The Sun. — London, England, 1828-01-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We received last night the French papers of Sun day. They contain no news; but as the late Ministry, after their disappointment at the electoral colleges, and " tottering to their fall" by the shock of public opinion, ascribed their unpopularity and misfortunes to the influence of journalism, it may be of some in terest to state how that sovereign dictator is dis posed to view the merits, or to decide upon the fate of their successors. All the papersbegin their com ments on the Royal decrees for changing the Cabinet with a burst of triumph at the defeat and dismissal of M. de Villele and his colleagues. Of the new Cabinet they speak variously, but none of theta with any unalloyed satisfaction or assured confidence. The Journal des Debats —which seems displeased that the fruits of the victory which its exertions so mainly contributed to gain, should not have been ex tended to its friends—speaks of the new Cabinet with formal respect, but no cordial regard—with affected hope, bnt no real confidence 6. Willing to wound, but yet afraid to strike, "Just hints a fault, and hesitates dislike." "In a representative Government," it says, " power is a redoubt on which victorious opinion takes its position and hoists its colours. Those who are willing to adopt those colours present themselves and offer their adherence and alliance. If the new Administration has no banner, who will present themselves ?Ifthey have, where will it be displayed?" it then makes out that in neither Chamber can the standard of the present Ministry be supported by an arm calculated to inspire confidence or at tract adherents. Among the Peers, the Cabinet may be defeated by the ne w levies ; and among the Deputies, the three new Ministers, who acted under Villele in his most unpopular measures, are not likely to receive the support of an assembly elected expressly from a hatred of his administration, and pledged to resist his policy. After developing far ther these ideas, the journalist of the Debats ex presses his belief that the Cabinet is not definitively formed, and hints, if it is so, that its existence will be of short duration. The Constitutionnel, which may he regarded as the accredited organ of the Li berals, the party which has gained most in the late struggle, expresses a more decided opinion against some of the members who compose the new Ca binet,—men " who share the power—whose most scandalous excesses they approved under their pre decessors." This liberal journal adds, that the com position of the Ministry is such as to offer no secu rity for a long existence. The grounds on which rests this opinion are similar to those which we pre sented in our leading article of yesterday, and which ; therefore, we shall not repeat. The Quolidienne seems uncertain what to say, though it is easy to see that it is dissatisfied. It tells us, that if the present incomplete Cabinet do not receive an accession of Royalists, it is not likely to command a majority in the Chambers. Thus, without some reinforcement, the fate of the new Ministry is sealed, and its days numbered, lw the formidable authority of that join nalisnz which is alleged to have destroyed the last.— The Governor-General of Laid is cot yet de parted to take upon him that high office, which no one doubts his Lordship will administer in a man ner to increase his own well-established reputation, as well as to promote the interests of the empire. The delay will, it is rumoured, afford opportunity to make a change in the situation next in importance, if not in dignity, to that of the Governor-General, which change is thought necessary. Lord Mande ville was to have been Secretary to Lord William Bentinek ; hut some dread of the Secretary's zeal for proselytism sprang up. It was said that the tranquillity of our West India possessions had been Sjeoparded by the indiscreet ardour of missionaries; tnd who could tell what mischief might arise in the East, if religious opinions of a particularly strong east were there diasetniumed tinder the appearance of authority ? We believe his Lordship was inter rogated on the subject, and frankly acknowledged his views of converting the Flindoos; the suspicion was thus confirmed, and the fear, as those who en tertained it thought, justified. Lord Mandeville, therefore, we believe, does not go out to India as Secretary to Lord William Bentinck, or in any other eapacity. In his Lordship's baggage, we believe, there has been since discovered an immense mass of tracts, of which the best .description is, that they were certainly not bought at Carlile's, in Fleet street. For ourselves, we look to the sure word of prophecy, and thereon found our conviction that Gospel truth will overspread the earth ; but the " times and seasons" a superior Being " bath kept to himself;" and nothing can be more dangerous in a political point of view, or more rash in a religious one, than any attempt to anticipate that event by means merely human ; arid more especially to pro duce conversion to a peculiar sect, whose opinions, operating upon the ignorant subjects of a warm climate, might inflame them to an incalculable de- The Gazette of last night announces the appoint ment of Mr. Gordon, hitherto our Minister at the Court of Brazil, to the same office at that of Madrid. There is not a diplomatic station in Europe which ealls for more effective abilities in a British Ambas sador than the Court of Ferdinand VII. Mr. Lamb did his business there with masterly sagacity, and hie ,successor has, we are given to understand, afforded proofs of talent and penetration at Rio de Janeiro, which yield a fair promise of success upon the scene to which he is now promoted. If Eng land has in former tintes been a sufferer from the profligate or imbecile abuse of patronage which sent so many wig-blocks of the aristocracy to watch over her interests at the head quarters of her political enemies, we trust that the evil precedent will be no longer followed. Men of natural acuteness, of amiable manners, of solid and diversified experience, of perfect knowledge of human character, of incor ruptible honesty and unshaken courage, personal as well as moral, are the proper subjects for diplomatic trusts ; and we are glad to obeerve among the most ::mportant of the late appointment several persons with these essential qualifications.