The Sun. — London, England, 1828-09-18 00:00:00

PROTESTANT MEETING IN KENT• ncss of this day to discuss or decide." And again—" How far further the Roman Catholics should be .admitted to participate of civil power, was a matter for awful consideration, and of great responsibility." As the Clubmen of Kent, therefore, not being Ministers, have no respon sibility, we presume it is meant to be inferred that they had better abstain from meddling with the question of emancipation. Sir John Brydges, M.P., estimated the Protestants in the United Kingdom to the Catholics, as 14 to 6. 'lad Sir John understood common division, h e would have . found out . that this proportion is the same as seven to three. Mr. Wells, M.P. also declared that " he would fight up to his knees in blood, in defence of our glorious con stitution." Colonel Stratford talked a little about " blood," hut not so terrible as Mr. Wells ; the gallant Colonel only said, that " so long as he had blood in his veins, he should always be r eady to support a mee ti ng ca lled for such a pur pose. It is to be understood that this is not a county meeting, hut it is now proposed to call a meeting of the county, for the purpose of esta blishing a similar club, and a requisition to be signed to the Sheriff to call it. if these clubs are general, it is evident that the Duke of Wel lington can only govern the country in the sense of the clubs, or retire nom his station.—lbid. A Protestant Meeting, as it is called, was held on Tuesday at Maidstone, for the forma tion of a Brunswick Club. The meeting of course was a packed one, though Sir Edward Knatchbull says, it had been announced by ad vertisement in the Newspapers. He must mean local NewSpapers, circulating among particular classes of the .inhabitants; for very little was known of it in most parts of the county. We copied on Saturday a paragraph from the Kent Herald, alluding to " an anonymous but evi dently a demi-official advertisement, calling a meeting of the Protestants of Kent," which had appeared in the columms of their " Tory con temporaries ;" and to this partial circulation it is owing that so little was known of the Meeting by many most respectable gentlemen of the county. This we know, that on Saturday last we were within eight miles of the place of meet ing, and in consequence of the paragraph, made inquiries of gentlemen who are Protestants, and possessed of good estates in the county, who had never before heard of the Meeting, and be lieved there would be none. The Meeting, there fore, was a packed one, in even sense of the word. A Requisition, however, for a County Meeting was agreed to on Tuesday, which re seived a number of signatures, so that it will be seen whether the county generally do or do not acquiesce in the opinion broached at this Protestant Meeting. Sir John Brydges esti mated the number of Catholic to the Protestants of the whole Empire at six to fourteen, and seemed to think as fourteen could hardly fail to beat six, the sooner we came to blows the better. The tone of several of the speakers was warlike. But what was to be expected from men whose hearts or whose intellects would allow them to set about such a design as the formation, in England, of Brunswick Clubs ? We regret the exhibition ; because, though we know the men who figured away at Maidstone, — the Winchelseas, the Bexleys, the Sydneys, the Brydges, the Knatchbulls, &c.,—are the very scorn of the well-informed part of the people of England, we are not the less aware that the ac cident of rank and fortune gives to these men an influence in their neighbourhoods ;. and because we fear there are but too many of the clergy dis• posed to make common cause with them. The spirit of the Clergy throughout England is no toriously bad, on the subject of the Catholic Question ; but however little influence they may poskess in towns, the share of the property of the country which they possess in the shape of tithes, and, still more, the power of harassing their parishioners, which the mode of collecting this revenue gives them, if they choose to exer cise it, render them formidable in their neigh bourhoods. The great body of the people of England sympathise neither with the Pitt. Clubs, nor with the Brunswick Clubs, which are a re construction of these Clubs on purely intolerant principles ; but, unfortunately, under the Consti tution of this country, the people have little power, and the Aristocracy and their minions, the Clergy, have a great deal. There can be no question that a confederacy of this kind will hamper the Duke of Wellington's Government ; and that is, no doubt, the object of the founders of the Clubs. The calculation on which they pro ceed is probably this—By this manifestation we shall either intimidate the Duke of Wellington, and compel him to retrograde ; or he will be compelled to strengthen himself by a junction with the Whigs ; and then we may, by intrigu ing, break up the Administration. But what is to be gained by all this? The Protestants are, no doubt, as fourteen to six ; but who are the Protestants who entertain the mad notion of fighting it out with the Catholics, or re-enacting the Penal La ws ? Are th ere one million of Parsons, such Protestants in this island, including all muddle-headed L ords, all the the miserable creatures ir. Corporation s and else where, whom they can influence ? W e do not believe it. In all populous places, the friend s o f Emancipation are the g reat majority, Take Lon don, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwio,, the people are every where friendly to the resti tution to the Catho li c s of their civil rights. The idea of having recourse to the sword in Ireland would excite abhorrence throughout the esountry. The Irish have many good qualities, but they have some of an equivocal character ; and among the latter we include their tendency to W b e e too easily elated or depresse d by events. trust that this manifestation of bad feeling among our higher ranks will not throw the Catholics off their guard, so as to give their adversaries any advantage over them. They should cojigide r , this as an additi ona l reason f or b e ing cool and firm, and as a tribute to their • power. 