The Sun. — London, England, 1828-10-10 00:00:00

European interest that Russia, which professed an anxiety for liberating Greece, should not be provided with a pretext for subjugating Turkey. Had Mr. Canning lived, Greece would have been long since freed, and he would not be afraid to tell Russia—" March against C o nstantinople at your peril." There is no reflecting roan, in or out of England, who does not feel the woful change that has befallen -the British empire within the last twelve m onths, and who will not exclaim against the monstrous indecency of 're proaching the lost statesman with the fruit of other men's imbecility. The Holy Alliance, which was shaken off by Mr. Canning, has made good a second gripe on England, w ith th e help of 'Lord Londonderry 's pupil. The Paris rumour, that the French troops are to leave the Morea after Ibrahim Paella's embarkation, 'is, we have reason to believe, totally unfounded.— Times. Mr. O'Connell has' published an Address to the people of the county of Tipperary, enjoining them to disconti nu e their public meetings, an d to cultivate the esteem of a friendly Government, and " that the Noble and Brave Marquis of Anglesea may be able to save their country, to put down faction and party of every description, and to do his duty to the King by seeing Ire land tranquil, free, and happy." All men pos sessed of the least influence among the Catholics are so sensible of the wisdom of course re commended by Mr. O'Connell, and the advan tage which a contrary course would give to their opponents over them, that we entertain sanguine hopes of the advice being followed. " Before the next summer comes," says Mr. O'Connell, " I trist that the accursed flag of Orange op pression will be laid in the dust for 'ever. I trust that Irishmen of every class, and of every sect and persuasion, will become friends and brothers, and that our lovely native land, Green Erin, of the rivers and streams, will be the abode of peace, and happiness, and liberty." And why not ? Why must Ireland be for ever divided into a nation of serfs and a handful of oppres sors ? The country possesses abundant resources, the population are strong in body, and as kindly disposed as they are shrewd. The peasantry have not been trained like ours from their infancy to regular industry, and indeed the possession of in dustry in Ireland would little avail them at present; but they are confessedly more moral than ours. There is not a farmer in that county in England which first set the example, of establishing Brunswick Clubs who would not; withoift fear, allow Irish labourers, in hay time and harvest, to remain weeks on his ground unemployed, when the hay and corn is not ready ; while, if so many Englishmen were idle on his farm, he would prepare himself, as a matter of course, for all manner of devastation. What is there, than, to prevent IriShmen of every . class, and of every sect and persuasion, to become friends and brothers? Nothing but the exasperation consequent on a struggle ?—which we trust, never will take place, and which we are sure never will take place, if the Catholics are not goaded into it—can ever inspire the natives of Ireland with a wish to separate their interests from those of this great empire. The two countries, from proximity, from community of ' language, habits, and pursuits—from mutual de pendence on each other—will always, ;f violence be not done to the natural order of things, be intimately connected with each other. The British empire, in its wide extent, is the natu ral field for the exercise of the energy and talent of the young and the ambitious of the Sister Island. The Irish of all classes are sensible of this : the Catholics are so sensible of it that they wish to be wholly and unconditionally one witl ) u's. Why, then, shall this consummation be prevented ? The Irish are chiefly Catholics, and the English are chiefly Protestants. No rational man, who has ever devoted e moment to the calm consideration of the subject, will say that there is anything in the Catholic Religion which ought to debar those who profess it from the enjoyment of every civil right enjoyed by the Protestants. There, is something so in sufferably arrogant iii the inhabitants of this island pronouncing the people of the greatest' part of civilized Europe unfit for the enjoyment of the same rights which they claim themselves, that they who entertain it must be far gone in deed in overweening conceit. But, as we have main and again said , it is not re li gio n which is e cause of an exclusion for which religion serves as the pretext. The most furious of the speakers at the Orange Meetings allow that cir cumstances very different from religion created the distinction between Protestants and Catho lics—that the distinction existed during the identity of religion, when Catholics of English descent oppressed Catholics 'of Irish descent — and that relig ion is now merely the most conve nient mark fo r verifying the descendents of those who were once the same in creed, though other wise distinguished. The Protestants of' the North of Ireland—if any credit is due to their champion, the R ev . Mr. Seymour—would be of all men the most mortified, were the native Irish to become Protestants, because it was not the creed, but the n w....ngness to pay higher rents and' to live on Irish fare, that formed the gravantot of his charge against them. Except that there be something irreconcileable between Protestantism and potatoes, and that the eon version of the MO should instantl m y i p a ro s ceena change in their tas te, the cabin w croach on the farm-house, and high rent woia ld s till be more acceptable than low rent. It is really edifying, however , t o hear the langu age made use of,-in this country as well as in Ireland, by those with' whom religion is a s talking-limse, and who vainly hope that they will succeed in imposing on the people. - Thus, at a public breakfast given to Mr. Peel, at Bolton, Colonel Fletcher, a name rather too well known, ex claimed, " If they did forsake those principles which brought about the glorious Revolution in 1688 ; f they deserted their God 71 OW, who had then brought them through that' tremendous time, then did they de serve to be themselves forsaken by him. He trusted and felt confident that the Right lion. Gentleman and his colleag ues would take care that no further encroachmnts were made on the Constitution, and that the principle which placed the present family on the throne of these realm - ;.1 would still be maintained, an that their God and religion would still govern the' !encl."