The Sun. — London, England, 1828-03-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Dublin paperp present to us the loyal Pat landers running, as usual, down the throat of their new Lord Lieutenant. The corporation .of the Irish capital has been addressing Lord Anglesea, among the many other political and moral perfections of his Excellency, " on his well-known attachment to the established principles of the British Constitution in Church and Slate." This compliment, we imagine, must have struck the Noble Lord as bearing an un, acceptable eonstruction--if it be true that he has recently. laboured to efface, both here and from the minds of the Irish, the recollection of his somewhat inconsiderate language delivered in the House of ' Lords at no long period after the ill-advised Duke of York had astonished the country with his " So help me God." What the feelings of the Corporation of Dublin may be towards Lord Anglesea twelve months hence, is quite another sort of question. An Irish Lord Lieutenant of late has been no more than the insect of an hour. What was the history of Lord Anglesea's immediate predecessor in that gor geous and costly, but otherwise insignificant office The Marquis Wellesley went over to Ireland with large pretensions put forth on his behalf, if they were not encouraged by him personally. To him, as well as to Lord Anglesea, the gallant Corporation of Dub lin presented addresses, and keys, and compliments (though not id the Orange sense, as they now do to " his attachment to the Constitution in Church and State.") Yet before he could turn round in the country they grinned at him, while he was pelted from the gallery of their playhouse by blockheads in the pay of some of their own fraternity ; and the very Aldermen of Dublin were foremost in the at tempt to screen the blackguards from public justice, and to frighten their dear" native Viceroy"from the Orange Island. If we follow this instructive his tory, we find, that the "native Lord Lieutenant" who had made his entry, cracking and blazing like a faggot in a bonfire, burned dim enough before the pageant ended, forgotten, though existing in the midst of the addressers who had flattered him, and going out like a farthing candle, just before the dawn of his successor's day. Nor did the sad part of the spectacle terminate in Irelan (;:the Noble Lord has been for almost three um the within a two hours' drive of the Court, and nsver once been admitted to his Sovereign's presence ! This fact is now asserted every where respecting the Marquis Wellesley,— -viz., that, contrary to all etiquette ob served/towards former Lords Lieutenant of Ireland, and indeed towards all public officers returned to England from an official station beyond its limits, lie has never, since he arrived in London, had personal access to the King, even to pay his respects, or be coldly thanked for his services. That such a thing never has occurred but where a design existed to mark unequivocally the Royal displeasure at some thing in the conduct of the party so put aside, or at least to show that he is held cheap in that sphere whence honour and favour are understood by all the world to emanate, is positively affirmed by those who profess to be familiar with Court forms. If that be so, he cannot hold himself forth as a candi date for public trust or office, until he shall have got out of this limbo of mortification, and by some means or other " purged the contempt" --not. the contempt which he has been guilty of, but that with which he has, or is said to have, been treated. Thus, however, it is with your Lords-Lieutenant of Ireland: grandees in outward show, but in substance less than nothing. They have state trumpeters, and state officers, and battle-axe guards, as we have been told; and they talk big about their administration of the country. There never was any boast half so ridiculous as this. We had it from Mr. Peel's own lips In the House of Commons last spring, that the policy, the patronage, the every thing, in regard to Ireland, belonged to the Secretary for the Home Department, was under his absolute controul, was executed through the agency of the Secretary for Ireland, and that the Lord-Lieutenant was a mere cipher. Let Lord Anglesea, therefore, beware of talking about " his" administration: it was absurd in Lord Wellesley, and would be equally so in bins. The last Irish Ministry was Mr. Peel's, through Mr. Goulburn ; the present .is Mr. Peel's also, through Mr. Lamb. Let Lord Anglesea, distrust these speech-making corporations, and keep clear of them : they mean to have him for an in strument if they can ; but if not, they will betray and persecute him. His Lordship has 30,0001. per annum for salary, that is the real benefit of the Vice royalty to the holder. He may make it a source of much good to a few of the wretched people who are.famishing around him; but whether any advan tages accrue to the State is at least problematical, and, after Mr. Peel's declaration, should be the sub ject of inquiry by the Finance Committee.—Times. A Correspondent, under the signature " A Law yer," relative to that part of Mr. Brougham's speech w hi c h touc h e s ern the office and qualifications of the Peace, observes th a t, " o f a ll unpaid Justices o'f the mischiefs, as the law is now worked, none, per haps, occur snore frequently than those of which the Justices of Peace in Sessions, as well as out of Ses sions, are the authors?' Again, "it is considered quite enough to put a man into the commission, that he possesses a certain property, or that he is heir to it ! Thus, it is common to See persons of mature age on the Bench totally ignorant of the laws they are called upon to exeeute, and scarcely isrulerstanding the language of the statutes and cam." As to the charge of " scarcely understand ing the langizige of the Statutes and cases," we do not think that it very grievous one against Justices of the Peace, inasmuch as the confused, verbose, and slovenly manner in which the Statutes are gene rally drawn np, often makes it a matter of extreme difficulty for even the most experienced and acute lawyers to ascertain their real meaning; and the ablest Judges, is the performance of their duty, fre quently find it impossible to translate .slatuable jar gon into intelligible language. The contradictory eases, also, with which books of law abGgnd, wherein the same principles are, very conveniently for the interests of the profession, at one time esta iNhed and at another over-ruled, together with the nutniser of exceptions and subtile distinctions with which .every general rule is clogged, render it not an easy matter for