0 lf they persevere, and keep within the limits of the law, 5o as to give their adversaries no hold over them no pretence for drawing on the resources of Brie tain, they must succeed. They are fighting our battles as well as their own, We are both the and o f a vile contemptible slavesaristocracy, but in England we are also the slaves of the luxury and arts of civilization. The Catholics having nothing to lose, and being but half civilized, are but too prone to ri se ; the English, on th e ot h er hand, being the wealthiest and most civili ze d of the European nations, are nec essarily . th e most submissive.—Morning Chronicle. We last night came athwart one of i the Par liamentary blue books, called " Slavery n India." The pages we shall have to wade through are 937. We wonder when we shall have a blue book to be called " Slavery in England," as instanced in the King's Bench, Fleet, White cross-strect, Nlarshalsea, &c. It is extraordinary how alive our Legislators are to slavery in fo reign countries, and how quiet they are with re aped to slavery in their own. But, as the scrip ture says, they attend to the outside of the pot while' the corrupt inside remains unnoticed.— Moniing It is hardly to be credited that, while so much 1 has been said and written on the necessity of providing some means of preventing criminals from relapsing almost unavoidably into bad courses, there actually exists, in the out skirts of the metropolis, a Society (we mean " The Refuge for the Destitute") which has already done a vast deal in that way, and could accom plish much more, were its funds equal to its other means. We are indebted to a Correspon dent for drawing our attention to this Society, the details of which have not escaped the inqui ries of the Police Committee, from whose exa mination of Mr. Ross, the superintendent of the male part of the establishment, we find that though it would hold and provide for. five hundred persons in its present state, as to servants, &c., there are, for want of funds, only sixty males and as many females in it, being less than half the good this one establishment could do were it better supported. We would not wish to depreciate other charities, all of which are, doubtless, more or less laudable in their way ; but, when we see the enormous sums which are appropri a t e d to education, to the diffusion of religious tracts, and to objects of not so doubtful a nature, that those who sub scribe their money can never see to its applica tion, we cannot help thinking that, even in the laudable work of charity, there must be. a sad want of discrimination, where an object, so every way laudable and desirable as the reform of cri minal offenders, should be deprived of more than half its usefulness for the 'want of those means which are so prodigally bestowed upon objects of far less worth and importance.—/bid. We have more than once spoken in terms of the highest praise of Colonel Evans's Work on the " Designs of Russia ;" but much as we have found in it to justify our encomiums, there is no part of it, we think, that deserves the more serious consideration of the English Public than that which relates to the _consequences which would result from the ca ptur e of Constantinople' by the Russians, and the permanent establishment of their power there. The admirers of Nicholas, both here and on the Continent, see nothing iu such an addition to the Autocrat's territories, but an accession of strength to the progress of civilize tion—as if an inundation of Cossacks, Calmucks, and other savage tribes, were at once to destroy the bigotry of • the Turk—to infuse 1 into him a desire of promoting " the march of intellect "—and instead of the contented animal which he now is, to transform him in a day into the restless though polished European. Such notions can only proceed from the grossest ignorance of the real state of civilization in the two empires. And what has Russia to boast of beyond 'what Turkey possesses ? Nothing that we are aware of. Every thing that has been done in Russia bearing the shape of improve ment has been accomplished by foreigners—there is nothing Russian in it from beginning to end —not even the building of the few men-of war which she possesses, nor the disciplining of the immense military force which she possesses. All is European—it is German, English, or French—not Russian ; and it would he about just as wise to have given the credit to the French of having executed the beautiful statues which were exhibited in the Louvre in 1814, as to praise the Russians now for the few marks of civilization which they ex ' bibit. Try the Turks and the Russians by every possible standard of civilization, and the latter will kick the beam. all private obligations the Ttirks are almost universally allowed to be superior—their polities, to say the least of them, are of a more honourable character—in literature the pretensions of the two nations are pretty much on a par, if indeed there be any means in either case of forming a judgment—and in war —which, by-the-bye, is the game of savages, and not of civilized people, except under extraordi nary circumstances—the Turks have not as yet shown themselves inferior. The political mora lity of the Russians is, in fact, the basest, since the time of the Romans, that has ever been ex , hibited. It is a morality without restraint as without remorse—a morality which has only one object in view—we mean aggrandizement—and for the sake of securing that object, will wend its path through heaps of carnage, and oceans of blood, and evcry state of misery, desolation, and despair which the most ardent imagination could conjure up. Where, then, is the superiority of the Russians ? No where, in our opinion. On the contrary, they appear to us to be even centuries • behind' the Turks in the arts and decencies of life ; and if it be said, as it has been, that the Russians are using every endeavour after improve ment, it may be added with equal truth, that the Turks are doing so likewise. The present Sultan is, in fact, the greatest reformer, and, all circum stances considered, the most liberal wan in Europe. But we are wandering from our subject —we mean the consequences which would result from the possession of Constantinople by Russia. " Mahmoud, we are told," says Colonel Evans, " will hold with a firm grasp the last fragment of dominion, and that he is resolved to bury himself beneath the ruins of his capital. This (if it be so) would probably quite accord with the policy