—/W, It is not so easy a matter to make a Ministry in this country as it is in France. The French are without those privileged orders, which make Go vernment Bo nice an affair in England. If a French Monarch p oesesses only sufficient common sense to avoid cramming his partiality for Jesuits down the throats of t h e nation, nothing so easy for him as to name a Ministry which shalt have the assent of the t wo Chambers. The French Execotive has only to esonsait the feelings and inclinations of tip: body of the people to be. invulnerable. A French Minister may be an honest man, an d if his master understand his true interest, he w ill se lect a Minister possessed of the confidence or the nation. -But in England a Ministry have a more difficult task. They have to please the people, and to please the enemies of the people at the same time. H onest they cannot be, or cannot be long. A certain share of character they must have, becaiiee a certai n s h are of popularity is necessary to the carrying on of th e Government. Again, a determination to conduct th e affairs of the nation on principles which s hould have reference to t h e good, of the nation pnly, would soon array against a Ministry all those who poss ess Par liamentary influence. It has beers observed, that a popular Administration in this calaMtry can afford to be more honest than on; which is not popular, inasmuch as it is less under the necessity .)f expending the resources of the nation in obtaining majorities. We know not well what to say with regard to this proposition. An old established Mi nistry may inspire both King and Parliament with a certain degree of awe; and from the prestige insepa rable from long possessed power, may feel a certain degree of independence of particular individuals.— Hence the honesty and firmness displayed by the Administration of Lord Liverpool for some years before his political demise. It would have been too hazardous an atiair either for his Majesty or any junto in Parliament, to disturb an Administration so firmly seated. It was a feeling of this power which led the Administration in question to venture on so many measures in its latter years which at an earlier " period, would have been its death-warrant. But when we say that a popular Administration can af ford to be more honest than an unpopular one, we are supposing an Administration already firmly seated and secure, not only of the' people, but of the suffrages of the two Houses. 'lt is one thing to op pose aMinisteralreadyfirmly seated, and another to op pose a Minister of recent appointment. Now we fear that in a recently-named Administration, the very Ito • nestywhich would entitle it to popularitywould deprive it of support in Parliament. Those who command votes know well that the interest of the people and their own are at variance ; and though they might not dare to oppose even the public-spirited measures of an old Administration, they would be almost sure to attempt the overthrow of an honest Ministry of recent formation. If the King, and the Ministry were, indeed, to be identified, there might be a bet ter chance of success in the attempt to conduct the Government on honest principles. But then the King and the Ministry must be agreed as to the principles on which the Government shall be con ducted, and the patronage of the Crown must be disposed of in such a manner as to strengthen the Ministry, and not to weaken it. The idea of ob taining favour through any other hands than those of the servants of the Crown, necessarily unnerves an Administration, and invites to opposition. The higher ranks of this country require a lesson, and they will receive one ere long. The patience of the people seems to tempt them to a somewhat too open display of the beauties of the British Consti tution. They" forget the libraries of useful know ledge—they forget that there are now no longer any Church or King mobs, not bought with a price. An honest Minister may find it difficult to obtain ma jorities in Parliament; but an attempt to carry on the Government with regard to the opinions and feelings of the nation, may, at this time of day, lead to consequences of which they do not dream.— Chronicle. One of our Contemporaries, in noticing the Re venue Account just published, has inserted the fol lowing remarks : " In looking at it for the Quarter only, we are sorry to observe that there is a Decrease in Taxes, deriVed both from the Customs and Ecise. Together, the Decrease is a quarter of a million, which, if continued at the same rate through the year, would be a million a year. This does not look well, because the Revenue principally depends on these descriptions of taxation ; we rather think, therefore, that the old plan, to a certain extent, must be had re course to—of taxing many imported commodities much higher than they are at present taxed ; for instance, wool, cotton wool, raw silk, and other things. The three things that we have named, would bear a much higher tax than they bear at present." We pass over the first part of this statement, wherein we are informed, that " a decrease of a quarter of a million in each quarter would be a mil lion a year," and proceed to notice that part of it which:would seem to recommend " higher taxation on imported commodities, for instance, wool, cotton wool, raw silk, and other things." The readers of the paper alluded to, must, of course, infer from this statement, that the deficiency arises in consequence of a reduction in the duty on these articles, when, in fact, the circumstances are precisely the reverse of this. Our Contemporary has coupled the Ex cise and the Customs together, and, in consequence, a decrease appears upon the total; but, if Ave look at , the Cnstoms separately, it will be found that there is only a difference of about 11,000/., and that not arising from a decrease in the consumption of any one of the articles alluded to — indeed, during the last Quarter, duty has been paid on a larger quantity of Cotton than was ever before known in a similar period,—but chiefly upon Sugar, upon which there has been less received by about 120,0004, when compared with the corresponding Quarter of last year; so that the excess of duty received upon those and other articles, has lessened the deficiency that would otherwise have occurred, from 120,000/. to 11,0001. Nay, further, Sheep's Wool, Cotton, or Silk, are not, nor indeed is there any