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disgrace of a public trial, the chance of reform would be more probable, and an opportunity held out to them of relinquishing the yet unbeaten path of criminality. That it appears that the expense of prosecutions for felony in the county of Warwick, exclusive of all other offences, be fore and after trial, during the period of the last seven years, was 3.5,0124, being 5,0001. per annum. That the average expellee of each pro secution is about 12/, That the average period of imprisonment o f eac h person convicted of felony, including his imprisonment before trial, is about six months; and as his food during that time is about 3s. Id, per week, it fellows that each pri soner costs the county 16/. I Is. for six months."-- Now Warwickshire Justices have only to ob tain 'a copy of an Act of Parliament, 5 Geo. 4, c. 149, authorising the erection of a Bridewell, and constituting a summary jurisdiction for the county -,,f Lanark and city of Glasgow, and to obtain copies of the Annual,Reports of the Committee en trusted with its execution, and they will find at once bow they may remedy the evil under which they suffer. The Committee have printed Annual Reports of the first three years. It appeari by them that the annual cost of each prisoner in the county of Lanark and city of Glasgow has been, In 1824-5 £2 8 5 1825-6 .... 3 14 2 1826-7 3 8 3 _ _ Just about one-tenth part of the cost of a Warwick.. shire criminal. We shall on a future day copy . t h e clause of the Act of Parliament, and give some de - tails from the Glasgow Reports, and show that it is really not such a wonderfully difficult matter to guard against being robbed, by attorneys and jus tice-clerks trading in prosecutions, if men could summon to their aid only a little con-anon sense.— Morning Chronicle. We are pleased that Mr. Hume has taken up the subject of the Savings' Banks. He says that they c:dst the country half a million a year—not for the `benefit of the poor, but for the benefit of those who are fairly off in point of circum stances. We have heard many say that they have doubts wh e th er th e Savings Banks for the poor do good or harm, But why should they be called Savings' Banks for the Poor ? How can the poor make deposits ? It is much, i the Savings' 13ariks were looked into, but that most of them would be found jobs —most of then set a-foot by people who wanted comfortable salaries for doing little or nothing. It would not be amiss if a Com mittee were appointed to investigate them. Many of them, we think, would hardly bear the probe. We have have heard many say that they are great inducements for servants to rob their masters and mistresses, in order that they may may have some thing to invest.-Ilforning Herald. The annals of Parliament do not, we believe, fur nish an instance of a more valuable and elaborate statement than that of Mr. Brougham, or of one in which the dry technica ides of professional know ledge and experience lizre been dressed in such an attactive form as,to keep tip and elude the fatigue of six hours' attention. Enemies as we are to long speeches in general, such a speech as this of Mr. Brougham forms a striking exception even to such an antipathy, combining, as it does, that which ,ve have heretofore described as the best species of ora tory—the eloquence of facts. No man could have brought so vast a body of facts into one oration, had he not been able, as Mr. Brougham was upon this occasion, to offer his own personal knowledge and ex perietece as a pledge for every one of them ;—such is the advantage which every man must possess who understands what he is talking about—an advantage, by-the-by, which does not belong to all public speakers, or even great orators. If we have any thing material to object td in Mr. Brougham's speech, it is the motion with which it conehided—viz. for an Address to his Majesty to appoint a Commission to inquire into the evils complained of. Now, as most • of these evils are. such as admit of no dispute, we think Mr. Brougham's object is sure to be delayed, if not ultimately defeated, by being referred to Commissioners. If that is black which ought to be white, and all the world are convinced of it, we see no use in appointing Commissioners to iuquire into a fact which nobody disputes. On the contrary, we know, from experience, that there is such a thing as frittering away and mistifying the most obvious truths, and that 'lawyers, especially have a happy knack of doing this where their own pro- j f css i orta l interests or prejudices are concerned; and, even where no such intention exists they have a sort of professional tendency to keep the corn 50 mixed up with the chaff, as to prevent their ever being effectually separated; The Chancery Com mission forms a striking and recent confirmation of this. That Commission was probably composed of as honourable, enlightened, and well-inform e d men as could have been appointed to it : yet what has been the result %—that the whole subject has been so enveloped and obscured in the mass of contradictory and (in great part) interested evidence, which the . Commissioners elicited from the different persons they examined, that, up to this moment, no one of the evils they have pointed out has been redressed, and there seems a disposition rather to succumb to the abuses which they have pointed out, than to en counter the task of winnowing the corn from the mass of chaff in which it is enveloped and concealed. Now this we think is the rock on which Mr. Brougham's proposition is likely to be wrecked, if he persists in his present motion ; and therefore, had . we any influence with him, we would suggest the • propriety of his separating the obvious parts of his propositions from those which admit of doubt, and therefore of inquiry ; and that, instead of referring the whole to the Commission he proposes, he should separate the one from the other, embodying the first boldly and openly into a Bill, which we should hope to see passed speedily into an Act ; while his proposed Commissioners should be left to .discuss and inquire into the points which admit of doubt. Among those which admit of none we should class the opening of the three Courts of Law to all prac titioners, by. abolishing the monopoly enjoyed by the . Sergeants in the - Common Pleas, and that of the . Sworn Attorneys in the Exchequer —the abolition of Fines and Recoveries—the abolition of Welsh Judges—the attendance of a Judge of the Ring's ;Bench in the Bail Court (a duty which might as ,readily be performed , by a Barrister, or even an officer of the Court)--ind some others to which we need not now allude. We cannot see why these great and obvious improvements in the law might not as well be at least attempted, if not accomplished, at once; and if Mr. Brougham is not prepared to see these points frittered away, and lost in a mass of dubious inquiry, he will adopt this idea, and separate them at once from the really doubtful parts of his opoaed improvements. In short, there is this dif ference between Mr. Peel's reform and Mr. Brougha m 's — that th e f ormer has proceeded cau tiously st e p b y S tep, and has by so doing ensured conviction and consummation as he proceeded ; whereas the latter, by attempting too much at once, and blending obvio us truths with g ues tionahla pro positions, stands a ch ance of see i ng the former lost in the intricacy in which t h e latter will become in volved. We shall probably refer to the details as they occur to us, but we could not refrain from taking this general review of the subject.—/bid. The more we consider the lin e of policy which has of late been pursued with regard to our 'West Indian Colonies, the more impress are we with th e convic tion that that po li c y is erroneous. It has in gener a l been thought necessary that a Legislator should pos sess some knowledge of the subject matter on which he undertakes to legislate, but where the Colonies of Great Britain are concerned no such previous qualification is required. An acquaintance with th e circumstances of the case is regarded as an absolute disqualificatio n in the person who offers an opinion upon it, and the man who has spent sufficient time among the negroes to form any idea of their Charac ters and wants, is'at once set down as one whose feelings are prejudiced by the influence of the place, and whose judgment is misled by the force of habit. It s natural, indeed, that the feelings of men who have ound comfort where they- expected wretchedness in its most hideous forms—who have withered clemency • and kindness where they had loc!ked for savage cruelty or brutal indifterence—sh6uld yield to the influence of the place, and that 'the sentiments of the person acquainted with the' ac tual condition of the slave, should differ as widely froin those of the anti-slavery Societies at home, as infor mation does from ignorance. Were it not for - the pernicious consequences_ to which it leads, it weuld be absolutely amusing to contemplate. the absurdity of those who, far less interested in the welfare of 'the slave than the planters, and still les s acqua i n t e d Niith the degree of improvement of which their condition is capable, assume with all imaginable complacency that the planters have proved their inadequacy, by a steady, or, as they call it, an obstinate resistance to those measures which the ignorance of the one has proposed, and the resolution of the other has resis ted as detrimental to the interests of the Colony, and likely to prove injurious in their influence on the Slaves. But even supposing that the ignorant, idle, and sulky. negro, were as capable of enjoying the blessings of freedom as an English subject—that he were as alive to the feelings of degradation, and as likely to be benefitted by becoming a free agent— we would ask what are the true means of attaining those desirable objects?-pot surely by refusing to advance at all, because we cannot accomplish our journey in a day—not by rejecting the proffered boon, because it is not as bounteous as we could desire ; or exasperating and disuniting the planter and his slaves, because they decline to coalesce as closely as we have invited them to do—certainly not. Contemptuously as persons here pretend to talk of the discontent of the Jamaica House of, Assembly, we have no hesitation in saying that we would regard with the most serious regret any thing like a rupture between it and the parent stock, 'and cannot too pressingly deprecate the endeavour to set aside its jurisdiction in legislating for the Colony. All beneficial changes have been gradually brought about; and in the- Act of the House of As.. sembly of Jamaica, respecting the condition of the slaves, there were many provisions not only mani festing an anxious desire for its amelioration, but ac tually fulfilling that desire by the most important improvements in the existing laws. The Royal sanction ought not to have been refused to that first dawn of Trans-Atlantic liberality. We should have hailed with satisfaction the evidence it afforded of improved capability on the part of the negroes for the reception of measures of amelioration, and of an increased inclination on the part of the planters to ac cord them ; and, instead of offending the pride and irritating the feelings of the Assembly, we ought to have cheered them on to farther advances by a just appreciation of those which they had already made. We should have recollected, that if the truth and temper of the times were in our favour, an advantage gained could never be lost—that the first step is al ways the most important, and that, in the words o the Poet— Dimidium facti qui ccepit habet.—New Times. The Finance Committee to be proposed to-mor row by Mr. Secretary Peel, will consist of men im ' partially selected from every party in Parliament, and will include most of those who, having devoted great attention to the financial concerns of the Em pire, may be supposed peculiarly qualified to con duct the important investigation in which they are about to engage to an useful and satisfactory issue. Such a body will be desirous of pursuing the great object of economising the national expenditure, :4) far - as it may be found to concur with a due regard to the power, dignity, and safety of the State ; but ' at the same time reposing with an exalted conscious ness on the strength of its own character, and aware that its recommendations are to undergo the subse quent revision of the whole Legislature, it will be regardless of all unreasonable expectations in what ever quarter they may be entertained, and will, above all, despise those simulated expectations which are affected and diffused 'manifestly for no other purpose than to lay the basis and pro vide the materials of future sneers and re proaches. That it may effect something important in the way of positive retrenchment we do not doubt; but this is not the only, nor is it the greatest good, which may be expected to result from its labours. It will dispel the gross illusions which with so much art and industry have