The Sun. — London, England, 1828-12-09 00:00:00

MOr El DAY-) for 004 0 and steal' sing aloo; maned 0 r four 02 01 !: Ind robe" le prisoner up a t 11 01 ,, be prisoll" rut., can ed ( ;t excel l63 : illy. nt AnAw' ‘vithiefo,":" )wn by I'' the Cdo rt i :' , ' luty to ;: lips, but iii tine. 1 1 1 ' Mary AO M mling fr°lll. rosectttri/,.",1 eat by prisotio r kt t with bi l) her of ‘ the utb to the !r era! pregr. stun had i)e dejt o to O A edge isoner• , a Jo a : tintl ej On tt PO Pc-„ - n 2 ,0°641 all its p°. and Or u p: rgh .0"13 F AW INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. IVELLISLEY V. DUKE OF BEAUFORT. r • HORNE; WEIS instructed to request the Court's Nisision that a petition in this moo, with respect 4, ' l4 hat we ? to be done with the children for the it Y,Y, might be in his Lordship'E raper for Tilers ''seave &ranted. L! t ft . IN RI KINCI, A LUNATIC. • MtiIITAIARFT.i stated that a reference had been i4 l e to the Master iu this Inett , r, to ase.artain ;h e el: the rrilie lunatic llester .hAts:si reported that wa s withinthe mortgagee.l t:na t t c e his brother were equally entitled to the property e t the will; and that the lunatic tl i. petitio n p ra y e d th a t it might be referred back igellaste r to see w h e ther it would be proper that i mortga ge should be assigned, and the Learned ! il l B t ,l apprehended that the Court would have no culty in ordering such an assignment to be made. t pet.t.oner, as the Committee, and brother of the ' 4 ii;. had p a id se v er al large ,i:ms, to the amount of 4 , and h e as k e d that the mortgage money, 5004 ; ; h oner, be paid to hire, instead of being paid into bit, half of which he :vas entitled to in his own rt, The physicians who had attended the lunatic i:. W;lli s and Sir Jaales Tuthill) were very im- TMote for their fees. Alta LORDSHIP considered the Court could not leer intu that question. The Court could not anti- Pat e matters matters of this kind ; its proper and regular 1 4 1 le would b e , t o or d er t h e money to be paid in L laid out. If there was such a pressure for the Z e y, why could not the Committee pass his tee-, _ ts. fi r. Wurrakitisn observed, there was no money to 1,4 /his clie n t if -he did. V$ la LORD S H I P said, the motley. now ordered to be it'd :1 41 1 would then be available. Ai". ia cl Witt;srAttsu expressed his satisfaction, and Ilient wouldimmediately pass his accounts. RADCOCY V. GUNDRY. 4 r..SIIGDEN resumed his argument in this case, ails of which was the removal . of a gentleman .1 1 ,..! name of Chills from being assignee , an the sale that of t f V.yourt would make a declaration that . ? 1 , 4 74 m Cornwall was void. The case, it is thought, 1 'ecupy several days. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. teenusy v. etxteirt.o. ia was an action brought by Mr. Murray, of r ll taarle-street, the publisher of Lord Byron's ,rks, to recover damages from Mr. Limbird, the lblisher of the Beauties of Lord Byron, for having ; I ‘ktli Childe Harold. Oir J.' SCARLETT appeared for the plaintiff, and I BROUGRAII fur the defendant. SCARLETT said that property of this kind i ii i7Yretected by the Act of the 43d and 44th thorge 111., which conferred the exclusive 111 1 11 ht.. of the copy to such persons as the ate te: might convey it to for the term of four -411 years, and if at the termination of that 10 t1 the author was still living, then for a further k11t 7, " of 14 years, or during the lifetime of the 40 r, if the seine should extend beyond the term pyears. The saute acts which gave to the author ia copyright were also conferred upon those to ) I ° l ' l he might think proper to convey it for a va „, 'e consideration. There was perhaps, no de- QPtiou property so liable to be pillaged us that yo l_opyright, and more particulaily so when the 1 „ 141 1.4 s happened to be extremely popular, as the case in the present instance. Mr. th Wray, anxious to gratify the means as well as taste of the public, had published a cheap bq which he had conveyed the right of to other tico. The defendant had published a wor k en- , " The Beauties of Byron," iu which lie net Z'Y made very copious extracts front some of the jet poems, but actually published the entire of ,e of the minor pieces. Ile understood that the -,fee ee would be that parts only were giveu, as they Illy were given in other publications, but that , fur could not avail if the whole of any particular were published, nor indeed could such pas lire as were inserted in the Beauties of Lord 1 04 ton be considered as fair extracts, comprising they did the whole of the most popular parts of 1 6 1 .hest poems of Lord Byron. Such a mode of extracts must have a tendency to injure the Zl . of those works from which the extracts were Nee ; and for the damage thus sustained, as well bb to prevent the continuance of such a e y stem, present action was brought. t fir. linovonAxt said, that as the entire of some of : 4 , minor poems had been copied into the" Beautie s L. ' Lord B i ros)," he felt that he could offer no valid 7euee to the action, lie had, however, a proposi. 7 11 to make, which, if accepted by the other side, 7ould prevent the necessity of carryiug the present oceediugs any further. The speculation of pub- E s _Lieg dorm Beauties of Byron was a very bud one th e defendant, and could sot therefore be very toductive of injury to the plaiuti'f. They did not ' ll 4ll l to have suited the public taste, for they had :t sold. The defendant, therefore, would agree to r ° up the remainder of the impression which had been sold, and to give up also the stereotype p lea of the work, provided the ple.intiff would se, 'Pt of a verdict for nominal damages with costs. ti Lord T E NTERDEN said, he thought the propoei vvas tt reasonable one. Sit J. SCARLETT upon the part of the plaintiff, Zelaented to accept of the terms, and a verdict for pliiutiff was according taken, with the nominal Ntua ges of one shilling. There was no other case of any public interest ' this COURT OF EXCHEQUER. LALEW.iII FIEBAY••••-•TROTTIC A. V. QALLOWAY.I 3 ilr. JERVIS, sun. (with whom was