Justices of the Peace, after hearing a leap-zed argument, supp or t e d by l earne d authorities on bOth sides, to discover on which side the scales of Jusi'iee ought to prepianderate. These are reasons why t h e kw should be reformed ; b u t he who would, therefore, affirm that unpai4 magi strates, as at present s elected, would be. adequ.sse to the satisfactory 'administration 'of any system of law whatever, must be singularly easy to please with respect to the qualifications for the dispensation of justice! ft is absurd to suppose that men who, like the generality of the rural Magistrates, are utterly ignorant of the very elements of law, eau ever come to a right decision except by accident, or where (which is sometimes, but not often, the Aaa) a Chair Man of intelligence, ability, and good sense, acts as the dictator of the quorum, and overrules by his individual indiscrimination their collective inca pacity. Our correspowient says, " let an appeal lie in every case against th a acts of Justices out of Sessions to the Quarter Sessions,piet all the acts of the Quarter Sessions be subjec t to th e sev i ew o f t h e all Courts of Westminster H, Th e , master deems not to be aware that the law has already provided for such appeal, in almost all cases, from the .Tus tices out of Sessions to the Court of Quarter Ses sions, of which the party, in summary convictions in general, bas a right to avail himself, upon entering into certain recognizances to prosecute his appeal, and giving notice thereof. But as the Justi eea i n Quarter Sessions assembled are the same deierip tion of persons as those who pronounce the Slll9_ mary convictions in the first instance, it does not,. seem likely that in most cases the convicted party would derive much advantage from putting himself to the expenses of the appeal. Again, the writer appears not to know that the acts of the Quarter Sessions are in general " subject to the review of the Courts of Westminstei Ilall," that by stating the special circumstances of a case for the considera (ion of the Court of King's Bench, or by writ of eertiorari. The former, it is true, is at the option of the Court of Sessions to grant or refusU the liti gant party applying for it; but the latter is a com pulsory process, by .means of which the parties ja r terested may, under certain restrictions, remove sub-: jects cognizable by all the inferior jurisdictions into the superior Courts of Westminster. There was formerly another mode of revision, by referring legal difficulties to the Judge of Assize ; but that is now disused. Where it is optional with Magistrates,to send a case to the Court of King's Bench or not, it is clear that may be made a nugatory remedy for ignorance and injustice. But the writ of certiorari is less resorted to than it other Wise would be, on account of the expense attending it, and the techni calities with which it is incumbered. In our opi nion the best way to obviate injustice is to . punfy the appointment of Magistrates, so as to admit none but men of knowledge and, character to the im portant trust of administering the laws. Other methods may sometimes remedy injustice, but that is the only way to cut it up by the roots.--Morning Herald. We remarked yesterday, in speaking of the landed I interest in this country, that if we were compelled to choose whether that interest or the monied one should have the ascendancy, our voice would be given for the former, as " more congenial to the habits of the people"—" more stable," and because " its sway is more ancient and more interwoven with old customs and old feelings." We are aware that in using this language at the present day, whe n th e fashion of chan ge is rife among us, and when public men are supposed to manifest their intellectual supe riority according to the degree in which they arraign the wisdom of their ancestors, we run the risk of being looked down upon with infinite contempt, as dull followers in the paths which our forefathers have trod, and destitute of that mental vigour which would enable us to free ourselves from the trammels of prescription. We bow to the de cision ; and humbly confess our inability to dis cover that England. is what she is, because ignorance and imbecility have presided over her Councils for the last four centuries. But un fortunately for us, the more we reflect, and the more we inquire, the less we are satisfied that the converse of the poet's maxim is right, namely, that " whatever is, is wrong ;" such is the melancholy fact, however; and although we feel that in attempt ing to fortify our own opinions by any reference to the sentiments of the Statesmen of other days, we invoke a far inferior authority to that of any of the Members of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, we shall yet venture, with all becoming humility, upon the retrospect. Every age has had its reformers,its innovators, and its bold pretenders to ex clusive sagacity. It will astonish those who are unap prised of the fact, to learn, that in the reign of Eliza beth it was a question whether " tillage deserved en couragement !" one on which no less a personage than Sir Walter Raleigh maintained the negative, and supported his proposition in the House of Com mons. He affirmed—(see D'Ewes' Journal, 674), " That grain could-not be rendered a staple commodity in this country, for that all nations abounded with corn ; that France had offered the Qaeen to serve Ireland with corn for 16s. a quarter; that the Low Countries, though they never sowed corn, yet, by their industry, had such plenty, that they could serve other countries; that the Spaniard, who often wanted corn, would not be beholding to the Englishman for it, nor to the Low Countryman nor to France, but would sooner fetch it from the bar. barian." Sir Walter was a theorist, and fortunately he was opposed by such unambitious practical men as Sir Robert Cecil and Sir Francis Bacon, who wisely adopted and ably supported the contrary opinion.