The Sun. — London, England, 1828-12-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. We need hardly point attention to a document which will force itself on the minds of our readers, and which,, however variously regarded in some respecid, will by all be considered with deep and anxious interest. We allude to a letter from the Duke of Wellington, addressed to Dr. Cur tis, Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland, in reply to one from that ecclesiastic, inviring, we pre sume, what might be his Grace s intentions re- Lair° to Catholic emancipation. The Duke's letter is that of an honest man ; but there is im one passage a carelessness of expression, which, if his language were construed literally, would present a strange and even ludicrous contradic tion. His Grace wishes "to bury the subject in oblivion for a short time, but to spend that time in a diligent consideration of its difficul ties !" which is pretty much as if the Duke bad said some 18 years ago, " I will bury in oblivion that Massena ,with the French army is before me, and I will take the oppor tunity of forgetting him, to consider diligently " how I shall beat him." But we will not press in this literal manner upon words which may possibly conceal a less objectionable meaning. The intention may have been to express a wish that the question might not be openly and vio lently agitated,—that men might drop it as an argument of popular debate, and take it up as one of calm and deliberative consideration, in which case the Duke does not despair of seeing-. a satisfactory remedy. The furious partisans, we lament to say, have so far succeeded, as to kaise obstacles unconnected with the merits of the question, sufficient to alarm the Duke of Wellington's imagination ; though if his Grace's civil courage bore any just ratio to his decision in the field, we know how he would at once dispose of the " difficulties" created by faction. • In the mean time,' it argues no distinct concep tion of the bearing of Catholic exclusion upon the empire, to meditate the possibility of such a grievance ever ceasing to disturb meds minds hut on its absolute and permanent removal.-- Times. It appears to us that the Secretary of State for the Home Department might, with credit to himself; and with infinite usefulness to the public, bestow some attention on the subject re ferred to in a letter which we publish this day, from ‘, An Inhabitant of Camberwell." The number of burglaries, and the atrocity of the robbers, have increased beyond _all precedent during the last few months in most parts of the outskirts of the metropolis, and for many miles round. The personal outrage which, in some instances; accompanies these ruffian enterprises against the repose of society, as evidenced in the attack on Mr. Warrington's dwelling, is enough to make us shudder for what may befid the most helpless families in these long nights; and it the Government do not consider and pro pose the means of protecting with more effi cacy than hitherto the property which the tax gatherer leaves in the hands of its owners, there IS no calculating how far this capital and its neighbourhood may return towards the state in which it existed before the war of 1793, when burglaries, robberies of the person, and murders, were as certain as the succession of night to sunshine. Nothing, we are sure, can or will be effected for the real security of the public, without the introduction of preven tive principle into our police operations,—with out also some, though not a considerable, iiri crease in the number of policemeir; for let it be remembered, that the whole number under Vidocq, while he commanded the " P o li ce d e Stlret6" did not exceed 18 or 20 men, who maintained Paris in admirable peace and safety. But we must likewise add, that nothing, or worse than nothing, will be done, without holding out to the policeconstables such liberal rewards, and such prospects of gradual promotion, as may in duce them to devote their whole time and ener gies, and to risk without scruple thcir.persons - and lines in the voluntary and unbribed perforM ance of their functions, as protectors of their fel low-citizens from violence.—Bid. Our contemporary, "the Baconian Logician," as the Standard terms himself, objects to our propositions, that the Aristocracy are interested in the maintenance of the Church Establish ment, and that " power in every country will be exercised for the benefit of those who pos sess it." " If the Morning Chronicle (he observes) indeed had said that men generally exercise power for what they deem their benefit,' the proposition, though as a very general truth doubtful (for men frequently,. perhaps most frequently, prefer enjoy ment to benefit), would still have some colour ; 'but then it would not have supported the argument, for a state of things might be supposed which would make it seemingly more beneficial to the Aristo cracy to divide among them the possessions of a sinecure Church, than to leave those possessions as a lottery fund, to provide for unborn sons, nephews, and cousins," We will take the proposition as corrected and modified, without attaching much importance to it ; for in general parlance, men's ben fit means that which most men covet, namely, riches. There are men who are indifferent to wealth— there are men who even prefer poverty to wealth, as giving them a better title to eternal happiness and there are men who are solely bent on pro moting the happiness and comfort of their fel low-creatures, and who have no pleasure in ap propriation. But nineteen out of every twenty men seek to procure the means of enjoyment, and nineteen out of every twenty men would prefer doing the same act for the pecuniary reward usually assigned to it to doing it without the pecuniary reward. Ben fit is there fore sufficiently intelligible, but we have no ob jection to