Mr. THERSI 4i) stated the case.. It was an action brought for 1 3 417,me of enforcing the exclusive right of a Mr. t utwel, whose tenant the plaintiff was, to the rY across the Thome', between Chelsea in Surrey, m'd Laleham in _Middlesex. The question was of %) usiderable importance not only to Mr. Hartwel, l 'ltt to the public in general—of importance to him respected his.p roperti, and to the public, as it 41 %Ilred to them a constant mode of conveyance It 'toss the river in that populous neighbour '`oal; for if the franchise of the plaintiff were It!ecessfully rtv.isted, it would not be worth 14 while to continue the ferry, and the public *Quid then have to depend upon the precarious qtendanee of watertnen and others, who, as they ( ' (4 lld have no means of shelter on the bunks of the ti h`r, could not be expected to ply at all hours. lt 11 ,Ao. unnecessary in a case like the present, where the parties were cot contending between them f 41 ' the right of ferry, but wher e the de ' , Ildriat merely denied the right of the Plaintiff, that .the plaintiff should go into evidence the original grant from the Crown. It would be l tialeieut for him to show that the right of ferry had ;leen out of the Crown for many years, and t hat it gad come from those who had possessed it, so-far as 1 75, Lae the hands of Mr. Hart wel. It would 'Ppear that the right of ferry and toll at Lalehara grin been then conveyed to Sir James Lowther, that k passed throu g h the hands of others of his family, stibsequeutly became the property of the late 4 4, ettersall, of Hyde-park-corner. Upon that btatleman's death, his estates were sold, and the ferry i n question, with other property, was pun. 'Las t ed by Mr. ll,artwel. It was difficult for the 'Learned Gentlemen to anticipate the nature of the defence about to beset up by the deft:Amt.. If the qufeace was that the right of Mr. IL had, froar time to t iwe, been resisted, he would clearly show that the ikrgee se resistiug bud been proceeded against at , 4 tw. One of these, a man named Ileitis, had suf 'uteri judgmeut to go by default; he was sent to Ilison for the costs of the action, and on coming °kit under the Insolvent Debtor's Act, he again 101111 110 )(4.d carrying persons across the ferry for 4 , ire. Another action was brought a g ainst and the Learned Gentleman believed, that h e wa s again sent to prison ;—at all tYetite Le sold his boat to the present defendant for about one-fourth of its value, in order that one Gal loway might conrinio. ;be ,vl-,ich he himself had been compelled to r Ai.fish. The Learned Gentleman said, that the plaintiff, Or ber his land lord, Mr. Ilartwel, was placed in a very embarras,- ing situation, it was his bounden du: v to maintain a proper ferry at Lalehani, as it was :lie imperative duty of every man who Lad a tiimil,u franchise, and he was amenable to the law if he neglected doing so, but yet the defendant and several others in the neighbourhood had combined for the purpose of depriving him of the profits of that ferry, which was very valuable, as it -was the..ouly commu nication between the opposite tides of the Thames from Chertsey-bridge to the bridge at Staines. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to offer evi dence in support of the plaintiff's case. Mr. TAUNTON and Mr. Coral's appeared for the defe dant. TILE MARKETS.-(TIIIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS—(At per I..ad of 33 Trussed.) ST. JAMES'S. _. C oa rse heavy Lowland Mead How ay £2 oto£2 10 B es t yew Meadow Hay Fine Upland Meadow and tiyo-grass Hay II 5 4 4 Clover flay 8 5 5 0 Oat Straw ..... £1 19 to £1 141 Wheat Straw 1 14 1 IS Straw fs. pee load higher than last quote.); in prices of Hay no alteration. : , upply good. and trade (lull. --- SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy LowlarAl Meadow Hay . £2 9 to £2 10 Bost New "le .dow H.ky Flat Upland Meadow awl Itye-grass Hay 3 0 4 0 Clover Hay (extra tine).. C 5 0 .. Geutirally 3 5 4 10 O a t Straw £l 4to £1 6Wheat mtraw 1 8 1 I'2 A good supply, and a very dull tr4dt ; prices as last quoted. CITY MARKETS, TWO O'CLOCK. SUGAR.--The delivery of Sugar from the West India Docks last week Were only 2,731 Mids. and 182 tcs. and there having been landed but 1,198 hits and 16 tcs., the stock in the Docks has been re duced to 39,311 hhds. and 2,438 tree. The markets this morning are as they closed on Friday, very heavy. In Mauritius there is scarcely anything do ing. A sale of 5,000 bags is announced for this week. Befitted goods are drooping. CONFER.—The demand is still languid. Good ordinary Jamaica hardly realizes 375.; good Deme rara 755. to 765.; fine Berbice appears to be in de mand at a slight advance. TEML—The Company's sale is proceeding with briskness. Congous still on sale, and fetching 2s. 2id. to 2s. Bd. The general character of the sale, as far as it has proceeded, is . a decline in prices on the last declaration. Runt.—The delivery last week was 524 puns. and 48 hhds., 229 puns. of which for export. The present stock is 19,451 puns. and 1,449 hhda. Lee-. wards barely fetch the last quoted prices. Brandy is firm, first mark 3s. Setcas are generally on steady demand, but wit!, out any alteration in the quotations. INDIGO.--The accounts relative to the crop con tinua to be very indecisive. A correspondent of the Calcutta Jolt Bull, received yesterday, says— " It is now pretty well ascertained that the crop will not fall short, of what till within the last three years was considered an average produce." The purchases at present made are on nearly the same terms as on Friday. The market rather more firm. Seemly any thing is doing in Saltpetre, and it re mains at 255. 6d. per cwt. BALTIC PRODUCE.—But little is doing in the Tallow Market, although the prices are rather more firm, viz. 391. 6d.-per cwt. The delivery lust week was 2,800 casks. A large quantity of Tallow is on the way from Russia. Iu Bristles, business is not brisk, and the stocks are considerably larger. St. Petersburgh firsts are from 121. 10s. to 13/., and Okatka from 20/. to 25/. per ewt. Hemp is heavy. COTTON.