— Really this is too much. st shall h a ve nothing among this crew for some time lint deserting a God, till the very parrots in the carres, in the . public-houses where their orgi es are celebrated, will be calling out do nal desert you,. God.— This is really most nauseating prophanity. But all this violence—all this attempt to frighten Ministers, will, we trust, be unavailing, to deter , them from attempting to put an end to the divi sions of Ireland: As a contrast to the scenes we now witness in Ireland, let our readers turn to the account of a dinner given to the Duke of, Boecieuch in Dumfries, which we baye taken f rom the Dumfries Courier. Why should Ire land not 00)41 that union between Jana:oloml t enant, and between tenant and labourer, which so happily characterises Scotland ? We hope to see the .day when the wretched faction which prevents this consummation shall be on a level with the rest of the people, and when the agri culture and commerce of Ireland shall vie with those of Scotland. At present, however, there are unfortunately, no Mr. Hope Johnstones in Ireland to hold to any of her Dukes the follow ing manly language, which was addressed to the Duke of Buccleugh : " You are placed in a situation which may truly be said to connect you with the great family of man kind, and which must render you the object of very general attention; and we, particularly and warmly interested in the welfare of this county wherein so large a portion of your Grace's property is placed, wid which must be greatly affected by the influence of your conduct and example, have felt ourselves called upon to come forward, and while we congra tulate you, as we beg most cordially to do, on your having attained to man's estate with such bril liant prospects open before you, to express also the expectations which we entertain. It is scarcely ne cessary for me to remark that it is not on the pos session of rank, and tvealth, and influence, consider ed merely as such, high, and ample, and powerful though they be, that we thus address your Grace. These do not necessarily confer a truly honourable distinction, or procure for the possessor the sincere tribute of respect and esteem. It is upon the pos session of these advantages, as the means by which your Grace may render yourself eminently useful to your_ country and your race, that we congratulate you. It is in the hope that we shall see those means applied in promoting every measure which tends to enlarge the suni of human happiness that we are now met. We look upon your Grace, and feel thus warmly interested in you, not at being raised by external circumstances above the consideration of the necessities of humanity, and a participation in its cares, but as being imperatively called by those very circumstances to devote your mind to the study of the causes which are productive of individual misery or national calamity, that you may labour to alleviate or remove them."—Morning Chronicle. It is one, of the characteristics of modern elo quence (and one, by the bye, which tends in no small degree to show its utter, worthlessness) to say a great deal about nothing. In this quality the late Mr. Coining was a peculiar adept. Ile could spread over an immense surface a mass of verl&ge with little or no meaning ; znd could charm the hearer for hours, who, in the, end, found upon reflection that, though he had been listening to a world of harmony, his under standing was but little enlightened by the eva nescent blaze he had been witnessing. Mr. Peel seems to have tickled the ears of the good people of Manchester with something of this kind ; for though his speeches at the public din ner and breakfast are exceedingly eloquent, we think that had the Right Hon. Gentleman played his hearers—" thk Cotton Lords," as Mr. Cobbett calls them—as many tunes on the flageolet, just as much ultimate effect would 'leave been produced. Ministers of State, Speechifying at tavern dinners is, at all times, a hazardous undertaking. Every word that drops from them is watched with as much eagerness as if their breath were gold.; and the very manner in which they cheer or disregarded a toast is looked upon with a mock importance, reconcilable only with that thirst for trifles which is one of the many symp toms of bad taste and of frivolity with which the age we live in is infected. Mr. Peel, to be sure, had, on this occasion, a task of more than ordinary difficulty to perform ; for not only was the state of public affairs such as to call for much discretion in commenting upon them, but he had before his eyes the memorable indiscretion of Mr. Huskisson, at Liverpool, and the still wore recent indiscretion of his own relation, Mr. Daw son, at Derry, to deter him from infusing too much meaning into any thing he might say. The Right Hon. Gentleman, it must be admitted, took an especial care to keep on the safe side in all that he said. Neither wine, nor Protestant ascendancy—neither early recollections, nor. the present enthusiasm of those about him, could thaw the reserve which he- had wisely prescribed to himself upon the occasion. Unlike Mr. Huskisson or Mr. Dawson, Mr. Peel will have nothing to explain away on his return. The Duke cannot say to him " You went too far in your speech at Manchester," for such, as we begin by stating, is the case with the modern eloquence, that nothing is more easy than to say a great deal and mean nothing.