The Sun. — London, England, 1828-04-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have at laiegth the benefit of the Ministerial scheme for the regulation of the Trade in Coin, and a precious scheme it is. So, his Grace the-Duke of Wellington thinks he has fairly settled the Corn Question ! We are to have a free trade in Corn, sub ject only to a duty, which will allow no corn to be . imported. At 57 shillings the Winchester quarter, the duty is the same as in the Bill of last year, namely, 28s. As the price falls, when of course there will be no importation, we are very liberally allowed an abatemerit of duty on the scheme of last year. When the price shall be above 50 shillings and under 51 shillings, the duty by this scheme is 34 , shillings; by the scheme of last year it was 40s: But this increased liberality when the price is low is a mere show, because no fo re i gn corn w ill be im ported at the duties according to either scale. But then, the price in the home market is oppressively high, then the Duke's duty rises above that of last year ; so that when wheat is at sixty-five shillings the quarter, the duty, which by the scheme of last year was only twelve shillings, is, by that of this year, twenty shillings. His Grace of Wellington is haunted with the old idea of the danger of our de raiding on foreign countries for our supplies of food; and he has proposed a scale of duties which will effectually prevent any such dependence. But com merce resolves itself into barter, and those nations who produce only food, must content themselves with being equally independent of us for Colonial goods and manufactures. The mischief of the scheme is, that it flatters the agriculturists with the prospect of protection which they will not receive. Should the averages, altered as they have been, by including Scotch and Irish Corn, reach 675. in our present improved currency, the duty of 16s. could not be levied. Ministers would be forced to sus pend the law by the cries of a starving people. The prospect of high prices will, therefore, be merely illusory. It would be much wiser at once to abandon the idea which still haunts the agricul turists, of keeping up prices in this country greatly beyond the level of the neighbouring countries. That system is impairing our N 1 ealth, and consequently destroying the sources whence the agriculturists can obtain their high prices. Lord help them ? they talk like idiots, of being able to employ an immense number of additional hands, if they could only get higher pie, s; but whence are the consumers to obtain the means for paying them these high prices ? At present the issdustrious classes exert their utmost strength to obtain scanty wages; masters are struggling to exist on very small profits; from one end of the country to the other, there is nothing but one constant strug gle to exist; and how, in God's name, can the people, straitened at this rote, contribute more to the agriculturists ? Mr. Huskisson supported, as he was bound to do, the new scheme, but showed very sa sisfactorily that there was no necessity for it. " Cer tainly," he said, " 500,000 quarters did come into the country when the duty exceeded 20s. a quarter, which established a prima facie ease that a duty of 2Us. was insufficient." But it was only a prima facie case, for the Act of November, 18 . ?6, gave the Crown a power, under certain circumstances, of allowing the importation of 500,000 quarters at a duty of 12s. It was highly probable that the pos sibility of its exercise might have led to the intro duction of a greater quantity of foreign corn into the warehouses ; a large part of which was con verted in a few months, at a loss, into money. There was this farther circumstance, that in August there was a prospect of a fine and abundant harvest ; the consequence of which was, that the holders of coin were seized with panic, and sold with rapidity." However, it was enough for the Landlords that morn found its way into consumption; and accord- Jingly " an attempt," says Mr. Huskisson, " was now mule to meet the apprehensions of the agricultural in terest by putting a drag, by adding an impediment to the facility of admitting corn when the price was be tween 60s. and 645. Mr. Huskisson," from the very Lottom of his soul, lamented the misery and evil which the Act of 1815 had caused ; the fluctuation in property and the destruction in capital which for twelve long years it had inflicted on the country. Me was also ready to make it apparent that the effect of That law haJ been to keep down the price of corn more than it scould otherwise have been kept down." We suspect be may gay of the pre :sent project, / that it will be little, any thing, less prejudicial. • Its object is to keep up prices alit& by preventing the trade in Corn, on the plea a the danger, as the Duke phrased it, of foreign dependence. With a law having much en object, we must continue to have ruinous fluctuations. It is useless urging any arguments to those who have the decision of this question, except such as are re. tferable to their own exclusive interests. The people, 'indeed! The great concern, as the Duke of 'Wel lington observed, ought to be, " to maintain in affluence the Nobility and Gentry of this country." Dr. Priestley somewhere states, that the object of Government ought to be the greatest happiness of the greatest number. The Duke of Wellington's reading is, " to maintain i 3 affluence the Nobility and Gentry." It so happene, however, that the Nobility earnest be maintained in affluence without the people, otherwise it would be, perish the peo ple—live rents and pieces !—Morning Chron;ile, Miaisters, after some delay, opened their new Corr. Bill in both Houses of Parliament last night. i n t h e , House of Lords such a Bill could not origi a money bill from its imposing duties; nate, as th2ilig hut, that ti it Lordships might not be left in igno rance f or a f e w hours of a communication made to the other House, the Noble Duke at the head of the Government moved for certain corn returns, to give him an opportunity of explaining the intended measure. The same course was, to have been pur sued with regard to the proposed Corn Bill of last year, for we find it recorded the Parliamentary debates, that Mr. Canning, when Secretary of State, and bringing forward the measure (which was after wards strangled), regretted that Lord Liverpool's sudden afflictioei did not allow his Lordship the power " to appear in his place in the other House of Parliament, to submit there simultaneously the same propositions which he ONir. Canning) was Low about to state to the Hoti4e to-night, and to vindicate to himself that share—that paternity, I may rather say—of a measure which I IkqA9lV my j Noble Friend was most anxious to vindicate to self, and upon the success of which he was resolvee, I to stake more, perhaps than any Minister of this country has ever done upon any measure of such a nature—that eminent reputation which is natmally most dear as well as most honourable to ti 4 indivi dual in his exalted station, and even that station itself."