been spread be fore the public eye, and reduce to rational and prac ticable limits the exaggerated notions to which upon this subject the populace are naturally prone. Some apprehensions are expressed by one class of politi cians, and some hopes by another, that the abolition of the Sinking Fund may be one of the reconnnen dations of this Committee ; and the occasion there fore seems not to be an improper one to correct one or two errors which have become prevalent upon this subject. This Fund, as it now exists, is perpe tually represented as a delusion upon the public —as having no other effect than that of confusing the public accounts—as being a mock, and not a real Sinking Fund. The reasoners to whom w e allude define a real Sinking Fund to be an excess of in come over expenditure, applied to the redemp tion of debt; and the definition is a good one, if permanent income and permanent expenditure are meant; but if in a country like England, where the expenditure fluctuates, and the in come fluctuates still more from year to year, the in come and expenditure of any one or two years are the ideas intended to be conveyed, the definition then degenerates into an unintelligible absurdity. A hasty retrospect to the recent history of the Sinking Fund will suffice to expose this absurdity. In the year 1819, it was determined by Parliament that a real and permanent Sinking Fund should be created to the amount of at least Five: Millions annually.* If the taxes as they stood after the enactments of this Session, had failed to produce an excess of in come over expen di ture to the extent a Five Mil lions, it is obvious that a Sinking Fund to that ex tent would still have existed, so far as it depended upon Legislative sanction, although it had not been realised in the actual receipts of the Exchequer,_ and that Parliament would h ave b een expose d to the al ternative of abandoning the principle it had establish ed, or of imposing still further taxes upon the people. But in fact since that period the taxes as, they then existed, or, to speak more accurately, such a proportion of them as the Legislature bas not been tempted to repeal, tempted by the exuberant excess of their productiveness, have yielded, except in the two last years, a surplus of Income over Expendi ture fully commensurate with the intentions of the Legislature expressed in the Acts of 1819. The amount of taxation, therefore, - actually abolished since the year 1819, proves and measures the re dundancy of the Sinking Fund as then established by Parliament. That amount is accurately as fol lows :-- i S2O No Taxes were repealed. 1821 Taxes were repealed to the amount of 480,000 1822 8,355,000 1823 1824 1825 ... 3,146,000 1826 714,000 Total Annual Produce of Taxes repealed since 1819....... When we. say, aswe . d . c; . .. f . r . o . ............ 12,766,000 inllicial documents which cannot be contradicted, thatnotwithstanding sinc e this rapid reduction of tax es Ithele the yea year e l r i b l e 9 ., the Sinking Fund then es t a bli s h ed by . ra te wisdom of the Legislature, t o five millions and upwards annually, aud amtoount of a opro ,ressively increasing amount from accruingnte i rest, which swells it at this moment to five millions seven hundred thousand pounds, - in the character so much insisted- on, of a real excess of income over expenditure, we cannot of course understand, nor do we trouble ourselves to understand, what is meant by the reiterated assertion that there is no'real Sinking Fund. We know that there is a Sinkin g Fund, which the Nation has shown itself able to sustain, established by authority of. Parliament,— just as well as the Civil List is established, better than the that authority. pay of the Army and Navy is established by And we should as readily acknow ledge the t rut h of the assertion that t h ere i s no rea l Civil List—no real pay of the Army and Navy, on the ground that the Revenue has declined for 'the last two years, as that there is no real Sinking Fund. Since the year 1819 the aggregate produce of the taxes taken off, reasoning upon their actual produce at and previous to that time, would have been as follows : 1821, £ 480,000 multiplied by 6 1822, 3,51i0,000 multiplied by 5 15323, 3,350,000 multiplied by 4 1824, 1,721,000 multiplied by 3 1825, 3,146,000 multiplied by 2 1826, 714,000 £46,199,000 Here, then, we have an amount of upwards of forty-six millions of money positively thrown back by the reduction of taxes since the year 1819 into the productive capital in the hands of the people, and the Sinking Fund as then established positively and substantially maintained by excess of Revenue over Expenditure, with the following comparatively tri vial. deductions : Failure of anticipated Revenue in 1826 £2,100,000 Ditto, in the year 1827 Paid at different times by the Bank of Eng land, under the Dead Weight arrangement, in consideration of which Payments it is en . . . titled to an equivalent terminable Annuity, charged upon the Public Revenue 7,60b,000 • £12,600,000 So that since 1819, and in comparison with the cal culation then made, there is a clear balance in favour of the country of thirty-three and a half millions, without the slightest - inroad upon the principle of the Sinking Fund,.as then established by the autho rity of the Legislature. We challenge contradiction to any part of this statement ; and we ask in conclu sion, if it is one - which authorises the belief, that the Legislature of 1828, or any Committee of its Mem bers, will attempt on the ground of public pressure or national inability, to undo what was done by the Legislature of 1819, for the maintenance of public credit ?—liforning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.--On Saturday Edward Barry, a young man in the garb of a sailor, was charged by Mr. Ross, who keeps the Red Lion public-house, Little Guild ford-street, with robbing him of 431. Mr. Ross stated, that about three weeks ago, the day after he had buried his wife, his bed-room was entered, and 431. in notes and sovereigns, including a cheque for 81. 14s. was stolen from his drawer. He immediately suspected the prisoner, and obtained a warrant against him, but found that he had entered an Indiaman lying at Gravesend. The warrant was accordingly placed in the hands of Fagan, an active officer, and the prisoner was apprehended at Gravesend on Wednesday last. No money, however, was found in his possession ; but the prisoner's guilt was fully proved by the following evidence, which also implicated the clerk of a pawnbroker residing at Poplar. . Mary Ronan stated. that the prisoner lodged and boarded with her until about three weeks ago, when he left his lodging, as the witness understood, for the purpose of going to India. At that time he owed her about 21. 