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east. Knowing the dreadful consequences which -must result to both islands from an attempt at sepa ration, that man must be a weak as well as a wicked Minister, who does not exert himself to the utmost, when a crisis is inevitable, to put an end to the cause of contention. The Winchelseas, the Knatch bulls, et 'hoc genus omne, may rave as much as th ey , please, safe in their insignificance, and indebted f or their importance only to the absurdity of their con duct. They can call for blood, like Mr. Horner, because the responsibility of that blood would attach to *very different persons. But the Duke of Wellington is answerable for th e p eace an d tranquil lity of the nation, and were he to allow citizen to im bue his hands in the blood of citizen, his name would go down to the latest times with an execration which would far outweigh the reputation he has earned for his services against a foreign enemy. We alluded yes terday to the attempt of a contemporary (the Standard) to represent the agricultural population as constituting alone the military strength, and fur nishing al one t h e resources o f t h e S ta t e ; an d t h e inhabitant s of cities, and manufacturing population, as the dirt of the State, as serving only to deform it; and we observed, that, on the supposed supe riority of an agricultural population to a manufac turing one, the soi-disani Colonel Philip Roche Fermoy had founded his opinion of the superiority of Ireland to England in a military point of view. This writer, taking the last census of Ireland, finds 1,660,000 of age and constitution capable of bearing arms, of whom 415,000 are Church of England . men, Presbyterians, and other Dissenters, leaving 1,245,000 Catholics. This may be correct enough, but founding on some rash opinions delivered in debate, or in oratorical effusions, as to the unhealthi ness of manufacturing occupations, and not being aware that of the occupations, not agricultural, the greatest portion are not manufacturing in the strict sense, as masons, carpenters, shoemakers, &c. &c., he absurdly limits the military population to persons employed in agriculture to 1,613,887, and arrives at this ridiculous result:—" By the calculation of the Irish population above-stated, the gross military or agricultural population amounts to 3,328,874. No that the military population of Ireland exceeds the military population of England by the difference be: ween 3,328,874 and 1,613,887, viz. by 1 ,714,987, or nearly one million." If the ma nufacturing population be not military, it is odd enough how dining the last war our army was thr:..e to one at least composed of the inha bitsiits of towns. We have heard it state d asion and again, by military men of exp,...ience, that the very finest regino-nts in the service re raised in the m ,n.:fmc:arCrig diarists, and thlt Glasgow and NI-trioh.sqer have sent !Pout• men to the :trey than tigrietilturai di-triet-i of te7 , times their r,pillarmn. The truth ia , that peasantry are not tdventurous i and iti - e -Almost always itragzed into the army, and recruiting. goes on slowly amongst them. We sn , peet, ton, that a peasant becomes sooner rigid than an artisan or manufacturer, and that the milit,ry age with him is shorter. It would he ra ther a melanchely snbject of reflection, if the spread of our manufacturing industry, which has covered the face of the country with towns to a greater extent than even in the Netherlands, should have wrought such havoc in the population, as to render only a small fraction able for military service. But the whole is a gross absurdity. The London apprentices in the days of Cromwell were soon taught to heat the Yeomen ; and the fine Highland Regiments, which, for spirit and discipline, distinguished themselves so much in the Peninsula, were almost exclusively composed of men raised in Glasgow and Belfast. A country is powerful in proportion to the extent of its town population; and it is precisely because Ireland is without towns, that it is so much less powerful than England, the pro portion of the populations being considered. The strength of man is seen in combination ; and it is only in great towns where combination to any extent can be realised. In one sense, however, what Col. Roche Fermoy says is true. The nation, which is powerful to attack from the general industry, is not powerful to defend. Prussia is weak compared with England, for attack ; but though Prussia has a small standing army, she can in a trice put,500,000 men in the field—such men as gained the battles of Den newitz and Katzbach. It was long ago ob served by Sir John Dalrymple, with riference to 1689, on the retreat of 1,500 Scotch to their own country, The panic which they raised wherever they came, and much more where they did not come, exhibited an example which England has'often seen, but never believes until the moment she sees it again, how weak against an attack in her own country is the wealthiest of nations." In 1745, after a resi dence of six weeks in Edinburgh, 2,000 ragged Highlanders marched to within a hundred miles of London without opposition, and nearly overturned the Government. England is, of all countries, the weakest for defence at home, relying exclusively on a standing army. Ireland, both in its situation and the character of its population, could, without any sacrifice, be made infinitely more strong for defence, by a militia, than England. An unoccupied people may as well be soldiers as any thing else.