—Parliamentary Debate of March 1, 1827. it appears then, from the above, that Lord Liver. pool was ready to have staked both his reputation and his place upon a bill, the principle of whieh was to affix the import duty of 20s. upon foreign wheat when the average price at home amounted to 60s, per quarter. This was the pivot of his Lordship's; ascending and deseending scale, in the fixing of which he would have st a k e d pl ace and reputation. With what surprise, then, must the real admirers of Lord Liverpool see his pretended frieMds introduce a rrca sure, the principle of which is to Oaf) on 4s. more duty when.ll wheat per nuarter of Winchester m9sure? w e are sure that all the faithful adherents of his Lordship, the admirers of w his talents and integ rit y , will opp ose a bill so con trary to his sentiments of justice and humanity, and to strive to reduce the scale to the sam e position or level at which he would have placed it. 1 here being some difficulty in equalizing. the Wi nc h ester with the Imperial measure, we shall here insert what Mr. C, Grant said upon that subject last year, when the apparent change was made in the Bill of which Lord Liverpool was the father, Ai r. C. Grant said, " that in compliance with the xi s h expressed by the House, he had altered the resolu tions in order to accommodate them to the Imperial measure. The duty proposed to be payable upon wheat per quarter, Winchester measure, was 20s. when the price should be 605.: the corresponding price of the Imperial measure would be 61s. 10lid, and the corresponding duty would be 21s. 7id. He had taken the price at 625., and the duty at 20s. Bd." But by the Bill now proposed, the duty upon a quarter of wheat, Imperial measure, the price being 62i., would be 245. Bd. The duty, therefore, is to be increased by one-fifth upon the pivot, or that which is assumed as the medium quarter. The ascending and descending scale, also, is much more complicated, and therefore of more difficult applica tion than under Mr. Canning's or Lord Liverpool's Bill. We have inserted the resolutions in the de bate in the Commons; the two scales we subjoin : SCALE OF DUTIES NOW PROPOSED, AND OF THE BILL OF 1827, IN IMPERIAL AND IN WINCHESTER IIEASURE. Imperial Measure. WHEAT. Pro. Bill of Rotel]. 18137. s. d. g. d. 52 and under .53...34 8 53 54...33 8 38 8 54 55...328 369 55 56...31 8 34 8 57...30 8 32 8 57 58...298 30 8 58 8 28 8 ; 59 60...27 8 60 —• 61...26 8 61 62...25 S 22 8 62 63-21 8 20 S I 63 61...23&' 64 65...228 65 66...21 9 66 137...20 8 67 68...18 8 69 69 —6Bl 70 71...108 71 72... 6 8 '72 73... 2 9 1 0 1 0 ' [Times.] Winchester 'Measure. Pro. Bill of posed. ISt 7. s. s. 50 and under 51—.34 U 40 l) 51 52...330 3BO 52 0 36 53 54...31 0 54 55...30 0 55 56...29 0 MO 0 56 57...230 57 58...27 0 26 0 53 50-26 0 24. 0 50 60...25 0 60 61...24 0 6 1 61-23 02 63...22 0 16 0 64...21 I) 65...20 0 66...180 67...16 0 68. 13 0 GO 69...10 t.,1 70... 6 0 71...2 U I U 72 1 U I t) 64 - 65 - 56 - 67 - G 8 - t 0 - 70 71 - To the best of our judgment, so fur as the news from the foreign papers is to be considered, there appears to be no doubt that war between Russia and Turkey has commenced, or is about to com mence. We should not be surprised if the Russians passed the Pruth the week after the issuing of the late Russian Manifesto, and if, on last Saturday, such intelligence had been received from Vienna by the Hebrew party in London. A few days, how ever, will determine whether we are right or wrong in our conjecture. As we have often mentioned, there is a regular news manufactory going on in Paris, Frankfort, Vienna, and probably Augsburgh, in conjunction with stockjobbing houses in London, so that it is not easy to determine whether news coming from those places be genuine or the con trary. V The way it is managed is this—A, living in London, writes to his friends B, C, I), of Paris, Vienna, and Frankfort, to this effect, " put such and such a paragraph into such a newspaper; and the day such paragraph make its appearance despatch me an express." The paragraph is inserted—the express is despatched—arrives in London--the pa ragraph is sent round to the London Papers--they insert it, and write leading articles in respect to such manufactured news. The contriver of the paragraph sells or buys, as may suit his purpose with the stock jobbers. The latter square their accounts, as is the technical phrase at the Stock Exchange, and the public are taken in. This is the game at present playing in London and elsewhere, especially for those things called " Foreign Securities." The Colom bian, Mexican, and Spanish Bond Game, was played in the same way when those things were rife. Pa ragraphs were sent from London to the correspon dents in those respective countries, in order that such paragraphs might find their way into the Mexi can, Colombian, and Spanish Papers, so that they might afterwards make the routine of our Papers.— Morning Herald. The Corn Laws question was opened last night in the Lords by the Duke of Wellington, in a speech of that plain, unadorned, and precise description, which suits so well with his high station and cha racter. The style of the Duke bears the manifest impress of his mind in the severity of its simplicity. His oratory resembles his form—a knitted and com pacted mass of bone, nerve, and muscle, adMirably fitted for vigorous and ready action, but without those fillings-in, those roundings of contour, which add in grace and flexibility what they diminish in power. As the addresser of a popular assembly the Duke is deficient ; but amid the Nobles of the land he is in his own peculiar element. The dignity of the Upper House is indeed sometimes more a dignity of manner that' matter—but his Grace is weighty in counsel as well as grave in eloquence. Ilis speech last night was a true specimen of both those qualities, and we could not help deeply regretting that the crowd below the bar, and the etiquette of the Haase, should have left such little accommodation to those whose duty it was to eonvey it to the public. Whatever belongs to the fame of the Great Captain is matter of sacred property to every one who boasts of the name of Englishman, and we may well be allowed to grudge any circumstance which conies between us and the full enjoyment of so valued a right. The resolutions ailadgd to by his Grace, for did not move any, were of course the same as those moved in the Lower House by Mr. Grant, in a speech of great talent and ingenuity. The principle on which they are founded is analagous to that by which Mr. Can ning's scale was arranged; but in its application by the present Ministry, a much stronger leaning has been observed towards that great interest which is denominated, by way of eminence, the country