the other mode of expression. If the • Aristocracy of the Empire could agree on any feasible means of dividing among themselves the lands of the Church Establishments of the two countries, it might be their interest to do so, rather ' 6 than to leave those possessions as a lottery fund to provide for unborn sons, nephews,', and couans.” But in the present day these lands could not be bestowed at the caprice of a Sovereign, but must be distributed according to souse general principle. It would shock the no tions of modern times too much, were a certain number of individuals to say we are Hereditary Peers and Boroughulders—let us divide these lands among us, in the ratio of the share of legislative p ower we respect i ve l y p os sess. —The very boldest attempt which durst be made would be a distribution among all Landholders, in something like the way commove are divided. But they who wield political power in this country, and who can manage to obtain the greatest share of the good benefices, do not pos sess one-twentieth part of the laud ; so that it , never could be their : interest to divide the Church Lands among Landholders in general. Again, with respect to Tithes, the Aristocracy could only benefit by a transference of this source of revenue from the Church to themselves. abolition of Tithes in England and Ireland would merely enable the cultivator to bring to market ten-tenths of produce at the rate at which he now brings nine-tenths—that is, it would lower prices to the consumers. Rents would fall in Scotland, because the Scotch Landholder enjoys a bonus of the tithes at pre sent, his tenant paying him both rent and tithe. An abolition of tithe would not, therefore, be nefit the Aristocracy, though it is possible that they, as Landholders, think that it would. " The abstract affection," says our contemporary, of the aristocracy of Ireland for the national Church, however, has not, it must be owned, been acknowledged very gratefully by the Churehma who have had occasion to allude to the matter; from Dr. Swift to Dr. Phelan, the great writers upon Irish affairs have been any thing but grateful for this abstract affection, and perhaps the case of the agistment tithe abolition may be thought to afford them some justification." The above may be true, and yet our proposi tion not be invalidated. The landholder who sees tithe-free land pay so much more rent than his own, conceives that if all land were tithe-free, all land would let higher by the value of the tithe. It is by no means an obvious truth that the abolition of tithe generally would leave rent as it is, though this truth is not questioned now by economists. The Irish Landowners enter tamed the notions of their age. In countri es possessed exclusively by the actual cultivators, the abolition of tithe would be a gain to the land holders; for, uniting in themselves the double cha racters of cultivators and consumers, they would have for their own consumption the tenth quarter, which would otherwise go to the priest. At present the cultivator's interest, as a consumer, is comparatively trifling ; as a manufacturer of food for sale, he must be reimbursed by tithe as well as his labour, otherwise he could not go on. All, however, that we have to do is, to show that the Aristocracy have an interest in the main tenance of the Irish Protestant Establishment, as enabling them to divide more money among themselves than their share of the advantage . which they could derive by any sther appropria tion of the Church property. When this is ad mitted, it will hardly be disputed, that whether the Irish Protestants amount to fifty, or five hundred thousand, or five millions, the Church will be preserved as long as there is a House of Peers, and the Borough Proprietors possess a majority in the House of Commons.—Monting Chronicle. In England (and we suppose it is the same every where else) reason comes always very poorly off when opposed to riches. "hose who are dissatisfied with any practice will seldom suc ceed in making converts to their opinion, so long as that practice is in favour with respectable, that is, rich people. On the other hand, as po verty is universally hated, there is a strong dis position to see in an unfavourable light what is practised by the poor. A reformer will always find people willing to second bins when he con fines himself to the views of the lower orders; and when he ‘lishes to expose the absurdity of any practice in favour with the rich, it will al always be of great importance to exhibit it first in connection with a poor man. If we were to hear that the Siamese or Japanese, or the Abys sinians, piqued themselves on their posses sing the domestic values in a superior de gree, and had female chastity in high admira tion, and were to hear at the same time that a Siamese, Japanese; or Abyssinian Lord, on discovering a deficiency in the virtue of chastity on the part of his wife, coolly drew out a bill for what he conceived the value of the use of his wife, and called upon a Court of La :w to enable him to recover it, we should uo doubt think it wonderful that human nature could exhibit such glaring inconsistency. And yet what is this in consistency, but what is • exhibited every day in England ? An English gentleman discovers that his partner has been prevailed on to allow some other gentleman to participate in the ety ment of her charms. H e d raws up a bill for the value of what he has lost by this trespass on his connubial rights, which he entitles " crimi nal conversation," and he calls upon an English Jury to give him a verdict on proving his case. Foreign nations are not a little astonished at this cool way of estimating the loss of domestic hap piness in pounds, shillings,. and pence, and ri dicule has often been applied to it, w ithout, however, producing much effect in the way of diminishing the general approbation