The Sun. — London, England, 1828-06-30 00:00:00

•- 1 INEMIIMINI was to flow (min thi:; ? Wel there any fabric that we did not possess the means of furnishing ? If there vms, what proportion (lid it bear to thoi.e of w hlci" , we had the means ? Was it just to hazard ow: whole trade because forsooth a Cashmere shawl could not be woven out of d South Down fleece ? If it be granted that for particular purposes a small quantity of a finer kind of wool than we could easily pro duce, was required, why was not the importation limited to that kind 9 But no—tire system of free trade demanded that foreigners, whose end and aim .--and most naturally, we blame them net—was to destroy our traffic in that branch, and in all branches, :-.hould be treated on the same terms as Englishmen. Mini:able and disinterested policy ! And this is the system that Mr. Stanley so fondly clings to— this is the idol whose fall he so much deprecate!!! W e wish to Heaven it were fallen as wholly and utterly as its mistaken advocates are. (FRO.M THE MORNING HERALD.) Mr. Peel's plan for the more cheap and expedi tious recovery of small debts has been thwarted in its progress, as we suspected it would be, by the claims for compensation of persons holding what are called patent places in the present Courts of Law. As most of these places are mere sinecures, and their emoluments wrung from individual distress—entail ing too, as they do in the instance before us, an ac tual denial of justice—it would be well if they were at once put an end to, by the country purelasing existing interests, and abolishing the:n for the future. At the same time that we would respect these " vested interests," as far a. , they are reasonably en titled to respect, it is carrying their claims much too far to allow them to set up a sort of Royal road to justice, and tellir,g Parliament and the public that they shall ni.A, travel any shorter road, or by any cheaper ce:aveyance, till the fares by these patent stages o're paid as well. Suppose that, owing to a better Bench, a better Bar, or from various other causes, business should leave one or more of the Cc,erts in which some of these patentees exist, and betake itself to the one possessing such ativanta ' ,ree, would it be pretend e d th a t t h e p aten t ees i n the de serted Courts are entitled to be indemnified by the public for the diminution of fees which they mast suffer on that account ? Or suppose that, either by abolishing arrest for debt, or by a distaste for litiga tion—lawsuits cliniinish—as we trust they one day will—are the public to be celled upon to pay these people for not going to law, the same as if they did ? In fact, this grasping rapacity of sinecurists of the worst description has become an abominable nui sance, and will, if they carry it too far, outshoot its own mark. We are far from wishing to see injus tice done to any man, and still more unwilling are we to see tkc avenues to common justice to every man obstructed by impediments which ought to he swept away; and we do therefore hope that Mr. Peel, who has reaped immortal honour by the reforms he has effected in the law, will riot allow his career to he stopped by such ob , :tacles as these, but that he AVIII man fully rernOV'J them, either by reasonable compen sation, whet they have any fair claim to it, or by leaving them to the uncertainty which must have ever accompanied their tenure. (FROM THE MORNING ADVERTISER.) A great number of persons have been examined before the Committee appointed by the House of Commons, to inquire into the state of the Police of the Metropolis, from whom much valuable informa tion has been received. We trust, however, that it will he acted upon, and not neglected in the same manner as the report of a former Committee which sat on the same subject. The signals exhibited in the front of shops, denominated fences, notifyiug, iii all but plain terms, that all sorts of stolen goods arc purchased within, were exposed by the former re port, and in consequence disappeared; but they are now publicly displayed, as a hire and an encourage ment to thieves of all descriptions and ages, where the robbers and receivers carry on their fraudulent traffic in open day. The receivers are the great source of evil, and as these villains are multiplying daily, crimes increase of course, and the metropolis swarms with juvenile offenders, who can dispose of stolen property not only with facility and with out fear, but who are encourage d r by the re ceivers to continue their criminal career. The Committee, from the information. they have re ceived, will, it is hoped, recommend some strong measures to wadi the receivers, who manage their business with so much dexterity that they bid defiance to the officers of police, Nvith their pre sent limited powers ; for while a search-warrant is piocioieg, the stolen property is removed beyond their reach. Dealers in certain miscellaneous articles, which in general constitute fence-shops, should be pl ace d on a different footing from what they are at present; the proprietors 511001(1 be obliged to take out a license, and enter all articles they purchase in a book kept for the purpose, and liable to the inspection of any officer appointed to examine the same by the Magistrates : and in case of tailing to make such entry, to be liable to a heavy penalty. This would. be a great check to the re ceiving of stolen goods, and a protection in a certain degree to the public. It might be considered a hardship by the parties—but they would have the option, whether they thought fit or not to commence or carry on a business subject to such regulations. Plunder to the amount of thousands of pounds a year in the simple article of pewter pots alone, is purchased by well known common receivers of stolen goods in the metropolis. When to this is added the produce of other robberies disposed of in the same manner daily, the necessity of some strong law to detect receivers is so obvious as to require no Caliber comment. SUNDAY PAPERS. (FROM THE NEWS.) . .A PEW OF THE CAUSES OF THE UNEOEULATITY OF THE cuutteti CLEM: V. The Rector of St. Clements, Hastings, has succeeded in setting aside the verdict obtained against him for break ing into a vault (which vault, it appears, he sold for 20/.) en the ground that he (the Rector) had no authority to make the sale. Mr. Justice Bayley, in delivering his opinion, expressed his regret that, after this line of ar gutrieut had been taken, the Rev. Gentleman should still ictaia the 20/.