has ever since the Union been re gularly bought and sold. " In the year 1792 (says Mr. O'Connell), this Borough was settled in marriage, and vested in two trustees—one of them a Judge of the land. The Representa tion was regularly sold for money, and settled on the younger children ; it was made a regular article of traffic, and settled on the unborn pro geny of the marriage, which was then to take place. If East Retford should be disfranchised, because a considerable number of the constitu ents took a few pounds for their votes, why should not Tralee be treated in the same man ner, when it was sold wholesale ? Why should not the representation be given to the inhabi tants of Tralee ? It is one of the most rising towns in Ireland. More houses have with in the last two years and a half been erect ed in Tralee, than perhaps in any other town in this country. Its commerce, too, has increased wonderfully ; and its exports hare in a short time amounted from ten or twelve thousand pounds, to one hundred and twenty thousand pounds yearly. It is a most rising town ; and when the case comes before Parlia moat, there can be little joubt that the Corpo ration most forfeit its Charter, They have only to examine Judge Day, one of the Donny family, and Mr. Latouehe, the hanker, and Parliament will soon learn how many pounds, shillings, and p e nce have been paid fiar this place since the pence This is one of the most ticklish cases which has yet presented itself. Only think of the precedent of calling boroughmongers to ac count for the use they make of their property ! It is quite a distinct thing, whatever Mr.O'Con nen may say, to sell a single vote and to sell a whole borough ; because the proprietors of bo roughs have an interest that those who sell single votes should be punished, as infringing on their own mo nopoly, but have an equally strong in terest that the sale of boroughs should be held sacred. They who snake th'el4w have the power of determining what is right and why is wrone. ; and the proprietors of b o roughs, havin g t he power to make the law, would be to ols indeed to make a l a w, a ccording to which they should themselves When a late Speaker he found in the wrong , of the House of Commons, now a Peer, d e _ dared in his place, that 4 ‘ the sale of seats degrades and debases the habits of the higher ,ranks of life, who confess their own sense of the nature of these transactions by the concealment with which they seek to cover them ; it taints ,and contaminates the general character of Par liament. Fraud, force, corrupt practices, and undue influence of any sort by which the freedom of election is controlled, have been reprobated in all ages lt is for us, who have before us such flagrant proofs that the traffic in seats has broken through the existing checks, to put it down by a new law. This is about as much to the purpose, as if Messrs. Cauty and Company, So honourably mentioned in the Police Report as amon g the most respectabl e of the fences or negotiators, should declare that negociating, with thieves ought to he put • doWn by a new law. What ! the men that profit by a thing put it down ? 0 no ; when negocia tors have the power to make laws, they will— like their types, the Boroughmongers—take especial care that negociations be properly pro tected. Nothing is wrong that is safe ; for the law determines what is just and what is poi ; and we know who determines what the law should be. Men like the Nobleman, from whose speech we have quoted, do much mischief. They per plex and confound plain people, by filling their heads with the notion that what the Legislature allows can be unjust. A Legislature of Land holders, according to him, might act unjustly in making laws to tax the other classes for the be nefit of the landed interest—a Legislature of Borough Proprietors and nominees might also act unjustly in selling and buying sea ts. We expect to see the day when all this sophistry shall be put down, and when all good things shall be made the most of without controversy or dispute—when a Bishopric shall be sold in the market as openly as a Borough or a Bullock. —Morning Chro 11 ide. The question which is now agitating both be fore the Magistrates of London and Westmin ster, as to licensing certain hotels to sell excise-. able liquors, forms a tolerable practical commen tary on the inutility and injustice of the licensing system altogether. It is amusing enough to see from one end of the town to the other, houses year after year licensed and re-licensed, which are known to be nothing better than mere dens of thieves (or, as cant language has it, flash houses) ; yet, when the Legislature, wisely and humanely intending at once to increase public accommodation, and screen an important class of men—the coffee-house and hotel-keepers— from the gripe of informers, passes an Act, call ing upon the Magistrates to license these persons for the remainder of the year, every fastidious quibble and subterfuge seems to be recurred to, to defeat the objects which Parliament had in view. Publicans, we believe, have taken a very unnecessary alarm upon this occasion ; at least they mistake the shadow for the substance, and are pursuing an► imaginary evil while they lose sight of the real one. It is not the small quantity of porter which would be retailed in all the hotels in London, were they each to draw their own, which can affect them one hundred fold so much as the bad quality of the article which is forced upon them by the brewers, who, we have no doubt, are at the bottom of the opposition which is raised to the present Act. But the public have an inte rest in this matter quite independent of any of these parties, and that, we humbly conceive, is the interest to which the Magistrates should