other article but Tea, subject to a duty of Ex cise on importation, and it is in the Excise only that any deficiency worth noticing has occurred. But, to . place the absurdity of these oft en repeated statements of our Contemporary in a still clearer light, we sub join an extract from the very same paper, published only a few days since : " It would appear, from a variety of accounts received from the United States, that the manufacturing of cotton ' (roods is making rapid strides. We should not be surprised, if, in a quarter of a century, the United States should net only be independent of us, so far as cotton goods are con cerned, but also, if the United States became a great ex porter of cotton goods, even to the United Kingdom itself. That part of the world is the seat for cotton in a raw state, and, therefore, why should it not be the country for cotton goods ? Already, the United States' people beat us in coarse cotton (roods, and this is owing to the very cheap rate at which they can be manufactured, by means of machinery, which we have heard is almost equal, if not quite equal, to our own machinery." We are far from coinciding with our Contemporary in the view here taken of the subject; but this is not the first thing of the kind put forth by our Con temporary, so that, while every file of Foreign Papers is ransacked to find matter which would make it appear that nothing but ruin and desolation is in store for our manufacturers at home, our Con temporary is diligent in recommending those mea sures, which, were they to be pursued, would of course render our own manufacturers unable to compete with the foreigner, whose burthens, in otherrespects, are comparati►•ely light. But, to return to the sub ject which we set out by noticing—our Contempo rary proceeds to say : " The Increase in the Customs for the year was 625,000/., but the Decrease on the Excise was 779,000/. There can he nothing congratulatory said respecting this Increase on the Customs, because the Decrease on the Excise more than counterbalances it. A Session or two ago, a certain part of the taxation was transferred from the Excise to the Customs' department. This is transferring accounts for the increase of the Customs and the decrease of the Excise. Our Contemporaries do not seem to be aware of this trans ferring." We could have pardoned the writer of this article, had he simply contented himself with taking credit for a discovery at once so acute and consolatory. But it is somewhat whimsical to find this gentleman imputing ignorance to the rest of the London Jour nals, when he states, " our Contemporaries do not appear to be aware of this transferring." We have only to observe, that the transfer of the•duties al luded to took place on the sth April, 1825 ; and, as in the years 1826 and 1827 the duties have been collected in a manner precisely similar, and the sub ject under discussion is the comparative increase or decrease of each individual branch of the revenue, we confess ourselves at a loss to conceive why an ex cess in any one should account for a difference in the receipts of another, part of the public income. We have before stated that there has been no excise duty on aey article imported since sth April, 1825, except tea, and the increase in the Customs clearly shows that the consumption of foreign produce is greatly augmented.—New Times. If a man's knowledge of the nature and extent of a disease is to be judged of by the remedies which he prescribes, we should say that the Doctors of the Home Department, in the mode of cure which they profess to adopt for the manifest defects and errors of our Police system, betray a miserable want of knowledge of the disease, and aptitsele for its cure. When we hear on all sides of an increase of crime, and a total absence of that security and prevention which should be the main objects of such a system —When 'M.' see the most daring offenders bravin g Justice at its very door, and the wisdom and gravity of the Magistracy evaporate i some jaundiced sneer or con t e mptible joke—who would expert that the only reme dy which higher wisdom prescribes for the most defective system which ever slandered the in stitutions of any country is the publication of a daily newspaper, of a confined circulation ? This is miserable mummery indeed—a kind of patching and botching which the veriest hedge tinker would never think of applying to a vessel already full of holes. The public—who pay largely for a protec tion which they do not receive—must surely think strangely of those who can adopt such State tinkering as this. If a man's house is robbed of his plate, or his purse or watch filched from his pocket, how exceedingly farcical must it appear that the panacea which the Home Department pro vides for these evils is, that they shall be made known at the eight Police offices the next morning; by which time the plate has passed through the crucible, the contents of the purse have been divided among the gang, and the watch has been, in slang language, re-christened. But, to increase the apparent folly of the scheme, all discretion is taken from those who ought either to possess sound judgment or are unfit for their sta tions ; and they are actually called upon to divulge, as soon as it comes to their knowledge, every clue, the secresy of which may constitute its main value. This quackery has not, to our comprehension at least, the merit of being even a palliation for any of the evils of our Poliee system. Instead of a paltry placebo like this, the actual cautery should have been applied to the disease. Instead of overloading the already arduous labours of Clerks at Police Offices, with the useless additional labour of be coming Police Reporters, and demi-editors of a Thief-takers' Journal, why was not a Commission' appointed by the Home Office, composed of honest, independent, intelligent persons, to inquire into and state what are the errors and defects of the pre sent Police system, and what the most likely method of rendering it—what it has never yet been—really available to the public service ? Such a Conamission wisely constituted would have shown those whose duty it is to be master of the subject many things of which we suspect they are at present ignorant. — It would have shown them that the present system is, in its workings and details, both rotten and use less; and would convince them in a monient that this project of a daily Robbery Gazette can .be only calculated, in the eyes of the discerning part of the public at least, to add ridicule to injury. A system of prevention is the one thing wanting. Our prt sent Police, on the contrary, is a system of encou ragement.