of the prac tice. An Irishman having heard it stated, no doubt, that the English law made no distinction between rich and poor, inid that nothing was so common in England as for rich men to make charges in Courts of Law for the use of their wives, and having, moreover, had the misfortune of experiencing a trespass on his wife, ventured into Queen-square on Tuesday last, when the following proceedings took place, according to a report in a Morning Paper of Wednesday : " Yesterday an Irishman, who gave his name Michael Lawless, presented himself before the Ma- - . gistrate, Mr. Marriott, to apply for a summons against Andrew Jones. " The applicant said he had made out his com plaint in writing, and handed a paper up to the Ma gistrate, stating that he was ready to swear to the truth of every word. " The following is a copy : ' May it please your Worships—T, Michael Law less, have laid a bill before Andrew Jones, which he refuses to pay. The circumstances are peculiar, and as follow : To 11 weeks' washing and lildging £1 9 0 For illicit connection with my wife dur ing the time he lodged with me, and re presented himself as her brother, during which period they abused my rights as a man, for which damage I charge 0 11 0 " This testimony I can make good on oath Si 13 0 MICHAEL LAWLESS.' " No sooner had Mr. Marriott read the above ex traordinary bill, than he indignantly ordered the ap plicant out of the office, who at first attempted to reason with him on the moderation of his charge. " Mr. Marriott—Turn that fellow out of the office; I never heard of such a piece of impudence in my life. " Applicant—Your Worship, I am willing to swear to the facts. " Mr. Marriott (to Gillmore, the chief constable) —Turn that fellow out instantly. Whereupon Gill more immediately ejected the applicant out of the office, who complained in bitter terms that he could have no justice for his wife's infidelity." It is barely possible that Mr. Marriott would feel that a Lord applying for redress under simi lar circumstances ought to he taken by the shoulders, and turned out immediately from the place be supposed him to pollute by his pre . • Bence. Though not fond of betting, we would however bet something that Mr. Marriott's eyes were only op ene d to the indecency of a husband making money by the infidelity of his wife, on seeing the practice resorted to by a poor Irish man. The only difference between the care of a Lord and Michael Lawless that we can see is, that the one goes into the Court of King's Bench or Common Pleas, and submits, through his Counsel, his wrongs to a Jury ; and that Lawless goes before a more humble tribunal, and without the aid of Counsel and special pleader, lays a simple bill of particulars before the Magistrate, and calls for summary justice. The power of the Magistrate to award him damages is another question. The indignation of the Magi strate was not displayed against this blunder, but against the act, which differs in no one respect ex cept the smallness of the damages claimed (eleven shillings being certainly a very small sum for eleven weeks' criminal conversation), from acts done without reproach by the rich every day in the year. Mr. Marriott did not attempt to found his indignation on the smallness of the charges as compared with the means of the de fendant, nor could he know whether the injury to the plaintiff had not affected his domestic com forts as much as a similar injury might have affected the comforts of a Peer of the Realm. His indign a ti on was b ottome d so l e l y an d ex clusively on the Irishman being so mean as to seek to gain by the want of virtue in his wife. It is possible that Mr. Mar riott thinks that the poor ought to have more elavated notions of propriety than the rich, and that his indignation was merely caused by his surprise at seeing a poor man descend from the moral elevation on which he ought to have stationed himself, and resort to the filthy and in delicate practice of nobles and others, whose no tions of purity and propriety are irretrievably corrupted. This is possible. It is possible, also, that the indignation might proceed from an idea that poor people's feelings are beneath re gard—that so long as their bones and their flesh are not injured, they have no right to com plain. He may have felt with respect to Mr. Michael Lawless and his wife's paramour, as a person is apt to feel when disturbed on a sum mer's evening by the amours of a feline pair on the roof of his habitation. We take it, how ever, that Mr. Marriott, like most other English men, would have witnessed cases similar to that of Michael Lawless, exhibited day after day in our Courts of Law, without discovering any thing improper in them, and that his eyes were only opened to the indecency by seeing - it di vested of technical language, and displayed in all its nakedness by a poor blundering Irish man.—lbid. THE LATE QUEEN OF WIRTEMBERO, THE WILL OF HI:It LATE MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF WIRTEMBERG, FORMERLY PRINCESS ROYAL OF ENGLAND. The Will of her late Majesty the Queen of Wir emberg was yesterday proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, by his Ex cellency the Count de Mantlesloh, the present Mi nister from Wirtemberg to the British Court, who is also named as the Attorney Executor, represent ing his Majesty the present King of 'Wirtemberg. The property in England is sworn under the value of 80,0001. sterling; and the Will, which is in the German language, beautifully written on vellum, is dated from the Palace of Ludwigsburg, the 23(1 day of December, 1816, and consequently a number of the legacies named therein have lapsed in conse quence of the death of the legatees. Th - efOlToiVink will be found to be a correct abstract of the several bequests, in the progressive order in which they ap pear in the Will : " Her Majesty, in the event of