—Brighton Gazette of Thursday. While it will be admitted on all sides that the English Episcopal Church is practically the most tolerant Church in the world (for though she rejects the claims of the Catholics, she demeans herself to wards them, in the actual intercourse of society, as though there were no invidious line of distinction drawn around them) and while there is not perhaps any class of Dissenters in the kingdom that would willing to transfer the power of the present Esta blishment to any sect within the circle of noncon fin mitt',—it must be confessed tl , .at . the occasional conduct of some of the Reverend Gentlemen has tended most strongly to alienate the minds of the people from the Church. A contemporary has moticed a sort of plunder which some Rectors and others have been guilty of, in receiving money for the grant of vaults, to particular families, in the burial grounds ; and then denying that such vaults 'became the property of the purchaser ; and actually disposing of the use of the same to other persons. A case of this kind came lately into Court, when it was decided that the Rector had no power to gra.it an exclusive possession of burial ground ; or to make a 'reekold of the same to any person whatever, the Judge remarking at the time, that while the Reverend Gentleman contended for the power of granting have for one party to inter in the vault. which he had sold to another,—it would have been well if he had thought it only right to return the money which he had received for that which he had no right to sell. But our main object in turning to this subject is, to notice the common very reprehensible conduct of some of the Clergy at burials. If a funeral happen to be a few minutes too late (unless a most respecta ble corpse) nothing can exceed their querulousness Nnd impatience; they become quite insulting-to the relatives and friends of the deceased; and this offen sive behaviour is a thousand times more ungrateful to the mind burthened, bent down, and humbled with sorrow; it becomes cowardly and dis2,usting ; passion struggles with our grief; and we feel menaces tieing above our melancholy, in resentment of the unmannerly churl of an ill-bred Parson, that could choose a scene eopsecrated to such different feelings, fur giving vent to a coxcombical importance degrad ing in the Clergyman and ridiculous in the Man. With what sort of brotherly feeling ton can a Clergyman, after indulging in his spleen against the living, who are present, read over those af fecting ceremonies on the dead, in which all the bad passions are supposed to be buried too ; or suppressed by the influences of true Christian chnrity It is no gratuitous eeretncu! , , dod knows ! for in England, a Man never arrives at the moment when lie has done paying ; death is no protection against the plunder of the living; for the fee is exacted with the same unsparing hand from the font, where the tenderest infant is re ceived within the sanctuary of our Holy Faith, to the last clod that is shovelled by a paid and pen sioned Sexton, over the remains of youth, manhood, or old age, consigned as " dust to dust," comming. ling their ashes with their parent earth. But the Parson has a sort of shop where the people are obliged to come as customers at one tinie of another; and hence the feet., !teed the cause of his imperti nence! vie. that harean be guilty of it with impunity. 11` you speak a choleric \vol.(' in reply, he turns round on you in the name of his abused but sacred calling, and challenges your reverence for the Al mighty in the,person of his Minister! The more religion such a bigot may fancy that he possesses, the snore unchristian-like he generally proves him self in the hauteur of his office ; so that it has now, in many populous parishes, become usual for the commen people to regret the " 01(1 . 16x -hunting Per for he, (at least) " was a civil, jolly, good-na tured fellow,"—though he would often hurry over the service if the !scent of a good dinner, or the wind of a " Tally , hte ) came suddenly upon the phrenolo gical bumps of roast beefiness, and his dog-and-gun abilitireness ; while the rigid Evangelical Rector— the thorough Roman Priest in every thing but his learning, his poverty, and his mode of con structing: in few words of little meaning—will " let tie dog hark" in his presence. His tyranny never' remits ; he is, self-appointed, every man's censor ; and assumes the right of judging every man's con duct, and counselling all his affairs. This is the new mania of the Church, by which it hopes to overtake the Dissenter in all the more exceptionable attributes of character. The old-fashioned Parson was a man of all weathers; and world boldly come forth to the funeral service in sun, wind, sleet, or rain, to perform the due christian ceremonies over those of his fellow-creatures who were gone to the audit ; standing bareheaded amid his mourning parishioners, as partaking with them a common lot ; while the sensitive, nervous, and apprehensive Saint of our times, mixing; up equal portions of delicacy and devotion, has a little wooden house made for him, which is placed at the head of the grave; he comes forth at a given signal, the Clerk carrying an umbrella over his Reverend head, till .he enters his speaking shop, where he stands like a watchman in his box—the rain pelting pitilessly all the while on the uncovered sconces of every body but himself, — save and except the Clerk, who perhaps makes a three-quarter shed of his hat, that is turned obliquely off one side of his head. The service is then mumbled over in that cantingg way which is so fashionable in our times ; and in which all the spirit and effect of good reading is lost sight of, for a physiognomical habit of lowering the jib, and elevating the eyes. : Among other exceptionable and presumptive customs which are growing up in the Church, and which arc undoing more than the million and a half granted to the Commissioners can do, we ought to notice the poli tical right claimed by the Clergymen of taking the chair at all Vestry Meetings. That there can be any legal right to such a post in a public meeting, it were absurd to oppose ; for then, in the absence of the Clergyman, or in any , interval caused by his death or removal,—or during any refractoriness which he may choose to adopt,—the parish must, according to the Law, stand still, whatever important business may incidently occur in the interregnum. Besides there is no 1:ezo which ran give a supe riority to the Clergyman among his fellow-citizens, unle,s it can give him a moral and intellectual eleva tion at the same time; and if' it can do that, the sooner the matter is proved and made known, the better. During the " hole and corner" meetings of 1821 and 1822, it was the practice for a few Ultras to call a meeting, at just what notice suited themselves, and at what hour served best to exclude their opponents ; —when the Parson claiming the Chair, was voted to the same just in the nick of lime, suiting the numericalily of the meeting at a particu hr moment ; and—presto !