The Sun. — London, England, 1828-01-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PtJBLIC JOURNALS. The Gazette of last night contains the new ap pointments, which indicate the change of Ministry. These matters have been too long discussed to re tain the grace of novelty, we therefore dismiss them, as br. Johnson did his Dictionary, with frigid tranquillity. It will be remarked, however, by com mon observers, that neither the appointments ofLord Bathurst, Lord Melville, nor Mr. Peel are gazetted. A rumour was circulated in some of the Evening Papers, that Lord Gederich was to remain a Cabinet Mi /lister, though without any place. Mr. Wallace is made a Peer ! "We have already more than once stateei that the Mastership of the Ordnance (with, we believe, a seat in the Cabinet) was offered to the Earl of Rosslyn. Some delay has occurred re specting the answer, owing to his Lordship's ab sence from town, lie, as well as Lord Grey, having been, it is said, off a fisit to the Duke of Bedford, I `at - Woburn. An answer, however, has now come, and it is, We are positively told, a decided refusal of the office. It is added, that Sir James Scarlett, though pressed to keep his place of Attorney- GeMral, liar certainly resigued.—Timcs. If it were as easy to convey instruction to the agriculturists as it is desirable for them, on certain subjects, to receive it, we might venture to recom mend to their especial study a letter which appears in this day's Times, under the signature of "A. R.," and the date of Lisbon. It requires nothing more than unlettered sense —nay, than honest stupidity, provided always that the stupidity be honest—to comprehend the very simple proposition which it is the purpose of our correspondent to support, — namely, that there exists no earthly means of sup plying our country gentlemen with their wines and foreign luxuries but the sale of British manufactures in exchange for them; and that the ingenuity of man cannot imagine an instrument by which to keep up the price of land, and the rent of it, through out England, other than that of maintaining the ma nufacturing and commercial interests in their highest state of active prosperity,—that is, in the fullest ca pacity for purchasing the produce of the country gentlemen's estates. If the manufacturing popula tion be diminished, in the same proportion —we ought to say in still more sensible propertioe—will fall the price of corn. It is but idle foole :•yto talk of revising the old prohibitory laws, an dthereby se curing to the British . manufacture r the mono poly of the -British market. The .sonic market is already, in a degree quite extensive enough for general reasoning, secured to the British manu facturer. The portion of foreign manufactured goods consumed in this country is altogether insig nificant, when looking at results in.the mass. That portion, we take upon ourselves to affirm, is far less than what was effected by smuggling, under the ?prohibitory duties, and in spite of them. But we must add, as a salutary warning to the country gen tleman, that if be persists in his prohibition of fo reign corn, he will ere long disable the English ma nufacturer from selling even so much of his goods in foreign markets as may be sufficient to purchase }:aw materials for the employment of those native workmen who now buy and consume the country gentlemen's wheat, or to pay for those luxuries from foreign soils which have become indispensable to his habits. No; if the country gentlemen are so un fortunate as to be the only members of the commu nity who can possess an abundance of animal com forts, without the slightest exercise of care, orl diti -*awe or reason ; and if they are therefore, as a class, more incrusted with prejudice, and more im pervious to knowledge,. than any other body of grown bipeds in this realm, it is nut an atom the less true, that for all their luxuries, and more than half' their rents, they are indebted to the foreign trade of Eng land, let them stomach the assertion as they may.— We find that a good deal of alarm is expressed ?ti .once of the country papers at the recent changes. Tic Scotsman says, " that his Grace should have been named Premier even for one da y , appears to 16 to be an insult to th e goo d sense and constitu tional feeling of the country ; that Lord Dudley and HtL;kisson and Grant should have taken onices under Lords Wellington and Bathurst, with a majority of Ultra-Tory Anti-Catholics in the Ca binet, does seem to be degrading. It is so decidedly, if. they have sacrificed principle to emolument ; and it is a sacrifice of reputation, even although they ~ nay have _become parties to the re-construction of what is called the Government, from the hope of doing good. They must have penetration enough to 3e that they are taken in, solely to make the coin pound pill not' absolutely unpalatable to the country. • • . . . We 'do that Mr. Huskis son has made stipulations ; but we fear that if the Administration he continued as announced at pre sent, his stipulations' will go for .nothing." We have no wish to extenuate the insult offered to the country in the appointment to the Premiership of a man notoriously unfit for it ; and what is rather un usual, in these days, self-condemned. We are far from wishing to set bounds to the exercise of the prerogative. His nties,ty had. certainly the power to make the Duke of Wellington Premier. But we cannot help thinking it would notle amiss if •Mo narehs were to bear in mind, that the best means of ensuring the homage of the people, is to exer cise their authority in such a way as the people themselves would wish it to he exercised. At Con stantinople,ahe Slave of last year becomes frequently . the Grand Vizier of this. These exaltations pass as a matter of course; but the consequence is that the Slave is not exalted, but the office degraded. In a civilized nation there should be nothing arbitrary. Power, even where unrestrained, ought always to be exercised according to certain laws of propriety. Every person appointed to offices of trust and re sponsibility shOuld be known to possess the qualifi cations usually associated with them. The Chan cellor should appoint a Master known to the Pro fession as possessing the qualifications required in a Master, and not the first half-pay officer, who does an act of kindness to him in a perilous conjuncture ; the King, again, should appoint a Chancellor entitled to • the confidence of the country as the highest JUdge. Even in the Church, the ordinary livings of which are the property of every purehaer, a certain deference to public opinion and feeling ought to b e man if es ted in the disposal of the higher dig titles. It would be considered improper, for in :stance, to reward