interest, and so far, therefore, we feel inclined to give it our unqualified approbation. We wish it had gone further in this respect, but we acknow ledge, at the same time, the truth of a remark of Mr. Greet, that however desirable it may be to adhere in all thinge to rigid and unbending principle, the complicated and artificial character of our system of policy in all departments, and indeed not of ours only, but of that of all the kingdoms with which we hold fellowship, operate as so many disturbing forces to mar the regularity of our political orbit, and to render such an adherence impossible. We feel, there fore, that in approximating towards it in this instance, the Ministers are justly entitled to the meed of our thanks, and, valent quantum, our support. — The scale we shall lay before our readers in as plain a way as we cart. It begins, according to the table, at 525. We speak just now of the wheat scale, which was the only one touched on by Mr. Grant. When wheat is at 525. the quarter, and under 535. the proposed duty on importation will be, in round numbers, 355.; when above .535, and under As. the duty will be 345. and in this way the duty goes on decreasing a shilling for every shilling that the price increases, until the price of the quarter of wheat is above 665. and below 675. when, by this reciproca iiefe process, the duty, it is obvious, will have dimi nish6d tie 21s. It is in this first stage of the progress of duties that tine advantage to the agriculturists in the present Bill over tire :wet will be chiefly felt, and it is almost unnecessary to say, that: in this stage it is most required. Any higher price that; 07s, can hardly 'be anticipated, when we reflect that for rio many months it has not risen to 60s. Indeed, since the commencement of July last, when the prospect of the coining crop was peculiarly gloomy, up to the Feeent time, th e ' price has been above 60s. only in six instances, and those were the first six weeks of the period alluded to. Since the Ist of October the price has not risen to reQs, We repeat, therefore ; that in this first stage the advantage of the proposed Bill is most required, and that it is net small will be seen by a simple comparison Gf the duties w enosed by Mr. Grant wi t h t h ose propose d by r' Mr. Canning. Commencing tat p s pa 2 r s eent u 4 s , above, nl:;re the ecale of Mr, Canning is t favourable by 65., but it is more favourable rather in Ippearance than in for it must be obvioue to every one that 355. affords the must am ple protection when wheat is that price, and that to give more would be adding bulwarks to what was already impregnable. The dtwee approximate until the price rises to 595.: they coincide, being 295., according to both scales; but us the common dif ference in Mr. Canning'c scale was 25., and in Mr. Grant's below 675., only Is., when wheat is 605., tire former gives a protection of only 255., while the latter gives 275. ; and at 665. the one gives only 135., while the other gives 21s.— Above 675., 'Mr. Grant adopts 2s. as a com mon measure in his progression, until the price reaches 695.; from 695. to 715., a common 1110S4n, of three shillings; anal above 715.,a common measure of four shillings. Yet even with this acceleration of decrease at 675., he gives a duty of I9s. where Mr. Canning gave only 11s.; and at 71s. he gives is., where Mr. Canning gave only 3s. The duties of Barley and other grains were, as we have already stated, not touched upon by Mr. Grant, nor were any details entered into; but we shall have, no doubt, ample time allowed for discuSsion before the BilLis passed into a law. Upon the whole, we are gratified that this great and much agitated question is about t 6 be settled. Ever since 1822 —we may say ever since the rejected measure of Sir H. Par nell in 1814—it has been the source of much uneasi ness, of many heart buntings and jealousies. Preju dice has done much to confuse and complicate, and wisdom but little to clear it up. Something stable is now held out in prospect, and we hope that both parties will agree to give it welcome.—New Times. SIR JA MES SCARLETT.—We understand that this gentleman will be at the present York Assizes, on two special retainers, one for the devisees of the late Sir THONIAS PILKINGTON, in the Wakefield Soke cause, and the other for Mrs. BEAUMONT, in an action for libel brought against her by Mr. HORSIXGTON, her late steward. The Soke cause is fixed for Friday next, before a Special Jury. Mr. BROUGHAM leads for the defendants, the inhabitants of Ossett.—Leeds Mercury. MR. BROUGHAM.—We are happy to notice that this gentleman has, at the late Assizes, taken the station to which his talents and eloquence entitle him. He has had a considerably large share of business than any other Counsel, and has in a great majority of instances been re tained for the plaintiff. His success in obtaining verdicts was also distinguished, and many of his speeches were masterly specimens of argumentation, replete with varied information, enlarged views, wit, and satire, and well cal culated to advance the interests of his clients. The Assizes, however, were more than usually barren of such causes as are likely to excite the powers of Mr. 11ItoucHAaz. It may also with propriety be noticed, that Mr. ALneasos is rapidly advancing to the eminence which his great powers and acquisitions entitle him to assume.—Billinge's Liverpool Advertiser. HI PPOPOTA NI us.—The head of one of these mighty animals, well preserved, with the skin upon it, is to he seen in St. James's—street. Though curious as an article in a museum of natural history, we are afraid it is insufficient for an exhibition. The forms of the teeth and tusks, however, by which the food is submitted to an ope ration like grinding, are worthy of remark.—Literary Gazette. The three whale-fishing vessels are now mus tering their crews for their long voyage to the icy regions of the north. They intend leaving the harbour on Sunday first, and will sail from the roads in a day or two follow ing.—Seotionan. SHIPWRECKS.—During the severe gale of Sunday, the Arrow of Portpatrick, O'Num, master, sunk off the point of (9rd. The clew consisted of three hands, and at the time the accident happened—eight o'clock a. m.—the master's son was sound asleep in a small cabin in the bow of the boat. He was never seen afterwards.— The master and his man swam about as long as they could, and when well nigh exhausted, the boat lightened as her cargo fell out, so as to enable them to cling to the rigging. In this situation they were picked up at ten o'clock by the crew of the Venus of the same port. The Nelly and Margaret of Harrington, TIMOTUY MARTIN, master, sailed from Kirkcudbright on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 19th curt. ; and when in the mouth of the river, between St. Mary's Isle, and the Torr Point, she struck and grounded on a reef of rock. The boisterous weather that occurred subsequently soon rendered her a complete wreck. The crew escaped.