—The market is limy heavy, both here and at Liverpool, there being less orders for the ma nufacturing districts than almost at any former pe riod of the year. Theme are 2,108 bales of Suruts for sale ou Friday. 'the accounts from India state that the new crop of Cotton was expected to be an abundant one. bursts are from 34d. to 4U.; Benal 4d. to 44d.; Demerara, 7,id. to fid. ; Egyp tian, 7d. to Bd. Hops.--The demand for Kent pockets is rather better. The rig-stations are—Kent pockets, 80s. to 1055.; ditto bags, 80e. to 100 s. Sussex pockets, 71114. to 84s. per cwt. THE APPROACHING ASSIZES AT CHELXISFORD. (From the Esser Herald of this tlay.) Prisoners for trial, -and under summary convic tions, arrive so quick in succession, as to execed precedent. From the first to the sixth instant, no less than thirty-three were received. There are at this time upwards of one hundred names for the ca lendar. _ _ Among the numerous charges is one of a flagitious descriplien, against a farmer occupying at consider able tract of land, named• Robert Pro('lor, a man far advanced in years, and his servant, William Simpson. The crime for which dime persons stand committed is fully explained in a statement which appeared in a Morning Pupae of Saturday last (evidently written by some person well acquainted with the circum stances of the case), and from which we make the following extract : 7 - " At Michaelmas last, Lewis Majendie, Esq. of Castle Hodingham, put off several of his farms, one of which called Park Farm, situate in the parish of Gestingthorpe, he let to a Suffolk farmer. Mr. Majeudie's bailiff, Glasscock, lives at some distance froM the farm, and the men who were thrashing the cora (which of course belongs to Mr. Mejend;e) Were ordered to give the keys of the barns every night to the tenant. During the last month the men have constantly missed corn froM the barns, :which , : circurnstance they told to Glasscock, the bailif ; and last Saturday night the barns were -wateliediand a constable was put into one of them, with victuals, and directions to remain concealed •in the barn until the thrashers should come back to:their work en the Monday morning. The keys as usual were taken to the tenant. About six o'clock on the Sunday morning, one of the doors was unlocked, and the ham entered by two men, whom the constable immediately perceived to be no other than Mr. Majendie's own tenant, and a labourer in his employ. The constable con- • tinued concealed. The tenant and his labourer in stantly set to work, and filled a full-sized skep (a large sort of basket), with thrashed corn from the heap on the floor ! The tenant then said they must not take any mole from that heap then, but that they would look in at the other barn in the course of the day ! They next threw a considerable quantity of unthrashed corn to the tenant's pigs in the yard, and were leaving the barn with their booty, sr hen the constable rushed out from his hiding place and seized them. Fur some time the tenant was so astounded that he could not speak, but us soon as he recovered his voice he attempted to bribe the con stable. lie was immediately taken, with his la bourer, before George Walker, Esq , a Magistrate residing in the parish in which the offence was com mitted, and on 'Tuesday they were brought before the Bench at Castle Hedinghatn, where they were finally committed to take their trial at the Chelms ford Assizes, which are to be holden this week." Among the principal 'charges for trial are six for horse-stealing, one of them for two °fleeces, end also including Abraham Burrell, committed on the 6th, charged With stealing a bay mare from William Lant, of Thurniersley ; four for burglary, two for highway robbery; five fur pig-steeling; six for stealing corn ;. three fur assaults upon constables in the execution of their office; two for the assault on Mr. Greenhill ; seven for poaching; three for house-breaking; one for sheep-stealing; two for stealing asses ; two for unnatural offences ; three for attempts to commit a rape ; ten for stealing ap parel, &e. A young dandy entering, a few days ago, the lodgings of a fashionable opera damseuse at Paris, com plAined to her of the impertitunee of her porti r—" Ei,ad, my dear," said be, " you eliould unquestionably send the ri.is,al about his bupifieas." " Why 1 have °fun thought of it, " replits.l the lady, " but whlt is to be e....?—tide in4n is ktti!r !"—F , ,ret de I:o3),:dres. ROYAL ACADEMY OP MUSIC, AT THE ENGLISH OPERA-HOUS,E At the period that cetton-mills were invented, and tho mighty power of steam adapted to %yolk its cam plicatei and bcautifr.l machinery,. an otdery was raised that the farmer izidustihiiN portion of our fle, ptdation concerned iu the manufacture of this site.. plat. production of nature would be utterly ruined. For a time, certain individuals suffered some incon , venience by the transition from mauled labour to the immensely multiplying. produce of machinery.— Shortly, howeva, the number of persons employed to attend the said machinery exceeded by thousands the • gross number of those who bad formerly been the only spinners of the raw material ! It is far from our intention to assert that the analogy will apply in Coto with the result which the Royal Academy of Music would seem to present to the alarmed mind of certain established Professors of Music in the me tropolis. Of a verity, however, such outcry as that we have alluded to, was got up at the very com mencement of the Institution; and it is not at all probable that it is to suffer any thing ap proximating to diminutiou by the singular exhibition we were astonished to witness yesterday evening.