— Sir Robert Cecil observed, with the plain good sense of his masculine mind : " That in every Commonwealth, except Sir Thomas More's Utopia, the ploughman is the first and chief object of attention, and encouragement ; that the strength of the nation consisted in that order of men ; that the great body of our armies was composed of them ; that from his experience he knew that when warrants went from the Council for levying of men, and ties certificates were re tui ned, the greater part were ploughnien." He urged the utility of exportation, and showed that the depopula tion would follow the discouragement of tillagf, remarking that if it was worth while to make a law in Edward the First's time for the maintenance of the fry of fish, and in Henry the Eighth's time for the preservation of the eggs of wild fowl, it was at least of as much consequence to at tend to the support of the human species." This was the language of the Secretary Cecil; one of those men who had not the advantage of living in the nineteenth century. Sir Francis Bacon, labouring under the same disadvantage, advocated similar doctrines—(see Sir Simonds D' Ewes' Jour nal, 551) and in his History of Henry VII., going fully into the subject, he remarks— " Enclosures at that time (the reign of Henry VII.) be gan to be more frequent, whereby arable lands, which could not be manured without people and families, were turned into pasture, which was easily rid by a few herds men ; and tenancies for years, lives, and at will, where upon much of the Yeomanry lived, were turned into de mesnes. This bred a decay of people, and, by conse quences, a decay of towns, churches, tithes, and the like. The King, likewise, knew full well, and in no wise forgot, that there ensued withal, upon this, a decay and diminu tion of subsidies and taxes, for, the more gentlemen, ever the lower book of subsidies." It is well to refresh our minds with these good old English maxims—this native and sterling wis dom, which our unsophisticated ancestors believed and practised when there was- no school of political economists to dilute the sturdy produce by the lixi vium of crude theories and only half engendered principles. The quotation with which we shall conclude is a trite one, but our readers will at once perceive that the poet has only given us, in flowing verse, the sentiments of a Cecil and a Bacon : Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. —[New Times.] A Contemporary (The New Times), alluding to the rumour which we noticed the other day, of an intention on the part of Ministers to extend the fran chise of East Retford to the adjoining hundreds, ob- serves, "We . are not advocates - for the exclusive do- minion of any party in the State—yet, if we were compelled to submit to such a dominion, that of the landed aristocracy is more z.ongenial to the habits of the people; it is more stable, it rests upon a soun der base, and carries with it more noble associations, than the moneyed aristocracy; and as its sway .is more ancient, and more interwoven with old cus- toms and old feelings, so it is more tolerant and i - - - 4ed up with more kindliness than the power which !,as been accumulated by petty means, from which men of „!;igher minds shrink as contaminating, and which can handy ; !,.e practised without a certain tarrow contractedneas of spirit which is the enemy of wlwever is generous and noble ;n human nature. To add to the democratical party, or to the cotn mereial party, is, we think, in the present state of the House of Qomtnons and of the country, quite unez)led for." We can td low for the feeling which led our contemporary to make these observations. —There is no question that the desire of riches, which is generally so intense in tlw breast of an Englishman, and the worship which is paid to wealth in this country, are not cir cumstances calculated to raise our ideas of human m a t ire. It is, no doubt, true that they who have been ae,oustomed to wealth from their infancy will he less likely to entertain exaggerated notions of its value, than they who are born poor: and accord jowly we do not find that purse-pride, that incessa n t display in the old Aristocracy, which are so disgnst ing in the moneyed men who have been the archi, tects of their own fortunes, But this is taking a very narrow view of the subject, It is the over grown wealth of the Aristocracy, and the influence which property possesses under the Constitution of this country, which are the cause of the extrava- Fgant desire of wealth which forms so disgusting a eature in the classes under them. We pass over the idea of an Aristocracy being a stable dominion, it being notorious that what alone gives stability to any Government is the existence of a numerous middle class, and that an Aristocracy, without the controul of a middle class, is the greatest pesti lence with which the earth can be afflicted. In all times, and in every quarter of the world, it will be found - that a territorial Aristocracy, unawed -by a numerous middle .class, has been an enemy to good order, and a scourge to our species. In contrasting France and England at this moment, it is impossible not to perceive in the le velling of properties produced by the Revolution, a source of hope for the former country from which our own unfortunately is excluded. Money is not all-powerful in France. Look to the last election in that country—look to the virtuous opposition of the Peers; In the French Papers received yesterday, there is the report of a speech of M. Charles Dupin, in the Secret Sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, of the 7th of March, which would be almost unin telligible in this country :—" I am about to speak (he says) of the outrages, the mutilations, the ruins, -which the preceding Ministry has produced in all the institutions which are the honour of France, and which place her in the first rank of the nations friendly to science, letters, and the arts. 1 shall de scribe the system of destruction followed by the an cient Ministry respecting the grand objects of honour and national interest." He then proceeds to dwell with the proud indignation which a man of science may feel in a country, in which art and science have no superiors, on the attempts of the late Mini stry to degrade them. The distinguished men, " proud of their consciences as of the talents," to use the language of M. Dupin, and unable to support the , loss of their ow n se lf-r e sp ec t, re fused to become subservient to unworthy purposes, and the example, while it called forth the warm sympathies of their countrymen, served to nourish in them the same elevated feelings. The subject was one of interest in 'a country where equality of fortune disposes men to bestow attention on other matters than those which would engross the attention of an Aristocratical Legislature. In Mr. Mills's Elements of Political Economy, there is a pas sage on the circumstances in a state of society most favourable for the enjoyment of happiness and for the highest intellectual and moral attainments, which we shall here quote as very much in point : —" All the blessings (he says) which flow from that grand and distinguishing attribute of our nature, its progressiveness, the power of advancing conti nually from one degree of knowledge, one degree of command