10s. and he left in her hands a cheque for Si. 14s. which be desired her to get cashed, and to pay herself out of the amount. The prosecutor here said, he hail ascertained that the witness had got the cheque cashed at the shop of a pawn• broker in Poplar, who gave her only half the amount, keep ing the other half; by way of discount. " Upon my word," said Mr. MiNsitum,, "the pawn broker is a liberal man." " He is here, your Worship," said the prosecutor. The MAGISTRATE ordered the pawnbroker to come for ward, and told the witness to proceed with the statement. A young man, whose name it appears is John Howard, and who is shopman. to Mrs. Wood, a pawnbroker, of No. '207, High-street, Poplar, came forward, and Mary Ronan went on to state, that as soon as she receiv ed the cheque, she took it to the shop of Mrs. Wood, where she was in the habit of leaving pledges, and asked John Howard, now present, to give her cash for it. He exa mined the cheque, and told her it was overdue ; but not withstanding that circumstance he would give her ss. for it. She refused to accept of that sum, and he theii told her that if he succeeded in getting cash for it, be would give her halt the amount. Sfis .assented to this proposal, and he told her to call in thelitunsing. She did so, and he handed her 41. 7s. observing that she had half the amount of the cheque, according to agreement. "If this statement be true," said Mr. Miristrum, to Howard, " I ought to place you at the bar with the pri soner." Howard did not deny that he had changed the cheque, but said he never offered the woman so low as ss. for it. She consented to take half the amount, and he gave it to her. " Upon my word," said Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, " this is a most nefarious transaction ; and I think this fellow ought to be placed at the bar along with the prisoner." Dlr. MINSIIULL—I certainly shall not take him as a witness. It is quite clear that he received this cheque knowing it to be stolen, and whether the transaction was on account of his mistress or hitnself; he must abide the consequences. Gaoler, take that person into custody, and place him at the bar. - Howard was taken into custody accordingly, and remov ed to the dock. Mr. MiNsitutt then remanded the case until next Thurs day, in order to give the prosecutor an opportunity of com pleting the evidence against the prisoner. On Saturday evening, Dr. Courtney, of Robert-street, Adelpbi, charged his female servant, Justine Weaner, a respectable-looking young woman, with robbing him of 70/. in Bank notes It appeared that about eleven o'clock on Saturday morn ing, the doctor went into his dressing-rooni, where he found the prisoner and a charwoman. The prisoner told him he had left his keys on the table, and she hhnded them to him. Some time after, the doctor conceiving that an improper use might have been made of his keys, and open ing a drawer in his dressing-room, in which he had de posited a short time before 1801. in bank notes, he found that a 50!. note, a 101. note, and two 5!, notes were mis sing. Supposing, however, that Mrs. Courtney might probably have taken the money, the doctor said nothing about his loss until her return, when she denied having taken any of the notes, upon Which he gave the prisoner into custody. Mts. Courtney requested to examine the prisoner herself in private, but the young woman denied all knowledge of the money. —She was remanded for a we e k. - - George Edward Allen, late post-master at Greenwich, whose examination at this office has been reported, was fully committed for trial upon two indictments, the first charging him with stealing 21. 10s. from an Irish letter, committed to his care, and the second with defrauding the revenue of the postage paid upon the same. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—On Saturday a young man of respectable apppearanee, named Arthur Anderson, a confidential clerk in the service of Mr. Wood, a wine merchant, in Bond-street, was committed for trial from this office, on a charge of stealing from the counting-house desks of his employer, 35!. in bank notes, and 15 sovereigns. The notes were found on the prisoner's person, concealed in one of his shoes, and the sovereigns lie confessed lie gave to a female of his acquaintance. • MA RYLE B ONE- OFFICE. —Joseph Smith alias W. Smyth was charged with bigamy. It was proved by certi ficates and witnesses, that the prisoner was married at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, on the 27th of October, 1817, to Catherine Duffel!, in the name of Joseph Smith, and on the 27th of August, 1827, at St. Mary's Church, Bryanstone-square, in the name of William Smyth, to Ann Fawdon, a very pretty young spinster. It further appeared that the first wife was a party to the deception practised upon this unfortunate young woman, — that she was introduced to her by her husband en the eve of their marriage as his landlady and friend, and the delu sion was kept up until the beginning of last week, when a quarrel took place, and she avowed herself to be his wife. —The prisoner was fully committed. James Welch, a labourer, who lodged at No. 7, Union street, Middlesex Hospital, was charged with causing the death of his child by neglect. The prisoner was remanded until an inquisition shall hays been keld upon the body. UNION-HALL.