a Lieutenant who has distinguished himself in skirmishes with smugglers, with orders, Ind one o f t h e b e st of the livings in the gift of the Chancellor. We - cannot, therefore, wonder that the country sho u ld not h a ve been prep are d f or t hi s exercise of th e R oya l au thority. If th e E mperor ff Prim ee Paul should have made Suwaro Mini ster, the act would have been supposed in charac ter; but George the Fourth has always been sup posed tremblingly aliv e to the suggestions of pro priety, and able to distinguish between the claims t o private intimacy and the claim s to public confidence. All things are not surely a farce, if County Meet-. ilfrs are. Yet what can more resemble a farce than the elevating to the highest office in the Admini stration, a man for whose indiscreet language it has ff • more than once b een necessary to Offe r the apology that he was unused to speak, and wh o must en j o y his dignity, like one of Epicurus 's Gods, and refuse , to take any part in the public deliberation s of the Legislature, if he do not mean to compromise his colleagues and the character of the nation by hi s discretions or his solecisms. That any purely military maw should have a seat ill the Cabinet at all, ev en though filling a department connected with military affairs, as the Ordnance for instance, is a proposition liable to considerable difficulty. If a soldier in the Cabinet were to vote only on military affairs, all would be well ; but the vote of that soldier counts in the Cabinet for as much as that of .the man who has made the affairs of the nation the study of his life. The same sense of his deficiencies which led his Grace, to proclaim his unfitness for the situation of Premier a year ago, will probably , lead him to distrust the sound of his voic e , M future; and, there fore, it may not be necessary to remind him of the' Cro}v in the Fable, which was prevailed on by the Fox to open his mouth, and drop his cheese, But ancestor first brought Mr. Pitt into Parliament, and that they have never swerved from his principles; that Mr. Lanibton's Peerage was originally intended by the Whigs as a mere matter of pique towards his father-in-law, Earl Grey ; that he had been the great opponent of the Lowthers in the successive Westmoreland elections, furnishing both money and voters to Mr. Brougham ; and that, as for the pledge in question, a striking instance of a similar kind exists, in which it was not found necessary to keep it; for that in the year 1783, when Mr. Pitt first came into power, a patent was actually passing through the offices, raising Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, to the Peerage; but which was stopped, and never af terwards took effect. Having thus mentioned the report, and the arguments pro. and con. upon the occasion, we leave the matter as we found it, enve loped in some degree of mystery. The Duke of Wellington, we should think, is much too good a tactician to serve his enemies at the expellee of his allies, unless, by an act of generalship, he can neu tralize and disarm the former, which, we should not be surprised to find, may turn out to be the case on the occasion in question.—lbid. Don Miguel, we are happy to find by an article in another part of our paper, continues, while de tained by contrary winds, to be received and treated in the most handsome and becoming manner by all classes of Englishmen ; and we wish to indulge the fond hope that he may profit by the lessons Which have every where been offered to him by persons of more experience than he has been accustomed to meet either at home or on his travels. Neither the soil nor the creed, political and religious, of Portu gal or Austria, offers any guarantee to the people for the good government of their respective Monarchs; and the events of the last few years give us no bet ter promise than we have had before. The more extensive an individual's acquaintance with the va rious habits, manners, and systems of mankind, the more liberal we may reasonably expect him to be- come ; but after all, there is so great a power in early associations and impressions, that it is not with out the utmost difficulty they can be battled with success. We cannot indeed venture to say that the people of any European State are equally capable of appreciating or enjoying such a state of freedom as happily prevails in this Protestant country ; but we must on the other hand admit, that the state of ser vitude in which they have been held for ages, loudly calls for melioration. The Kings and Governments of Europe all profess to believe and act upon the principles of Christianity—but if we take their deeds and measure them by such a standard, we shall soon find how widely they have departed from them. A rapid improvement has taken place in France with respect to the notions of Government entertained by the Monarchy and the people—and in sonic of the minor States, such as Saxony and Bavaria, the good feelings of the Sovereigns have eyes gone beyond the fondest expectations of their people. But in Spain, Portugal, Austria, and throughout the whole of the Russian Empire—a rank and mischievous tyranny universally prevails— which cannot too soon be corrected and re formed. We arc nut and never have been the advocates of rash or hasty change—on the contrary, we have strenuously supported the necessity of the principle of preservation in the va rious States of Europe as one of the greatest and best securities for the continuance of general peace ; but nevertheless we cannot be insensible to the thraldom and the misery ix which millions of our fellow men have been so long enchained. We wish to see the improvement of man's condition, physical and moral; and as the best means of securing it to see his education bated upon sound and virtuous principles. All violent theories and hazardous spe culations we leave to . those who assume the ill-ap plied epithet of liberal; but we cannot expect any real or solid melioration until Sovereigns find that the security of their thrones depends upon the hap piness of their people. It would be idle to enter into any speculations at present upon the course which Miguel may pursue when he is once more' placed within the influence of the Priests, and the Donna, his famous mother; but it would_ be worse than madness to indulge in any lively expectation that he will prove himself the zealous supporter of a free institution. We cannot extract from any thing, that which is not in it; but still let us not despair that time and good advice in another quarter will not be altogether thrown away upon him— /Moiling Post. . The improvement of the metropolis is an object which has always attracted our attention and inte rested our feeling's. It is, therefore, with