The Sun. — London, England, 1828-04-11 00:00:00

- - from inisin'aiia'getndiit in the Colonies, ut from the debilitated ',:ondition of the Colonists them- selves, and l a y the catre taken to prevent marriages, or other connubial connections of a shorter Jura- Lion. No marriage of one colonist with an:Jfner is allowed, unless either one of the con tracting parties, or their parents, be a widow or a widower, and in possession of a farm. A con siderable number of young c olonists are also( annually returned to so ciety, with competent powers and ca p ac iti e s for earning their own sub sistence." Th e g reat benefit of this system would seem to be, that it places those who, from a variety of circumstances, are unable to t a k e ca r e of themselves, in situations in which they can be subjected to a wholesome restraint, by which means not only are they themselves exempted from much suffering, but the burden of tbtii maintenance to society is less than t'.l. would amount to were they suffered to be at large. .4 People (says the writer) tong accustomed to poverty, however virtuous . in other respects, with difficulty refrain frem extravagance, when .sod tlenly placed over a value of 200 florins ) or 300 florins in crops ; they have been found incapable f)i regulating their resources in such a manner, their maintenance during a whole year requi , .. For these reasons it has been necessary rentOrce ;tich precautions as may durin t'ne whole year secure the indispensible necessaries of life. The chief objectors to these eestraints arc those eel ..lictedd_ to drinkk. Their income is paid in cards ; and when they wish to purchase any thing out of the Colony, they must be accom panied on certain hours, by an inferior officer to the town or village shop. The Dfrec iion in every Colony must take care that this rule be strictly enforced. It is incredible how gin h as b e en , abused by the lower classes in Holland, and how much care is necessary to destroy the pernicious practice of tippling.'' The Colonies veceive allowances f tne re espective parishes for the poor they ell c,so that the poor may be said to be farmed ( vtto them. The difference between this sort o farming and that which is known here, is, that our poor so t:arined out are merely fed in idleness: No mendicants ace now allowed in the Netherlands. "No person, we are told, avcustomed to en counter the mendicity of Holland in 1815 and eticeeeding years, can return now to that count without being struck with the total disappe ar . wince of the hosts of beggars, or oral vi si t th e Colonies in which these mendicants are now s o profitably employed, without feeling convinced of the actual efficacy of the cure." We know of no greater evil than mendicancy, and it is int , possible to put it down by any other means than maintaining, arel subjecting to such restraints as are necese t ny, those who are tither unable to ';ilPl)(2.rt themselves, or unfit, from bad habits, to be, trusted with self-government, They who complain of abuses under the Poor Laws in the present day in England, would do well to con y;ult the writers who described the evils produced by a different state of things. In a valuable Treatise on Agriculture, by Hartlib, the friend 1 of Milton, in 1651, he again and again speaks of the difficulty the cultivator hs.s to contend with iii the eagrant population and bad habits of the people living about the commons, then numerous 41 England. "It were convenient (he says) that every parish through the nation should have a stock for to set their poor to Work, that the :young children and women might not run up and down idle, and begging or stealing (as they do in the country) l'apples, pease, wood, hedges, and so by little and little are trained to the gal lows. That a severe law should be enacted against those who run up and down and will not work ; foe if all know that they may have work at hnrne, and cam more within doors honestly, tlaan he running rogueing up and down, why should they not compel them to it ? And though some may think the parishes will lose by this way, because that the stock wrought will not be 'nut off but with loss, as perhaps 10/. will be brought to Si., yet let them coneider how much they shall save at ineir doors, how many incon veniences the arc freed from ; their hedges in the country Sh y not be pulled, their fruits stolen, uor their corn purloined ; and further, that the poor will be trained up to work, and therefore fit for any service ; yea, and in their youth learn a calling by the which they may get an honest livelihood ; and I dare say their assessments for the po o r would not be so frequent, nor the poor so numerous; and the benefit which redounds to the nation would be very great." It would appear, too, that Captain Rock was not un known then in England, for he says, " I dare not advise to take in commons, fens, ice. and to improve them for this use (the good of the poor), lest I should too much provoke the rude merciless multitude." We cannot afford pace at present for an account of the machinery of Colonies, which we are told have sur mounted all tha difficulties with which they had to contend in their outset. " General Van den Bosch, under whose patriarchal and disinterested care, as Director of the Colony of Frederiks Ord, the Colonial system had been commenced and matured, and of whose services it is impossible to speak in terms of sufficient praise, was not long in perceiving the dangers to which his beloved enterprise was exposed, and in applyin g a remedy adequate to the impe ndin g evil." In the present state of Ireland, some mode of disposing of the redundant population is absolutely necessary. The Colonies of Holland are not, like Mr. Oven's parallelograms, hives for swarming the country with paupers. They place the people under restraint, thereby guarding against an in- The difficulty would be to crease of people. find in a country like I re land, in which the rich are so worthless, and the middle classes not over • and above good, honest, and conscientious peo ple like the Dutch, to manage works of the kind without jobbing. We shall return to this subject.