---On Saturday, Mr. Samuel Gill, a clerk in the wine department of the custom-house, was brought before thp sitting Magistrates, J. T. HONE and D. KING, Esqrs. on an alleged charge of stealing some bundles of important documents belonging to to the Crown. Mr. Lee, clerk of ship-entries in the Custom-house, stated, that on ',Wednesday last, as he was proceeding home from his office, on passing a butter-shop, he perceiv ed some papers on the counter, which be suspected were ships' reports. He immediately went into the shop, and having examineik them, found he was correct in his con jectures. - 'On asking the ehopman how or in what man ner they came JAM his posseasion, .be replied that he had purchased theni on the Monday preceding of a man whose name he was riot acquainted with,. but of whose appear ance he gave a; very accurate description, adding, that he (the shopman) had been in the habit of purchasing what they called waste-paper of the individual alluded to foithe last IS months. Mr. Lee requested the shopwan not to part with the papers, observing that they were document, ofgreat public importance, and in the mean time the soli citor of the Customs was informed of the circumstance, when it was discovered that a man named Webb, an extra messenger in the Custom-house, was the person who sold the documents in question to the proprietor of the butter shop. This man, on being questioned relative to the sub ject, very readily stated that Mr. Gill had given them to him as bundles of waste-paper, in lieu of money, as a re muneration for going on errands and fetching messages for him. Several bundles of papers were here produced, two out of which . Mr. Lee identified as ships' reports, and to have been taken out of the strong-room attached to his office. Brown, shopman to Messrs. Leedham and Waters, cheesemongers, stated, that on Monday last he purchased 321b.1 of the paper now produced from Webb, for which he gave him sd. a-pound, amounting to 13s. Webb, the messenger, stated that the prisoner gave him two bundles of the papers now produced, in lieu of money, for going of messages for him. Ha also identified three more bundles of paper, which were given to him by Mr. Peters, of the Custom-house. Mr. HONE-What length If time has Mr. Gill been in the Custom-house ?—The prisoner replied—" I have been 12 years, and, during my experience there, I know it to be the common practice of giving away that which is termed the dirty paper, namely, that written o❑ both sides. The piper I gave to Webb is'written on both sides, therefore I considered it Went under the denomination of dirty pa per,' but I deny having given it'to him in lieu of money, for I owed him none." Mr. Thackeray—You know perfectly well you had no right to give these documents away. You must have been aware they were of importance.—Prisoner—lt is a general thing in the Custom-house to give dirty paper away, and I considered the paper in question as of that description. The principals as well as the clerks do it. Webb was then called and interrogated by the Magis trate, and in reply to questions, said that he bad received some bundles of papers of the same description from Mr. Peters, and other gentlemen in the Custom-house, which he sold as wastepaper. Mr. HONE—I am inclined to think Mr. Gill was not conscious there was any importance attached to the papers he had given away. Some discussion here arose on the subject of the place where the offence was alleged to have been committed, when it was ultimately decided that .the prisoner should enter into his own recognizances to appear, on Monday this day. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, FEB. 9. MOSELEY AND JACKSON. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was heard on this appeal. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, he would take the papers home and read them, and give judgment as soon as possible. Several of the appeals were postponed in conse quence of the absence of Mr. Sugden, and the list being thus disposed of, the LORD CHANCELLOR said he would hear motions. As, however, it could not have been anticipated that an opportunity would offer, with so large a number of appeals, of making motions, no one was prepared, and the Court rose at three, o'clock. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Fxa. 9. THE KING V. THE MAYOR OF STAFFORD. This was a rule calling upon Francis_ Hughes, Esq. to show cause why a quo tvarranto information should not be filed against him for exercising the ace of Mayor of Stafford, without• being properly elected thereto. The question was, whether the charter of his present Majesty, under which 'Mr. Hughes had been elected, had been accepted by a majority of the free burgesses of Stafford. The JUDGES delivered their opinions seriatim, de claring that there had been a proper acceptance of the charter, and a valid election of Mayor. Rule discharged with costs. (CRIMINAL INFORMATION. Alt. BROUGHAM moved fora rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against three Magistrates of the county of Lancaster, for an improper discharge of duty.—Rule granted. PREROGATIVE COURT, FEB. 9. RARTORD JONES BRYDGIS, itgarrovelez JONES, BART. AGAINST KING. The argummt in this case, which has occupied the Court three days, was brought to a close. Sir JOHN NICHOLL said he would take time to consider his sentence. INTERRUPTION Or COUNSEL. Dr. LUSHINGTON, in the course of his speech, had occasion to comment on the circumstance of a draught for a sum of money bearing date a day pos terior to that on which the witness on his behalf stated it to have been signed by the testatrix; and he observed, that nothing was more common than for a person to post-date a draught when it was signed late in the day. "I am sure, Sir," said the Learned Advocate, " when I sign au opinion late on Saturday night, or between that and Monday morn ing, I always date it on the Monday." Sir JOHN NICHOLLYOII never . date it on the Sunday. Dr. LUSHINGTON—Oh, never on the Sunday. Dr. LEE here ro.e, and remarked that it was highly improper that the Court and Counsel should cut jokes together in a case of such importance as this, involving questions of fraud and perjury. He was justified in making this remark as amicus curies. Dr;LUSPIINGTON desired he might not be inter rupted by Dr. Lee, and proceeded in his argument. At the close of the day, after the business was declared by the Registrar to be over, Sir JouN NICHOLL spoke as follows :—" The public business of the Court being now concluded, I have to notice another instance of interruption given this day to the proceedings of the Court, by the in terposition of one of the advocates, Dr. Lee, in ad , dressing and censuring the Court and Counsel in the middle of a Counsel's speech. I extremely lament that this unfortunate gentleman has not some friend who has sufficient influence over him to con vince him that he labours under an error and illusion in supposing that it is the province, or the right, or the duty, of an advocate to interfere in the proceedings of the Court, to censure the Judge and Counsel under the strange notion of being anzicus curia. As far as I am personally concerned (having now sat for more than 19 years in this court), I should feel not the slightest degree of anger or resentment against an at tack of this sort ; I should rather feel pity and con cert?. But as judge of this court, there is a duty imposed upon me, the performance of which, how ever painful, I shall not shrink from ; for it is the duty of every judge to preserve regularity in his court, and to protect the office he fills from reproach or censure. I must, therefore, without meaning any unkindness, for the reason I have adverted to, give Dr. Lee no tice, that if he is guilty of any similar interruption again, it will be my bounden though painful duty to resort to those measures with which the law has armed every court to maintain the respect which is due to the public administiation of justice." We understand that the Lord Lieutenantship of the county of Nairne has become vacant by the death of Baorns of Brodie, and that MACLEOD of Macleod, as next substitute heir of entail, succeeds to the extensive estates of the deceased.