The Sun. — London, England, 1828-01-31 00:00:00

valuable effects of individuals, ate broken open. Pickpockets swarm in this capital to such a degree, that the Government is compelled tacitly to recog nise their chief, who is called Bodzek, or insect.' People who are robbectimmediately have recourse to him, pay him, and recover their property by his intermediation." The Government too, according to Sir Dudley North, have the same sublime idea of their functions that ours have—they allow the aggrieved individuals to be at all the trouble and expense of discovering those by whom they are mimed, with this improvement, that to prevent being troubled with unnecessary complaints, they punish them, if they do not discover the thieves or robbers. " I shall allege," nays the biogra pher of Sir Dudley—evidently enraptured with this point of Turkish superiority.—" but one in stance farther, where I think the Turkish law is remarkably distinguished, and is on the criminal side. If a man comes to the judge, and with clamour—as the way is—complains that he - is robbed of his goods, the Cadi will ask him by whom ? and where is the thief? And if he says he does not know, perhaps punish him as a Ft/orb, that pretends to Joe robbed to cheat his el editors. " What (says he), doth not the Grand Seignior protect his subjects,? If you-are robbed, find the thief, and right shall be done ; if you want help, take an officer ; but do not accuse the Grand Seignior's righteous Government." :Find the thief . ; and take an officer if you want one, paying him handsomely of course, just as in England. There is, however, one point of superiority on the part of the Turks,—they punish him who complains of the Grand Seignior's righteous Government, but they con nive at the compounding the felony, and do not punish the man who does the cst he can for' himself, when the Grand Seignior can do no thing for him. In those nice matters even, in which we fondly imagined that we had a mono poly of wisdom, the Laws for the -.xclusion of evidence, to which Mr. Bentham h done such ample justice in his recent pub] cation, The Rationale Judicial Evidence, it appears that the Turks are not by any means 'hind us. In the works of Mr. John (heaves, Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, edited by Dr. Birch, vol. 2, p. 761. in an account of his travels in Turkey, he states, cc Among Turks it is not per mitted that every one that hill, should bear wit ness; but only such men as are free, of a good age, that can say the Nanzaz (Common Prayer), and have some knowledge in the law, known to be men of civil life and conversation ; and, above all, which drink no wine. For the witness of a Turk Which drinks wine is nothing worth, yet they may drink Mooselless (new wine boiled), Rakee (Aquavit.i2), and Roza (a drink made of seed much like new mustard, and is very heady), which arc stronger than wine; and this their law .7emmandeth. But ib't all this, corruption is so crept in amongst them, that now in Turkey, es pecially in ConStantinople, there are . (to the out ward appearance grave and- honest men) 'More false witnesses than in any• other part of the world besides ; and who 'are they, at least the chief of.them, but a certain company of beggarly Emeers—that is, such a pretend to come of the race and stock . of Mahomet, aliVays - wearing green turbans, bylvhich they are - Ic.nown and veverenced. .• . . - . . And hence it is that Avancas are so commonly framed ; for they can stoutly, and that with ease, outface the pour Christians and Jews.; pay,, for obrihe they pat spare their own sect in bearing false witness against them. Can we wonder that such a people should gain the favour of our Government of Church and State The King's Speech and the comments upon it which have emanated from authorised persons in Parliament, have furnished the advocates of the late Administration with a pretence for con sidering it as actuated by the same principles with the present. We think the inference a rash ors'; but we are 'nevertheless prepared to admit that it may have been drawn in all honour and good faith, if we find the advocate:, to whom wa have adverted, zealous as in consistency they are bound to be in support of the present Ministry, towards whom of course every legitimate objection and all honest hostility on the part of these reasoners issuperseded by the discovery they suppose them selves to have made. Bc this as it may, it is at le:Let gratifying to find the adherents of the late Ministers eo eagerly seeking shelter under the wings of the present; and apparently ambitious on behalf of their patrons of no higher glorythan that of having resembled them. The Speech of his Majesty alludes to none of the topics which permanently divide the leading parties of the country. it makes no attempt to amalgamate, or to define the boundaries of their respective opinions. Such an attempt w ou ld h ave b een as useless, seless, as it would have been derogatory to the Royal dignity. The Speech is a simple annun ciation of the actual state of national affairs—it expresses no censure and no praise of any party in the State ; but it announces hopes, with which all parties are supposed capable to sympathize, antl conveys admonitions which all parties arc sup posed willing. to. regard. The accomplishment of the object for which our troops were sent to Portugal, and the improvement recently mani iested in the foreign commerce of the country, are topics in the Speceb from which all par ties may extract the materials of self-gratula elan, but which none can appropriate exclusively to themselves. The measures leading to both were the measures of Lord Liverpool's Admit& 3tration—an Administration similar in all respects to the present ; and it is but justice to add that they received the support of many of the adhe rents, and of all the Members of the last Admi nistration—an Administration in many respects dissimilar to that of Lord •Liverpoo - 1. The Treaty for th e pac ification of the East'of Europe 33 the only question of immediate interest t you which the King's Speech could have afforded a triumph to either party,awl to neither d oes i t afford any. In - this the wisdom and moderation of the 'framers of the, Speech are conspicuous.