—Morning Cltrontc: l6 N'hile the combatants fur and against Oe Marylebone Vestry are following up ti,acli other's ar gu ments with so much zeal, we beg leave to supply them with one fact , which on this, as on most other occasions, is worth a hun dred opinions. It is this—that the Select have, ,Nithin these few days, reduced the rates for the rcesent year fourpence in the pound. Whether t hi4be .d cwing to the good management of the the scrutinizin g vigilance of their op pon '‘r, to these and oth er cause s conjointly, matte, but little. The parties most interested w ill d ra w their own conclusion s upon the sub ject ; and they will probably he th e correct ones . We are quite convi nced that this i s f ar f rom being the worst -managed parish in the metro polis : on the contrary', e very day show s h ow ex tensive and how gross t h e system o f p aroc hi a l abuse has become. W e have frequently urged upon the Legislature the propriety of calling for Returns of the total amount and particular s o f all parochial rates levied in the different parish es within the Bills of Mortality, under the various heads of Poor—Church— arch ng— Li g hting, &c., not omitting the e normous sums levied upon the inhabitants of the metropolo the shape e pew-rents, which, including those paid in chapels and churches, amount to a sum which, we are assured, would he inilyasiounding, if accurately known and ascertained; for, strange to say s notedly is the country at large, and the parishes individually, taxed for the repair and building of places of worship, hitt these who are to occupy them pay a rent s for sittings, equal, in so►ne instance ~ to the rent of a good house in many rills of the kingdom. What v'e would press upon the public and . ..,r6h Parliament is the truth, upon this 'occasion, of the well-knovoi maxis::, that " knowledge is pOvver." Withettt A full knowledge of the 'ext'ent 'of The evil, we defy the Legislature t% grapple with it wisely or justly. It ts in vain to nibble at this or that parttillar Vestry, or this or that parish dinner or particular abuse ; but it is by looking, at the 'Mink subject—by being able to see dt one view the extent to which the system of local taxation is carrieit—ghttt Parliament is likely to cure the iy exercising a greater jealousy in thus delegating its own powers tt Self-elected, self auditing, and irrespeAaible bodies. We have no doubt bktt That the spirit which is now so Himierally afloat upon the subject,, will 3 at all events, effect much good; but, if rightly directed, and, above all, calmly aid discreetly exercised, it must, in tt,t end, produce a thorough reform in .11 - .2:e- - n which was fast generating into—if it had not already become—one of entire, tm compromising, abuse.—Aff)ht6ig Among the pro ts talked of for the better protectivii bf the environs of London from the - extensive depredations to which they have, of ' late, become subject, is the establishment of P 0 ,,, lice Offices in various parts of tlif Oiltsidrts the town—such as Hackney, Greenwich, Lam beth, and Ihtninersmith. This may be the wzky, tAitainly, of furnishing a very snug provi sion for a certain number of very learned, but briefless Barristers ; but we are by no means convinced that it is the " One thing needful" upon the ttitasion. It is quite as easy, we should think, to carry the thieves to justice, as to convey justice to the thieves ; nor are we at all certain that an increase of justice-shops may not act as an increase, to a certain degree, of the materiel which sUpplics them with occupation. Whtil the neighbourhood of London wants is An improved system of day and night patrol ; and if it could comprise any part of that system of self-protection, known by our ancestors under the denomination of " Watch and Ward," it would be better than any merely paid set of peace officert,'. But this idea we fairly confess that we despair of seeing realized. The last feature of the self-protecting system—the parish constable—is fast falling into disuse, mainly from the little judgment and too frequently the gross partialitN, with which he has been selected. However this may be, the lives and property of people cannot await the discussion of abstract principles. A great and increasing evil is at their doors ; and they have a right to look to the Legislature (and we trust they will not look in vain) for prompt and effectual protection.— Rid. We do not feel disposed to cavil at any public body for advocating exclusively what may be, or appear to be, its peculiar interests, because it is by that process alone that the interests of the community at large can be known, and a balance struck between such as are conflicting. The Report of the Shipowners, which we give in an other place, is altogether an exclusive document, in which the rights, privileges, or conveniences of any other part of the public do not seem to have been even remotely considered ; but we do not like it the worse on that account. There is something honest and intelligible in the plain pursuit of their purpose, and, while we differ on some points from their con clusions, we give them every credit for their straight-forwardness. Of the exclusiveness of their views, we may cite as an example their complaint of the duty on marine insurances. That duty amounts, we believe, at the utmost, to about 50 per cent. on the premium of insurance, but in the great number of instances it does not exceed 10 per cent. During the war it did not, in many cases, exceed 1 per cent. The duty on fire insurances is 166/. 