—Morning Herald. The friends of Ministers are we understand ex erting themselves in every direction to inspire the hope, that notwithstanding all that had passed, the Ottoman Porte may yet yield to the demands of the Allies. The signal for these attempts to propagate delusion throughout the Country, there is no doubt, has been hoisted at head quarters, and will there continue to fly, provided the Ministry (several members of which have, as all the world knows, al ready begun to flutter their wings), should not take flight in the meantime, until the first discussion of the Tripartite Treaty in Parliament is well over.— The inducement of Ministers to beguile the nation into this delusive hope is both evident and cogent enough. The character of the Treaty is such, apart from the actual consequences it has produced, as to excite dismay in their minds, when required to sub ject it to the judgment of the Legislature ; it is natural, therefore, that they should wish most anxiously to separate it, up to the time of its Parliamentary discussion, from the disastrous effects which have already arisen, or are immediately threatened from it ; that they should desire to snatch an approbation of the Treaty, in the abstract, and to disguise or put out of view, until that approbation has been given, the war—the war, not for English objects, but for objects diametrically opposed to the welfare and safety of England—in which it has involved the country. And what is the alleged ground of this hope to which Ministers and their adherents so anxiously invite the Nation to cling ? Is it that the Turkish Government has begun to show the least symptom of submission ? Let the dispersed Ambassadors of the Alliance an swer the question. No : The only ground is, a vague presumption, which the whole language and deportment of the Turkish Government contradicts, and its fears and its prudence must eventually re strain it from embarkingin hostilities with thegreater part of Europe. It is not improbable however that the Ottoman Porte can see the limits of what it has to fear, and the course which prudence really prescribes to it, somewhat better than its enemies (when they thus build up an argu- ' ment most convenient to themselves upon its supposed feelings) affect to believe. What in truth has Turkey to fear beyond the loss of Greece (which may be as well and as honourably lost by withstanding an unjust Treaty as by yielding sub mission to it), in which England, France, Austria, and every other Power in Europe, with the single exception of Russia, would not have cause for re gret and apprehension in common with her ? And if the other Powers of Europe anticipate that f ur key will in the end submit to injustice and brook in sults from considerations of prudence, may not she more reasonably anticipate that considerations of pru dence will in the end prevail in their Councils, and compel them to check the career of that in justice and outrage with which she is threatened? The argument in Downing-street has been, and is, that the dread of annihilation will compel the Ottoman Government, however reluctantly, to submission ; while the 'argument in the Se raglio has been, and is, that England has a more permanent and deeper interest in pre venting the destruction of the Ottoman Power than any which she can have in the attain ment of all the ostensible objects of the Greek Treaty, and that the power of England is therefore substantially pledged to the preservatoin of the Turkish dominion. In comparing the merits of these two adverse pieces of political reasoning, it is impossible not to allow, humiliating as the confes sion may be, that the advantage is wholly on the side of the Barbarians, or that apart from the consi deration of intrinsic merit, the argument of the Bar barians is the more likely of the two to achieve a practical triumph. The practical triumph of either .depends greatly upon the degree of perseverance with which it is likely to be maintained, and in this respect the chances are altogether against Downing street, and in favour of the Seraglio. The same sovereign will which suggested, can still uphold the argument of the Oriental Sultan; but the Sultans of Downing-street will find ere long, if we mistake not, that their reasonings and volitions are subject to unsparing animadversion, and to effective controul. —Morning Post. . SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL MONDAY, JAN. 7.—High water seven minutes past two o'clock.—Wind E.—Arrived the Lord Goderich, Long, from Bay Chaleur, with timber—Scipio, Harper, from Miramichi, with ditto—Elizabeth, Quayle, from Killough, with grain —Homer, Robinson, from Ballina, with oats—Cameos, Haram, from Oporto, with wine— Hazard, Ravely, from Newfoundland, in 14 days, with oil and fish—Lord Blayney, Stewart, from Cork, with butter and grain—Town of Liverpool, Brett, from Water ford, with cattle—Melamp's, Monteith, from Leith, with sundries—Comet, Phillips, from Dublin, with the mail. — Two brigs off at four o'clock, CLEARED OUTWARDS,---The Huddersfield, R amse y, for Jamaica. A few nights ago, a most atrocious robbery was committed at Dollar. As a young man, o n I s i s way from Aberdeen to Ayr, was entering the villa ge l ate i n the even ing, two ruen.sprung from behind a hedge s and, pre senting pistols, threatened instant death in case of resist auce. They robbed him of 21. I s ., and stripped him o f a suit of new clothes, leaving him in a state of entire nudity. Not yet content, they then knocked him down, and kicked him in a most brutal manner. After he had somew hat recovered, lie walked on a few yards-to the nearest house. His ideas not being yet very clear, when he put his head in at the door, all that he could say was—that he had been robbed and murdered ! The good man of the h ouse was complacently smo ki ng hi s pipe at the fire-side befo re ' go ing to bed. At th e wor d " murdered," his fram e rece i v ed such a convulsive shuck, that he actually bit the pipe in two. " Lord hae mercy on us a'," said he, "how did they do that, man?" The poor man was so much affected that lie could make no rep ly.