—Edinburgh Courant. There are now lying at our office, two re markable relics of antiquity, found in a Druid's Temple, about 21 miles from Lancaster, on the road to Richmond ; by Mr. JOHN TATHAM, coal proprietor, of Hawes. One is a spear head of bronze, about four inches lung, and one broad, with a rib on each side, at the centre. The other bears more venerable marks of antiquity; being a flint arrow head, about an inch and a quarter long, and half an such wide. The formation of the latter is very curious, and even with the assistance of modern iron implements, would appear to be made with some difficulty. Mr. TATHAM informs us, that in exploring the ruims, a number of other curiosities have been found ; one of them he describes as au antique drinking vessel.— Westmoreland Advertiser. HUGE MUSCLE.-We lately saw a muscle, the oblong cirrunderunce of which is 14 inches and 9f inches the other way. This enormous fish of its kind was caught near Mars Bank, about 15 miles east from the Isle of May, on the 15th of May last, by JAMES INNXS, jun. of St. Monance. It weighed, when taken 17A ounces, and the shell is now in the possession of Mr. ilicim, fish_ curer there, by whom it has been elegantly mounted as a snuff-box. The writer of this paragraph had the pleasure of taking a pinch of snuff from this box ; and we have no doubt but that Mr. MAciim will be happy to chew it to any gentlemen who will take the trouble of calling upon him.—To strangers visiting the East Coast of Fife, we would recommend an inspection of the ancient Church of St. Monance, which is just undergoing great improve ments, in doing which due attention has been paid to se cure the comfort of a modern building, without destroy ing the magnificent appearance of the ancient.— Fife Herald. THE DEATH OF MUNGO PARK'S SON.- Extract of a private letter from Lieut.-Colonel LUMLEY to Mr. Secretary HAv, dated Cape Coast Castle, Dec. 4, 1827 :—" I am sorry to inform you that a fine young man, son of the celebrated Alusico PARK, died in the Akimbo° country, a little to the S.E. of Accoa, about seven weeks ago. He arrived on this coast in July last, for the pur pose of penetrating into the S.W. interior of Africa, hav ing resolved to complete those discoveries which his father'S death had left unaccomplished. Whilst at Akimbo°, (where he remained for some time to acquire a competent knowledge of the language before he advanced further into the interior) the annual Yam custom took place, i. e. fes tival. The natives were assembled, as usual, in a large plain, in which stood a Fetish Tree,' which is never ap proached except by the Priests. Mr. PARK mounted this tree, considered sacred, for the purpose of taking a sketch of the group assembled. The KING perceiving his inten tion, endeavoured to persuade bins from this act, assuring him, if he were guilty of such profanation, he could not live long. Mr. PARK was not to be dissuaded from his intention, and he was a corpse in two days after. The Fetish men, no doubt, fearing their power and character would Le shaken, if this impiety could be done with im punity, hastened Mr. PARK'S death by poison." _ - RYDF.— An Inquest was held, at YELF's Hotel, Union-street, on Tuesday last, before THOMAS SEWELL, Esq. Coroner far the Island, and a most respect able Jury, of which Wm. WILSON, Esq. was foreman, on the body of a male bastard child, of which JANE SOTH COTT, aged between 16 and 17 years, had been deliver ed on. Sunday evening, when the following depositions were made :—Mr. RAVEN, a surgeon, living with Mr. RANKES, stated, that o❑ Sunday evening, about nine o'clock, the wife of Rosetta' Sim. requested him to go to her house, where her sister was ill ; he went immediately, and in going, Mrs. Siva. stated that she believed there was a child already born. Ile foiled it so, and that NANNY, the mother of JANE SOTHCOTT, had delivered her elangh ter ; but sonic part of the operatio❑ not being completed, she had become frightened, and sent for assistance. Upon Mr. IlAvxli doing what was necessary, Mrs. Sorocorr said, "you have done that in five minutes, which I have been an hour and a half endeavouring to do." Mr. H. asked if the child was born alive, and was told " no, it was still born, and that JANE &uncurl' was nut more than a quar ter of an hour in labour." He saw the child, which was a fine one, and at his full growth. Ou Monday he saw the body again, with Mr. HANKs, when an opinion he had firmed the preceding evening, that the child was burn alive, was confirmed; and upon stating it to JANE SOTII FOrT and her mother, they acknowledged it was so, and that the child had groaned for a short tinw. There were marks of pressure, with scratches on the throat, en the right side, extending across the windpipe, which Mrs. SOTHCOTT attributed to her fright and ignorance, as " She hardly knew what she did, and might have scratched it with her nails." Mr. It. was of opinion that it might have been so, as other precautions had been taken to se cure the life of the child. Mr. W. H. RAVES confirmed the abnve witness, and was of the same opinion, that ig norance and want of skill might have occasioned the marks on the throat. Mr. J.►alas I.4lnxr4xt.n, chemist, stated that on Saturday last NANNY SOTHCOTT came to his shop, and requested to speak ,with Lim privately. She stated that a young relation of hers was pregnant, and that she wished him to prescribe something to destroy the child. He desired her to think of the crime she contemplated. She still pressed for medicine, which he continued to refuse.— The Coroner made a most luminous awl impressive charge to the Jury, and left the facts to their consideration. The .Jury, after a deliberation of neariy five hours, returned a , verdiet Wilful Murder against NANNY and JANE SOTHCOTT."—Hampshire Telegraph. POLICE INTELLIGMICK. GUlLDHALL.