-- They sought no triumph at the expense of the, country ; and it could, we but have been at the ex.: pense : of the. count, r Y- -114 ( 1 they:stigmatised the Treaty, which they would nevertheless have been bound to f y lol. We are ' lo e so fettered ; and we must now, pronounce .the Treaty of of London, as we pronounced it at first, a most unjust, anu pernicious Treaty ; iu which sen tenc, had we needed - confirmation, we s h ou ld have been Confirmed by the opinion of Lord Althorp, certainly one of die most r especta b le, and reputed one of the most intelligent, of the late Ministerial - and the present Opposition. Party, zind NV h , greatly to his honour, has so far overcome the natural sympathies and antipa thies of party, as to join us in unqualified con. demnation o f thi s unpr i nc i p l e d co mpact. If then - a King's Speech could be framed by one Admi nistration so nearly similar to what it must have been had it been framed by another, why, it is ingeniously asked, should any change have taken place ? What national advantage, or what personal causes, have led to the change This question is asked, not in real, but in affected ignorance. The late Admi nistration consisted of two parties, of opposite opinions as to the proper i balance of powers in the Constitution, and of course they could not long-agree as to the properibalance of power in the Cabinet. Perhaps they might have continued to act together during fair weather, if they could both have forgotten that storms might probably arise, and that then the command of the vessel of- the State would devolve upon the party which had secured for itself the greatest ascend ancy during the calm. But this was found to be impossible. It will always be so. Their essential and well known difference of opinion, as to the most fundamental doctrines of the Con stitution, necessarily rendered the two opposite parties jealous of each other, and inspired each of them with the desire, we ought perhaps rattier to say the duty, 'of strengthening itself, and of en feebling its antagonist. Whatever details may hereafter transpire as to the immediate causes of the dissolution of the late Ministry, and in this respect there certainly appears some disposition to elude the natural curiosity of the public, we feel convinced that they will be found to be no other than certain illustrations or modifications of the one great original permanent cause which we have attempted to explain. The essential distinction between the late Ministry and the present is, that the one consisted of two parties, each bound by its peculiar principles to strengthen itself ; and that the other consists of only one party, and can propose to itself there fore no other object than that of maintaining and fortifying the character of the whole Admini stration by encreasing the welfare and promoting the glory of the State.—Morning Post. Amid the bustle and din of political conten• tion, we are glad to see any thing like an earnest attempt to press upon the attention of Parliamen the domestic interests of this country—the most important of which are undoubtedly those whirl relate to the state of the laws and the administra• tion of justice. It is with pleasure, therefore, we find that Mr. Biougham availed himself of the opportunity of the first night of the meeting of Parliament to bring these most important.topics under the eye of the House of Commons, by giving notice that he should be prepared on Friday, the 22d of February, to submit a motion, having for its object to induce the House to con sider the present state of the law in this country, and the manner in which it is administered in the Courts, and to adopt those reforms whit lime lies rendered necessary, and which ex , perience points out as expedient.- Many, in deed, and extensive, are the reforms which time has rendered necessary in our law, and which experience points out to be expedient—and, be sides those, there are also certain abuses which Nvcre nut interwoven with our system of law in its original formation, nor long after, that ought to be got rid of, at the same time that we set about relbrining those points, which, however I well adapted to a more primitive condition of society, arc nut suited to the demands of modern civilization. The system of specialptcading,, as it is now conducted, is a corrupt excrescence, that has grown lipoii the practice of the law ; an excrescence which bringsgreat gain to the pleader—great delay and expense to the suitor—great disgrace to jus tice. It is an evil that encumbers the principles of justice, so as to resider them almost inoperative, and has been complained of and endeavoured to I be repressed by the greate s t a nd most enlighten -led Judges that this country has ever seen. It is, however, an evil so beneficial to lawyers, that it 1 has overlaid, in progress of time, all the sound maxims of law, and has outgrown all judicial re monstrance. Among modern Judges, Chief Justice Best deserves great and especial credit for having discountenanced this prescriptive abuse in the administration of law as much as he poadbly could, and for having repeatedly and emphatically expressed his disinclination to decide cases, except upon their merits, where the tech ideal objections were such as he could, without violence to the principles of law, surmount. But, unless all the Judges co-operated in this laudable purpose, little comparative good can be done ; and it is impossible to expect complete unity of purpose among them in this respect, seeing that some of them were never known to the public or the profession in any other way than as Special Pleaders ; and their prejudices will naturally lean in favour of the sort of prac tice in which they obtained success and distinct tion. The only hope of an effective and per manent remedy, therefore, is from the Legisla ture. We hope, that, if Mr. Brougham does not take up this part of the reformation of' the law, some other active and persevering Member of Parliament will. We hope that whosoever takes it up will not make it a party question, to enforce while he is out of power, and abandon when he gets within prospect of office. This is the. way that many projected improvements in our institutions have conic to nothing of late years. The Lou r,J' Libel is another subject which affords an ample field for the exercise of the labour and talents of an enlightened Legisla '.or.