of the invaders; nor is it ut all unlikely that their occult machinations may purposely lead to that result. The signal massacre to be anticipated in such case, would, in tha estimation of such calculators, be amply compensat e d b y t h e a dd e d terror o f t h e Rus sian arms, and the consternation it would spread, espe cially in Asia. The final extinguishment of the Maho metaa power might thus ah , o be forwarded. And, though the whole of the edifices at present composing the capital, fro m t h e sera i , mosques, and minarets, down to the humblest shed, were thus given to the flameq, what would that signify ? Unlike the fall of Carthage, this pre-eminent place must rapidly rise again to more than a renovated and palmy zenith of commandi t of grandeur. The heroic conqu eror o f t h e former once weptpoweialrfuelxceicityitiisngsatidhetostheranv,e ungenerous over - s. -- But the Senate, flip last blow may be considered to have been struck in the accomplishm ent of the unbounded d th t a o t t t ip le e, na it . domination of the republic;—all the rest was an un resis" mach o t r ed vic tl t i o a ' t T ß . Otn A e ll( !. 4 x y l e lbi a t e t aratiVc degree, the assured, well. c t r o n n ti s o , prepondermg mass of physical force t it b l e at i i i ; se LPlP . as well as on the land." that she o ti r l g at an ß iz u e s c s l ia a n ti o d w does. Thence forward it was S her subject. tat o i prise every thing that took ilie her y stationi) last on hi.i the seas, es colt 'iced be said on this • " Thenceforward it was to.. l a nd ." and will on the seas, as well as on , o t . s s i t te im to p o o k rt i Has she note qual not Russia do so likewise ? ambition, and will she not have equal means ? Nay, has she not more ? With one arm restin g Oil the Baltic, and another extending from the Euxin e t o the Mediterranean, would she not only become a great naval power, but great l y intercept also the prosperous flow of British commerce ? We put these questions that our readers may think of them—to-morrow, with the aid . of Colonel Evans, we shall furnish cer tain answers to them.—Morning Advertiser. An extremely numerous and most respectable Meeting of the Prot es t an t i n habitants of Kent was held at Maidstone, on Tuesday, to consider the best "node of evincing their attachment to the principles of the Constitution, and their determination to up. hold the principles which placed the House of Bruns wick on the Throne. The meeting was to have been held at the Bell Inn; but the room being found inconveniently small for the a ccommodation of the crowds wha pressed to the Meeting, an adjourn ment to the Town Hall was deemed necessary, After the Chairman, the Hon. Colonel WINGFIELD STRATFORD, of Addington, had been appointed, The Earl of W T INCIIELSEA opened the business of the day, by proposing the first resolution, for the formation of a Club to maintain the principles al ready alluded to, to be called " The Kentish Bruns wick Constitutional Club." His Lordship said, the object of the Meeting was not to consider any question of foreign or domestic policy, but to ex press their warm attachment to the principles of the Protestant Ascendancy in Church and State, and to resist, by every Constitutional means, the encroach ments of those who were manifestly aiming at its subversion. His Lordship, after adverting to the conduct of the Irish Catholic Association, declared his opinion that- the time was at length come, when every individual who estimated the blessings of th e Censtitution sho u ld boldly stand forth initsdefence, and declare his determination to resist the encroach ing spirit of Popery. They did not intend to inter fere with or distrust the Government in any steps they were about to take ; but they wished to con vey to them the unalterable attachnient:of the people of this country to the Protestant Constitution. liis Lordship cleared himself of the imputation of incon sistency in supporting this . Club, as he had invariably hitherto abstained from any such associations—he had done so because he conceived them only meant to serve particular parties, or particular purposes ; but this was to include all who felt an attachment to the Constitution. His Lordship concluded by mov ing the resolution, amid loud cheers. Sir J. BRYDGES, M.P., seconded the Resolution. He would not have trespassed en their attention, but that he felt the present a time when every lover of Protestantism should speak out. They were not met to discuss faiths, but to declare their determi nation never to sacrifice the principles of the glori ous Revolution of 1688. The Roman Catholics and the Protestants were now at issue—the former had thrown down the gauntlet, and unless they meant to yield all to them they must take it up. He thanked God they had done so; for the sooner they measured their strength with them the better. —(Loud cheering for some time.)—Of the issue there cculd be no doubt. Sir John then entered into a long refutation of the argument drawn in fa vour of the Catholics, from their numbers in Ire land, and asserted that to the whole British and Irish population they bore a proportion of only six to fourteen ; but this was sot a question of num bers—it was whether we were to grant to intimi dation what had been refused to prayers. The Ca tholics would never be satisfied until they establish ed Popery in place of Protestantism—for to extir pate heretics was part of their creed. Should the Protestants be guilty of suicide ? he would not believe it—it would be better to die in the trenches. The present was the moment when the country must determine whether it was to be in future Roman Catholic or Protestant. lie denied that there was cruelty or injustice in excluding a Papist from power —they - were so excluded by the solemn convention of 1688, and had no right to complain. He desig nated " the liberitlity" of the present day as .dis guised revolution, and said that civil and religious liberty was enjoyed more extensively in England than any where in the world. They had a ProteS tent and a patriot King, and men at the head of affairs too courageous and high-minded to yield to clamour. Let them with ope heart and voice rally round the Throne and Constitution—and let the " loyal, brave, and free" yeomanry of Kent, whose motto was " Invicta," lead the van, and convince the enemies of the Constitution that they not only felt Protestantism in their hearts, but that they were prepared to give expression to that feeling, with zeal, energy, and perseverance, at the hazard of their lives.