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o that between the Northern and Southern di4 sions . of this Island,- the Scotch have discovered that their Laws of Settlement are defective the extreme, and they have accordingly appliao to Parliament- for a remedy for some of the more pressing of the evils under which they labour. A, great deal has been said respecting the debase= anent produced by the Poor Laws in England;. That the poor in England have their faults we will admit ; but take the labouring - people of England, with their good and bad qualities, as a whole, where are their, we do not say superiors] but equals ? In point of steady industry, they are net only'far - superior to the Irish, but also superior to the Scotch. We believe there is not a Scotch farmer in England , who has imported Scotch labourers, who will not readily admit with Mr. Gourlay, that set a Scotchman and-an Englishman to task work, the Englishman will heat the Scotchman. Mr. Gourley accounted for the circumstance, from the English labourei being more accustomed to expensive food, and consequently having more wants to gratify. The Scotchman, contented with less, also exerted himself less. Stimulated by these wants, the English peasant may be more disposed to vini , late the law, when circumstances are unfavour= able, than a poor Scotch Highlander, a strange to all the arts of life ; but we deny the exist ence of debasement. But debased or not .de= 3iased, it is very well observed by Mr. Enea Alacdonnell, in his pamphlet, entitled " Practical Views and Suggestions on the Present Condition and Permanent Improvement of Ireland," pub lished in 1823, " When we contrast the evils with the advantages, we find the balance greatly' in favour of the latter. Allowing that one-tenth of the English nation is debased, by receiving aid from Poor-rates, there are, on the other hand nine-tenths, who constitute the most happy and independent population on the earth ; and the lowest on the list of pauperism is far more com fortable than the generality of tha Ir ;shpeasantrY. Again, should it be objected, that l tPoor-rate of England form a charge upon industry, to the amount of six or eight millions surling annually, must we not, on the other hand, admit, that this charge has not produced an impoverishment - cif the nation ; when we behold the comforts anti luxuries enjoyed by every rank of her people, her immense public revenue, the private wealth of her inhabitants, her improved agriculture, trade, ship ping, and manufacture, her enormous subsidies and loans to foreign nations, as well in the New as in the-Old World, and her liberal contributions to the relief of distress in every quarter of the globe? The very fact of her ability to devote so large A faun to the employment and sustentation of her poor, without materially diminishing the coni forts of the people, proves, of itself that the syk tem of Poor-rates may be introduced, without any substantial injury w public or private inte rests." The western and eastern extremities of our Empire in the Old World—lreland and Hindostan—exhibit nearly the same phenomena, produced by the same causes. "it is true (says alr. Rickards, in the first part of his work on India, just published), it is true enough, as as sel-ted by the rulers of India, that the great maSs of the population, Hindoos, Musselmen, arid others, are obliged to live all their days on rice, or the coarsest and the cheapest grains, and to go only half covered with a slight cotton cloth ; that the expences of a labouring man, , with a wife and two children, is only about per annum, the article of clothing being only six shillings for this family of four persons. All thisil have already admitted. Those who have visitedlre land may conceive the poSsibility of human lae*igt, when necessity compels; contriving dxag 4n la miserable existence in this state of abject poverty and want." The .cultivators in India 14,C0C nothing more of what they draw from the earth than a wretched pittance ; and -the Irish peasant is in like manner stripped of all but shat enables him to drag on his miserable existence. Froin the numbers of the people, they .are completely at the mercy of the landlords, who can exact from them what they please, and who do leate them nothing. But the first effect of a conapul-. sory maintenance would be, that the. poor would no longer be under the necessity of offering any terms for land to insure subsistence ; and that the landholders, in self-defence, would be corn pelled to watch over the increase in numbers, which is the cause of the devouring poverty. Without a compulsory maintenance and a law of settlement, the English and Scotch can haie DO security against the Irish ; and, as far as we are concerned, all. plans for giving temporary employment are of no avail.— Morning Clzroz. There was a meeting of a number of respect able gentlemen, in the City of London Tavern,' on Thursday, at the annual dinner of the Jews' Hospital Society. It is not our purpose to ad vert to this dinner farther than to call the atten tion of the public to the fact, that now We are in a fair way to open up every office in the State,nOt to Dissenter s only, but to every one who shall choose to declare that he will not use the office intrusted to him to the injury of the National Church, the Jews, who are most willing to make that declaration, an d most able; insomuch as they never have betrayed, by word or deed, the slightest enmity to the Church, are as effee tually excluded as ever they were. The case of the Jews differs, lobo ca'lo, from that of the Ca tholics, and not one of the arguments emplOyed against the latter has any reference to the former. Neither call it be said that the principles of the Jews are hostile to free institutions,' it being a pretty notorious fact that they have been at all periods of their history most sturdy sticklers for freedom. Why, then, we may well ask, while we are so liberal to one party i n the State, are we so illiberal to another?N4 re w h h a ie v i e , no doubt that were the