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kiveu them expertness to become thieves ; I make a I -point generally of aAing the boys whether they have 'been educated, and I find in genera! they hale educated, but the moral effect of education I find totally wanting, while it has given them great2r ex pertness at depredation. Do you find ge nera l that the youths brought before you, criminals have been educated ?—Decidedly ; L "should say that nineteen-twentieths have beeP. By education you mean reading and writing ; "what expertness in com mitting crimes does t>. at give ?—All increase of knowledge increases ' ex pertness to a certain degree. Are any of those crimes of a nature in which read jng and writing , ar e at all employed, or ass i st t h em i n tommitting —Not merely reading and writing, but we know 'that all boys who are educated are cleverer than who arc not." l'.:nus we here see a very worthy gentleman Arrive at the conclusion that ability is an evil, lse e ause it may be abused. The great object on this principle would be to discover some means of weakening the intellectual faculties of the lower orders, so that when they possess the in clination to do evil they may be less successful in the commission of it to the injury of their neighbours. This merely a modification of the old doctiine Imputed to the Papists in former times. Mr. Rawlinson forgets that criminals arc merely the exception to the rule, that the great body of the people are well disposed, that - the idea of a society generally criminal is a sole cism, that thieves suppose always the existence of a large body of honest men on whom they can prey, that if we even suppose the sixteen thou sand commitments every year to give but a faint idea of the criminal population, still, with every allowance, the number of thieves in twenty mil lions must be but a very stn it fraction of that amount. Now, though reading and writing may make the thie‘ses cleverer, it also makes those who are nit thieves cleverer—it multi plies their means of enjoyment, makes them more useful in their several vocations when employed (for want of employment is but the exceptson), frees them from ennui which drives them to seek relief in sensual enjoy ment ; and, in short, elevates the species in the scale of being. What man would wish to be physically inferior to what he is, merely because he may abuse his strength ; and why should we I;ish to lower the species morally from a dread of abuse of power ? That the improvement of the faculties does not eradicate evil propensities, is a discovery which might to have been made without the aid of criminals. Do we not see literary men in all ages selling themselves for lucre ? Do we not see the Clergy of all Churches in the world, equally ready to take advantage of their neighllours as other men ? Do we not see the higher ranks of this country preying bare facedky on their inferiors ? Do we not hear Afrinbers of Parliament owning that in their . );irivate Committees the grossest abominations have been constantly perpetrated, and that the only chance of obtaining . honesty was the letting in light on them ? Nay, in the very last Session of Parliament, were there not the most scandalous robberies perpetrated by the highest men in the land ? Yet who would say that we have too much talent in the two Houses of Par liament, or even in the Church, because reading and writing (though sometimes not spelling) are generally in the higher ranks ? Or, who would say that Members of Parliament, who at present are, according to Colonel Jones, unacquainted with the rules of arithmetic, would be greatly deteriorated by the possession of that qualifica tion ?—Morning Chronicle. It was felt desirable by Parliament that a Prince, who might ultimately reign over the British Empire, should be educated within its soil ; and should imbibe, in early years, that love and reverence for its institutions which made the boast of George the Third, who, on ascend ing the throne, made it his first avowal that he was " born and educated a Briton." When, therefore, a further grant was sonic years since applied for, on behalf of the Duke of Cumber land, on the ground of educating his son, Prince George, it was made a condition of the grant that the young Prince should be brought over to this country to be educated ; and that not having been the case, the country has a right to pre sume that no part of this new grant has ever been issued. Most people imagined, when the young Prince was brought to England this sum mer, it was for the purpose of fulfilling this plied engagement ; and the marked affection with which he was received by his Majesty served to strengthen the idea. On a sudden, however, the young Prince and his father have returned to Germany ; am! the foreign journals announce their arrival at Berlin, in good health. While here, a ridiculous story was trumped up, of an infantine affiancing between the Prince and his juvenile cousin, the Princess Victoria—an idea which we ridiculed at the time, and for which we have no doubt that there never was a shadow of foundation. The young Prince's apprOach to the throne is certainly,--for the present, at least --exceedingly remote ; and, perhaps, under all circumstances, it i s vile as well that he should not, by being placed here for education, have ideas brought uppermost in his mind which may never be realised ; especially while, by avoiding it, the country saves 6,0001. a year.