consider able gratification that we have to state, that a meet ing was held in the Vestry-hall of the parish of Lambeth, yesterday, at which it was resolved to support. the erection of a new bridge across the Thames, from the Palace at Lambeth to the Horse ferry, at Westminster. It is impossible for those who have not accidentally fallen upon the miserable lanes and tenements which occupy the Surrey bank of the river from Lambeth Palace to Vauxhall, to form an idea of the nature of those places, especially at night, when, from the absence even of parish lamps, passengers are left to grope their way in per fect darkness. The erection of a bridge over the Thames at that particular spot, would in a few months produce a complete: change. The lanes and the hovels would quickly disappear, as they have done on the other side of Waterloo Bridge, and decent houses and spacious streets would fill a space which now more resembles a wretched hamlet on the edge of a desert than the suburb of a splendid metropolis. The improved rents and the diminished Psor Rates _would alone more than repay the expence of the new bridge :(a suspension one), which are not esti mated at more than 120,000/. The line of road is already formed on both sides of the river, so that no expence whatever need be incurred, except that of building and casting the bridge.—New Times. There is no subject 011 which we are stunned with more trifling and folly than on the subject of in formers. Were the clamours against the Johnsons and the Byerses confined to the coach proprietors, the innkeepers, and the pawnbrokers, whom they keep in due order, by application to the only sen sible part of their persons, namely, their pockets, we could easily bear with them. We could even allow an Old Bailey attorney, his sensibilities excited by the warming influence of a fee, to exclaim in set terms against the nuisance of allowing his clients to be fleeced by any one but himself. But what may be tolerated, because it is natural, in the suffering defendant, and in the hired pleader, is not to be en dured in the Magistrate, who sits to administer the law, wide'' distinctly recognises the informer, and decrees him a reward. Every day we have reports of lachrymose wailings from the Bench over some pawnbroker or other who has been violating the law, because, forsooth, tile Magistrate has no power of passing over the violation ! I\ay, to such a degree does this tenderness for the offender pre vail, that not !unfrequently do we find the Maps• trate laying aside his dignity, to beseech Mr. John son or Mr. Byers, as the case may be, not to press for ally more convictions. Such tenderness would be ext , einely amiable, were it exerted on behalf of any poor thing who had sinned without being con scious of th e wrong, or who had .been goaded to wrong by the compelling pressure of overwhelming distress ; but it is not only ridiculous but detestable, 1 t o find a man cl o th e d with authority, sending w ithout hesitation, a miserable creature to the House of Correction, becau s e necessity had driven her to vice ; and then, whining over the misfortune of a gin-seller, who keeps his house (ien in defiance of the linv, for the purpose of making profit by her vices. Again, xvere the Pawnbrokers' Act, or the Act for Regulating Coaches or Public-houses, dubi ously. expressed, there would be room f or compas sion ; but all arc so plain, that he that runs may read; and they are known perfectly by every one of the delinquents whose conduct they affect. An ar ti c l e me t our eye the other day, headed—" MethOd by which an honest tradesman may be ruined." When we pe rused it, we found th a t it was a ease of a pawn ! broker fined twenty shillings forinot observing the in the annals of Parliamentary warfare, the struggle for victory between speech and silence will be at all events novel. The Duke has 'great command of features; and having but one expression, he may give some trouble to his opponents to discover the im pression their attacks may make on him. We re member, when his famous misconception of Mr. Huskisson's letter exposed him to some sharp firing, his countenance remained as immovable throughout as that of one of the statues in St. Paul's. But his colleagues may not have the same advantage; and till use has reconciled them to it, they must feel a little awkward in answering a question addressed to his Grace, when they commence with " I am instructed by his Grace to state, in answer to the Noble Lord," or " I have it in command from his Grace to inform the Noble Lord;" or when the Lord Privy Seal or any other of his colleagues, is proposing a measure unconnected with his depart ment, and properly in the department of the Premier, commences with acquainting the House that his Grace.being unacquainted with the subject on which he is about to address their Lordships, he has been appointed by his Grace to supply his place. We quarrel not with his Majesty's inclinations, and are among the last who should wish to invade his pri vacy. The Duke - of Wellington may have many qualities which justly entitle him to the favour of his Majesty ; and one is mentioned equally creditable to both, namely, that of a frankness and sincerity unusual any where, but least of all among those who surround Kings. But if favour, independent of fitness, is to be a recommendation to the highest official situations, were are we to stop Caligula's horse was probably an excellent horse, and it was in high favour with him, but does it follow that he ought to have made the horse a Consul ? So much for the Duke of 'Wellington, the appointment of whom to the Premiership is certainly very proble matical, even on the score of policy. It may be true yet, as it was in the time of the Chancellor Oxenstiern, that the world is governed by sur prisingly little wisdom; but is it prudent to let the public see that the puppets are moved by wires? As far, however, as the Country is concerned, we really do not know that the weakness of the head of •the Government will render the part of the Admi nistration chosen to give character to it less able to do good. If Mr. Huskisson have stipu lated to carry his system into full effect; if, as has been alleged, it have also been stipulated that farther concessions are to be made to the Catholics, admit ting them to all the privileges of citizens, seats in Parliament alone excepted, we do not see how either principle or reputation can have been sacrificed. Mr. Huskisson acquired his reputation under an Admi nistration which he and Mr. Canning chiefly contri buted to make liberal, and if he succeed in advanc ing the interests of his country, he will add to his reputation instead of sacrificing it. We speak of Mr. Huskisson as a public man, and only in so far as his acts arc before the public; for of the precise nature of his engagements with his late Colleagues we are ignorant. One good sign begins already to manifest itself. Those persons whom Mr. Canning in his memorable speech in answer to Mr. J. Williams, described as not a political faction, but rather " as a sect small in numbers, and powerless might, who think that all advances towards improvement are retrogradations towards Jacobinism," begin already, if we may trust their organ, to feel uneasy at the prospect of Mr. Huskisson's influence: We wish we had a better Cabinet; but we would rather have the present one than run the risk of an experiment whether it would be practicable to form a worse Administration, which should still have the suffrages in Parliament.