—Morning Chronicle. We are by no means surprised at the virulence kith which all the partisans of the Catholic Faction continue to asail the public meetings and expressions of opinion into which the Protestants have been im pelled by the alarming attitude assumed by the Papists. The Catholics and the Whigs have ever been consistent in their end , however they may hare o ccasionally va r i e d the complexion of the mean; by which they hoped to atta i n i t ;—w i t h their eyes s t ea dily fixed upon one o bj ect—the possession of political power—they never turn to the right or left for the sake of a principle, to skew fairness to an antagonist, or to reject an adherent. They can discern no merit in the liberty which differsfrom there, nor any crime in the licentiousness which is is exercised in their favour. The ravings of a. rebellious mob, if in opposition to the Govern ment and the Establishment, are extolled by them as the overflowings of a generous patrio tism ; and the manly and temperate expression of opinion, if on the side of ancient institutions, is petulantly blamed as the offspring of bigotry and persecution. This sort of cry is not with out its effect on that large mass of mankind who think little for themselves, and are inclined to believe what is frequently told them with vehemence and perseverance; both Whigs and Catholics hare often found their account in it ; and it is therefore perfectly natural, though at first sight it might not appear so, that the same men who upheld the con stitutional propriety of the meetings of Spa!elds and 'Manchester, should attempt to ridicule and decry the more orderly and temperate, the glorious and happy assemblies of Maidstone and Penenden Heath, as the result of ignorance or faction. It is precisely whet we should expect—we had almost said, what we should wish for. But it is not with out surprise and regret that we have observed some p-rson, whops we really believe to be friendly to the Protestant cause, and to wish for the pre servation of a Protestant Church Establishment in these kingdotni, take up a tone on the subject of thes me.-rings wh ch is much more unfavourable to the interests which thy have at heart, than all the rancour of sheer enemies, other damping these laud able ouilne.des of an attachment to our pure reli gion by the " faintness of their praise," or damping the ardour with which they should be exhibited, by the expression of a " hinted fault, and hesitated dis like." Now we wi!l tell these over-cautious and delicate friends of our institutions that this is precisely what their antagonists hope to bully them into. Their grand object is to have all the clamour and vociferation one way ; they wish to make it appear that one sentiment only finds vent, and then they call-if:public opinion; they desire to stifle all de• claiitio'n of feelings on the other side, and then they will boldly procluim that there are no feelings to declire; they hope either to terrify arc Protestants by bluster, or to wheedle them into silence by ringing changes en the terms " irritation," " con ciliation," and the rest of the canting vocabulary of pseudo-liberality, and then to pretend that the tse—Ht: voice of their faction, which. is the only one they would permit to be heard, is the voice of the nation. We entreat our Protestant friends not to be misled by a puerile hope of applause for liberality, from those whose praise is censure in disguise, into tem porising and timid notions, so hostile to the best interests of the country. All institutions that have been overthrown, have been so in consequence of the erroneous supposed security, or apathy, or delicacy of their supporters. The invader alternately lulls by professions, intimidates by numbers, inflames by appeals to the passions; and shall we be not only inert, but silent? The Catholics have met, spoken, and petitioned—let the Protestants con tinue] to meet, speak, and petition ; and the cause of both be then before the tribunal of the nation. We continue to receive the most gratifying accounts of the progress of the Brunswick Clubs throughout the United Kingdom. The reports in our Paper of this day will be read with interest.— The object of the Catholic Agitator is obviously political power ascendancy in the State. It was well and truly observed by one of the speakers, " that the Association which now exists in Dublin, under the name of the Roman Catholic Asso ciation, is a kind of Proteus that assumes various forms, as it best suits its purposes. About seven teen years ago it was called a Meeting of Delegates, and at one of its meetings a mall who is now no more, Dr. Dromgoole, declared that the Roman Catholics would never be satisfied until they had a Catholic King and a Catholic Parliament.— This was called at the time letting the cat out of the bag ; and one of the demagogues has been em ployed from that day to the present trying to put the cat into the bag again, but without effect. Do we not find the same spirit that animated the Roman Catholics of that day still regulating their conduct ? - I —They have fulfilled a part of Dr. Dronzgoole's predictions, for they have established a Roman Ca tholic Parliament in Dublin, from which it has been found necessary to issue a fiat to the King's Procla mation before it would be obeyed by the King's subjects." On the same occasion, when these ob servation/ received the unanimous approval of the meeting, the Noble Chairman, the Earl of Rath , downe, further observed that this was the time when every loyal Protestant was called upon to come forward, fearlessly to declare his sentiments. Let us, said his Lordship, unite and be true to our =elves, and the Protestant cause must prosper. We are met here for the purpose of eatablishing a Bruns wick Constitutional Club, to be founded on the principle of maintaining the integrity of the Consti tution in Church and State. The Brunswick Clubs are formed upon the principle of self-defence; num bers of Cliths have already been formed in various eparts of the country, and such is now the unanimous teeling of the Protestants of the United Eroi:ire that any attemp , on the part of our eneni , es to sithvei.t the Constitution and the laws as at present esta blished, must be frustrated.