her Royal Father or Mother surviving her, appoints them her heir in legitimam, with a request that her property thus devolving to them be either immediately, or at least at their Majesties' decease, given up entire and un diminished to those heirs to whom she has be queathed the residue of her property and effects. " In case of her Majesty surviving ber Royal Parents, her Majesty gives the whole of the pro perty secured to her under her marriage settlements (subject to the legacies thereafter noticed), to the legitimate children of the present King of Wirtem berg, her Majesty's sun-in-law, and constitutes them her principal heirs ; but directs the same to be pre served entire and undiminished as a family Fidci Commissum, and that, consequently, her heirs shall not be entitled to dispose of the substance of such property, but shall have only the Usqfruct thereof as an annual revenue." The following are the specific legacies given by the will : " The rings (30 in number), and the drawings which het- late Consort bequeathed to her, are direct ed to be given—the former to the Royal Museum of Arts and Curiosities, and the latter to the Royal Private Library at Wirtemberg. " The Heron Aigrette, presented to her Majesty by the Grand Seignior, Selim 111., to be given to the Royal House of Wirtemberg, to form part of the Jewels of the Crown ; also her late Consort's portraits, but without their mountings; and also the portraits of the Royal Family of England; and directs them to be placed in the gallery of the Royal Family at Wirtemberg. " To his Majesty the King of Wirtemberg she bequeaths the collection of English Translations of Ancient Classics; all the Historical Works, toge ther with the collection called the English Classics, in the Palace of Ludwigsburg; al,q, the portrait bust of her late Consort, painted in oil, by Hetch ; the bust of the Princess Catharine de Montfort, in Carrara marble; a clock in bronze, - representing a standing figure, with a garland of Stars; the Tur quoise, mounted in a ring usually worn by, and which devolved to her late Consort, out of the ef fects-of the late Count Van Zeppelin, senior. " Her Majesty begs the present Queen of Wir temberg to accept, as a token of remembrance, a round table of bronze and marble, with a porcelain slab, upon which is a view of Monrepos. Also a round table of mahogany, with three bronze figures, and a painted porcelain slab, and a family breakfast service of Ludwigsburg porcelain ; also, her chryso lite necklace, ear-rings, and head-band set with brilliants. To her grand-daughter, the Princess Marie of Wirtemberg, a row of forty-two oriental pearls, re ceived by her Majesty as a nuptial present from her late husband ; and also a blue enamelled gold watch, set with brilliants, with a jasper chain. " To the said Princess Marie, or the eldest (laugh ter of the King of Wirtemberg, the necklace made of the pearls and four large brilliants, from the large epaulette bequeathed to her Majesty by her late Consort." To the children of her son-in-law, Prince Paul of NiTirtemberg, she bequeaths as follows : " To Prince Frederick, a large gilt tea-urn and a silver standish. " To Prince Augustus, two pair of silver cande labra. " To the Princess Charlotte, six corn ears in bril liants, and an Englitih tea-service. To the Princess Paul ne, six brilliant corm ears, a silver tea-urn, and a silver toilet. "To the Duchess Louise of Wirtemberg, coffee service of I.udwigsburg gilt porcelain, with a view of Friudeuthal ; also a fire-screen, with a paint ing on tin, after Raphael." The following are the bequests to the Royal Fa• mily of England : " To her mother, the (late) Queen of England, a hair pin in the form of a half-moon set with bril liants ; and also a breakfast service of Vienna por celain, of which the tea-board represents th© Death of Dido. " To his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, his present Majesty, a clock, in an alabaster case, toge ther with four vases thereHnto belonging. To his Royal Highness the Duke of York, a clock, in alabaster, with four vases, mounted in bronze. " To his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, a clock, in bronze, ornamented with Cupid wheeling a barrow, and oho two bronze candlesticks, in the form of negroes. " To his Royal Iliginiefs the Duke of Kent, a dock, in white marble, surmounted by a couchant lion, with two bronze candlesticks. " To his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumber land, two clocks, in bronze, one of them in the form of an urn, and the other in the form of a globe. " To his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, two clocks, in bronze, with couchant dogs. " To his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge, a clock, in bronze, representing a basket of flowers, and two gilt porcelain vases. " To the Princess Augusta of England, a pair of bracelets,having four rows of small pearls, and clasps set round with brilliants, and with some of the . hair under a glass of her beloved parents. A souvenir of gold, with portraits of the King and Queen of England (George the Third, and his wife). A por trait of the Princess Elizabeth, painted by Ethridge. A ring, containing a watch set with brilliants. A head-band of pearls, studded with eleven cross rows of brilliants. " To her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth, one round medallion set with 31 brilliants. " Two cups of gilt Fillagree. " A standish of silver Fillagree. 