—Morning Chronicle. Having long contended for the abolition of the practice of imprisonment for debt, and having never wet with any argument to shake our opinion as to its being a cruel, absurd, and unchristian practice, we observe with pleasure that a Bill has been brought into the Senate of the United States to abolish imprisonment, in Civil cases, on mesne pro cess. We are glad of this, not only because it will put to the test of experience the principles for which we have contended, but because we are also sure that the enlightened innovation which the American Senate will make, by the passing of such a bill, upon an ancient and barbarous custom, will ope rate hereafter as a beneficial example to ourselves. America derives the principles as well as the greater part of the practice of her laws from England ; she took, in the rapid formation of her own society, the good and the bad together. The principles that ought to be preserved, as well as the prejudices which ought to be got rid of, descended to her from the same parentage. If she is wise enough to ad here to that which reason sanctions, and to renounce whatever has antiquity alone 'and constant usage to plead in its support, she will do well—she will im prove, not impair, those laws which she inhe rits from the founders of our own Constitution; and we will do well to adopt and emulate her ex ample. Should even the existing prejudices of timid and ignorant minds be unable to oppose effectually the passing of this Bill at present, we know that such a barrier cannot long be capable of resisting the progress of enlightened legislation. That such a Bill should be introduced at all into the Senate of America, with any chance of success, is, in itself, a great and satisfactory proof of the advance which sound understanding has made of late years in the legislative body of that vast community. It was long after we began to advocate the abolition of im prisonment for debt that a Bill was brought into the British Parliament to prevent arrest, or, which is the same thing, to prevent the taking of special bail in actions on mesne process in all cases where the original debt amounted to 'less than 201. This was a very narrow limitation indeed. By a for mer law, which had expired, the special bail was done away as, to all debts (with the exception of bills of exchange and promissory notes) that amounted to no more than 15/. ; so that the new Bill only enlarged the operation of the for mer Act by the amount of .5/. This Bill was brought in by tke present Solicitor-General, and was opposed most strenuously by the popular Re presentative of a popular borough, whose electors boast more of their patriotism and regard for the liberty of the subject than, perhaps, any other body of electors in the kingdom—we mean the city of Westminster, on behalf of which Mr. Cam Hob house resisted the passing of a Bill that only pre vented the creditor from having _the power of throw ing the body of his debtor into prison, were the debt did not amount to 201. The present Attorney- General, on that occasion, showed that he valued the " liberty of the subject" at five times mere than the Representative of the electors of -West minster ; for he declared he would have preferred that the sum on which a debtor could be arrested had been fixed at 1001. instead of 20/. But our objection is as to the principle of arrest for debt alto gether. The framers of the American Bill have not copied our 201. legislation ; they have not fixed the sum at 201. or 1001., below which special bail can not be required ; they have made no limitation as to the amount of the original debt ; and thereby they itedcredit by h very wisely cut up the system of miln the roots. They have, however,encumbered measure with some exceptions, which interfere with the simplicity of the principle. But they have made a good beginning, and other improvements will no doubt follow. —Morning Herald. Among the flying reports o f the da y is one, that Lord Lowther—a person, as m atters stand, of no small importance with any Administration—ex presses himself much dissatisfied with the new Premier, because his Grace's first act, on assuming the reins of Government, should have been the con firmation of the Peerage promised to Mr. Lambton by his predecessors. On his Grace's Part, it is urged by his advocates as having been unavoidable; that the King's promise had been obtained, which could not be violated; and that as the Duk e ' s own brother, Sir Henry Wellesley, was-Included i n the batch, it would have been a pecul iarly ungracious act in him to' have culled from the number one po litical opponent. On the other hand, the advocates of the Lowthers contend that they are the corner stone and founders of modern Toryism ; that their regulations respecting duplicates ; regulations so exceedingly simple, that their observance might be safely entrusted to any person above five years of age that was not by nature an idiot. We have no hesitation in saying that there are more honest men ruined by pawnbrokers in one year in this great city, than there will be honest pawnbrokers ruined by in formers in the course of twenty centuries. A case may, no doubt, be imagined, and such do some times iaccur, in which an informer may harass a really deserving man ; but are the quirks of law never employed to harass honest men by any one but the informer ? Do the poor who pawn never suffer ? Do the thoughtless who tipple never go to the watch-house ? Are the passengers in coaches exempt in all possible cases from trouble ? If a law be so indiscreetly worded, as to leave occasion for vexatious prosecutions, by all means let it be altered; but where the law is clear, and where its enact ments are specially directed to the protection of the poor, the regulation of public morals, and the secu rity of the traveller, let not the ministers of the law interpose to put down the only means by which those enactments are kept from becoming a dead letter.