— Caledonian Mercury. THAMES TUNNEL.--In consequence of the complaint made to the Port Committee, of the temporary bank raised by the clay thrown into the hole made by the irruption of the river into the Tunnel, and which bank had been raised many feet above - the level of the bed of the river, the Loan MAYOR received a deputation from the Directors, consisting of Mr. BRUNEL, Mr. Wouas- ToN, Mr. IlLtarex, and Mr. BLANDRAM, who informed his Lordship that the bank was necessarily made of great thickness, to admit of so much c ondensation of pressure, both from above by the water of a spring tide, and by a judicious management of pressure from below, by the water in the shalt, until the ►hole should be levelled to the bed of .the river; that the height of the bank had already diminish ed nearly three feet, and was continually lessening ; and that until removed either by such pressure, or by being taken away, a light would be kept by night, and a watch by day, to prevent the possibility of any interruption to the navigation ; that the former irruption had at one time had a similar temporary bank, but that at present no portion of it remained, and that the bed of the river there was quite a level. On this his Lordship expressed himself quite sa tisfied, and the deputation withdrew, SUICIDE OF MR. NEELE. On Saturday an inquest was held at the Grey hound, Henrietta-street, Brunswick-square, on the body of Mr. Henry Neele, a solicitor, and a gentle, man who, has distinguished himself in the literary world, by several prod uc ti ons f am ili ar to t h e pu bli c; the one, however, by which he is best known, is a work called the ‘! Romance of History," equally distinguished by its accuracy, its liveliness, and its good taste. The first witness examined was Mr. Harding, a surgeon, of Henrietta , street„who ststed, that on Thursday morning, at an early hour, he'was called upon to attend the deceased, and found him at his resilience, No. 6, Hunter-street; he was lying on the bed' in his bed-room quite dead, ,and with hi s throat cut from ear to ear. The witness added, that tthe deceased lived with his mother, three siste rs , and a brother, in Hunter-street. II: was a solici tor, and a man of great literary attainments. On Wednesday last witness was in his company, an d lie then appear6d singular in his conduct, and altered in his Manner.. - Mr. Richard Enoch Chapman, a barrister, arid uncle of the deceased, who resides in Took's-court, Chancery-lane, said' he was in Hertfordshire on Wednesday morning last, attending a funeral, when the deceased sent for him, and taking him apart in a private room, said that he was a ruined man. He then produced some documents relating to a com mission of bankruptcy, and said, that having been called upon to pay a certain sum due to the bank rupt's estate, he found that he should be ruined, in consequence of being unable to meet the demand. The deceased's father was one of the assignees to the bankrupt's estate, and he died about four years ago. Upon receiving the information from the de ceased to the effect above stated, witness waited upon the surviving assignee, and found that the deceased's statement was untrue, that he laboured under a delusion, and that the whole of the accounts of the bankrupt's estate had been settled to the sa tisfaction of the . creditors,_ and that there was a balance of 5301. left. On Thursday morning he . was sent.for to the deceased's residence, and found him lying on his bed with his throat cut from car to ear - , On Wednesday Witness first discovered an aberration of the deceased's intellect, and consider ing he was insane, begged his friends not to leave him alone. The Jury asked Mr. Chapman if he knew wha had caused the deceased's insanity Mr. Chapman said, that the deceased was a mai of great attainments, and he believed that his lite• vary pursuits had disordered his intellect. Jury--4-lad the assignees any claim upon the de ceased under the commission of bankruptcy Mr. Chapman said that the assignees hatl no claim upon him. Miss Neele, one of the deceased's sisters, said, that on .Thursday morning she went up to call her brother, and found him lying on the bed in the state described. Deceased was in the habit of reading prayers to the family every night; but on Wednes day night he was in such a state of agitation, that he could not perform that duty. He was quite sober. Mr. STIRLING, the Coroner, in summing up the case to the Jury, observed, that the deceaSed had evidently affected his nerves by a too' intent exercise of his imaginative powers, and thereby produced temporary aberration of mind,ending in a lamentable catastrophe, upon which they were now called to express their opinion. The verdict, from any evi dence he had heard, could not be a matter of either difficulty trr doubt. The Jury, after a brief consultation, returned a' verdict of—" Insanity." Mr. Neele was of middle age, short in stature, and amiable and inoffensive in manner. No man apparently, enjoyed life with greater zest : when happy in the company of his friends and acquaint ance, he seemed, too, one of those formed to glide', through the world unaffected by any of those cir cumstances which agitate the mind, or unsettle the pursuits of men who boast of a more Eery tempera ment. That he was embarrassed in his cireum- ;stances did not appear upon the inquest, nor do we . believe from the recent success of some of the efforts of his imagination, that he could have laboured under any depression of mind on that account. We can only, therefore, suppose that he laboured, on this melancholy occasion, under the effect of that influ ence of the brain which is frequently produced by a too intense reflection, and which, in much greater and more distinguished men, has led to the same melancholy termination. THEATRICAL CHIT CHAD—Lord BYRON'S celebrated poem of " Don Juan," which all have thought su exceedingly dramatic, Chas at length been dratnatized, and is about to be presented to the public by the managers of two theatres--Drury-lane and the Adelphi ; at the former house, Mr. WALLA ca- represents the chivalrous heart breaker, but who is his representative at the other establish ment we have not heard. Report speaks highly of Mr. RonwaLL's music to the Adelphi drama, which adaptation completely got the start of "Old Drury," on this occasion, and appears on Monday next. The author of the piece at Drury-lane is Mr..lllnamt.