—Yesteriay Henry Child, an agent in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, was brought before Sir PIETER LAURIE, charged with stealing a document belonging to the records of the Court of King's Bench. Mr. Horne, the deputy signer of the writs from the King's Bench, stated, that yesterday morning the prisoner came to his office, and asked to examine the prcecipes in the Michaelmas vacation, for London. Witness knew there was a fictitious prceeipe on the file, which he had produced in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, and which, from the proceedings there, he expected he should be called upon elsewhere, as the Metropolitan Law Society were about to move upon it in the next term, that two attorneys named Black and Rushbury, should be struck off the roll. He therefore watched the rile carefully, and, before he handed it to the prisoner, ascertained that the said precipe was safe. The prisoner took it to the window, and some persons coming in upon businesg, the deponent's attention was drawn away ; but he noticed that he did not examine the slips of paper one by one, but turned over several without stopping to read them, as if he was already aware of the place where the prcecipe he wanted would be found. The prisoner kept them five minutes, and they returned them immediately ; after which, witness looked over them, and missed the fictitious preecipe before mentioned. lie ran out into the Temple, and found the prisoner conversing with the man whose handwriting the fictitious prcocipe was believed to be (a clerk at Mr. Rush bury's). The prisoner was seized and searched, but the do cument could not be found. The prcecipes which the prisoner had examined were pro duced. A pracipe is a slip of paper containing in a few words the substance of a writ, merely the names of the plaintiff and defendant, the nature of the action, and the name of the plaintiff's attorney. Sir PETER LAURIE understood that the object of steal ing this document was to destroy the evidence upon which the Metropolitan Law Society intended to proceed ; but be did not yet know what object was to be obtained by forging that document. Mr. Horne explained, that it was to enable a person to take the benefit of the Insolvent Act without going to prison, or without any real suit being instituted against him. It was a trick frequently played off while Sergeant Runnington was in the Insolvent Court. When an at torney has prepared a writ, it is signed at the office, and he leaves a summary of its contents, or pracipe. The writ is afterwards taken away, and the prcecipe remains to be referred to upon all after proceedings. In the present in stance, without any writ having been obtained, a pnrcipe headed " Hutchinson against Wilcox " was wafered in among the rest by some person who pretended to examine the file. Sham bail was put in, as if some person had actually been arrested, and in due time an authenticated copy of the preccipe was sent from the Signer's Office to the Insolvent Court, to show that process had issued against Wilcox, who sent the usual notice to his creditors. The solicitor to one of them came to the office, and discover ing that the file had never passed through the previpe, but that it had been wafered into the place, inquired for the affidavit of debt. None could be found, and there remained no doubt that a writ against Wilcox had not been issued. Nevertheless he had proceeded as far as getting his petition before the Insolvent Court, and, in el milar cases, where the creditors have deemed it useless to offer any opposition, persons have cleared themselves of their debts without suffering an hour's imprisonment. The prisoner said he had formerly been an attorney's clerk, and admitted that he met Mr. Hulbert, Mr. Rush bury's cieik (who is suspected to have written the fictitious pnecipe), just after he quitted Mr. Horne's office. He submitted he was not guilty of stealing a record ; for, inas 'much as there war no action, the piece of parer was not a pnecipe or record. This was evidently a good objection as to its not being a record of the King's Bench ; but having been produced in the Insolvent Court, and its nature ascertained, it was a question whether it might not be deemed to relate to a matter begun or depending, with respect to the motion against the solicitors, and the prisoner was remanded for further examination. He strongly denied having stolen the paper. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—.I person of very re spectable appearance and genteel address, who gave his name .John Montgomery, but who, it appeared, is more generally known as Colonel and Captain Montgomery, was yesterday brought from St. Giles's watch-house before Sir GEORGE FARRANT, the sitting Magistrate, charged with uttering a forged 10/. note ou the Bank of England, know ing the same to be counterfeit. The prisoner, who was very fashionably dressed, being placed at the bar, Mr. Newby, a silversmith, residing in Soutltampton-row, Bloomsbury, was sworn, and deposed, that on Saturday, the 22(1 of March, the prisoner, who was totally unknown to him, came to Lis shop, and selected half a dozen silver tea-spoons and a pair of sugar-tongs, which he said he should purchase, and desired that they might be put aside for him, and that he would call again to pay for them in the course of the day. He did accordingly come again on the same day, and handed apparently a genuine 101. note of the Bank of England, the same now produced, in payment for the articles, which he took away with him, Mr. Newby giving hint the difference in change between the price of the spoons, 8c;!. (21. 45.) and the note. The prisoner wrote, as his name and address, on the note. " Mr. Gordon, 29, Marchmont-street." In the course of his business Mr. Newby paid away the note the next day, and shortly after it found its way to the Bank of England, where it was pronounced to be a forgery, and returned as such in due course to Mr. Newby. Inquiry was then made after Mr. Gordon, in Marchmont-street, but no such person was at all known there, and the prisoner being a total stranger to Mr. Newby, the latter had nu clue whatever to his dis covery. It happened, however, that on Friday last an ac quaintance called in upon Mr. Newby, and the subject of the forged note being mentioned to hint, together with a description by Mr. Newby of the person who passed it, his friend said that, from the description, he had no doubt but it applied to a Colonel Montgomery, of whom, it seems, he already had some knowledge. Search was now made to trace out Colonel or Captain Montgomery, but it was unsuccessful until Sunday last, when Mr. Newby learned that the object of his search was that day on a visit at the house of a tailor in Great Ormond -street, Queen-square; and accordingly a watch was set upon this house, Mr. Newby himself taking his station at the back of the house, which leads into a mews, while he placed a friend to keep an eye upon the front. The watch was kept up without any effect the whole day, until about seven o'clock i❑ the evening, when Mr. Newby observed the prisoner come out of the back door and make his way quickly down the mews; and on his seeing Mr. Newby, he took to his heels and ran off with all pos sible speed. The prisoner hung a very strong and active man, Mr. Newby dreaded losing him, and set up a cry of " Stop thief," which brought several to join in the pur suit ; and, after a considerable chase, the prisoner was overtaken and lodged in the watch-house. The note was now put in, and Mr. Freeman, one of the Bank Inspectors, who attended, declared it to be forged in every part. The prisoner was remanded until Thursday next. Furzeinan, the watch-house keeper, said that the pri soner was considerably agitated while in the watch-house; so much so, that it was deemed prudent to have a person to sit up with him all night. It is understood that a vast number of forged 101. and 5/. notes have of late been presented at the Bank, but no clue has been had to the utterers. UNION-HALL —Yesterday James and Charles Gan der, and a female named Gardner, were brought before the Sitting Magistrate, M. SWAB —, Etiq., charged witk having excited a disturbance in the house of Mr. Wilson, landlord of the Waterman's Arms, iu Stangate, and vio lently assaulted two of the Bow-street patrol. The defendants were committed for the riot and assault upon the patrol while in the execution of their duty. The brig Agnes is at present taking in a valu able cargo destined for Calcutta, consisting of wines in wood and bottle to a great amount, bottled malt liquor, and a variety of general merchandize of British manufacture. This is the second vessel that will sail direct from Leith to the East Indies.