—Aforning Post. It is now confidently stated that two, if not three new Judges are to be immediately added to the pre sent number, who, in addition to.other duties, are to supply the place of fhe whole of the present Welsh Judicature. If this latter report be correct, another cannot be, but which has reached us at the same time—viz. that Mr. Edward Goulburn, the brother of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been appointed to the Welsh Judgeship, vacated some months ago by the resignation of Mr. Ralguy ; for if it be the intention of Ministers to do away with Welsh Judges altogether, to appoint any one to a vacancy in the interim would only tend to increase the claims for compensation which the country will not fail to hear of. But, besides additional new Judges, some of the present number are, it is said, on the eve of resigning, on account of their advanc ed age; which, together, will swell the tide of legal promotion far beyond its usual bounds. The retire ment of persons from duties which they are no longer competent to discharge is at all times desirable; and is, from a principle of delicacy towards the indivi duals, often not acted upon with the decision which is due to the public. Few people are themselves persuaded, or easily conscious, of their own infir -1 • mities; for the Poet has truly enough said--- " All men think all men mortal but themselves ;" and tell all mem of that which they are at all times unwilling to hear is an ungracious task at least, to say nothing of the motives which are sometimes im puted to it. To relieve thiS awkwardness on the one hand, and to save the country, on the other, from the inconvenience attendant on men continuing to hold office after they are unfit to discharge its duties, it would he a good general regulation if what is considered " the age of man" viz. 70, were the limit beyond which no man were allowed to hold any public situation of active trust and responsibility; for, though " men be so strong that they come to fourscore," yet it is impossible not to see that the fa culties begin to fail generally before the first of these ages, and that it is due both to the individual and the community that he. should be withdrawn from a scene, which the more his manhood may have em bellished, the more his dotage is calculated to dis grace. But great part of the evil arises from men being often appointed to office in this country too late in life—long after the best ener gies, both of the mind and body, are gone by. We :Jiould say, not only that no man should be allowed to continue in office after 70, but that no one should he appointed to a per manent one after 50. Mr. Peel, the present Horne Secretary—himself a young man—rnut see and know the importance to the country, of its possess ing the best years of a man's life ; and would do well, in the departments over which he presides, to permit no man to enter upon office for the mere chalice of qualifying himself for a retiring pension. Judges and Magistrates, for instance, though they should be men of experience, and of staid habits, need not be on the verge of old-womanhood before they commence their career. The man who is not fit for any situation at 30, in all probability never will be. The situation of a Judge may be an ex ception to this ; but we doubt whether, all circum stances considered, it is.—Morning Herald. W e have inserted in another part of our Paper a letter from a Correspondent in Kent, relative to our account of the great Meeting on Penenden Heath; and far be it from us us ever to refuse a place to the observations of any one who thinks that he has even ground to find fault with our arrangements, while his communication is clothed in language but one degree removed from Billingsgate. We pledge ourselves to nothing which we have not a rational expectation of realizing ; and if we do occasionally fail (though we are not aware of any part i cular instance), the failure ought in justice to beattributed to circumstances whose o occurr ence it was imp oss ibl e to foresee, rather than to impose w e o n a ourre not only alnn y th p e re e m a e s d e it a a l t l e u d de a d tte t m o! attempt to ver free from blame, but, as our correspondent's letter Martially testifies, have received commendations from all quarters , which it would scarcely be cons i stent t h decorum to publish and ample accou nt of the s p eech of Mr. Sheil, has • excited the ire of more than one of tho se w h o would rather that that speech had never been spo k en. The. latter testimony i s perhaps the best — at least the most satisfactory to u s, and we therefore freely • - diTense with making known others might thers which be considered of a more questionable character. While While on this subject, however, w e cannot n r7ni the opportunity of mentioning, that not withstar ding l i' s all that has been said respecting Mr. She • d to himofthose in none who are oppose principle have yet ventured to attack it either on the score of eloquence, soundness of argument, or correctness in point of facts. The ultra Tory prints have, in fact, got up a trifling dispute re specting the speech having been spoken or not Spoken, in order to avoid' the discussion of its grounds; and to this moment it remains without an answer from any one of • those who were formed) , so furious against the conclusions which he drew. Some of them, in fact, appear to be anxious - that the friends of civil and religious liberty should invite him `to a dinner, in order that he might again overthrow the enemy, and " thrice slay the slain." We cor- dially join in : the same wish. Truth can only be elicited by discussion and therefore which ever way the scales incline, the more of it the better.