—London -Weekly Review. A curious scene took place on Friday at the Workhouse of St. Paul's Covent-garden. It seems the' places of the Master of the Workhouse and Parish School master are vacant, and as such have been advertised to be filled up, but no day named for the election. This was purposely omitted by some of the Old Usurping Selest Vestry, who hoped for such omission to steal a march on the parishioners, and secure the privilege of election to themselves. For this purpose nine of them Assembled at the Parish Workhouse on Friday, and were just going to work, when lo! other nine of the Parishioners hearing of the business in hand broke in upon the;,r worships' privacy, and soon put them to the rout. A public meeting of the Parishioners is, we learn, to be called for the purpose, for which these " Hole and Corner" men assembled ; but in the mean time it may be proper to inform all persons elect ed under such circumstances as were here contemplated, that even if their election were valid, which it is not, it would still be in the power of the Parishioners in Public Vestry to cut down their salaries to any a mount. This was done the other day in the case of the Vestry Clerk, and the same operation may be performed on all Parish officers, wh o se stipends are defrayed from the p arish funds. —The News. On Monday the Albion, 74, Capt. J. A. aninamak-, C. 8., which ship arrived on the 21st ult. from Navarin, came into the harbour, amidst the cheers o the inhabitants, who assembled on . every point of the land she passed, and the crews of all the ships. It appears to have been the intention of the gallant Commander-in- Chief, in fiaing the stations of the ships in the battle, to give the .4/blows " a Warm berth;" but, from 'the falling off of the wind, occasioned by the other ships firing before upon which service al the Albion could take up her appointed position; she was obliged to let go her anchor, and commence the battie with two Turkish frigates, one of which,,frOin their yeiative pe culiar situations, it Was not possible to avoid 'Proving a means of annoyance, and - which not even the treble shotted guns of the Albion could remove. The ne?q resource of s u e n n d t e a d u _nt undaunted .a t t r o i British i s b l : r al d l i a n n g t rtyh the enemy,e re fo r e resorted to7-and their ship, it, was the only instance of the kind that the battle pre party of the A/bion's crew instantly volunteered, under the First Lieutenant, - DRAKE; and not many m i nutes scimitars," were di ived from the deck o f elapsed ere the " fierce looking" Turks, with their "three edged like chaff before an impetuous w i n d, and solght refuge either below, in the sea, or as couchant suppliants for mercy to the British lions of the sea. The Turks had set fire to their ship, which blew up, soon after the - Albion's' crew deserted her. We have been led into this slight ds= scription, because it was the only instance of personal con test which occurred, and which leads us to notics the extra-, ordinary quantity of ammunition which the Albion ex pended in the battle, viz. 5 tons, 18 cwt. 0 qr. 11 lbs.. 11 oz. of powde r ; and 45 tons, 14 cwt. 21 lbs. of to making a total of 51 tons, 12 cwt. 1 qr. '7lb. 11 (IT. ir ) powder and shot, fired from the great giiiii,_. beisides,6,ooo m usket ball cartridges, and 400 pistol cartridgesi which is probably the largest quantity of ammunition ever fired, by a single ship in one action. The number. of shot she fired; a nd, from her being in " the thick of it," sca r ce l y one but must h ave hive taken effect, wail 2,928 froth !Ong guns, and 1,065 from carronades, weighing 99,224 lbs. Nonce, where every ship did equally well, all surprise, from such a return, at the annihilation of the Turkish fleet must cease. —Hampshire Telegraph: • . COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to a. s.,to s. 56 61 24 27 16 22 59 56 44 62 28 33 17 26 50 52 Morpeth s*?. 25 30 18 21 40 56 Penrith 61 .7 20 Sheffield tiO 30 37 20 30 45 60 Winchester 46 61 ?{1 36 20 26 50 60 Per Bushel. s.d. sd. s.d. s. d. s.d. s.d. s.d. a. d. Carmarthen --. 6 1 68 ; 3 9 s 1 0 1 9 2 3 0 0 0 0 Coventry ..--.. 66 73 3 6 44 30 50 50 80 Newcastle (Staff:) 79 80; 46 49 33 36 66 80 Northallerton .--. 59 '7 6! :3 9 34 2 6 28 50 55 Stafford....--- 00 80. 4 0 46 33 36 70 80 Swansea j6O 66 39 40 23 26 00 0 0 Warwick -- 6 6 7236 40 26 40 50 80 Per Roll. Barnardcastle 11 0 14 6 8 6 00 60 7013 0 140 Darlington II 0 150 49 53 46 70 96 10 0 Durham 11.0 186- 80 86 50 00 109 326 Wolsingliam —....111 6 14 0 8 6 10 0 ti_ 0 7 6 00. 0 0 .I* - !. The size of the measure varies throughout the country. WAKEFIELD, Feb. 8. There is a good supply of Wheat here this morning, but a considerable quantity of it was at market last Friday. Good dry Wheat is in moderate demand, at about the rates of last week, but middling and inferior samples are very dull, and rather lower. Oats rule much the same. There is a fair demand for good dry Norfolk and Suffolk Barley, at nearly last Friday's prices; but Yorkshire Wold and Lincolnshire are very heavy sale, and some quantity of these descriptions unsold. The supply of Beans exceeds the deinand ; they are dull sale, and prices looking down. Wheat, N'orfolk and Suffolk, Red s3s. to 565. tine 5Ss. White.... 578. to --e. fine 635. ----- New, Red 47s. to 525. fine 565. White - Foreign, Red 4os. to 525. fine 535. Bnley, Norfolk and Suftblk 33s. to 306. fine --b. - Lincolnshire 2os. to 31s. fine 32g. Yorkshire \Vold 9 7s. to 266. fine 30s. Beans, , Tick 42s. to 436. fine 443. - Small 42s. to 445. tine 455. Oats, Poland and Potato 2os. to 275. fine 295. - Friezland and Small lBB. to 245. fine 265. - Healing lO3O. to 13d. per Stone. Shelling 2Bs. to. 306. -..-s. to -s. per Load. Malt 36s. 40s. fine 425. per Load. Rapeseed 231. Os. 261. Os. 2111. 10s. per Last. WAKEFIELD CATTLE MARKET. —Feb. 6. A full supply of Beasts, with a heavy sale. Sheep were a short supply, and higher prices were asked in the morning; but, upon the whole, we cannot note much al teration since this day fortnight.