—.. Morning Herald. The Report of the Select Committee ap pointed to inquire into the state of the Police of the Metropolis has established the fact of a regular system of traffic in stolen property have been long carried on between the Police and the agents of the Londo n thieves. This scandalous traffic, in which the dignity of the laws and the interests of the public were . compromised, and the . compound/ made . a . sort of ng of felonies partnership concern between the ministers of justice, and the directors of gangs of robbers, was, as far as the Committee have been able to ascertain, confirmed to tire Police of 13(9w-street and the City Offices. The Repots which . we published on Tuesday contains the following passage, in reference to the practice of com pounding for the restoration of bankers' parcels With respect to the agency of police-officers, the evidence before your Committee is confined to those of the Cit— y and of Bow-street. No others have, it is believed, been engaged in the negotiations about the property of bankers, and, though general imputations up o n ot h er off i ces have b ee , thrown out by some who acknowledged their own delioquency, your Committee have no proof of such transacti ons, and w ish their rem ar k s to be understood as limited to the two sets. of officers above mentioned." The Committee, in going so far in the investigatio n of this very se_ rious charge against the Police, have don e we ll ; but they should have gone a step further—th ey should not have been satisfied with ascertaining that the practice of lending themselves to cem pound felonies for a venal consideration — or , in other words, a bribe—was confined to the City Police, and those of Bow-street ; they should have also ascertained why the practice was con fined to those two sets of ojicers. Were they more exposed to temptation than the others — or were they more corrupt ?_ If the former, vsliat was that peculiar temptation that affected tionc of the officers attached to any of' the Police establishments beyond the precincts of the city, except those of the Chief Magistrate's office ? If the latter, should not the corruption be punished and corrected ? Every body recol lects how strenuously Sir Richard Birnie denied that the officers of Bow-street lent themselves to such transactions. It is strayge that the Worthy Magistrate should have been so completely asleep while the honour of the office over which he personally presides was compromised by those whose conduct it is his duty to observe with a vigilant Superintendence. It appears too that there was not a great deal of caution exer cised by the officers who engaged in this dis graceful traffic ; for the Committee say, in one part of their Report, " Your Committee think it right to state that, however readily the officers of Bow-street and the City Police have under taken the negociation of these compromises, they seem, in some instances, to have been induced to it without a corrupt or dishonest motive."— It is evident, from the words " however readily," •that the officers in . question were not remarkably coy or secret in lending themselves to those trans actions ; and even, in some instances, must have thought they were acting meritoriously, as not having any corrupt motive, snd therefore not likely to practise much concealment. How many of those instances of disinterested vio lation of tf..e law there were the Commit tee do not tell us; but, as the instances that were not dishonest formed the exception, we must infer that dishonesty was the ge neral rule. Accordingly, the Committee go on to say, " Suspicion has arisen in one case, that 800/. more was received by the officer who ne gotiated, than the thieves asked or received ; and, in another, 501. was paid to procure restitu tion of 5001., and neither the 500/. nor the 50/. were ever restored." Here arc fine Police do ings ! Here is a specimen of the honesty that is appointed and paid to prevent crime, and to pro tect the property of the public Yet it does not appear that any persecution or dismissal of the offending parties is recommended in vindication of justice, and as an example to others. In re ference to the Magistrates, the Report says, " Your Committee have before adverted to the ignorance in which the Magistrates appear to have been kept, as to those practices, by their officers. It should seem, from the evidence of Sir Richard Birnic, that they only supposed a very small number of compromises to have taken place, and those through the medium of attor neys." 'We cannot, ourselves, understand how the number of instances could make any dif ference with respect to the badness of the principle. The Report goes on to say, " It has been distinctly asserted to your Com mittee, by officers, that they had the sanction of higher persons of their establishment for en gaging in such negotiations. This, however, has been as distinctly contradicted ; but that a be lief in the connivance of the Magistrates has ex isted is corroborated by the evidence of an officer long retired from Bow-street, and on whom no such charge has been fixed." Some of the observations made by the Committee, in - reference to a venal and dangerous system, are very just, and descriptive of the evil. They state that these transactions have 44 led to the organization of a system which undermines the security of all valuable property, which gives the police-officers a direct interest that the rob beries to a-large amount should not be prevented, and which has established a set of " fences," with means of evading, if not defying, the arm of the law—who are wealthy enough, if large re wards were offered for their detection, to double them for their impunity—and who would, in one case, have given 1,0001. to get rid of a single witness." This is the system to which a large portion of the Police have long been accessary ; and who can wonder that crime increases, when the very officers of justice have a direct interest in wholesale depredation.—lbid. The Christian portion of the British public will learn with satisfaction that the Dean of Westminster has a concurred with the Dean of St. Paul's, in refusing permission to a Club of the professed admirers of Lord Byron, to erect a monument to his memory in Westminster Ab bey. That the Noble Lord was highly gifted, Can no more be denied than the utter abuse with which his whole career has treated the talents so muni4cently bestowed upon him. It was not the force of mind which made Inni vicious, but the miserable ambition to be greatly bad. He would not take his place amongst the good and the enlightened, and rank amonst the first —no, he would rather 44 reign in hell than serve in heaven." He, perhaps, more than most inen, has endeavoured to debase and degrade the sacred sys tem ofour pure religion,aud practically exemplified in his life the lessons which are so banefully cast over his most splendid pages. Were he " minded" to he good, he might have proved a benefactor to his country ; but despite the strength, the Oc casional sublimity