--• Mor ning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE• BOW-STREET. Yesterday a gentleman, whose name did not transpire, waited upon Mr. Mrssituu, the sitting Magistrate, to request his assistance to enable him to recover two shillings from the proprietors of the Adelphi Theatre. Ihe gentleman added, that it was not - the object of the money which had brought him forward, but a desire if poss►ble to check a very great abuse which existed at the theatre in question. The complainant then stated, that he went at half price admission to the boxes of the Adelphi Theatre on Monday night last, in company with a foreign gentleman. They paid two shillings each, and ex pected of course to have found the usual accommo dation of seats to witness the entertainments. On reaching the interior of the theatre, they found to their very great disappointment that not a seat was to be had, and they accordingly returned to the money-taker, and demanded of him the,amountwhich they had paid for their admission. The money taker refused to refund a 6d., although he admitted that he had not told either the applicant or his friend that there was only standing-room. The gentleman said, that conceiving that such a proceed ing was, in point of fact, obtaining money under false pretences, and knowing that, according to the Act of Parliament, peace-officers were about the house to preserve order and protect the public from being robbed, he asked for a constable, and one being pointed out to him, he desired him to take the individual into custody by whom he conceived he had been defrauded. The officer, however, whose name was Prosser, declined to interfere, stat ing that the money-taker was always to be found. He then joined a group of women of a certain de scription, and actually began to laugh at the appli cant and his friend. Mr. MINSHULL said that such conduct on the part of an officer was highly censurable. With respect, however, to the charge of imposition, the applicant must go to the Court of Requests, where no doubt he would recover his money. " But, Sir," answered the applicant, " suppose I was so situated as that I had occasion to leave town the next Morning, where would be my remedy ? Surely some person ought to be in attendance at the theatre, to give immediate satisfaction to persons who conceive themselves aggrieved, or, at all events, I conceive it to be duty of the managers to follow the example of other theatres, by putting up a board announcing to the public th►ai a:aiding room could only be obtained. Mr. MINSIIULL asked the gentleman if he had en deavoured to see either of the managers. The gentleman answered that he went to the pit entrance for the purpose of having an interview with either Mr. Yates or Mr. Matthews ; bat was told by a servant that neither of those gentlemen was acces sible. He then went round to the stage-door, and handed his card to the person in waiting there, who refused to take it to either of the gentlemen he had named. " Having a foreigner with me," added the applicant, " I own I felt shaMe and mortification at the contrast which such conduct bore to the manner in which the theatres on the continent are conduct ed : and I must say that there appears to me to be neither honour nor honesty in taking money without giving the stipulated value. When a man enters u theatre, he does it under the implied understanding that accommodation woald be afforded him, unless he had previous notice to the contrary, either from the party who accepts his money or by means of a board Announcing the fact. Mr. MINSIIULL again referred the applicant to the Court of Requests for redress, and the latter withdrew. A gentleman who was sitting on the bench ob served, that a practice existed amongst the box keepers at the Royal Theatres, which was even more reprehensible than that which had just been the sub ject of complaint. A friend and he had lareiy gone to Covent-gardpn Theatre on a crowded night, and anxious to obtain seats (not having previously be spoken them), they applied to one of the box keepers, who shook his head, declaring that there was not a seat to spare. Knowing, however, that those gentlemen had " itching palms," one of the gentlemen said, " We have no objection to pay you, if you provide us with a seat--how much do you require ?" The box-keeper bowed low, and said " He always left the amount to the liberality of gen tlemen." Half a crown was then offered to him, but the box-keeper declined to accept of it, stating that he could not afford the accommodation required under ss. My friend and I, added the gentleman, " sooner than lose the entertainment, gave him the amount he demanded. (The gentleman should have acquainted the manager with the fact, and the box-keeper would no doubt, have been dis missed.") The gentleman who came to this office a short time ago to complain of his having been knocked down and robbed of a considerable sum of money, in Bank of England notes, in a passage leading from the Temple to his lodgings in Atundel-street, came before Mr. MiNsuum, yesterday, to make affidavit that he had not been in a house of ill-fame on the night in question. The gentleman said, that he had waited upon the magistrate to swear to the above fact, in consequence of the reports which he saw that morning in the newspapers, announcing that Smith, the officer, had given it as his opinion (which opinion had been echoed by Sir R. Birnie and Mr. Halls), that he, the applicant, could have lost his money in no other way than in an house of ill-fame. Mr. MINSRULL said he knew nothing of the case himself, but he was sure, from the character of Smith, that he must have bad some grounds for such a statement. As the gentleman, however, had come forward to contradict it upon oath, the con clusio►► to which Smith had come was clearly with out foundation. After some further conversation the gentleman was sworn to the above fact, and retired. Contrary to the practice pursued by the magistrates of this office since the passim -, of Mr. Peel's Act, giving magistrates power to inflict fines in cases of assault, Mr. MlNsituLL fined several parties yester day who came before him as defendants in assault cases. The persons so fined were well able to bear their respective penalties. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday a fine-looking young girl, between six teen and seventeen years of age, named Jane Prior, in the most abject state of misery and destitutie;., was brought before Mr. WHITE. Richard Chevell, a police-officer, stated that he saw the poor girl sitting on the step of a gentleman's door, in Parliament-street, and watched her for nearly two hours ; she did not attempt to beg, but appeared to him almost in a dying state, which he at first imagined was an imposition to excite compassion. He at last went up to her, and found her in extreme suffering from cold and hunger, and scarcely able to support herself; he imrnediareiy got her some food, and brought her to the office. The unfortunate gill stated that she was the only daughter of Mr. James Prior, a f:,w years ago an eminent wipe-merchant in Bath ; she had been educated at several schools in that city, and the last she was at was the Albany Academy for young ladies. About two years ago her father failed in busines s , and in a few months after died of a paraly tic stroke, brought on by anxiety of mind. She re tired with her mother to an obscure lodging in Wil liam-street, Bath, but her mother only survived her father a few week s , t h e s h oc k at h er reverse o f for tune being too m uc h f or h er to h ear. What Was left of their property was not more than paid the ex penses of her mother's f unera l, ant i a f ter rema i n i n g a few weeks 114 Bath, to endeavour to get some em ployment, she found she had no friends, and all her mother's relations lived in Wales. She therefore came to London, and adve rt i se d in the .news papers for a situation as a servant, which she at last obtained. The last place she left Ivas at Mr. Loscomb's, No. 28, Great Marlborough street, and she then went to an obscure lodg ing, where .she was robbed of all her clothes and money by some of the lodgers; and being destitute of money to pay for her bed, she was at length turned out of doors, without a shilling or a home to go to. This was about six weeks ago, and to sup port nature, being totally destitute, she was com pelled to throw herself upon the town for support. The dreadful life was to her insupportable; she had endeavoured to get into the Magdalen, and also into another asylum, but was given to understand they were quite full. She had wandered about the streets for the last three nights, having no bed to go to, and in a fainting state from cold and want of food, she had sat down on the steps of the door, as described by the officer, but she could not beg. Chevell said, he believed her story to be correct; she was different in her manner from the numerous impostors about town, and he was quite sure she was almost starving when he first spoke to her. The poor girl's eyes were in a dreadful state of inflam mation from her exposure to the cold. Mr. WHITE ordered her to be taken care of in St. Margaret's workhouse until something could be done for her. HATTON-GARDEN. George Hughes Byrn, who stated himself to be a conveyancer, and who it appears is one of those individuals who traffiek in the money-lending line, and keeps an office in St. James's-place, Pall-mall, was yesterday brought up before the sitting Magis trates, Mr. ROGERS and Mr. LAING, in custody of Kimpton, the warrant-officer, by the parochial autho rities of St. Pancras, on a charge of deserting his wife, and suffering her to become chargeable to the parish. The complainant, Catherine Byrn, an aged fe male, reduced, yet still looking respectable, stated that she:was deserted by the defendant, who, dur ing the 13 months, never contributed a single shil ling' towards her maintenance, but left her solely depending on the precarious kindness and liberality of her friends, and that whenever their contributions failed, she had no other resource than in an applica tion to the pariah, which from time to time within the above period advanced her some pounds for her support, until her friends would take her into their consideration again. Mr. ROGERS—What is your husband ? Com plainant—l don't know what to say he is: he was a journeyman hatter when I married him. Defendant—l have never been a hatter in my life; nor have I, your .worships, as she states, deserted her. I have been bred a conveyancer, and for some time had an extensive and respectable practice; but in consequence of a variety of untoward circum stances, having unfortunately become insolvent, I was lodged by my creditors in the Kine's Bench prison, where I lay for several months, and its now not more than three or four weeks since I obtained my enlargement. Mr. ROGERS—This may be all true, but the law will not suffer you to leave your wife chargeable to the parish funds. Defendant—l have not, Sir. I have made a settlement upon her of 301. a year, to be paid for her use to her trustees, the deed of which settlement is now in their hands. Complainant—l have never received one penny of it, nor has it been paint. _ _ . Mr. ligGEßs—l have nothing to tlo with your dee 1.. Indemnify the parish for the expence it is and has been at, for the maintenance of your wife. Defendant—l will, Sir. Mr. Roanns—Thea do it immediately. But where are the means to do it with to come from ? De fendant—From my profession as a conveyancer. If you, Sir, will indulge me for a short titste, I shall be enabled to get plenty of money. Mr. Coulthart, one of the overseers, stated to the Magistrates that this was not the first time the de fendant had been before them upon a similar charge, and under the very same circumstances, and handed to them the warrant for his former apprehension. He added, that having some time ago personally called upon him at his lodgings, where he then seemed to be in rather splendid circumstances, to endeavour to bring him to some accommodation with the parish, he threw down upon the table two .5/. notes, and told him if he waited on his attdrney in the Strand, a day or two subsequently, he should there receive those 10/., but he (Mr. Coulthart) was however del ceived by him, for having on - the appointed day called to receive the money, he was informed that none had been left, and received moreover a very discreditable character of the defendant. He was indebted to the parish now V., and it was his (the overseer's) instructions to press the immediate pay ment of this sum. The Magistrates ordered him to pay it, or fital securities; and in default thereof committed him to prison. Twenty informations were yesterday laid by Byers the informer, against William Fitzhugh, pawnbroker, of Church-passage, St. Pancras, Somers-town, for offences against the pawnbroker's statute, all of which, with the exception of one, were dismissed ; but upon that one the defendant was fined ios. and the costs. He appealed, however, from the convic tion, and immediately put in bail