look. Nothing seems more absurd than that those whose business it is to provide a man with a dinner may not sell him a draught of beer to drink with it ; yet that has been the situation of the hotel and coffee-house keepers in the metro , polis. Suppose a man, who is staying in town for pleasure or business, at one of the many houses of this description, coining home late in the evening and asldng for a glass of beer to quench his thirst, he must be told by the waiter, " Sir, we are not allowed to sell beer, and it is too late to send to the public-house." As eating and drinking go together, nothing is more obvious than that the sale of both eatables and drinkables should be permitted, if not, indeed, encouraged, under the same roof: To this our wise licensing system has hitherto op posed a barrier; but no sooner are the eyes of the Legislature opened to the impolicy and in justice, but its views are attempted to be frus trated, because some Alderman has not been consulted as to where a man shall dine, or for fear the vested interests in the Strand may suffer by a new corner. This, we contend, is all beside the Magistrate's duty upon the occasion. All that he has to do is to take care that the public peace is net broken, or the public morals infected, by what he does, or what he can prevent ; who gets rich or who becomes poor, by carrying on a trade in beer, should be of no more conse quence to him than if' the trade where one in calico or potatoes.—Morning Herald. LICENSING HOTELS IN THE CITY. (CONCLUDED FROM Ot R PAPER OF YESTRRDAI ) EUROPEAN HOTEL, MANSION-HOUSE-STREET. Mr. BARRY applied on behalf of Abraham Francis and William James Cochrane, for a license similar to the one last applied for, for a house belonging to the applicants, called the European Hotel, situate in Mansion-house-street, immediately opposite to the Mansion-house. The facts of the case were similar to the last ; but the matter was cut short, in conse quence of an objection taken by Mr. Adolphus,"upon the evidence of the applicant himself, that the house was only opened in May last, and consequently could not possibly come within the Statute, which only contemplated Louses that had been used as hotels previous to the Ist January. The application was, of course, dismissed. PORTUGAL HOTEL, FLEET-STREET. Mr. TILsoN applied for a license for the houses, No. 154 and 155, Fleet -street, but now united, in which the business of an hotel had been carried on for upwards of four years past by a Mr. Okes. From the statement of Mr. Okes and his bar maid, and also a respectable gentleman, one of his customers, it appeared that the Portugal Hotel had been carried on with the greatest respectability for upwards of four years ; that it was resorted to by gentlemen, with their wives, children, and servants; that thirty beds were made up in it ; and that, occa sionally, it was so full, that the proprietor was obliged to send out and hire beds for the accommodation of hic, customers; that there were two public coffee rooms, and various private sitting-rooms ; and families frequently resided there for weeks together. Mr. ADOLPIILs opposed the license. The ques tion in this case was, whether the house was wanted or not? or whether it was to be licensed at the ex pense of the Globe, Peelis, Anderton's, and various other regular hotels in the immediate neighbourhood ? The Learned Counsel was proceeding to argue that the house was unnecessary, when he was interrupted by the Bench. After some consultation amongst the Magistrates, Alderman WOOD said that the present house was cigar Is' one of those contemplated by the Statute, and whether it was needed or not would be a question when the period for renewing the licenses cam e round. The Bench did not think that in the present stage it was to look at that part of the case, but was bound to grant the license. The licen se was granted accordingly. COLONIAL COpe EE - RoUSE, SKINNER-STREET. Mr. HOULER, jun. applied for a license for this p l ace , but upon examinatio n it appeared that no w i n e or spirits had been sold for upwards of four Th e license was th ere f ore refused. y e ars, and there were b u t two spare beds in the MONUMENT HOTEL. place.— A Mr. Sorbro ok a pp lied fora lieeho use, which for his which is situate on Fish-street-hill. I t is a chop and eating-house, and w as so lon g before the Ist J anuary, but upon inquiry it turned out that one principal room in the house was let to an engraver for a working room, and several rooms were not fur.. nished at all. The applicant accounted for this by saying that he was afraid to go to the expense of furnishing the house, which was a very large one, entirely, unless he was sure of a licence. The Bench thought that this was a case rather for the regular licensing day than for the present time, and recommended the applicant to apply on the next licensin g d ay . There being no other applications, the Meeting broke up, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW- STREET. —ROBBING AN EMPLOYER. —Yester day Robert Jones and Georgiana Baxter, were again placed at the bar, and finally examined, the former charged with stealing a gold watch and other articles from his mas ter, Mr. Cooper, a pawnbroker in the Borough, and the latter with receiving them. Mr. Cooper said, that in addition to the articles men tioned in the charge, he had been able to ascertain that a cameo ring, which had been pledged, had been taken by the prisoner. The prisoner had bought the ring from the man who pledged it, for 125., and the prosecutor's nephew and housekeeper, who were in Court, could prove it. Sir RICHARD inquired of the parties if this was true, and being answered in a very indecisive manner, he said, that it would be well if that case was not gone into. The