—Scotsman. ANECDOTE OF DR. —. —The following anecdote —and we have every reason to believe its authen ticity may be depended upon, has been communicated to us verbally :—When Dr. --, a celebrated clergyman in the Church of Scotland, and one who has acted a most con spicuous part on what he himself would term the right side of the Apocrypha Controversy, was a little urchin at school, his venerable father was Minister of a country parish church, and his brother officiated as master of the parish school. The bellman, as the story goes, had been for some time indisposed, and at List expired. Our young hero was the first to learn the intelligence of his death. He immediately' hastened to his father to apprise him of the event. " Father," exclaimed the witty youth, " I've good news to tell you the day," " Fats this now ANDREW," said the worthy clergyman. " The bellman's dead," rejoined the young urchin. 46 And do you call that good news, you little rascal," rejoined the venerable Pastor. " It's surely that," replied the embryo Doctor of Divinity : " fur ye have the kirk, and WILLIE has the kehool, and I'll get the bell ; and then we'll hae it a'anion's."—E/yin Ccurier. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEUDINGS. ei MOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTION FOR THIS DAY. 1. Sir Robert Wilson—Return of the official value of exports to the different States of South America (in cluding Mexico) during the last five years. 2. Sir Henry Parnell—Accounts of Foreign Manufactures imported in 1827 ; and of the Exports and Imports between the United Kingdom and France and other Countries in Europe. 3. Mr. Spring Rice—Bill for amendment of the Law re lating to Testators and Executors. 4. Mr. Wilmot Horton--To present Petition on the subject of Emigration. 5. Mr. Secretary Huskisson—Bill to regulate Courts of Justice in New South \Vales. 6. Mr. Grattan—Petition respecting a provision for the Poor in Ireland. ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR VASS DAY. 1. Supply—Report. 2. Stamp Duties Bill—Third reading. 3. Pauper Lunatics Bill—Third reading. 4. Lunatics Regulation Bill—Third reading. NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY. Wednesday, April 2. Mr. George Dawson—Bill for removiug doubts, and to authorize Barristers at Law to act in any Court or Jurisdiction in the United Kingdom as Solicitors of his Majesty in any proceeding or matter relating to any branch of his Revenue without being or having been admitted in any Court as an Attorney or So licitor. Thursday, April 3. 1. Mr. Wynn—Bill to consolidate and amend the Elec tion Laws. 2. Mr. Secretary Peel—To more t!'e adjournment of the House for the Easter recess to Monday 14th April. Thursday, April 24. Colonel Davies—Select Committee to inquire into the manner of conducting Private Business in the 'louse. and the Fees paid thereon :—Also, of all Fees paid on Trials of Controverted Elections of Mentliers to serve in Parliament. After Easter. Mr. Robert Gordon—lnquiry into the treatment and condition of the black and coloured population in the West India Colonies. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. SUNDAY, March 30.—High water 30 min. past ten.,— Wind N. to N.N.E.—Arrived the Alert, -----, from Smyrna—Wright, Sise, from New Orleans—Java, John son, from Glasgow—Cornet, Phillips, from Dubliu—W. Huskisson, Lindsay, from Greenock—Catherine, White, from Dundee—City of Dublin, Mulholland, from Dublin-- Town of Drogheda, Owen, from Drogheda — Speedwell, Owen, from Cardiff—Marquis Wellesley, —_—, f rom Wexford. One ship off half-past six; the Defence off, from New York. Sailed the Oglethorpe, for Savannah—Floia, for Chart stop—Promise, for Quebec—H. Kneeland, for New York --Dorothy, for Philadelphia—Margaret, for Malta—Mary, for Charleston—Marquis of Queensberry, for New York—. liabnab, , for Cape Breton—Selma, for Mobile—Canova, for New Orleans—Hyperion, for Baltimore—Blenheim, for Newfoundland. HOLYHEAD, March 29.—Throughout last night the wind from N. to N.E., moderate; morning fine breeze, N.E., clear weather. Sailed last night the Nelson, from Liverpool to Penzance, —Resolution, from ditto to Youghall—Despatch, from Cardiff to Liverpool. Signal station, 10 a.m.—A steamer off, to Eastward, and several brigs off outward. Telegraph Office, March 30. At 7 a. m.—The Dart, British smack, passed Holy head, outward bound. EXECUTION AT READING. For the following additional particulars respecting the men executed at Reading on Saturday se'nnight we are in debted to a Country Friend:— On the Friday, the day preceding the execution, Burnett was amusing himself by standing en his head, iu the entail. yard attached to his cell. His indecorous conduct was ob served upon by one of the prisoners appointed to watch him, when he very carelessly remarked, "Aye, I'm stand ing on my head now, and to-morrow I shall be dancing on nothing !" His father was at the gaol on Saturday, and ; stated that his eon had been absent from him nearly seven years ; and the first intimation he heard about him was the intelligence in the newspapers that he was left for execution ! Thirteen guineas were offered for Lis body, but very pro perly refused. The grief of Field's father was so intense, that he was under the necessity of calling at every public-house on the road for the purpose of quenching it ! His first stop was at the Marquis of Granby, and there he and his male and female companion indulged their sorrows till they could scarcely stand ! The next paroxysm was at the Pheasant, where they replenished the sluices of their tears plentifully, and although Oakinghani was only seven miles from hence they were three hours and a half reaching that town. Of course they could not well proceed without a farther liqui dation of their distress, and in order to show to the public the trouble into which he was plunged, the afflicted father ascended the cart, each hand occupied with "a flowing cup," and getting astride on the coffin, roared out,— " There he lies—he was a rare 'un ; I told him to fear nothing, and he did so, and died as hard as a brick !!" The melancholy proceesion— the horse whirls drew the cart being the only animal of the party that did not exhibit outward sympten3s of mournful indulgence,—then moved on towards Old Wind sor—but Sunninghill, the scene of Field's exploits, must not be passed without another libation to the " sea of trouble" already poured but. A halt was therefore called, and the coffin being opened the party drank to each other ; even the corpse was not forgotten, for the bereaved parent approaching it, unshrouded the body, and applying some ale or gin to its pale and livid lips, called upon it to " take a sup with him !!" * But we will not dis gust our readers and degrade humanity by a further detail of one of the most sickening instances of total abstraction of feeling that ever fell within our recollection. Suffice it, then, to say, that we have heard the corpse did actually arrive at its destination some time in the course of Satur day night, or early on Sunday morning, but whether it has been buried, remains yet to be ascertained.