—(Loud cheering frequently interrupted the delivery of this speech.)—The Resolution was put .and carried unanimously. Lord TEYNBAM addressed the Meeting at con siderable length, in moving that the " Meeting do then Adjourn." He regretted; though he'had not opposed the last resolution, that at a time w hen every word breathed by the King's Lieutenant to the people of Ireland spoke peace and - harmony, it was then the men cf Kent should interrupt the benign operation. The present condition of Europe, the state of our finances, the dangers of an expected war, all demand that peace should be given to Ire land. His Lordship then pointed out the numbers of the Catholics of the empire, which he stated to be fully one-third of the whole population. They should not, therefore, stir up the flames of civil war between two such mighty parties. The present system observed towards Ireland obliged a standing army of 35,000 men to be kept up there, at an an nual expense to this country of five millions, while 2,000 men were all that were required for the whole of Scotland. His Lordship then deprecated the formation of these Clubs. The Orange Clubs of Ireland had produced all the re-action on the part of the Catholics now so much complained of. Lord BEXLEY wished to correct a misapprehension on the part of the Noble Lord who spoke last. No thing was farther from the intentions of those form ing this Club than to stir up the flame of civil war ; neither did they desire to dictate to his Majesty's Government the course they should pursue, or to interfere in that just share of the management of public affairs, the responsibility of which legally de volved on them ; but they met to declare their at tachment to the Protestant Constitution in Church and State, and to convey that declaration to the Ministers. Whether that Constitution were to be safest maintained by remaining where we are, or by giving some safe modification, grounded in sufficient and satisfactory securities, this Meeting could not determine ; that must be the result of long and im portant discussion and deliberation in the Legisla ture. He trusted Parliament would maintain the safety and inviolability of the Constitution, and stand firmly, above all, on - the basis of the glorious com pact of 1688.—(Loud cheers.)—Great relaxation, and he thought safely and wisely, had already been made towards the Catholics, but many were of opi nion they should proceed no further; at all events, they could stand safely where they now were. Sir W. BRABAZON, an Irish Baronet, here essayed to address the Meeting, but after some conversation between hiss and Sir Edw. Knatchbull, he sat doWn. Major WatTnE, it being here found that Lord Teytiham's motion of adjournment was not yet se conded, supplied that omission. He thought the present meeting ill-timed and mischievous. Tbo Noble Lord (Bexley) had denied their intentions to be to promote civil war. What else did the decla ration of Sir John Brydges, that the Catholics had thrown the gauntlet down, and that they . (the Pro testants) must take it up, mean ? Why were the Catholics proscribed and plundered ? Because of their loyalty to Charles the First and King James. What did they seek ?—only their just rights. Was the county of Kent to be the first to say, " You shall not have these rights."—(Cries of No, no.) — What else did this Club mean ? The Orange So cieties of Ireland, after having been put down by law, were new reviving in the shape of Brunswick Clubs, which were merely Orange Clubs in disguise. Were not the Orangemen altnost in arms ?—Cries of No, and hisses.) Sir EDWARD KNATCHRULL next addressed the Meeting at considerable length, in support of the formation of the Club, Ile always desired to .meet the freeholders of Kent, and learn their real senti ments, which, in most cases, he found to coiecide svith his own. He denied that the present, was an ex paste Meeting; it had been convened by adver tisement in the public papers, and did not purport to be a County Meeting, but one of such Protes tants of Kent as desired to declare their determina tion to maintain the principles of the Constitution. The vital and important question of further conces sion ought not to be agitated at this Meeting; but if it became necessary to take the sense of the county, there was a legal mode of convening the county for the purpose--a step which he (Sit- Edward Knatchbull) recommended. He denied that the purposes of the Club had any incendiary motives—quite the contrary; he was convinced; if they had, the present Meeting would immediately scout such en idea. The Protestants were not the assailants—they associated for mutual defence; they wished not to withhold from the Catholics of Ire land, nay, would grant them all they demanded, pro vided it could be done with safety to the Constitu tion ; and it was lest the contrary should occur, that the proposed Club was to he established. Its object was, to place the Protestonts of Kent in an attitude of defence, in the event of any alarm or danger. They had heard much of conciliation ; he did not object to conciliation, if it meant an equitable adjustment, and a desire to do so on both sides; but if it meant, as of late years, concession after con cession, he feared its ultimate consequence would be the destruction of the Constitution—(Loud ap plause)—and that all true Protestants would resist to the last. Lord TZVNIIA3I explained, and, on an under. standing that a requisition should be drawn up, con vening a Meeting of the County to consider the Catholic Question, consented to withdraw his mo tion of adjournment. The business - of the Club, its future regulations, &c. then proceeded. Letters were read from Lords Alyergavenny, Guilford; Harris, Le Despenser, Sir Egerton Brydges, and others, intimating their ap proval of the Club, if formed, and their desire to become members thereof. Several gentlemen subsequently addressed the Chair in support of the other Resolutions, nomi nating the President, Vice-Presidents, Committee, Treasurer, and Secretary of the Club. All the re solutions were carried unanimously. Mr. WELLS, one of the Members for Maidstone, spoke at much