—.l/ornbig Hereld. Among the communications made by Minis ters to Parliament on Tuesday last, was one of the very first importance—we mean their inten tion or introducing a Corn Bill during the pre sent Session. The defects of the present Corn Laws have often been commented on, and never altogether denied. The greatest of these is, that the doors of the importers' warehouses are, as it were, hermetically sealed, until grain has arrived at a certain price, and then thrown wide open, to pour out the stores that have been heaped up for months to deluge the market, and by consequence, ruin the farmer and impoverish the landlord. The Bill introduced by Mr. Canning was professedly intended to remedy the defects of the existing laws. He gave, he said to the landholder, the advantage on the side of price, and to the Jmonied interest, the advantage on the side of principle.—The sentence was not Very clear, any more than the plan which it was intended to explain.—The principle was, that the duty should decrease as the article rose in price, and increase as it fell. It was not a prim , ciple of free trade ; for it must be perfectly ob vious to the meanest capacity, that there is no difFerence between prohibiting an article alto gether, and i mpos i ng a greater duty than it fetches in the market. It was not a principle of protection to the landlord or tenant, because it l e f t the importation of corn as absolutely open after the price had risen to a. certain sum-70s. rating by the old Winchester mea psuerreLuatearstrh, the present laws do. And not. only had it no tendency to prevent the market from being deluged at any given period, but it went to encourage its accumulation in bond even more than the present system does. Three is, indeed, one great check to excess of importation just now, which Mr. Canning's Bill, or, perhaps, it would be more just.to say, Mr. Huskisson's Bill, for Mr. Canning evidently had studied time subject very little, went directly to'remove. He who irm- ports at present must do so with the chance, that he shall not be able to effect sales at any price. The most rapidly rising market may stop , short of the point where importation begins.—. But in a rising market, under the proposed sys-: tem, importation would have been necessarily large, because, along with the chances of a rise, there was the certainty that even did the price stop or retrograde, sales might yet be effected at the expense of a small sacrifice. This may be very easily illustrated. Suppose, for conveni ence sake, the point where duty was to cease un der the proposed law, and that where importation begins under the existing law, to be the same, namely, when wheat was 70s. per q uarter —let the price be 645. and the market looking up, and let it be granted that foreign grain can be sold with the ordinary profit of ten per cent. at 705., that is when it pays no-duty, or, in other words, that it can be warehoused here for 645. Under the proposed law, in such circumstances, the only limit to the importation would be lack of credit or of room. For, if the price should only rise to 68s. the importer would be no loser, and if it rose to 695. he would gain five per cent. ; whereas, though it rose to 69e. 114 d., under the present law, every farthing of the capi tal of the importer would be as e ffectually locked up as if it had never passed,64s. It ap pears, therefore, that while by the law as it at present stands, the risk to the importer is great, and the chances of successful speculation small, by the law that was proposed, the risk to the importer would have been exceedingly small, the chances of success very great. Now, this was not giving the monied interest the ad vantage of principle, but it was giving them every advantage, and leaving the landed interest none at all, although, according even to the sturdiest of their opponents, they are entitled to some. We shall now state in a very few words what appears to us the principles on which any permanent Corn Bill ought to proceed. Ist, The landed proprietors of this country are not only contributors to the general taxes of the kingdom —there are some taxes which fall on them ex clusively. They dre entitled to be protected by a duty equal in amount to the difference be tween the rate of general and particular taxa tion here and the rate payable in the corn countries of Europe. This is mere justice ; whether sound policy does not dictate something more, we shall not at present inquire, because the inquiry would naturally lead to the discussion of other points of our commercial policy. 2d, The amount of taxes paid by the landed interest is the same, whether corn be high or low, and, there fore, they are as justly entitled to protection when corn is 80s. a quarter, as when zt is 60s. Corn never rises here or elsewhere but from one cause. It is no advantage to the farmer to sell at 80s. any more than at 605., so long as he has but three quarters instead of four to carry to market. To say that importation should be per fectly free when grain is at 80s., is saying in other words, that the fewer goods the farmer has to dispose of, the more ought his price to he beaten down. These two principles naturally and necessarily lead to the conclusion, that instead of a varying duty, to be regulated by a machinery of a most complicated character, as was proposed in the last Bill, a permanent duty, sufficient to protect the agriculturist,. ought to be substituted. What the amount of such :a duty ought to be, we have not stylicient data for cal culating, and that is a matter which requires, and we trust will receive, ample discussion.