64 A square pin set with brilliants, containing the hear of the late Princess Amelia. " The portlait-bust of his late Majesty George the Third, in oil, by Gainsborough. • " A small half portrait of her late Majesty Queen Charlotte. " A large flower-piece, in oil, by Baptisto. " A large flower-piece, in oil, by Vanhusen. " And a necklace and ear-rings set with a large chrysophases, surrounded with brilliants. " To her Royal Highness the Princess Mary—a medallion with nine rosettes, containing some of the hair of the late Princess Amelia. " A pair of bracelets with rosette clasps, contain ing the hair of their late Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duehess of York. " A:girdle of three rows of pearls, with thirteen brilliants; 4 - 1(1 an oval clasp set with brilliants, con taining some of th e h a i r o f h er mo th er , th e late Queen. " To her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia— two medallions in gold, with the portraits of the Princesses Augusta and Elizabeth. " A similar medallion with the portrait of the King of England, her father ; and a pair of earrings, with pearl drops mounted in brilliants." Her Majesty recommends the persons attached to her household to the favour and protection of the King of Wirtemberg, hoping, that in considera tion of the circumstance of her Majesty having dis posed of the mass of her property to the house of Wirtemburgh, that his Majesty will be pleased to comply with her wish, by suitably providing for her servants. KENT ANTI-BRUNSWICK DINNER. After our reporter quitted Maidstone on Mon day evening, a speech was delivered by General Miller, too valuable, both in its facts and its com ments to be passed over. On the health of the gallant officer being proposed, General Miller rose and said, " I thank yon for the honour you have done me in drinking my health, and for the hearty and handsome manner in which the compliment has been peid. After the eloquent ability with which the question of civil and religious liberty has been discussed, it would be presumption for me to take up your time at any length. But having spent some years in countries little known, and amongst a people whose habits are not yet familiar to the European, perhaps I shall be allowed to say a few words on the state of religious feeling such as I found it in South America. (Hear.) From the commencement of my career, to the last hour of my residence there, 1 was never once seri ously asked what religion I professed. (Hear.) nor did I ever observe even a defensive sort of bigotry, excepting when it wits awakened by the fa natic zeal of some warm-headed foreigner, ambitious of making converts to his own creed. It is true that the natives follow the cross in processions, as the Londoners -do the guildcd mace at the Lord Mayor's show. (A laugh.) The natives also kneel to Saints, and bow as gracefully to an image of the Virgin as English Peers do to an empty chair on the throne. The difference of custom is, perhaps, of accidental origin. I have read in news papers averse to emancipation, that South America us still the seat of bigotry and intolerance. Ido not mean to deny that both exist there, as they naturally flourish wherever they arc upheld, and fatten upon tithes and thumping surplice fees. In Ireland Pro testant bigotry has made few converts; . in Peru, Catholic bigotry has made greater nominal progre's; but if I may rely on the testimony of some of the priesthood of Cuzco and Potosi, many aboriginal Peruvians secretly practise the rites of idolatry, and still worship the Nun ; and I know myself that they secretly convey to the mountain-sepulchres of their ancestors the provisions, &c. which they still believe necessary for the support of their departed friends. It often happens that the violence of bigotry defeats its own intentions. But 1 can assert that, taking the Spanish South Americans en masse, they possess less bigotry, and that bigotry is of a milder character than that which is to be found in most European countries. I feel authorized to broach this opinion, because my own experience goes beyond mere per sonal observation.—(Hear.) 'When I was made Prefect of Potosi, I was specially appointed to fill up every ecclesiastical office in that depart ment, which, although it does not contain much above 300,000 ‘souls, is of greater geographical extent than Ireland. The Archbishop of Charms acted upon my conge dire, or rather the dignitary who officiated in the absence of the Arch bishop, who, although a worthy Prelate, was frightened at shadows, and decamped upon the ap proach of the patriots as naturally as the owl retires when morning dawns. On the complete revolution of Government, it may be easily imagined that it was necessary to remove many incumbents, as well as to fill up vacancies; and it is remarkable, that as Vice- Patron of the Church in the department of Potosi, I never made one appointment, nor one remoral,ftbat was not aftewards approved of and confirmed by Bolivar and Sucre, both Roman Catholics. (Hear.) Can a more convincing proof be given of Catholic liberality in the New World ?—(Applause.)--To this one practical illustration I confine myself, and I give it as a general answer to that part of the press which does not give to my adopted countrymen that credit for religious liberality which I consider pre eminently due to them. (Hear.) With regard to the political state of these countries, they are under going purification. Though the Governments are feeble, and likely to remain so for some time, the people are becoming more wealthy, more enlightened, and more happy. The country is prosperous, in spite of individual ambition and faction. The General tat down amidst reiterated cheers and applause. : On Tuesday, the oth inst., George Brewer, a young of Woolley, near this city, whil s t ass isting his father in an ash 11 19 years of :s trecwa age, servant to farmer Gunning, fortunately knocked down by the fall, and before be could rise the tree actually rolled over hint, and broke nearly every none in his body, and yet, strange to say, he lingered in most excruciating pain for 49 hours before death put an end to his sufferings.