—the thing was done! ('mild any thing tend more strongly to degrade the Government and the Clergy than this? Look again at the course pursued at the present moment ! While the " march of intellect" is forming its lines of eir eumvallation round the strongholds of bigotry and prejudice, the countermarch of the Ultras, on obso lete usages, and on modes and manners which nei ther belong to the nation nor to the age,—is giving op to the opponents of folly and stupidity those ad vantages which no fair men wish ever to wield against the Constitution in Church or in State. There is we are sorry to remark an apparent destiny in the Church to go down; would it were otherwiSe ! for really, with all its faults, there is more operative alistianity mider the lege; of our Episcopal Hier eirchy, than we may , hope to find in any possible successor front among the Religious communities of our times. (FROM THE SUNDAT HERALD.) The past week has not been distinguished by any domestic news of an extraordinary character. We present, however, in another part of our paper, a cor rect account of a meeting which we are confident ivill be perused, as it deserves, with the greatest in terest and . attention—WC allude to the anniversary dinner of the subscribers to the Licensed Victuallers' School in Kennington-lane—an institution which reflects the highest credit on the respectable body which gave birth to it, and in, all probability; not only confers greater good, but prevents the occur rence of greater misery than any other establishment in the metropolis. The long list of subscriptions, in our paper of this day, shows how powerfully the feelings of those present at its anniversary dinner on Thursday were roused and alive to the benefits of the Institution ; and we feel confident that no one tan read the report of the proceedings which we now present without being desirous to, contribute to the-support of an Institution *hose object is not truly to instruct the young in every useful branch of knowledge, but to train them up in the paths of virtue, and " in the fear of Him .who provideth for the.orphan, and without whose knowledge riot even it sparrow fidleth to the ground." (mom TIIE EXAMINER.) TrIE MisAPPLwATtos.—ln 1825 the Chancellor r the Exchequer came down to the House of Com- pions, and drew a piteous description of the King's lodgings, which affected the Representatives of the people with a tender sympathy, and opened their !warts to brick and mortar. The Right Hon. 3entleman represented Carlton House as in such a state, that whenever his Majesty received company, t was necessary to support the apartments with emporary props; while t he o nl y other Royal resi tience in London, Buckingham House, said he em phatically, is " desperate dirty.' Between the in firmities of the one abode and the desperation of the 13ther, his Majesty being thus disagreeably circum. l;tanced, the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved for a Bill rendering the Crown Lands available for the repair and improvement of Buckingham Palace, th e pxpences of which " he would admit aught not he Tess than 200,000/." Parliament on the strength of this representation passed the Bill, and the revenue: f the Woods and Forests became charged with tile •ost of the alterations, to an undefined amount eel.- ainly, because Parliament doubtless relied on the - tatement of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that the 'fr We copy thet,e words from the Debates, struck by a igour beyond the law of grammar. expellees might not be less than 200,0001., and in- ' fared thence that they were decidedly not to exceed that stun. It came In pass, however, that the house outgrew its means, and the Woods and Forests, at the late of 70,000/. a-year, proved inadequate to its quick demands; iii this strait, Ministers looked abottt them for resource, and took pattern by Mr. Huntingdon. 'that Godly example, when in gr e at lack o f a ch ange o f li nen , invoked the drapery of heaven, " and lo!" said, he, " after my prayers, I found a miracuhnis store of linen hanging out on a hed l ge." This timely supply he watt pleased to styl e* a Godsend, tracing it from the hedge not to the nearest laundry, but to the hand of Providence. le like manner Ministers, in want of present means 1,,r their master's house, espied a sum of half a million, first applicable by treaty to the satis faction of British claims on France, and these Intoidated ) the surplus applicable by Act of Parlia ment to public purposes. This sum was at once seen to be a Godsend. The pious Huntingdon could not have more clearly perceived the divine nature of the resource than did our Liverpool, Canning, &c. and half of it, that is, a quarter of a million, was made over to the exigencies of Buckingham mouse, a sum exceeding by one-fifth the first extreme esti mate of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.