—Morn.Herald. On a recent occasion a Rev. Gentleman, in preaching . before the Corporation of Northamp ton, introduced into his sermon a defence of Corporations in general, and, as we think, inju diciously, adverted to their original institution, for the purpose of demonstrating their present wildness. This part of his discourse contained the - follcming passage :—When the minds of Men were enveloped with the clouds of the dark ages, and the barbarism of the feudal times checked every wish of the talented and indus trious citizen for the prosperity of his brethren, then w e e know that whole- nations presented a continued sAene of bloodshed. Soon did the legitimate Sovereigns discover their want of a bulwark to check the strides towards military despotism made by their unruly Barons, who had .no idea of that self-oheisanee which religion teaches. To whom could they look for the sup pi.vt they needed better than to the wealthy and respectable, and, I may add, pious citizens, who were oppressed by those lords of the soil, and who, when seconded by Royal approbation, would be able to check - the advance of those usurpers, as those whom they employed in their commercial orsuits could easily be arrayed against such as the haughty Baron forced to cultivate his estates, and to fight battles which might be ilt# effect either of his ambition pr his insolence ? Here, then, we may first discover th?. origin of chartered Corporations in this country." NOW this is sayin g , i n 4 g some time si nce stated r i t i la la m t ery: that Corporations were first established by the kingly power, as a check upon the ambitious inr What does this solence of the yewv, Lords. prov e ? Not that C orpoiations are now neces sary,iiPt that there tea s a ti me they were usefid thq . have outlived th e necess i ty created then!. The Feudal System has been long since overthrown. The embattled casiles, as well as the military domination of the reudal Lords, pnly exist in the recollecti on ro mance. But th ose Corpo rates of history them, still have or the scoter? PT exclusive privile ges , t h at Societies, 0* 4farc4c;ifferew, P4Tposes most of them sp ent w ere created. Th 9 4a fr ' o err n e r il t n l e i s o i le stitte f el o lde r ea ;:l b )i ati Ci tc i h t ef h oc e i: y toes which they levy #.,e in feasting and drinking, or Rvprse purposes, such as corrupt jobbing with respect to the else of the elective fraMise. 'Their powq is, in genera), a local tyranny over the r est of the inhabitants of t4O towns which they goYeill• In almost every Corporation there is al/0 that dictate to the bOdy at large, while they keep to themselves the principal share of the " loaves and fishes," and have the vices of the Feudal . ISystem without io • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—A very odd rase came on before Sir PETER LAURIE, who sat for the Lord Mayor. A grey-headed man, upwards of 70 years of age, charged the officers of Bishopsgate parish with having refused to support him and his newly married wife, who is upwards of 60, although they belonged to the parish. He was, he, said, too old to use any great exertion, but he was willing to do all he could to support himself and his wife, and he hoped the Lord Mayor would order the parish officers to pay them a weekly allowance. Sir PETER LAURlE.—Although you are too old to work, it seems you are not too old to marry. What could have induced two such objects to marry ? - ' - The pauper said, that he could not do without a com panion. He had been accustomed to a female companion from his youth, and he knew the value of a good " un." The beadle of Bishopsgate ward stated to Sir Peter that the pauper was a regular speculator in wives, and that the female who appeared by his side was his fourth spouse.— The moment he lost a wife he was ready to take another if he could get any parish to portion one of its female paupers off to him.—(A laugh.) Sir PETER-4 never heard of such a practice before.— How do the parishes portion off their paupers? The Beadle—When a parish has a troublesome woman, either as a drunkard or a prostitute, the officers very willingly give her two or three pounds as a marriage-por tion. This fortune is large enough to tempt male paupers to aim at her band. She has often to make her election from four or five lovers, but the officers will not give the cash to' any suitor who does not belong to some other parish. The moment the marriage takes place, the parish to which the female belongs gets rid of her for ever, and that to which the husband belongs is burdened with both.—(Laughter.) Sir PETER—And this old man, I suppose, is about to in troduce his wife to you as a new resident ? The beadle replied in tha affirmative. The couple were married about two months ago, but they spent the whole fortune in two or three days in gin and beer.—(Laughter.) Sir PETER thoright this way of adding to the number of paupers in any parish was very unfair. The beadle said the present pauper took his round of the workhouses the moment his last wife died, and before she was in her grave be had prevailed upon his present wife to have him. This was the way with hint on all former oc casions, and he always brought his wife into the workhouse of his own parish a week or two after marriage, and there she remained till death.—(Loud laughter.) The pauper said it was false to any he got the whole of his wife's fortin. The beadle of her parish gave him no more than 25e. after seeing them spliced. If he had re ceived the remaining 255.., he would have had no occasion to look to the parish for assistance, as be might have then set his wife up in cats' meat. Sir PETER LAURIE desired that the pauper's wife, who kept out of sight most of this time, should stand before him. The poor old woman made three attempts to get out of the justice room when she found the secret of her court ship was revealed, lout the crowd would not let her pass. She confessed to Sir Peter that her husband was not long paying his addresses to her. They were both widows, and were not likely to have children,--(a laugh)—and he asked her to speak for a•fortin to the beadle, and they would get married. Sir PETER-And what did you do with the 2/. 10s. ? The old woman replied, that she never saw a farthing of the money ; but she believed the beadle kept half the fortin himself. If her husband .thought he would have served them such a shabby trick, he would not have relieved the parish of her.—(Laughter.) Sir PETER—HOW long did you know him before you married him ? She said, after some hesitation, and with a downcast look, that she knew him one day and WWI his wife the next. The beadle--This is the fourth, your Worship. We have had to support and to bury three ; and he spends all their fortunes the moment he gets them. If this poor woman was to go, we'd have to bury her too, and he'd be off upon his rounds again.