— Bath Journal. An outrage of a gross nature was committed on a fen - isle, in passing through the Phoenix-park some few days ago. The perpetrators of this shameful crime, two men and two wretched women, were shortly after taken into suatedy, at a cellar in Barrack-street, and are folly committed to Newgate for trial.—Saunders' News Letter. Sir James Graham has been most actively en gaged during the whole week in canvassing the freeholders. is success was flattering in the extreme. There is no talk of any opposition. The principles which hare been so successfully advocated by Sir James, are those whieh actuate the great body of freeholders in this county.— Carlisle Journal. clerk. LORD MAYOR'S COURT, Drx. 24. IMPORTANT TO MASTERS AND APPRENTICES, CRAFTER. V. CAMPION. This was an action brought by the apprentice of Mr. Campion, the upholder. Mr. MIREHOUSII stated the case. The plaintiff complained that his master had not performed his engagement to teach him sufficiently the business which th e defendant professed to follow. The de fendant pleaded that he had properly instructed the plaintiff. The plaintiff was the son of Mrs. Crafter, the widow of the person who had for a long period kept the well-known Bricklayer's Arms, in the Kent road. By the advice of her friends she bound her son to Mr. Campion, to whom she paid a premium of .2001. That gentleman promised to teach the young man the whole arcana of the various branches of business which were specified in his card, which designated him as an auctioneer, appraiser,. salesman of goods of all descriptions and denominations, sur veyor, general architect, &c. &c. In fact it held out the most tempting promises to those who wished for a speedy and splendid independence. Those promises were, however, made to be broken--the only business the plaintiff was taught was that of collecting weekly rents from about sixty poor tenants of his master. Of all the rest he was kept in the most deplorable ignorance. The defendant had added to the hopes of his apprentice by stating that as he (defendant) had no children, in all probability the business would in time fall into his (plaintiff's) hands. What now was the condition of the busi ness which had been represented as so flourishing? The sale business had been given up—there was no possibility; under existing circumstances, that the plaintiff could, from his master, receive the reqeired and promised instruction, and, therefore, the object of this action was to procure a dissolution of the apprenticeship. Mr. W. Perry deposed as to having heard the 'defendant represent himself as an adept in all the matters of business detailed in the Learned Counsel's speech, and bore testimony to the assurance that the plaintiff should be instructed in the several branches, and that he would, probably, succeed to the business' of the defendant. Mr. John Elsden, formerly a clerk to the defendant, stated that Mr. Campion left off the sale room besi ness on the 24th of June in this year. During the time he was with the defendant he did not see that the plaintiff had been otherwise engaged than in looking up the accounts and collecting rents. Wit ness could not say that he saw architect business done. at the house, or land surveying, and that there were no more than two or three funerals performed there since witness went there. Did not know what plaintiff got for his 200/. Cross-examined by Mr. BOLLAND.—The action was not brought by his advice. The plaintiff com menced, under Mr. Campion, on the 25th of April last year, and witness saw him from October to June. Witness admitted that there was a defalca don in his own accounts. Mr. BOLLAND—Pray did you write that letter to Mr. Campion (producing a letter) ? Witness—l did. Mr. BOLLAND then read the letter, which sur prised and disgusted every person in Court. It stated that the witness had considered that his de falcation was placed as a set off against his claims; that Mr. Campion had committed frauds upon tile Excise under circumstances amounting to suborna tion and perjury, he (witness) having made out, by Mr. Campion's desire, false returns, to the truth of which the plaintiff had been induced to swear at the Excise Office. The hopeful epistle ended with the assurance, that the writer had kept regular accounts of all returns, and could produce them to some ad vantage or ether. Mr. BOLLAND.--SO you wrote that letter ? Wit nese—Yes, I certainly did. Mr. MutanousE—That letter has nothing to do with this case. . Mr. BOLLAND—Indeed, I consider it most im portant, in showing the jury what sort of person they have before them. A clerk from the Excise produced a book, which was examined, for the purpose of showing that the defendant had bad a very limited number of sales. The dates, however, were very limited, and no in ference could he drawn that the business, although diminished, was net such as would have enabled the plaintiff to attain within a reasonable period an adequate knowledge of the business. The witness declared that he had never heard a Word against the integrity of Mr. Campion, as to the returns made by him at the Excise Office. William Chamberlain deposed that he had seen the plaintiff generally engaged in collecting rents, and had never seen him idle. Mr. nOLLAND, for the defence, asked the Juiy whether the young man had not been extremely ill advised to bring sueli an action as this in the first year of his apprenticeship. Mr. Campion had been represented, for the purpose of exciting a feeling against him, as a complete Jack of all trades,—s man pretending, and without the smallest reason, to as many trades as the celebrated Caleb Quoterb.