--Berk shire Chronicle. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DTA RY. 7 -THTIRSDAY, APRIL 3. Borrow, J.,Stockport—Palace, Manchester 9 Denman, W., Bangor—Clarendon, Liverpool l2 Hacker, S., Canterbury—Guildhall, Canterbury Harling, J., Lancastei—King's Arms, Lancaster ll Harrison, W., Manchester—Clarendon, Liverpool l2 Hodson, T., Pendleton—White's, Manchester g Hollins, J., Nether Knutsford—Star, Manchester 9 Hunt, 11.,Rochdale—Dewhurst and Co., Preston ll Lawton, S., Saddleworth—White's, Manchester ll Molineux, J., Brighton—Old Ship, Brighton ll Stonehouse, J., Bishopwearmouth—Ca.stle, Stockton INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, COUNTRY..—At the Court-house, at Huntingdon. April 3, at Ten o'clock. Robson, Henry, Hnntingdon, music-master Chandler, Peter, St. Neot's, draper Edmonds, John, Leighton, butcher Whitney, William, Woodhurst, fanner Swannell, William, Earith, corn-merchant Humphrey, William, Earith, cordv.'ainer Cade, John, Abbottsley, shoemaker THE LORD HIGII ADNIIRAL'S VISIT TO IRELAND.-We can state upon unquestionable authority, that it is the intention of his Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral to visit this country in the latter part of July next. Arrangements of the most splendid descrip tion fur his reception are in progress at Rostellan, the seat of the Marquess of THONIOND. His Royal Highness also intends to honour Michelstown, the residence of Earl KINGSTON, by a visit; and after sojourning there for a few (lays, the Royal Duke means to procee' to Carton, on a visit to the Duke of LEnisrEa.—DoUin Evening Mail. RE-ELECTION OF LORD FORBES FOR TUE COUNTY OF LONISFORD.-On Thursday an election Was held in Longford to return a Member for the present Par liament in the room of the Right Hon. Viscount FORBES. His Lordship was unanimously re-elected. --Dublin Morning Register. They talk, in the neighbourhood of the Theatres, of a dramatic disappearance, which has left a a w g ( a )r in tl s i t y . in\l ‘ u , s e tti n is o i t na li i k i e a h at o p s o present ,e f n i t n & men t o i c o e n s n t a o nl fight es, ilp but it is said that the deficits of the absentee are upwards of 30,000/. —News. Among the animals to be seen at present at Exeter 'Change is a female elephant, which, at the command of the keeper, capers about i❑ a very amusing manner. - - NOMINAL EPITAPII.—Dr. WALKER wrote a work on the English particles, which obtained for him the short and pithy epitaph : " Here lies Walker't , particles."—Mirror. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. lot W e The highest price of Bread in the Metro&lts is gat - 41b. Loaf. There are ethers who sell from %d. to ISL that price. English Red Clover ...... PRICE OF SE E DS .-3 C S. w — L lta 4 r 2 c s h L . tine ....4. 6 0 . New En Old Ditto Ditto • New Foreign Drtt..w.'"'"`"'"'"" 'We. 446. fine ...d. -4. 0... ..........".................••• 40.. 565. tine —6. -4 ' Old Ditto . ...................„_...—.... . 30s. —6. fine --4. „,,,.." OlNew White Clover ....-....,._........--___*. 38s• 766. tine _ . . s ov. - -- Nd Ditto Ditto . ............,....................... •-.4. 506. fine . ~,,,..H.—' ew Trefoil , ...___---..—.,...........—........,,.......—. .. . 345. fine —F• --• Old Ditto RibOras ' s ----------------•-• -. !98. fine --6. 216. 38n. 41s, fi English Carraway Seed ....................••••••••••••. .•• i 1 . aid . 4.25. fine - 46 Foreign Ditto ............---...............„ —s. —s. —6. fine ...4 ' Coriander "'s• 14s. titre-•e• 17s ' St. loin ........—...........(per Quarter)............ —s. —.. 40,. fine 455• Rye Grass - ---.--..........„. 26a. 355. new 301. 4 ' Pacey Ditto •••••••••ey•Wy••••••,MMI*O....WOW".•• 3ds. 525. new Linseed, for feeding --s. 38s. fine -8. -4. e "" Ditto, for cru5hing............... ......... —s. We. 386. fine - 4 . Canary Seed, New. —..............,.... —s. 60s. fine —E. 1 3 N• Ditto 01d....,.....w.... w .........................,0n50 n .... .3,, —e. ....e. fine --d• White Mustard Seed -.....(per 8u5he1)........55. 7s. 6d. Ss. fine - 4. Brown Ditto Turnip Seed s , R oun d s —s 1O 15e• tine .- 4 ... .-41 . s. 255. 30s. fine --s• Tares, Old Green and Red Ditt o —s. 28s. 34e. fine . ......... Ditto New —s. 40s. 425, fine , ....3. . 4 3 fine 44.5. 00. ..........---____ - !tape Seed, E nglish, fine (per Last) —l. 301. -... Foreign .--1. --I. WHFFECHAPEL, HAY MAILKET.—March 251 J . _, Hay.----.. 725. Od. to 100 3. O d . I Clover ...... 90s. Od. to 120 i. Wl' 5traw...................... 36s Od. to 425. Oct. PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)-March 28 . Kent 4/. 4s. 41. 18s. to 61. Os. Sussex Ditto 4/. 2s. 44 Bs. to 41. 12s. Essex Ditto 4/. 4s. 4/. 15s. to sr. Os. Farnham Ditto, Fine 0/. Os. 81. Os. to SM. Bs. ---- Seconds 01. Os. 71. Os. to 81. Os. Kent 41. 2s. 4/. 15s. to 51. Us. Sussex Ditto Essex Ditt0.,.,,,, 4l. 4/. Os. 4/. 10s, to 41. 16s. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 341. Os. Refinetl ...Sig 6 Linseed Oil IS 1 0 11 0 6 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton Scotch Reds CE OF POTATOES.—March SI. 31. Or. to 3/. 10s. per ton. 3/. Os. to 21. ss. ditto. 3/. O. to 31. 10s. ditto. 2/. Os. to 31. Os. ditto. Marsh Champions—....--- Oxuobles and Shaves - .....0 • PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. ti. ted. Per lb. d. tad.; 8utt5~.......50 to 561 b..... 2U 21 Tanned Horse Hides., 14 „, 1 ' Ditto....--(l0 to 661 b...... 22 23 Spanish Ditt o ....,,,,,,.w2O 71 Dressing Hide 5....,,,,,, 14 17 Per dozen. Fine Coach Hides —...... 17 19/ Calf Skins— 36 to 401 b. 19 ,e 6 Crop Hides. 35 to 401 b. 14 15/ Ditto .......... 50 to 701 h. 23 x'_, Ditto 45 to 50Ib. IS/ 18 Ditto 70 to 601 b. 2011 ~ i Ditt0.,......, 17/ 20 Small Seals, Greenland 18 in ItA.W IdIDESP.er stone. e. 41. to.. 4. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d, nest lieifors& Steers 3 0 3 2 Ordinary 110 11 1) 2 4 2 6 Market Calf 8 0 o'4l SHEEP SKINS. 