—(Laughter.) Sir PETER said that this was certainly a grievance, but he did not know what remedy it was possible to apply in the present state of the law. Ile:refused to make any order upon the parish-officers in favour of the man, and advised the overseer to take the couple into the workhouse, and to employ them moderately there. Upon leaving the justice-room, the male pauper said that he'd see the court of Aldermen, churchwardens, over seers, beadles and all, before he'd go into the workhouse;. but as for his wife they might take her if they pleased into the workhouse, or any where else.— (Loud laughter.) GUILDHALL.—The person who complained at Bow street on Wednesday of having been defrauded of 301. by some persons residing in Aldermanbury, repeated his appli cation yesterday at this justice-room. Mr. Alderman ScHoLEY was of opinion he bad no power to assist him. If he complained only of the non-fulfil. went of the contract as to the payment of his wages, his remedy was by action, and not in a criminal court. If he thought specious pretexts had been made use of to ob tain his money, and with the view to cheat him, his first step would be to complain to the Grand Jury, which would sit at the Old Bailey on the first day of the next sessions, about a fortnight hence ; but before he did this, he had better take professional advice, whether the indictment for conspiracy would lie. The person promised to do so, and retired. The driver of the hackney-coach No. 85 attended on summons, for wilfully driving against and damaging the cabriolet No. 118, in Newgate-street, on Monday evening about dusk. It appeared that the cab, in attempting to overtake and pass the hackney-coach No. 874, became entangled with the wheels of it. While thus situated, the defendant drove up, and his horses went straightforward upon that in the cabriolet. All would still have been right if de fendant had not wantonly flogged his horses on at this criti cal moment. They dashed forward, and the cabriolet was torn to pieces. Mr. CoOper, a gentleman residing in Pleasant-row, Is lington, deposed to the wilfulness with which the defendant whipped his horses after he saw they were entangled, and laughed at the consequences. Mr. Aldermill SCIIOLEY convicted the defendant (Thomas Arnold) in the amount of the damage claimed, being 41. is. and the costs, but he gave notice of appeal to the sessions. James Wright, a labouring man, was charged with at tempting to defraud the overseers of St. Martin's, Ludgate, by exhibiting a forged pass, purporting to have been given to him as a released prisoner from Wilton gaol, by the visit ing magistrates, to enable him to reach Norwich, to which he belongs. The prisoner applied, with his wife and two children, to Snow, the beadle, on Wednesday evening, and was con ducted to the house of the vestry-clerk, Mr. Warren, in Stationers'-court, Ludgate-street. The pass appeared to have been signed at Wilton on the Ist of October, and it was set forth that Le bad received 7s. or upwards of the overseers of Andover, Basingstoke, Bagsbot,'and Staines; but the latter gentleman had, instead of directing him to apply for further aid at St. Dunstan's, the first parish in the city he would arrive at, passed both that and St. Bride's over, and written, " St. Martin, Ludgate." Mr. Warren thought this suspicious, and on examination found the do cument had not the county seal, as required by law, and that there was not the name of the printer to it. He sent about to obtain advice, and the prisoner and his family slunk away. They joined some other paupers at the bot tom of the court ; but the. prisoner was afterwards found on Ludgate-hill, and apprehended. lie at first stoutly as serted that he had been imprisoned at Wilton for hawking without a licence ; but now before the Magistrate, be con fessed he had never been in that gaol, and alleged that a tan who . was seen with him had promised to share the profits, if he would make the application to the overseers. lie obtained the pass from him. Ile had travelled front Manchester about a fortnight, and the children did „not be long to him but the other man. Mr. Warren said, he understood these passes were ma nufactured by some man in town (it was said in Drury. lane), 49d the churchwardens and overseers of his parish were disposed to press for the severest punishment that could be inflicted. They did this upon public grounds; for the parish would - not have sustained any injury from paying the, money, the Act of Parliament directing that such siitps should be repaid out of the general rate for the city or county. Mr. Alderman Sclzontir appillYded the intentions of the overseers, and remanded the prisoner till Tuesday, to give them an opportunity of obtaining evidence from Wiltmt that the signatures to the pass are not those of the Mag**s? 111ARYLEBONE.—On Wednesday morning, Charles Bayn es Ford, Dr. Thotnspn ! s footman, applied to M r • ilAwransoN for a Warrant to apprehend the cook, who had '• pitched into him," and " knocked him about like a brick," f or no reallo p whatever. " take the law of her, your Worship . ," said he, " let the e*pense be what it may ; but I can't stop now for the law, if it is not %lick." Ale. RAwr.tNS6N told him the movements of the law were ovally slow, but if he had first made an appeal to the Doc tor, and had still reason to complain, a warrant should be granted, and he must take the consequences. c , It's of no use to complain to the Doctor" said the footman, " for cook has lived with him three times; but I want justice and a warrant." A warrant was granted, and yesterday Buckeridge, the officer, brought Mrs. Hannah Webb before Mr. GRIFFITH, to answer the charge. Mrs. Webb admitted that she had slapped the foot►nan's face, as he was about to take coffee to the drawing-room, because he had previously called her a liar, a thief, and a whore, and she brought a letter from the Doctor, to state that the complaint was made without reasonable cause. " I see," said Mr. GRIFFITH, " by this letter, that your complaint is without foundation." " I can prove the foundation of it," replied the footman, "if could have brought witnesses; but mistress said No,' unless they were sent for." Mr. GRIFFITH---I understand you are in fault, and the warrant is discharged. . Footnian—The;, please your Worship, I'll have justice somewhere else. Mr. George Croxford, dealer in Leghorn bats, 56, Rathhone-plaer, was charged with assaulting Sarah Crox ford, his wife. Mr. Croxford was ordered by Mr. Rawmisos and Mr. GRIFFITH to pay a fine of Si. to the King, and give security to keep the 'peace towards her, himself in 601., and two housekeepers in 251. each. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Mrs. Ann Clarke, a widowed female of respectable appearance, who has for some time kept a reputable lodging house, No. 3, in Great Pulteney-street, Golden•square, was charged with illegally pawning various articles of property belonging to Madame Read, a French lady who occupies the upper part of her house, and with assaulting Maria Louisa Bourgue, the female servant of Madame Read. Madame Read, a lady of much personal beauty and ele gant appearance and manners, stated to the Magistrate in French and partly in English, that she has been for some months lodging at Mrs. Clarke's house, but of late she had reason to believe that Mrs. Clarke was in very embarrassed circumstances, and from the advice of some of her friends she was induced to inquire of Mrs. Clarke if she kept the landlord's rent regularly paid, because, if other wise, a greal deal of valuable property whirls she (Madame Read) had in the house might be in danger.— Mrs. Clarke, to the first of the inquiries, replied that she certainly was rather in arrear with Mr. Grey, her landlord, for the rent ; but that 201. would enable her to pay off the arrear, as the amount was only about 40/., and she could make up the other 201. herself. She (Madame Read) immediately gave her the 20/. in advance, although' she did not owe her a farthing, and strictly enjoined hvr to go instantly and pay off the rent, which Mrs. Clarke sub sequently assured her she had done. On Wednesday last, however, to the astonishment and alarm of Madame Read, a man, named Scott, a broker, entered the house, under an authority from Mr. Grey, the landlord; and seized the .whole of Madame Read'. property for the 40/. arrear of rent due, and which it now appeared Mrs. Clarke bad never paid at all, but had pocketed the 20/. which Madame Read had given her for that purpose, and the broker is now in possession. The female servant of• Madame Read, re monstrated with Mrs. Clarke on her shameful conduct, upon which Mrs. Clarke flew at the girl, and tore her face with her nails. For this assault a warrant was granted against Airs. Clarke, and when she was t tken, Clements, the officer, for certain causes of suspicion, seached her, and found upon her 74 pawnbrokers' duplicates, for property of all sorts and kinds, which she bad pledged, and amorist them several silver spoons, and various articles of wearing apparel, belonging to Madame Read, which that lady had long missed, but could not suspect what had become of them. The prisoner was convicted In several penalties for the illegal pawning of Madame Read's property, and locked up in default of bail, which she was ordered to enter into for the assault on Madame Read's servant. Madame Read, whose situation is much regretted by every one in her neighbourhood, asked the Magistrate what she was to do about the broker who was in possession of her place. The MAGISTRATE said he did not know how she could relieve herielf without paying off the distress warrant, un less she could enter into some terms with the landlord. This foreign lady, it is said, had been for many years, and from an early age, the object of a strong attachment and the most entire confidence with Joseph Buonaparte, the ex-King of Spain, from whom she at present enjoys a very liberal annual pension, which she shares with an Eng lishman in a decent rank of life, to whom she has been some time married, of the name of Read. Ellen Staunton, the female servant of Mrs. Clarke, was fined 305., and in default of payment was sent for one month to the House of Correction for assaulting Clements and Goddard, the officers, when they went to execute the warrant against Mrs. Clarke. A Mr.. Eastwood, residing at No. 51, Dean-street, Soho square, applied to the Magistrate for a warrant to appre hend a foreigner mined Osmond, a teacher of languages, under the following circumstances : Mr. Eastwood produced a draught on the banking house of Rogers, Towgood, and Co., on Cornhill, for 18/. 17s. 6d., purporting to be drawn by a person named George Simpson in favour of Osmond, and for the draught, Mr. Eastwood said he had given Osmond, who had been a lodger for some time past in his house, W. in cash as part of the amount, on Wednesday last, and the remainder he was to have given him on his coming home the same night ; but Osmond never since returned either to his bed or for the balance, and be (Mr. Eastwood) had learned that he had set off for Dover and to the continent. The MAGISTRATE lON Mr. Eastwood that he might have the warrant, if he thought it worth his while to go to the expellee of sending an officer to Dover. Mr. Eastwood did not much mind the expence, if he thought the officer would be in time to reach Dover before the packet sailed. The clerk from the Bank said, that if the officer started immediately, he would reach Dover before the time for the sailing of the packet in which Osmond must cross the Channel, calculating by the hour at which it is known he left London. It is only fair to state that Osmond may hare passed this cheque believing it to be genuine, as he showed Mr. East wood a letter which he received by post, purporting to be written by a George Simpson, and stating that the cheque was enclosed. THAMES-POLlCE.—Yesterday, J. Jenkins Large, Master of the Hero steam-vessel, was brought to the office on a peace-warrant, charging him with having violently threatened Mr. William Biddulph, the managing proprietor of the Sophia Jane steamer. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Biddulph, who holds the rank of Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, that he superintends the Sophia Jane, which is an opposition vessel to Gravesend, against the Hero; and, almost ever since her starting, threats and violence of ail kinds have been held out to prevent her navigation, through the river, and the de fendant, upon several occasions; by a movement of the helm, has run the Hero so close as completely to endanger the Sophia Jane, and of course all her passengers. He had remonstrated with Mr. Large upon this several times, and he had promised it should not occur again ; but, notwith standing • the promise, the outrage was of every day oc currence. • Mr. Biddulph handed to the Magistrate the following certificate, signed by a number of passengers in the Sophia Jane shortly after that vessel was struck on Monday last by the Hero : " We, a portion of the passengers on board the Sophia Jane steam-packet, from Gravesend, on Monday, the 6th of OctOber, 1828, witnessed the Hero. packet run on board the Sophia Jane, off Greenhithe, at ten minutes past four p.m. The Hero was following the Sophia Jane on the starboard quarter, and we distinctly heard Captain John Large order the man at the helm in these words, " Hard a starboard," and by so saying the Hero struck the Sophia Jane on her quarter, and hiving continued to 'exert the power of her engine, did considerable damage to the Sophia Jane." (Signed by the Passengers.) Mr. Large denied in lota the whole statement, saying every word of it was false. Air. Pearce, the assistant water-bailiff, who was pas senger in the Hero, declared the - concussion of the vessel was unavoidable, and principally caused by the Sophia Jane. Mr. Miller, the secretary to the Steam Company, ten dered some certificates, signed by numerous passengers by the Hero, declaring the fault to have arisen with the Sophia Jane. Mr. fiALLANTINE said—ln order to preserve the peace of the ; R ---ver, and to obtain the object be had mentioned, he into their own recogn i zances o f 1,0001. each to keep the would requir e b ot h M r . L arge an d M r . I3iddulph to enter peace towards rich other and all the King's subjects for seven years, and also properly to navigate, without danger public, their respective vessels. iliddulpit and Mr. Large entered into the recog , z to anA t ce b ir e :, . and there this curious ;natter ended, iINION-HALL.—Yesterday a r!spectable-looking el derly man, named Georpe _Henry Ellis, who described disor derly E t 18 1 ;. ;tr chargedeet on bimagqf as a schoolmaster, and an occasional preacher of a dissenting ch a p e l a t P ec kh am , was brought before J. T. with ith pr having hie, eight. Mr. drunk and Mr. - 14 Plia---Yon appear to be a respectable man, pray what profession or trade do you follpw ? ' Defendant--J keep a school at Peckham, where-1 arp much respected. Mr. lioNE—What have you to say in answer to the . charge? Defeudant-4 can. assure 700, Sir ? it is pot all' usual practice with me to drink; I am as abstemious as most men, but on this occasion, having met a friend, he induced me to accompany him to a celebrated Burton ale room in the city, and having drank rather freely of that beverage, it overcame us both. Kenrick, the watch-house-keeper, stat,d, that the schoo!- master asked for gin that morning, which was refused, but he demolished two pints of porter before he was brought to the office. Mr. tioxE—That circumstance does not say much for your abstemious living, drinking two pints of porter be fore your breakfast. a a Kenrick stated, the defendant had been locked up on a Previous occasion for drunkenness ; he then described that he was a Methodist parson, added the watchhouse-keeper. Mr. HoNE expressed some surprise on hearing this intel ligence, and asked the defendant whether he was in the habit of preaching. Defendant—l occasionally harangue at Percy Chapel, in ,Peckham. Mr. HONE—You must pay ss. for being drunk, and 2s, to the patrol for his trouble in taking you to , the watch• house. The defendant was then loeLed, up until he procured the money he was awarded to pay. THE ARMY. The Gth Regiment of Dragoons has received orders to march this morning from Ipswich and Notwich, for Not tingham and Sheffield Barracks. Detachments belonging to the 634 Infantry and the East India Company's Service arrived in town yesterday, from Bristol, and received orders to embark this morning, on board a steam•vessel in the River, for• Gravesend, on route to Chatham. GREECE. (EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM TEIE MURIA.) We disembarked on the flat shore of a de licious country, of which I cannot give you a more exact idea than by 'comparing it to the islands ofthe Southern Pacific Ocean. We are encamped under citron and pomegranate trees and laurel roses ; near us run a number of little brooks ; and, not far from us, a river, which is said to be great in winter, but is now only like a narrow thread of water in its almost dry bed, whose unequal extent seems to indicate frequent overflowings. We are two leagues from Coron, a little place fortified by the Venetians, which we passed close to in entering the gulf which bears the same name. The Turks, to the num ber of 700 or 800, saw our fleet of 70 sail pass without any visible emotion—crouched down, according to their custom, they stupidly regarded our progress, and, apparently touched by an in evitable destiny, which neither permitted them to submit or to resist in an efficacious manner. Every thing, then, led us to believe that in a few days we should have to batter with our cannon this paltry town. a It is said that Modon and Navarin Will be immediately delivered up to us by the Egyptians, whose embarkation has already commenced at Navarin. At present we pass our time plea santly enough, in a position which we took three days ago ; we have neither tables, nor chairs, nor beds—but, besides these things, we want nothing else. The distributions of provisions are made regularly ; the gulf abounds higood fish, and the country furnishes us with excellent fruits,_ which the Greek peasants sell to us. These poor people, armed, to the teeth, bring us vegetables, &c., cultivated in their gardens ; they sell them to us at a dear rate, but they treat us as friends; for Ibrahim and his Arabs, ever since they have been blockaded by the Allied Powers, have given fair words and promised large sums for like pro duce, but without success, as no Greek would take any thing to them. The attempts of Ibra him, after four years' residence, to obtain an ap pearance of submission on the part of the Greeks, have all been in vain—the spirit of liberty, has been so effectually awakened among them, that he hai not been able to procure the confidence even of