over the means of happiness toanother, seem in a great measure to depend upon the existence of a class of men who have their time at their command; that is, who are rich enough to be freed from all solicitude with respect to the means of living in a certain state of enjoyment. It is by this class of men that knowledge is cultivated and enlarged; it is also by this class that it is diffused; it is this class of men whose children receive the best education, and are prepared for all the higher and more deli cate functions of society, as legislators, judges, ad ministrators, teachers, inventors in all the ar t s , an d superintende n t s i n all the more important works, by which the dominion of the human species is ex tended over the powers of nature. "It is also in a peculiar manner the business of those, whose object it is to ascertain the means of raising human happi ness to its greatest height, to consider what is that class of men by whom the greatest happiness is enjoy ed. It will not, probably, be disputed, that they who are raised above solicitude for the means of subsistence and respectability, without being exposed to the vices and follies of great riches—the men of mid dling fortunes in short—the men to whom society is generally indebted for its greatest improvements, are the men who, h av i ng t h e i r t i me at their owndis posal-.--freed from the necessity of manual labour— subject to'no man's authority, and engaged in the most delightful occupations, obtain as a class the greatest sum of human enjoyment. For the happi ness, therefore, as well as the ornament of our nature, it is peculiarly desirable that a class of this descrip tion should form as large a proportion of each com munity as possible. For this purpose it is absolutely necessary that population should not, by a forced accumulation of capital, be made to go on till the return to capital from the land is very small.— To enable a considerable portion of the com munity to enjoy the advantages of leisure, the return to capital must evidently he large. There is a certain density of population, which is con venient both for social intercourse and for that combination of powers by which, the produce of labour is increased. When these advantages, how ever, are attained, there seems little reason to wish 4hat population should proceed any farther." By way of contrast to these views of Mr. Mills, we may instance a passage in one of the'valuable notes which Mr. M'Culloch has appended to the new edition of The Wealth of Nations. Mr. M'Culloch, instancing the beneficial effects of primogeniture, observes of the younger children, "the sense that they must feel of their inferiority in point of wealth, as compared with the head of their family, will be a motive for them to make extraordinary exertions, which could not have had any existence had their patrimonies been equal to his. If you would have a man display all the native resources of his mind, if you would bring all his faculties and powers into full activity, you must render him sensible of his inferiority as com pared with others, and inspire him with a desire to rise to the same or a higher level. . . . . Our, great landed proprietors are at the head of society. They give the tone in all matters of fashion and expence; and the state and magnificence in which they live, act as powerful incentives to the indus try and enterprise of the mercantile and manufac turing classes, who never think they have accumu lated sufficient wealth until they are able' to emulate the splendour of the richest landlords." Mr. M'Cul loch accounts here satisfactorily enough for the phenomena observable in the society of this country; but we differ toto ofe/o from him in thinking that ex treme wealth is either advantageous to its possessor, or that the stimulent which the spectacle of it gives to the rest of society, impelling 'them to be ever lastingly on the stretch, to be everlastingly in flamed with cupidity, to chase and cheat each other in order to possess that which is the god of idolatary, is at all desirable in a country. We, on the contrary, consider that state of the law, which, by keeping together such masses of property, in flames the bulk of the people with an inordinate de sire of wealth, as a great curse to a country. Pro perty is only a means for an end, and that end is happineis. Men will always be sufficiently desirous of obtaining enough of it; and we do not see the advantage of giving any factitious strength to that desire, at the hazard of destroying all reverence for what- is just, and elevated, and honourable, what confers dignity-on our species, and renders man a worthy image of the Divinity on earth.—Morning Chronicle. A severe contest is going on at &heater for a Coroner of the county of Somerset; the candidates are Mr, BARNARD, of Crewkerne, and Mr. As;maxi, of Castle Cary. On Saturday night the fog was so extremely dense in the country, particularly between Dunstable and Daventry, that coachmen, driving the night coaches, had to use the utmost precaution for fear of accidents, so much so, that many of them were under the necessity of employ ing men with torches to precede the leaders, which, of course, occasioned considerable delay. TUNNEL UNDER THE VISTULA,--W e h ear from Warsaw that a project has been formed for the con struction of a Tunnel under the Vistula; this mode of communication will be of th e utmost utility, especiallyat the times of the breaking up of the frosts, when all inter course is interrupted. The architect is a foreigner, and has engaged to complete the work in the space of three years.—Paris Paper. TIIE•. LATE CA TASTROPII E: AT THE BRUNS wicK THEATRE.-The Committee appointed to assist in the distributio❑ of the funds for the relief of the unfortunate survivors, are indefatigable in their efforts to make an equi table distribution amongst the claimants. It has been found, that it was the intention of the proprietors of the theatre to discharge several of the workmen in the course of the week after that on which the theatre fell. The Committee accordingly put into effect this intention, after having given the workmen a fortnight's salary each. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.