pri soner might be committed on the other charges. The prisoners being caHed on for their defence, Jones said that he should reserve his defence for his trial. The other prisoner said nothing, but applied for two sovereigns which had been found on Jones, and which were her's. Prosecutor—Your Worship, I decidedly object to that. Jones acknowledged that they were part of the plunder, at his second examination. Sir RICHARD refused the application. The prisoners were fully committed. MA RLBOROUG 11-STREET. --Yesterday Thomas Higgins, an elderly man, who carries on business in Walker's-court, Berwick-street, St. James's, was brought up for re-examination. The prisoner was charged with cutting and maiming the Inspector of Nuisances for the Parish, a man named Kendillon. Three or four informations had been laid by the latter against Higgins, during the last month, for plac ing fish-baskets on the footway ; and Higgins, who is a violent fellow, at least when intoxicated, had vowed venge ance against the - Orangeman, and informer, as be termed Kendillon. Both parties are Irish. Last Thursday week, in the morning, when he returned from Billingsgate as early as five o'clock, he alarmed sorae of his neighbours with his threats, that be would before the day was over have the life of the they went through Berwick-street, were infhrmed of the threats which the prisoner had uttered against Kendillon, to whom they related them, begging him not to go near the place in case any thing should occur. Kendillon, how- ever, only laughed at them, and said he would go and see what fie had to say. He went, and, as he was passing, Higgins saw him, and seizing a large knife ran after him ; and, upon being at his back, made a stab on the right side of the neck immediately underneath the ear ; but a cry of horror issuing from some person occasioned Kendillon to move his head, otherwise death would have been in stantaneous ; the knife, however, made a very deep incision across the neck and face. Kendillon, although wounded, turned round and seized the prisoner by the collar, and began dragging him along towards the office, when the latter dropped the knife, and exclaimed, " Well, you are a good fellow, for you possess plenty of pluck." A number of persons, however, instantly assem bled, who secured the prisoner, and conveyed Kendil lon to Mr. Deacon, a sur g eon, who examined and found the wound to be of a very dangerous nature, and which he immediately sewed up, at the same time Kendillon was de sired to remain quiet and not to attempt to speak if he valued his life, as the exertion would occasion the wound to burst, and in that case it would be fatal. The unfortunate man at the beginning cf the week began to show a marked improvement, but within these last two days those symp toms have declined, and he at present continues in a most dangerous and precarious state, insomuch that very little hopes are entertained of his recovery. The prisoner, who, upon his being taken into custody, exulted in what he bad done, and regretted that he had not killed Castlereagh's countryman (Kendillon is a native of the same place as his Lordship was) appeared to 'have under gone a considerable alteration yesterday. ffe was remanded, until the fate of his victim is ascer tained. LAMBETH-STREET.--DESPERATE. AFFRAY Awn MAN Wow Norn.—Patrick Mahony and Dan. Driscoll, were put to the bar charged with maltreating a man named Neville, who now lies in a dangerous state in the London Hospital. Thos. Ranks is a headborough, and having a warrant to execute against the prisoner, 'Mahony, he went to the Windmill, in Rosemary-lane, to execute it; he afterwards saw the prisoner and made his caption, when a number of Irishmen collected round him for the purpose of rescue, when he pushed the prisoner into a shop, and barricadoed himself in till the prisoner, Driscoll, headed a number of his countrymen, when the witness called for the assistance of some persons who were passing, and among them the poor man now in the hospital. By this time upwards of 300 Irishmen had congregated, and a rescue was deter mined upon, Driscoll leading the charge. Missiles were thrown in every direction, and in preventing his prisoner's escape, he (witness) was dreadfully cut about the head and other parts of his body. The mob becoming more formi dable, lie was obliged to send to this office for assistance. The surgeon of the Hospital sent a letter, certifying that Neville was in too dangerous a state to be removed. The prisoners were remanded until the fate of the man is known. MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday Mrs. Ann W., who says she is under articles of separation from her husband, and Miss Sarah L., her twin sister, were re-examined under alleged charges of fraud. The defendants rented a house in Prospect-place, Isling ton, of Mr. Swift, the parish clerk, and, by an appearance of respectability, they obtained goods of several tradesmen in the neighbourhood, without paying for them. It did not appear that the tradesmen had been deceived by representations which were false, but that they had im providently given credit; and the case was dismissed. THAMES POLICE —EXTRAORDINARY Yesterday Mary Thomson, the wife of a respectable tradesman, was charged with a robbery, under circum stances of great peculiarity. It appeared from the statement of a lady named New berry, residing in Shadwell, that she had let apartments to the prisoner and her husband, but in consequence of a sus picion that the accused was in the habit of pilfering, she caused her and her husband to vacate the rooms, and very soon after missed a pair of silver sugar-tongs, a lace cap, some china cups, and knives, all, however, but of trifling value ; therefore she applied to the police, and