those peasants who live, as it were, under the cannon of the three places which he occupied. If, in this remote corner of Greece—the place of his disembarkation, and where all his forces are concentrated—they thus brave his power, even at the cannon's mouth, what may we not ima gine the spirit of the remainder of Greece to be ! The theeks of this district are considered „to be less civilized than in any other portion of the Morea, and to be robbers by profession ; on our- parts, however, we have much reason to commend them"; it is true, that it would be rather surprising if it was otherwise ; we must remember that true barbarians never reason, and that recently the Army of the Faith, to whose as sistance we marched into Spain, stripped and murdered our scattered soldiers. We have al ready made several excursions, and we have only met civil people, well armed it is true, but ex tremely mild. Yesterday, accompanied by two friends, we directed our steps to Calamata, a Greek town situated about four leagues from our camp. We went a part of the way by sea in a boat conducted by some Greek sailors. We had occasion to admire the address and intrepidity of these men—an intrepidity sometimes . pushed a little too far, for in fact I believe that in this passage, when we were in the midst of breakers for some time, we ran considerable risk by . their audacity. Calamata is situated in the interior of the country, and from the sea-shore we had to walk in the dry bed of a mountain torrent ; these are the best traced roads in this country. We found the town completely in ruins ; there seemed not a single habitable room fit for a man at all habituated to comfort ; however, the greatest part of the surviving population of the place have returned, and every thing indicates that the town will be soon re-established. The people appear active and industrious ; we found the in habitants extremely polite, and possessed of very good manners; confidence even appeared to have already revived, for in the town a great many people were unarmed. We paid a visit to the municipal authorities, who received us very po litely ; we procured a good dinner at a public house, which has been opened only a few days; my companions only found one inconvenience, namely, that, according to them, the Greeks use too much seasoning in their cooking. All the inhabitants of this unhappy country bear yet on their figures the traces of their long sufferings. c , There is no one who has not had to lament the loss of a relation ; happy when it was only death that separated them ; but the idea of the slavery in which the greater part of them languish is revolting to them beyond measure. The idea that their wives and daughters are slaves in the Turkish harems, drives them almost to, madness. " They say that the most beautiful of their women have been carried off; and v% e have met with some who have been thus ravished from their homes, whose air of suffering and sad ness is, indeed, painful. In returning from Cala mata we met a poor young girl who demanded alms of us, and showed to us the horrible wounds which the Turks bad inflicted on he r , by tearing her ears off. We frequently meet with p ersons mutilated in a like manner. And can cruelties like these still be indifferent to st a t esmen ? I t i s time to put a stop to them. Chir expedition already acquires a sublime character, when we see the good which it is sure of producing."— French .Parer, i A riticir SEPARATION of SILVER from COPP ° I . cf • The amalgam obtained at the silver worr' s . T Freyberg, leaves, when decomposed by hes t 111 alloy of silver,. copper, and other metals; t i, i tether latter used to be separated from the silver j, l. I boiling and dissolving the whole in strong , sti r , Net! c phuric acid, and then precipitating the sil' e o , ' 41'1. the Of late a piocess altogether, new has been O r e ' t i a g ,j; tl duced. The alloy is now' - heated by a ro te beratory furnace, exposed to air, so as to .9%,: D ja nl i the copper, and is afterwards put into cavia re L i ' , " (41 " , of lead, and heated with dilute sulphuric li d e , . 1. , which dissolves the oxide of copper previ ° , l l . „ri ' klid 43', formed ; the operations of roasting and Ji g 11. are repeated once or twice, and many Pr ec h 4 l t ' 13 ' 1 " , tions are requisite to obtain a good result' „ ) ,I1 tR ENN these being attended to, the process is I) ;ihe - more economical than the ancient o ne. ; o f silver is not so pur e , r e t a i n i ng ' a b ou t 1 3 ",ji , 0 copper ; but this is of no conse q u e n ce for o r' O n nary uses.—. Ann. des Mines, iii. 15. II THE MARKETS. ditt o , !Pork ; m tunie COUNTRY Coll l l4 w A h l e A at it . KEl B ' a S ri D ey U . 17 N O G a ' t li s ' . l-111: ,... / 1 -18 1500 $1 1 }::: 1 4 : 1 1 .......,..-. Per We I , i • Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to e. a. to s. 0 ' ° ? "'were Blandford 77 35 30 " e ,,, (4 20 Brigg----. 75 Si) 30 38 21 26 '''' 5. Ip, ] Cambridge-- 68 35 23 ..°, 0 'argil Chard ..-.....--,—.. 36 '76 32 38 24 30 0 ! I . kvero Huntingdon ...--. 66 76 30 40 19 30 „"" 'o', effects , Long Sutton-- 66 82 20 26 T . ,,, , 2 " • 11 ." ' Louth ......................—.. 60 80 32 36 16 28 ---,,, 7, , flay Lynn .......--,.. 64 81 32 42 24 30 41 7, ; , goe% Newark —, 54 74 34 40 20 27 .- .. %,, k , Nottingham ---..— 67 '• 38 2i - Peterborough 40 70 26 30 18 25 -",, .r, ' Nilare Plymouth .........-- 59 84 29 33 •30 33 '' ' . "----- Pontefract—.......... 77 38 25 ..• )4 . 7‘,T. Sleaford , . '76 80 •30 33 22 24 fe i O A ' Ft.. Uppingham ...—.. 76 85' 40 50 19 30 r t ' ' !", ' 1 Wisbech -----.. SO 84 18 28 '....;,;./ JAm i A i • LEEDS CORN MA It KET.—Oct. '7. Atr We had a middling su pply o f G ra i n; New ar s 0 0 Wheat of good quality were Eio. per quarter dearer d , '''' L e. , demand was very limited, and little doing at the 'i d ' is :iP . JOlll Barley of fine quality 2s. per quarter higher, but ,i 01 ;:11, g rant tiling samples there was scarcely any buyers. v h ,, f 0 (V.,n ea , per stone, and Shelling 2s. per load dearer. 13fr ier. . I leor bi; ~ IP good colour, and fine condition, i 2s. per quarter tio o k.;or tip i hut there was no improvement in other descrig Cha r !, Rapeseed supported last week's quotations. OA 1. John 1 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 60Ib. York. and Lincoln . 