—New Times. The question of the settlemei - it of the Bot►n dary Line between the United States and our territories in Canada, is one of greater import ance, than the distance of the localities generally permits people to imagine. On that interesting subject we give this day an able article from a correspondent, in our first page, together with the first of a series of letters which appeared a short time ago in the St. John City Gazette, and produced much effect in our Canadian ter- On Monday evening, about six o'clock, the family of Mr. Siracio.x, at Hammersmith, were alarmed by the sudden disappearance of the maid servant. Search was made in vain, until about twelve o'clock, when the unfortunate female was found in a pond, at the back of the premises, quite dead. Mr. MIRWITZ has presented to the Univer sity of London a very valuable anciunt Hebrew manuscript of the Pentateuch. It contains 220 columns, written upon 47 skins. It was purchased about a year ago front the heirs of a Mr. SAMUEL Cn..tx Ricco, a descendant of a Jewish family, which flourished in Italy some centuries ago, and gave birth to several learned men, whose works arc still esteemed amongst the Jews. The form of the let ters is evidently in the African and Spanish style, and the material on which it is written is African skin, peculiarly prepared, being the substance denominated yevil in Rab binical Hebrew, and on which only, according to the Talmud and Maimonides, was the law allowed to be written in ancient times. This circumstance proves the high antiquity of this manuscript, for almost all modern copies are written on keluf, parchment. Mr. Iluawrrz is of opinion that it was written in the 11th or 12th cen tury, if not earlier. The Commissioners of Bankrupts have evinced a determination, which is highly laudable, of compelling the assignees of bankrupt estates to divide more frequently the funds in hand among the creditors, or, in case of omis sion, to,enforce the law which directs the payment of in terest, at the rate of 20 per cent. per annum, on all sums beyond 109/. retained by assignees. One of the Commis sioners stated at a recent examination, that he considered the current balances at this moment in the hands of assig nees to be no less than between 4,000,0001. and 5,000,000/. for the failure of the due appropriation of which hundreds of families, probably, are pining in want and misery. A case occurred lately, which proves how completely assignees sometimes forget that the property is not theirs, but that of the creditors. A tradesman who held in his hands about 1,0001. of such trust money, was ordered to pay up the arrears of interest, amounting to 2001., and also to di vide the principal among the rightful claimants on the estate, but he coolly remarked that he really could nut spare it, as it was all employed in his own business! ! The full penalty in this case is, we understand, and very properly, to be en forced, and it is to be hoped that the example thus set will be followed up. CALCUTTA, SEPT. 11.—A circumstance is noticed in the Government Gazette of Monday evening, iv which the community have a deep interest. We allude to the fact of letters having been delivered last week only, dated in November, that came by the ship David Scotty which vessel arrived here in May last ! ! They were sent up from that ship, we understand, when passing Kedgeree on her way to sea, en the voyage home again ! ! The Postmaster, in order to prevent any blame being erroneously imputed to department, took care to h ave mar k e d on the letters the date o f their receipt at the office; but we should hope that the officers of Govern ment w ill b e in structed to snake a strict inquiry into this extraordinary ir regularity, which must be the result of some very gross neglect in souse quarter ; and which may have been pro ductive of serious loss to seine , a nd of unnecessaryunnecessaryanxiety shall be d e liv e red to the Kedgeree llawk boats are positive and clear. Why w as the order not complied with by the an Comm. dei -of the D Scott? If it w ere complied David with, where and by w h o m were the packets d e l a y e d? The to many. The orders of Gove rnment that all packets comintinity haVe a right, we think, to have these points ascertained. They suffer quite enough by unavoidable de lays in the receipt of their letters, without h av i ng them kept back through culpable neglect or callous indifference. RUN'. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. SELL. Prem. 26 0 Remittable Loans 6 per Cent. 25 0 Prem. Diset. 0 3 Old 5 per Cent. Loan ...... 0 8 Diset. At Par. 0 0 New 5 per Cent. L0an....,. 0 4 ditto' POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.— Charles Taylor, a boy scarcely fifteen years of age, charged some days ago with having presented a forged bill at the banking-house of Ladbroke and Co., for a large amount, was brought up for final ex amination. The boy had, it will be remembered, stated he was employed, by some person who said that he lived in Savage-gardens, to get the amount of the bill. From some evidence which was given, it was believed that the . . boy had prevaricated very much. The depositions were read, and The LORD Mayon. told the prisoner that he would com mit him because he betrayed a knowledge that is presenting the bill he was doing wrong. Here a female relative screamed and begged aloud that the bay might not be sent to prison. The LORD MAYOR--I Shall commit him. —The prisoner was then fully committed. GUILDHALL.—The overseers of Godalming attended to bind an apprentice to a respectable tradesman in the precinct of Bridewell. Notice had been given of the in tended apprenticeship to the overseers of the precinct, and Mr. Bousfield, the solicitor, now appeared on their part to require that the overseers of Godalming should first give a certificate, acknowledging the boy to be legally settled in their parish, which certificate would prevent the boy from gaining any settlement in the precinct by serving under the indenture. _ Sir PETER LAURIE suspected that this was a new objec tion ; but he was not surprised at the frequency of new ob jections, for now there resided a lawyer in almost every third house.