to bring the case before the sessions. UNION-HALL. It will be recollected a young man of genteel ap pearance and address, named IVm. Birmingham, was brought up to this office a few days ago on a charge of stealing a shawl and a Bible from the landlord of the house where be had formerly lodged. In the course of the investigation it appeared that the prisoner, who had served his time to a chyrnist in Limerick, came to this country about five months ago, in the expectation of obtaining employment at his profession, but failed in his application. Finding there was no chance of procuring a situation, he determined on proceeding to the West Indies, and to eatry his intention into effect, his mother, a re spectable widow in Ireland, with a large family de pendent on her for support, remitted him 301. to enable him to defray the expense of his passage. Soen after the receipt of the above sum, he was robbed of the whole of it, with the exception of a few pounds, by some of the sharpers that abound in this metropolis. The remaining portion he sub sisted upon until it was exhausted, after which he was driven to the greatest extremities. Ilaving no friends in London, aad being unable to pay fur lodg ings, he was necessitated to seek shelter many nights under the shambles of Fleet-market. It was while suffering under these privations the unfortunate young man committed the offence for which he was taken into custody, and brought tb this office. The Ma gistrate (Mr. Hone) before whom the case was in vestigated, conceiving the offence to be one of an aggravated character under all the circumstances, left it in the hands of the prosecutor whether he should press it, at the same time pointing out those miti gating circumstances which he deemed favourable to the prisoner. The prosecutor, however, was insensible to the appeal on his feelings, and the pri soner was, consequently committed for trial. Since his committal, lie was tried at the last Surrey Ses sions, and found guil t y, but the Court having, been apprised of his hith erto un i m p ea chable character, and also taking i nto cons id erat ion the deplorable state of poverty to which he was reduced previous to the commission of the offence, passed a very lenient sentence upon him—namely, fourteen days' impri sonment in the House of Correction. Since the prisoner's conviction, several benevolent and amongst them a Magistrate of Surrey, having read the report of his case which appeared in this paper, under the head of " Union-hall," and feeling for his destitate condition, have charitably entered into a subscription to release his clothes out of pledge, and also to furnish him with the means of defraying the expenses of his passage to Jamaica, where he is desirous of proceeding, in the sanguine expectation that he shall be enabled to procure em ployment at hi; profession, either in that island or on some of the plantations in the vicinity of it. Mr. T. P. COURTENAY has arrived in town from his seat in Kent. CHINESE DOCTRINE OF RETRIBUTION. The prevailing opinion in China is that virtue will be prosperous, and vice miserable ; bat facts do not always support this theory ; therefore, they suppose that when the virtuous are afflicted, their virtues are incomplete; and when the vicious are prosperous, their iniquities arc not yet full. Like money out at compound interest, when the payment comes soon it is small, when it comes late it is great. --Retribution long delayed on the wicked will fall heavily, The Chinese mind, often sceptical, does not readily fall into the idea that a future state of retri bution will make all equitable. It admits this occa sionally, but does not revert to it as the most easy solution for the prosperity of the wicked. There is a work in two volumes, the, title of which promises " P roo f s o f P rov id ence from the Twenty-two Historians." The preface professes to quote only from the most sober grave history, in contradistinction to low legendary tales; but it fails. —Many extravagant stories are introduced, which throw discredit on the whole. In the work there is no recognition of the great Creator and Governor of the universe, infinitely wise, just, and good; but a confused assumption of some mysterious connection between virtue and happiness, vice and misery, in the order of nature. Among the examples taken from history, great warriors who have been cruel are marked with peculiar reprobation. The follow ing is a specimen : Pik-ke, a General under the first universal eastern Monarch, 'lain (whence Chin-a), who in his mas ter's service had sacrificed nearly a million of human beings, afterwards refused to enter on new'conquests. In consequence of which the King of Tsin was en raged, and presented a sword to the General that he might put an end to his own life in a manner be coming his rank. Pik-ke hesitated, and asked him self why heaven had doomed him to this. Re flecting a long time, he at last burst out and mid,' I deserve, indeed, to die ; in the battle of Chan; ping, when 7 or 800,000 men submitted, I, by stratagem, engulfed and slew them all. This is a sufficient cause of any untimely death.' He forthwith cut his throat and killed himself." In a subsequent period, a girl of Nankin, aged 17, who had never learned to read, became ill, and when at the point of death she thus expre,sed herself: "I am The General Chang pib, who, a firmer life, murdered 800,000 men. I am downed to eternal misery in hell; but have of late received permission to appear in this world, pro vided I be restricted to the female sex, and always die under 20 years of age. This, the day of my death, is decreed by Fate." Having said this, she died. The author of this compilation wishes readers to believe in Providence; but how ill are his pious brands calculated to produce the effect I How de sirable to give more light to the Heathen ! OLD BAILEY, OCT. 29. These Sessions having terminated, the RECORDER proceeded to pass sentence upon the prisoners con victed. In consequence of the Learned Judges (PARE and GARROW) having signified their inten tion of attending the Court on Tuesday, for the purpose of trying Joseph Hunton on a second in dictment for forgery, the sentences on those un hippy persons who have already been capitally con victed was postponed until that day, in 'older that they may all receive sentence together. This ar rangement excited considerable surprise among those who attended to witness the awful ceremony, and we believe it is altogether without precedent. The Recorder, Sheriffs, &c. first proceeded to the 'Old Court, where thirty-eight prisoners were dis charged by proclamation. Upon their return to the NeW Court, sentence was passed upon the following prisoners TRANSPORTED FOR LlFE.