— Thornley, who was some days ago brought up, charged upon suspicion of having broken open the Swansea Bank, was re-examined. Two witnesses appeared from the country, the one from Swansea, the other the waiter of the house at Black Rock Ferry, near Bristol, to which the four persons who robbed the bank were traced. Those persons stated that the prisoner was not one of the four. Mr. Gates, the solicitor to the Society of Bankers, stated that as tha robbery of the Bank had been effected on the evening of Sunday, the 17th, and as the 50/. note found upon the prisoner was, it could be proved, obtained on the 18th in the morning, at the Bank of England by that person, it was impossible that he could have been con cerned on the spot in the robbery. It also appeared that the four persons alluded to had been traced to Birmingham on the 19th of February. It is a remarkable fact, that Thornley had obtained, on the morning of the 18th, between 150/. and 2001. in sove reigns for notes, at the Bank of England. He was dis charged. GUILDHALL.-=-An examination was resumed respect ing the illegal arrest for debt of Mr. Jones and Mr. Man sel, two special pleaders, of the Middle Temple. The inquiry commenced on Monday, and the statements were of suds length that we can only spare room for a brief outline of them. It was stated that in September last Mr. Jones and Mr. Mansel moved the exclusion from a society of which they are brothers, of a certain person, who was not named, on the ground that he was, and had been for years past, a no torious swindler. The motion was adopted, but it was ne cessary that it should be confirmed at the next monthly meeting. To prevent the attendance of these gentlemen to press the confirmation of the minutes of the last meeting, the swindler instigated some person to swear that they owed him 5001. A latitat was obtained on the 17th of October, and was enforced on the 20th, on the night of which the society met; the gentlemen were arrested in the morning, and one was detained in custody till 1) at night, the other till the next morning. The writ stated that the gentlemen were indebted 500/. to one Jonathan Clark, a personage to whom they owed not a single farthing, and of whom indeed they had never heard before. Messrs. Jones and Mansel preferred a bill before the grand jury at the next Old Bailey sessions against this Jonathan Clark, for wilful perjury, in swearing before the signers of the write to the alleged debt, and an indictMent being duly found, the Recorder and Mr. Alderman Thompson immediately issued a warrant for his apprehension, and on Monday last Mr. William One siphon's Wild, of Exmouth-street, Spafields, was brought to Guildhall, on suspicion of being the person who had re presented himself to be Jonathan Clark. To ascertain whether he was the party, the attorney who prepared the affidavit of debt, and accompanied Jonathan to the signer's office, and also another attorney, who had introduced Jonathan to the one before mentioned, were called. Mr. Thomas Spencer, of Wellington-street, Newington, attorney, said, that on the 15th of October, he met io Barbican with Jonathan Latimer Clark, a bill-broker, of Chart-street, lioxton, whom he had known about eight years. Jonathan said he would employ him to arrest two persons. Witness told him he had not taken out his cer tificate that year, but would recommend him to Mr. Henry Leech, an attorney, in Thornhaugh-street. They met on the business the following morning (Sunday), and, in the afternoon, witness called on Mr. Leech, told him the business, and, by appointment, himself, Mr. Leech, and Jonathan, met next day at the Goose and Gridiron, St. Paul's Church-yard, and adjourned from thence to the Blue Posts, in Shoe-lane, where the affidavit was drawn up, and Jonathan and Mr. Leech went away together to swear it. Jonathan represented that a gentleman had en trusted him with 5001., to buy Iron and Gas Company Shares ; that he had given the money to Messrs. Jones and Mansel to be so appropriated, and a week having elapsed without any thing having been done, the gentleman threat ened to arrest him (Jonathan) for the amount. Three or four days after, as he was going to Leech's, he met Clark in Gower-street. Clark produced Leech's bill (Si. 10s.), and said he had just been settling it. Upon his soul and body, he had faith in Clark's story about the debt at the time he heard it. Clark did not mention the name of Mr. Richard Coster, of Staining-lane, as the party to whom the 5001. belonged. Witness had heard of this Mr. Coster as a man among the Jews—a man upon the town. The prisoner Wild was not the said Mr. Clark, who was a tall stout swarthy man of 50 years of age, Mr. Leech's statement was, that he sued opt the process believing Clark's story to be true, and that he had not seen Clark either before or since thel7ih 'of October. That he was all the costs of process out of pocket, and had been saddled with 101. costs in addition, through having spelled Mr. Mansel's name in the writ with a double 1. He some what doubtingly deposed that Wild was not the person who had employed him. Wild himself stoutly asserted that he knew nothing of the business, or any of the patties in it, and Sir PETER LAURIE, after a long and careful examina tion of the witnesses, dismissed him. , It was mentioned, that the same trick of arresting upon a fictitious debt had been played by a man named Taylor, against a person named Sharp, to prevent him from col lecting evidence to support an action for trim. con. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday, a man named James Walsh, a miserable-looking being, in the dress worn by the prisoners in the House of Correction, applied to the Magi strates for relief, alleging that he was in a state bordering on starvation, and that he knew no means of obtaining a subsistence, having outlived his friends and relatives. He had, he said, for the greater part of his life, served in the navy, and was engaged in several battles, but when his ser ♦ices were no longer available " he was sent adrift without a shot in the locker." Sir R. BIRNIE expressed his surprise at this, and asked the applicant if he had not a pension. The old man shook his head, and replied in the nega tive, adding, that the garb in which he then appeared was not that exactly to which his services were entitled. , Sir R. BIRNIE asked the cause of hisbeing sent to prison. " I was sent,, your Honour, for no crime, thank God," said the old man ; "but being unable to obtain a mouthful of food, my necessity was so great, that I was compelled to ask alms of the passengers, and for so doino. I was taken up by an officer, and sent to the House of Correction as a vagrant, where I remained until yesterday, when I was dis charged. But what am Ito do?" continued the poor man. " I am willing to work as far as my age will allow me, but without employment, I must turn to begging again." Mr. MtNsnuLL, after observing that the applicant's case appeared to be a very hard one, asked him where was his parish ?