— (Laughter.) His Learned Friend had laid it on very thickly indeed ; but was there the slightest reason for Objecting to the conduct of Mr. Cam pion ? It was the fashion now-a-days to expect that the art and mystery of trade and professions were to be taught in a moment; that mere children were to shine forth as so many Newtons. Now-a- days boys tied their neckcloths until they cut their ears; and if their masters did not please them, off they went without hesitation to the nearest Magis trate, and talked about cancelling their indentures, and turning away those from whom they were to re ceive instruction. (Laughter.) To encourage boys' conduct of this description was extremely culpable. It was evident that the plaintiff in this case had acted with great propriety. It was in evidence from the admission of the other side, that the apprentice was never idle; that he was always engaged in get- ting up the accounts, or collecting rents; but —be cause be was not yet employed in making sales, or in doing the general business of as upholder, which business his indentures stated he was to learn, it was imputed to.his master that justice was riot done. A card had also been produced, in which Mr. Cam pion enumerated a variety of matters which he was qualified to transact; and it was presumed from that enumeration, that he professed what he was enabled to perform. Mr. Rolland reprobated this uncandid mode of dealing; and said that the apprentice had learned as much as young men generally do in the 4rst year of apprenticeship. He regretted to see such a spirit existing as that which had broken out at the present moment, and he particularly alluded to the conduct of the defendant's clerk, who, if such frauds had been committed as he spoke of, acted basely in countenancing and giving them his support; and, if they did not (and it did not, in the slightest degree, appear to be the case), was guilty of the most un pardonable iniquity, in using so atrocious a threat as his letter contained. The RECORDER said, that this was certainly a ase of the first importance to the community. The lefendant was accused of having failed to commit• nicate the knowledge he had attained, and which he was bound to give to the plaintiff. Certainly the evidence by no means manifested any deficiency upon the part of the defendant. The Jury were occupied in deliberating for some time, and then they brought in a verdict in favour of the master. They at the same time said that the delay in giving their verdict arose from a consideration about the extraordinary conduct of Mr. Campion's former The Jury thought it necessary to request that Mr. Campion, :who was in Court, would not abate of his kiaancss . to his apprentice, on account of what had taken place that day. Mr. Campion assured the Court that there should he no alteration in his conduct towards the young mAn. • A great number of French vessels are going to St. Sebastian and other ports in the Bay of Biscay, to take on board corn for the French markets. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. estAv, DECEMBER 24.--Wind S.W.-- water 48 minutes past twelve.—Arrived tLe rora, Swaffin, from Lisbon ; Anne, O'Neil, - from Nei Corsair, Godwin, from Belfast; Sheffield, Richards, Dublin. CLITARTNA OUTWARDS.--The Napoleon, Smith, New York ; Cochiel, Yates, for Charente ; Uarrisoo, for Bilhoa ; Dryad, Power, for Lislion ; Naylor, for Savannah; Union Packet, Lloyd, Pernambuco. THE MARKETS. SOUTH ALL MA Mt ET.—Dee. 24. At onr market of to-day, which was both scantily plied, and thinly attended by buyers, each kind of 0 0 met with an exceedingly limittd, and a very dull sale, : the following prices per atone of 81b. to sink the offalis:,: Beef 3s. Oct to Is. 4d. 4e. 2d. to sf.' Mutton 1 9 4 6 Pork t 0 3 The foregoing quotations are, Beef from 2d. to 4d. ; Mud 4d. to ttd.; and Veal 2d. per stone beneath those of this days' night ; in prices of Pork no alteration. LEWES MARKEL—Dee. E 3. Beef 38. tkl. to 4.3. ad. Veal Of. Od. to Mutton —..-- 3 T 410 I Pork 4 0 4 A abort supply, and a very dull trade. RUMFORD MA RKET. —Dec. 53 , 1,.. $. (1. to F. d. I Meet' 1 0 4 2 I Veal Mutton 1 4 4 4 Pork Suckling Calres from I la. to 355. • Quarter old Pig g 15, i Supply very limited, and trade exceedingly di H. 4 0 a 4 to 18s. COUNTRY CORN DIARKICTS DIMINO Tilt! Wheat. Bar Joy. Oats. Bei ---- --- --• Per Quarter. 8. to a. 8. to 8. a. to 8. a. I Maralford ...--- 85 -- M 30 Brigg— . 72 '7B 33 36 25 28 36 Carnhrittge--... -- 81 31 21 Chard ------- 56 76 32 39 24 30 42 Huntingdon ...........,. 66 '76 28 39 28 29 33 Long Sutton—..—. 55 7(1 17 24 33 Louth -----....-- 6.5 75 30 34 17 25 38 Lynn .. 63 81 30 40 14 24 38 Newark --.—..... 78 88 33 44 17 20 42 Nottingham . 77 -- 46 28 Peterbountgh ...—.. 55 78 37 40 13 25 37 Plymouth .. 72 88 37 40 23 214 P0ntefract,...,,.,,.,. 80 30 -- 213 Sleafor,l —..-- 76 80 30 33 21 24 50 Uppingharrt .. 76 90 34 4.5 17 27 38 Wisbech .. 6 , 3 80 23 32 18 24 38 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Dec. 23. We bad a fair supply of Grain to this day's market, it would have been larger, if the river had not been swolF, - , with the late rains, whi c h p revente d vesse l s ge t t i ng a rL market. Wheat may be noted 2e. to 4e. per (poll lower than last Tuesday, according to quality and col tioo. Heavy Malting Barley supports the price of week, but the light samples are still neglected, and or no demand for them. Beans and Pease each dull sod and lower if sales were e ff ec t e d. O ats i n b etter dem i; In Shelling no alteration in price. Malt dull sale. Flour no alteration. Rapeseed is held at more enon t i' het the crushers are not free to purchase at an advance. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, (301 b. ....... 713. to 566. - York. and Lincoln. 001 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding —.. 34e. to 366. Beans 631b....»....»....»..... 40e. to 458. Oats, Potatoe3ls. to 30$11 —,Mealing, Foreign 15d. to 1510....Englieli 15d. to 16d. Prol , Shelling Rapeseed, English, 2SI. to :30/. Foreign, —4 to —l. pe!"0 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Dec. 23. •I, WHEAT, English, Whit e , p er 701 b. - Red y --- Scotch, Welch, and Manx ... ll 0 It ••• ---- Irish, White ............ -- R e d 10 6 If • Foreign lO 6 11 • OATH, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 4 0 4 , a Irish ... 4 0 4'l -- Foreign 9lO 4 0 BAaLIn, English, Malting, per Imp. qu a rt e r., 44 0 46 • Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. ......... 5 g 6 p Feeding 5 3 h , BEANS, English, per Imperi a l quar t er 4l 0 48 0 - Irish, &c. 4 40 2 0 0 40 44 i Foreign PEase, English, per Imperial quarter • 4B 0 51 o -- Foreign FLomi, English, per 2801 b. 6O 0 64 - Irish OAT,OI RAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs Ismax CORN, per 4401 b. RYR, per Imperial quarter 40 0 MALT, per Imperial quarter I NI FORT OF GRAIN fo r th e W ee& en di ng Dec.o2-e stme d ; Wheat.l Oat. I Barley. Flour. Loads. Qrs. (jr. s Qrs. Ik'oreign, Brie 'lrish, &c. &Jail 3,7 17 11,!_i20 6,715 287 1,120 1 2,970 ______.......... MANCHESTER CORN. MARKET.-Dec. 9 0 . The unexpected adva n c e i n M ar k-l ane , o n Friday bir o ' with a confirmation of th e same on M on d ay , gave ne w - to the trade in this and our adjacent markets, and eoo l4 very consider:hie purcliale6 were made in the early part of, the week, at an advance of 6d. on Wheat, and 2d. Pe ( bnshel on Oats. The animation manifested in the Oil part of the week, has, in a great measure subsided this MI and the business transacted has only been on a limix" scale; and the advance above noted unobtainable. Customary Bushel. Quar, of 8 Imp Wheat (701 b.) a. d. to R. 41. a. d. to a. d. English, Old .......11 6 12 0 82 9 86 4' _Fine New—.-..... 10 9 11 6 ert 4( 82 9 —Second Ruins —.lO (i 10 672 0 75 7 Scotch & Welch 11 3 11 9 81 0 84 7 Irish, Fine Old ....-.........12 6 11 0 75 7 70 9 New . .... lO 4 11 0 71 4 79 2 Inferior -...--... 9 4 9 61 07 2 (56 4 ' Foreign Free... 11 6 12 91 82 9 87 7, Barley (601 b ) English, Fine --... 6 3 Irish —lnferior for.grinding 5 0 Oats (151 h.) English, Fine P01and...,,,,,. 4 4 Scatch, Putatoe ---..... 4 3 Irish, Inc Mealing -....—.. 4 2 Procender.--.. 4 3 Foreign, Old----......... 3 10 Pease (Imp. Mush.) Blue, (boilers). '7 6 8 0160 064 0 White (ditto) --- 6 0 7 I) 48 0 56 0 ~ •it. deans (Imp. Qr.) s. d. to s, d. (Per Sack 2801h5.) a, d. to& English, Fine.......... 49 050 0 }lour , Norfolk and 6 0 lnferior... 48 0 4,9 0 ' Suftblk,Fine 5 9 0 0 0 Irish, 01d................ 4.3 0 44 0 --- Yorks.,Flne 58 0 -, 0, F0reign,..,...,,.,.,,..,., 47 0 50 0 Seconds 48 0 a 0 Malt (per load of 6 Imp. Bush.) ,---- Irish,k'ine,, 59 0 6 1 a .. Nottingham, fine- 50 0 52 0 --Superfine ((3u to 0 Y0rk5hire......,._,...,, 46 0 50 0 —Heatedor stale 50 0 Irish and Inferior... 36 042 0 Per load of 2101 b. 31 8 Per Sack of 9801 b. Imp. Oatm ca J,E ng li aa .,„ 36 0 O, Flour. Notts. Fine 59 0 61 0 —Scot c h & I r i s h 35 0 ~ 0 Sup. 63 0 61 0 .---- Feeding 26 4/ jf, 130 1). ,04 o t 34 no el PF go 9. 6 9 6 0 5 3 43 4 W 9 31 11 41 7 St 8 36 4, 4 7 4 6 4 4 6 4 3 32 11 34 31 8 33 7 31 1 St 11 31 8 33 7 28 7 31 fk, MANCHESTF.R SMITHFIELD—Dec. 24. At per lb. sinking the °MI. 3,017 Sheep 4d. to tip. 25 Calves... 8.22 Cattle . 0 402 Pigs 54. to 11' ISt A NCHESTEft POTATOE MARKET.—Dec. 20. Potatoes, ss. SM., Oa. Od., and 7s. per load of 12 score 1. - ; New ditto, Os., Oe. Od., and le. Od. per ditto; Tur n i F. ; ss. Pd., 6s. Od. and as. dd. per load of 16 pecks; Onions, 14e. v" 151., and 15e. (id. per 111 score. MANCHESTER TAR No. d. d. Throstle Twist, 20— IC to i )3 131 40..,151 MulecopTwisti for watp,—.s `" lla 12j 40..14 15 50...1711 20 01-20 22 70-23 26 80,-r; 30 MARK. r.—Dec. ▪ 30....,.,,.1 40 17 5 1 -- 11 CO—,— 1 70,--. 19 80 22 100 -- 28 .120 94 10 '7 14 --- le 9 24• ---.10 Mult?Cop Wett,." Weft fmm . waste ...: IKAAKETS.—Dec. 412. Oatmeal, per at. 28. Od. toed. Peasemeal 2 0 2 Pot Barley, cwt IS 0 20 Pearl ditto 29 I 24 Grey Pease 9 0 10 ; White ditto 0 0 16 v Blue ditto. 0 0 16 • I.IOP INTELLIGENCE. Woactexaa, Dec. 24.—The sale coulinnee ,lack' Iricee remain as before ; fine Hope scarce. —0! rf Vrr GLASGOW RETAIL - Beef per lb. Os. sd. to Os. Bd. Mutton 0 4 0 7 Veal 0 7 0 9 Hams 0 5 0 7 Lamb......perqr 0 0 0 0 QuarternLoaf: 0 11 0 0 Flour, per stone 9 0 2 Rya 1 6 1 8 L. 33 38 $ fg 38 38 42 :0 ei r ;7 t41(4 . •' 50 a 38 5 38 BIRTHS. T • avisteek-einare, the lady of On the 24th inst. n. Con-burn, Esq. of a son. On the 21st inst. at Farnham, Surrey, the lady Capt. Alexander Brown, of a daughter. On tho 20th inst. in Cnmherland-street, Fortmal'' sqnare, the lady of Dr. Harrington, of a eon. On the 20th inst. at Dirbain Rectory, Gloucestershir e ' the lady of the Rev. William S. Robinson, of a daughter' MARRIED. On the 25th inst. Mr. James Hopkins, of LAM° Conduit-street, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. 00 0°4 Young, of Islington. On the 11th trthr Jo Ale . th inst. at Edinburgh, Lient. John Du man, Bengal Infantry, to Mary, only danghter a the late A. Macdonald, Esq. of Laig, Inverness-shire. DIED. On the 24th inst. at Brighton, Sir Hutton Col t, Bart. Groom of the Chamber to Isis Royal Highness Or , Duke of Clarence, M.P. for Dartmouth, and Lieut.-C° ll of the 2d !gamma Militia. At his father's hones in Goewell-strect, aged 10 yeo r : And seven months, Edward, youngest son of Jotter Clarke, Esq. On the 24th inst. aged 19, Margaret, third s ti rvivitig daughter of the late Germain Lavie, Esq of Frederiek .v place. On the 23(1 inst. at Potter's Bar, Middlesex, Ameli 4 Mullora, daughter of F. P. Traps id, Beg. On the 2241 inst. at Leamington Spa, the birth-daY her father, aged 18, Elise, the beloved and a miabl y slaughter of Mr. William navel!, of that place. ---------- PRINTED and PUBLVITIED by 'IMMO YOUNG, al v SUN Or'WE, 112, &MANI), LOW:ON. 4 Pc To b o or t J an ttat after, POU I:lottii as ref tivi;l sth 1 This i L. A Pm POOO CIOI Ilion, of di, kohl I dot A AI - N. Mai;' Oh ft Tr,v ing nerir Grai land. Mat of ,, ggli p.Ol 0 I 'ln Fi Ono to th tii vi ii ec fo ti T' Sat dared oft fol I' an