Silvester, an officer, took the accused female into custody; and upon searching her residence found three china cups, a knife, cap, and other articles, also the duplicate of a silver sugar tongs, all of which were subsequently identified by Mrs. Newberry, to be her property. Mr. Parry, pawnbroker, of Deptford, produced a pair of silver sugar-tongs, belonging to Mrs. Newberry, and proved the prisoner had pledged it. Silvester said that such was the respectability in life of the prisoner, that he at first besistated to believe Mrs. Newberry ; but, upon searching the prisoner's residence, he found the things produced, and had no alternative but to bring her away in custody. Ile asked her how she came possessed of the things, and she at once admitted having stolen them. He said, " Good God, Madam, how could you do such a thing ?" She replied, that she could not account for it—she had always a predilection for pil fering, which she could not check. He made inquiries, and learned that she had such a predilection ; and he was of opinion it was produced by some infirmity of the mind. A person said that the prisoner had more than once been detected, but was never proceeded against before ; she awl her husband lived comfortably together, and were in respectable circumstances. Captain RICYIBALI., the sitting Magistrate, asked her what she had to say to the charge? The prisoner held down her head, and covered her face with her hands ; she sobbed out, " I have nothing to say —I could not help it." Captain litcita tar. said, it was a distressing thing, and as the charge had been made out, it was his duty to com mit her. The prisoner wept bitterly, and exclaimed " Oh, my God." Her husband was outside the office, and seemed much affected at the melancholy situatiun of his wife. He said he could not account for her disposition to steal. He had done all he could to check it. A gentleman said, that perhaps when it was shown to the accused that she could not thus err with impunity, her disposition might be altered. Silvester said the prisoner was a foreigner. She con ducted a large laundry, the receipts of which amounted to a considerable sum weekly. The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute, and she was committed to Newgate for trial. TOWN-HALL—Wilkinson, the watch-house-keeper of St. Saviour's, brought in a fine intelligent little fellow, twelve years of age, whom he said he found stretched at length upon a bulk in St. Saviour's church-yard, between twelve and one last night. On questioning him, he said he came from Coventry, where he had an uncle living; but, suspecting, from his confusion, he was not telling the truth, he searched him, and found in his pockets two notes of the Belfast Bank, one for 20s. the other ,305., a fire-box and candles, a new Catholic prayer-book, and 4s. Gd. in silver. He then confessed having run away from his parents, who ved in Barrack-street, Belfast, where his father was a master tanner named Patrick O'Neil, and that previous to leaving he htlped hinrielf to the note , . found, besides another GLASGOW RETAIL Beef per lb. 0:4. sd. to 08. Bd. Mutton 0 5 0 7 Veal 0 6 0 8 Hams 0 5 0 7 Lamb......perqr 0 0 0 0 quarters Loaf 0 fl 0 0 Hour, per stone 2 0 2 8 Nye MA RKETS.-7Aug.__4. Oatmeal, per st. ls. td. to 2A. Oa Peasemeal 2 0 3 4 Pet Barley, ewt 11 0 17 0 Pearl ditto.... l9 0 24 0 Grey Pease 12 0 0 0 White ditto l2 0 14 0 Blue ditto. l3 0 14 0 BIRMINGHAM MARKETS.—Auc. 7. CORN MARK BT.-Since this day fortnight, the weather has been alternately wet and dry, and prices of Grain have risen and fallen accordingly ; apparently up to the present, the crops have sustained no material injury, and the har vest has generally commenced after a few days' fine weather. Rain set in again last night, and to-day the weather is very gloomy, with a close damp atmosphere. At to-day's market Wheat advanced 4d. and 6d. per bushel upon last week's prices, and the supply good ; flour, 2s. per sack ; fresh thrashed Malting Barley was in good request, there was more inquiry for grinding descriptions, more money was asked for most other articles of the trade, but there was no improvement. Wheat 7s. 6d, to Bs. per 621bs. ; Barley, 345. to 365. ; Malt, 525. to 60s. ; Pease, 4.25. to 445. per Imperial quarter ; Beans, 15s. to 181. per bag of 10 score gross ; Oats, 3s. to 3s. 9d. per 39 lbs. ; fine Flour, 465. to 48s. ; seconds 435. to 445. per sack of 2801bs. 1311t1tINGHAM SItITIfFIEI,II.-The supply of fat Beasts and Sheep this day, was under an average one, best Beef sold rather brisk ; no alteration in the price of Mutton or Lamb ; no fat Pigs at market to-day, all kinds of Pigs obtain very high prices ; Beef, kid. to 61d. ; Mutton, 5- I ,d. to 64d. ; Lamb, 6d. to 6-id. .-47` HOP INTELLIGENCE. WoacKsTFR, Auc. 6.—ln consequence of the wet and cold nights, the plants are checked in their growth, and look sickly. Prices quite nominal ; nothing is doing. As Mr. ROBARTS, one of the worthy Repre sentatives of Maidstone, now always votes in favour of the Catholic demands, it was not without some surprise we read of his son bearding the Great Agitator in the midst of his Popish Parliament. Who knows but that at the next general election we shall see the young gentleman canvassing this borough fur himself, with a purple cockade in his hat ! We presume that, as Mr. ROBARTS, sen., has failed to convince his own son of the propriety and justice of sup porting the Catholic demands, he will not consider others unreasonable in opposing what they view as a measure fraught with the greatest danger to the British Protestant Constitution.—Maidstone Gazette. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.