13s. 4d. per centum ; yet the destruction of property, on shore, by fire is quite as much to be deprecated as the destruction of property on board by water. One of the arguments by which a reduction of duty is sought is very curious the transmission of goods, by canals and on roads, is comparatively cheaper, says the re port, than the transmission by sea. Why ? we should ask. Because it is not insured. Insure goods going by the track-boat or the carrier, and the duty, in proportion to the premium, would be infinitely more burdensome than that on ma rine risks. The only argument against a duty on insurance that does not apply to every duty is, that its imposition has a tendency to keep men from insuring, and thus, pro tanto, to repress inventions and a ppliances for prevent ing the destruction of property. So far as such a duty may lead to the destruction of property which might have been saved, it is no doubt decidedly injurious, and that, on shore, the fire insurance duty does so can not be doubted. But this objection has no reference except to fire insurances on land. The nature of marine insurance and of land insurance is decidedly different. Were every ship that sails the ocean insured, or were not an individual vessel insured, the loss to the community would be precisely the same. The only difference would be in the parties who bore it. Nay, in the former case, the Shipping Interest, as a whole, would be gainers, for they would save the profits of the Underwriter. Since, there fore, the tax does not operate to the disadvan tage of the community in any other way than every other direct tax does, it is not more ob jectionable than a thousand others. The other argument, that foreign vessels do not pay any such duties is better, but still their amount is so small, that it is extremely difficult for any one to believe, if British vessels could compete with foreign vessels without it, they could not com pete with it. And there is one consideration involved in such an argument which the Ship owners have overlooked. Their claim to pe culiar protection, like that of the landed in terest, and every other interest that pre fers claims, proceeds on th 6 fact that they have burdens to hear which are not borne in other countries. How then can they, at one and the same time , c a ll for a diminution of the bur dens, and an incre ase of the p rotection ? Ano therinstance, among several, of the exclusive ness of spirit I A h id ' we are noticing, might found in a representation to Government, made in the spring of 1826, setting forth the pro priety of stationing an arme d force on the island of New Zealand, for the protection of the parties who might be employed ashore in refitting ves sels that happened to lose masts or other spars in those seas. The soldiers were to be employed to check or prevent the fatal quarrels which 'fre quently arise out of time wanton outrages of the sailors. Now, we beg our readers to mark the nature of this request. Government were to plant a garrison of three or Jour hundred Men in that distant spot, to build a fort for their protection, mid to subject the country to a tax of some thirty or forty thousand pounds a year for their maintenance, and other matters necessarily connected with their settlement, in order to shoot the savages when they were sb very unadvised as to knock a ruffian on the head, for ttiantaniy °lib - aging them. And all this was to lie done, merely because a few British ' merchants had vessels in the neighbourhood, one in twenty of which might spring a mast, which it was inconvenient to go to Sydney to get re paired, in consequence of is hieh losses an d crones the public might pay a shilling a butt dearer for sperm oil, than they otherwise would have done. Turning from these petty matters to the question of the Shipping interest in a general and national point of view, we congratulate that great and important body, with whose prosperity the. glory of the empire has been so long and so intimately united, and from which its very ekistence cannot be divided, on the pros pect of a revision and consolidation of the Mari time Laws. It is impossible, with the present united Ministry, and with the experience of the last three or four years, in which the value of the alterations in our Navigation Laws have been pretty fairly tried, that many improvements will not suggest themselves during the investigations to which such a revision must lead. We com mend the resolution of the Meeting to form a Society on a broader basis than that ,which was yesterday dissolved. They cannot too much strengthen themselves nor their cause. They may rely, we believe, so far as their complaints are well founded, on redress of their grievances, and the more readily, that they are a body with which the mass of the community sympathize as sincerely as we believe their rulers do.—New SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Sercn o' Clock. THE LONDON GAzErrE OF THIS EVENING. Whitehall, April 9. The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Angus MacGillivray to the church at Strathy, in the parish of Farr, in the presbytery of Tongue and shire of Sutherland The King has also been pleased to present the Rev. Davjd Stewart to the church at Kinocbpelvie, in the pa rish of Torosay, i❑ the presbytery of Mull and shire of Argyll. The King has also been pleased to present the Rev.- Alexander Ferguson to the church at Tobermory (in the in the island of Mull), in the parishes of Kilninian and Kilmore, in the presbytery of Mull and shire of Argyll. The King has also heed pleased to present the Rev. Robert Williamson to the church at Croich, in the parish of Kincardine, in the presbytery of Tasn and shire of Ross. The King has also been pleased to presene the Rev. Neil 111‘Lean to the church of Ardali or Ardellum (in the island of Ilya), in the parWles of Kilninian and Kilmoref in the presbytery of Mull and shire of Argyll. The King has also been pleased to present the Rev. John Robertson Glass to the church at Inch, in the parish of Kingussie, in the presbytery of Ahernethey and shire of Moray. Crown•Oftice, April 11. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS TRY:SENT PARLIAMENT. COUNT' or ANCLESEY.—Henry Paget, Rsq. com monly called the Earl of Uxbridge. SHIRE or DumratEs,—Vice-Admital Sir William Johnstone Plore, G.C.B. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Nottingham. • Granville Venables Vernon, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieute nant. Dated March 17, 1828. John Emmerton Wescomb, Esq., to be ditto. March 17. Frederick Robinson, Esq. to be ditto. March 17. Philip Palmer, Esq. to be ditto. March 17. Commission in the Ist Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey. William Byron, Geat. to be Ensign, vice Shelton, re signed. March 29. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Peter Burke, Haymarket, victualler. Michael Duffield Slater, Devonshire-squate, Bishops gate .street, hatter. BANKRUPTS. William Thacker, Basinghall-street, Black a ell-hall factor, to surrender April 18, 25, and May 23, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Freenian, Ileatlicote, and Osborne, Coleman-street. William Hancock, Bolsover, Derby, innkeeper, April 22, 23, and May 23, at two, at the Angel Inn, Sheffield. Hardy, Sheffield; King, Bedford-place, Russell-square. James Brooks, Wolverhampton, worsted-spinner, April 24, at three, 25, and May 23, at twelve, at the Royal Ho tel, Birmingham. Swain, Stevens, Maples, Pearsa, and Hunt, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Foster, Wolver hampton. Harry Swaine Mason, Iligh-street, Borough, stationer, April IS, 25, and May 23, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners. Rhodes and Burcb, Chancery-lane. Edward Fowler, Finsbury-place, Finsbury-square, livery stable. keeper, April 18, 25, aml May 23, at twele, at the Court of Commissioners. Isaacs, St. Mary-Axe. John Burch, Exeter, horse-dealer, April 30, and May 1, 23, at tee Old London Inn, Exeter. Joseph Barnes Sanders, Exeter, or S. B. Jackson, ICew-Inn‘ London. George Albot, Catnphill-cottage, Warwick, scrivener, April 22, 2;3, and May 21, at the office of Mr. Bernard J. Wake, Sheffild, Yorkshire. Walker, Symonds .inn, or H. S. Wake, Worksop, Nottingham. Edward Linford, Chapel-street, New-road, Middlesex, April 18, 25, and May 23, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners. Robinson. Orchard-street, Portman-square. John Thomas Richardson, Cobham, Surrey, grocer, April 22, 25, at twelve, May 23, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Molloy, New-square, Lincoln's-inn. James Mitchell,White Lee, Halifax, Yorkshire, worsted manufacturer, April 25, at six, April 26 and May 23, at eleven, at the Office of Messrs. Alrxander, Halifax. Wal -1 ker, Lincoln's-inn-fields; and Alexander, Halifax. We have seen a gentleman who states, that the report of the loss of the East Indiamen, stuck up at LLOYD'S, as stated in our second page, is not ge nerally believed in the City. LENT ASSIZES. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORK, APRIL 7. DODSWORTH, &C. 27. INGHAM. Sir JAs. SCARLETT (who was specially retained on the part of the plaintiff) stated the case. Tile question which the Jury would have to determine was, whether there existed a custom within the soke or manor of Wakefield, which bound all persons re sident within that manor to have their corn ground at the soke-mill. The right claimed by the plaintiff was of very ancient origin, and depended on the same law as regulated the right to other descriptions of property. It had been erected by the lord of the manor, who in granting lands had stipulated that the tenant should - do suit and service to the mill as past of the condition of the grant—just as a brewer of the present day was in the habit of in serting clause in the lease of a public-house, by which he hound the tenant to purchase beer only from Ins landlord's brewery. The questions raised on the present issue were two, both embracing the general question of the right,but one raising a question whether the defendants lived within the district of the soke. Both these questions had been tried at the spring As sizes for 1826, and a verdict found for the plaintiffs; but in the course of that inquiry a question, not con templated by eitherparty, had arisen on the part of the Learned Judge,viz. whether one of the four mills with in the soke, viz. the mill called Sandal Mill, had bee n originally a soke mill, or whether it had been erect ed by the lord of the manor, in modern times, as an auxiliary mill to the others. - The consequence had been, that a new trial had been directed, and two issues sent down for their decision. As he had al ready adverted to it, he would take the second issue first. That issue was to determine whether the mill at Sandal Magna was an ancient mill. The other issue was to determine whether, although it was admitted that the inhabitants of the soke were bound to grind all corn used and consumed within their houses at the lord's mill, they might not pur chase for domestic use flour that 11;4 not been ground at the lord's mill. That was an important question, for the very existence of the mills de pended upon it. The plaintiffs contended, that though the persons resident within the soke might if they pleased, prefer buying flour to buying corn, still they were bound to buy flour that had been ground at the lord's mill. The evidence which he (Sir J. Scarlett) should offer would show, that whenever an infraction of the right had been disco vered, proceedings had invariably been taken against the offenders, and they had always submitted and paid a fine. Another description of evidence would be the manner in which evasions of the right had been carried on. He should show, that whenever corn had been ground out of the soke, it had been furtively, without the knowledge of the proprietors of the A great deal of documentary evidence was then read. It consisted of the records of suits instituted in the Court of the . Duchy of Lancaster, against persons who had violated the right of soke, and de crees in favour of the custom. _ _ _ A large body of witnesses was also called, who deposed to the invariable custom within their memory, of the inhabitants of the manor of Wakefield using the mills within the soke. They also spoke to in stances of the violation of that custom, but described those instances to have been effected privately, and by stealth. The examination of the witnesses lasted nearly the whole of the day. Mr. BROUGHAM addressed the Jury for the de fendants.