— Of the good and evil attendant upon all such esta blishments much has been said, much more might be added—but we shall at present content our selves with the remark, that the general good must and will overwhelm all other coesiderations. If the Professors of London become alarmed, let them unite, as they ought to do, in generous competition and emulation to excel—such a procedure will soon be understood and properly appreciated. Que rulous complainings, however just they may be in pau•ticular instances, will seldom induce a lasting sympathy; let them look to this in good time, and by a ceetintrance of exertion, such as the Philharmonic Society can offer to the encreasing appetite for all that is really valuable in music, they can have no solid reason to fear that their " market will be overstocked," or themselves eclipsed by' the juve nile yet clever efforts of the young men attached to the Royal Academy of Music. The singularly per- feet exhibition of RossiNes most beautiful opera, " Il Barbieri di Shialia," by the pupils of that establishment,removed every shadow of a doubt from our mind (if any ever did exist) that native talent can and will be brought to equal perfection, in even foreign opera! The ease and astonishing tuct of the young men in almost every department last night, orchestra and stage, savoured wore of the collision produced by veterans in the art, than we were at all prepared to anticipate. We were patticularly pleased with young SEratouo's decision and accuracy, as - the leader of a most eff,ctive orchestra, formed almost exclusively of the pupils, many of them absolute boys ! The overture was rapturously encored. Mr. LucAs, as priucipal violoncello, acquitted himself, in that most arduous situation, in such a style as to give promise of future excellence that shall prove him an honour to his country. • The more difficult portion ci the orchestra, the wind instruments, were frequently very effective; their faults were such as will ever be inseparable from the want of more ex tensive experie►►ce. Amongst the most successful debutante of the ❑ight was Miss CIIILDE. Her voice is extremely melodious, and her style unex ceptionable. She was rapturously aiTlauded in the Aria " Una yore pay() fa," and encored in the Duet, " Dung:re io son." Indeed the acting of the entire Scena With,DE BEGNIS was extremely clever. Young Brom (a pupil, we believe, of DE BEGNI-S) went through the arduous character of the Count Alinaviva with considerable skill. His style is good, and when his vocal organ attains more p►wer he must become a most excellent tenor singer.. His acting was rather above the standard of a debutante. Mr. SAPID, jun. - as the Dr. Bar -Id9, and SEcartN as Basilio, acquitted themselves well also. The voice of the latter is of a magnifi cent kind, ponderous and flexible. He seems to be deficient in energy, which his youth and inexpe rience may easily be brought to account for. Miss BROMLEY, us Berta, in the sort of mock-heroic aria introduced into the second act, elicited the most unqualified applause and encore of the whole even ing's performance. Her archness, affected pathos, and very pclit figure, called forth unmitigated laugh ter and delight. The entire business of the stage wm carried on throughout with laudable accu racy and knowledge of " stage creel." Signor Du Bausts ha.► the merit of drilling this corps of juvenile musicians; and it is barely doing him justice to say, the result of their first " Field Day" does him infinite credit. His own pecionation of the volatile and intriguing Barber is replete with that kind of knowledge that appertains to veterans only, and must ever amuse; still it is not the shaver par excellence. His physical requisites are for a perfect personation of the Doctor Bartolo, which he acts to admiration. At the conclusion of the opera, the applause was so continuous, as to call for the presence of Da BEGNIS and his juvenile corps, when they once more received a hearty peal of approba tion from their astonished' and delighted auditory. We must again express our great satisfaction that so appropriate a theatre, as the English Opera-house, has been selected by the noble and energetic Direc tors of the Academy for these exhibitions. It is a fit and . mei( gratifying compliment to its worthy mauager, Mr. ARNOLD, who has the singular merit of introducing in the nineteenth century, the nearest approach to opera, properly so called. Iu truth, the more perfect productions of this kind ut his theatre, in an English garb, appear to have uonphissetl, if not altogether paralyzed, the efforts in this branch of art at our national theatres ! For we look in vain for anything in the remotest degree re sembling a legitimate opera eitherat Coventgarden or Druq.lane ! Surely it will not be asserted that, possessing' such vocalists as Messrs. SAPIO, 11. PHILLIPS, O. PusseN, Miss PATON, Miss BETTS, Miss STEPHENS, end iloW Miss CHIME, real opera is not accomplishable ? 'Twere to insult common sense, and to outrage reason, to say so. No; there must exist causes far the abwnce of such effects as those that might be produce:!, beyond the supposed apathy of the now eucreasing musical public ; and we much doubt if the evil will ever be properly re medied until the active and energetic ARNOLD oh ' tains a fair extension of his now too li m i te d licence, and establish an bide/Jew/en/ a nd b on a O fide English Opera-house. ADELPHI THEATRE. A new liurletta, entitled " Tlie Earthquat.e, er Me Spectre of the Nile," was last eight brought out for the first, time at this theatre. It was tolerably well received, though we ciumot speak much in its praise ; no ; e ven of the representation of an earth quake with which it closes. An earthquake at the Adelphi! a swim in aslop-baaiu! I SURREY THEATRE. The Pretender, or the Rose of Aleey, a mei"' dram; in three acts, was produced here last night. It met with a favourable reception, and was an nounce] for repetition on Thursdly next, for the benefit of Mr. WARDELL, the box-book-keeper. FORGERIES OF I-lUNTON. Whenever 'Lipton's name has been mentioned, it has been accompanied by tie word " securities," and assertions that those " securities" were at least sufficient to indemnify the holder for the heavy losses which they have sustained.- The secaritie4 have, however, been put to the tut in the presence of our Reporter, at Garrawne's Sale-rooms, and a paragraph appeared in the jiturning Cironkle, of the following day, stating the particulars of the sale, in the following terms:— " HuNToN's PROPERfiy.