—lbid. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • M A NSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday, a superintendent of the watch in one of the wards, was charged by Henry Allen, an undertaker, with having stolen a silk hat-band (such as are used at funerals by undertakers' men.) The complainant stated, that he occasionally employed the prisoner as an assistant mute at funerals, and that, on Thursday, the prisoner having been engaged to attend a job, and having performed it, adjourned, with his fellow mutes, to the Turk's Head, Aldgate, to unrobe and refresh. Immediately after this most agreeable part of their duties was executed, the hat-band in question was missed. It was then determined that every man in the room should be searched, as the article could not easily have been pil fered except by one of the company. The prisoner showed a very praiseworthy alacrity upon the occasion, took out his staff, in order to act with a formidable authority in the cause of justice, and pulled off his coat, in order to show an example of willingness to undergo examination. The search was made upon every one present, but no hat-band was found. The witness was not satisfied with this ex periment, and called in a constable, who might be less in terested in the robbery than the prisoner, and caused a second search to be made. In delicacy to the prisoner's feelings, he being an officer of justice, he was the last per son searched. Indeed it was expected that the article would be forthcoming before it reached his turn. Every other person, however, stripped, being subject to the charge of robbery. The prisoner then as boldly threw off his coat as lie had on the first search, and with his staff in his hand, demanded to be examined. Some of the frater nity objected to any intention of giving the officer more indulgence than had been yielded to the rest, and he was of course ordered to do as they had done, when, to the astonishment of all, down dropped the hat-band from his person. The constable who was called in to assist in the business deposed, that upon examining the prisoner's person he found the hat-band snugly deposited between the shirt and the waistcoat behind. The LORD MAYOR.—The prisoner is committed. Superintendent of the Watch—Committed ! Oh, my Lord Mayor, you won't commit me. Consider the dis grace, my Lord. You surely won't commit me ! " Upon my word I will," said the Loan MAYOR ; and the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial. On leaving the justice-room, he said to the officers about the. place, " Isn't this too bad ?" He belongs to the Ward of Coleman-street, a neighbourhood in which numerous robberies have been lately committed. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday Mr. Walmsley, a pawn broker, residing in the London-road, was summoned be fore Mr. HONE, for refusing to compensate a French lady for the loss of a gold chain, value ten guineas, upon which he lent her the sum of 21. The complainant previous to the month of March, pledged the article above-mentioned at the defendant's shop, and hearing that his premises had been destroyed. by fire on the 25th of the same month, she proceeded theri l in about three weeks afterwards in order to make inquiries about the article, when the defendant said that she need not make herself uneasy, for her chain, and also a brooch which she had also pledged at his shop, were safe. Upon the faith of that representation, the complainant was satis• fled; but when she subsequently called to redeem the chain, the answer she got was, that her property was either lost or destroyed at the time of the fire, and that therefore she could claim no restitution. Under these circumstances, the complainant obtained a summons against the pawnbroker. Mr. Walmsley said, that if he made compensation to this lady, it would be a precedent, and he should have a hundred applications of the same nature by persons who lost pro perty in his house when the calamity occurred. • Mr. HONE.—But this lady swears that subsequent to the fire, when she called at your house, you assured her that her chain was safe. A female was then called, who proved that she was pre sent when the defendant made the above declaration. Mr. HONE.—I shall certainly call upon you to make compensation to this lady for the chain. Pray what was the amount of insurance on the property in your house at the time of the fire ? The defendant hesitated, upon which the Magistrate repeated the question, and at length the de fendant answered that his property previous to the fire was insured for 7,0001. Mr. HONE.—Was this lady's chain destroyed by fire? Defendant.--The whole of the plate and jewellery were saved, but a great deal was either lost or stolen in the con fusion that existed when the fire broke out. Her property, I have no hesitation in saying, was lost in that manner. Mr. HoNs.—Your having assured the complainant that her chain was safe after the fire, demands that you should compensate her for the loss she has sustained. The MAGISTRATE having threatened to put the law in force against the defendant for his reft.sal, the latter in timated his determination of appealing. At length, how ever, the matter was finally adjusted between the parties, Mr. Walmsley promising to remunerate the complainant for the loss of the article in question. The late Lord HARLEY, who was amongst the passengers lost in the Fanny packet off Jersey, was in his 28th year; his brother, Lord Monummt, now Lord HARLEY, is heir apparent to the Earldom of Oxford. It is not a little singular that the heirs-apparent of the Earl of OXFORD and of Mr. KNIGHT, of Dowiston-Castle, whose extensive properties lie close to each other, should have been cut off by untimely deaths, within a few months of each other.— Worcester Journal. DlvoN.—Last week, a poor woman of West Buckland having occasion to leave her home, obtained per mission of a neighbour to leave her child, about thirteen months old, in his house, with his children, and during her absence, a little dog attacked the child, and bit it by the shoulder, which so much frightened it as to cause its death within ten minutes.—Plymouth Journal. FIRE OCCASIONED BY WATER.—In Conse quence of a rick of hay, belonging to a respectable farmer in the neighbourhood of Fordingbridge, being partly under water during the late flood, it heated so rapidly as to catch fire, and was completely burnt down.