—The right'that day claimed by the plain tiffs was one which was to have the effect of restrain log and tying up the hands of every man within the soke, whether wealthy or poor, from purchasing the very first necessary of life any where except at the shop or mills of Sir W. Pilkington, and where he sold his flour at any price he chose to value it at, and that without any restriction whatever. If such a custom was to be allowed, no inhabitant of the soke could purchase one ounce of flour for his consumption, unless ground at the soke-mills; nay, he could not purchase even a loaf of bread, a cake, or a glass of beer, unless the flour and malt were ground at these mills. Surely this was what his Learned Friend reluctantly called a mono poly—a common monopoly, he would say, of the very worst description, and which the plaintiffs now sought to perpetuate. His Learned Friend said that in times of scarcity, the inhabitants of the seke would reap the benefit of the sokesmills, that they would be always sure of a supply of corn, as the custom would then bend to the necessity, and foreign flour would be permitted to be introduced into the soke, and that they would be supplied on reasonable terms. But he ( Mr. Brougham) would contend that a period of scarcity was the moment when the miller of this soke-monopoly would raise the price of flour to the very highest, and that was the moment when the poorer inhabitants of the soke would be at the mercy of the monopolists. He submitted that never before was there heard of such a custom as was now sought to be put upon the inhabitants of the soke, set up. It was not in human nature that a man would give up his chief right, and fight and stipulate for the lesser. He had heard of a birthright being sold for a mess of porrage, but the plaintiffs would have them here believe that the defendants had given up their birthright, and did not even stipulate for a single spoonful of porrage. He contended, that under all the circumstances it would be a gross absurdity to suppose that any set of men could have • ever agreed to subject themselves to such a custom, —one which imposed so much hardship upon them, and entailed so much injury upon the poorer part of their community. The Learned Counsel, in con clusion, addressed himself to the documentary evi dence, and contended that the plaintiffs had altoge ther failed in showing this to be an immemorial right, but much less to be a right at all. The Learned Counsel having concluded his speech at a quarter to ten o'clock, the Court then adjourned until this morning at eight o'clock. Mr. Justice BAILEY took his seat on the bench at that hour, and summed up the case most minutely. At 12 the jury retired, and after an absence of eight hours and a half, they returned into Court, finding a verdict for the defendants; they finding that there was no custom within the soke to prevent the inha bitants from purchasing the flour they consumed xvithin the soke wherever they pleased. The jury also found that there was a custom to prevent the inhabitants of the soke from selling any flour within the soke except that ground at the soke mills. On Monday last Admiral Sir WILLIAM JOHNSTON E HOPE was re-elected Member of Parliament for the county of Dumfries. GRAND BALL AT THE ROTUNDA.—Last night the Grand Ball, under the immediate patronage of the Ladies PAGET, in aid of the funds for the Relief of Sick and Indigent Room-keepers, took place at the Ro tunda. At nine o'clock the great room, fitted up with great splendour, was graced by upwards of 808 of the most distinguished for rank and fortune in the metropolis and surrounding country. At ten o'clock his Excellency , the Marquis of ANGLESEY arrived, we understood unex pectedly. The Ladies PAGET had arrived a short time previously to their noble father. The dance was opened by Lady GEOAGIANA PAGET, and the Honourable Captain G RA v E s—Quadrilles were the order of the night. Two excellent hands were in attendance. The Noble Marquis retired at twelve o'clock. The Ladies PAGET remained up to one, when they also retired.—Dublin Morning Post. Saturday night, as Mr. Justice BURROUGH was proceeding to town in his carriage from Kingston, after finishing the home circuit, the portmanteau, which was fixed behind, and which contained, besides several do cuments and papers of importance, his Lordship's gown and wig, was cut from its fastenings by some of the " drags men" who lurk about the ro ids in the environs of London. The robbery was not discovered until the arrival of the Learned Judge's carriage in town. The following morn ing, the r‘ ad between the Baldfaced St ig and the Plough, near Wandsworth, was strewed with the fragments of his Lordship's gown, which the thieves cut up into small pieces, and dropped at intervals on the road. The wig shared a similar fate, some portion of which was stuck on spikes by the road side. The empty portmanteau was dis covered in a field near the spot where the thieves are sup posed to have cut it from the carriage. JUNCTION OF SOMERS A ND CAMDEN TowNs.—On Thursday a meeting was held at the Marquis of Hastings, in Ossulston-street, Somers Town, of persons interested in forming a straight line of road from Ossuls ton-street to Camden Town. Roads have already been formed across the fields from Seymour:.street and Union street, and the ar:vantages to he expected from a similar communication from Ossulston-street were set forth at some length by Mi. PORTINGTON, the surveyor. The expenct Of the undertaking was estimated at between 4001. and 5001. It was stated that the consent of the Duke of BEDICORD, proprietor of part of the land, had already been obtained ; and a deputation was appointed to wait upon the Brewer's Company, proprietors of other portions of the land, to solicit their acquiescence. Resolutions in further ance of the object in view having been adopted, and a Committee appointed to carry them into effect, the Meet ing adjourned. MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—A short time ago, as Mr. JACKSON, a respectable farmer of Wat terton, near Garthorpe, Lincolnshire, was riding home from Doncaster, when about a quarter of a mile from his farm, he was suddenly attacked by two men. One of the villains struck him a severe blow on the head, with a heavy bludgeon ; the effects of the weapon, however, were ren dered comparatively ineffective by the interposition of his bat. Although stunned and confused, so much so as, on his arrival at his own dwelling, scarcely to be sensible of the danger be had avoided, Mr. J. escaped through the spirit of his horse, which started off with him in alarm at the scuffle, and carried him in safety to his own door. A day or two after, in a ploughed field by the road side, be tween Garthorpe and Holdenby, immediately contiguous to the spot where the attr ck had been made, a grave was discovered, about six feet in length, closed up with thorns and moulds !