- His host immediat e l y pro ceeded to give him the assistance which his case required, and in a few minutes made him comparatively ce m f orta bl e . Although the affair drew forth the greater number of the villagers, the two villains who bad committed the robber, escaped.— The Scotsman. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 8. CRAI.IOXD V. CROUCH. This was an action by a certificated conveyancer to recover a fifth part of the amount of his bill of fees and disbursements in respect of business done for the defendant jointly with other persons.—Plain tiff nonsuited. PREROGATIVE COURT, JAN. 8. (CAVEAT DAY,) HOBY AGAINST HOBY AND HORT. Sir JOHN NICHOLL gave sentence in this case, which was argued last term. It was a suit re specting an unfinished will of the late Hoby, of Walham-green, whereby the bulk of his pro perty was bequeathed to his cousin, James Hoby, nominated executor, to the prejudice of Thomas and Daniel Hoby, the brothers and next of kin of the testator. Probate of this instrument was opposed by Messrs. T. and D. Hoby, on the ground that the deceased was of unsound mind. The Learned Judge went through the evidence at some length, and was of opinion that the instrument contained the sane testamentary intention of the deceased. The acts of eccentricity, and the delirium which was the effect of disease, showed no more than transient incapa city. He pronounced for the ♦alidity of the instru ment on these grounds—first, that it was founded upon the whole testamentary intention of the de ceased for years past ; secondly, that the deceased was of sound mind when the will was written and subsequently; and lastly, that the unfinished state of the will,and its want of execution, were sufficiently accounted for. Dr. LUSHINGTON and Dr. HAGGARD, for the par ties opposing, applied for their expenses; but The COURT declined making any order upon the subject. HAWKES AGAINST lIAWKES. In this case, which was a suit respecting an un finished will, altered partly in ink and partly in pen cil, and which, owing to the difficulty and intricacy of the questions, had stood over from last term for consideration of the expediency of some compromise between the parties, Dr. PHILLIMORE stated, that after the intimation given by the Court, every consideration had been bestowed upon the case, and it was deemed by the executors impossible to take probate of the will as suggested,--namely, with the interlineations in ink only. ]3r. LUSHINGTON, for Mr. James Hawkes, was ready to agree to an amicable compromise of the question out of Court, but the executors were un willing. Dr. PHILLIMORE said, that the executors were not unwilling to compromise, but they were unable. Dr. DODSON understood some furthertestamentary papers had been discovered. The KING'S PROCTOR (Mr. Nicholl) had had a communication last night from the solicitor of Fanny Dearlove, and had received some papers in the hand writing of the deceased, which he (Mr. Nicboll) thought it likely would elucidate the matter before the Court. The COURT directed that the papers should be brought in and examined. The case consequently remains for further argument. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jaw. S. In the matter of John _Marsh, an insolvent debtor, who has been remanded for twelve months at the suit of Wm.rßawlings, Esq., upon a verdict and costs obtained for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. In this case, Mr. HEATH having obtained a rule Nisi for the opposing creditor to show cause why the judgment should not be set aside and a rehearing granted, Mr. HALCOMB this day showed cause against the rule on behalf of the opposing creditor. Me read the affidavit of Mr. Reid, in which it was set forth that the deponent, upon serving the insolvent with notice :of trial, was asked by him what he (in solvent) was to do with it, when this deponent told him to give it to his solicitor to prepare a defence, if he intended to . naake one. The insolvent then re marked, thatif Mr. Rawlings sued for a divorce, and was successful, he would marry Mrs. Rawlings. A few days before the trial he met the insolvent, who told deponent that owing to the want of means he could not employ Counsel to defend him, to which no reply was made. The deponent completely ne gatived the statement made by insolvent relative to the promise held out by him (Mr. Reid) respecting the damage s . Th e L earne d• G en tl eman ' the n o b- 4 • served, that owing to his being attorney to the plain tiff, Mr. Reid could not be examined there as a wit ness, and in support of his argument cited a case from Mr. Phillips's Book on Evidence. He then referred to the case of " Jackson" (recently before the Court), who was opposed for words slanderously spoken against the plaintiff by the insolvent's wife, and who was remanded for six months from the date of his petition. The Learned Counsel said, that if such a promise as alleged had been held out by Mr. Reid to the insolvent, the latter might have applied on affidavit to the King's Bench, and moved to set aside the verdict, or for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted : this, however, he had not done. The 'Jury, considering the injuries which the plaintiff had sustained by the profligate conduct of the insolvent, gave a special verdict for 7001. and costs. Mr. HEATH, in support of the rule, contended that the affidavit sworn to by Mr. Reid corroborated that of his (Mr. Heath's) client. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER having consulted the other Learned Gentlemen on the bench, said that the Court saw nothing to induce them to rescind its judgment ; the rule, therefore, must be dis charged. Mr. Commissioner BoWEN and Mr. Commis sioner LAW were of the same opinion, the latter ob serving that the Court must act upon the record be fore it, and not upon any conversation which passed before the trial.