of his poetry—despite his pathos, and extraordinary discrimination of dm racter, it is hazarding little to say, that posterity will qualify their admiration of his talents, with their regret of the dreadful perversion to which they were subjected. He only is a benefactor to mankind who paints virtue in the most amiable characters, who " shews vice her deformity," and who urges every incentive for the production of peace and happiness amongst men. Lord Byron, according to the true standard of greatness, was theso,wa s diminutive ind ee d—he degraded worm on which he treads— he scorned, or rather affected to scorn, the world's flatteries, but vanity was at his heart's core—he lived upon its breath, and popular ap plause was that goal which alone he panted to obtain. He has tricked out vice with all the blandishments that really belong to virtue, and garnished infidelity with those allurements which a re the exclusive prope r ty of religion. We read hi s works with surpnse—often withaditnhierairtiol b ut w e never heard of one, who, after pe rusal, felt the dignity of man to be stronger within him, or the Importance of morality anti virtue to i l en ll be more firmly inculcated or enfor ced. — Lord By ron had the mean s of effectin g muc h for the inno cent pleasure and niis )or,al,eirinsp; le as t d oofrl mankind;roiva en i lie iu i a n s t l abused ay toe that rhrenderio, der real greatness despicable ; brigands and infidels are the constant them es of his panegyric, while virtue is denuded of her fair attributes, and moral feeling is sacrificed at the shrine of philosophical profligacy. Lord Byron was the declared enemy of religion, and should not therefore be allowed a monument in a church dedicated to its sacred observances. Hate pro posal had been made to a Committee of the London University, to allow a bronze statue of this Nobleman to be put up in the portico of their own liberal institution, - we should have said that they would have acted Most, illibe rally and inconsistently if they had denied the request made to them. But it would be unfair to insualate that any reluctance had been shewn to such a request. We believe that such a pro posal would have been received with acclama tions, and the oilly difficulty would be, as to the quantum of honours to be bestowed upon his statue. Some one has observed that Lord Byron, as a poet and a public man, is a kind of exem plification of a real character, and in a high station, of the great principles of the day in these liberal institutions ; that is to say, of the para mount importance of geeius and talent, and the absolute insig,nifleance and indifference, whether such talents are separate from or associated with religious practice and belief. Lord Byron, there fore, and his statue, would have been perfectly, at home in the hall of an academy which is de- , voted to this Pagan principle. This would of right be the Pantheon in which to consecrate his memory, and in which to decree him, after the fashion of the French Institute (in one period of the Revolution), the honours of an apotheosis. But we trust we shall never see the day when the reviler of the decencies of life, the underminer of the morals of man, and the scoffer of religion, shall be allowed a niche in the temple consecrated to that Supreme B e i ng who is the giver of all good. If it were a ques tion. of merely civil rights, %ye should perhaps admit that the community had nothing to - do with Lord Byron's private religious opinions ; but where the claim is to distinction and marked pre-eminence, and not to the ordinary rights of sepulture, in a Christian temple, and as regards Christian honours, it surely cannot be contended for a moment that he is entitled to any eminence or distinction of this kind, - whose life (as inch ' cated by his writings) was passed in contempt and enmity to all religious principles. If the dignitaries of the Church wish to maintain and uphold religion, they must not hold up to public honour, or general imitation, such a character as Lord Byron.—Morning l'ost. A petition to the King against any further con cessions to the Roman Catholics is »ow in the course of signature in every county of Great Britain. The petition is certainly worded cau tiously, though not wisely ; and brilliantly orna mented with all manner of illustrations, which we willingly allow do great credit to the artist, but not much to him who imagined them. The petitioners do not pray his Majesty to take the state of Ireland and of his Majesty's Roman Ca tholic subjects into consideration, but " to grant no further concessions to the Roman Catholics" —thus dictating to his Majesty what course he shall pursue, instead of deferring to his judg ment, and praying him to advise what may most contribute to the peace, the safety, and the strength of his dominions. The petitioners, in fact, tell his Majesty, in all but direct terms, that he cannot grant any further concessions to his Roman Catholic subjects ; but though they are thus peremptory in declaring to him what he must nut do, they point out no means by which the agitation and dissension and alienation of his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects may be allayed. On those, however, who were giving counsels of the former nature, we think it was imperative to have pointed out in what way the latter object could be effected. It is easy to sign petitions praying his Majesty not to grant any further concessions to his Roman Catholic sub jects ; but such petitions are little better than idle gabble, unless they include a remedy which along with " no further concessions" shall allay the discontent which now pervades the country. Are the petitioners prepared to say that they have such a remedy ? or that not having such a remedy, the adoption of their advice may not en velop the country in flames, and stain it with its best and warmest blood ? We should think not. How then can they counsel his Majesty against a line of policy, which, while it proved the means of insuring the peace of Ireland, might be adopted without any detriment to the Constitution ? Are they prepared to say that the condition of Ireland is now such as the So vereign of the United Kingdom could wish it to be—as is consistent with the welfare of the country generally, or of Ireland in particular— or such, in fact, as can endure ? When the petitioners have answered these questions satis factorily, we may, perhaps, be inclined to join with them ; but until they have done so, we must protest against their conduct as fraught with folly and calamity, and as insulting to the Sovereign of these realms, as it is calculated to increase their discontent, and diminish their power.