-011 Thursday se'nnight, a gamekeeper near Stanway, being in one of the preserves with the intent of killing a leveret, thought he saw one move in the grass, and shot it. It proved, how ever, to be a fine hare, which he took home, and in pro ceeding to paunch it, be discovered to his astonishment five young ones. Ile immediately put them in a warm place, and the whole are now alive and well, having ever since been nurtured with milk warm from the cow.— Cheltenham Chronicle. A snake, three feet in length, was killed 011 Sunday last, at Paton, near Wellington, close to the spot where it had deposited a nucleus of 20 eggs, each of which was of the size of a thrush's.— Taunton Courier. The inhabitants of Rottisigdean arc, we un derstand, in great consternation by the singular mode in which that place has recently been macadamized !/ Brighton Gazette. PALM WlNE.—This wine, which is fre quently mentioned by ancient writers, is obtained by mak ing an incision in the bark of the palm tree, and inserting a quill or reed through which the juice exudes. It is ex tremely pleasant to the taste, but strongly intoxicating; and you are frequently much amused in the East, by ob serving its effects upon the lizards, which, as soon as you leave the tree, run up and suck the juice. They imme diately become intoxicated, and in that condition lie about looking up stupidly in your face. Parrots and other birds a l s o sip the palm wine, but have never been observed to be the worse for it. ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN RACE.—The following curious story is given in Dwight's Travels in New York, whch was delivered in a solemn assembly of the Oneida Sachoms :—" Before man existed there were three great and good spirits, of whom one was superior to the other two, and is emphatically called the great spirit and the good spirit. At a certain time this exalted being said to one of the others, Make a man.' He obeyed, and taking chalk formed a paste of it, and moulding it into the human shape, infused into it the animating principle, and brought it to the great spirit. He, after surveying it, said, "I'his is too white.' He then directed the other to make a trial of his skill. Accordingly, taking charcoal, he pursued the same process, and brought the result to the great spirit; who, after surveying it, said, It is too black.' I'hen said the great spirit, I will now try my self;' and taking red earth he formed a human being in the same manner, surveyed it,• and said, This is a proper man.' These three, as you will naturally anticipate, were the original ancestors of all the white, black, and red men of our race." for 20s. which he changed on arriving in Liverpool by the Britannia steam-packet, to pay 2s. 6d. for his passage, and support himself on his journey to London, which he per formed on foot. The prayer-book he also bought with part of the money, and the 49. 6d. was the residue.. " And what induced you to do all this ?" said the Magis trate. " Had your parents treated you unkindly?" " Oh, no ! indeed no !" answered the boy, sobbing, " they loved me dearly." MAGISTRATEO—TheiI why was you so wicked as to leave them? The Boy.—l heard so many fine things said of London, I couldn't help coming to see it. The MAGISTRATE sent him to the Borough Compter, to he kept in the Governor's house till his father could be made acquainted with his situation, to whom the clerk was directed to write immediately. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Aug. G. This day's market being well supplied, and the assem blage of buyers in it not very numerous, each kind of fat stock met with a very sluggish sale, at the following prices per stone of Sib. to sink the offals : Beef 38.4 d. to 4s, 4d. Veal 4 . 5. (k!.• to ss. Od. Mutton I 6 4 6 Pork 4 2 5 4 Lamb 4s. 2d. to ss. 2d. _ The foregoing quotations are Reef, Mutton, Lamb, and Pork, the same as on this day sennight ; Veal at a depression of 2d. per stone. Notwithstanding the sluggishness of the trade, Lint a small proportion of the supply remained unsold at the close of the market. LEWES MARKET.—Aug. 5. Beef , 3s. 10d. to 4s. 6d. Veal ................... 4s. 2d. to 4s. Sd. Mutton 4 0 4 6 Pork. , . 0 0 0 0 ''''''''' I Lamb 4s. 2d. to 4s. 10d. Supply good, and trade somewhat brisk. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. l'er Quarter. 131andford Catubridge----. Chard Iluntingdon -- Long Sutton Louth Lynn Newark Nottingham Peterborough -- Plymouth --. Pont etract..---. Sleafon I --- Uppingham i,bec h W heat. Barley. s. to s. S. 10 S. S. to S. 56 66 - 61 56 66 56 60 54 61 56 63 50 64 60 63 24 34 24 28 32 38 27 '33 21 30 22 27 18 24 18 21 18 24 24 29 28 :re 31 Mt 29 34 - 29 26 30 28 32 40 60 45 62 IS 25 17 22 - 23 IS 21 18 25 It; 23 58 64 56 60 48 GO 26 30 LEEDS CORN MARKET.-Aug. 5. We had a good supply of Wheat and Oats, but only moderate of other Grain. Since last Tuesday the weather has been more or less unsettled, and we have had some rain during the market to-day ; but the millets having bought freely of late, the demand was very limited, and the business done in Wheat was upon the same terms as last week. In Oats, Shelling, and Beans, no material al teration can be noted. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 60th. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 6:3lb. '39s. to 435. Oats, I'otatoe —Healing, Foreign 11d. to 12d Fnglish 12d. to 132. per st. Shelling 27s. to 30e. per load. Rapeseed, English, 201. to 241. DIANCIiIiSTER SINIITHFIELI).—Aug. 6. At per lb. sinking the offal. 3, - ;83 Sheep 4d to 6d. I 1 10 675 tattle 4 6 140 Pigs —. 4,286 Lambs —.....—.. at 41,1. to 6d 5,0. to 7d, 4 51 MANCHESTER POTATOE MARKET.—Aug. 2. Potatoes, 4s. 9d., ss. 6d., and 6s. 6d. per load of 12 score and 121bs. ; New ditto, Bs. Od., 9s. Od., and 10s. per ditto ; Turnips. Os. Od., 9s. 6d. and 10s. Od. per load of 16 pecks; Onions, —s. Od., —s. Pd., and —s. per 12 score. MANCHESTER YAR: No. d. d. "Ihrostle Twist, 20-10 a to 11 30 —l2i 13 40...151 , 11 MulecopTwist/ 30 mut 12k 40.