-f- Now, as Lord Liverpool was a pious man, it is somewhat odd that he never made or caused to be made any mention or acknowledgment of this Godsend in the House of Commons ; and but for the accidental researches of the Finance Committee, it is more than probable that the divine favour would have been preserved as secret as a deed of charity. It was treated indeed rather as a fairy favour, which turns to a mischief the moment it is disclosed. The mat ter has been defended in the House of Commons with an impudence befitting the emergency; but the general opinion is expressed in the adopted words of Mr. Stanley, that it has been " a disingenuous, shuffling, and underhand proceeding," sad the vin dication of Mr. Herrics was in exact keeping with the merits of the subject. He says that the Corm pensAtion Fund was applicable to public purposes approved by Parliament, after the satisfaction of claims; that the palace was a public purpose approved by Parliament, ergo, the fund was applicable to it. The sum, it is to be observed, so disposed of, exceed ed the amount originally contemplated by Parliament, and therefore could not be comprehended in the design of the Act ; and further, there is every reason for supposing that, but for accident, it would never have been accounted for, or at all events its appropriation had a tendency to encourage profusion, by leaving the money regularly assigned to the purpose to which it was irregularly applied, open to other uses. We must remark, moreover, that the very nature of the fund should have forbad any questionable liber ties. It was dedicated to the demands of justice; and the disposal of it, while the shadow of a claim could by possibility lie upon it, should surely have been scrupulously abstained from. To give the re version where there is the adjudication, seems a suf ficiently delicate matter ; but to give the enjoyment of the reversion in anticipation of the right to it, is a proceeding of a more ugly character. Justice doubtless would have been done ill any case, but the appearance of motives for injustice should be avoided. To the pretence that the money was lent, we think it unnecessary to glance. One flimsy ingredient in the apologetic argument we observe is, that it was not raised in this country No, but it was paid over to this country in compensation for the loss of capital raised in this country, and belonging, not to the Bri tish Crown, but to British subjects. Much has been said of the characters of the Ministers committed in this affair, and the argument and misericordiam has been put in every form of which the occasion was susceptible ; the changes of appeals to confidence or forbearance having been snug on the names of Canning, Liverpribl, and Goderich, a regard for some one of whom is to be found in every rank and file in the House. What these parties thought of the qua lity of the action under discussion, it is in vain now to inquire ; but we are inclined to attribute the com mission of it to that which must always be a cause of weakness or worse in our state—the desire to please . , nay, the necessity of pleasing a Master, whose pleasure may not always lie in a direction reconcileable with the strict course of duty. Mini sters nmst humour, or lose their favour, their objects, and their places. The King of England delegates his power to his Ministers, anal has little to do but to be rnamificent and happy for the honour of the country. With the credit or discredit of affairs of business he is in noway identified; and consequently when unlucky ) 2casion arises, a gratification will be grasped at the cost of any subsequent opinion which may attach to the Ministers to it.— We subjoin the following excellent remarks of the Chionide on Mr. Peel's jesuitical defence of the job :—" If blame attached any where, he said, it was to the House of Commons, which, of all parties, ought to he most reluctant in arriving at a con demnation of others." And how did he show this ? When out of the sum obtained as an indemnity one million was appropriated by the Crown without the interference of Parliament, as a reward 4 to the Bri tish Army, this subject " was brought - under the consideration of the House by the eminent Member for Knaresborough ( Sir J. Mackintosh) who moved several Resolutions distinctly referring to the power of the Crown to appropriate money without the consent of Parliament, as having a tendency to impair the value of the exclusive privilege of the Commons House of Parliament to grant Supplies to the Crown,' Mr. Canning and Lord Liverpool well knew that these Resolutions had been rejected by the carrying of the previous question ; and yet the House of Commons, after coming to such a decision, now turn round on Mr. Canning and Lord Liverpool, and would inflict a public censure upon them for doing that which it was voted they had a perfect right to do." This is a counterpart to the story of the Devil in the Legend, tempting a man to sin, and then upbraiding him for having thereby cut himself off hum all hope of salvation. Ministers having succeeded in dragging the House of Commons through the dirt in one case, is a suf ficient reason for the House never returning to a better course ? In like manner, we suppose, the majority of Monday night will he deemed a justifi cation ofa fresh piece of fraud, and may be pled in bar of the House of Commons ever returning to a pro per sense of duty. This objurgatian of the House is exceedingly amusing. How could Mr. Pee], after getting the better of the virtue of the Honourable House, reproach it with its frailty in this cruel mariner ? (FRAM THZ JOHN BULL). When an interesting debate in Parliament takes place on a Monday, a Sunday Paper derives but small advantage fromit—it has been discussed and re-discussed, read and re-read, in all circles and in all parts of the Empire, before the Sunday Scribe has an opportunity of saying a- word upon the sub- ,iect. This fact of itself renders any lengthened re marks of otrrs, upon the abortive motion of Alr Michael Angelo Taylor, quite needless. The dis cussion upon the subject had the effect of sliming, not only the constitutionality but the economy of appropriating the sum in question to the purpose for which it was used, in the manner clearly and die tinctly set forth by Act of Parliament. A good deal. Of time was lost in the course of the night, and the motion was lost at about three o'clock in the morn ing. While we are on the subject of this appropri ation we cannot but make one remark upon -an ob servation which appeals in yesterday's Times, on the New Palace—be it observed that we never mention the subject, for several reasons ; one of which is, that we do not consider a piece of Architecture in a state for criticism until the design be complete, and the public are able to judge of the effect of the whole—but the critic in the Times finds such a fault with the Architect that it is impossible to overlook it, and since it is now equally impossible to remedy it, it becomes fully amenable to observation in its present state—after an agreeable flourish about in istinet and patriotism, the gentleman proceeds to —" We do not t hi n k M r . Nash has made the say—" ;most of his situation, the Palace should havedirectly t t The expenses are now rated at 