ridiculous laws oppress the Jews to he abrogated, in haifa dozen of years the wealth of the country would be aug m,-nted by forty or fifty millions. , And let it not be torgotten that we should gain none but the wealthy. The absolutely poor never migrate. We noti e ,e that several Members of Parliament dined, on ti l ;, occasion alluded to, with the Mem bers of the Jerys' Hospital Society. We hope that having partaken of their salt, they will not forget them when an opportunity of vindicating their cause presents itself, We rather think that it is one of those that merely require to be brought forward. We know of no possible ob jection ob j ' on that can be urged against their admission to the rialits of citizenship, nor d o we t hi n k any would be urged, if a Bill to confer it upon them were introduced. Is there no one in the Honourable House , who will be Content to go down to posterity, as the friends of the despised children of Heber T.—lbid. It appears, by an account p ublished in yester day's Paper, that no less a sum, On an aver age; than GOO/. per annum is raised from the public for " measuring, inspecting, and cer tifying the quality and delivery of coals," in the Westminster district only. Of this sum about 4,300/_ is paid to " meters, assistant meters, inspectors, and for other current ex the river What b o e n e l o y m a e t s t o b f re the e remaindertimes the abovei s not p s e id n e ses o . f " stated ; but that, we- have no doubt, admits of ready explanation, if necessary. Now, this being the sum raised in Westminster, it is fair to presume that the City metagejs, , much higher, and we -probably should not eictithe'mark if we were to take the whole sum thus raised on the North amount—or, for the sake of even figures, say • 20,0001. a-year ; and the system is found to -work so well, that a Bill is at this moment be fore Parliament, for extending its benefits—in cluding, of course, its taxation—to the Surrey - side of the stream. What benefit, however, the public have derived from the system of coal metage we have never been able to discover; and we cannot help thinking that the time of Parliament would be much better employed in abolishing than in extending it. If, however, it has advantages, and there is a necessity for it, which we have never been able to discover, its application must be equally wanted to a hundred other trades ; and there ought to be meters of corn, flour, malt, bread, grocery, cloth—in short, of every article bought by weight and measure— which would have this one recommendation, of raising aft army of tax-gatherers and pryers into private concerns, extremely convenient to those whom the march of intellect unfits for hard la bour and honest work, but not quite consistent with those maxims of " free trade" .which have, in theory at least, become quite so much in fashion. In truth, we believe, however, that not only has this system of coal-metage not worked well for -the public, but that it has inflicted besides a heavy and unnecessary tax, a positive lois and injury upon them—first, by holding out a pro tection against fraud which it does not confer ; arid, secondly, in many instances, by creating that very fraud which it professes to prevent. — Any one who will give himself a pleasurable in shore trip up or down the river on some sun shiny day, in the boat of an intelligent water man, will readily learn more particulars in corro boration of what we say, than it would be in our power to furnish space enough to present. In short, the only real protection for buyers of all commodities is competition. If a man s butcher, baker, or grocer, does not serve him to his liking, he goes to another who will—a protec tion much more useful to the buyer and seller than if a meter had charge from morning till night of the latter's scales. So it is with coals : let the trade be free and unshackled with meters, and the man who sells the best commodity at the cheapest rate will be as sure to find it his inte rest to do so as it will be that of the public to deal with him.—Morning Herald. It is highly gratifying to find by the accounts we receive from every part of the country, that the propositions of the Duke of Wellington for the future regulation of the Corn Trade give the most general satisfaction ; and that the feelings of apprehension which were manifested last year ,on the production of a measure bearing a strong, general resemblance to the present, by the most important and powerful class of the British people, that class which is most immediately inte rested in the land, now seem to he utterly un known. There are differences of some importance certainly in the details of the Duke of Welling _ton's measure which distinguish it from that of last year, and which may in part account for its greater favour with the agricultural classes. But when we recollect that the principle of the mea sure is the same, and that the variances in its -details are not to such an extent as might have ' been thought necessary for the conversion of enemies into friends, we feel compelled to re sort to other causes in 'brelti; to explain the ready acquiescence even of the agriculturists ; while it is evident, on the other hand, that the propitious reception which the plan of Go vernment meets from all the other classes of the community, as compared with that expe rienced last year by one not more conducive to their welfare, we believe, but cer tainly snore congenial with their views and feelings upon the subject, is incapable ,of any explanation, so long as we confine our selves to a mere comparison of the two measures The fact, however is no less certain than it is gratifying, that the system now propOsed by Go vernment is received, not by this or that distinct class of the community whose separate interests it might have been supposed to favour—but by the whole people of the United Kingdom, in all its various ranks and classes, with a degree of confiding and grateful satisfaction, wholly without parallel in the case of any former alteration of equal importance, or of any new system affecting deeply and variously such great, complicated, so and, in certain points of view, adverse interests.