—Henry Reed, George Carr, Margaret Lyons and Sarah Brown. TRANSPORTED FOR FOURTEEN YEARS.—Williain Jordan, (this prisoner addressed the Court, and stated that IQ had been advised by his Counsel that if he pleaded guilty he would only be punished by six months' impri,onment, and under their direction he had done so, otherwise he .would not have pleaded guilty; he was in very distressed circumstances, and had a wife and five children)—Thomas Smith, John Stockings, Thomas Bunn, Ann Paget, (convicted of receiving stolen goods, and inciting young children to commit robberies)—James Copping, Michael Maloney, Mary Williams, Maria Cozens, William Kimbley, Wiliam Allensby,(formerly a police-ollicer) —Henry Cooper, and Henry Edwards, (for em bezzling 101. the property of his mother). TRA - NSPORTED roR SEVHN YuAgs.—John Davis, Thomas Stevens, Richard Hooper, Henry Jones, John - Simpson, Celia Henley, Mary Cannon, Thos. Church, John Knox alias 'Wilson, John Recs (for obtaining goods from several tradesmen under false pretences), George Curtis, John King, William Bracken, Thomas Belnap, Henry Brown, Thomas Bullock, Samuel Ashton, Thomas Ansel!, William Hardy,Charles Hendrick, George Fell, James Shear man, James Newland, Miles Oliver, Patrick Riley, George Harnett, Mary Walker (for pot-stealing), Shelman White, Thomas Cooper, Hannah Low ther, Ann Smith, John Barrett, Win. Payne, John Vickery, Elizabeth Burgin, Ann Barnett, Henry Hastings, Mary Reeves, Robert Smith, John Simp son, Joseph Mills, John Parker, Catherine Turner alias Dunn, Richard Truelove, Henry Mackenzie, John Howard, William Taylor, Caroline Thomas, Thomas Evans, James Doyle, Mary Clancey, Su sannah Ttnbett, Abraham Bates, Thomas Myers, Elizabeth Leslie, John Jones, William Tidmarsk, Robert Butler, Maria Williams, Charles Langley, Clara Kempton alias Langley, and Henry Panic. George Curtis and Thomas Smith, convicted on two indictments, charging them with robbing i jewellers' shops, were sentenced to seven. years transportation for the first offence, and a further period of seven years for the second. The number of those sentenced to imprisonment for various periods, was as follows Two for eighteen months ; six for twelve months ; t for nine months ; nineteen for six months; twenty-eight for three months; eight for two months; three for six weeks ; thirteen for one month; and several for shorter periods. Two were sentenced to be publicly whipped, and thirty-six were discharged by proclamation. .. The Judgment of the Court was respited upon the following prisoners :--William Bourne, Samuel Cushion (two very young boys who were induced to rob their parents by a woman named Ahn Paget, and who was convicted of receiving the stolen property, and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation) .John Dye, George Hind, George Eggs, Wiiliam Rogers, Louisa hlugald, and Ann Mary Clarke. The Court then adjourned until nine o'clock on Tuesday morning. Extract of a letter from Carthagena, dated 20th August:—" SANTANDSR is proceeding slowly to Bogota to answer for his crimes, and it will go hard with him, as PADILLA has turned informer against him. The President (I3oLivalt) is making great changes for the better, and every thing will go on well. I never had a better opinion of Colombia. General MONTILLA has been ap. ointed Civil and Military Chief of Panama, Carthagena, and Maracaibo ; and CHITTY, General-Commandant of the Naval Department of the same provinces.' MINISTERIAL PROWESS.—AbOIIt tiNo weeks age, near Cawston toll-bar, as the Rev. Mr. ---. was re turning home, at night, from Glasgow, and when within about three-quarters of a mile from Bishop Brigs, he was suddenly attacked by a foot-pad, who, with one blow, made him reel to the centre of the road, but immediately reco vering from his surprise, and before th e m i screan t h a d time to repeat the blow, the Minister struck him severely several times, which soon brought him to the ground : while down, the Minister handled him pretty roughly, which soon made him ask for quarter. lie was then ordered to his legs, seized by the collar, and dragged hack to Ctwston toll-house; where, after being severely rebuked and admonished, and showing a considerable deal of penitence, he was suffered to depart.—Stirling Journal. BIRTH. At Gosport, on the Qlat Mat., the lady of Illtae William Dodsley Flaineteed, Esq., of his Majesty' , z` Brigade, of a sou. MARI On the 2bth inst., at Richm ß ond, ED. by the Rev. B. 1 " kt o John Enableton, Esq., of Bambrough, to Eleanora, dat t ,r d p of the late David Nicoll, Esq , of Nottingham-places i m " lebOnone. .., o el the 29th inst., at St. °lave's, Southwark, Ste Boon!, Esq., of Bristol, to Charlotte Anne, eldest d st *" ofJohn Cock, Esq., of Tottenham. of the On the 20th inst., at Exeter, Walter Oka Edye• o f Middle Temple, Esq., to Charlotte, ',wad daugb Thomas Turner, of the same city, Esq. of On the 22d inst., in Dublin, John Armstrong, -' a xles the Island of Grenada, to Eliza, eldest daughter of Cl' Nearer, of Dorset-street, in that city, Esq. a jar At Half-way Tree Church, in the Island of .10' q ue Lachlan John Campbell, Esq., to Elizabeth, daughter 9' the late Dugald Campbell, Esq., of Waterhouse estato, parish of St. Andrew'''. balls On the 10th inst., at Lochee, the Rev. David ga r ? t pastor of the united associate congregation in Liadir e ' Christina, eldest daughter of Mr. James Scott, of 1.0 4 7 i i, On the 23d inst., at the Quakers Meeting-hour, ban Joseph Jowitt, Esq., to Mary, only