2s. tzd. to 3s. Od. Shearhugs-- Od. to Os. B . l ' Polled 3a. 91. to ss. (kJ. Down: COAL MAR! Adair's -33 g. 34. Beaumont 3O 9 Burdon ...........-„ 33 0 Heaton . 35 6 Hebburn Main -....... 33 0 Heworth Primrose ....„ 32 6 Holywell„ 32 6 Liddell•s Main :0 0 Pelaw TAO 30 6 Townley---.... 32 9 Wall's End Browns...—. 34 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 35 0 Ditto Bewiekeand Co— 35 9 Ditto Carr and 30 3 Ditto Clarke and Co. ... 33 0 Ditto Crainlington......— 29 0 Ditto Hilda 33 0 Ditto Hotspur 34 0 ships at market, ,ET.—March 31. Ditto Northumberland: 335. 0 Ditto Ditto lliddull's 35 0 Ditto ltussell's Eden Main , 33 0 Neshaui Main. , 34 0 Walls End Hetton.—...... 37 6 Walls End Lambtoo.... r 9 Ditto Stewart's 37 0 Bitto Nutt 25 0 Myth —. • 25 0 Hartley Cowpaii •27 Marquis Maio 25 9 Llangenneth 40 0 Silkstone Main 29 Bcaniish small --,. 23 Talitiel 30 U 7ps sold, 43-Unsold. 15,,Y. IRISH MA . DUBLIN MARKET NOI 2,.4,33 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 506 16 stone 1,260 Barley l6 stone 8,872 Oats l4 stone 21,594 Cwt. Fluur 9 stone 934 Oatmeal 11 stone Sold to Bakers only. 11,532 Cwt. Flour, Average price Receipts of Flour, 1 Sales of Do. 2 of Wheat ,RKETS. lE.—FRIDAY, March 211 From To v. r. 2t 0 31 0 25 7 10 0 13 0 11 13 8 0 21 0 14 2% 8 0 l5 0 9 10)O 4 0 22 0 1 0 9 0 14 0 1 10 2% 1,750 S F fi rsts , I's" d Thirds, CE OF BREA 7%d. I Quartern Loaf, Alb. 1301n0115 4 Flour 38a. 4d. per sack. from 2W. Od. to 225. Od• s, IYom 13a. Od. to 18s. UJ• from 4s. Od. to 10s. Ud• D. Itqw 1,21 b. Wheat, Barley. Oata. Flour, per ewl. per barrel per barrel per barrel 20 stone. 10 stone. 14 stone. lit. 21. s. d. as.d.s. d. as.d. a. d. as.d. s. d. as. d. (Lai. J„. C0rk..,..... 20 0-26 3 13 0-14 0 9 2-11 6 15 ti--17 12 0-15:', Limerick 22 0-23 4 10 2 0 0 8 9-- 0 U 15 0-16 U 0 0-11,v Waterford '2'3 0-25 0 11 0-15 0 9 0-- P 615 0-15 0— Clomnel 250 00 12 0— 00 10 0— 00 12 0-10 U 00— v Belfast—... 10 6-20 9 12 0--15 0 13 0-- 0 020 6-21 0 0 0-- 0 „ Derry oo 0 o 128— 00111-12 9 0 0— 0 0 0 0— 0 Carlow --- 20 0-24 0 10 0-15 o 80— fl 0 15 0— 0 0 0 0— 0 (1 Tralee— o.o 0 0 00— 0 0 00— 0 0 0 0— 0 0 0 0— t.) Beef, Mutton, Pork, Butter. per lb. per lb. per - cwt. Ist. ---- d. a d. d. a 0. s. d. a s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s, d. s. d. Cork 44-6 1 —6 33 0 —34 086 0820 67 0020 53 Beef, M utton, per lb. per lb. d. d. (1. —64 —6 —5 I —5 5 5 5,3 —5 0 O 6 —0 5 5 —6 O 0 0 Pork, per - cwt. Ist. — o7Titi. ta. d. a a. d. a. d. s. d. s. d. e. d. a. d. 33 0-34 0186 o 82 0 67 0 62058 U 124 0-40 078 0 72 0 66 0 60 0 54 4 124 0 Q 94 0178 0 —0 00— 00 74 V7O 067 60 050 0 00— 0081080059 au 0— 0 o o— 8 0 0 0 0 0 23 0— 0 084 0 80 0 704.4160 (A— 0 00— 0 0 78 0 72 0 64 0154 0 46 0 d. a Cork .--48 Limerick— 34 Waterford 4 Clorwel 3 Belfast 4 Derry ti Car10w....,. 4 Tralee— 0 KILKENNY MARKET', March 29.—Butter, 90s. to 92w per cwt. ; Bacon Pigs, 38s. to 39.. per ditto; Wheat, 20s. to 235. per barrel ; Barley, 11 s. to 149. ; Oats, Ss. CO 10S.; Flour, 128. to 30s. per bag ; Reef and Mutton, sd. to 6d. per lb. ; Potatoes, 1 id. to 2d. per stone ; Coals, Is. 241. per cwt. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Oatmeal Aberdeen 4/ 58 23 28 18 22 28 32 Berwick----. 32 35 19 21 16 18 Ill) 24 34 30 Coldstream 36 44 21 22 18 19 26 28 Cupar -- 46 62 27 30 22 24 27 30 Dundee— 53 30 24 Elgin 50 51 22 23 22 21 -- Inverness— 52 56 27 ' 29 21 25 44) id Kelso 35 40 21 23 16 18 24 26 Kirkaldy— 50 58 28 30 21 '26 37 33 SS Perth 42 63 IS 21 14 17 12 14 —•-• rr The size of the measure varies throughout the country chr A i.e. ce n r o ta sp ii i t tal ii ( u ß m iu teLo t f se t i l i t oc e l l )7 u belonging oaretanh to thematit.si, navigation, &e., were to have attended at St. James's Palace last Thursday, being the day on which the Atria held his first levee this year, to show his MaJasry specimens of their performances agreeably to their charter, but were prevented front so doing by the present state of abs rooms in the Palace. Mr. POYNDEIL, the Treasurer, there fore attended as the representative of the establishment. MARRIED. On Saturday, at St. James's Church, by the Rev. J. C. Williams, M. A. John Randall, of the Inner Temple, Esq. to Miss Harriet 'Williams, daughter of the late Jelitt Williams, of Lincoln's-inn, Esq. On the 29th inst., at St. Olave's, Hart-street, by the Rev. Dr. Owen, Mr. Henry Nicholls, of Wandsworth, to Eliza, second daughter of Mr. W. Robinson, Mark-lane. on the 2tith inst., Mr. John Dawson, of Kingston upon-Thames, to Louisa Maria, second daughter of the late Richard Clarkson, Esq., of Fairwater-house, Taunton. On the 27th inst., at St. Andrew's, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, John Todd, Esq., of Trashy, Yollothire, to Jane,. eldest daughter of the late Thomas Rutherford, Esq., at Newcastle aforesaid. On the 29th inst., at St. Ann's, Soho, by the Rev. Mr. Mathews, Mr. Lenox Horn, to Miss Michel, of st. James's-place, Hampstead-road. At Kingston Church, Charles William Plummer, Esq., of TorqualiDevon, to Miss Augusta Payne. DIED. On the 29th of August, at Baugbapilly in Mysore,. aged 40, Lieut.-Colonel Peter Latoucbe Chambers, C. 13., of the 41st Regiment of Foot; and, a f ew h ours only pre-. . vious, Emily Ann, wife, aged 38, bath victims to the cholera. Lieut.-Colonel Chambers entered of an Ensign years ago, and has accompanied t g wherever employed. He was engaged in n il i e n t e hße ac e4 t g i l o isn n t l eßn with the Americans ; on many of which occa sions he called forth the thaLks of the commander. During the late war in Ava, where lie continued in service against a ll medical advice, and in spite of ill health and debility. (the effects of a sev ere wound ) , h e was i n seven engage ments with the enemy, in six of which he commanded his corps. In America he lost an eye. For his conduct at Detroit, where be commanded the brigade he had formed, lie received a gold medal. For his services in Ara, (where he was also wounded whilst gallantly leading his men into a stockade), lie was specially selected for a Lieutenant- Colonelcy, and was honoured with the Order of the Bath. About to return to his native country to repair a much shattered constitution, sacrificed to a zealous discharge of his prof e ssional duties, he fell a victim on the same day With hiswife to that scourge of India, cholera...lifadrimi Paper. On Thursday, the 27th inst., at Hastings, Mr. David Nicoll, after a long and painful illness. Pie lived a pattern and an example of true piety and religion, and died iu calm resignation to the will of Providence, deeply regretted and lamented by those in whose service he was engaged, and all whase happiness it was to have en;oydd an acquaintance with him. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by At YOUNG, at the SUN OFFICE, No. 112, Suanoi. U r t Ott WI,: -to rece Eigl To at Del) of Apr the Ist diNgati carts 'fbc o, l :fice. 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