800,000/. !!! ' faced the Horse Guards, St. Paul's might have been seen towering behind Westminster Abbey, &c." and so on, describing with all the enthusiasm of Cockayne, the beautiful view of York House, and the whole length of Piccadilly. Now there can be no doubt but that the King's Palace might have been placed in a more - eligible situation; but it should be recollected that when other sites were proposed to his Majesty, the King, with that con sideration for the comforts of his people, refused to adopt any one, which might in any degree interfere with their relaxations or amusements. As to the situation of the Palace, built as it has been, by com mand, on a partictdar spot, how could Mr. Nash have brought it directly facing the Horse Guards? Is there not, as this Times writer ought to know pretty well, an old dirty street, called James-street, which faces the Horse Guards; and is there not besides that street and between it and the Palace a high turnpike-road to Chelsea? Was this to be turned—was Stafford-row to be pulled down, was James-street to be swept away, were Charlotte street and all the little streets behind and about it to be annihilated ? It might have been done—the site of the Palace would have been improved—the Park rendered more ettective—the only objection is, that it happened to be impossible ; or if not impos sible, at least so extensive as an alteration, that it would have cost Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor three nights rest instead of one, to have ascertained the amount of expenditure consequent upon it, and the source whence the liquidation was effected. What ever faults the Palace may have when it is finished, Mr. Nash must answer for; but, en the score of its situation, he certainly stands already exonerated. SALE OF THE LATE RIGHT HON. GEO. CANNING'S EFFECTS. Thursday the sale took place at the Great Rooms of Mr. Christie, in King-street, St. James's. The following is a list of the prices which the principal articles of furniture were sold at, as they stood in the catalogues which were given out : A very handsome circular soup tureen, the bowl con vexly ribbed, with lions masks at the handles, shell feet ; a lion rampant forms the handle of the lid, 113 oz. 3 dwt., ss. 9d. per oz. A silver do., weighing 112 oz. 2 • dwts., Gs. per oz. A superb vase, serving as an ice-pail, the handles with satyrs masks, the surface with the triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne in relief, the bowl is embossed with foliage and fluted feet, weighing about 163 oz., 13s. per oz. The silver-gilt plate, which consisted of a variety of articles, produced rather higher prices. The principal articles were, a pair of very magnificent Athenian owls for sugar and pepper, weighing about 17i oz., sold for 18 s. Gd. per oz. A circular dish for a sideboard, with embossed border, in the centre is a relief of Alexander in the tent of Darius; .and a corresponding one of Alexander's entry into Babylon, after Le Poussin, weighing 66 oz. each, sold very high. Lot 61. A magnificent centre for a dessert, of or-molu, supported upon twelve lions, and surmounted by three female figures or sphinxes, and bearing cornucopire, festoon of vines in fruit, and branches for six or nine lights, and an extra plinth to be used occasionally ; also, a cut glass vessel for artificial flowers, were sold to Mr. Emmanuel for fifty guineas. A set of eight kneeling figures of Cupids, of or-molu, on pedestals, sixteen guineas. 6S. A superb plateau, in seven divisions, of plate glass, the border chased with Bacchanalian figures, and devices and festoons of vines, very richly gilt, 8 feet 6 inches long, by 22 incites wide, and two dial cases to contain it.. This superb article, which cost the late Premier nearly 1001., was bought by Mr. Emmanuel for thirty-nine guineas. 69 and 70. A circular ditto to correspond with the for mer, 25 inches in diameter, twenty-seven guineas. A pair of beautiful high vases of Florentine alabaster, ornamented with festoons of flowers, and glass shades, sold for only-two guineas. A centre for a dessert, of Florentine alabaster, with a basket of flowers ssipported by three female figures on a pedestal, ornamented with festoons in relief, 4/. ss. Several pair of beautiful vases sold from is. to 30s. per pair. A dessert service with green border, painted with fruit and flowers, consisting of 36 plates, a pair of wine coolers, eight tazzas for fruit, a pair of sugar tureens, and a cream ewer, 15/. Two glazed cases containing very beautiful specimews of exotic birds front the Indies, obtained by the deceased when Ambassador in Portugal, Si. 10.: 6d. An inkstand of or-molu, surmounted by a small kneeling bronze figure, bearing a bowl of real opalized glass, and a Cupid of or-molu, playing on the harp, with a drawer and musical movement concealed within the plinth, seven guineas. A sarcophagus and cover of antique ornamental alabaster, very rare, small model from the antique, and a small lion of Rosso ;—_these articles cost the deceased 50 guineas in Rome—sold for ten guineas and a half. A copy from an antique tomb i❑ Guello, and a sarco phagus and cover of coloured alabaster, with an inscription, Si. 18s. 6d. A bust of the lion. W. lioskisson, and a ditto of Gen. Gascoyae, ISs. A fine bronze bust of the Right Hon. W. Pitt, from the marble by Nollekens, 71. 155. A pair of noble bell-shaped vases, of Swedish porphyry, 161. ss. 6d. A magnificent suit of state•hangings, Ot crimson velvet, richly embroidered with the arms and crests of the United Kingdom, and tour• cushions, 251. 10s. A circular table of cedar wood, the top composed of beautiful specimens of variegated marbles, the centre a cir cular slab of time lapis-lazuli, the whole bordered with verd antique, supported by a pillar and plinth ornamented with or-mole, 181. '7s. 6jl. Other articles fetched similar prices, of which the above is a specimen. A travelling book-shop lately opened in this town for a few days, in the shape of a large caravan, and displayed a huge assortment of works and parts of works. Volumes of Magazines, Runyan, litlibras, Plutarch, Novels, De Lolme, and Peregrine Pickle, lay in literary confusion, and suited all sorts of tastes.—Stumford News. LORD MOUNT SANDFORD.--BRINKLETT, charged with the wilful murder of the Unfortunate Noble man, and GcosGE and THOMAS HutiT, for aiding and assisting in the brutal outrage, were received into our County Gaol on Saturday last, for trial at the approaching Assizes at Abingdon.