—Yesterday linuton's property at Layton was sold at Garraway's, by Mr. Parebrother. The room was crowded. The pro perty was bought in for 3,4504, being the amount for which it was mortgaged prior to Messrs. Curtis having any right in it. The highest bidder went to 3,100/. The lease of the house in Bishopsgute street was sold for 400/." This paragraph was in direct opposition to the accoun ts which were supplied to the Evening Papers of the day, and were copied into several of the Morning Papers of the following day. In these ac counts it was made to appear that the "securities" were sold for thousands more than the forgeries com mitted by Humeri amounted to, and additional food was supplied for the pity of the community by au► appeal upon the strength of that pretended fact.— For the accuracy of our statement we refer to Alder man Farebrother's books. With respect to the extent of the forgeries of Ilunton upon the house of Curtis and Company, they amounted, by the ac knowledgment of Minton himself, to nearly 5,0001. Of this the bankers are now the best judges; and as they have neither admitted nor denied the truth of the acknowledgmeut, we may very fairly infer that it is entitled to credit, particularly the admission was contained in the letter which Manton wrote to the Editor of the Times, requesting that an error exaggerating his offence might be corrected. What, then, became of the "securities ?" They were, according to this most sure way of proving their value, very disproportionate to the sum which Ilunton obtained upon Lis fictitious pa, per; and Minton, as he paid no more than 3,000!. , for the premises at Layton, must have known that, although the " Securities" were calculated to blind his prosecutors, they were not sufficient to realize the amount of the incumbrances. The whole pro perty of the convict, then, which made its way into the hands of thq hankers, was the sum paid for the lease of the House in Bishopsgate-street, so that before the argutnent of securities be considered of any validity, it must he proved that 400/. is a reasonable substitute for 5,000!. The public sympathy has been greatly excited by . the wonderful accounts of the virtue and sufferings of nuntou; but the quality of his tirtue may be esti mated from the fact, that w hen it was known - that forgeries had been committed - upon the house of Curtis and Co. by him, one of the partners in the house of I'rys and Chapman immediately disclosed a secret, which had to that moment been kept with the most culpable inviolability. " God bless me!" said he, " why Joseph Minton some years ago served us a similar trick." It was soon ascertained from this authority that the convict was experienced in the offence for which he was at length executed, sad this fact reached the ear of the Secretary of State, who, upon reeeiving a petition in his favour, asked significantly whether those who banded it to him were aware that the prisoner had " ever done any thing of the kind before ?" If Hunton had been " blown up" when his former forgeries were discovered, there would have been no occasion within these few days for exciting in the public mind a sympathy which, .so long us forgery continues to he punished with death, should not be provoked in favour of a man who has ruined several by the heinous dishonesty of which he has been repeatedly guilty. It is now well known in the city that there • are iu the banking-house of Curtis tied Co. several genuine bills for which Min ton obtained cash, but which have been returned unpaid, the parties having been induced by him to accommodate him with their names, upon his assur ance that the utmost regularity should be observed when the bills should become due. It was also stated yesterday by several commercial men, in the presence of our Reporter, that the bunkers had de termined not to enforce the payment of such of those bills as had been obtained under promises of punc tual provision for them—in other words, where the parties bad-Leen imposed upon by the representations of Huutow, that he would bear them harmless. If such be the case, the charge of " persecution even unto death," brought against the firm, is not likely to operate very injuriously against those who brought the offender to justice. There is one circumstance to which it is impossible not to advert with satis faction. Notwithstanding the numerous misrepre sentations made by 'the friends of the convict, and the repeated charge cf inexorable severity against the bankers, there never has appeared one word, from them, questioning the fidelity of a single accusation against themselves, or a single ap probation of him, whom some have called their victim. It was even stated in several of the news papers that one of the partners in the firm concealed, before the Grand Jury, the fact of his having had the " securitiea," on which so much stress was laid, deposited in his hands by the prisoner. Of the gross falsehood of this assertion, which was evidently made to scree the prisoner, by calumniating the bankers, the Grand Jury itre ready to give their most unqualified testimony. Mr. Gibbs, of White Hart-court, was the Foreman of that Jury, and he has repeatedly declared that the information was volunteered, and given as unequivocally, and with us little hesitation, in the presence of the Grand Jury, as Mr. Roberts gave it on the trial at the Old Bailey. Of this injurious falsehood, however, no notice was taken. The case of the prisoner passed up to the Throne, with all the advantages to which we have alluded, and with - the cry of the public in its favour; and not a little appears to have been ad vanced in aggravation of the offence for which he was, from the first, doomed to suffer death. Indeed, the case of Burgess, a boy of 16, who was con victed of having induced another bey to obtain the amount of a forged cheque, was one upon which the Privy Council for a considerable time hesitated in con sequence of the great prevalence of u crime which the Legislature seems to think is to be checked by the hand of the executioner alone. It' then the life of a boy, who had never before committed a forgery, narrowly escaped, what hope could bo entertained that a man who had made forgery a trade would, epee being detected in one of his numerous delin quericies, receive a proof of the efficacy of Royal mediation ? Minton was a strange compound.