—Morning Advertiser. The question between his Imperial Majesty of Russia and the British Cabinet, is simply one of explanation and indemnity. For several cen turies the British flag has been respected by the Ottoman Porte. Our merchants have carried on a valuable and lucrative trade in the Levant ; the navigation of the Straits of the Dardanelles has been open to us ; our trade in the Black Sea encouraged ; and, what is of still greater import ance, this trade, these privileges and advantages,, were secured against foreign aggression by the natural position of Turkey. Austria could not touch us, Russia could not molest us ; we might be at war with all the nations of Europe ; but so long as the Porte remained fidthful—and her faith has often been severely tried—no arm could reach us, without passing through the heart of European Turkey. This was our proud situation previous to the outrage of Navarin. —The Turk stood between us and all mo lestation from the Northern Powers. With Persia on her flank and rear she formed a sort of entrenched camp between Europe and our Indian possessions. In such a position Turkey was a cordon sanitaire on the frontiers of Northern Europe. She was our best ally in the Mediterranean, and the strongest out-work of British India. In considering therefore the• danger to which she is exposed by the invasion of Russia, we ought in some degree to partici pate in it, and be extremely desirous to avert it. True, Russia may have grounds of quarrel with the Porte, and perhaps she has a right to march to the foot of the Balkan to avenge her wrongs, What these wrongs are we do not here stop to inquire. They may be real, they may be feigned, they may be mere pretexts conjured up to veil ulterior designs, and carry into execution her sanguinary policy, and her long meditated views of aggrandisement. What these real or pretended injuries arc we leave to be discussed here after. She is, however, on her march to avenge them. She has put forth a declara tion, i n w hi c h s h e d ec l ares s h e w ill nev e r lay down h er arms till the expenses of the war arc defrayed, sec:dep ai l i y d the passage of the Bosphorus hi vol a 6 •Y red! But are there not third par ties interested in the inviolable secu rity o f the pa ssage of the Straits as the magnani mous Nichol as ? I t i s s i mp l y a di spute i n whichfe r " barbarian"n the North one the side o the S o u f t ,maonudn the Mount H w " ll b ll a i r s : bar barian" o have alone any concern ? Has his Imperial Majesty forgotten that the Russian flag is not the only one that passes the Dardanelles ? Or, in the excess of his chivalry, has he overlooked the trifling fact that England is as much rote-.. rested in the free navigation of the Black Sea, and its channel of ingress alai egress, as the Emperor of all the Russias Now, this • is precisely the question at issue, and upon which Lord Heytesbury is authorized to de mand explanations. We must not, by any concessions, or any rights of conquest, be placed in a worse position. It would be degrading to the guardians of British commerce if they were not to watch narrowly our long-established rights, now that they are thus assailed. We must be in demnified against the consequences of victory, against the defeat of the Turkish armies, against the march of the Russians upon the forts of the 'Bosphorus. The Emperor's honour may be above suspicion—his magnanimity as pure as an angel's dream—his liberality as boundless as his own wide dominions—but still, we, who are practical persons, demand such indemnity, or at least such satisfactory explanation, as will strengthen our faith in Imperial promises. For this purpose has Lord Heytesbury (and we were the first to announce the fact) been sent to the Court of Russia, and, if necessary, to the Impe rial camp. His Lordship, it appears, however, was rather out-manceuvred in his attempt to reach the lines of Shumla. The Emperor was well advised to make a precipitate retreat from Odessa. There may be occurrences passing be tween Shumla and Varna, which perhaps it is not convenient to bring under the notice of an English Ambassador. What these occurrences are we may probably venture to guess at ere many days elapse.—New Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.----Two men, in the employment of a mud-contractor, named rower, were brought befofe the LORD MAYOR, charged with having, contrary to the statute, emptied whole barges full of mud, which they had dragged out of the London Docks, into the Thames, to the great prejudice of the navigation. It appeared from the statement of Nelson, the assistant water-hailitt, and others, that the master of the defendants had contracted to clear the London Docks of the immense quantities of mud which accumulate there. The usual and legal way of disposing of the cargoes was shovelling the mud on shore some distance down the river, and the far mers gladly carried it up to their grounds as manure. To awe trouble, however, and to make a larger profit, the de fendants, as soon as they filled a barge at the docks, shoved a little way into the river, and threw oat the contents, so that they were enabled to perform two unloadings in the time generally required for one. If they had not been in terrupted at this sort of work, the navigation would have been choked up completely. As, for the purpose of evad ing the vigilance of Nelson and his men, the business was done at night, there was great difficulty in getting hold of delinquent., particularly as these who worked disguised themselves. Nelson, however, watched constantly, and succeeded in apprehending the defendants. The Lo MAYon asked what disguise the men put on ? Nelson mai , ' that the moment before they began to clear out the barge they took up some of the blackest mud in it, and scrubbed each other's