—Rule discharged. John Bancroft was opposed by Mr. Woodroffe The nature of the case may be gathered from the following judgment : The CIIIEF COMMISSIONER said, that it appeared to be admitted on all hands that the insolvent re moved himself from Shrewsbury at his own ex pence ; the question, therefore, for the Court to consider was, had the insolvent taken his case out of the 66th section, by afterwards giving bail to the action, and coming before this Court in custody upon a render in discharge of that bail ? The CorrHT was unanimously of opinion that he had not, and that he had no locus standi there. The Court would not dismiss the petition, but allow it to remain on the file ; but at the same time it would make the following order :—That the insolvent re move himself at his own expence from the King's Bench prison to Shrewsbury, and there to remain to abide an examination before the Commissioner appointed to go the next circuit. Mr. Commissioner BowEN and Mr. Commis sioner LAw expressed their concurrence in the man ner in which the case was for the present dis posed of.' HEATING HOT-HOUSES AND HOT-BEDS BY Cowpox's KITTLE.—In GORDON'S kettle, which is heated by a lamp, or by a jet of gass, the heat accumulates between the outer coat and the inner vessel, which contains the water, and by this means boils the water, in half the time required by a common kettle. Might not steam be generated in this way at an easy rate, and made to heat a cistern of water, even though at some distance from it ; or might not a system of circulating hot water in a hot-bed or pit be contrived with a GoanoN kettle and a set of tin pipes? Or, in a green -h o use where there are no flues, might not a lamp, or a j et o f gass, he kept burning night and day, under a cistern of water, which would give out its heat in cold nights in proportion to the degree of cold, and would never become too hot in the day-time? I know that heating frames and green-housea by lamps has been tried both in France and England, without ever having come much into use ; but I think if a mass of heat, if I may so speak, were accumulated in a body of water, either circulating in pipes, or at rest in a covered cistern, the effect would be quite different.— Gardener's Magazine for January. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday John Hodgson, John Edwards, and John Cramp, three butchers, were placed at the bar, the first named person upon a •charge of stab bing, in a dangerous manner, a poor man named George Marget, and the two latter with assaulting him. The complainant, who was too seriously injured to pre fer the charge in person, went last night to a shop in Gil bert's-passage, Clare-market, to purchase something for supper, and was on his return home, when the three per sons charged came behind him, and one of them drove his hat over his eyes with a blow upon the crown of it. The hat was afterwards knocked off his head, and upon his re monstrating with the prisoners, the complainant was told by a butcher who was passing, to pick up his hat and go quietly home. The complainant took the advice, and was proceeding toward his lodging, when he was again over taken by the prisoners, and one of them (Hodgson) ran into a shop, where he procured a knife, with which he pur sued the complainant and stabbed him in the thigh. Hodgson denied that he was the person who inflicted the wound, and declared that he was killing a sheep at the time the act was committed. The MAGISTRATE told him, that in the event of the wounded man's death he had better be prepared with evi dence to prove the fact to the satisfaction of a Jury. For the present he must go to prison, to wait the issue of the injury. The defendant Edwards was then ordered to find bail for the assault ; but as it appeared that Cramp had acted more as a peace-maker than any thing else, and had endeavoured to defend the wounded man, he was discharged. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A foreigner of re spectable appearance, who gave his name Constantine Steck, who has been some days in custody, charged with stealing a bronze ink-stand from the auction-rooms of Messrs. Dawson and Cafe, in Marlborough-street, was brought before Mr. CO ANT for final commitment to New gate upon that charge. The prisoner was fully committed on Messrs. Dawson and Cafe's charge. There were a number of curious documents found also on the prisoner ; some of which showed that he was an occasional public lecturer at the Crown and Anchor and other places, on morals and religion. He had with him passports in the French, German, and Russian languages, and in each of which countries he had, he said, been a resident. MARYLEBONE. —Caroline Cooper, a young girl, was charged with obtaining a sirloin of beef, and a shoul der of mutton, from Mr. Richard Wing, a butcher, at No. 5, Middle-row, St. Giles's, under a fraudulent pretence. The 'prisoner acknowledged her guilt, and was sent to the New Prison for trial. WORSHIP-STREET.—A considerable portion of yes terday was occupied in the final examination of Rowley and Castles, for arson, in Shoreditch ; O'Brien, for steal ing 100 sovereigns from Mrs. Murphy's lodging-house, Gul stone-street, Petticoat-lane; and in the further investiga tion of the case 'of Rowe and Cottrell, for a robbery on Skirrett and Johnson, at the Lion and Lamb public-house, Golden-lane, on the sth Nov. In the first case the following evidence recently obtained, was added Mr. J. Smith, principal clerk of the Union Fire-office ; proved an insurance of 8501. effected by Rowley last Mi chaelmas, on his shop in the London-road, which esta. blishnient was furnished from his house in Shoreditch. In the second case, Mrs. Murphy, who again most dis tinctly swore on the cross to the robbery, added, that the prisoner, in effecting his escape from the house, knocked her down with the shaft of a knife, and wounded her hus band in the eye with the same point of the instrument ; also, that she had been seven years in collecting the sum, chiefly by keeping a lodging-house. That the prosecutrix had communicated the secret of possessing 100 sovereigns, previous to the day of the Tob hery, was sworn to by Margaret Hedger, wife of a cow keeper in Dorset-street, Spitalfields ; and the fact of the prisoner taking money out of the house on the night in question, was corroborated by Margaret Murphy, daughter of the prosecutrix, whom he (prisoner) called to hold a light while he poured a number of sovereigns from a purse, or bag, into his breeches pocket, but she thought they were his own. The prisoners, in both cases, were fully committed to Newgate. THE MARKETS. CITY MARKETS, JAN. 8. PLANTATION SUGARS.