— Morning Post. LENT ASSIZES. WESTERN CIRCUIT.--ZAUNTON , APRIL 9. THE KING, AT THE PROSECUTION OF --- "TnN, V. Trig REV- PATRICK MATHIAS CUMMINS, CLERIC, This was an indictment against the Reverend de fendant for an assault (accompanied with proposals of an indelicate nature) committed upon a married lady at Bath. The defendant is a clergyman of the Church of England, and at the time of the assault was a married man, but his wife has since died. Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS stated the case for the pro secution. The prosecutrix, Mrs. Haydn, was a woman of irreproachable character and modest de meanour, carrying on the business of a milliner at Bath, and married to a respectable conveyancer in that city. The defendant, who derived consider able rank and income from a sacred profession, was a beneficed clergyman of a parish in Ireland. The circumstances of the particular offence which had given rise to this prosecution, he would leave the jury to hear from Mrs. Haydn herself, and now only state that the Reverend defendant, having been about two years ago at Bath with his wife and daughters, bad frequent opportunities of seeing the prosecutrix at his own house, as she had been employed by Mrs. Cummins and the young ladies, and frequently brought_ millinery to and from the house. Whether the Rev. defendant did at that time meditate the insulting behaviour of which he was afterwards B lp i t i i t h a guilty, he, o , riee r Mr. Willi ams , wou ld not p re t en d t o s a y. monthsshop on afterwar ds pretence o he i e p a t y o in oly g ab ill of occasion to call his wife's. Having requested of the assistant, who was in Mrs. Haydn's company, to withdraw, the Rev. gentleman made the most indelicate proposals to that lady, and upon being rejected by her, he be haved with the greatest rudeness, and committed the assault which was the ground of the present in dictment. Haydn, a very p retty and modest looking young woman, was then called and examin ed. She deposed that she was a milliner at Bath, and had been for some time in the habit of doing work for the defendant' s wife, from who m she had experienced invariably the greatest kindness. The witness's husband is a conveyancer. On the 13th of July last, during the Bath races, witness was in her own shop with Eleanor Bryant, an assistant, when the defendant came in and said, " Oh, I see you are engaged ;" to which witness replied, " Not at all, Sir; 1 can wait on you now." Mr. Cum mins said that he came to pay a bill due by his wife, but had forgotten his Purse upon his dressing - box, and th a t h e w o uld return in the evenin and pay the bill. At thi s ti me th e young woman (Bryant) went out of the !hop, upon which the gefendant began to rnake his addresses to the witness in a very marked -manner. He said that from the first moment when he-had seen-her, about two years ago, he had con ceived a violent love for her, and that up'to the present timerbe admired her exceedingly. The ‘vit ness 'exclaimed, " Good God, Sir, what are, you talking about !" The defendant replied, "Oh ! we cannot control our feelings; I cannot help what I am doing." Witness reminded him of the great impropriety of his conduct, witness being a married woman, and the defendant a married man. The de fendant, however, only renewed his declarations of love, - and implored the witness to make an assigna tion with him. He then seized her hand, which he -held so fast that, in endeavouring to get away, she was-much hurt. He begged her to keep secret all that had passed, and pressed her to make an appo;;Tit 'ment with him, which she refused to do. He then said he would return at eight in the evening to pay his wife's bill, when he hoped to find her in a more favourable temper. Witness, fearing he would re turn as he threatened, left the house in the evening, in order, to avoid him. The reverend defendant conducted his own de fence, and cross-examined the prosecutrix at great length ; but she did not vary any of the principal facts deposed to in the direct examination. Mr. Ilaydn deposed to the circumstances of Mr. Cummins's second visit, and denied that he had ever made overtures for a compromise of the affair. Such overtures had been made to him by a friend of the defendant's, who told him that if he came to the de , fendant's hotel, he should have a good bottle of wine and something to put into his pocket. To this the witness replied, that if it cost him 150/. he would have legal satisfaction for the insult offered to his wife. This was the case for the prosecution. The Rev. Gentleman then addressed the Jury in his own defence. Heisaid„that guilt might stand in need of art and ingenuity, but innocence could rest upon its strength. He was an Irishman and a stranger in this country, but then he was an Irish Protestant, and English and Irish Protes tants were children of the same country, and both equally entitled to the privileges of the same free and happy constitution. His present situation, though !I:0v and embarrassing, was not without great and encouraging precedents, and he would particu larly mentioh the cases of the apostles Peter and Paul, who had both pleaded their own causes before the Jews. Much was expected from men of his profession, but they were also very easily assailed. In the highest offences of this kind, juries always had regard to the time at which the complaint was made. ln the present instance, not a word was said of the supposed assault, until five weeks after it was alleged to have been committed. The Reverend Gentleman then alluded to the fact of the prosecutrix having mentioned the occurrence next day to a couple of young milliners, which he said could only have been done for the purpose of celebrating the triumph of her charms. With regard to the injunc tions of secrecy which they had received, he ridiculed the notion that a milliner could keep a secret, when Portia, the pure and high-minded daughter of Cato, and