faces and heads in such a manner, as to defy common observers. He, however, bad taken most particular notice of them, and had no doubt as to their identity. The defendants said they knew nothing about the busi ness. One of them afterwards said, " Vy, you see, my Lord, Master Nelson nor nobody else could not know nothing at all about us, we was so black vid mud. Ven I vent home to my vife, I'm blowed if she knowed me until I vashed my face vid a wisp of straw." (Laughter.) The LORD MAvois said, that the complaints of the in fringement of the act were daily pouring in upon him, and he expected, if he did not put a stop to such practices, to be accused of a gross neglect of duty. Ne should therefore fine each of the defendants in the sum of 101. The mud itself could scarcely have changed the counte nances of the two defendants more effectually than this sen tence did. They were taken to prison in default of pay ment of the penalties. Afterwards their employer ap peared, and endeavoured to prevail upon the Lord Mayor to remit or abate the fines ; but his Lordship refused pe remptorily, and said, that for the next offence committed on thr river, the fine of 201. each man should he inflicted. This is the second triumph achieved by the Water bailiff's men. The white-bait fishing is entirely knocked up. Two guineas were offered the other day for a gallon of this fish at Black wall, without effect. A m3n named AP Cauty was accused of having seized a respectable young woman in the street, and charged her with having robbed him. The complainant stated, that yesterday morning, between five and six o'clock, as she was returning from Billings. gate, from whence she had been with her sister and niece seeing off her brother in the steam-vessel, the defendant seized her by the shoulder, told her she had robbed him, and must go to the wdteh-house. She was very much asto nished at the charge, but without hesitation went to the watch-honse. She never saw the defendant before, and considered that he was not serious until he persisted in his charge. &Ir. Capper (one of the Society of Friends) stated that he attended Bishop ate watch-house as constable in his own right, when the defendant entered with the young woman in his custody, and charged her with having robbed him. The defendant, who had once been a patrol, was not sober at the time, and the witness believing, from the conduct of both parties, that there was not a shadow of truth in the charge, immediately told the young woman that he would not detain her, but requested that she would attend at the Mansion-house. The defendant said that he was very sorry for having made such a mistake. It came about in this way,—he was standing in Bishopsgate-street, and a woman with a red shawl clapped her hand in his pocket, pulled out lA. 9d., and walked off. He turned round, and seeing the com plainant with a red shawl near him, he believed her to be the thief, and took hold of her. The Loan Mns•ox.—Where you drunk or sober?—De- fendant—Why, my Lord, I was tossicated in liquor. The LORD illAvott very highly approved of the conduct of Mr. Capper in dismissing the innocent girl. Aa igno rant constable would, in all probability, have locked up all of the party, and it was really dreadful that respectable females should be liable to such shocking outrages as that he now heard. _ The defendant begged to be forgiven, and apologized over and over again. The LORD Mayor asked the complainant whether be should commit the defendant, who would no doubt, if brought before a Jury, be imprisoned for three months. She declined, and his Lordship ordered the defendant to pay the fine of ss. for having been tilunk. In default of this penalty, he was committed to prison. BOW-STREET.—Mrs. Susannah Stamp Sutton Cooke, the woman of colour against whom a warrant has been out for the last five days, charging her with beisig the principal of a gang of swindlers whose depredations upon the public have been fully reported, was yesterday placed at the bar, having bees taken into custody at two o'clock in the morning at a public-house in the Borough, where she had 'Aged one night. Mr. Rathmacher, the musical-instrument-maker, of Charles-street, Soho-square, having been sworn, stated that Barrett came to him about fire weeks ago and hired, for the prisoner, Mrs. Sutten Cooke, a pianoforte of the value of 401. It was sent to the house of Captain Pet tinghall, at Chelsea, where the prisoner was then residing. When a month bad expired witness sent his son for the amount of the - hire for that period ; but when he arrived at the house, he was informed that Mrs. Sutton had ab sconded a fortnight before. On searching the house, the pianoforte could not be found. Mr. HALLS observed, that as Barrett was the man who had obtained the instrument in the name of the prisoner, it would be necessary to produce bins as a witness; but what was his word worth ? The magistrate then asked if there was not another ease respecting a harp. The prisoner said that she had been prosecuted four years ago on account of Mr. Ellard's harp, and she there fore supposed that no fresh proceeding would be bad against her for that. Fagan replied that the harp in question now bad been obtained from Mr. Dodd, of Bury-street, Oxford -street, by prisoner and pawned by her in the city. HALLS observed, that if this could be proved, tke eil‘solnre prisoner,r wo n I d be convicted of unlawfully pawning. At present, however, she was only to be considered as forming one of the conspiracy for which Drummond, Barrett, and others, had been held to bail. He should therefore hold the prisoner to bail upon the same terms. Fagan stated that the prisoner attributed all her misfor tunes to her husband, James Stamp Sutton Cooke, brother to Stafford Cooke, who some time ago set up a claim to the Stafford peerage. The prisoner's husband was now &ruler in the Fleet prison. The prisoner is a middle-sized woman, rather inclining to corpulency. She was drviaed extremely plain, in a rusty black gown, and an old red shawl. It is supposed, how ever, that she was thus attired the better to conceal her person, as she has been known to dress in a most expu. sive manner. She wore a close black bonnet, and a large veil, so that her features