—There has been a good attendance of buyers at market this morning, but the business done up to the present hour has not been very considerable; the Importers are very firm in their prices, some ask 'an advance. A public Sale of 120 hhds. Barbadoes went off briskly, and at higher prices than Jamaicas could be bought for in the market; 5,627 bags Mauritius Sugar for public Sale to-morrow are on show this morning, which may have prevented the buyers from purchas ing to any extent in the Raw market, wishing to know the result of it first. FOREIGN SUGARS.—Very little doing. REFINED SUGARS.--There has been a good deal of business doing in Brown Lumps, 80s. a 81s.; also in crashed for the Mediterranean; the Grocers have likewise been buying the descriptions suited to the home trade freely, and have given full prices. CoF FEE.—A small parcel of Foreign by Public Sale this morning, sold at abotkt the previous market prices, viz., good ordinary St. Domingo rather broken, 385., and good ordinary Brazil 38s. 6d. a 395. by private contract, there is scarcely any thing doing. ti FRUlT.—There is no alteration in the prices of any description at present. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Per Quarter. Roston., Grantham —, Grinasby..„...„-- Horncastle—....„.... Hull Lincoln --....... 5pi15by..........—... Stamford,...... Y0rk.,,..,. s. to s. s. to s. s to s. 40 55 24 34 17 25 48 50 27 33 20 28 50 58 25 30 21 23 42 47 24 28 15 21 42 54 26 33 16 26 46 54 27 34 20 26 44 46 26 28 18 22 43 52 25 32 18 31 44 60 26 34 18 30 NORWICH, Jan. 5. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Beans. S. to S. 40 44 40 46 44) 42 40 45 40 44 50 60 36 40 42 45 44 60 Our market was moderately supplied with Wheat to day, but owing to the weather, most of the samples come to hand damp, hence fine dry parcels are a shade dearer, but other descriptions sell slowly at former prices. We had a pretty good supply of Barley offered, the finest sam ples obtained an advance of ls. per quarter, and other de scriptions sold freely at last week's prices. Oats, Beans, and Pease, go off slowly at former prices. Flour is very heavy sale. Wheat (per qr.) 44s. 565. 60s. Beans (per qr.) ....... Barley Oats 24s. 28s. 30s. Flour, fine (per sack) 40s. 425. CANTERBURY, Jan. 5. We had a fair supply of Barley, Beans, and Pease, at market this day. Barley fit only for grinding was Is. per quarter cheaper, but Beans and Pease ruled without alter ation. Our supply of Wheat was remarkably short, but still we had but a limited demand, as our factors asked from 2s. to 3s. per quarter more than on this day week, which our buyers did not feel disposed to accede to, as they expect better supplies. Wheat, white s6s. to fios. red Barley 3ls. to 335....... 01d......... 275. to 295. Oats Beans 36s. to 405....... Old ...... ... 525. to 555. Pease i&s. to 48s. Grey 3E3s. to 425. A BLACK ROGUE.—On Saturday evening, after office hours, an impudent fellow knocked at the door of Messrs. SHEARMAN and FREEMAN, respectable soli citors, in Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn, and presented a bottle of ink, with a bill and receipt for 35. 6d., and de manded payment for it. The female servant who opened the door, said that the gentlemen belonging to the office had gone away, hut desired him to leave the ink and call on Monday. 44 P oo h ! nonsense ," said the fellow, "such things are never booked ; can't you stand 3s. 6d. for your master?" The spirit of the girl being aroused, she imme diately paid the money, which the fellow pocketed, an d marched off: On examination of the bottle, its contents were any thing but ink—it seemed to be some black stuff of a doubtful character. On Monday last, the dead body of a man was found in a quarry adjoining the the Graving Dock at the North H a rbour of Peterhead. There were about eight feet of water in the quarry. From the state of the decomposi tion in which the body was, it was supposed that death had taken place about six weeks or two months ago. No person in that quarter has, of late, been missed ; a nd it is conjectured th at the bod y is that of some strang e seaman. Th e man appeared to be about thi r ty o r thirty-five years of age; about five feet six inch es high; was marked in the face with small pox ; had a short flat n ose ; and w as dressed in one white a n d two s triped shirts ; a grey or w hite worsted co m f orter brown cloth jacket ; dark coloured vest, striped acros s ; black ribbed stockings ; and thin shoes, with small buckles attached to the front of them.—lnverness Journal, MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JAN. 8. THE KING U. SAMUEL NEWELL AND OTHERS. Mr. PHILLIPS appeared for the defendants in this case, who were indicted for keeping a gaming-house. They had obtained a writ of certiorari to remove the indictment into the Court of King's Bench, upon which the bail went to the office of the Clerk of the Peace, where, upon payment of the fees, their re eognizances were discharged. However, the affida vit upon which the certi orar i h a d been obtained hav ing been found defective, a writ of procedendo was gi anted, but the defendants were not now prepared to take their trial; nor, indeed, were there any recog' nizances now, he contended, before the Court, He therefore applied to post pone the t r i a l to next sess i ons . Mr. ALLEY, for the prosecution, was not at liberty to consent to a postponement. Mr. PHILLIPS said, that in that case his clients had no alternative but to throw themselves on the indulgence of the Court, as they were unprepared to take their trial now. The defendants, accordingly, did not appear, and their recognizances were consequently entreated, MOTHER H. This person, indicted by the name of Ann Hodgkins, for keeping a disorderly house in Charles. street, Covent-garden, last Sessions, and acquitted, to-day exhibited, through her Counsel (Mr. Quin), articles of the peace, in the name of Ann King, against Thomas George Hodgkins, the son of Thomas Hodgkins deceased, to whom she stated her• self to be executrix. She also described her r esi• dence to be at 37, Old Steyne, Brighton. The articles then went on to allege, that " on the even' ing of the sth of December last, Thomas George Hodgkins, and a man whom this exhibitant believes to be of a very violent, malicious, and revengeful temper, came into the bed- room o f ! a certain house, situate at No. 15, Charles-street, Covent-garden, which she was then occupying, and without an' provocation, made use of many oorpbrious expres' sions concerning this exhibitanti,#'ihe same tint declaring, " I have owed you a grudge l YerNe tt ely li years, but in consequence of your lite' km4ese to me I thought it was buried, but I find it la's only slept—did I say slept ?