wife of Brutus, was not capable of so great a degree of discretion. The Reverend Gentleman said that he had lately lost his wife, to whom he had been most devotedly attached, and that his spirit, in consequence of this melancholy event, and the perse cution he had suffered in the present case, had been bowed down to the earth by suffering. He dreaded not any punishment which might be the consequence of the Jury finding him guilty of this offence—be was only concerned for its injurious effects upon his fair fame and the purity of his reputation. The Jury, after a short consultation, found the de fendant " Guilty." Some negotiation was then entered into between the adverse parties, of which nothing publicly trans pired except its consequences. The counsel for the prosecution, in a very low tone of voice applied to Mr. Justice Gaselee, to request that his Lordship would inflict but a slight punishment upon the de fendant. The Learned Judge at first appeared not inclined to accede to this proposition, but at last he called upon the reverend defendant to receive the judgment of the Court. His Lordship then said, that he would accede to the arrangement which had been made by the parties, and in the hope that Mr. C4tmmins would never be guilty of a similar. offence, he should be content With sentencing him to pay a fine of one shilling to the King, after which he would be discharged. OXFORD CIRCUIT.-GLOUCESTER, APRIL 10. Richard Whitethorn was indicted for assaulting, beating, and wounding, on the 29th of November last, at Turk Dean, Robert Rounce, a gamekeeper of Marry Edmund Waller, Esq., of which beating and wounding the said Robert Rounce died on the 16th of December last, and Jacob Perry and Wm. Smith were indicted for aiding and assisting therein. Robert Cook said—l am in the employ of Mr. Waller, as gamekeeper. On the evening of the 26th of November last, in consequence of some suspicion I had, I went out to watch the game, ac companied by Stephen Curtis, Edward Strong, Rounce, and George Curtis. We had each of us a stick, but no fire-arms. Rounce was ueder keeper to Mr. Waller, at Farmington. When we got near a wheat-field, we lay down under a wall, near the gate. After being there an hour and a half, on hearing a noise I looked up, and saw a man turn from the wall. I jumped up and got over the wall, and saw two men standing near the gate, about ten yards off. They had a brindled dog with them. Rounce, the deceased got up first, and laid hold of one of the men, I seized the other. Rounce and his man had some words together. Rounce told him to drop his stick, and blows then passed be tween them. The man I had got hold of was very quiet ;he did not alike me, nor I him. I interfered between Rounce and his man. I loosed the man I had hold of, and laid hold of the other man, in or der to stop the blows. A third man then came up to me. The first man that Plaid hold of hallooed out " Forward, forward." The third man came up to me with some sort of weapon that he held in both hands. He gave me a violent blow across the head with it, which felled me to the ground senseless. I had not said or done any thing to that man, nor did he speak to me. When I re covered, I found I had received several blows on my head, and one on my right shoulder and left hand. The three men were then gone. George Curtis and Edward Strong were there, but I could net see Rounce. The two Curtis's, Strong / and myself, then walked towards my home at Hasleton. Curtis and Strong went a little way with us, and then went back to look for Rounce. Soon after that I met Rounce in Hasleton village. Robert Cook, a first cousin of mine, was with him. Reunce's face was all covered with blood, and he appeared to be very badly beaten, bleeding very much about the head. The first man I seized in the wheat-field had a short shock and hat on ; there was a moon about a quar ter old, but it was not clear that night. The third man who struck me had a short smock on and a leather cap. In consequence of the bruises I had received, I was obliged to keep my bed for five weeks and two days, Stephen Curtis, Edward Strong, and George Curtis, the other keepers, corroborated the evidence of the last witness, and stated that they saw Rounce have hold of Perry's stick, twisting it about to get it from him. Perry called out, " you, you will break my arm." The witnesses identified Smith and Perry, and one of them stated, he be lieved Whitethorn to be the third man who came out of the wheat-field. At one time all the keepers were lying on the ground from the blows they had received. Mr. Charles Lamley, a surgeon of Northleach, was called on to attend Rounce at Hasleton, be tween 12 and one o'clock, on the morning of the 27th of November; he found him with three severe cuts on his head; having gone out without being prepared for the purpose, he could only foment the wounds without dressing them. The next day he saw the deceased again at Northleach ; he would not suffer his wounds to be examined till the 9th day, he was then nearly insensible, and the witness introduced a bistoury, and opening one ;of the wounds, let out a quantity of blood. On,thejOth day, Mr. Pitt, of Burford examined the wounds of the deceased with the witness; -be was then totally insensible. They trepanned him, and found that the dura mater was ruptured, part of the inner laminae of the skull being driven in upon the brain. On the 16th Rounce died, and on opening his bead witness found a collection of matter sufficient to fill a goose's egg. It was only wonderful how he had lived so long. . The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. NORTHERN CHICUIT.