were almost entirely cone, :led. She appeared to be about forty Sears of age,. and seems devoid of personal attractions. It is said she possesses in her own right considerable property in the West Indies. She was accompanied to the office by a female servant, who held a little girl in her arms. The child was said to be the prisoner's daughter. The girl on parting from her mistress wept bitterly, and the prisoner kissed and con soled the child. MARLBOR OUG 11-STREET. —Yesterday the Dowa ger Lady Gresley came again to this office, accompanied by her solicitor, and applied to the`Magistrate, Sir GEO. FARRA NT, for a peace warrant, or some other legal protec tion, against the annoyance to which her lidyship said she was still subject from the conduct of her two lately.dis charged butlers, Johnson and Brannan, who every day parade, for hours together, up and down Conduit -street, in front of her Ladyship's house, staring up at the windows, making faces at those of the inmates who approach them, and pointing the attention of the passers by to her lady ship's residence. Upon the whole, however, as the per sons complained of had not collected any mob or excited to any riot or breach of the peace, the Magistrate did not deem the character of her ladyship's cause of complaint sufficient for the present to warrant his interference, and her ladyship retired to her carriage, which was in waiting, accompanied by her legal adviser. Mr. Rosenberg, a tailor, residing at No. 20, Frith street, Soho-square, appeared to answer an information preferred against him for retailing wine in his house without license. The information was preferred at the instance of a young female who had been a lodger in Mr. Rosenberg's house, and some person connected with the law appeared on her behalf, and stated that this information was laid under the 35th of Geo. 111., the same Act, he said, upon which so many eating-house keepers had been fined for re tailing beer to their customers without licence, and upon which even persons having a wine-licence from the Com missioners of Excise•were coxvictcd, besause they had not also a beer-•licence to entitle them to have the wine drunk as well as sold by retail upon the same premises ; but the present case, he said, was much stronger than either of those he had mentioned, for that Mr. Rosenberg had no licence of any description for selling wine, nor had he the excuse that the eating-housekeeper had for a slight deviation from the law. Eliza Hanna, a dashingly-dressed young female, residing at Bayswater, in July last was a lodger in Mr. Rosenberg's house, and on Sunday, the 27th of that month, the day laid in this information, she asked the wife of the defendant far a pint of wine, which Mrs: Rosenberg brought to her, and for which she paid, she said, Ss. While in the house alto gether, she had, at different times, eight pints of wine sup plied to Ler, and for which she was charged in the bill given to her by the defendant 2 ts. On the cross-exami nation of this witness by another man of the law, who at tended for Mr. Rosenberg, she admitted that before she had this information preferred against the defendant, she had been summoned by him to the Court of Requests, and an order was there made out against her for the amount of the bill furnished to her for lodgings, &c., at Mr. Rosen berg's, where she also admitted some of her dresses were still detained for a further demand. On the part of the defendant it was contended that he merely supplied wine to his lodgers when they occasionally asked for it, and at the same price exactly as he himself purchased it for at an adjoining licensed house. Mr. Ro senberg, it was said, kept no wine in his house for sale, hut whenever a lodger asked fora bottle or a pint of wine, the servant was sent for it to the licensed house, and what ever vas there paid tier it, that sum only was charged to the lodger, and is was positively denied that this female was ever charged so much as 3s. for a pint of wine while at Mr. Rosenberg's house ; and it was submitted to the tna gistrate that it would be a very hard case indeed if a lodg. ing-house-keeper could not send out for and supply his lodgers when they asked f►r it with a bottle or u pint of wine, when he had no profit whatever from it, without being subject to an information of this kind. Mr. Keys, a licensed victualler in Frith-street, stated that he constantly supplied Mr. Rosenberg either through his servant or some other of his family with wine, chiefly in pints and single bottles ;it a time, and he never charged Mr. Rosenberg more than 2s. 3d. per pint. Sir G. FARRANT said, that in that ease Mr. Rosenberg had a profit of 9d. on each pint, according to the evidence of the first witness, as he charged her, she swore, 35. Mr. Rosenberg declared, that be never did charge 3s. for a pint of wine in his louse, and called another of his lodgers, named Gardiner, who swore that ?,Ir. Rosenberg had frequently supplied him .with wine, and only charged him at the rate of 2s. ;id. the pint, the same price as he (the witness) also paid, he said, occasionally himself, to Mr. Keys direct. Sir G. FARRANT said, that if the young woman's evi dence was true, it was clear that Mr. Rosenberg sold the wine at a profit, brit whether he did or not he was equally liable to the penalty for selling it at all. The Magistrate would consider this case, and give his judgment in it on Saturday next. TOWN-HALL—ST u any VAGA itoti D.—A miserably half-dressed individual was brought before Sir JOHN PER RINO, by Wilkinson, the night constable, who stated that he was given in charge to him by Mr. Illidge, of St. Saviour's, fur begging, who was prevented from attending by pressing business. Well, said Sir JOHN to the defendant, acquaint us with your name, and why you should not be sent to the tread wheel? Your Honour, answered the prisoner, in a puri tanical tone, my name is Jackson, and I frequent the same place of worship as Mr. Illidge, to return thanks to the Almighty for his abundant mercies to me, and I consider I have a right to ask a brother Christian for-relief—that great man in the Lord, Mr. Smith of I'enhance, whose dis ciple I am, says so ; besides I go a preaching. Sir JOHN said, Mr. Smith would have done better by giving him some decent clothing, instead of encouraging him to preach in the open air. prisoner, nl).