length on the state and threats of the Irish Catholics. lie was, he said, now old, and he hoped the conflict would not come in his days; but if it did, his heart's blood would beat within him, and be would fight up to the knees in blood in de fence of the Protestant Constitution. This declara tion was received with loud cheering. Like the Honourable Baronet, he was. willing to concede every thing they demanded, if the safety of the Con stitution IN ere not compromised ; but at the same time his opinion was, that fire and water would as soon amalgamate as the Catholic Religion and the British Constitution. • Sir W.Deering, General Mulcaster, Lord Sydney, and others declared their adherence to the Club, and attachment to its principles. On the motion of Lord SYDNEY, a vote of thanks to the Honourable and Gallant Chairman was passed with acclamation, and followed with cheers, four times four—at the conclusion of which Sir John Brydges called for " one cheer more." A similar token of enthusiastic approbation fol lowed a vote of thanks to the Earl of Winchelsea, for his exertions in awakening the Protestant Spirit of Kent. A Requisition to the High Sheriff to call a Gene ral Meeting of the County to petition Parliament on the subject of the Catholic Claims was sent round, and signed by five Peers and upwards of fifty per. sons of distinction, wealth, and influence in the county, present. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • -(., GUILDIIALL.--•Elizabeth colton, A, hi lmiddie aged matron, was charged with unia;ituky pawning- a fustian jacket and pair of trousers, the proPerty of the parish of St. Mary Staining. Mr. 1115nan, the churchwarden, stated that the articles had been furnished to this woman's son, an inmate is the poor-house, to obtain employment; but Lis mother getting hold of him, took the articles from him, and pawned dim the same night in Golden-lane. Davis, the beadle of Bartholomew the Great, said the prisoner was a great impostor, and had given much trouble in his parish ; but a neighbour dying, she attempted to bribe the watchman of the burial ground to suffer the re surrection-men •to disinter the corpse, and was so hunted upon this account, that she was glad to shift her quarters She used to lock her son up in the room, and give him physic to make him ill, to excite the charity of the socie ties for visiting the sick, and of religious persons, whom she invited to pray and read by his bed-side. The worthy rector of St. Bartholomew's had thrice been called . on to administer the sacrament to the dying youth. She had invited dissenting ministers in the same way, merely for the sake of the shilling or two whick the miserable appear ance of herself and her apartment was sure to cause to be given. _ _ The lad, about 17 years old, could not refrain from joining in the laugh at this recital, and Sir P. LAURIE asked her what the book was about, which she seemed to wish to exhibit ; for she held a much worn dirty duodecimo volume in one hand, and a large bottle of physic in the other.—" It is the New Testament, Sir," she replied, muttering something besides, in a but half-earnest tone, expressive of estimation of its contents. " Your own son is laughing at your hypocrisy," cried Sir PETER. " Boy, tell me what she gave you to make you ill?"—" She used to apply to the dispensaries when I was in good health, and oblige me to swallow the medi cines," answered the son. Sir PETER—TeII me how you acted when the clergy man came. Did you pretend to be very bad,—shiver and shake ? Son—No, Sir, I did not shake, I laid quiet. Sir PETER—But she made you ill for the purpose of exciting charity ? Son—Yes, Sir. sir PETER—What did she get by it? Son—Seme times 3s. at once from the Sick Society, and also money from the parish. Sir PETER —You seem to be an honest lad, notwith standing you have had so bad a tutor. Does your mother profess to be a Dissenter? Son—No, Sir, a Roman Ca tholic.— (Laugiiter.) She was bred and born a Protest ant, but turned Catholic some years ago. Sir PETER—What did she receive for turning ? Son— I do not know. Sir PETER-And what religion are you? Son—l, Sir? I an't any thing.—(A laugh.) Sir PETER --. Does your mother like gin ? Son—" A little, when she can get it." lie also said he was tired of being made ill for her profit, an.l that she coaxed the pawn broker down from his bed-room at midnight to take the fustians in, by a tale of a neighbouring pawnbroker's house being on fire. . . The prisoner did not suffer all this to go on without at tempting to make a diversion. She prayed for the conver-' sion of all present, appealed to God from the false judg ments of men, attempted to expose her cancer-eaten breast., exhorted her son to remember whom he was accusing, and denied the imputations of being an impostor and drunkard. She had been 16 years a widow, and fur sonic years before worse than a widow, her husband being confined in a mad house, and though poorer in pocket, she was better in con science than her persecutors, tic., seasoning her observa tions here and there with a morsel of pious jargon. The Alderman committed her to Bridewell fer seven days, directing that she should not be put on the mill, on account of the cancer. BOW-STREET.--Yesterday a gentleman, who is en gaged in the repairing of the common sewer in Catherine. street and the adjoining neighbourhood, applied to Sir H. BIRNIE for the assistance of an officer or two of the estab lishment, in preventing:people from impeding the workmen in their progress. He stated, that in consequence of the public sewer being in a very unsafe state, the road was ob liged to be taken up, and a number of workmen employed. In the course of their labour a great part of the ground near the pavement had given way, and consequently it was extrem►ly dangerous fur the public to walk on it. Sir Ittcnann really thought that a parish constable should be employed. Applicant—Very well, your Worship, it is all the same to us. Sir RICHARII—But hear in mind that lie will look for compensation.—(A laugh.) The gentleman said certainly, and retired, apparently dis concerted. Two housekeepers appeared before the magistrates for the purpose of bailing Mr. Parkinson, the individual who is accused of being concerned in the robbery of the Gree nock bank. • The necessary inquiries being made, their sureties were accepted, and in a short time Mr. Parkinson was liberated. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Yesterday a young man, who on this occasion gave his name George Thomp son, but whose real name is known to be George Andrews, was brought before Mr. CONANT, the sitting Magistrate, charged with various frauds practised upon woollen-drapers all over the metropolis. George Robertson, shopman to Messrs. East and Brown, woollen-drapers, in Vigo-street, Regent-street, stated, that on the 29th of August last the prisoner, whom he had never seen before, came to the shop of Messrs. East and Brown, and obtained there four yards and a half of super fine blue cloth, in the name of Mr. Williamson, a tailor in New Bond-street, by whom he said he had been sent for it to match a pattern which he brought with him. The cloth was worth 5/., and witness saw nothing more of the prisoner until he was in custody. Mr. Williamson, the tailor in Bond-street, stated, that about nine or ten months ago the prisoner was in his ser vice, in the name of George Andrews, and about that time his (Mr. Williamson's) shop was broken into, sod rubbed of property to the amount of 1001., and having strong grounds for suspecting that the robbery was committed with the knowledge and aid of the prisoner, he had him taken up, and tried and convicted at the Old Bailey, and from that time to the present day be saw or knew nothing of the prisoner, and of course he never sent him tat the 29th of August last to Messrs. East and Brown, or any where else, for any cloth. Richard Lawrence, shopman to Messrs. Longstaff and Hislop, Manchester warehousemen, in St. Martin's-lane, stated that on the sth of August last the prisoner, who was an entire stranger there, earns to the shop of Messrs. Longstaff and Hislop, and obtained 61 yards of superfine olive brown cloth, for which he said he had been sent by Messrs. Cooke and Son, tailors, Great Queen-street,' Lin coln's Inn-fields, to match a pattern, which be produced, and he also produced one of the printed cards of Messrs. Cooke and Son, which facilitated his obtaining the cloth. The value of the cloth given to the prisoner was about 6/. 10s., and from that time until he was in custody, the wit ness saw nothing of the prisoner. Mr. Cooke, jun., stated, that about a month since, the prisoner came to their shop, and inquired the price of some clothes, which was told to him, and he then asked for a card of the house, which was given to him. The book of patterns which was shown on that occasion to the pri soner, had the names of Messrs. Longstaff and Hislop printed on it, and by this means it was that the prisoner must have learned that those were the woollen-drapers with whom the witness dealt. Witness never saw the prisoner except on that occasion until the present day, and neither be (the witness) nor his father ever gave the prisoner any authority to obtain cloth of Messrs. Longstaff and Hislop, or any where else. James Weston, shopman to Messrs. Robarts and Son, woollen-drapers, in Bedford-street, Covent-garden, deposed that on the 30th of August last, the prisoner, who was quite unknown at the house, came to the shop of witness's employers, and said that he was sent by Messrs. Lenny and Hutton, tailors, in Jermyn-street, St. James's, in whose service he was, for 22 , 1 yards of superfine brown cloth, to match a pattern he produced ; and as he handed an order fir the cloth, purporting to be written, as th e p r i soner sa id it was, by Mr. Lenny, the cloth, worth about 20L, was given to him, and nothing was afterwards, until the pre sent day, seen or heard of the prisoner. Mr. Lenny deposed, that the order produccal was not written by him, nor did he ever send the prisoner to Messrs. Itobarte or any where else for cloth ; indeed, he never saw the prisoner in his life, until that day at the bar. Messrs. Lake and Laurence, woollen-drapers, in Leaden hall-street, and various others in the same trade, had also charges to prefer against the prisoner; but as the witnesses were not all in attendance, those cases were not gone into for the present. Schofield, the officer, stated, that he apprehended the prisoner at the house of Mr. Curlewis, No. 12, Hanover street, Hanover-square ; and the prisoner of his own accord confessed, when he was told what were the charges against him, that he had obtained the cloth at the different places as described by the witnesses. The prisoner, who is a very young lad in appearance, was then remanded fur a week, when several other charges are expected to be preferred against him, SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. TuEsDAv, Sec. 16.—Wind S.E.—High water 33 minutes past three.—Arrived the Marwood, Scolly, from Archangel ; Expedition, Krause, from Dantzic ; Eleanor, Evans, from Londonderry ; Pat John Nugent, Savage, from Strangford ; Henrietta, Owens, from rictott, off; Dispatch, Prest, Ulverstone. CLEARED' 0 UTW A R DS. --The Nestor, Yale, for St. John's, - New Brunswick ; Washington, Jones, for Lisbon ; Pacific, Croker, fur New York ; Amelia, Ferguson, for Genoa and Leghorn ; Nor wale, Boyd, for La Guayra ; Iladson, Donaldson, for Cronstadt ; Sarah, Collins, for St. Andrews ; Hainbom, Austen, for Bremen ; Parline, JOORDS, fur Antwerp. SHOAL IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. The following communication, respecting a • dan gerous shoal lately discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, has been received from Captain James Porter, of the barque Science, of this port : " On my passage to Archangel, I was informed by my chief mate, - Alexander Munn, that when lie was master of the brig .Toseph Hunze, of Greenock, Rattray, master, on their passage from Mobile to Liverpool, on the 22d August, 1827, they disco vered a sand-bank, in lat. 39. north, mid longitude calculated back from the day on which they sounded on the eastern edge of the Grand Bank of New foundland, to be 64.. 