—Dorset Chronicle. One of the most celebrated masters of hounds in the northern part of the kingdom is so devoted to his sport, that during the hunting season his residence consists of two rooms, one for himself and another for an old woman who waits upon him. The furniture of the master's room consists of a turn-up bedstead, a sofa, half-a dozen chairs, and table. In this room he can do what no ma n ran do in a palace ; as he lies in his bed, he can open his window, shut his door, stir the fire, and rate his hounds, if he hears them quarrelling in the kennel. —Ch e lmsford Chronicle. Chelmsford On Tuesday evening se'nnight the neighbour hood of Abergavenny was v i s i te d b y a h eavy snow - storm.accompanied by high winds. The road from Abergavenny to Merthyr was rendered impassable for carriages by drifts of snow from 12 to 18 feet deep; and the Merthyr mail was with much dif f iculty conveyed to Abergavenny next morning on horseback.—North Wales Chronicle. The flood at Lincoln has been very extensive in consequence of the late rains. Southward and north ward for many miles present an immense sheet of water, and great apprehensions are entertained of the rot seizing the cattle. The steam-packets, in consequence of the navigate overflow with oft precision, heWitham one h of which actually perchedve found it very difficult to upon the top of a hedge (rendered invisible by the water,) the bushes of which incommoded the paddles. On Friday last, owing to the almost overwhelming flood, the tempo rary dam erected across the river at the east end of the High Bridge was obliged to be removed, to suffer the waters to drain from the Skillingthorpe lands, which are flooded to such an extent as has not been seen for a great number of yeare,..—Stamford News. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JA c. 25. STEVENS AND curry. Mr. ROMILLY applied, at the rising of the Court, to request that the Chancellor would give judgment in this case. He was instructed to say, that great distress and agony of mind had been endured by the parties, owing to the delay which had hitherto taken place. His LoßDstuP promised judgment at a very early day. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 25. THE KING V. TIIE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF DONCASTER. This was a rule calling upon the Mayor and Cor poration of Doncaster to show cause why a writ, of mandamus should not issue, directing them to admit as a freeman of that borough a person of the name of Buckland, who claimed his freedom from having been articled for seven years to a gentleman of the name of Mason, an attorney, in the town of Don caster. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (with whom was Mr. PATTERSON) now appeared to show cause against the rule. The short question was, whether an at torney was to be considered as a person in trade, ac cording to the general meaning of that term.. After a few words from the ATTORNEY-GENERAL in support of the rule, Lord TENTERDEN said, it was quite clear that this could not be considered as an apprenticeship to a trade. In some cases it would be difficult to say what was and what was not a trade, but there could be no difficulty in saying that an attorney was not a trader.—The Rule discharged with costs. TIME ICING V. JAMES BROWN, ESQ. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (with whom was Mr. ALDERSON) appeared to show cause against a rule obtained last term, at the instance of Sir Wm. Bra bazon, High Sheriff of the county of Mayo, calling upon the defendant to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him, for the publication of a libel. The Learned Counsel observed, that the alleged libel was in the form of a speech, purporting to have been delivered by Mr. Brown, in his place in Parliament. A considerable portion of the affidavits filed on applying for the rule, consisted in details, for the purpose of showing that Mr. Brown was the author of the alleged libellous speech. He, however, would at once admit Mr. Brown to be the author of the matter complained of, and would avow also that Mr. Brown had sent it for publication in a London paper; and having done so, he would now proceed to show that Mr. Brown was fully justified in making the statements contained in his speech, or, at all events, that Sir William Bra bazon was not entitled to the extraordinary interpo sition of the Court, which, by the present rule, he sought to obtain, but must be left to the ordinary remedy of action or indictment. The Learned Counsel then proceeded ta read the speech from a morning paper which he held in his band; it was of considerable length, and commenced by observing that men invested with great power should be pre vented from inflicting on society the greatest crime known to the law, and that there were men now at large who had entered into a conspiracy to com mit such a crime. It then went on to state, in sub stance, that at the election for the county of Mayo in June last, Lord Bingham and the defendant were candidates; that the defendant, for the purpose of preventing a tumult taking place after the election, had declined being chaired, but that, as be and some of his friends were proceeding out of the town of Castlebar, where the election took place, a body of men, armed with stones, suddenly sprang upon a wall near the highway, and assailed his carriage by throwing stones in great numbers at it ; that the horses were. stunned, and ultimately knocked down; that one per Son was killed on the spot, several were wounded, and every gentleman in the carriage severely wounded—the defendant himself having several of his ribs fractured; that a public inquiry was instituted into the outrages, the result of which had shown that Sir William IBrabazon bad received direct and repeated information from the chief con stable of police, that a scheme of murder bad been long before organized, and was to be put in exe cution on the day of the election, in order to give it the colour of a mob tumult; that Sir William Brabazon neglected to interfere to prevent the outrages, and refused the assistance of the officers of the police to allay them. The speech, after stating a variety of minor particulars, concluded by saying that if such a proceeding were to be allowed to pass unpunished, the only inference to be drawn from it would be, that the sheriff and several lawless wretches could enter into a conspiracy to render the civil office unavailing, and that he could do that with impunity in virtue of his office, for which any other man in the empire would be hanged. The Attor ney-General then detailed at great length the con tents of the affidavits filed in opposition to the rule on the part of Mr. Brown. They stated, that Sir W. Brabazon, previous to the election, had notice of the premeditated attack afterwards made by the mob; that Major Warburton applied to him to know what number of men he would require to pre serve the peace, and offered to furnish him with any force that he might think necessary ; that before