— Upon entering Newgate he disengaged himself for a time altogether from his own affairs, and entered with a great deal of apparent interest into the his tories of innocence which his fellow-prisoners com municated to him, and be was very desirous that the public should be made acquainted with his occupa tion, no doubt in the .belief that die humanity of the task would be rewarded in him. Those who saw him constantly, believed him to be-a man not pos , sensed of the slightest feeling—the ignorant set him down as u person of the greatest fortitude. All com mercial men who consider that fiirgery should be ex piated by the surrender of life, are of opinion that Joseph Minton could not be consistently spared, while those who made all the hubbub about the availability of the securities, admit that he could not make a stand on that foundatioe.--11.1ore. For some tune past this town and neighbour hood has been infested by a gang of thieves, young in years but old in erimie, being a party of boys, already known to the public authorities as old offenders, having liee-n pre viously convicted of various acts of theft. On Saturday last, in consequence of some informatien, the thieves were traced to a house near the Bridge of Dee, which bad been their place of resort for a considerable time previogs, and the depository of the fruits of their nefarious I:mace.. In this house a great deal of stolen property wm f°"P d i and the parties, three in number, implicated 'charges of theft, and the r ese tt ets, t h e tenan t of this de a of thiev e s, with his wif e , were a ll ta k en into tu't°l).'"" Aberdeen Chronicle. in nu.n.ertu• SOCIETY FOR SUPERSEDING THE EMPLOYMENT OF CLIMBING-BOYS. Of the com are given, eitill ; e i,lr recommendedvariety I,l. b toy y r talc to, r Plete efficac ean h isp a )pr n coc i ota ea rlfss- 1 n twin nl,kh it that the Machine has been adopted with the greatest success at the Losdou University, at the Excise Office, at most of the Fire and Life Offices, at Ironmonger's Hall, and at many other public establishments in London. The extensive experiments conducted at the Excise Office,under the liberal pattottage of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, are peculiarly conclusive, and are de scribed ia the following letter, which, we have no doubt, will be perused with considerable interest by our readers:— " Honourable Sirs,—Your Honours Laving di rected that Glass's Machine for Sweeping Chimneys without the aid of Climbing-boys should be tried at this office, I beg leave to state that the whole dale flues throughout the building (amounting to about 120) have been constantly swept by him since No vember last. " I have paid considerable attention to this sub ject, and several times witnessed the process of sweeping by the Machine, and have no hesitation iu stating, that Glass's mode of performing the duty by Machinery, is decidedly superior to the former method of Climbing-boys; the flues are fur more effectually cleansed, and much less dirt is caused by the opeeation. " There are six flees iu the low buildings situated on the west side the court-yard, the rooms of which are occupied by the printing department, &e. which in their present state cannot be swept by the Ma chine. These flues are of considerable length (about ISO feet) and the greater part running horizontally, and having also several turnings at right ungles,which render them not only difficult but dangerous to sweep by Climbing-buys. " Mr. Glass states, that if proper Registers, with double doors, were fixed in the flues in such situa tions as he has pointed out, and which be would undertake to do in the best manner fur ten pounds, he could sweep the whole by his Machines without the least difficulty. " Should your Honours think fit to ullow Regis ters to be so fixed*, I have no doubt of their an swering the purpose, and rendering unnecessary the aid of Climbing-boys to sweep any of the chimneys in this office. " I am, " Your Honours' most obedient servant, (Signed) " WILLIAM HERBERT, " Surveyor of Buildings. " Excise Office, Oct. 21, 1928." Among the communications received by• the Committee from dfferent parts of the country, is one from G. F. Stratton, Esq., describing as experimmt performed at Banbury with a tnachice forwarded to that place ; the result of which was o f so decisive a nature as to carry conviction to the minds of many persons who had previously doubted the efficacy of mechanical chimney sweeping. We are aware that one reason why the machine is not more generally adopted, is the belief which prevails, even among those whose best feelings ate awakened on behalf of the wretched asildren they employ, that chimneys cannot be so thoroughly cleansed by machinery as by climbing-boys. To the attention of such persons we particularly recommend the subjoined extract from Mr. Stratton's letter : " In the trial in question we first had a Chimney swept by a Boy and then by the Machine, and another swept first by the Machine cad then by a Boy. The quantity of soot. brought down by the Mechine after the Boy, was more than double that which was brought doWn by the Boy after the Ma chine. We fully expect that the Machine will be universally adopted in Banbury." The general introduction of the Machine has been greatly impeded by the contumacy of . the Master Chimney-sweepers; for even of those who profess to use it, the majority have en deavoured to excite a prejudice against its em• ployment. This fact has been abundantly ex emplified by the experience of the Committee in London and its vicinity, and is adverted to in almost all the communications they have re ceived from the country. They have therefore been compelled, in order to counteract this hos tility, to set up a number of individuals en tirely unconnected with the Chimney-sweeps ; and whenever this plan has been carried into effect, the success of the Machine has been complete. The Report concludes in.the Ibllov ing terms, and we sincerely hope that the ap peat which it contains will nut be disregarded by the friends of humanity : " It is very encouraging to the promoters of me chanical chimney-sweeping to observe the marked and inc reused interest in the introduction of the machines spreading so widely and rapidly over . the country. In addition to the places from which the preceding interesting accounts have been received, and to those alluded to in the last Report of the Society, active exertions for the abolition of the climbing-boy system are now being rendered in Fareham, Chichester, Exeter, Leamington, Strat ford-on-Avon, Ensham, Blackheath, Hackney, &c.; so that at the present time the Committee are iu frequent correspondence with upwards of thirty towns and villages in Et:gland, where considerable progress is making In the introduction of the ma chine. The only obstacle to the furtherance of the plans upon which the Committee are now acting, and which have hitherto proved so successful, is the want of funtis; and is it not singular, that in a country where so much is done for the relief and benefit of our fel low-creatures, the cause of the poor little Climbing boy, subject to every species of ill-treatment and degra dation—a cause which is so near at hand, and calls regarded e eg l a o r uLily i tf,yoraredre nationss— f i a s m t e h d u s fo s r lig l b a e t r i t d ptlui p try ar po : s ia ae l r l o y df consequently that a Parent Society is.forced to aban don or postpone the most t sure jf,e)ir; ..... i m 3ru ea iun i dt t i s nrug opromotingwhich the cause which they advocate? The priecipul ne r cessity for pecuniary assistance is fur the Establishing- Mechanical Chimney-sweepers iu vu the proved one of the chief means of promoting the for mationri°lsp part s s c ollateral o f town; Socie intend( d appliea ion to Perlitanent." Soc e years hire now elapsed since the attention of the Legislature was directed to this subject ; and upon that occasion a bill for preventing the . employment of Cli m bi ng -b oys, a fter passing through the H ouse o f C ommons was thrown out in the Lord • partly, we believe, because so me . doubts were entertain e d o f th e efficacy of machi nery as a sub s ti tute f or i n f ant s l aver y ; and partly Lards , because the principle of the bill was supposed to have originated in a morbid feeling of humanity. ce that pe riod, however, has transpired sin aided' Chimney riod, to prove that n either of these objections is the. general introduction,of tilwci! tenable. Th a; t aeLer.i y t.. •o h b a t s ta i e m l n e:v i l d i l es i s las ini o icu : ili i i : O ct E SWeeping may be easily removed,. has been clearly demonstrated the ulL;erable children condemned L t t l l l l lea l yteta4 proved, l O Li i nl . 'ldil)i'itay 1710fulttilltOtiStglewolflolahillitt111(11)IfiteiCettntcettdsoi Parliament in to this .!.tlreadful trade, has not been excited by imaginary C.:MSC.% WC earnestly hope, t a 4 4 ., : ifore,n a : a s t uc t c h c e sB C f:l7 : p tt zt ‘r i % o il i: t r o ecei t i pecuniary aid from the public, ko enable • it will ho highly gratifying to that part of the p4l,ie interaittil in behalf of the Climbing-boys (;lo w , i t i s h e . lieved, a very large portion) to know, that on receiving this Report from the Surveyor, Sir F. H. Doyle inunecli. ately affixed to it the following official order.- 1 ' F 4 -, the Registers wordinly,"—F. H. D. the enF.:l;na Session, for the fiat of the Legisla ture wouid at once effect what the mot stre nuous PNertions of private benevolence, conti nued for many successive years, could, perhaps, only partly accomplish. LOVERS OF LAW. (FROM A COItRSSPONDEAT.) A few days ago u (Nice, which has been going on for sortie time against the East London Water Works' Company, at the suit of Mr, Michael Scales, of Ald gate, was finally determined in the Court of Common Pleas. It strongly and ridiculously enough shuns the ardent affection which some people entertain for the law. The Water Works' Company had en croached upon Mr. Scales's territory with their pipcg„ and they refused to give him any recompense. The Lord Chief Justice decided in Easter Term, 1827, that the Company were trespassers in going into the plaintiff's field, and allowed the plaintiff to Mkr a verdict for 1,000/., subject to the opinion of the Court above. The defendants moved, and had the opinion of all the Judges of the Court, who con firmed 1;10 opinion of the Lord Chief Justice; and on Friday last the Chief Justice stated the vetdiet had been confirmed, and the defendants might get over it as well as they could. He was fully deter mined never to try the case again. An estimate may be formed of the merits of the case, from the following ludicrous correspondence : '1 he moment the verdict was given in the first instance, Mr. Scales wrote the following note, which was succeeded by the others :--- " GENTLEMEN—An important derision bas taken phi:* in my favour, I have no reason to use it vindictively. " I hold out the olive branch to yea. You may treat with we now if you abuse, I am quite willing. " I wrote this in plainneei and sincerity, without the knowledge of any one.