—The applicant replied, that being an Irish Man by birth, he had never acquired a settlement in England. "If I were passed to Ireland, your Honour," said he, " I might perhaps find something to do ; or at any rate I would die contented in my native place." Mr. AlmsHuLL observed, that the feelings of the applicant did him credit, as unlike many others, similarly situated, he did not appear to be desirous to be a burden to any parish. " Where did you sleep last night, my poor man ?" inquired the Magistrate, In the open air, your Honbur," replied the old Nan. had no means of obtaining a lodging, and even ifl had," looking down at his prison dress, " I should have 'found some difficulty to get a bed in these clothes." Mr. MINtHULT. directed that the applicant should be supplied with money to procure a lodging in order to entitle him to be passed to his native country ; and a gentleman, who was on the bench, kindly increased the donation. HATTON-GARDEN. —James Barton alias Frederick Vanderville, surgeon-dentist, formerly residing in Charles street, Hatton garden, was yesterday brought up to this office before the sitting magistrates, Mr. Sergeant SEr.LoN and Mr. Lama, charged' on Suspicion of having been con cerned in the late robbery on Sir George Tarrant, at 52, Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. Waddington, an efficient officer of this establishment, an d Thompson, one of the Bow-street patrol, stated that on Sunday morning last, while passing along Theobald'a road, they perceived the prisoner in the act of carrying on his shoulder three elegantly w roug ht stee l f en d ers and two standers. Knowing him to be a reputed felon, and to have been some time ago committed for three months, from this office to the House of Correction, for having been found concealed, with intent to commit a robbery, in the area of a house on the Foundling Estate, they immediately stopped him and took him into custody. They then in quired of hint whence lie had brought the fenders, and in what manner lie became possessed of them, to which he replied that he brought them from a house in Lincoln's Inn-fields, where he had purchased them, on the preceding Saturday, at a public sale. Upon further inquiry it afterwards appeared, however, that this was not the fact, and he then altered his position by finally averring that he had been employed by seine person whose name, character, or place of residence he was wholly unac quainted with, to carry them for hire. His person was then searched, and there was found upon him a large valu able silver watch, with some other articles of trifling im portance.. The prisoner stated to the naagistrates that he was by P • rofession a denti s t, an d t h at h e b ecame p ossessed of the fenders in the manner last represented. Me claimed the watch as his own, and -requested that it might be re stored to him; but Mr. LAING refused to comply with his request. The fenders having been examined, two of them appear- ed to be handsome pierced cut steel dining-room fenders, anti the other a small parlour fender, wrought in the same manner and of the same materials. Waddington said he had no doubt that they were the very fenders of which the house of Sir George Farrant had been robbed on the same morning that he had apprehend ed the prisoner, and that having compared them with the description given of those in the report from Marlborough street poliee-office, he found them exactly to correspond. The prisoner was remanded till Saturday for further ex amination. G TI LD Fl A LI,. —Those cat-o'-nine-tails disciplinarians who stickle for tickling the soldier's back as the best mode of making him honest and sober, may quote the folloWing proof of its efficacy among the " Royal Ruffs," ,should Lord Nugent again attempt to put a stop to it. One Mrs. Ann Grieg, a bold virago stout and tall " As Joan of France or English Moll," was brought before Sir PETER LAURIE, the other day, by Routh, one of the patrol, of Farringdon Within ; who, having found her drunk and quarrelling in the street, with a bag of new military boots in her possession, took her into custody, on a violent suspicion that she had not come ho nestly by thetn. She had five pair of boots in her bag, and in her pockets he found pawnbrokers' tickets for seven pairs, pledged for three shillings a pair ; besides which, he had ascertained that she was in the habit of receiving large packages by the Chatham waggon. He, therefore, had no doubt she was a regular receiver of stolen King's stores ; and he requested that she might be remanded to give him time for inquiry. " Why, you "fellow !" said Mrs. Grieg—" I'm an honest a woman as ever broke bread. Me steal the King's-stores indeed !—l'd scorn the action. I'd have you to know that I'm a soldier's widow, and there never was the man yet that dare say black was the white of my eye !" Mrs. Grieg added, that the was travelling the road be tween Dartford and Gravesend one afternoon, with a quan tity of children's clothes on her arm, when she met a party of soldier's wives, and they gave her theseboots in exchange for the children's clothes--they telling her that thek hus bands got more boots served out to them than they had any occasion for. This account not being satisfactory to the Alderman, he postponed the investigation in order to give Mrs. Cirieg time to get sober, and the constable an opportunity of in quiring further into the matter. Yesterday she was again brought up, the constable hav ing in the mean time been down to Chatham, where he ascertained that some of the boots were regimental stores belonging to the Sd Royal Buffs, now quartered at that , depot, and Sergeant Evans of that regiment was now in attendance, to give evidence. Sergeant Evans of the "loyal Buffs was accordingly sworn, and by his evidence it appeared that the Royal Buffs are such thirsty fellows that they ought to be called the Bibulous Buffs; inasmuch as they would not mind doing deity in buff for the sake of satisfying their excessive bibulousness. He handed in a paper containing a long list of necessaries (id est, clothes, boots, &c.) which had been surreptitiously sold by divers Royal Buffs for that especial, purpose; and he talked of serving out boots, and issuing out lashes, " and other necemaiies," in such a cool and bu siness-like style that Lord Nugent would have admired to hear him."