—Hall Packet. OLD BAILEY, APR IL 10. John Young was indicted for stealing a miniature statue of Lysippus, from the house of Mr. Bailey, the sculptor, who resides in Percy-street, Rathbone place. From the evidence of Mr. Bailey, it appeared that the prisoner had been employed as a workman in his service for some time ; but after staying five months with him, he was discharged. Shortly after the statue in question ,was missed, and it was one to which the prosecutor attached great value, from the circumstance of its being supposed to be executed in the time of Pericles, which would make it about 2,700 years old. On search being made at the prisoner's lodgings, his wife endeavoured to conceal the figure, which was standing on the mantelpiece, from the officer who made the search; and in addi tion to that property of Mr. Bailey, several tools and implements for sculpture, also belonging to the pro secutor, were found in the prisoner's lodgings. A good deal of curiosity was exhibited on the pro duction of the statue, which was not above four or five inches long, and was composed of bronze. Mr. Phillips, who is the wit of the Court, made the dis covery that it was very little for its age. The prisoner received a good character, but the Jury, nevertheless, found him " Guilty." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. Alderman KEY yesterday summoned Juhn Ewall, the porter of the Golden Cross Inn, Charing-cross, for exacting more than is allowed by Act of I'arliament, for the delivery of a parcel, at the Worthy Alderman's house, in Abehurch-lane, on Saturday last. The Worthy ALDERMAN stated that he is in the habit of receiving a parcel every Saturday by a coach which comes from Hastings, and which professes to put up at the Bolt in -Tun, Fleet-street; the porterage from thence to his house is sixpence, and that sum he has always been charged, but on Saturday last the parcel came with a charge of one shilling and a penny for porterage, and to substantiate this claim it was alleged that the parcel came from the Golden cross, Charing-cross, and the distance from thence would justify such a charge. The porter said that he brought the parcel from the Golden-cross, and only charged what was stated on the ticket delivered to him by the book-keeper. Mr. Alderman KEY admitted that, but said that the pro prietors undertook to convey the parcel to the Bolt-in-Tun, Fleet-street, and the coach was the Royal Mail, conse quently after leaving the General Post Office, the coach must pass the Bolt-in-Tun and then go to Charing-cross, as if it were for the express purpose of increasing the distance as well as delaying the delivery of his parcel. The porter said that the coach came on alternate days to the Bolt-in-Tun and the Golden-cross, and on the day i❑ question it happened to conic to the latter place. Alderman KEY said that this was very extraordinary, as the parcel had come many times previously, and bad always come to the Bolt-in-Tun ; it was not on account of the extra charge, as for the delay in the delivery of the parcel, that he complained. The porter said that it was the proprietors that were to blame if there was any blame, and not him, as he had done his duty. The Loan Mav - ort considered that this was a regular trick practised by coach proprietors. The porter certainly was not to blame, but it behoved the proprietors to attend and clear up their characters ; it was well known that if one of their coaches booked a passenger to go into the city, they were bound to convey him there free of expence, al though the coach was going to the west end of the town, and he thought they were bound Ca do the same by a parcel. Mr. Alderman KEY said that the carriage of the parcel seventy miles was but one shilling, and the porterage from the Golden Cross to the City was thirteen pence, besides the delay and inconvenience. The City Solicitor and Mr. Holder were of opinion that the proprietors were liable to be indicted for a fraud ; and the matter stood over to see whether they would attend without compulsory measures being resorted to. Elizabeth Barrett and Elizabeth Gray, the two fe males who were remanded from Wednesday, charged with being concerned with three men, accused of the burglary on Fish-street.hill, were yesterday brought up for further examination ; their mistress attended and spoke in their behalf, and they were in consequence discharged with an admonition. MARLBOROUGILSTREET.—Yesterday, John Burgh Montgomery, who is charged with passing forged notes, and also with various man* swindling, was brought before Sir GEORGE FARRANT for - further examination.— The only additional charge that was preferred against 11;in was by a young man named Robert.Woolfe, who is in the employ of Mr. Gerock, musical instrument maker, of 79, Cornhill. He stated, that on the 15th October, about six or seven o'clock in the evening, the prisoner came to Mr. Gerock's shop and said he was desired by a lady to call at Mr. Gerock's and purchase a pair of castinets ; he ob served that the lady had infirmed him that he would be sure to discover the shop, as it was kept by a foreigner. A, pair of castinets were then handed to him, and he tended in payment a 10/. note. Mr. Woolfe asked him what name should he put upon the note, and the prisoner said " Pemberton." He was then asked if he was a relation of Mr. Pemberton, of Birmingham, the brass-manufacturer and he replied, that he was Mr. Pemberton's brother.