--I am, Gentlemen, your most oh , !. diens humble Serraut, " MICHAEL. SCALES." ANSWER. " Sin—Your letter has been received, and I will take the earliest opportunity of communicating to you the answer of die Directors, and, in the moan time, remain, Sir, your very obedient Servant, " THOS. NELSON PICKERING. " F..aet London Water Worke, St. Ilelen'e-place., Oct. 6, 1827." " East London Water Works Office, St. Helen's-place. " Sta—Your letter of the 2d inst. has been received, and I ant orderid by the Court of Directory to request you will favour them with stay explanation you may think prorr as to the nature of the olive bran& ultich you thereby tendered them, and to assure you they will receive it in the bit MO plainness and sinoetity es professed in your letter. " Seeing no occasion for any vindictive feelings in caber party coolly seeking to maintain a legal right, and more es pecially on a public question, I remain, Sir your obedient &Avail t, " TIIOS. NELSON PICKERING, " Tu Stec& " Chic& Clerk and Secretary." " 43, Aldgate.. " GixTLE:s.zsx—l 'ewe your letter one minute. You in the ftist instance came to treat with me, I set a price upon what you wanted, you madame no offer, but treated me with contempt. . Yowl! next step witt* to ally your selves so the Select Vestry of Bow, con4sting of x knot of men who have persecuted me for years. You then alter your tune, and say we can do without you—we will come your your fields in spite of you ; you then invade me with Goths and Vandals. I protest and remonstrate in vain. You Jrag we to a Poliee-ofEee for only speaking, place me at the bar as a criminal, and compel the to plead guilty or not guilty ; the Magistrates flue me 51, for only asking the labourers by whose authority they acted, at the same time they were drawing my knee to pieces. You then proceed (what is termed) sally. The couttron day labourers employed by you scalf at me, Liss me, and hoot me for a period of six umuthe !Afore my parlour window, and in the presence of my children and servants. I then seek redress at the hands of a jury--tliat alarms yon, and la9o and Sirphilx of Bow are such as spits. To obtain a t eferenet: I remain determined ; next 11.1 r. Knapp is applied to, to request the Jetelgti nut to take the tried, being so long ; you succeed, and even that is hailed . as a victory, and all the Bow band have a grand field. day in glass Coaches to Blackwell, to eat white bait.— The day of trial comes-I have a victory--yet, deviruna of couvineing you that I have no vindictive feeling, within one hour of having a verdict, I write to treat with yea, How do you act? You assemble and declare that Jutke Best's opinion is no better than as old apple-won - 1411'a; that kis decision is tint worth a straw—you will apply to the other Judges, who no doubt will reverse it—that yttu are fully determined never to come to any settlement with that fellow CcaleA; and in tea days after the receipt of my letter you write me au evasive one, sa yi ng you w ill se xdf me au answer as soon as possible. I have you r secon d letter, which seeks to know the m ean i ng of an olive branch, instead of proposing terma of settl ement ; t h en you speak of plainness and sintxrity—why if you meant either, you would have said, sir, we have received your letter, and have ziveu Mr. Pickering colt powers to settle every di&renee betwixt us.' In the tempee you are now in, our differences ran only be satted at Coilaritan g to F or d, and in the same manner 5* Rhoderie Dhu an d Fit z _ J ames settled theirs—hilt to am, Gentleaten, your vet humble servant, (Signed) " ALS." The defendants could have purchased the right to lay down their pipes for 3001., and it is calculated that the expenctts of law, and of removing the vivo, amount to no less than 11,0001. or 12,000/. SIIOW OF LIVE STOCK AT LIVERNESS. A communication was laid before the meeting from the Directors of the 1-lighlatid Society, with references to an application made from a numbe r of Noblemen and Gentlemen connected with the northern counties, f t e hc r e aG mre e arn i i i li t y , u r ,m al sa S : l d t ‘ o v Na%c,2-. awarded dt, l ii i: e . c e ssh S ;) t , Scott; at Inverness, such ellifiihrtoelidilae,:tllt,iiellir:eidaeisitrisi burgh and Glasgow, and is to be held consecutively aßib t ! tel t o e etis r nils e e:dr c t: a Bll l'irffuita:tet'neolr'ddctell'i:Dlbt:e'ulindta districts- doubt i all those counties, and bringing together the princi pal agriculturists, both landlords and tenants, to wit ness the distribution of prizes to the successful can didates, would create a spirit of emulation far greater than when such competitors arty confined to loyal situations. The address from the Northern Coun ties was signed by the following Noblemen and Gentlemen, monition of the Highland Society : MarquisieisHon. u f Stafford, Lord Gower, tm.r., Earl ßi o g f u C i a l i o th u - I. Charles (Brant, M.P., Right Hon. Sir John SM. Clair, Bart., Hon. James Sinclair, M.P., Sir Jaunts Iv in y: N ek , ;: i s il i tr e, t z gi , iv m llBi, .. 3 P aot . i2,o. B :t ir t.ha F e : d determined e. Highland n l i ra e c d k s e:: .., tale, Ban. M.P., Sir Hugh Inues, Bart. '11.P., f t p : uh i l e rievi t : y isti s i. o ta ot cuotieewt,thyataldttatecht county considerationuntynttly:e Dumfr ies ho lv t.looh o ua f yki t o li tb e i: p h i s i e o lhd l o i a t w v i t o pr f au u nr p si ).- u oPf I'll similarli i o ce:e.s r a d ti in e f there .:.taoiltiirrtyilYeen; t ‘ o r'' :4: : .2 : 11 : 41 : 81 d:4ll3:ells.:}itihaltii shall lilt illbt S eeh o f : ee l eu e: e !y sn t i t h d t ilee o "V i dt : i c o Ptt h eo n e a b d t s ;eta t . t b e l tpl a t e: the ir etd,fa.erillryt., ' utrini,reil:reendic.oSnl.l7:uviiuiepaotinooutfhs_ebsac‘allneawl,' understanding that i g n t :, ot on in t t l e te restli motion animothly reeolved. '''lr. Praser, onffCeawl2h. ?cekime'eueut: iii ' g f i l l i i a: li , t he t,h4ink .County . . county, and fo i r r u a t:h al e e n ,4 g i : t in o n t it h l e at of this are due to the 4 Society for this additional instance of the .. , the Society ' - - tats l.ott.iern Counties. prosperity of ''.! I i t i e D u p t rO ion veni di e s o p t lay O e f d ti b li y s kjects connected with the That Ow t.)Oairener be requested to communicate propm i sl im of. the Socie kp t l y lroe iii il t : o dbg e e fi e ' rd e e e gi t m , u ep o so i t i rett a i with t4 a Couveeers of the other Northern Counties, w'ith a view to concert and ascertain the moat expe. divot means of raising the necessary funds for carry ing this 4 t s o ncac ' e t l i e li c : c l i s ° m ctl i w t e eallciopl'ay object,l u o a l u7 t d. h i t e ltil se at it °thae resolutions to the Di re e , tors of the Society.—lnverness Courier. Mr. Colibett and Dilr. Hunt both offer them wives as Candidates for the Ward of Farriogdou kit the eubtliwor, c!ectiutt fur Cummou Cuuncihk#Q,