—(A laugh, in which Mr. Bousfield joined.) The inhabitants of the precinct, however, would be much indebted to Mr. Bousfield if he succeeded with his point. - The Godalming gentlemen seemed posed with the ap plication, which; they said was quite unprecedented. Mr. Payne, the second clerk, said, the giving of certifi cates was established to prevent labouring men going about from place to place in harvest time from being carried be fore the justices and sent to the parishes where they were legally settled, or committed as vagabonds. That was the only object of the laws respecting certificates. Mr. Bousfield still thought the precinct should be pro tected from having the paupers of other parishes transferred to them. After some conversation on this point, the ALDERMAN under the opinion of his legal advisers, held that the law authorized the overseers of the parish to give rt certificate to their• pauper, bnt another parish could not demand that it should be given ; and as Mr. Bousfield had no other objec tion to the binding, it received the ordinary sanction of the Magistrates. MARLBOROUGH- ST REET. —Yesterday Thomas Key, the driver of a hackney-coach No. 167, appeared upon a summons before Mr. DYER, the magistrate, to answer the follouliig charge:— William Carlisle, a serjeant in the Coldstream Regiment of Guards, stated, that on the evening of the 24th inst., as a detachment of the regiment to which he belongs was marching in single file through High-street, by St. Giles's church, on their way to relieve the Bank of England guard, they had occasion to cross the street; and at that moment the defendant came along, driving his coach at a furious rate, and without taking any more notice of the soldiers crossing than if they were so many sparrows that could fly out of hil way, he drove his horses into the midst of them; and had not the men very quickly broken their ranks and jumped on one side, some of them must have been driven over and seriously hurt. Mr. Dv eit regretted that he had no power of punishing hint to a greater extent than fining him 109. under the highway act. The defendant was accordingly fined in this amount, with costs, which not being able to pay, he was in default locked up. A very martial-looking personage, named Alfred Wil kinson, wearing a huge pair of whiskers and mustachios, was brought to the office, charged with assaulting Mr. Charles Jenkins. The defendant, who described himself as the nephew of David Ricardo, Esq., did not deny the charge, but con tended that Mr. Jenkins was a trespasser in his house, and he had a right to put him out. Mr. DYER said, as an assault had been proved, Mr. Wilkinson must find hail 'to answer it at the sessions. MARYL EB ONE- OFFICE. —Joseph ITYnt. /boson, a working engineer, was charged by Sophiaa. Obec, a smart young woman, with bigamy. The prisoner and the complainant saw each other for the first time on Christmas-day. He represented himself to be single, made love to her, and, after a courtship of 28 days, she consented to become his wife, and they were married on the 22d instant at St. George's Church, Ha nover-square. eseven days, including the wedding-day, were passed by them without interruption, at No. 19, Ed ward-street, Lanham-place ; but on the eighth, a former wife, to whom lie was married ten years before at Win chester, came to their lodging, and claimed him as her own. He was immediately given into the custody of the bell-linger of All Soul's Church, and brought to the office, and yesterday be was remanded until Tuesday. Last evening a man, who was made a nondescript by whiting and soot, placed himself in the witness-box, and said, " Muster Rawlitison, Sir, I am sorry to address you under my present circumstances ; but, Sir, as I have had this pleasure of serving you"— , " Serving me," said Mr. RA svutssosr, with surprise; " I never saw such a figure in my life ; pray who are you? and what arc you? and in what capacity have you been my servant ?"—" So far," replied the black and white man, " that you required my services when you lived in Southampton-row,' and I lived at the hotel opposite." " You are so disguised," replied Mr. Rawmtssols," that I do not recollect you. Pray what is your name ?"—" My name," answered the man in disguise, "is 11L'Ewen ; mind how you smell it, 111-a-e—a capital E, mind that —w-e-n, called in Scotland M'Kown. lam snore re spectable than many." " And tarred and feathered in the bargain, don't you call it ?" said Mr. Ravvutssoss. " How did you get your face blackened and coat whitened ?" " That is not all," replied M'Ewen ; " they have torn my hat," showing a deficiency in the brim, and lifting up the crown like the lid of a snuff-box, "and after powdering sue all over, they finished their lark, as they called it, by throwing a quart of water into toy bosom ; and although I am a classical scholar, they made me sit three hours bare-foot, without my shoes." Mr. RAWLINSON desired the applicant to say where he lived, and who had made a pantaloon of him. " Sam M'Ewen—that is me, your Worship," replied the applicant, " lives at No. 11, Little Titchfield-street ; and now, as to the landlord of the house where it happened, I should be sorry to mention his name, for he is a good fellow, and offered me soap and towel ; but I said, No, I'll go before Muster Rawlinson as I am, and make my self comfortable.' Now mind, your Worship, say nothing about the landlord, but put down Muster Bridges, a cow keeper, in the warrant ; and you may put down five milkmen, and make 'ens all pay for it ; put me to rights, and I do't mind a black face. Crippled as I am, my name is Sam M'Ewen, and, thank God, I can keep myself." Mr. RAWLINSOX asked him whether he laid himself open to the frolic by getting drunk? He said, "No ;" and the parties complained of were summoned to show cause why they had so assaulted him. QUEEN-SQUARE.—On Tuesday Mr. Sergeant Taddy made a private application to W. A. A. WHITE, Esq. and a warrant was granted to search the premises of Mr. Dobree, pawnbroker, at Charing-cross, which was given into the hands of Woodherry, the officer, together with two duplicates. Yesterday M:. Sergeant Taddy attended before G. W. MA altl ors, Esq. and Woodberry, the officer,Pprodu cede quan tity of plate, consisting of two silver ladles, 11 table spoons, and six silver forks. Mr. sergeant Teddy identified the property as being his. Thomas Pratt, shopman to Mr. Dobree, was in at tendance. Mr. AIARRIOTT inquired if he recollected the property produced being pledged. Pratt said it was pledged by a young man on the 19th June last, who gave his name Thos. Higgins, No. 9, Lan caster-court, Strand, and said he was the owner of the property; 4/. was lent on the two ladles and six forks, and 91. on the 14 table-spoons. Mr. MARRIOTT—How was the person dressed ?