-14 15 50 —l7l 24) CO Of 22 70-21 26 80.-27 30 :N MARK. Mule Cop Wefts' Weft f rom waste ['-Aug. : 5. ' :30 101 to 11f 40 --- Ilf 12 50 .-- 1112 15 60 o; -, 19 20 SO 22 24f 100 - 28 30 120....,..., 3 L :36 10 7 8 14 SI 4 19 --, 9 '9f 24 10! 10 Oats. Beans. s. to s. 49 44 50 3t 42 48 46 50 3$ 42 40 41 34 40 43 49 40 43 :18 .',O 38 41 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE MO- DERN NERO. (From the _Liverpool Museum.) The following sketch of the character of the pre sent Usurper of the Portuguese throne, is furnished expressly for our work, by a gentlemen, who has long been connected with Portuguese and Brazilian affairs, and who has already furnished na with sketches of Rio de Janeiro. He has seen Miguel frequently and his opportunities of observation, and of informal tion on the subject, entitle his sketch, though a harsh one, to be received as authentic. The career of this infatuated and senseless repro bate has been characterised, from his very boyhood up to the present period, by acts of cruelty, wanton ness, and brutality, and a total recklessness of keep ing up even an outward appearance of propriety or common decency. A history of his life would pre sent but one continued loathsome scene of depravity and blackguardism.—Bred up in au unrestrained in dulgence ; unchecked in the evil propensities, which at a very early age began to manifest themselves in words and actions; caressed and petted by a worth less, bigotted, yet doting, mother, from whom he has inherited most of the detestable passions which rankle in his heart ; this dubiously legitimate scion of the House of Braganza became, at the early age of fifteen years, the terror and scourge of the coun try, in the vicinity of the Palace of St. Christovao, near Rio de Janeiro, where he was brought up. The associates he selected at that age were of the same stamp as those he now cherishes about his person, viz.—stable-boys and lacqueys, and common street-blackguards and bull-baiters. Drunkenness is a prominent feature in his character; and, to gratify this propensity, himself and his bosom companions laid all the neighbourhood under contributions, by compelling the landlords to furnish them, gratis, with whatever quantity of wine or liquor they thought fit to demand. Any remonstrance against such ras cally pranks was generally productive either of broken limbs or violent assault of the person. Mutilation of animals to him was a source of ex quisite enjoyment; the screams, the convulsive throes of the poor defenceless animals, whose en trails he was tearing out, were to him the most re fined pleasure his diabolical imagination could invent. It is scarcely credible, but he has been known to steal the fowls in the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro, and draw their entrails out, when they were alive, with a cork-screw. His treatment of his own spe cies was equally unfeeling and atrocious. He would mount a horse; and, prepared with the lasso, or noosed rope, would, when at full speed—for mere princely amusement—throw the loop over the head of a passing negro,and then drag him for many yards till life was all but extinct. Another of his villainous practices was, to lay in wait for the negro girls bring ing fruit and vegetables to the city; when, not con tent with forcibly violating their persons, he would rob them of their baskets, and give them a severe beating besides. In 1821, he returned to Lisbon, along with the Royal Family of Portugal ; and, in 1823, succeeded, conjointly with his mother, in overthrowing the Constitution and dispersing the Cortes. After this, he fled from Lisbon, accompanied by the troops he had corrupted, with the intention of stirring up the Provinces to a revolt,—for the purpose of dethron ing his father, and assuming the crown himself. In this plan he was frustrated, by the vigilance of the King's party, who succeeded in quashing the insur rection in its infancy. One of the King's staunch adherents, the Marquez de Louie (the father of the present nobleman of the same title, whose marriage with one of his, Miguel's, sisters and flight from Portugal to this country, on the return of the tyrant, has lately excited so much of the attention of the public) having made himself, on this occasion, ob noxious to Miguel, by his fidelity to his father's cause, was singled out as a victim on whom to wreak his vengeance. Miguel himself, assisted by his lacquey, and the Marquez d'Abrantes, lay in wait for him, in the palace itself, and after stunning him with the blows of a hammer, on his temples, stabbed him through the throat ! For this murder, he was tried, and found guilty ; but by the intercession of the King the matter was hushed up. The lacquey fled, and his other accomplice was banished the country : he repaired to London, where he died, of an apoplectic fit, in the beginning of last year. In 1824, Miguel again made an attempt to wrest the sceptre from his father's hand. He made him a Prisoner in the palace ; and would probably have carried into execution the design he meditated, of assassination, had not the vigorous measures of the Foreign Ambassadors averted his infamous purpose, by effecting the escape of his father, who took re fuge on board the Windsor castle, British man-of war, then lying in the Tagus. The King, alarmed at such undisguised proofs of his son's perfidy, as well as that of the Queen, and apprehensive of still further machinations against the security of the throne, resolved to expatriate him, under the softened name of sending him on his r b travels, to acquire a knowledge of foreign customs, languages, governments, &e. t