—" Look at that list of necessaries, your Ho nour," said he to the Alderman—" those have all been served out within these last two months, and we have issued out twenty hundred lashes on account of theii being sold ; but it's of no use—they will sell 'em. Here's this pair of boots (pointing out a pair found upon Mrs. Grieg) —this very pair I served out to a man that was under confinement and order of punishment for having sold his it. At the time I served them out to him he hadn't it pair of &jots to his feet; but he contrived to sell these, as he had sold the others, even before he received his punishment; and now he is gone abroad—he was sent to the East Indies." Many other edifying matters Sergeant Evans related; but we trust we have reported enough to show the efficacy of the triangles upon the. .Royel ; and therefore we shall take leave to jump at once to the issue--viz. that Mrs. Grieg was convicted, under the Mutiny Act, in the peualtyofsL, and, in default ofpayinent, she was serasanced to three months' imprisonment. LENT ASSIZES. NORFOLK CIRCIIIT....HUNTINGDON, MAACK 10. John Marshall, who was„brbught 'up by habeas corpus, from the County Gaol of Northampton, a true bill having been found against him at the last Assizes for this county, was put to the bar, charged with having feloniously broken open the dwelling- house of Joshua Smith, situate at Broughton, no person being therein, and stealing 12 crown pieces, 40 half-crown pieces, 400 shillings, 80 sixpences, 115 sovereigns, 20 promissory notes, of the value o f .51. each, of the bank of Messrs. F oster,; of Cam bridge, five promissory notes, of the value of 101. each, of the same bank, 12 yards of striped ging ham, value Bs., 12 yards of blue striped cotton, value 13s. Gd., 12 silk handkerchiefs, value 1/. 45., 10 pair of shoes, value 20s. the monies, goods, and chattels of the said Joshua Smith. Other evidence was adduced which sufficiently proved the prisoner's guilt, after which the Jury re turned a verdict of Not Guilty. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—WORCESTER, MARcti 10, HINgEsmAN v. WEBB. This was an action of trespass and assault. The plaintiff was a man in humble life, who occupied a house, which the parish of Edwin Loache asserted belonged to them. They accordingly sent con stable to take possession, but the plaintiff refusing to give it up, violent measures were resorted to. Hence the charge of assault. The Jury, however, found that no unnecessary violence was used on the occa sion, and found a verdict for the defendant. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY.--FlunAY, MARCH 14. Brodie and Cameron, Newcastle-upon-Tyne--Half Moon, Newcastle — Clitherow, It Horncastle—Bull, Horn cas tl e ll Cook, W., Bedwardine, Worcestershire—Unicorn inn, Worcester Edwards, T., Hill-house, near Swansea—Public roems, Swan sea l2 Gell, T., York—Etridge'd hotel, Devonport Howgate, W. Knaresbrough — Court-house , Knaresbrough 6 Illingworth, J., Leeds—Court-Douse, Leeds ll Osborne, R., Bristol—Commercial room s , 8 r i5t01 ...... 1 Rolfe, W., Edgbaston—Royal hotel, Birmingham Snow, W., Leeds—Courthouse, Leeds Summers, J, Leeds—Courthouse, Leeds ... ........... Vickers, J., Leeds—Court-house, Leeds ll Walker, T., Radford—Flying Horse, Nottingham 'INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, March 17, at Nine o'clock. Baker, Robert, Collompton, turnpike-keeper Bewen, John, Monmouth, cabinet-maker Browne, Wm., Tooting, cocket-writer Gall, Thomas, Portman-street, tailor Haswell, James, Shoreditch, stable-keeper Haynes, Wm. Chandos-street, wihe-merchaut • Jones, M., Whitechapel, carpenter M'Garva, Wm., Albany-road, officer of Requests Pile, Robert, Taunton Dean, baker Schroeder, H. Putney, schoolmaster Steer, John, hockweil, cattle-dealer Thomas, Richard, Mountfield, shopkeeper Watson, Thomas, Leeds, grocer and tobacconist • COUNTRY.—At the Court-house, at Plyysouth, March 15, at Ten o'clock. Elford, John, Plymouth, carpenter At Hertford, March 15, at Ten. Fowler, 8., Stoney Stratford, accountant Kelton!, A., Royston, fish-dealer West, Loftus, Baldock, sheep-salesman At Chelmsford, March 17, at Teo. Gilby, Thomas, Leigh, custom-house officer Chamberlyn, Wm., Aveley, butcher Mend, Samuel, Gallywood, miller Martin, Thomas, Southminster, higler iyer, John, Grays Thurrock, shopkeeper Francis, Joshua, Stratford, ship-owner Speller, John, Buttsbury, farmer Woods, Edward, Belchamp Walter, thatcher Davey, Robert, Buttsbury, cooper Tovey, Edward, Heybridge, mariner Harvey, Joseph, Great Wakering, baker Bird, William, Stratford, wheelwright Simmons, Chestney, Yarmouth, lieut. R.N. Wabe, W., Downham, Norfolk, jobber At Cirmarthen, March 17, at Ten. Allen, John, Brecon, Barrier and dealer At Spurn Point, on Thursday week, as a young boy, son of Mr. RICHARDSON, master of the life boat, was firing a gun at a mark, his sister, about 14 or 15 years of age, was unfortunately shot by him in the head, and died before medical assistance could be obtained.— Leeds Mercury. We are assured that the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of SALISBURY sent a petition to the resi dent clergyman of a large parish in his diocese, against the Test and Corporation Acts, accompanied with a request that he would sign it himself and get it signed by his parishioners. The worthy man to whom it was sent, re gardless of consequences, returned it to his Lordship, just as he received it ; only stating, as his reason for not at tending to his diocesan's directions, that he could not do an act o repugnant to his ewisscience,.., World. THE MARKM'S. ______COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING TIIR WEEK. VVheat. Barley. 'Aukis: e. tiO S. 40 56 SO s 4 48 b 4, 44 50 42 54 48 55 45 50 46 eo 44 Go S. to s. ?2 26 91 25 211 25 26 26 90 23 34 26 90 2 5 32 26 32 s. to s. 15 23 20 28 19 20 14 24 16 26 IS 26 IS 26 18 32 16 8) a. to . w. 35 40 40 43 40 4lit' 40 46 38 41 It 45 36 40 34 46 40 56 Per Quarter. Boston —.......... Grantham Hull Lincoln SpilabStamfy York NORWICH, March 8. The state of our market must be reported much the same as last week. Wheat in good demand, in consequence of the shortness of the supply. Of Barley a good supply, and in good demand. Of Oats a good supply, with a slack demand. Beans and Pease in moderate supply, with but little demand, in consequence of the dampness of these Grains. The millers generally demand is. per sack more for Flour, which is not readily complied with. Wheat (per qr.) ... -50 s. 60s. 635. Beans (per qr.) Barley Oats 22s. 28s. 30s. Flour, fine (per sack) 41s. 435. CANTERBURY, March 8. The repeated short supplies of Wheat upon our Ex change, together with a very scanty arrival this day, caused an eager deniand, and some select samples of White Wheat sold as high as 655. and our prices generally may be con sidered full Is. per quarter dearer than on this day week. Good Making Barley fully maintains its price, but Pease, Beans, and Oats, are dull of sale, and in some instances a trifle cheaper. Wheat, white 589. to 645. red 4Bs. to 575. - Old —a. to ...6. Barley 3ls. to 355. Oats - Beans 345. to 40e. Pease 4os. to 425. COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND 3111,QATS. IMPORTR7). xxpoitrzo. Sallie pt.' Tins rind last ly this ye4r. year. . y CRT. Bags, &c. Bags, &c. Bags, Ike. Bags, &e. Liverpool 89,44)6 :7,1155 37* London 10,813 364.5 1,180 6,V07 Glasgow. 