it was known that there would not be a contest, he re quested to have 300 men, but afterwards stated that 30 would be sufficient : that on the morning of the 24th of June, when the election took place, a great number of persons in the interest of Lord Bingham (who had previously declared their intentioia to riot) assembled in the Court-house, having broken open the doors; that on their coming into the town they shouted for Lord Bingham ; and denounced ven geance on the Brown party; that they had armed themselves with bludgeons and boughs of trees, and went about crying out "Down with the Browns;" some of them swearing that they would kick the Brown party out of the town; that previous to the actual outrages taking place, Sir Wm. Brabazon was aware that there was every indication of a h t o h u e ld ba gre . tumult being about to commence , havin g heard many of the expressions that were uttered b y the mob;bar racks, ck s, and left notwithstanding ‘vord th a twhi nonech wentohfethemen s to Brabazonout ul ti h l refused gave fusd t othme interfereord er t s o ; ti t t h i e a l t i t S h i r e N t V u m i 1 l u i a l t m ; and on being applied to after cries of murder were heard, he coolly said, " Never mind it, it does not signify," and immediately sat don n in Lord B.'s committee-room to take refreshments. Mr. BROUGIADI rose to support the rule, but was interrupted by • Lord TENTERDEN, who said it was too late to go on with the case today. The further arguments were then postponed till to-morrow (this day). iosid his present p An American Paper contains the following : , 4 We are sorry in our criticism on the last new Melo drame, we forgot to mention the actors engaged in it." H frb was dining with th e E ar l o f EGILEMONT, at a time wh en one of his Lordship' s sons h a d, for some cause of offence, been rMesonAcJe.ESTHYis Royal Highness undertook , when Prince of Wales, to effect a reconcili a ti on , a nd after dinner requested leave to introduce a friend ; L or d Ecassorr of course consented, and his son app eare d, b u t was ordered immediately to quit the room. "I am honoured,' said the Noble Earl , ad dressing the Prince, " by the presence of your Royal High ness, but I will be master of my own house."—North Wales Chronicle. ~ , B LANDFORD .--Un M on d ay the 14th inst., a fellow, whose conduct proves that he possesses more of the savage disposition of brutes, than of the generous feel ings of human nature, named JOHN JENKINS, carter to \V. G. Parrorr, Esq., of Henbury-house, was driving his master's wa ggon from Poole, loaded with coals, w h e n one of the horses not proceeding s o f as t as h e wished, he took a sharp knife and stabbed it in the belly, with such vio lence that a large portion of the bowels protruded through the wound, which the unfeeling monster immediately cut off; the poor injured animal.was still urged forwards, and as the bowels forced itself out, it was cut off by this merci less brute, until the unfortunate creature fell down, and died almost instantly. JENKINS, who has thus disgraced the name of man, was taken into custody, and on Thurs day committed to Dorchester gaol, to take his trial for the offence.—Dorset Chronicle. BANK NOTES rig An Account of the total number of Notes of the Governor Company of the Bank of England, under the value of Which has been issued during each and every Week from 10 :,' 10th of December, 1827, - until Saturday preceding the 1505: January, 1828; and also the total number of Notes under tot value of Si. actually in circulation at the close of the bnsiner on every such Saturday, pursuant to Act 7th Geo. IV., cap, Number of Amount in Circuiv 1 Notes of tion of Notes unde r I£l issued. the value of XI _........, Both inclusive. From Dec. 10 to DiC. 15... From Dec. 17 to Dec. 22... From Dec. 24 to Dec. 29... From Dec. 31 to Jan. 5... From Jan. 7to Jan. 12... , N. B. No other Notes under th, (Signed) W5l. Bank of England, Jan. 11 Nil Dec. 15„...437,:fi d ,, Nil Dec. 22......435,d' le va NNN lu iii e lll of s jjD t aaec h nn a : ve 29 b4e . n ... i . s 443°4 7 9 ued ,:—'ll9l! HUTCHINSON, Dep.-Acct. LONDON MARKETS. WHITECHAPEL HAY DIARKE'r.--Jan. 24. 725. Od. to 100 s. Od. I Clover -90 s. Od. to 120. i. u' 28s Od. to 345. Od. PRICES OF liclPS (per Cwt.)—Jan. 25. Kest Pockets U. 4s. 4/. I6s. to 6/, o.i• Sussex Ditto _ 3/. 18s. 4/. 4s. to 4/. 1(v• Essex Ditto 4l. Os. 4/. 10s. to 5/. Farnham Ditto, Seconds 01. N. 01. Os. 71. 10s. to 61. Os to 41. 68. to 3/. lOs. to 4/. 4s. to 8s• 71. Os' 51. Os' 31. 1 5 s• 41. 10s. Kent Sussex Ditte Essex Ditto.. 31. 3s. 31. 10s. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown .—...... «,,,...35/. 6s. «,,,... .........i3B ° Linseed Oil 23 2 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand .................. 13 v Rape Cake, per ton ...M. _ • 3 10 Scotch Reds ...ono,* Marsh Champions----.... Oxnobles and Shaws PRICE OF POTATOES.—Jan. 25. 0/, Os. to 41. N. per ton. 3/. Os. to 3/. 10s. ditto. Si. 10s. to 41. Os. ditto. 21. 10s. to 31. Os. ditto. 14 ,.1,01,; 21 el PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. _ Per lb. 8utt5...,.....50 to 561b.,,20 221 Tanned Horse Hides.. Ditto--60 to 661 b... 224.23 Sputa!) Ditto Dressing Hides 134 17 dozen. Fine Coach Hides 17 19 Calf Skins-26 to 401 b. 111 7•l' Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 14 1:1 Ditto to 701 b. 23 Ditto—,—..4s to 501 b. ,164 184. Ditto 70 to 801 b. 4! 29 Ditto lB4 20! Small Seals, Greenland 18 21 RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. d: to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to r• 4 ' Best Heifers& Steers 3 0 3 4 Ordinary ................. 2 0 , Middlings—,..—....... 2 6 2 9 Market Ca1f—........... 7 0 cz_t_fli., SLEEP 6KINS. 2s. 3d. to 3s. Od. I Lamb 5..,,...,... Os. Od. to Os. Od. Polled 4g. Oa. to ss. Od. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &e. per 1121b.--Jan. 25. Town Tallow .......—........ 48s, Od. Yellow 50ap..................,125. vv.., Yellow Russia......--.6:405. - Od. Mottled_ ' , 788. r' 1 . • • Whit e - 43 s. Od. Whit e B2s. u u " ••••, Soap Ditto. - 3135. Od. Grave s ........ 2os. ~, F " Melted 5tuff—...—......... 335. Od. Good D regs ' 55. v" Ditto Rough.---....... 21s. Od. . PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b.—Jan . Price by Tallow (as stated by the Fallow Melters) 2s. CANDLES. the retail shops, is as follows :I A . I Moulds, per dozes KET,—Jan. 25. AA. Walls End Newmareh.„. ' l ," Adair's Trader 38 'A Hebburn small 18 A u Tantiel 1 Trader 31 ( 3 Blyth 0 -wwwwwwwww. 29 cowpeu 33 , n " FerdelMain 32 y„ Hartley Stewart's Walls End rc. shipped Silkstone Main Ward's 36 (1/ 05 Neshani 36 Walls End Hett0n,......., ° Walls End Latribbin..«.. 