-YORK, Amu. 10. THE HON. AND REV. JOHN LUMLEY SAVILLE V. THE EARL OF CARDIGAN• This was a feigned issue, arising . out of a decision by the Commissioners appointed under the West and East Ardsley Inclosure Act, for the purpose of deciding whether the plaintiff is entitled to a. right of road from part of, his estates, in the township of Soothill, over Haigh Moor, situated in the defend ant's manor of West Ardsley. • A great number of witnesses were called, who proved the usage of the road, without interruption or payment of acknowledgments, for.a great number of years. On the part of Lord Cardigan it was contended, that the usage proved by the plaintiff witnesses partly had been without 'the knowledge of his Lord ship's agents, and partly had been through suffer ance, or accompanied , by payment of acknowledg ments. After some discussion, a verdict was taken, by consent of Counsel, for the defendant. The business of the ',Assizes for this cOnnty con cluded at half-past seven o'clock on Tuesday. Mr. Justice Bayley.had to remain at'York during part of Wednesday, having to attend the Guildhall.' Mr. Baron Hullock left York on Saturday afternoon at three o'clock for Stokesley, on his way. to'Barnard Castle. CLONMEL (IRELAND) ASSIZES.—Anur.. 7. The Hon. Judge MOORE presided. This being the day fixed for passing sentence on the two Keoghs found guilty on Saturday night, of the conspiracy to murder Daniel Mara, • the Court was excessively crowded, chiefly by the peasantry. Judge. MOORE, after pointing out to them the enormity in the eyes of God and man of the crime brought home to them, sentenced them to execution on Wednesday. _ This afternoon Leonard, the man who was found guilty of murder before Mr. Sergeant Lefroy, in the other court on Saturday, was executed •in froht of the county gaol. The unhappy; man seemed very penitent, and when he came on the scaffold could hardly stand, the vital spark having nearly fled be fore he was placed on it. He hung the usual time, and his body was given to the surgeons for dissection. TUESDAY, APRIL S. Shortly after Judge MOORE had taken his seat this morning, the Solicitor-General stated, that Mr. Hatchell, the counsel for the different prisoners in the murder and conspiracy cases, was anxious to address his Lordship. William Grace; James Daniel, and Michael Looby, were put forward and indicted for .having aided in . the conspiracy to murder Daniel Mara. The prisoners severally pleaded Guilty to the in dictment. . • Judge MoSRE addressed the prisoners. Their acknowledgment of guilt might avail elsewhere to save their lives; but should that , be the ease, they must prepare to leave their country for life. The prisoners were respectable in their .appear ance, and appeared overpowered by the unexpected clemency extended by the Crown to them. TRIAL OF THE PRINCIPAL CONSPIRATOR. Pierce Grace was put to the bar. He was given in charge kir a conspiracy to murder Daniel Law rence and Patrick Mara. After a number of chal lenges on both sides, a respectable jury was sworn. The prisoner, it appears, was the mother of. Patrick Grace, who was executed for the murder of Mr. Chadwick, and was the principal instigator to the formation of this conspiracy to avenge his death. The SOLICITOU-GENERAL stated the case for the prosecution at great length, and the approvers Fitz gerald and Ryan gave their testimony as on the former trials. The testimony was deemed so con clusive that the jury without a moment's hesitation found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to be hanged on Thursday. DESTRUCTION OF THE BRUNSWICK THEATRE. VERDICT OF THE JURY. Yesterday concluded the tedious and unnecessa rily protracted inquiry, that has been now for nearly six weeks carrying on before the Deputy Coroner for the precinct of Wellclose-square, touching the deaths of the unfortunate sufferers in the late calamity. The Jury met at three o'clock precisely, in con formity with the adjournment of the previous day, and proceeded to the further examination of the evi dence, and the consideration of their verdict, in which they were occupied until seven o'clock in the evening, when they entered the Court, and the Foreman addressing the Coroner, said, " We have agreed to a special verdict." Their names were then called over, and the verdict being handed in, was read by the Coroner, and was as follows : " The Jurors charged to inquire touching the cause of the death of David Sampson Maurice [and it then went on to recite the names of the, sufferers], unanimously return the following special verdict : " First, Accidental as to the - above-named parties, caused by the fall of the iron roof, with the matters and things attached thereunto, and therefrom pendant, and part of the front wall and balcony of the rnessuage in Well street, known as the late Royal Brunswick Theatre. They further find that the said lamentable accident was caused by the hanging of heavy. weights improperly to the iron roof. " Secondly, That the weights so improperly hung were so placed by the orders of the proprietors; they further find that many warnings had been given to the proprietors; they further find that sufficient indications of failure - ap peared, of. which Mr. Carruthers was cognizant, which ought to have been sufficient to induce a prudent man to close the theatre until the danger apparent from such indi cations had been provided against it. " The Jury return as a deodand the substances which moved to, and caused the death of, the.aforesaid persons." Mr. Whitwell, after the verdict was returned, said, that as now he could not be sispected of any improper motives, he would mention a circumstance which, pending-the inquiry, he j from..feelings of de licacy, had withheld, and which completely. would prove, that antecedent to the calamity he had been severed from, and had - given up all controul, manage ment, and responsibility as to this unfortunate theatre. The circumstance he alluded to was, that on the night of its opening he would not be admitted until he had paid the admission money, as would a ny other disinterested visitor. He appealed to Mr. Hutman, the agent of Mr. Carruthers, whether what he had said was not the fact. Mr. Hutman, who was the check-taker on that night, admitted that such was the case; and added, that wen Mr. Whitwell presented him with a check, he expressed his surprise at the circumstance. Thus has terminated an inquiry that might have been satisfactorily completed in three days. . Twenty-seven tradesmen of this town.have this week bee n serve d w i t h E xc h equ e r processes f or sell ing patent medicines without licence.