—Wit ness : As well as I can recollect, he was genteelly dressed. Mr. MARRIOTT said, under the circumstances he felt it his duty to detain the plate at the office for the present. — He should make no decision then, but notice would be Bent, if Mr. Dobree should be wanted. Mr. Perkins, a pawnbroker, of the King's road, Chel sea, in a f p o p r e m a e re r d , t f o or a r n ef i u n s fo in r g ma t t o ion laid against him by Byers, dupli cate and form of affidavit, whe g n i' h e e thehhaidniloastcoy o ticket. a Rawlins, the witness, had applied to the shop for an af fidavit, having mislaid 11 tickets. Three of them, they said, had been redeemed. He afterwards found the whole of them. The Magistrate dismissed the case. HATTON-GARDEN.—Four females and two boys, whose ages respectively differed from 11 to 16 years, were brought up in custody of the watch, charged with riotous and disorderly conduct in the neighbourhood of Hatton garden, at the early hour of three o'clock yesterday morning. The females, young, tender, and delicate, but apparently old and hardened in vice, bad, by their own confession, no other means of subsistence save that procured through pro ititution, by the wages of which they had been enabled en, that night to tate their seats in the gallery of one of the . theatres, and afterwards to purchase strong ale and gin. The Magistrate ordered them for three months to the , House of Correction. The boys were delivered up to their parents, upon the stipulated condition of their being subjected to the whole some correction of the rod. LAMBET H- ST REET. —Yesterday, in compliance with, Mr. Wyarr's directions, Mr. Wollaston, of Poplar, accom panied by a Miss Spence, late the partner of Miss Duffield, whose person had been violated by a fellow named Banks, and a gentleman, their friend, attended at the office to assign his reasons for the detention of a petition alledged to have been signed by Miss Duffield previous to her death, in favour of the culprit. On being introduced to the justice room, the gentleman addressing-the magistrates, said, that he had seen in The Times paper the report of an application made to their worships, which reflected very much on the character of Mr. Wollaston, and in consequence of it, and in obedience to their orders, he attended to give the required informa tion, and to counteract any unfavourable impression that might have been made. He would not deny the existence of a petition signed in favour of Banks by Miss Duffield, previous to her decease, and that it was in the hands of Mr. Wollaston ; but he would beg to explain the circum stances under which it received her signature, which he thought would clearly show that be (Mr. 'Wollaston) was warranted in its detention. Previous to the death of lUisi Duffield, large sums of money were repeatedly and pres singly offered to her by the friends of Banks, to induce her to sign a petition praying for the mitigation of the punishment to which he was so justly sentenced ; but to all and every of them she continued deaf, feeling, as it might literally be taken, that he had inflicted the most deadly wound on her peace of mind and health. A few hours before she breathed her last,—froin what motive, except through a kindly disposition towards Mss Spence, her partner, to whom she thought it might be serviceable, he did not know,—she did sign it. Mr. Wykr.r.—As I understand the case, the signature was attached solely with a view to Miss Spence's pecuniary advantage.. The Gentleman.—Such I certainly believe to_' have been the object. Mr. WVATT.—Admitting it, such an instrument sure,y should not be converted into a matter of trade or specula tion. The Gentleman.—Nor is any thing of the kind Miss Spence's intention. The detention arises from mo tives of principle ; for had gain been her object, she could, ere this, have disposed of it for a larger sum than 201. Mr. WiaTr.-L--I do think that all dissension should now cease, and that it is only an act of justice towards the pri soner to give up a petition from which he may derive so much benefit. The Gentleman. —He shall never obtain it. The gentleman here consulted with Mr. Wollaston and Miss Spence, after which he said that it was their determination not to give it up. Mr. Wvarr.—You have refused to act on the sugges tion of my brother Magistrate. I now give you notice not to destroy the petition ; for the present it is sufficient for us to have ascertained that such a document is in existence, that it is in the possession of Mr. Wollaston, and that he withholds it. These facts are, on your own admission, established ; they shall be communicated to Mr. Capper, and he will proceed on them as he thinks proper. The parties concerned again consulted, and ultimately consented to lay the petition before Mr. Capper, at the same time accompanying it with information of the circumstances under which the deceased gal it her signature. They then left the office. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.--FRIDAY, FEB. 1.--At the Celia of Commissioners, Basinghail.street. Avery,' J.,_ New Bond-street, silversmith • - Il• Bailey, W., Dean-street, Soho, leather-seller ............. l2 Christie and Co., Manchester, merchants lO CoHinson, T. B rea d- s treet-hill, stationer • lO Cooke, J., Liverpool, dealer and chapman 2 Cruden, 8., Gravesend, slopseller I I Dinneford, I)., Chipping Norton, draper Dyett, IL, Clement's-lane, merc h ant ln Freer, T., High-street, Shoreditch 1) Frisby and Co., Mark-lane, wine-merchants" ......•••..••..••"'• 1 Gadd, W., King's Arms-yard, scrivener ll Garese, D., Hackney-road, merchant Henry, H., Finsbury-circus, jeweller Hunt, J., Brighton, trunk-maker lO Knights, E. Debenhani, currier lO Milburn, \V., Old City Chambers, merchant lO Negus and ( 0., Angel-court, stoek-brokers: »•II Pritchard, T., Foot's-tray, surgeon Roberts, T. J Bedford-street, brewer• 1 . Sadler, T., ermyn-street, wine-merchant '• • ' • • • --i • , ll Shepherd, J., Marylebone, hackneyman —...--.. - . • _.' II COUNTRY DIARY.