39 Ditto Stewart's '•39 6 201 i. PRICE OF The price of Store Candles, in tl Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Os. Od. COAL MAR . Burdon Heaton 37 3 Killingworth 36 3 Pontop Windsor 32 0 'Fantleld Moor 32 0 36 0 Willington 36 6 WallsEridßewicke&Co. 37 9 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 37 0 Ditto 36 0 Ditto Burration —A.—. 36 3 Ditto Hilda 35 6 Ditto Northumberland 35 6 Ditto Riddell's.-- 37 3 Ditto Russell's .........—.... 37 0 Ditto Walker 37 0 Ships at market, 58—Ship: COUNTRY GORN MARKETS DURING THE' Wi.:St.f, Per quarter.. Wheat: 50 56 48 58 148 60 52 66 52 56 144 52 53 56 41 56 46 62 40 60 58 , 62 48 50 46 56 46 56 48 50 55 58 50 50 58 52 58 4s ca s.d. s.d. 78 86 Barley: Oats. Beall s -, 38 53 44 48 65 34 s 45 40 o' 46 5 ' 9 50 ' 49 • 55 46 4 6 .3 54 Basingstoke —^—.7 Bath Bridgewater Bristol Chesterfield Derby .W1.M•PM.,•.,••• Devizes Doncaster Dorchester Huugerford Mansfield Shaftesbury Sheptou Mallet Sherburne 32 36 26 31 28 32 28 30 30 39, SO 34 32 31' 28 32 26 37 25 :3) 28 .32 21 .30 28 32 26 33 31 35 20 31 - 29 31, 37 24 29 28 30 22 28 S. ti. 3. ti. 46 53 Taunton Yeovil :22 28 20 223 X 34 t 9.. 18 20 18 .24 16 28 •20 26 27 16 32 21 26 18 2/ 20 28 23 IS 23 30 26 29 711 2$ 2.5 28 its 211 18 24 22 26 s. d. a. d. .50 66 66 44 r" 50 46 44 Ts a 42 , 42 so. 40 44 , s. d. e. 00 eo Per Bushel. Shrewsbury SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Jan. 23. , Our market was well supplied with a ll s ort s of Gral 6 , to-day. Top price of New Wheat ls. lower. Ni 01 6 Wheat in market. Oats and Barley a shade higher: Pease and Beans remain without any alteration from list' market day. _ Wheat. First s9s Od Second s2s Oct Third Barley. Oats. • Pease. • - Belot , . 34s Od 31s 6d -. ,40s Od , 40s Od 27s Od 27s Od 36s Od .36s Od 25s Od 18s Od 31s Od 31s Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. Os. 3d. to oa.7d. Fresh Butter,lb.s.lod. to Os. -{ ". 4 ' 0 4 0 6 Salt 0 9 010 Veal 0 4 010 Ditto, per cu t. 80 • 0 84 0 „ Pork2=-7. 0 3 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 010 ' 0 U... Lamb, per qr. 2 0 3 0 OatStraw(kpl:)ll • 8 12 Tallow, per lb. 0 4 0 411 Wheat Ditto.-.. 9 6 10 6 Quartern Loaf 0 0 0 9 Barley Ditto';.:: ft , 0. g 0 Potatoes, 141 b. 0 0 0 4 Hay, per o'lo pll L .31ARKEZ—Jan. 22... of Oatmeal at this day's mar' dy sale, at Is. advance on the ail EDINBURGH MEA We had a middling supply ket, which met with a rea top price, and 2d. in the rei Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Per Stone of Mb. Imp. H i First Oatmeal £l 17 0 First Oatmeal .......... £0 - 1 ii ..... Second ditto ll2 0 Second ditto . 1 " ...... 0 4 B ar l e ymeal ...... 1- 9 0 Barleymeal ............... 01 8 Peasemeal 1 8 0 Peasemeal 0 1 , Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 125.-2 d, 14,3 d. 16g.—Peaf1 2257, MARKET. —Jan. 23. in request, and .rather dearth heavy sale. Oats, per s. d. S. Irish 4.. l6OO l9 0 British _ Beans, per 2601 b. ' 0 English Scottish .. . ... .. ...„ lB 0 zu , Pease, Scottish . •16 0 1 9 ' I ; Oatmeal, per 1401 b. 14 0 Iv n Flour, per 21301 b 46 0 47 v MARKETS.—Jan. 21. Oatmeal, per St. is 6,1. to .t"s.( 4. . Peasemeal Pot Barley, ewt.l2 0 17 0 Pearl ditto.... 2O 0 24 f! Grey Pease .12 0 ou, White ditto 13 0 14 °, Blue ditto....: 13 0 14 GLASGOW CORN Fine samples of Grain were but secondary qualities were Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. British, old 3O oto 32 0 new Canada, free 29 0 31 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English 27 0 29 0 Scottish 24 0 24 6 Irish 22 0 25 0 (GLASGOW RETAIL Beef per lb. Os. sd. taos. 9d. Mutton ............ 0 4 0 7 Veal .............. .0 5 0 9 Hama ............ .0 7 0 9 Lamb.......per. qr. 1 6 3 0 • Quartern Loaf._ 0 9 0 0 Hour, per stone 2 0 2 8 Rye , BIRTHS. At Corfu, on the 19th of December, the lady of williate Edward Gilpin, Esq., of a daughtei. On Friday last, the lady of ljr. Frederic Old&ld, Upper Norton-street, New-road, of a daughter, being be r ninth child. On the 25th instant, the lady of William Spence, FA' of Dorset -place, Dorset-square, of a son. • On the 24th instant, i n W e y mou th- s treet, the l a dy ! f Geo. Mortimer, Es q ., o f a d aug h ter . On the 24th in s t ant, t h e l a d y o f Edward Holroyd, barrister at law, o f a son. On the 24 t h instan t,l‘alAt SlTlVlaMt;heves, Brixton; by tbs . i ' Rev. E. P ro d gers, 8.D., Mr. John Edmund Turtiley, of Lower-green, K en nington, to Selina , third daughter e John F ox, E sq ., of Bridge-street, Bla c kfri ati , an d o , Herne-hill, Surrey* On the 23d instant, at Brixton, Coleman N ewton , E. late of Great Prescott -street, to Miss T ueski, niece of GB' briel Cohen, Esq., o f Brixton- p lace. At Huddersfield , Mr. Jose p h Paine, aged 2 9,. to M r ' Ann Haight - aged 55 * The lad y *as a d isotmsolate wiii° ll of seven weeks' standing. - - - -- _---- DIED. t, Robert Cowell Clark, Es q ., of Pr°' O il f l6tan September last, on board . O l.O the 1 Branch brig, in hi s passage from Arica to vaiparais°' vidance..row,•Pillsbury, in the 88th year of bi t age General James Paroissien, aged 42, late Minister Plenip° 4 tertiary from Peru to the Court of. His Britannic m a j es ty, and nearly 20 years an active and zealous o f f i cer in the or' vice of Buenos Ayres, Chili, an d . peru: he has , left b numerous circle of relatives and friends to lament hls NO. On the 23d instant, at Eaton-terrace, Pimlico,,kleanort • o f On the 26th instant, in her 75th year, at the 4ouse - the infant daughter of the Rev. Robert Lyme her brother, John Matthew Grim Wood, Eng., BgeiiitiburY i On t t h h e e . 2 2 : place, Charlotte, widow of the late William Perkins r.scl'' A of Manningtree, Essex. On the 20th instant , at her house in G ay street„ tit° Ablisslllargaret Hay, last and surviving (laugh* of the ta t, Hon. Edward 14ay, Governor 'of Bathadoes. f At Quebec, James C. M'Tavish, 'Esq., l e cr aint ° that city. . • —..../ PRINTED and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG; 01 1ie SUN OPPIOE, No. 112, Strand. ,e/ii ,Ci~'.t~ .Ibe . . 13s* I , sue )( ingot City .Boa s Basin; Old -street Road ' Ilagnp s . 4 , v 'iv- 4rec Ha- , npsu • 11176r04 t• • o" -- • *bar iIithAWAR :`,4 181 .) Nue 345 T Oth esAIPP9I v*t vthrtierre katis6ila marked Wort 1 Ma , Ator4 1.; „ ir) ,,, ~..-.7 .. , t ~. ~ ~ 5:4,,,,147H,ri-, *.* b fh eithe t " 11 1 414441., 1118 ,aner 4:± "P e edY 1 ~,''of his S ' Prino -4N1C41 • r- ''' ttl ‘ . • Owl air 1 4 4 ' aft : t ra r r at tete e 4 • 4:-.74011 V . .l' r I .fl - i IVI . V 1 . 4 , - ,, ,, r 4 ' • • nt,i3geti tqd IPS:II Ottgil lt 1 • 11 1 1 17i'„1 t „4. ; No rlv i , Nettiv An o i -4ight, stutk Bkigfii (Intel Cariiil before F 4 Derby before F Glacg tare Fou Mend fuse F eu Nettit Pew. Bri e t u ' Vaal accoUnt e any Pas, uniri tt • %ma of iingerie !,‘ P‘'.'