—Reading Paper. Tun DE.—We lately informed our readers that the trade between this city and London was improving, and it continues to be rapidly on the increase. Yesterday afternoon, one of the steam packets arrived at Newhaven with nearly 100 pssengers, a full cargo of merchandise, including five coaches belonging to the gentlemen on board. As cases of fowling pieces formed a considerable item in the luggage, there are good grounds to conclude, that After having visited the romantic and far-famed scenery in the West and North Highlands, they intend to amuse themselves for some time in shooting on the inuirs...— Scotsman. ALLEGED M u RDER--Yesterday morning, the neighbourhood of White Hart-yard, Drury-lane, was B %ll ,l 7:L e in e f t or reports t greatestberc s preadstate o f tii a a t l . alarm man a n m h a a g d t e b e n killed d o i n ); hi: wife. The following are the particulate :—A man, named Joe Pli Jacoae, a Polish Jew, who has kept a brothel at No. 9, Eagle-court, for some years, and whose wife has long kept the neighbourhood in a state of tumult, by her nightly broils, had a violent quart el with his wife on Sa turday night, in consequence of a female lodger, named MA RY ANN, having been decoyed on Monday last front the house of JAcoms, to that of an opposition neighbour in White Hart-yard, kept by a man named CHERRY. On Saturday evening the wives of both the brothel-keepers met near the Haymarket Theatre, and a violent quarrel ' ensued. On Mr. JAcoes's return home, a contention took place between herself and husband, about the female 'MARY ANN, which was kept up all night ; between :2 and 3 o'clock yesterday morning she was seen by an opposite neighbour beating her husband in a violent manner near the window, after which it appeared She went to bed, leaving her hit -1'3'14 i,p. Bet Ween nine and ten o'clock in the morning, a black female, named FANNY, who acted as servant in the house, discovered the wretched man lying i❑ the room it corpse. On the alarm being given, Mrs. JAcoes rushed from the house in a frantic state, tearing her hair and sailing for a doctor as her husband had killed himself. *.lessrs. STANTON and BLAMIRE, surgeon, were instantly sent for, and on their arrival opened a vein, but only a few drops of Mood followed, and there were no signs of life. VA LLA NA and LEMON, two constables, took the offender into custody, who remarked at the time that it wes most fortunate that she had not been quarrelling with her husband. Some Months since the deceased, in consequence of a quarrel with his wife, attempted to drown himself at night, near Waterloo-bridge. The deceased was well known in the neighbourhood. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. Trtuasnaz•, JUNE 26.—High water.)2 min. past ninc o'clock. Wind N.W.—Arrived the Tally-ho, Fisher, front Virginia ; Kremlin, Wood, from New Orleans; Grecian, Blanchard, from Charleston ; British Tat, --, frem Mobile. CLEAREII OuTwAans.—John and James, Scott, for Quebec ; Emperor Alexander, Davidson, for ditto ; Bebe, Damansky, for Dantaic. Telegraph Office, June 26. Passed Holyhead, inward bound, this morning, at six, the Lydia, British brig ; at 8 a. m. the Belmont, from Demerara. The. Lee (steamer) passed Holyhead, outwards, at S 30. Wind S.W., fresh breeze. _ . _ . At 11. 30. passed Holyhead, inward-bound, an Ame rican slip belonging to Messrs. Brown, supposed to be the John, from Mobile. At 11 a. m. ship, inward-bound, in want of a pilot, off Point Lynas. The vessel reported off Holyhead this day as the Lydia, is not certain ; the vessel will very probably be number 251, the Dennett. An American ship off Point Lynas, inward bound, with Messrs. Brown's private signs!. Passed Holyhead, inward bound, Marian, British brig, from Demerara. At 6 p. m. wind at Holyhead &S.W., moderate; pas eed Point Lynas, outward bound, the Colonist, British brig, at 4. 30. p. m. EAST INDIA. The lertimack, Smith, from Batavia, at Cowcs, (for orders) sailed from ditto Feb. 8. Mauritian.—The John, Freeman, was to sail the hlth March, for London. The Vesper, Brown, from London, to Madras and Bengal, May 4, lat. 3. 20. E long 30• W. The Hon. Company's ship Castle Huntley, Dunkin, from London to Mauritius and China, April 28, I,it S N. long. 20 11. W.—Per Merrimack. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTiCTS OF MOTIONS AND ORYIERS OE THE DAY, WHICH NOW STAND IN THE ORDER-1300K. MONDAY, JUNE 30.-expxri s OF TILE DAY. 1. Roman Catholic Land Tax Bill—Third reading. 2. County Bridges Bill—Committee. 3. Liverpool Road Bill—Committee, 4•. Criminal Justice (India) Bill—Further consideration of Report. 5. Insolvent Debtors (India) Bill—Further consideration of Report. 6. Passage Vessels Licenses Bill—Third reading. 7. Property in Infants, &c. Bill—Second reading. 8. Prerogative Court of Canterbury Bill—Second reading. 9. Pilotage Bill—Committee. 10. Additional Churches Bill—Second reading. 11. Customs Bill—Committee. 12. Hops Excise Bill—Third reading. 13. Beer Bill—Second reading. I t. East India Prize Money Bill—Third reading. 15. Longitude Acts Repeal Bill—C mimittee. • 16. Supply Committee. 17. Ways and Means--Conimittee. 18. Corporate Funds Bill—Report. 19. East Retford Disfranchisement Bill—Report. 20. Sheriffs • (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration of Report. 91. Motel-keepers 13iIi.—Third reading. 22. Savings Banks Bill—Committee. 23. Game Bill—Committee. 21. Charing Cross Improvement Bill—Report. 25. Night Poaching Prevention Bill—Furthn con,idera tion of Report. 26. Militia Bill—Report. 27. Onistaloilary (Ireland) 'B. Regent's l'ark Bill—Report. 29. Butter Trade (Ireland) Bill—Second reading. NOTICES OF 'MOTIONS. 1. Mr. Otway Cave—Motion, That all children born of Slave parents within the British dotniuions, after the Ist January, 1830, be free. Mr. Sugden—Bill to alter and amend the Law relating to illusory appointments. :3. Mr. Astell—Bill to extend the provisions of the Eett India Mutiny Act [4 Geo. 4., c. 81 to the Bombay Marine. 4. Dr. Philitnore—Bill to enable the Deputy of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports to act for the Lord War den in certain cases. TUESDAY, JULY 1.-NOTICES OF mon INS. I . Mr. Stanley—To refer to a Select Committee the Peti tion of the Baron de Bode [presented May IS, 18261, respecting award in his case of the Commissioners of French Claims. '2. litAisson—Copy of a Letter from the Secretary of State far the Colonies to the Litut.