20. west, and that they passed close to, saw the white sand above water, and sounded where the vessel then was, and found 20 fathoms, sandy bottom, a quarter of a mile off. " The mate requested of the master permission to go for a few buckets of sand, but he would not grant it. The bank was observed by the mate from the brig's mast-head to be of a horse-shoe form; the opening of the shoe facing the S.W. and appeared in length to be not more than half or three quarters of a mile. As this dangerous bank lies directly in the tract of all vessels pursuing a north-easterly course from the Gulp!' of Florida, I deem it my duty to give it the earliest publicity, in the hopes that it will be the means of saving many valuable lives and much property. "Many of our vessels from Jamaica, Honduras, New Orleans, &c. are supposed to have foundered at sea, when this bank or reef may have caused the loss of several, as it lies with outstretched arms to receive them. _ _ " I hope you will lose no time in making this publicly known, as it is of so much importance to shipowners and seamen. The longitude here given cannot be supposed to be altogether correct, as it was not determined by chronometer or lunar obser vation. I think that one of his Majesty's smaller vessels of war on the Bermuda station could not be better employed than in ascertaining the true posi tion of this very dangerous shoal. JAMES PORTIR. " Greenock, 13th September, 1828. " P.S.—On interrogating Mr. Munn further, re specting the above shoal, he stated that they were obliged to bear up, and sail to the westward of it, in deep water, and supposed it to be on the eastern edge of the Gulph stream."—Greenock Advertiser. The LORD HIGII ADMIRAL has been pleased to promote to the rank of Commander, Lieutenant Trios. GOBLE, First of the Britannia,'l2o, flag-ship at Plymouth, Admiral the Earl of NORTIJESK. A singular coincidence is to be observed in the promotion of this officer, as he received his Arst ccummission as Lieutenant on the 24th December, 1805, as a reward for his services in the action of Trafalgar, in the former ship of the same name, which then bore the fig of the gallant Earl at the mizen. COlteiNER'S INQUEST.—Late on Tuesday evening an inquest • was held in the drawing-room of Mrs. INIATREws, Manchester-square, on the body of Wm. WARD, aged 16, late foot-boy in the service of Mts. MATHEWS. The deceased had formed a connection with some female in the neighbourhood, who - had disappointed him, which preyed so much upon his spirits, that he be came extremely dejected. On Monday afternoon last, his mistress quitted home for the purpose of taking a walk, leaving him to take care of the house, having given leave to her female servant to spend the evening out. O n M rs . M. returning hotne, she kuocked at the door several times, but received no answer ; on which an individual got through the parlour window and admitted her, and on proceeding to the kitchen, they found the deceased lying on the floor in his shirt, weltering in his blood, with two pistols by his side, with one of which he had shot himself through the heart, and he was quite dead. Several witnesses were ex amined as to the state of his mind, and the Jury being fully satisfied that he committed the act himself while in a state of temporary derangement, they returned a verdict to that effect. THE MARKETS. COAL 14IAR Aciair's 32i. Dd. Beaumont 31 0 Charlotte 31 6 Heaton 35 3 liebkurn Main 34 0 Holywell 32 3 Killingworth 34 6 Liddell's 28 9 Percy Ea5t................... 29 0 Pelaw 31 6 Panto!) Windsor 32 0 29 6 Tanfield 32 0 Willington 33.9 Wylam WallsEndßewicke&Co. S 6 3 Ditto Bell Robson S; Co. 34 6 Ditto Burraton 34 3 Ditto Carr anti Co. 30 3 Ditto Clarke and Co. 32 6 Ditto Crainlingtom.......... 30 0 Ditto Ililda 32 Ditto Northumberland 22 • 0 Ditto Perkins and: Co. 34 0 Ditto BRIM 35 3 Slim; at market, 11 1-Shit :ET.—Sept. 17. Walls End Newmarch.- Ditto Russell's 36 Ditto Walker 33 6 Eden Main . Nesham Main , Walls Fild 37 f, Walls End Walls End Siewart's . 97 G• Ditto " Ditto Stobart's , Alloavovrefee."••• 2 9 lllvth27 6 Covrpen Calm Hay and Co. 1$ 0 Eldon 3 . vlint 29 in o Fordel "" g Hartley —.. 31 " Silkstone 29 0 0 Ditto New 29 Ditto Field and 29 0 Parrot-- • _ Margam 34 Warde's Llanellv a 2 ° Ilangennech Coal 38 0 Stone Coal Small & Co. 33 ° sold 71%—.—Unsolii. 395(.- COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING TUE WEE Wheat. f Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. a. to a. a. to a. a. to a. I. 58 68 35 42 35 42 62 Andover 58 30 23 -- Birmingham...--- 48 58 32 36 '22 96 -- , g Bridport 52 56 32 39 26 29 Cirencester 62 (6 34 23 30 48 51 36 38 24 31 Guildford 44 61 56 45 22 30 Henley 5O C. 9 :t2 43 as 34 72 Hereford 64 66 46 50 42 Highworth 46 62 30 36 2.3 34 5991 Maidenhead (10 GEI 39 42 28 38 Oakingham 56 60 30 36 21 23 Reading 50 87 31 99 22 32 '- Salisbury 45 74 30 36 26 30 6 3, Southampton 52 56 37 40 30 92 es ' Stroud Tewkesbury 54 60 40 42 32 38 Uxbridge 55 74 30 31 •21 92 -- 91 1, Wantage—.—..—. 49 68 28 32 21 28 -- Warminster 48 78 :'4 39 26 34 Windsor 82 86 36 38 24 34 ""'" Wureester—........—.. 53 61. 28 36 24 34 CHELTENHAM MA RKET.—Sept. 16. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley oa.s. 9 3 3 Veal Beans 4 9 6 6 Lamb 8 9 Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork 6 71. Hay 3l. 108. to 41. Os. per ton. LEWES MARKET.—Sept. 16. White Wheat (per quarter) ..... £3 6 0 to £3 8 0 Red ditto 2 Id 0 3 4 0 Barley Oats. New 0 0 0 1 6 0 Pease 1 18 0 2 0 0 Oil Cake, New l3 0 0 per thousand. HULL MARKET.—Sept. 16. A considerable quantity of rain has fallen at interlfale since our last, which has put back the Oat, Barley, e nd Bean harvest, but the weather is again fine, and a feu' days' continuance will give nearly a conclusion to the ho . " vest generally in this district. To-day we bad a thin at tendance of farmers, and consequently a very limited shoo' of Wheat, and the best descriptions of both old and new . may be noted Is. per quarter dearer than last week. I n " ferior qualities remain without alteration. There has been some extensive business done in lock Wheat during the week, at from 86s. to 38s. per quarter; quality prima. pally Holstein : of the finer runs of Hamburgh there a re few sellers. Oats are in more request, and last weeks prices are maintained. Beans are very dull, and scarcelf a single inquiry for them. Peas remain without alteratioo , Rapeseed and Linseed support late prices, and there ati some speculative demands for the latter at our quotations. Wheat, Old 58s. 60s. s. New —e. 50e. 561 : --- Foreign —a 56,5. 605....... In bond ... —s. —s. 7; 4 Oats, Poland s 20s. 225....... Old ...... -- s. "' -8. ''. -- Small or Feed —s. 16s. 18s —...-..- Foreign Barley, Norf. & Sut ... —e. .43. .