-"--Plymouth Jour. BREWING.—There is no class of dealers in this city who are at present suffering more severely under the present dullness of trade, than the brewers of our far famed ale. This is the time at which orders ate given by tavern-keepers for their stocks, and, so far as the time has gone, it is considered by the brewers deplorably beyond de scription. Landlords, whose houses are frequented hi re spectable tradesmen, who used in times of prosperity to take 15 to 20 hogsheads, are Ordering from five to ten, and most of the lesser houses that were won't to order from five to eight, are now depending on the bottlers. Striking as the fulling off has been among the lower orders, it is scarcely less among Fespectahle families depending on business. Finding the trade in this quarter so dreadfully reduced, a number of the brewers in this vicinity are pushing hard to get a share in the London trane, which very fortunately is rapidly ou the increase.—Scotsman. LAW NOTICES. COURT OF CHANCERY. Sittings appointed previous to Easter Term, before the LORD CHANCELLOR..-Seal Days. First—Tuesday, April 15 ISecond—Saturday, April 19. Adjourned Petitions. Wednesday, April 16 I Thursday, April 17. HOUSE OF LORDS. Friday, April 18 l Tuesday, April 22. Petitions. Monday, April 21.—Before the VIcE.CHANCELLOA. Seal Days. First—,Tuesday, April 15 iSecond—Saturday, April 19. Plea., Demurrers, Exceptions, and Further Directions. Petitions.—Monday, April 21. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, before the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAIi DRAPER BEST, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, in and after Easter Term, 1828 IN TERM. MIDDLESEX Wednesday April SO Thursday May 1 Wednesday May 7 Thursday May 8 Wednesday May 14 Friday May 16 LONDON. AFTER TERM. Tuesday May 201 Wednesday May 21 To sit at one, April 30, May I, 7, and S ; and at ten o'clock precisely on the other days. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Sittings appointed previous to Easter Term, London Spe cial Jury Appointments. MONDAY, APRIL 14. Harvey v. Kaye, Bart. Wheeler v. West Sonter v. Dunstan Hatfield v. Goldsmith Reid v. Williams Reid v. Smart Howson v. Heard 1.7110 ck v. Reddelien Hubert v. Hutchinson Smith v. Mills Virgo v. Burge TUESDAY, Mearing v. Duke APRIL 15. Jones v. Yates Fenwick v. Robinson Solarte v. Morrie 'y APRIL 16. Ross v. Overend Robertson v. WiiliM Same v. Overend Same v. Kensington Jones v. Fort Jones v. Yates and another WEDNESDA Lord v. Robinson Blyth v. Melville Solarte v. Maes Same v. Williams Ross v. Willis THURSDAY, APRIL 17. Bottomley v. Hunter. Common Juries will be taken, if necessary, on each day with the Special Juries, and continue to be tried up to the Term, London Common Jury Appoi Ter intments previous to Easter TUESDAY, Browne v. Morris and others, Coventry v. Ablett Lowe v. Copestake Riley and another v. Horne APRIL 15. W. E. Cochrane,Esq. v. Long Pelly V. Donaldson Kew v. Thorrington Nleholls and another v. Ro binson and another Gwynne v. Maidstone Newman v. Adderley Smith and another v. Shan- and others The same v. Hardwood Stuart v. Jardine Hawkins v. Finlayson Hobbs v. Same Roberts v. Same key and another Gilbee v. Meacham. LONDON MARKETS. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—ApriI 10. Hap '72s. Od. to 100 s. Od. I (lover 90s. Od. to 120 s. Od. Straw 34w. Od. to 40s. Od. PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)-April 11. Kent Pockets 4l. 4s. 41. 18s. to 61. Os. Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto 4l. 4s. 4/. lbs. to 51. Os. . Farnham Ditto, 0/. Os. 8/, Os. to 9/. 9s. Seconds A/. Os. 7/. Os. to 81. Os. 4/. 2s. 41. 15s. to 51. Bs. 3/. 16s. 41. 2s. to 41. 6s. 4/. Os. 4/. 10s. to 4/. 16s. Kent Bags—, Sussex Ditte Essex Ditto.. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown - 341. Os. ---.. Refined 6 Linseed Oil ...••••••••••••«•••••••••••,.......,...Areftworreow••••••...... g 3 ( 1 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 10 10 Rape Cake, per ton r 6 0 PRICE OF POTATOES—ApriI 11. Kidneys..„--- , -- 34 Os. to 31. les. per ton. Scotch Reds - 31. Os. to 31. ss. ditto. Marsh Champions. 3l. Os. to 31. 10s. ditto. Oxnobles and Shaws —....... 21. Os. to Si. Os. ditto. PRICES 0 Per lb. d. to d. Butts,...--50 to 561 b..., 20 21 to 661 b... 22 23 Dressing Hides 14 17. LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. Tanned Horse Hides... 14 17 Spanish Ditto 20 26 Per dozen. -- --- Fine Co - ach Rides 17 191 Calf Skins,. 36 to 401 b. 19 23 Crop Hides, 3.. to 401 b. 14/ 16 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 23 27 to 501 b. 151 181 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 201 23 Ditto ri 201 Small Seals, Greenland 18 191 RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to s.d. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Best Heifers & Steers 2 8 3 0 Ordinary 110 2 0 Middlings 2 4 2 6 Market 8 6 each SHEEP SKINS. .... 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. I Shearlings«,.... o.a. Od. to Os. Bd. Polled 4s. Od. to ss. Od. Down; PRICE OF TALLOW, SO. Town Tallow 455. Oct. Yellow Russia 42s. Oct. White 455. Oct. Soap 40s. Oct. Melted Stuff . 355. Od. Ditto 21s. Od. AP, &e. per 1121b.—April 11. Yellow 765. Od. Mottled 828. Od. White-- We. Od. Graves 20s. Od. Good ss. Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone ot 81b.—April 11. Price by Tallow (as stated by the 'fallow Melters).---.25. 6d, PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows : Candles, per doz. is. O ki. to Os. Od. I Moslds, per dozen Ss. 6d COAL I%lAlt Adair's Beaumont 32 0 Burdon 3+ 7 Felling Main 2O 0 Forrest Hebburn Main 35 6 Holywell—' 3l 0 Liddell's 31 9 Newburn 33 9 Pelaw 31 9 Pontop Windsor 29 6 Wall's End 8r0wn5...... 35 6 Ditto Carr and 34 0 Ditto Northumberland 35 3 Ditto Peareth —34 0 Ditto Perkins and Co. 36 3 Ditto Russell's 37 6 Ditto Walker 36 6 Ships at market, 51%--Shil sold, 32 4--Wiisol COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING TH :ET.