-Governor of Jamaica, dated Sept. 22, 1527. 3. Sir George Murray—Bill to continue the LawS re specting the Civil Government and Fisheries of New foundland. I. Sir George Murray—Bill to continue power to his Majesty in Council to permit removal of Slaves in the West Indies, under certain regulations. wEnislEsnAy, 2.—ORDER. OF TILE I AY. Benefices Resignation Bill—Second reading. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. I. Mr. Stewart—Papers connected with Revenue and Expenditure of the Island of Ceylon. 2. Sir Henry liarilinge—Oranance Estimates. (In Com mittee of Supply.) TirtRSDAY, JULY 3.—Norier OF MO [ION. Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald—Extracts of Correspondence he twert4 the English and Irish Governments at the pe riod of the Union. ORDER OF TrIE DAY. New South Wales Bill—Third reading. zatnAy, J ULY 1.-OR.DER OF TDE DAY. Small Debts Bill—Committee. On 'Wednesday last a number of wild swans passed over Boston, at a low altitude. This circumstance is remarkable on account of the unusual season ; the period when these birds take their long flight being generally the e mderstati winter months.—Lincoln Mercury. STATE OF TRADE.—Tbe news of the pass ing of the American Tariff has cast a general damp on business in this neighbourhood, and, ,t? a,sfaanrdasw,w, e can learn, in the whole of the clothing districts i n the North.ie i moreO Out market on Tuesday was universally n d that already the manufacturers have imposed a check on their powers of production , whie ti had recently been ex erted, in many instances , both night and day. sanguine part of the community seem to think that smug gling will ensue to a lar g e extent, in the finer fabrics ; but no one indulges ho p es of that sort, relati ve t o coarse an d T bulky articles . Few, we imagine are willing to let them selves believe the him that has been struck at trade, and some find consolation in the idea, that tlfe Tariff will pro duce more discontent and injury in America than in England.—Leeds A HIGHLAND WELCOME.—The following' circumstance, which took place lately at Dingwall, is ,o honourable to the parties concerned, that we cannot refuse ourselves the pleasure of recording it for the gratification of all and sundry of our readers. \Ve are anxious also to let the critics of the South to see that though our climate be cold, and our soil churlish, we atone for the deficiencies of nature by greater warmth and cordiality of feeling ; and that the oottish mountaineer, though he may no longer fellow his feudal chieftain to the field, or win his fortune with his claymore, has lost none of that hospitality and " frater feeling strong" which distinguished . his ancestors in less peaceful times. Captain THOMAS MUN-• xo, formerly of the 424:1 Regiment, having relinquished the • sword for the ploughshare, took in March last the farm of Rackwall, the property of Joule GLansTose, Esq. For the two preceding years, the farm had been occupied io grazing, but the Laird willingly allowed his tenant to lay down this year's crop. A difficulty, however, occurred at the outhet, which was likely to render t he p roprietor's liberality of no avail. The season was far advance`], and horses, it was to be feared, were sot to be had either for love or money. In this dilemma, the C a p tain had almost abandoned the idea of sowing wh ere he had not reaped, when a new and unexpected succour p resented itself. His friends and neighbours hearing of his intention, and gues sing at his difficulties, came forward to a man with offers of assistance, and in a few days there were on the farm no less than eighty-one pair of h orses, and fifty-fire labourers, with divers masons, carpenters, and plast erers — a ll W or ki ng graciously, as the Irishma n said, and all as careful and in dustrious as if they had been dependent on the " sair-won penny fee." sent by who could t the cutting d( i t o, ;s:p es lin a l e ; o n ei s l nt i l o y : e r f s , ( ~ e B h ce s —ar ie de olps: a n a t ed r ; pl nc r lk i n ea c nii el i r ‘ se t ' ih e s , i r ez r e t z f l thoseads ,n.cl , in Dingwall ought up the' rear. of-this truly Hi g hl an d welcoine. I ' • c need scarcely add, that'Ciptain M e x an will long cenu ,,, ber the his neighbours.-- Inver ;LasrLhsmc.oeuarriterd. zeal alid ki,„1„,,„ POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS. STREET ROBBERIES. The Select Committee of the House of Cdmmer on the Police of the Metropolis, which has been long engaged in inquiries of the greatest important: to the safety of the community, has at length close its labours, so far as hearing evidence is concerns' The attention of the Committee during its he sittings was particularly drawn to the prevalence street robberies, the great facility with which the are committed, and the inadequacy of the police it at present exists to prevent or even to check they depredations. This species of robbery, it was state by persons competent to give correct information c' the subject, is more successfully carried on, and tt public suffer to a great extent by it, than any othc The thieves who practice in this particular line at remarkable for theirattention to external appearance! and arc always seen fashionably dressed. They go; parties of from four to ten, walking with beemiil carelessness and at a lounging pace along the street, in couples, arm in arm, until a " a chance" (as it called) presents itself,when the victim is surrounde in a moment, and if he has property about him, instant transfer to the possession of the robbers is perfect certainty, so dextrous are they in their opt rations and so completely is the sufferer thrown c his guard by the appearance and manners of the who plunder him. It was observed to the Commit tee, that these fellows are too cautious of the! necks ever to resort to that degree of violence whit would amount in law to the crime of highway rot bery, except it be in dense crowds, where they ce act in any way with perfect impunity. These nn arc denominated in the slangphraseology swell but men, and any thing less that a good watch, or well-lined pocket-book, is perfectly beneath the notice_ There is one gang. known as " the ove: the-water people," or " I•3** L###-es mob," I which the foregoing description was stated pe e l liarly to apply, and the members of it are we known (or ought to be) to every