r n n t r 3 11 '— er e po would,bayl England was appointed to be his first destinatio n : but hi s aversion that a sojourn t o thi s seou front such an was apprehension through the medium of its unsilenceable and fearless press, open the eyes of the English people, and con sequently those of the world, to his true character— that he avowed, rather than come here, he would throw himself into the Tagus / To get rid of him—to send him out of Portugal, to any other country—being the grand object the King had in view, he was scat, according to his ac quiescence, to Austria, where he remained three years and a half. During that period, he seems not to have made himself conspicuous by any flagrant development of his iniquitous character : but rather to have lain like " a snake in the grass," until an opportunity offered itself to him to dart forth his venom. . ------- During his banishment his father died; the suc cession to the throne consequently devolved upon Don Pedro, the Emperor of the Brazils, Miguel's eldest brother. Don Pedro, however, abdicated the throne of Portugal in favour of his daughter, Donna Maria da Gloria, whom he betrothed to Don Mi guel, and to whom she was to be united after attain ing her twelfth year. Until that period should ar rive, Don Pedro appointed his sister, Donna Maria Isabel, as Infanta Regent, who, after a short and impotent sway, ceded, by his authority, the Regency to Don Miguel, who returned in the beginning of the present year, by way of France and England, to Portugal, wive, in defiance of his brother's confi dence, and irk contempt of all justice and equity, he has now usurped the title of King, and trampled under foot the liberal and dignified Charter his bro ther prepared for that country. During his short stay in France, his disgraceful conduct met with a ludicrous, but well-merited chas tisement. Whilst in Paris, one very rainy day, on which the streets were almost deluged with mud and rain, he went on horseback to a bookseller's shop, to purchase some political pamphlet, and ob serving a number of well-dressed people about the door, he set his horse a-prancing, which splashed aiitreo,fat generalhn e rest of the them over with water and dirt. On their remon strating with him, he rode his horse heedlessly through the midst of them; but was, however, pur sued and completely covered with mud from head to foot. The reception lie met with in this country, th e attention, the homage (it might almost be added), which was paid to him, the expences incurred on his worthless account, is another lamentable example of the easy disposition and gullibility of John B u l l. extremely The age of Don Miguel is twenty-five y ears • he is cast, a .si rather t itaboveso aPortuguese Braganztt family. It is generally . overcast by a for bidden frown ; and its relaxations, which are " few and far between," exhibit a not less tinamiable }:mile tlly countenance t ( h ii e ssi middle ini i i a s r o t f o s the t : h t of forced familiarity and condescension. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Office of Ordnance, Aug. '7. Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Second Lieutenant Ed ward Fitzherbert Grant to be First Lieutenant, rice Wat kis, deceased April 30. Second Captain Edwin Cruttenden to be Captain, vice Barlow, retired on half-pay. June.3o. . Captain George Browne, from unattached half-pay,, to be Second Captain, vice Cruttenden. June 30. ' • Second Captain John William Spellen to be Captain, vice Thompson, deceased. July 6. Captain Charles Manners, front unattached half-pay, to be Second Captain, vice Spellen. July G. • • Second Lieutenant William George Chart to be First Lieutenant, vice Bishopp, deceased. June 38. Ordnance Medical Department. Second Assistant-Surgeon William Richardson to be First Assistant-Surgeon, vice Barlow, resigned. Nay 22. Charles Dempsey, Gent. to be Second Assistant-Surgeon, vice Richardson, promoted. July 22. Whitehall, August 1, 1828. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomaa Mayhew, of Sax►nundham, in the county of Suffolk, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. Jeremiah Thompson, New York, United States of America, merchant, from Sept. 5, to Nov. 5. at twelve, at the Clarendon-buildiags, Liverpool. ' BANKRUPTS. Daniel Fowler, Euston-square, St. Pancras, builder, to surrender Aug. 12, 19, and Sept. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Sharpe and Field, Bread-street, Cheapside. George Ford, Wells-street, Oxford-street, jeweller, Aug. 15, 26, at eleven, and Sept. 19, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Norton, Jewin-street, Aldersgate-street. Charles Cox, St. Martin's-lane, tailor, August 15, and 26, and Sept. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Tanner, 1, New Basinghall-street. Thomas White, Manchester, hotel-keeper, August 27. and 28, and Sept. 19, at two, at White's Hotel, Kiag street, Manchester. Hurd and Johnson, King's-Bench- Walk, Temple ; Wood, Brazen-nose-street, Manchester. George Horrocke and Robert Martin, Ardwick, Man chester, dyers, Aug. 27, 28, and Sept. 19, at nine, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Milne and Parry, Temple; Potter, Manchester. John Berry Jacques, Bristol, biscuit baker, Aug, 27, 28, and Sept. 19, at one, at the Rummer Tavern, Bris tol. Langley, Bristol ; Rosser and Sou, Gray's Inn-place. THE NEW FLEET MARKET. The old Fleet Market was opened to the public in 1737, the ground which it occupies being pre* viously to that period a muddy ditch. The great in' crease of trade, and the growing importance of that portion of the city, has long made it desirable to re move the old market and substitute another, coat pining more space for the distribution of the several branches of trade