6olb. to .. 0 . trius Bailey, Norfolk and Suffhlk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire mi Grinding' Beans Oats, Potatoe e —lllealing, Foreign 14d. to 15d English 15d. o ' , T ur .Shelling 32s. i • ,l';e "' eßapeseed, English, 23/. to 261. 1.... —l.t 3O tootsB s. iti..,:i rtire:i Tw, kriod i LIVERPOOL COHN EXCHANGE.—Oct. 7 . os. I;fA There a good display of samples of Wheat and this day's market, with more disposition to realize, ° yeti • , was freely met by both speculators and dealers, and 1 1 . 0 10 It h q 'r heavy business was transacted, at an advance in the l° slb. ,7" 4 of Is. 4d. to ls. 6d. per 701 b., and 6d. to Bd. Pe r , or 1 7 1 ' °,11 in the latter. Some large parcels of Beans were W e pt' 'corn speculation, at an advance of 4s. to ss. per quarter . Rat ley was 3d. to 4d. per 601 b., Flour Bs. to 10s. Pe r a ido and Oatmeal ss. t o 6 s . p er l oa d d earer . O ur ilat r cel: .°‘"", for Irish Flou r are al mos t nom i na l, t h ere b e i n g any on this market. %MEAT, English, White. 3d. to:rt per 701 b. --- Red 11 0 0 ";„ . Scotch, Welch, an d M anx • 11 3 i i Irish, White ll 0 jj 1 ;; ---- Red 9 6 i -,---- Foreign lO 3 4 I OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b., 4 2 4 , Foreign --- Irish . 41/ ',, BARLEY, English, Malting, per hop. quarter 4O 0 Scotch and Irish, pet 601bs. Feeding 5 0 4 0 i BeANS, English, per Imperial quarter 44 ....7---.. Irish, &c. -- Foreign PEASE, English , p ee Imperial quarter 5O 0 6 0 l i i -- Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 64 0 066 0 --"--- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401b5.... INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter Wtehresal l o stju rt:. tel ocßQa Barley. Flour. Flour. IN for the Week ending Oct. 6- o.froja ,, ,, d i 11,440 11,570 1,090 1 874 IForeign, Bris 'lrish, &c. Sclo.l 11 A' BXPORTS. Indian Corn, 180 quarters —Flour. 136 barrels. GLASGOW RETAIL Beef per lb. Os. SJ. to 03. Bd. Mutton 0 4 0 '7 . Veal QL4Hualamnrb Pe t s ernLoa rq f. r .: 0 0 ° 11 0 0 9 0 0 0 7 Hour, per stoue 2 0 2. 8 Rye 1 6 1 8 MARKETS. —Oct. a. „ii! Oatmeal, per st. Is. 9d. t"3 Peasetneal.. 2 0- Pat Barley, ewt.ll 0 . 0 tearl ditto.... IS Grey Pease 9 I t i White ditto l2 0 ty Blue ditto. l3 HOP. INTELLIGENCE. noo f MAIDSTONE, OCT. 9.—The market this after— if much brisker, as it is become pretty evident the er °l3 o d riot equal. what was expected. Indeed it will .i 9 places fall short. The good Mid-Kent pockets 'r e f y e t day.9os. to 945. and Weald Kent 82s. to 844. T1 0 : 10 ipt ket, altogether, was getting up, and th e re was more b oo We heard of one very superior lot of Luddestlov l ‘ p t which sold at 51. 55., but this is an uncommon e" , 'pe d they must be very good to fetch M. The picking of tt generally finished, though in some grounds it is u 1 3 20/ completed. All the accounts ag ree i n stating . t ," . ,;tY ° weight of th e h o p s did no t a t a ll answer th e a nnor formed, and the average quantity grown on an e ell a fttr, considerably less than usual. The duty here, this 6 0P noon, was considered to be from 150,0001. to 160 ' the latter the very outside. c jie o ; , a WORCESTER, OCT. B.—On S a t ur d ay 1759 A New and 56 of Old Hops were weighed. There. w;. • material variation in the prices, but there was quiry for prime Hops, which averaged 84s. BIRTHS. In Paris, on the 3d inst. the lady of Hugh O'C' d Esq. late of Mountjoy-square, Dublin, of a dal:001 1 , On the 9th inst. at his house, in Upper Hurler Fth9eorel William e o i l f l9, J jtn. h ar e n Lai es arnwsw ; i i E v 9ni n e dg. Rivets tCa o,f eoa r a f i t , jaacca•snor a,E.nnh , . b sq tee . rri. of a d a . s so tr n e . ei, On the 4th inst. the lady o f W. F. Riley', the I of ti) On the sth inst. the lady or Helyar, Coker -court, Yeovil, Somerset, of a son. 1,011 On the 7th inst. at Brafield House, B uc ks, the „ Lieutenant-Colonel Bourchier,.of a daughter.. On the 3d inst. in George-street, Edinburgh,- Elizabeth Hope Vera, of a son. MARRIED. 4-#lO St"' On the 23d ult. at the house of Lo r d Burgll , b r British Minister at Florence, Count G us ta v o Blu'v e r io', Wahlstatt, grandson of the late Field M a rshal g yh Blucher, to Madeline, second daughter of the 10 ' Hon. Lord Chief Justice Dallas.. no er On the 7th inst. at St. George's -Church, square, by the Rev. Evan Nepean, Mr. Wien , Ate r Stone's-end, Blackman.street, to Susannah, th' u ° l}o 4t, James Burgess, Esq. Potter's-field, St. John's, s out'by $ On the 9th inst. at Maryl e bone N e w Church , 101 4 Rev. Brian Burgess,- Mr. Dison, of Regent-street , ° Lydia Collins, daughter of the lute T. Collins, E- 4 4* pao r At Brighton, on the Bth inst. the R ev . George !) , 11 ing, of Ipswich, to Eliza, yo un g es t d aug ht e r a, Thomas Maitland, Esq. of Lyndhurst, lia A ls, aP.QI 31 _ _ Ai • ll On the SirPel.eg 9th n rinell .i ai s ti t. andl e at St. 11iarY% Liaroh4l4:, f o al! bed, surgeon, of Billiogliurat, Sosse.l % to Adi s Mary Ann Evans, of Park-place, Kennington. 41, On the 7th inst. at Elkstdne, M r . H enry Gurlu" - d Liverpool, to Sarah, third daughter of Mr. Prticle r ' former place. On the 6th inst. Dan D ic l l E Al D oo . re, Esq. Park -tern Richmond, late of Ilf%rd, Essex, surgeon. On the qtt; inst. Alary, the wife of Mr. Job' Cu Lower-road, Islingto n , age d 2tl. e . At Brighton, on the Bth inst. William, the infant Mr. Nutter Gray, of Tryona place, Hackney. r t . On the 7th inst. at Ph a ut ass i e , i n t h e cou nty Lothiau, George Rennie,;sen., Esq. only 'remaining it 9` of the late John Rennie, Esq. and long . eelebrated r agriculturist. l" On the Bth inst. beloved and respected by all who, her, Mrs. Stanhope Mandeville, of St. George% work, in the 77th year of her age. podi On the 7th inst. Ruth, the affectionate wife of Deans, Esq. Walbrouk. g ef The lion. Sir George Grey, Bart. K.C.B. Commit of Portsmouth Dock-yard, L 1 1 ' 4 ' On the Ist inst. at the Hermitage, Beaurnaris, teo4oiP: Samson Sober Wood, only surviving son of the late :00 .. 1 son Tickl e W oo d, E sq . an d gran d son o f the (3'1;05' bath S o b er , E sq . o f U pper George-street; BrY'' square, tia PRIN U D anti PUBLBIIED by MURDO YOUNG' Sus OFTWE I 112, STRAND ; LONDON i Fo r Fc Wi t h 4 Fox Wil Joh Pra C. PM's] LO both f RttZel ~. ~- i I