—SATIAIDAY, Its. '2. Aldursey, J., Liverpool—Mr. think', Liverpool l2 Farmer, W., Bath —Greyhound, Bath ll Fos, t, I in 4.i and S., Portwood and Li v e r p ool—Star inn, Man i Morn, 3., Liverpool—Mr. Hindc, Liverpool ll Mac Vicear and Tait, Liverpool—George, Liverpool Parkinson, K., Wimeswould—King's Arms, Loughborough 41 Perkins, T.,. Lower Sapey, Worcestershire—Office of Mr France, Worcester - ---- INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields Feb, %, at 'Nine o'clock. 'Ferry, W., Great Newport-street, haberdasher Tipping, J., Itochdalc, victualler Armstrong, W., Kent road, gentleman Swain, J., Soho tortoiseshell-comb -maker Clements, W., L am b e th-marsh, carver Dean, J., Islington, briek.maker Harlow, C., Somers-town, tailor Savage, J., Wandsworth, carpenter Yates, J , High Holborn, earthenware dealer Canis, , Charing-cross-yard, rope-maker Smith, C., Spalding, shopkeeper Fulcher, N., Queen-street, Pimlico, carpenter Underhill, D., Alresford, Kent, farmer Loving, T., Wardour-street, cabinet maker COUNTRY..--At the Guildhall, Haverfordw•e_t, February 2, at Ten o'clock. James, R., Narberth Mountain, fanner \Vhittow, J., flowellston, farmer Phillips, M., Haverfordwes,t, tallow.chandler SUSPECTED ROBBERY AND. MURDER. In our last we shortly noticed the loss of the Charles, of this port, at Ryhope, near Sunderland. Since then we have elicited several particulars which tend to excite a horrible suspicion of foul play hav ing been used towards the unfortunate master of the vessel, Captain Potts. The vessel sailed from Sun derland on Saturday the 12th instant, and was ob served beating against contrary wind and tides on Sunday. Of course, therefore, she did not make much head way, and about half past four on Sunday afternoon she was observed in broker.' water off Ryhope. Seeing the distressed condition of the crew, during Sunday, application was made to the person in charge of the life boat, for him to put off to her assistance with his crew. This, however, he declined doing. About half-past six o'clock on Sun day evening the vessel struck at a distance of only three quarters of a mile from the beach. Four men were observed between Sunderland and the 'place where the wreck occurred, watching, and these four t t men state that about seven o'coloche vessel came onk the same even ing the two boats belonging shore,—the long boat being regularly fitted for liv ing in a heavy sea, with only about twenty gallons of water in her bottom : the oars were all ready for being used. The men thus employing them selves called upon an agent of the Lord of the Manor, who assisted them to watch, but no other application was made for assistance. On the fa lowing day the body of Dixon the mate was foun se d ; he was completely dressed, but much bruid about the head, as were also the bodies subse quently found. Whether these bruises were ow inn. to the bodies being dashed against t he rocks, or to human agency, no clue has yet appeared. On the following Wednesday the body of Captain Potts s s t probably e was found on the beach, clothed only with a linen shirt. A day or two after some p ersons em p lo y ed in the Preventive Service near the s p ot where th e awful catastrophe occurred, observed four men di gg . ing a hole in the sands, who on disc overin g tha t they e belongedlndeNr worn rnnd, and therefore were watched, made a precipitate retreat, leaving behind them a shovel they had u sed. On examin ing the spot, th r e e bags of clothe s were fo und, which clothes Potts, and m o amongwh n them is a flannelssel l ef tshirtsi to the r at the time of the wrec k ; for it is n ot at all pro bable that he should have thrown off so mater ial a part of his clothing when suffering fro m i n clement Captainby the deceased P weather. This flannel shirt was perfectly dry when found ! Shortly after this discovery a relation o f the deceased accidentally overheard two of the four men on whom su s p icion at present rests , quarrelling about a brace of pistols ; on seeing him they w alked off in different directions. This is important only because Captain Potts was known Co have been in possession of a brace of pistols.—Boston Gazette. A few days since, at the parish church of Sil verten, in this county, a woman was married, churched, and hit child christened, all in ono day...-Exeter Mfred. LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBT ORS' C OURT. -, - - _ Charles- Frederick • Wooleott was opposed:in his application to be dischasgediby Mr. COOKE, on be half of Sir James Jell, Knt., Mr. Cooxe stated that the insolvent had made Sir James a'debtor in his schedule for 3004, whereas his (Mr. Cooke's) client claimed to be a creditor for upwards of 2.50/.. He (Mr. Cooke) wouldproduce. an account stated between the parties, when, in Sept. last, the insolvent acknowledgedlimself indebted to, Sir James Jell, in the sem of 2S4i.' After calling a% witness to prove this fact, he should pray the Court to refer the case to the officer for investigation. t t h e ei s .proprietortown-agent o f th t e o Sir j lr a . m W es m iel G i; ( K iod nt. st .n a , t h e o d 1 1 , a v marble-works at Newnham, in. Gloucestershire.— The insolvent was formerly an a, vent to Sir James. On the 29th of September last wi tress balance in the insolvent's presence, w h e n he admit ted'drew out a himself a debtor in the sum of 2 8 ' 44 The insolvent, when called upon to explain this, stated that hedid not . deny the balance as set forth in the book produced, but there was a et Im,lnis, si ° 3 , 9 due to him to the amount of upwards of 5.5 i I h , w", ~' would leave a balance due .to him (insoh 'ex) o l s te o n me w rs a :a o r p e po spe se c d ta . b b l y e M bu r t . c H he E r, A r T e n sidi o 4 ll . y:i about 3001. Adjourned sine die.. s hal j f a or s M r A . Somers' Town. The clerk to an attorney put in an examined . copy; of a judgment recovered in the Palace Court,. and since removed by certiorari into the Court of King's Bench ; whereby it appeared that the action was brought for defamatory words spoken by the insol vent to and concerning the plaintiff. - 7 The COURT requested the libel twbe read,.which ran as follows :—" Sam, you are. a . thief; yorn promised to give me a ticket, and now I'll give: your one. You keep your slaughter-house open all night for the purpose of receiving stolen goods." If Twss to do the thing which is right, I should goes a wit ness against you before a magistrate,•and then. I should hang you. You know very-well. that your life is in my hands." Mr. HEATII said that was his case, and the ver dict was given' for 10!. damages. Mr.