—Beef, 6s. Od. to 7s. per stone of 141bs.—Mutton, 6d. to 7d. per lb. SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN MARKET.—Feb. S. The sales of Oats and Barley were very dull to-day, but both have maintained last day's prices ; 38 quarters of Barley, and 180 of Oats were sold. Wheat went off pretty well, at rather advanced prices on the whole ; the Old average is down about 4d., but the general average is up 3d. Eighteen quarters of Pease, and 32 of Beans, found purchasers. Pease are down 2s. 4d. on the average, while Beans have advanced ld. thereon. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beaus. First 66s Od 34s 01 29s Od '29s Od 34s Od; Second 5.6 Od 32a Od 25s Cd 28:3•0t1 Ws Od Third There wero 348 qrs. of Wheat in market, 116 whereof were sold.: 3 ...at 66s. Od 131 ... at 548. Od. 14 ...at 46s. Od. .2 10 5 58 0 3 5O 0 13 43 0 5 •57 0 21 8 .56 0 27 0 55 0 39 47 0 2 52 Unsold.-0 Grey. 21. 9s. 1- Average 2.l2ths DALKEITH CORN MARKE The quantity of all kinds of Grain was large. Wheat sold heavily, and n Wheat. Barley. Oats. First tiOs Oct 33s 9d 27s fid Second 505 Od 30s Oct 24s Oct Third 4Bs od 27 8 od od ~ M—Fcb. 7. at this dal is market 7ather lower. . 1 ['cage. Beans. :3fis Od 366 Oct 30s Od 303 Oct 26,3 Od 26s ea CORNWALL MARKETS. Tguso.—Wheat (average) 20s. Od.—Barley. 10s.—Oats, Ss. 2d. HgLsros—Wheat, 18s. Od.—Marley, ST. AusvELL—Wheat, Hs. to 21 s. —Barley, 9s. to 10s.—Oats, Bs. to .k.. Bonmiti—Wheat (average) 21s. 6 d.—Barley, 9s.—Oats, 7s. Od. LAUNCESTON—Wheat (average) 218. Od.Barley, 10s. 6d.-0a is, 7s. Od.—Beef, tid.—Mutton, sd. LlsKaAlw—Wheat, Hs. to 20s. S 4l .—Barley, 10s. Od...nats, 9s. to Os. Od. ST. COLuMß—Wheat, 20s. to 22s.—Barley, Bs. to 9s.—Beef, and Mutton, 50. to 61—Veal and Lamb, od to Od. PENZANCE— Wheat, 19s. to :21s.—Barley, 11s. to 12s.—eats, O. to 7s. Cxl.—Becf and Mutton, 4d. to 6 d.—Pork, 4d. to Od--. Hotter, 12d. per lb. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Quantity ot Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday 2,V99 0 Average Produce Bl4 0 Quantity of fine Copper Amount of Sale. 20,5311. Pis. od.—Average StandardZ 1131. Be. Od. MEETING-8 OF CREDITORS. LONDON DlARY.—Tuzsoav, FBI. 12.--At the Ceurt of Commissioners, Basinghall-streei. Thomson, J., Coleman-street, wine -merchant . la Toovey, D., Watford, corn dealer IS Trollop, H., Whitechapcl, sugar refiner II Turnbull and Go., Bread.street, merchants II Wood, D., Westminster, coach-maker Woodward and Co., Birmingham, merchants COUNTRY DIARY.—W 2 DKRIDAIC FAL la Burdy, G., West Derby—Clarendon Liverpool Clegg and Co., Liverpool—Cl aren d on , Cundey W., Bampton—Mr. Gillett, Chesterfield France, T., Crompton—White's, Manchester ~, ..... . ...... Hall, ~ Norton—Mr. Smith, Sheffield. ......................... Newmarch, J., Manchester—Whites, Manchester :4 Oliver, D., Manchester—Star, Manchester 9 Rolfe, W., Edgbaston, Warwickallire — Royal hotel, Bir rningham ....... . ....... . ........ ...... .............. .. .... . ............... Rich, Sir C., Bectillani, Berle—Bear, Reading l2 Sage, G., Walcot—Commercial roums , Bristol 1 Walker, 'l'., Radford —Flying Horse, Nottingham ... ...... , confectioner tE Lin D c I o S in C .I it Inn AR FI GLID, Pleads. Abbott, S. Oueen-street, Edgeware-road INSOLVENTS Petitionstobebvar A e r b.a P tl L 4p, Y oar l tt N 4gaN G i4 T sotr O peeelock. , COok s s g _c a o tc od s u tr i e t- e s t t , rec ta t y.makcr c C o h p e s r e r y i: Cowper, J. jun., Oldham, farmer Evans, D., Crawford-street, draper's shopmart Foster, C., Arlestone, fruit.seller Goddard, J.,lslington, carman . N . V.', l ll in d e b r : Grey, G., hancery-lane, sher iff's-ofticer . - • Good, IL, Horsley own, mariner - . Huggins, W., Holheach, druggist Minchin, J., Marylebone, Victualler • . Pond, G., Hendon, tailor and draper ' . Putter, P., Liverpool, victualler Rentall, C., Horsleydown, sack-manuf acturcr w o w, Thos., Greenwich, waterman Died on Wednesday last, the 6th instant, at his house in Great Russell -street, Bloomsbury, WILLIAM suffering—an ampl e res i gnation to the Divine will. The Esq., R.A., after long a n d con ti nue d I R vo E r n ks mo o ß f li th ß is tG a G r , tist will be w ell known to many of our readers, and are duly registered from the earliest annals of the British School of Painting, founded by his late MA - Jzsrr. The subjects of his pencil were mostly of a do mestic nature. In these, benevolence, or the tender feel ings, e ith er o f parental or rust i c soc i ety, were forcibly pour trayed a . tHliias:3anSihiF Black Mo n d ay ," w i th many others rffeked Sailor B oy, " " Youths re lievingequally interesting, have been engraved; some have been copied by foreign artists, and are frequently to be seen in travelling through the continent. The amenity of his manners endeared him to a numerous acquaintance, by w h om , a nd by hislfamily, his loss must be sincerely regretted. _S un d a y poper. BIRTH. On the 9th inst., the lady of John Ireland, Esq. surgeon, Artillery-pl .ace, Finsbury-square, of a son. d S a ll u o m g n h ne t t e r i r: . B. • On the 9th i . n i, s i t a . antke MJ S : o ; ll : 3lLl G ll : eo : b ßor p o i g ne9 f l wF,see n tr l cesh : Eum q : ' of Doughty- Street, sa e, to G eoElelyl,‘hdoauEglerteryr°lii, Eaq. v S 3,,o u , in : l e g i az E l :l u t n i e ill t ai d y au ß gh ar te n r ar o d f , On the 6th inst., at Fetehun ' b y the R e v . C. V. IL park, a tu o r v r e e r „mire, Ed war d Bolton Ring, . E sq.) of Urnberelade, in the c l e l o o o u u h n n e t ty r y t f Ei gorabfrt:, Grosvenor -square. c o s k .t g; e •y n 8 9 A u t . P .e .. of Barello, in the same On the Wl' .o' at db Bt. George's Church, Hanover , of Portland-place, and of High Beach, esex, to Alias Harriet Drew, late of North RUlletoll, in the county of Norfolk. TVIVIN of flr t e Bth inst., tsasßahTteeel:Cexrt,.dliairelergeaedlrtitoordnysoni,nlPl,:ipaiitirdh.casdoboylnileen,rase..e,g(vieis,,ami‘nnlielrarisan.fgteußfwaontahne: on the s Emily, . .... 1 11 1 ! n n O-Pe d ssnd i a n touhtfg h hehl e e: r t thee:fini.).ailoftoiehfnneoltTrthf"h;t',oh:me a l g i e e r . mot h e r 's. " Pro fessions never change the ten per of the mind." Bode, Esq., late of the General Post Office, and Dalston, Bode, widow of Augustus Wan. in consequence oils fitiOxoni the mast-head of his Majesty' s ship On the 6th the in th st e6 . 6 , Rt A he i v r y. s e .. al .,,Tt- r. Pi. 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