man in the polio They are to he seen at almost any hour of. th day in the great public thoroughfares, and the; chief place of rendezvous is a well-known flas house, in a street near Drury-lane, where the are in arid out twenty times a day. When a rot bery has been perpetrated, the gang separate in instant, mid go by different routes to the hood alluded to, where, doubtless, the division of the spot takes place. This house is kept by the person alit! ded to as B. L., and it was mentioned as an instruc tine fact, that prize-fights are not unfrequently go up in this house. After a public meeting or spec tacle of any kind, or a crowded . night ut the theatre! these men are to be seen making towards.the'r haus( of-call, heated and dirty, and with all the appearane of having been actively engaged in a crowd. It set suggested that if these men were looked for, steppe and searched, on such occasions, there could be Litt' doubt that property very recently stolen would som times be found upon them, and a convict;on almost necessarily follow. This, however, is yet rarely done. With an efficient police, it would sr pear next to impossible that gangs of thieves, sue) as were descri'hed, could exist for eight or ten yed during which period, at least the same faces halt! been seen about the streets by those who have givt 4 l information upon the subject. With a better ore sized system of police, these men might be so watch! and harrassed, that to commit depredations to any see ous extent would he almost impossible, and there coin be little doubt that by. a clever, active, and respect able body of men, this .species of annoyance. coal he so successfully carried on as to render the cillir of the thieves so irksome, so hazardous, and so•litt profitable, that they would abandon it altogether, I become desperate arid rash headlong into the fat4l of the law. The thieves alluded to are very sum?' ful at the theatres on crowded nights, as the ref bery informations book" at our principal polio' office would amply prove. It was true, that soli officers were in attendance at the Theatres Bo' every night, but the show of protection thus h€ out was worse than nothing. The officers select were not remarkable either for experience or si4 city. On the contrary, they were chiefly youngl trols, with a stmeramarated parish constable or t' to make up the number. There never was a troy ed night (it was stated) that the thieves did contrive with ease to elude the observation of police, arid mix with the dense mass going in, :dander with impunity It is quite eertainlnat the most serious latent of the Committee will,be given to this subject, s that no pains will be spared in viideavouring remedy so crying air evil.—Times. CAUTION TO •BREAD. EATERS.---At str , et Police Office on Saturday, a chandler's shopleetwl complained to Mr. HALLS of a certain baker, who suriplihcp, him and other shops, of robbing the public, by seod'ihn) him loaves which proles.sed to weigh :2lbs. each, hut whiqd in reality, weighed but,llb. 10oz. Mr. HA !J.'S asked Pt why he did not go to another baker ; and, on his repl)j , that it was a general practice with all of them, the.Mak trate dismissed the can:, regretting that the repeal of Excisp Law left him no power to interfere. BIRTHS. On the 29th instant, at Hurstfrierpoiut, Sussex, lady of the Rev. T. C. F. Tufaell, of a daughter. On the •With inst. in South Audley-street, Mts. ward Foxhall, of a daughter. . _ I On the 25th inst. at his residence in Queen-square, lady of W. P. Richards, Esq. of a daughter. On the 25th inst. at Cowes, the lady of .James L) Esq. of a son. On the 25th loot. at her father's, Okeotrer H a ll , ,t Ashborne, the lady of G. J. Pennington, Esq. if a dangW On the 2.4 th inst. in Orchard -street, Poi tman-squr the holy of the Rev. F. Sullivan, of a eon. On the 25th inst. in Bloomsbury-square, the lad) Richard Willan, of the Hill, Sedbergh, Yorkshire, Esq. a son and heir. MARRIED. On the 25th inst. the Rev. George W. Weodho M.A., of Sedgley, Staffordshire, to Mary, eldest da u gl of the late John Appleton, Esq. of Henley-upon-Thame On the 26th inst. at St. Pancras Church, by the William Wallinger, vicar of Hellingly, Sussex, and chaplN to the Earl 'of Chichester, the Rev. John Watts, FA and Tutor of University College, Oxford, and recta . % Tarrant Gunyille„ Dorsetshire, to Anne, eldest daughtristr the late Germain Lavie, Esq. of Hatnpstead. On the 29th inst., at All Saints' Church, Netthampt Mr. Josiah Ager, of Weedon, Northamptonshire, to Ferfv4,' eldest daughter of Mr. Daniel Daniel, of Lveraholt, fordshire. • On the 27th inst. at St. Michael Baesishatv, Basing street, by the Rev. Joshua Dix, Charles Dix, E A T Basingliall-street, to Mary, eldest daughter of the * Stephen Tucker, of Welling, in Kent. On the 25th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, • Hon. Augustus Frederick Ellis, 11I.P. wend son of 14 Seaford, to Mary Frances Thurlow Cun)nghaine,. daughter of Sir David Cunyngharne, of Milncraigt Barra On the 22d inst. suddenly, at his residence in Pa" ment-street, in his 58th year, William Radelifp, Eeq. touch lamented by a numerous circle of friends. On the sth inst. at Heddesdorff, in Germany, .V Justis Runkel, Esq. in the 86th year of his age. On the 25th inst. at his house in Pall-mall, in the f year of his age, George Nicol, Esq. many years booke to his late Majesty. DIED. On the 26th inst., at Gateshead Park, near Newel , upon -Tyne, (the residence of her son-in.law, ISBJIC 0 son, jun., Esq..), Mrs. Cook, in her 75th year, relict of late Edward Cook, Esq. of Togstone, in the Connt Northumberland. On the 26th inst. in George-streot, Euston-scis Louisa, wife of Stephen Vieusseux, Esq. in her 39th j On the 26th inst. at the house of her daught e r,.ls Hume, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitiloy-tivare, RB A widow of Capt. Walter Gwennap, R.N., age d BS. his. relation! , b l y trixton-road, friends,Oli I a i e t 2 h 6 i h h i ( n l s t s . e, deeply e r_e t g e t r t u t e .d : Wise, Esq. of Lloyd's. On the ?..2 , 1 inst. at the hou.e of her uncle, F , Ilomsy, in the City-road, Sarah Elizabeth, your daughter of Thomas Patience, architect , forme rly of / foundland, and niece of Joseph Patience, EN. l a t e of tenhatu, aged 21 years and 11 nutnthm• On the 19th inst. at Greenwich, Isabella, daught the late Mr. Matthew Bell. Pairmia and Puntioe;nl;,2y, a Y n O d t:N t. :, nd ;. at th e SUK .. O}I .n.