established in it, and bring it in such a situation as not to impede the communica' tion from two such frequented thoroughfares as Hal' born and Blackfriars-bridge. These advantage will, we think, be realized in the new market. The space of ground purchased for its erection is very considerable, reaching from the present Fleet Market , which it immediately adjoins, through Stonecutters'' street to Shoe-lane, East and `Vest; and from South to North, from - the corner of Stonecutters'-street 5 0 the other side o f the poor-house of St. Andrew'" parish, run n i ng f rom t h ence, E ast an d W est, aga in into old Fleet Market. The plan of the building will embrace three sides of a square. The North, towards Holborn, as well as the Western and Eastern sides, trill he occupied by shops without anY upper floor, and the Western side, towards Stone cutters' -street, will be left open to view, but protected by an iron railing. The centre will be an open space, appropriated to the purposes of a vegelahle market. On the side approaching to Fleet Market .; there is to be a basement story, as th e groun d fall considerably from Shoe-lane. This will be air proached from the inside front by several flights O f stone-steps, distributed at intervals; and in the centre of that line, opening to Fleet Market, will be an entrance for carts and waggons, up an incline' l mound of earth. On the Shoe-lane side three en trances are to be formed, and an equal number on the side of Stonecutters -street. Shoe-lane, in front of the market, will be widened to forty feet. Al ready several of the buildings in the market are raised a few feet above the foundation. The build ing is proceeding steadily on the eastern end w ester° sides. A vast accumulation of building material; has been collected in the g roun d, an d th e port i o n ° space to be applied to the new market, yet ° cell: pied by houses, is about to be immediately cleared' The whole will, it is expected, be completed in about twelve months. LARGE MELON.—On Monday, a m e lon of the netted species, was cut in the garden of Sir Cicala° HALKET, Pittman, which weighed 19 lbs. This is CO! sidered to be among the largest melons ever grown on Scotland, and our horticultural friends may see it at 0 0 office.— Scotsman. A great number of labourers are at present busily employed in reducing another portion of Blythes wood hill to a level with the part formerly cut. As th e present cut is through the most elevated part of the hill, (with the exception of what is occupied by Blytheswood" square) the trouble and expence must be greater than for merly. The once beautiful bill of Blytheswood promisee soon to be covered entirely with buildings.— Glasgow Chronicle. OYSTEns.—After the month of May it 15 felony to carry away from oyter-beds the calteh or spawu, adhering to stones or to oyster-shells ; and punishable to take any oysters, except those not less than the size of a half-crown piece, or such as, when the two shells are shut► will admit of a shilling rattling between them. The liquor) of the oysters, it may be remarked, contains incredible multitudes of small embryo oysters, covered with their • tiny shells, perfectly transparent, and swimming nimbly about, to make amends, perhaps, for the sluggish life which they are subsequently doomed to lead. One hundred of these embryo oysters, if placed in a row, would not extend one inch. Besides these, the liquor is said to contain a groa t number of animalcules, five hundred times less i❑ size, which emit a phosphoric light. The list of inhabitants , however, dons not conclude here ; tor, besides these last mentioned, there are three distinct species of worms (cello' oyster-worms), half an inch long, and which shine in the dark like the glow-worm. The sea-stars (Asterite) , cockles, and mussels, are the great enemies of the oyster' The first gets within the shell when it gapes, and sucks out the inhabitant. While the tide is flowing, oysters lie with the hollow of their shells downwards; but when it ebbs , they turn on the other side. BIRTHS. On the Gth instant, in New Bond -street, Mrs. Job° Savory, of a son. On the 7th instant, in Grosvenor-street West, ith * Henry Dundas Scott, of a daughter. insn On the 6th Bethune,iEn,(Ci.onotfiaKugililtt,o-npllauclem,r,tlFieifela,doy 0' H f daeu O ngri tl yt t el i:e in 3 dosa t ) h . ult. at Paris, the Countess de Croisuur e ' o f a daughter. MARRIED. On the sth instant, at Trinity Church, Marylebone, br the Very Reverend Robert Hodgson, Dean of Carlisle' Robert John Palk, Esq. of Lincoln's, Inn, second son of trc late Sir Lawrence Palk, Baronet, to Harriette, young'` daughter of George Hibbert, Esq. of Portland-place. 7 On th e 7th i ns t an t, Digby Neav e , E sq . e ld est so n of 7 0 Thos. N eave , B ar t. t o the Hon. Mary A run d e ll, young ~ daughter of the late James Everard, ninth L or d Arund ell ' of Wardour. DIED. On the 6th instant, at her residence, Maryland PO ia e t ' de l servedly Mrs. Curtis, of the Ladi e s' Establishmen t ' 1 servedly esteemed and lamented by a numerous circle friends. high, On the 28th ult. at Byrn, iu th e coun ty of lliten Edwar lo d L th instant, yd Rowland, Esq. infav f On the Li at East Acton, Middlesex, th e son of the Rev. Fred. Sandys Wall. On the Gth instant, Anna Maria, wife of Mr. Wi Moberly. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, L" SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND ) LONDON• T' on hi, A Perso the 5. for tia tpirs FOR} reen Friday Tuesa, Permit The Cabin, Chief itirthei food, r. t otn _ ii For ' I4 Y nv For P o , For 5 For 0. ! at Air k ktept RA NE 11 Anc hors, Ili 1 41 j. 4 1 1 "4 t Ptt ikin ktreot-, i L on 1 reeei Ote on e llit Fort on e .: and by tl hived ofC, and 1 and t his I, re m , N,. s . 4