—April 11. Willington 355. 6d, Wylaxn _ 34 3 Stobart's Eden Eden Main 3.5 0 Walls End Hetton.....— 38 3 Ditto Stewart's 38 3 Blyth 25 6 Eldon Splint 30 0 Hartley 31 0 Tinsly 3l 0 Shildon Splint 22 6 Silkstone Main 31 0 Walls End Elgin 34 Fiery Vein .36 9 Pontop Trader .......... 29 0 New Etherley, small 23 6 Tanfiel 31 6 Ord's Redhugh Trader 28 9 Id, 19M. WEEK. Barley. 1 Oats. Per Quarter. Ashburn-- Basingstoke —..... Bath Bridgewater -- Bristol Chesterfield - Derby Deviies Doncaster .---. Dorchester Exeter... Hungerford Leicester Newbury ---- Romsey Shaftesbury --- Shepton Mallet Sherborne.---. Taunton Yeovil Per Bushel. Shrewsbury --r. Wheat. 52 57 50 66 48 60 42 56 52 54 48 54 56 58 44 56 45 58 40 64 60 64 -18 rio 48 63 46 57 44 72 55 58 59 52 58 50 64 48 58 52 56 s. d. s. d. 79 86 31 34 27 32 27 32 - 29 28 32 28 32 32 34 28 36 26 33 22 23 28 30 21 30 26 32 30 94 28 30 28 28 30 21, _ 24 2,0 26 23 s. d. s. d. 44 49 21 28 20 23 21 30 16 24 19 28 23 26 19 30 17 28 2U 25 20 30 20 28 18 31 20 30 23 25 20 24 22 26 18 22 22 24 s. d. s, d. 50 68 Beans. 47 50 36 4 4 40 48 40 40 48 42 4 8 45 48 48 55 44 56 42 57 44 46 38 60 38 68 34 40 48 61, 48 4 2 48 42 50 3 6 40 38 40 1. d. s. d. 00 00 SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARl.ll72‘._ April o. Our market was thinly stocked with all sorts of Grain, which sold readily, and prices in general much the same as last market day. Wheat. ' First...... 6.5 8 Od Second... 59 s 6 d Third 50s Od Barley. Oats, 42s Od 30. 3 ed 35s Od 27s Od so s od 169 Od Pease. 373 Od 33s Od 27s Od Beans. 37s Od 33s Od 27s Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. —.Os. 4d. to Os.7d. Fresh Butter,lb.os.(kl. to 18.2 d. Mutton. , --. 0 5 0 7 Salt 0 9 010 Veal 0 6 0 8 Ditto, per 80; t. 80 8 86 0 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 0 7 0 0 L am b, per qr. 5 0 7 0 OatStraw‘kV.) 90' 10 '0 Tallow, cwt.... 35 0 36 0 Wheat Ditto— 8 6 9 6 Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 9 Barley Ditto '7 6 8 6 Potatoes, 141 b. 0 0 0 4 May, per 010 011 EDINBURGH MEAL MAIIKET,..ApriI 8. We had a good supply of isles not so brisk as last week, Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal .£l 18 0 Second ditto 1 15 0 Barleymeal 1 10 0 Peasemeal 1 f 0 Pot Barley—No. I, per cwt. 13: GLASGOW CORN No alteration in Oath. Whi )atmeal at this day's market; and Is. advance on the sack. Per Stone of 141 b. First Oatmeal £1 2 0 Second ditto Barleymeal ti 1 Peasemeal 0 1 S .-2d, 18 , 6„—Peat 124s_ MARKET.—ApriI 9. teat rather dearer. Barley Las again advanced 2s. per boll. Wheat, per 2101 b. s. d. s. d. Oats, per c64lb. 5• d• s. d. British, old 3O 0t033 0 Irish l5 otol7 6 new 24 0 25 6 British lti 0 20 0 Canada, free 29 0 31 0 Beans, per 2601 b. Irish - 0 Barley, per TAO. Scottish ... .. ... . .... 15 0 20 0 English I 2; 6 25 6 Pease, Scottish ... 18 0 10 0 Scottish 26 6 27 6 Oatmeal, per I 101 b. 14 0 16 0 Irish 2O 0 24 6 Flour, per 21401 b...• 46 0 47 0 We are sorry to learn that the mackerel fishery in Mount's Bay has not hitherto been successful, during the past week the number taken did not avera g e 20 to a boat. On Tuesday night week, one o f the boats too k about 1400 pilchards. Several shoals of these fiat have be e n seen i n the offing, and some withi n the sean ing limits. Some primeuuie hole pilc ._p hardsivrioofi:g Journal,esize, have also b een ta k en at A UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, APRIL 12.—Yesterday, George AI thony Denison and Walter John Trower, Bachelors of Arts, of Christ Church, and Mr. Charles Nearef Scholar of Lincoln College, were elected Fellows of Oriel College. 'Congregations will be holden for the purpose ° granting Graces, and conferring Degrees, on the fol lowing days in the ensuing Term, viz., April 16, 24, and 30 ; May S, 14, and 24. No person will, on any account, be.admitted as a candidate for the De gree of B.A. or M.A., or for that of 8.C.L., with• out proceeding through Arts, whOse name is not entered in the book, k ept for that purpose, at the Vice-Chancellor's house, on or b efore the-flay ceding the day of Congreg a ti on . At an Ordination held on S un d ay l ast, b y t h el Lord Bishop of Bath and W e ll s , t h e following _per sons of this University were a d m i tte d into Holy Orders : DEACONS. John Simon Jenkinson, B.A. of Magdalen Hall. George Robert Kensit, B.A. of Wadham College. John Poulett M'Ghie, B.A. of Queen's College. George Rose, B.A. of Lincoln College. John Charuock, B.A. of Lincoln College. Henry Newmarch, B.A. of St. Mary Hall. John Huyshe, M.A. of Brazen -nose College. Marcus Richard Southwell, B.A. of Exeter College. EitIESTS. Edward Rowlandson, M.A. of Queen's College. George Trevelyan, M.A. Fellow of Merton. John Daubuz, B.A. of Exeter College. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Monday the Rev. George Trevelyan, M.A. Fell' of Merton College, in this University, was instituted by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells to the Rectory of Treborough, Somersetshire, at the pre sentation of Sir John Trevelyan, Bart. The Rev. J. Missing, Curate of the Parish Church of Cheltenham, has been appointed by the Lord Bishop of Oxford t o su ccee d the Rev. Mr. Dallas' in the Curacy of Burford. The Dean and Chapter of Winchester have no' minated the Rev. Henry Fowle to the Perpetual Curacy of Durrington, Wilts. The Dean and Chapter of Winchester have pre' sented , the Rev. Charles Webber, M.A. to the Vicarage of Amport, Hants, vacant by the death of the Rev. G. Marwood. The Duke of Wellington has appointed the Red• Saxby Penfold, D.D., to the new Marylebone trict Rectory of Trinity ; the Rev. Robert Walpole succeeds Dr. Penfold as District Rector of Christ Church, Lisson Grove. On the Bth instant, the Lord Bishop of Rochester, instituted the Rev. Henry John Shackleton, B.A:. of Trinity College, Camb r id ge , t o the Vi carage Plumstead, with East Wickham annexed, in the county of Kent, Patron John Kipling, Esq., Over stone, Northamptonshir e . The Rev. Charles Dowdeswell, B.A. is presented to the Vicarage of Beoley, Worcestershire, by :W. Holmes, Esq. FALERNIAN WlNE.