— The price of the castinets was 10s. ; the prisoner received the change of the 10/. note, and then left the shop. Mr. Freeman, the Bank Inspector, said that the note in question was a forgery. The prisoner was asked if he had anything to state in his defence. He bowed in the most respectful manner, and said he should leave his defence to Mr. Vickery, his so licitor. Sir G. FARRANT said it 'was necessary that he should he again remanded for a week. He was then removed from the bar. The prisoner appeared to have been greatly altered since his confinement, and endeavoured to avoid the observation of the individuals who crowded the office. An elderly gentleman, named , Hornby, summoned a man named Jabez, the driver of a Paddington stage, for assault, and also for detaining a dog. Mr. Hornby stated that about four months ago he lost his carriage-dog. On Wednesday, whilst taking an airin g , he saw his dog in the New-road. lie immediately alighted, and called the dog by its name. It came up to him, and he took it up into his arms, and was about putting it into the carriage, when the defendant and some other men came up, dragged the dog away fiom him by the legs, and in doing so they tore his coat. Mr. Hornby's coachman corroborated the preceding statement, and identified the dog. The defendant said, he had no objection to let the com plainant have the dog, if it was his; but he should not Paddington, and th a t th e d og have aid h t e he liv c e o d lla in r. Bo i i i . e st e r a eL l . l t e , d a dirty looking fellow, who was given to him three months ago by a coachman. It was then in a very bad state from disease and other causes ; in fact, said the man, "it was a complete starvation " He called a coachman, named Cooper. who said puppy. that he became possessed of the dog from its following one gave it to the had a muzzle last tfil,whaleilt'nscomilmtiLapglesainWa'hnitchasklieedlcvaosopderriviifngth.e dloleg on when he followed the coach ? Cooper said he had ; and Mr. Hornby said, that the dog was muzzled at the time he wa% lost. Sir GEORGE FARRANT said, he should order the dc. lenient to find bail for the assault, and of course he would give up the animal. The complainant said he had no vindictive feeling to. wards the defendant; if he would deliver up the dog he would be satisfied. Sir GEORGE FARRANT said, that the assault was given so publicly, that the least the defendant could do would be to apologise in the newspapers. The defendant consented to this arrangement, again ex pressed his sorrow for having assaulted Mr. Hornby, and the matter ended. At Queen-square, yesterday, James Simpson, the pen sioner, who was charged with killing a sailor named Davis, at a dance, in Gardner's-lane, was committed to N e wgate for trial. The total value of all the naval stores in Chatham dock-yard has been lately computed at upwards of one million. under- EXPORT EXTRAORDINARY. --W stand that 500 bushels of wilks (periwinkles)c have been shipped from Dunbar this week for the London Market. This is rather a new article of export; but we are happy to think that onr southern friends may long have a plentiful supply from the shores of Dunbar. —Edinburgh Adver tiser. On Friday flight last Baron DURHAM arrived at Murton House, the seat of his uncle, RALPH Joni( LAMATON, Esq., Lambton Castle, from the repairs going on there, not being in a fit state to receive him. On Saturday the bells of this town and Gateshead announced the event by several merry peals. This is his Lordship's first visit to the North since his elevation to the Peerage.— Tyne 21(ferctsry. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, APRIL 10. The Court was occupied during the early part of the day in hearing Parish Appeals, but they were totally destitute of public interest. 11Ir. ADOLPHUS appealed to the Court on behalf of a person named George Dugarde, against an order of affiliation made against him by the Magistrates of Hatton-garden Office. It appeared from the Learned Glezitleman's statement, that the appellant is a mere lad, under twenty ye ars o f age , an d i s t h e son o f s jeweller residing in Claremont-square. The female (Mary Bennett), upon whose charge the order was made, had lived as servant with the appella nt's father, and she positively swore that the appellant was the father of her child. The intercouse, she said, took place one evening in February, 1827, when the lest of the family were absent. The father and brother of the appellant swore that they had not been from home together any one evening in that month. Other witnesses deposed to conversations with the female, which were at va riance with her present evidence ; but the Magis trates confirmed the order of affiliation, eleven being for, and only four against it. Mr. BRODERICK (with whom was Mr. LAvi) moved an appeal on behalf of Mr. Phillips, the pro prietor of the Cafe de I'Europe, Haymarket, against a conviction by the Magistrates of Bow-street, on the information of Johnson, far selling wine without a license. Mr. ALLEY, for the respondent, founded his de fence of the conviction on the 35th Geo. 111., which provides, that no person shall sell ale, beer, or ether exeiseable liquors, without being duly licensed. Messrs. BRODERICK and LAW, for the appellant, contended, that he having, by servitude, become a member of the Vintners' Company, was exempted from that law, as it possessed a Charter granted by James the First, which rendered it unnecessary for any of the Company to obtain a wine license. Mr. ALLEY thought the case so very clear, that he (lid not think it necessary to occupy the attention of the Court upon it. The sense of the Bench was then taken, and the majority were against the conviction. The OutfoxAs said, that though he differed from the opinions expressed by the majority, he would not oppose them. The conviction was quashed' The Court rose at five o'clock. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—ApriI 9. This day's market exhibited a tolerably fair time of yeti' . supply, but the demand of the buyers, which were rather numerous, having been as it were merely retail, each kind of meat went off tardily, at the following prices per stens of Sib. to sink the offals Beef 100. to 4s. lCd. Veal 10d. to 6s. ' 2 ' l ' Mutton 1 10 410 Pork 4 5 8 Lamb Bs. 6d. to is. tid. The foregoing quotations are, the best Mutton, with V9 3l ', :Al., and Lamb 6d. per stone beneath those of this day te'nnigh L A in prices of Beef, Pork, and inferior Mutton, no alteration. ~ considerable number of Sheep and Beasts left the market un HAILSHAM MARK ET.—April 9. 3s. 81 to 4s. 2d. Veal- 4s. CI. to 4a. Sa' Mutton--,. 4 6 4 6 `York --.. 4 0 0 0 (is. 4d. to 6s. Sd. Supply good for the time of year, and trade depressingly d,AL S'I'EYNING MARKET.—ApriI 7. Beef 4s. Od. to 45.611. Vaal .15.6 d. to 'sa. Oi 1 Mutton 4 4 5 0 I Pork . 4 0 4 lamb. _ 6s. 6d. to 7s. Od A moderate supply, and a dull trade. _ - ARUNDEL MARKET.—ApriIB. Met-- 3s. 10d. to I. (kl. Veal— 4s. tel to Zis• Mutton - 0 10 1 0 Lamb ---6 s. Od. to 66. 6d. A inoierately fair supply, and a very dull trade. COUNTRY CORN MARRETS DURING THEWEB . Wheat. ' Barley. I Oats. Bean:, Per Quarter. s. to s. $. to s. Is.to s. s. to #4 Blanetford — Brigg.. 49 34 22 26 18 21 34 60 66 32 '- 35 )8 24 3 1 0 8 7." C i :34" C ll ah u ma n rb t d 8 Huntingdon 50 —5 50 56 30 33 22 26 45 Long Sutton— 50 130 16 21 34 41 Louth 50 58 26 28 18 20 36 4 0 48 64 30 32 103 24 33 Newark --... 54 58 26 34 19 26 42 x , Nottingham 55 62 35 42 30 40 41 Peterborough 40 60 26 30 18 25 Plymouth ..........-- 52 33 25 27 23 -- 50 Pontefract.-- 53 30 20 22 41 tileaford 51 58 23 28 18 20 38 41 Uppinghairt --- 56 60 26 31 20 28 40 48 56 .22 26 15 19 32 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—ApriI 8. LEEDS CORN Alt KET.—April 8. We had a good supply of Wheat, and a fair arrival u f Barley and Beans, but only middling of other Grain Wheat of good quality ls. per quarter dearer, but ,the market ended heavy at the advance. Fine Norfolk a t ' Suffolk Barley sold at rather more money, but there wa s , no improvement in other descriptions. Oats and Silo' ling continue very dull sale. In Beans there was no 1 114 ' terial alteration in prices, but the demand was limited' Rapeseed was rather lower. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 h. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Sufiblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lb. - r' Oats, Potatoe —Mealing,Foreign 11d. to 12d....English I ld to 1214 d. Shelling 2Ss. to 2)s. per Rapeseed, English, 251. to 271. MARK. MANCHESTER YAIt No. 0. d. Mostle Twist, 20 It 4 to 11 30._12 121 40..15 10 Mule Cop MulecopTwistl 3 3e II 1.2 weft—' for wet) p 40..14 15 50 —1/ II) 80 19 20 70.,.22 24 Weft from 60..26 28 waste Fr r . —April 8. I N [3O —lu to p 40 --- 11 1 3 58 ---. 14 io 80 15 80 —. 2 9 2 A Rio _. 28 IVO ........... 34 ; 10 ---. 7 14 --....... 8 18 ---. 9 1 24 ....... 11:4 HOP INTELLIGENCE. WoacrsrEs., Aram 9.—ln our market OA Satur jli 6,2 pockets were weighed ; prices remain as befo. On the 10th inkt., in B L l o li n T do ti n, S. the lady of David Chi rKl Guthrie, Esq., of a daughter. On the 7th i ns t. a t Cl ap h am - r i se , tie lady of Mr. Ai de man Farebrother, of a daughter. On the 6th inst., in Devonshire-street, Portland-pli` the lady of J. A. riankey, Esq. of a son. On the 10th inst., at his house in George-street, Halo ° square, the lady of George Bankes, Esq. M.P. of a sor_i:/ MARRIED. t ll ' On the 10th inst., at St. Clement's, Eastcheap, by w Rev. John Digt , ) , rowel', rector of Torbryan, Devon, k o , Charles Partridge, Esq., of Nicholas-lane, to Mary A° eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Piper. oo On the 9th inst., at 'West Ram, the Rev. James Wr', Harding, vicar of Sulgrave and Bodington, Northampt.,'' shire, to Ann, daughter of Sawyer Spence , Esq. , Essex. S, La' Church, Isle 0: On the Bth inst., at _4. .awrence . Thanet, by the Rev. William Elwyn, Lieutenant Ge°," rt Sayer, R.N., to Roberta, youngest d aughter of the 'II Robert Curling, Esq., of Sandwich. On the Bth inst., at Badminton , Gloucestershire, Id, seat of the Duke of Beaufort, Thomas Henry Kingsct, Es 1., of Kingscote, in that county, to Lady Isabella Se r . set, sixth daughter of the Duke of Beaufort. On the 7th inst., Charles Shore, Esq., second soil Thomas Shore, Esq ., of Nottington , Dorset , to Sep' third daughter of John Blandy, Esq., of Linkinholt, H 83 3 ,0 On the lOth i nst., at St. Pancras, by the Rev. Jar, Charles Lucena, A.M., Lieutenant Charles Inglis, R' ,s eldest on of Commiss ioner Charles Inglis , R.N. , to Jac Harriet, sec ond d aughter of the late John Charles L uce' Esg. Consul General from the Court of Portugal. DIED. tl)t On the 9th inst., i n 131 ooms b ur y-square, aged 63' Hou. John Herbert H at i ng ton, late senior member of t r Suprem Coe unc inst., in il, Bengal. hte' On the 9th her third year, Georgina, dog of Mr. T. B. Burbidge, of Bridge-street, Southwark. j ) On the Ist. inst., at Paris, (on her return to E n glao , :., Elizabeth, second slaughter of the late Rowland Ilerk el ' Esq., of Bevefield, Northamptonshire. On Thursday morning, the 10th instant, at MO dt p near Watford, Rogers Parker, Esq. in his 84th ye"' his age. On the 7tk inst. at Kingthorp House, • ' . in the 78th year of his age, Thomas Lloyd, Esq. youtir of son of the late George Lloyd, Esq. of Barrowby Ha11 , ,,„‘ , this town, by Susanna, daughter of the late Sir Win. P" ton, of Chadderton, Bart.—Lecds Intelliyeucer. r i , near Piaer iSC l On the 9th inst., in Hunter-street, Brunswick.s ( &o at the advanced age of 78, Zaccaria Levy, Esq., of 131 • 1 1'!. court, London, and Regency-square, Brighton, nniveros , beloved and respected. ....e./ 1 ---------- tr PRINTED and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNO,4IIt SUN OFFICE, No. 112 ,Stran4l. ~/1~-~v~.~, IRELA] MEDIE the EMIGR Country. 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