- WOODRUFFE examined the insolvent, • who, stated that the conversation passed between them at the Brill public-house. He had 'formerly lived se veral years as foreman to Mr. Somers. • • Mr. Somers being sworn, said that :the insolvent used the slanderous words opposite his shop before a number of customers, and not at a public-bouse as, he 'had stated. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said, that in cases or this sort the Court usually regulated their judgment , by the amount of damages, but there were cifeum stances which warranted a departure from this dis tinction. After animadverting upon the insolvent's. conduct, the Conrt sentenced him to be confined: within the walls of the prison for five calendar months from the date of filing his petition, at the suit of the opposing creditor. Thomas Myrkeford was heard upon his petition to be discharged. • It turned out upon investigation, that tho insol vent had concealed from his -.estate paper, property he possessed when he west to 'prison, over and above the articles - excepted by the Act of Parliament. The COURT remanded him for three' calendar months within the walls of the prison: H Henry 'de' Bruno' Austin rwas `e.taptised . by Mr. COOKE for Mr. Dagleisb, Messrs. royndei and'. Ce., Mr. West, and Mr. Lord. The insolvent had been an extensive builder, and had lately erected three houses in Wellington-road, and a villa in Melina-place, Marylebone ; he owed Mr. Dagleish 941. ; Messrs. Poynder and Hodson, 120/.,, and a considerable part of their deals and materials• were used upon the premises in Wellington-read.-- Had a brother who lived in Great Alie-street, who• was also a builder, who disposed of the latter pre mises for 500/., subject to a former mortgage for . 4001., to satisfy a debt which he owed to his brother several years ago. The villa in Marylebone was. mortgaged to a lady for 300/., beyond which it was not encumbered. William Austin (the insolvent's brother) t in e l o 8 0 2 6 7 i , da my . don of an old debt. Mr. Comm contended that the case came w i t hi n , exa mined by Mr. COOKE—I am not at present in em barrassed circumstances. I was so several y e ats ago, but I do not recollect the time. Sin ce that time I have recovered myself, and made a pretty tu si g ne. n e d ip some the houses 21st o o t' August, me brotheras the operation of the 49th section of the Act, the insolvent having made a fraudulent assignment to his brother. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said, that there was no doubt but the insolvent intended, by an undue preference to his. brother, to make away his pro perty fraudulently, but the assign ment so made was no t worth a farthing. Looking, however, at the insolvent's int ent i on , t he judgment of the Court was, that the insolvent be re manded and confined within the walls of the prison for seven calendar months, for fraudulently making away with his property. Mr. Lord was appointed assignee. The following anecdote is circulated about the west end of the town ; of course we cannot vouch for ito t r uth. When instructions Were sent out to a gallant Ad miral in the East, there was mingled with them many advices to use all possible caution in acting upon them , Th ese , we believe, passed through the hands of a great per sonav, who is said to have added the following charac teristic note :—" Dear transmit to you year in structions. They call on you to be very cautious and pru dent. All I can say, as a brother sailor, is,' Go it Ned " Your's truly; --- -"—New Times. BIRTHS. On the 29th inst. at Tulse-hill, Mrs. Lovegrove, of awn. On the 27th instant, at Rosebank, near Glasgow, Mrs. Mackinnon, of a son and daughter. On the 30th inst. at Kensington, Mrs. Harrison Codd , of a son. On the 30th inst. in Euston-place, the lady of Jackson Walton, Esq. of a daughter. Om the 27th inst. at Milford Haven, the lady of Willis'' , Harvey Hooper, Esq. R.N., of a daughter, still born. On the 28th inst. at Carmarthen, the lady of John Uniacke, Esq. of a son and heir. On the 29th inst. in Bolton -street, the lady of Philip Sidney, Esq. of a son and heir. . . MARRIED. On the 15th inst. at St. George's Church, Ha n over' square, Charles Somerville Macalester, Esq. eldest so n of Lieut.-Colonel S. Macalester, of Loup and Kennon, to Miss Mary Adeline Brabazon Lyon, only child of Lieut' t o Louisa, Cooper, ofsom daughtereSomerset-streets s o t f r ee Si: Edward Lyon, R.N. Bart. of Theobald's Park, Herta' On the 23,1 just, at the Bojn.rdit_isstlrteeAt.mbassador's Chapel' at Paris, by Bishop Luscoinbe, Edward Sherlock Gooch' Esq. eldest son of Sir Thomas Sherlock Gooch, Bart. M.F' arth, by the Rev. John Wino' of Georgeß ena c ß r e e - e la s t a o l 1, 1, Suffolk, Prescott, On the 30th inst. by license, at Marylebone Churclo Mr. A. Andrews, of Bread-street, Cheapside, to Mad Lightfoot, Esq. to Miss Lodge, both o f Askrigg•_ __ __._ .-_:,. __..., -- p N, Anne, Portman- s quare. at i m i On the at o hn n je_ lf in2q , 14 d e a a st daughter hnastnet inst. aoNtf New v. I 1 r s I:. - - - O n - _ - - DIED. 21th inst. at his h ous e, D enmar k -court, ExotExeter'stree t strand, after a painful illness, Mr. T. B ar t on , ire two, ..... dt, he 0: . f the a 29th inst. inst. at Hastings, i n the 26th year of 0 a ge, James 'Martineau Lee, Esq. of N orw i ch. On the 27th inst. at Bulhampton, Haute, Elizabt Martha Chieliely Chapeau, widow of the late Rev. Job ° Chapeau. On the 26th inst., at. Craven-buildings,Drary-141 after a long and protracted illness, w li e h she bore wi patient resignation, in the 26th year a c'he r a ge, Jane , wv ,htr whose ' lose 'will be sincere/ On the 30th inst. at his hous e in t h e Ci rcus, ,G re gir wick, John Nicholson' Inglefteld, Eq. aged 80 years. , On the 29 th inst. 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