—Neither Lacrynig Christi, nor any other modern wine, is the Falernian HORACE, though some will have it Falernus is the moder o Monte Messico, near Naples. Better authorities, among others BRYDONE, assert it was produced at Monte Barber° , which is now a desert. —London Weekly Review., HENRY V. STUART, Esq. M.P., arrived on Friday evening, via Milford, at the Hibernian Hotel , Mall. Immediately on the circumstance being known, number of persons, principally publicans, whose account° remain unsettled since the last election for the county' waited on him, and rather unceremoniously demanded paY' ment of their accounts. M r . S TUART d en i e d th a t h e ha° ever undertaken to discharge all the debts contracted by his committee; the publicans, on the other hand, per" sisted in the most violent manner that he bad—adding tl coarsest epithets. Things proceeded so far at length, tbst Mr. STUART was literally besieged, and but that M r ' G. WarcHT, high constable, on bein g sen t f or , appeared' it was impossible to say to what extremities the rage cre" ditors would have gone. After a little time Mr. STuA forced his way into a hack chaise and four, and set off f f Dremana, 'amidst the hootings and revilings of mar/ °f those persons who but a sh or t ti me b ac k l au d e d biro t o the skies.— Waterier(' Mail. An amusing story is current in -the CitY respecting a manoeuvre practised by certain great capi talists, who are deliberating on the propriety of entering into a loan to France, in order to get at the sentiments of the English Cabinet, on the prospects of any disagreement among the great Powers of Europe. After the first intro' duction, which took place at the Foreign-office, the disci& sure was made to the Ministers present, of whom the DO/ of WELLINGTON, it is said, was one, that the parties bad received an application to engage in a loan to the French Government ; but that they were anxious, before making any reply to it, to learn on what terms that country stood with England, since, if they imagined the least want 01 cordiality existed between them, not one franc alio& France obtain. They were determined to lend money t 6 no Power which was not in perfect friendship with Eng' land. The drift of this inquiry—that of protecting the parties against pecuniary loss —was easily seen through by the Duke of WELLINGTON, who merely remarked that the disposal of private capital was an affair on which be and his colleagues could offer no opinion; that the -gentlemen present must be on all occasions the best judges of their, own interests ; and that, at all events, they might fen assured that no offence would be taken by the Governmen t in whatever way they thought proper to employ their money.— Times. BIRTHS. On the 10th inst., in Upper Wimpole-street, the lee of George Arbuthnot, Esq., of a daughter. On the 10th inst., in Guildford-street, Russell-square , the lady of Peter Erle, Esq., of a son. On the Bth inst., in Lower Berkeley-street, the lady of Lieut.-Colonel Lindsey, Grenadier Guards, of a daughter• On the 9th inst., Mrs. H. Smith, Clapham-read-plseet of a son. On the Ist inst., at Ingsclon house, Devonshire, th e lady of Charles Hale Monro, Esq., of a son. On the lst inst., the lady of the Rev. Thomas Pitms* AI. A., of Brightwell, Oxfordshire, of a son. On the 7th inst., the lady of J. C. Trevanion, Esq., of a eon. MARRIEI). On the 10th inst., at St. Alphage, John Francis, Esq. , to Catherine, the amiable and accomplished daughter of T. Miller, Esq., of Greenwich. On the 10th inst., at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, by the Rev. H. P. Kelly, M.A., Mr. Henry Oakley, younges t son of the late Thomas Oakley, Esq., of Hanger Lodge', Northamptonshire, to Miss Caroline Elizabeth Hughes, 01 Horton New-town. On the 10th inst. at Goodnestone, by the Rev. Drool!, George Bridges, the Rev. Western Plumptre, Rector to Eastwood, Notts, and third son of the late John Plumptt , Esq., of Fredville, in the county of Kant, to Eleanor, onli daughter of Sir Brook William Bridges, Bart., of Gootl" nestone Park, iu the same county. On the Bth inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, T' Gardiner, Esq., of the King's Palace, to Mrs. Redman. DIED. On the 10th inst., aged two years, Henry Fagel, the youngest child of J. W. May, Esq. , Consul-General of the Netherlands. thD inst., Oa the 9th inst. , a t her house in Canterbury-placet W alWorth, Mrs,. Ann D av i es, w i dow of the late Ro b er t Davies, in the 82 d year of her age. On the 9 th ins t. , after only three hours illness Sarah, w Newgate-street, aged 57. si f e oe e t nd , ft i h n joe l s i lies 13h 0 93d year , ' n ß ij e n P j P a o Enfield. e n r ii D n oyuaguhgtyh-asnt,reEset,q.?ufoilnndfordeo; Gloucester yo on the unge,Es B th ßge.g,iic ils p t. ttoa , fin a L t anig lucester, idi 3 t lo lAn aged 62, l South Edwat inn, barriste r - at -l aw. d f j a u n ta ti n y, t f o o f rm th e e rly ß o oya f On the Bth inst., at Purim-place, Mile-end, MO' Browne, relict of the late Thomas Browne, Esq., moor years Secretary to the Levant Company. On the 10th inst., at Prospect House, Reading, Mrs' Canning, the widow of the late Thomas Canning, Esq. On the 7th inst., at the hotel of the British Embassy' Paris, aged 13 months, George Francis, son of, Georg e Godolphin Osborne, Esq. . On the 7th inst., in his 69th year, Charles CM:lolly , Esq., of Midford Castle, Somerset. On the 4th inst., in London, Major George Jack, lat e of the 21st, or Royal Scotch Fusileers. On the Sth inst. Anne, the wife of James Moffat,' surgeon, of Sloane-street, Chelsea, in the 53d year of her age' PRINTED and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG, at the SUN Orvicu, No, 112 ,Strand. f tr" ,- '~ A IHIA 1 1 **g Ikge Affia ;pit; to °idle Rall- 1 Idif•ept en au" thin k i Vic tranatait tbei t"tieTteasi 484 p ICOPPay, AAB' INSUp NI • - -•isugulid. 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