}less e c d laspi Saviour, ng hi will clothe "i nle as hands t ()- gethe does the lilly of the valley. I care not for man . Sir JOHN told him, he seemed to b e f a r advanced in his t h r l ; said Christ rist the ! studies, and thought he could do no less than commit him to Brixton, as a vagrant on his own confession. The prisoner begged very hard to be excused, but the worthy Baronet observed, it would be an act of charity, as Fe would be both cleansed and fed, besides having the ad vantage of hearing divine service; he was accordingly committed to hard labour for one month. We have lately conversed with a gentleman recently returned from Saxony. he represents every thing as being extremely dull throughout Germany—no trade, no money, manufactures languishing, and agriculture em barrassed. The German traders complain that the Eng. Fah undersell them in cotton and woollen geode ; that th ey have no country to which they can export their own pro ductions, and ti.at their own population arc too poor to give activity to trade of any kind.—Brighton Gazette. In Peru heavy dews fall at night, and the weather is bz.zy for weeks together. . It once happened that a vessel bound to Europe met a cruizer, and hailed to ask if the latter had any commands—" Remember us to the Sun, when you see him," was the answer. On Saturday last, his Excellency the LORD LIEUTENANT visited Donnybrook Fair, accompanied by Lord WILLIAM PAGET and two of the junior branches of his family, and unattended even by a servant. No sooner was his Excellency's approach perceived, than the an nouncement flew with rapidity through every quarter of the fair; every tent, and creili place of public amusement, became all at once unoccupied, and all flew to hail the ap proach of the impartial Viceroy ; and thus surrounded by hundreds of the people, every head uncovered, his Excel lency proceeded, passing the various theatres, the bands of which (stationed ill front) soon obeyed the call of the people, and played " Ged save the King." His Excel lency in this manner slowly advancing, amid loud and repeated cheers and demonstrations of respect, from many fair and elegant intimates of several private equipage` pre sent, who appeared no less gratified at the condescensiob awl graceful acknowledgments of the gallant Marquis than the humblest of his admirer.. It was evident that an anxiety pervaded the crowd to pay his Excellency some peculiar inarkpf their respect and affection ; bet the visit having coins so unexpectedly upon them, they s-,:emed at a loss in what manner to evince their feelings: Some were perceived endeavouring to obtain the signs in front of the tents, such as were suitable for the occasion. A larg e tree was veinal upon and carried in triumph before his Excellency, at which he laughed very heartily—oth ers en. deavoured to displace the figure of a seaman, but this eau. tical sign being too elevated and permanently secured, it was found impossible to remo ve in sufficient time. It was understood the intention of the people was to bear this before Lord WILLIAM PAGEr, as a manifestation of their respect and regard for his Lordship, and in compliment to that service of which this young Nobleman is so distin guished an ornament. His Excellency a t l eng th left the fair amid repeated cheering, and proceeded on his route to Itichview, carrying with him the affections and good wishes of an enthusiastic and generous people, who, turning to each other, observed that the gallant Marquis was the first Lord Lieutenant who (vet' paid a visit to the " Brook," and that without a single soldier or a policeman being pre bentm.Dublin Paper. THE ARMY. G. 0 Mit Majesty bar; Guards, pleased to Se a p p te p m nit ' t e t r cti lt General Sir Herbert Taylor, G.C.H., to be Arljutant.:, General to the Forces, vita Alajor-General Sir Henry Tor- T. rtfitt, K. C. IL, (It'oefitted. By r•onnand of the Right Hon, ,k:- General. Hill, G.C.13., C ot nNanding chief. , JOHN MACDONALD, D ej n;tv et:nt• THE MARKETS. KET —Sept : : ; a 1 Ditto Northumberland 3 1 9 Ditto I'aareth , 32 Ditto Perkins and Co. 3 3 - !)itto Russell's 9 Ditto Walker _ :34. lr Srringwell 214 N „(* Russell's High „ :?• 1 r, \NaIl End 3-7 ," Walls End Walk End Stewart's `' It etton'bW.E. Cowpeii 39 lolartley 31 f 5 Silkstone Ditto New 31 9 l'antield Trader 31 (5 Beamish S. Moor small 19 0 ps sold COAL MAIT A ri,ir'e 0.1. Beaumont 3O 6 Minton 31 6 Charlotte ---3! Felling Main---- 18 0 Forrest 31 6 flehburn \la. n 3. 9 : - ;t2 0 Kenton Writ,,,,.,.,,...,... 32 6 Killingworth « 3t 0 Tanfleld 0 :11 9 Willington 3t 0 W} lam :12 IS WallsEndßewieh:ACo. `i.s 9 Ditto 33 0 Ditto Carr and Co. -29 (i Ditto Clarke and C0.. 32 0 Ditto Crairtlingten.--.. :.;0 0 Ditto (Oda :11 9 Si!.ts:, at inarket,9l-si, CoIJNI'RY C()}1 N 1.1AR1(1.: TS DU N - G THE WEEK' Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. ! Per Quarter. s. to s. 5. to 8. ts. to s. Abingdon.-- 58 68 :35 42 35 42 - 62 - Andover----- 58 30 'l3 -- Birmingham—. 48 58 32 86 22 :.,14 ridport ----- 52 50 32 39 26 28 Cirencester 59 fiB 29 31 26 28 -- 4 4 Faringdon....— 48 54 26 39 .4 31. -- Guild tiird 41 6$ 45 22 SO S 8 - Henley 5O 632 43 . , p O 2 ) Hereford . 6$ 66 46 50 42 -- High-worth ... . 443 62 'lO :1;i 93 ,7 0 Maidenhead «.—..Val 08 38 42 28 38 -- 5 , " ORkingham 56 CA) 30 30 21 Reading Salisbury, 6O 713 34 u 8 26 30 -- Southapipton Stroud ----„ l)) 233 32 20 52 -- Tewkesbury 54 60 40 42 32 38 .-- U ::bridge IV tag0.....„ 19 CS 22 32 21 28 -- NVarminster 43 7S 23 JO 35 I -- Winds,ar B2 I',o al 38 24 31 I-- •„,„"' Worcester,.— on 67 :32 3 1 32 40 CHELTENHAM MARKET.—Sept. 2. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Pet lb. d. tod• Wheat Batley Oata Ite,ns l. 9 6 6 Lamb 8 Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork 6 Hay ....... .. .... 31. Os. to 4/. Os. pet ton ------- --- - HULL M A RKET.—Sept. 2. We have to notie , i a continuance of favourable weather, and the W may be considered as nearly all secured' The farmers are busily engaged with their Barley and Oats' We had a fair supply of New Wheat to-day, which . 