6,3oti Total exported in 19'2'3 BIRTHS. On the 24th ult. at Florence, the lady of Sir Joseph Huddart, of a son. On the Bth inst. at White Larkington, near Ihninster. the lady of the Rev. Charles Paul, 'of a son. On the 4th inst. at Goodrest Lodge, near Reading, Mr 4. of ,a daughter. • _ _ On the 4th inst. at Aberdeen, the lady of Capt. Edward J. Priestley, of the 25th Regiment, of a son. On the. Oth instant, in Lower Berkeley -street, Mr.. Cosway. of s son. MARRIED. On the II th inst. at St. Saviour's, Southwark, by the Rev. Rowland Hill, A.M. the Rev. John Smith, Mission ary to India, to Sarah, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Edmund Marsden, of the former place. On the . 10th inst. at St. Michael's, Mr. Hanson Flight, second son of the late Mr. Joseph Flight, of West-ham Abbey-mills, to Miss Ann Cauham, of Blackheath, Kent. On the 11th inst. by the Rev. Chas. Spencer Stanhope. Vicar of Cawthorne, Robert Hudson , Esq. of Tadwort court, Surrey, to larianne, eldeit daughter of the late Walter Spencer Stanhope . Esq . . of Cannon-hall, York s hi re . Uu the Sd'inst. at th e Episcopal Chapel in Glasgow, the Rev. Fred. Urquhart, M.A. of Brasenos• College, Ox ford, toMargaret,. third daughter of Wm. :H uy , of Newhall. On the lath ult. at Florence, the Marquis Donato Goa dagni, to Loni9a, only daughter of Lieutenant•Calonel F. G. G. Lee. DIED. On the 3d inst. at Wareham, Sarah, relict of Mr. Giles Brown, aged 82. On the 6th inst. Thomas Hopkins, Esq. of Brook street, Holborn, aged 68. On the 11th inst. in Piccadilly, Benjamin Genet, Beg. of the island of Dominica. On the 9th inst. at Lamb-abbey, Kent, in her 17th year, Mary Anne, youngest daughter,pf Neill Malcolm, Eeq• On the Bth inst, at Camberwell, at the advanced/age of 59, Mrs. Mary Clark. On the loth inst. aged four months, Walter, second son of James A. Murray, Esq. of Chancery-lane. On the 7th inst. Henry Hollick Tickell, eldest son of John Tickell, Esq. of Clapton, aged 6. On the 11th inst. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Pinkett, Esq. of Lambeth, aged 68. On the Bth inst. at Balharn, George Wolff, Esq. for merly Danish Consul-General, aged 92. On the Bth inst. in Hatton-garden, after a short illness, Henry Leslie Grove, aged 23, eldest son of Henry Leslie Grove, Esq. Collector of the Customs, Exeter. On the Bth inst. aged 26, George Gregg, Esq. of ski t ,. ners' Hall. EAST INDIES. (rßom THE LATEST ARRIVAL.) MARRIAGE. Oct. I.—At St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. Joseph Rawlins Henderson, junior, Presidency Chaplain, Mr. H. Boileau Gardener, to Miss Ann Catherine Duncan. BIRTHS. At Calcutta, on Sept. 15, the lady of the Rev. Edward Ray, of a son. At Calcutta, on Sept. 25, the lady of J. A. Hessing, Esq. of a son. At Calcutta, on Sept. 29, the lady of the Rev. W. Adam, of a son. At Garden Reach, on Sept, 26, the lady of Captain J. ..Hamilton, Assistant Adjutant-General of the Army, of a daughter. At Chowringhee, on Sept. 26, the lady of J. Lewis, Esq. Civil Service, of a son. At Dinapore, on Aug. 20, the lady of Captain S. Houl ton, of the 11th Regiment Native Infantry, of a son. At Goruckpoor, Aug. 30, the lady of Lieut. F. E. Man ning, Interpreter and Quarter-Master, 16th Regiment Na tive Infantry, of a daughter. At Futtyghur, on Sept. 9, the lady of Lieut. A. Mer. cer, Quarter-Master, 2d Extra Regiment Native Infantry, of a son. At Futtyghur, on Sept. 7, the lady of Julius Jeffreys, Esq. of a son. At Nusseerabad, on Sept. 5, the lady of Lieut. J. D. Nash, 33d Regiment Native Infantry, of a eon. At Bombay, on Aug. 27, the wife of Mr. G. Tedman, of a son. At Bombay, on Aug. 27, in the fort, the lady of Lui• P. da Silva, Esq. and daughter of Sir Roger De Faria, of a daughter. DEATHS. At Calcutta, on Sept. 24, after a long and lingering ill ness, which he bore with Christian fortitude and resigna tion, Master Daniel Adolphus Powell, aged fourteen years and eight months. He was beloved by all, and his prema ture loss is sincerely regretted by his relations 'and friends. At Calcutta, on Sept. 27, the infant daughter of Capt. J. J. Hamilton, Assistant Adjutant-General of the Army. At Calcutta, on Oct. 1, Mr.. Matilda Mackenzie, the lady of Charles Mackenzie, Esq. of the Civil Service, aged thirty-nine years. At Fort William, on Sept. 23, of consumptiou, after a t2.02,9L, ie H u a t, rr D iet , ;: c i y ck l so l lingering illness of seven months, Lieut. William Henry Humfrey, of the Hon. Company's Bengal Artillery, aged e t . . Douglass, eighteen years. At Fort Williamtn:nseSepti: of the Runpore Light infant' lnfantry, daughter iia rargaee,ki pt ow o r f eo, I d , i a eu y r n es , to th2 n, 65th Regiment Nati3,-e Infantry 3 the wartnne:. and sin cerity of who.e heart will be long remembered by his brother ()Meet..., and among the circle of his acquaintance. At Saugor, on Sunday morning, Sept. 10, Ann Maria, the beloved wife of Capt. William Aldou., 18th Regiment Native Infantry, aged twenty-three years and eight mouths, after a complicated illness, which she bore with the greatest 'calmness and resignation to the Divine will. In the early stage of fever she gave premature birth to an infant, which, with its disconsolate parent, are left to bewail their irreparable bereavement. _ At Dinapore, Sept. 8, Capt. S amue l B on b on , o f t h e 11 th R eg i ment Native Infantry, m ost d eep l y an d s i ncerely regretted by his relatives 23, rr hailiadJoseph, friends.pl) At Dacca, Sept. , the infant sou of He A nr t y it H ial ar lig ri a ‘ u Es n :•l Assista nt S urgeon of that place.ugust 20, o fj ung l e f ever , Li eut. J. Beck, 210 Regiment Native Infantry, and Adjutant of the Bheel Corps, Candeish. At Jaulnah, July 13, Benjamin, the youngest son of Capt. B. Blake, 45 th Regim en t Native Infantry, aged fifteen months. At Pursewaukum, Sept. 27, George Cotton, the infant son of Mr. George Dent, aged forty days. PAM:ED and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG, at the dux Ofrick No. 112, Strand, G' . Noble F . Colma n in the W MARRA And cers an Geo. II not pa. Soldier the No same, ( of such Agent ~/ G I J 4 , , 1 At the e 'etetenir and ti proce4 the 1 zittes by tril Lc To ) tam the witi< we duri eery Giv To ( t 1 7 0 I 1 1