-..5. Linc. & SVold —a. a—S. ---.. Foreign —5.... „ . ....4 Beans los. 425. 435. Foreign —.s. —s. Pease, White — s . —s. —s. Grey —s. 345. :w",, Tares Rapeseed, in trend per last • none. Free DUMFRIES MARKETS.—Sept. 10. GRAIN.—A "few sacks of old Oats appeared in thl market to-day, and sold readily at former prices, viz: fr° l33 2s. 4d. to 2s. 6d. per bushel. A few par ce l s o f new o'e r, ; exposed, but as we did not hear of any sales, we 0 0011 _,. ° , safely condescend on price*. A rumour was current 11 . one individual had succeeded in passing off new for 01 ,,; In this way he obtained the top price; but the ,practice discreditable, and ought to he•put down. s. d. s. d. a. a. Wheat, Imp. Bush 76t0 8 0 Butter, ...... St°. Barley 0 0 4 0 Eggs, dozen 0 0 ° n o Oats 2 2 6 Beet; per lb. Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 1 9 110 Veal Q 4 0 g Potatoes, cwt. - CATTLE MARKET.—Our show of Cattl e this og l e amounted to 812, viz. 343 three-years-olds and upwrog 7 42 two-years-olds, 31 Hi g hl an d ers , 2 67 S t i r k s , )°: Queys and Heifers, and 20 Cows. Although nothi n i ° particularly good was exhibit e d i n t h e s h ape o f d rove oat tl „,,!' still the show was allowed t o b e a ver y f a i r one , both ft () ; the number and condition of the b e a s ts, and th e marlr.e o° the whole was considered brisker than it has been for gv h e ; ral weeks past. Dealing in drove beasts began early is t i forenoon, and all was sold off early; prices, though l c low, were, if any thing, better than those of last 11; e g three large lots of three-year-olds brought about 101. P e i head, the next lot 9/, 95., another 91., and the JO!, price we heard of was 8/. Se. for a small lot. 1 04 !...." however, on small cattle that the improvement o f the ket was principally manifested; the show of GallOt Stirks was large and excellent, and dealing began in 7: e • morning, and continued till th e w h o l e were so ld o ff; first lot brought no less than 61. 6e. per head, the nest,"; sold for 61., oth er t wo l ots went o ff at Si. 10s. , and 1 1 last 31. ss. Iri s h Sti r k s so ld f rom 1 / . 6s. to 31. 100.0 A 9,4 Highland Stirks sold a t a b out 2/. ss . per h ea d . Th e fh ° "t of two-year-olds was inconsiderable. From the rao t) t the dealers in half-gr own ca ttl e b e i ng at Fal k i r k Trr."' little was done in ou r s h ow o f Q ueys . Th e news fr°"-f Barnet had a favourable effect, and some description s I , young cattle rose, we understand, from 108. to l2' r head above the prices of the preceding week. Pres.-19 carts; prices the game as last week. HOP INTELLIGENCE. CArrEanuar.—Hop picking began very generally Y eß : terday. A great quantity, owing to the fineness of the J ... „ s7 s was pulled. Mould is prevalent, and th e p ro d uc e is ": f expected to be so heavy as the pl an t ers anticipated. 1)11.1 estimated at 180,000/.—Kentish Chronicle. TUNBUIDGE.—Thove few who have within the 14 1 week commenced h o p pi c ki ng i n thi s ne i g hb our h oo d bL iv ., c found the hop s yi e ld ra th er li g h t l y . Wh ere t h ere is 'I; little bine th e fi re bl as t seems t o h ave t a k en t h em , s"3 some places it is said that the mould has made a little er pearance. MAIDYTONE.—The hops come down light in thisueig h ; bourhood, and the poor pi c kers make sad complaints ab°, l/ , the smallness of them. There is much said about i . „'" prevalence of mould, but an experienced person tell s that much of what is called mould is in reality a defeei ti ", another sort ; the mould commences at the bottom of hop, and works upwards till it encompasses and dealt the whole ; but the present prevalent disease first attAi., the side of the hop; however, it matters little what tito cause may be, if the effect is the same, and there is ressa n , fear that the quality o f th e p resen t cro p, s p ea ki ng gonet 6 " l , l will not be so good a s cou ld b e wished. ..—Maidstone , Hop picking commenced partially at the end of last West and generally so yesterday, end all accounts agree 8 ,,i 1 from the coldness of the weather, hops have been i nl „ — „, overlaid, and are coming down very short of expect 46- -,,; as they have not fi uited near the ground, are generallY 1 - d ; small, and on some grounds nearly destroyed by the M i d , The duty is also supposed to be much overlaid.-- 01 stone Journal. BIRTHS. On the 12th inst. at Brighton, the lady of Thoth Mar cia ' Esq. of a son. On the 17th inst. in Thornton-row, Greenwich, MI Chas. R. Parker, of a sou. On the 13th inst. in Pulteney-street, Bath, the lady o f the Rev. G. Sherer, Vicar of Marshfield, Gloucestershire, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 16th inst. at St. Alban's, by the Hou, and Ref,' Lord Frederick Beauclerk, D.D., the Rev. Charles Gape , A.M., Vicar of Sibsey, Lincolnshire, to Mary Elizabet h ,' ' youngest daughter of Thomas Howard, Esq. of St. 1% 1 ! chael's, Herts. On the 16th inst. at Carshalton, by the Rev. Rose, John Hunter, jun. E.g. of Mincing-lane, to MAO' eldest daughter of Robert Burra, Esq. of Carshalton. 4 , On the 17th inst. at St. Sepulchre's Church, Mr. Jt e Davies, of Giltspur-street, to Sarah, only daughter of t" late Mr. Daniel Butler, of Fleet-market. DIED, ...,. On the 17th inst. in Gracechurch-street, Dixon Ife °Or, infant son of Nathaniel Clark, Esti. ' , l el Oa the 10th inst. at Lovel-hill, Berks, Lieut.-C4' Forssteen, of the 12th Regiment of F00t., 0 On the 15th inst. at Chippi n g O ngar , E ssex , Cath", o ne, relict of the Rev. James Boyer, Rector of Colne Erig a Y' Essex, aged 72. __"d PairTED and PuaIASIIED by MURDO YOUNG, 4 ‘ SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON 1 on TH' ready fee the SALT liYt4 IS the ene In Tim into hi month, hereaft, 28th d 31st di withott : me Office, Victual Custon and to respe c t, No Tietrea milted, at len appoint by two With tt of th e of the Th e en hie N( TOR S court, b etWeei noon, t Chen, I VE Night, SKI The fol Dirrn (driven through Fenny 401 1, Da to the Wellin g Nantwi, [ln com n o c o , spare ham rot before Cam inghrd, Seven, Car rich ant with a 13rough mond, caster, ford, St Mornin g Cbelt th rtm o Cbev Ilorni n Cove i ng at I: Sto n „ y Duneh ti Dove throu g h Dore hours stoke, rats In Mornin Dart Painton and Aft Ett throng} efiesttT, butto n, shot an, Eut 44 'm n' SaliiLa Crewkt Glag Hrown at Conch. Hari Atterne i / f.