8( 01 on nearly the same terms ai last week, and from the se"' pies shewn, we see no reason to alter the opinion then given as regards quality or deficiency in quantity. Very 10 4 Old Wheat offering, and last week's prices are maintained for this description. We have very little demand for gra' nary parcels, and riot any inquiry for Bond Wheat. PO remain without any alteration, and the best qualities very trifling demand. Beans and Pease are dull sale, .0 no variation in prices; we can also notice very little alter ation in the valor of either in bond. There are ott °f • two cargoes of Neurltapeseed in from abroad ; for thei" ferior the quality indifferent; Old held at late prl' Linseed in fair demand, at last week's currency. 5; is, Wheat, Old tios —s. New —e. o.s Foreign ...... —s. 31s. 585....... In bond --s. Oats, Poland —s. 202. 225. Old Small or Feed.... —s. 16s. 16s. -5. Foreign —s. 18s. Ws . Barley, Norf. & Sut —s. --s. --s. Line. & Vold —s. --- Foreign —s. Beans Ws. 425. 4:35. Foreign .... ..... —s. Pease, White --s. —s. —a. Grey , Paris —s :B , s. 40s. Foreign —s. 21s , ,14, Itapescad, in bond per 1a5t......n0ne. Free 25:::2 DUMFRIES MARKETS.—Avg. 27. • or our Grain market nothing p ar ti c ulart, 4. Ito alteration in price, has taken place these many tre" . ,.„ - • with the exception of Wheat, which has. risen 6 4.11- ,1 bushel ; but if this fine weather eantinuc, it is exPe7 ‘ that it will come flows' to its old price. The fo'.l o / „ '" may be considered as the sales of the market at present. , s.d. s.d. 5.0.. .0 Wheat, Imp. Bush... 76t0 8 0 Butter, I6oz 8 0 5 Barley ....—... ............ 0 0 4 0 Eggs, dozen 0 0 Oats 2 2 2 0 Beef, per lb. ...... 0 4 05 Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 1 0 1 IU Veal 8 4 Potatoes. cwt. CATTLE AIA liKET.—Our supply this week amounted 1036 ; viz. 29S drove cattle; 160 two-years olds; 0 / stirks, Galloways, and Irishers; 33 Highlanders; )(I qucys and heif e rs; a n d 35 cows : total as above. 10 640 report of last w ee k, w e ex p resse d an op i n i on , that t_ ,o _," day's market would be w e ll a tt en d e d with h ea vy cattl e- 0e this being the principal show-day for Itoolpit fair, o°. e ll contrary, with the exception of I or `3 lots, notlfing s e at , good appeared on the ands;S we believe this may tributed, in a great measure, to the tempting appetato the weather bore for harvest work. The best 1 0 00 1 grazed, and belonged to a gentleman, in the neighbour b 5 Castle Doughr3; they were mostly four-year-olds li re . all of the Galloway breed ; they brought about lil• 4 4, head ; the next best lot sold fur nine guineas per li' ine r and other two lots brought 9!. per head. The 0 0. kinds of three-years-old sold at from 71. ss. to 81..-t e x The show of two-year-olds was inconsiderable, and P r f il i c are the same as formerly, vie. 51. to 71. p r y head. v show of stirks was pretty fair, and a cousiderable o° 4 of purchases were made: prices rated from 3/. 10e. ° I 01 10. , . Although purchases were made very freely in ulf kinds of ca ttl e s till th e r a t es o f t h e mar k e t were g riev: o , complaints' off, and we have hoard that prices fell c siderably. I'R:s.-23 carts, prices and dealing same as last v_fe....e.,/ BIRTHS. the On the 3d inet. at Claremont-place, North Brixto n ' lid of Daniel On Lambert,'Eq. of a daughter. t ile the 241 in.t. the lady of 'Jo4eph Thompeoun, ° I Old 'Change, of a diughter. On the 2d inst. MIS. Henry Platts, of a daughter. MARRIED. At St. Peter's Church, Dublin, by the Rev. It 1. the son, the Rev. 1. Hobson, of Sidmouth, to Stoi r joie daughter of the late Right Hon. Arthur Brt•woro Sergeant at Law t o hi s • late Majesty, Fellow 0 ( I: College, Dublin, a n d Representttive for that Univerto ;t. many successive Parliaments. T. 15. At St. Philip's Church, Livetpool, by the Bev. or etl' Bo , %qead, Sir John Jervis W. Jervis, Bart., to tlio to ford, daughter of the late Thodas Bradford, Esq. c _ _ back, Cheshire. On the 3d inst. at Painswick, Gloiteesterslike) Rev. Ricksrd Cattermole, Charles Merrick Eldertol l i ec ,p4 of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, to Franco: ° daughter of Thomas Palin, Esq. of the former place - S. On the ed inst. at Stepney Church, by the to Williams, John Lane Higgins, Esq. a Oxford-etreeseq. Sophia, second daughter of the late Thomas Shirley, of Mile-end. DIED• On the Ist inst. at Hornsey,. in the 28th Yea in rn f t e age, Mary, the wife of John Sweatman, Esq. a street. On the 3d inst. at his father's house, • I Islington, Henry Holland Stutzer, Esq. in the 24th Ye al his age. On the 2d inst. at Worthing, in his 45th years — pilliat Mitehell, Esq. of Harley -street. WI On the Ist inst. at Deerfield lod N weal gram ge, or nlacc. River-terra( i Augusta, wife of John Barclay, Esq . . - of Tavistozk - P On the 3d inst. at Croom's-hill, Greenwich, MOP wife of George Browne, Eq. aged 76. . L ) On' the 24 inst. in Connaught-terr ace , Mary, the Wm' /I • ' Thomas Burninghani, Esq. of Froyle, Hants. 1 On the Ist inst. at Ramsgate, Junes L'sq'd Street End, near Canterbury, in the 74th year of his a l, On the 30th ult. at Nyton House, near Chiclieste,rsit the 46th year of his age, the Rev. Dr. Payne, Fellow 01 John's College, Oxford. • 04 On the 2d inst. at Worthing, in his 45th year, Mitchell, Esq. of Harley-street. i 0 On the let inst. at her house in Brook-street , lit,tl:ol# the 102 d year of her age, Mary Calvo;;,Widow of Til l ' o pe Calvert, late of Highfain, in the county of Herts, 9t„ c le surviving sister of Peter Calvert, Esq. LL.D. la te o f tt° of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and Dean Arches. n otil On the 30th ult. Mr. Jelin Bateman, South a.— street, Bloomsbury. er bt On the 2d inst. Henry Lewis, Esq. late of Horn eh Essex On . Of f ' the Ist inst. in Regent-str e et, aged 32, Sarah wife of Mr. John Pringle. On the 2d inst. Mr. Philip J ones , e ngraver, ot ' e j , street, Pentonville, aged 38. n j ter Ha O y t n ho tl r t u e e 3, O y t o h un u g l es t. ; saotaßoufrttioien-lactreesßeetuvt: T. ed E. 1 1 7. 0 %, - . ;t1; of Hillsley, Gloucestershire. fef On the 27th u lt. a t N ew i ng t o n , Lieut, NV. 13 “ Royal Irish Fusileers. . . , l it PAINT= and PCILISSID by MAW° YOU -14 w ' MIS Ongs llg, STRAND, LOMPOIG ( T Nl.l 1 • ' t i f au Lo t , ooks _ 44 lent