—lt has only slumbered, ago is now fresh kindled:with ten times more fury against you. I will be revenged of you." He then put hit hand into his pocket, as if in search of something hewhenwas sh a sg going became ng tokill much alarmed, her, or d a rm oh ed and her some believed bodily he h har m She then asked Hodgkins if he meant to shoot het He replied, that " he had not so much charity 0 her, but that he would make such a spectacle of het to the world, as would make her drag out the re mainder of her life in misery, —that his bosom dk not possess so much charity as to kill her outright. Believing that he intended to carry his threats int' execution, she was compelled to leave the house and to remain out the whole night. " This exhibitant, on the 7th of the same month, Id London for her residence at Brighton. On the evening of that day, Thos. Geo. Hodgkins came t her house, and was shown up stairs by the servant and believing that he then came to put his threat into, execution, she left her house privately, io state of alarm. Finding the exhibitant gone, he tot a Mr. Smith, who was there, that he would 0 1 the exhibitant, and have his revenge ; and that I' would not leave the house until he had seen het and on the following day he declared to Mr. s m itt that ' he world follow the shadow of the exhibitar all over the world, to have his revenge. " On the 26th of December, this exhibitant bein in London, went with a Mr. Stuart to her attorney in Bouverie-street, from 15, Charles -street, Covell garden, to that place. Hodgkins followed her, 1 0 waited until she had transacted her busines; and d her getting into a coach, Hodgkins ran back to hi apartments in Charles-street, and attempted to entt her private room; that she was thereby terrifies fearing that he would have recourse to the most , vie lent measures to carry his threats into execution; e ) therefore attempt e d to escape from him, fron t t ) top of the house ; and although she had patio) business to transact in London, she clandestinely ti turned to Brighton the next morning, in consequent of the violent conduct of Thomas George Hodgkint On these grounds she craves that T. Geo. Hodgkin may be ordered to find suf f icient sureties to kes the peace towards her. The COURT ordered that the defendant eater int his own recognizance in the sum of 1004, with t%t sureties in the sum of 30/. each, to keep the pest Towards the exhibitant. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY.—FanuT, JAL 11. Bottomley, J., Weakey—White Bear, Manchester Gracie, W., Berwick—King's Arms , Berwick Hampten and lthayader —Bear' sHead, Newtown Hoeton and Co., Co., ordesley—Royal hotel, Birmingham Hunt, G., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Manchester Parkinson, L., Dewsbury—ions..house, Wakefield Parry, R., Ruthin—Tow n -h a ll, R u thi n . • •• n e tts, E., Newcastle-upon-Tyne —Tu r f hotel, Newcastle upon-Tyne Richardson, T., Sowerby—Court-house, Knaresborouth Sanders ' J. Bristol—Commercial rooms, Bristol 5mith,...... S., 'Hastings—George, Battle... ..... ................ g g r e o n e t e i r eman sßtreegeet,ntis e P n ar t-r k ciad el , er ba k ker INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO liE DISCHAE6IO Petitions to be beard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's In k mill Jan. 14, at Nine o'clock. Cordes, J., Assembly-row, Mile-end, whit emith Biggins, b h . B rixt on , .: vo gr rce:te n r, a li n a ds m w ps ort tesd h:ca ro i w ic , o p .p ia r n in o t feorrrelnaker Cummins, FGG D er e eu a a : nt l e hne n e , S t. o . 1 . E. ;,Brixton-road, carpenter Rickmansworth, nurserym an Shaw, W., Birmingham, victualler Shirreff, A., Cecil-street, Strand, ma n , K Ro e b n e t, rt i so . n , , So j u , th H ß un an te k r , - Taylor, NV., Ware, • Herts, schoolmaster Thomason, W., Weedon, Nor thamptonshire, Verse-dealer Veary, T., Chipping-Wycollabe, grocer Wilson, G., Kingsland-road, optician COUNTRY.----At the Guildhall at Cardiff. January at Ten o'clock. E ma nc,e, J., Cardiff, vi c t ua l ler and dealer James, T., Merthyrtidvil, victualler Jones R., Merthyrtidvil, shopkeeper John, W., Saint Mary Church, shoemaker Pembridge, D. , I .angattock, Breconshire, grocer BIRTHS. On the 7th inst., Mrs. J. B. B l unddit of Queenhithet a son. On the 7th i nst . at North Bank, Regent's -poly 1 lady of Willi am Bit:hop, Es+ of a son. On the Bth inst., the lady of .1. 13. Heath, E sq ., Bloomsbury-place, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., the lady of George Heald, Esq.t Upper Harley-street, of a son. On the 6th inst., the lady of William Irving, Esq., Great George-street, of a son. MARRIED. On the 7th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Weld, according the Catholic rites, and also at Marylebone New Chug' Michael Milan, Esq,, younger son of the late Mather nan, Esq., of Limerick, to Caroline Louise, yemage l daughter of the klarquis de la Belinaye, of Upp er lurk! street. On the 20th ult. , at St. Peter's church, D orc h ee td by the Rev. Mr. Cl emen t s on, Robert Willis, Esq.„/ Port. au-Prince, to Eliza, second daughter of .t h e Dr Charles Blandy, Esq. , of D ewlish, Dor set On the 7th inst., at St. George's Church, H enover.sciu o H• Murray, o f Piccadilly, widow of the late Copt lf e roij In Paris, Dr.p William English, of the University : . t h e Right Hon. Lady' Maria Gordon, Edinburgh, 62 and of North And Perth Castle, .Scotland, 1,7.01144 Edmund Mills, of Rinfield-lodge, Berke. q to se • J DIED. theOn at Coulsdon, Su rre y, at the house her un cle, ~ it inst., bertLucas, Esq., Elitabeth, e ld est qaugkr Mrs. Winter, of Vauxhall. .) of Leade h a n-street, aged 54. 6th inst., William Frampton, E EL p' in h i s 79th year. Eith inst. at Stratford, Essex, John B rooks. E a rpi ' of ( OtO i nne i t itl l hi l etee 7th inst., aged 26, Jane, daughter of M r . P e te Duncan, of Finsbury-place. On the 2d inst., Major Conroy, in his 29th ye° drowned by the upsetting of a boat, on a lake near Ball] shannon, Ireland. On the 6th inst., at Hill House, Hampton, m aiy , ti‘ wife of Wm. Everett, Esq. On the 7th inst., -at his house, Pierrepoint Lodge, Fug ham, Surrey, Mary, the wife of Crawfoid Davis on , Esil of New Broad-street. PRINT/CD and PUBLISII3II by M. YOUNG t SUN OFR* No. 112, Strinit. 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