daughter of Jon't Lupton, Esq. DIED. *Ai has On the 27th inst., at Richmond, Surrey, Mr. Forty, aged O. On the 29th inst., at Hackney, aged three years, Broil! youngest daughter of Mr. John Freese. On the 24th inst., in New Norfolk-street, after fe d days' illness, Dr. Francis Burton, of the Royal Lancers.. On the 28tti inst., Mr. Charles Edward Lillie, at /1 house, Sion College-gardens, Aldermanbury. On the 28th inst., at Brantley, near Guildford, aft4 c o l severe and lingering illness, aged 28, Sophia, the wife . ,; James Mallock, Esq., of Southampton-street, Bloor bury-square. On the 28th inst. at Penton-place, Newington, finr r e , in the 82d year of her age, Mary, relict of Richard Peg Esq., late of Lenscre-hall, near Ashford, Kent. On the 15th inst., at the residence of her daug hte ,;: ' Aldford, near Chester, Mrs. Jane Nicholson, late of C"'' well, Essex, relict of the late Rev. Isaac Nicholson. oe, On the 20th inst., at Windsor, the Rev. G. Charne° aged 77. e— the Paten and PUBLSIM RP by MURDO YOUNG , 111 box 01 , 11.... E, 112, STRAND, LONIKIV. THE MARKETS. COAL Adair' s ------ 33 Oct. Gray's Stearn t oat 3t o Heaton .35 6 I-L.l4mm Main 31 6 Holywell— 83 0 Kilhngworth 33 9 Liddell's Maim— . 30 6 Ord's Red hiigh 30 0 Pelaw Pontep Windsor 31 0 Shipeote , 32 0 Tanfield Willington Vylam Walls End Bell and Co. 34 9 Ditto Bell Robson& Co. 35 3 Dittoßewickeand Co.— 3: 0 Ditto Brown's 33 3 Ditto Burraton . 33 9 Ditto Carr and 31 3 Ditto Clarke and Co. .r a? (4 Ditto Crandington— 30 0 Ditto Hilda Ditto Motspur---... 33 Ditto Jesmond 35 9 Ships at market. 10,9 1 ,4 —SI :ET.—Oct. D l l :i:t a tt t tt l o , :: l N l 4 : ie o dr r d dk t t h N iin s i e tit . Ditto ItusSell's - 5 9 Ditto Walker :v .. 6 Lainbton's Primrose 6 Harraton 0 Nesham Walls End Helton..----. 9 Walls End Lambton...... Walls End 1.) - ons........1 0 Walls End Stzwart's , r a 3 RusselPsHetton'sW.E. 6 Cowpeii _ '. 0 „ 1 0 Hartley Silkstoneyopplewell & g Co . p Silkstone Field and Co. 6 W. E. Walls End Elgin . / I'd Tantield ' 'alls End small Durham '°ld 65%-Unsold► N MA1114.1.71'3 DURING THE WO COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING Tug Wit eat. I Ballay. Oats. Behr Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to 6. el • Abingdon 68 84 35 42 35 42 Andover.-- 78 30 23 r 46 Birmingham—. 53 81 32 36 22 36 5 5 t3ridport 62 76 32 39 26 28 1 44 Cirencester GO 84 35 40 23 32 -- 46 • Faringdon—...— 48 75 36 ai 24 31 -- 55 Guildford Henley 5O 76 32 43 26 31 -- Hereford 64 86 46 50 42 Highworth - ' Maidenhead Oakin gh am Sfi 70 30 36 21 23. 42 , Reading Salisbury 80 94 38 42 28 32 -- 56 Southampton .M,•.52 '76 37 40 30 .32 -- . Stroud 65 80 32 35 28 32 -- (1) Tewkesbury Uxbridge —.--. 65 84 136 42 24 32 -" 55 Wan tage —..- 59 '7B I 213 32 21 28 - 45 - Warminster 52 84 I'4 42 1.8 38 -- Windsor—. 31 96 •36 43 22 36 •-• W0ree5ter........... 168 80 36 43 28 36 HULL MARKET.—Oct. 0. ~. of This day's market met with a very limited she 7;,,, Wheat from the farmers, for which sa. per qr. :.'tore T y demanded than last week—the millers, however, serf !be lurtantly gave 2s. to Se. per qr. and the market dull s i ,: o advance. Bonded Wheat is more required alter. W I ; het parcels sell freely at out quotations. Beans and Peas e ls free or in bond, are not in much demand at present a,i t , pricy tally be noted the same as last week. Foreign are almost without enquiry; on the contrary, shoes qi , ,,, lock are good to sell at advancing prices, for which 'l , Ye t o fer to our quotations. Barley iA extretnely dull, sad - ;• sales been pressed, lower prices must have been the ol er t o qu,nce: Norfolk Barley was offering ineffectually at 48 1 ; 4.35. ; the inaltstws have not yet generally commenced s": r o f ing. and appear inclined to wait, rather than to 0 !Li. stock, at present prices. Linseed is full as dear. ftal , II to 2/. per last higher than our last quotations. ', / ja.. Wheat, Old SOs. Rls. —s. Now ...4• a l t ,01k . --.- Foreign —s. 70s. 80Q. ..-.. In bond ... ...4.. •"'"' 900. Oats, Poland —,. 21s. 2f.s. Old .... „ ......5. Email or Feed.... —s. IRs. '2 is. . -4...- .4 „;.4. --- Foreign —6. 245. 2es. Barley, Norf. & Sut —6 40s. 43a. Line. & Wold ....4. 4431 ".0h Foreign ....4. -- 4- „A. Beans -12s. bts. 455. Foreign ...... ... •••" 6 . ' 46 40' Pease, White Q. 48s. .',os. Grey ....s. Tares —s. 40s. Ws. Foreign 34.. 40 , 9 21; Rapeseed, in tiond none. numnuEs mAßKEas.—Oct. 22. J• S. el. i.d. s.d. Wheat, Imp. Bush... 8 0 to 8 6 Butter, Ifioz oo o o'l Barley 442 4 6 Eggs, dozen 0 0 0 Oats '2 6 2 8 Beef, per lb. Flour, 111 b. Oatmeal Potatoes, cwt.........., 0 0 I Quartern Loaf - O B, • CATTLE MARKET.—This was decidedly the bee' tended cattle m ar k e t th a t we h a v e this eeaeon. J 3 ,5' al hoer of noon, independ e ntly , of the cattle on the &na g ' ft the roads and streets in the direction of the market " I t literally crowded with beeves, and from a rough aec° l ';- which we took, we think that the following may be c° o sidered as something near the total and respective nutou'rr of the beasts which were shown, vie., 1,214 three-Ye. olds and upwards; 1,013 two-years-olds ; 851 14 0 ,1 landers ; 943 Galloway and Irish stirks ; 527 quer' $ heifer., and 31 cows—total 4,579. The Gal lao lc were the principal stock exposed, and we question if a better show graced the Sands of Dumfrise. market was well attended with dealers, and many bundr7 d . of the heavy cattle were sold by one o'clock ; by' O rs o'clock every thing that was saleable, and whose oAD were disposed to be reasonable , and comply with o r ra m er a e, rke f t r , on w , were so all we ld off.couid Tll:aern,pricelom_(° Drove o ca r tt t le he w the same as those which hare been given for the last fel', weeks—still some persons hinted that, from the imtrieliP e quantity of stock exposed, and the bad acce,unts from 6r ' Faith's, the prices were scarcely so good as formerly; for a brief period, made the market a slow one, and tb general remark was, that it was " brisk for young , 7 1 - , hanging tier heavy bullocks." Stirks in Borne eafee Poil,Out Of all character, as well 48 two-years-olds, in one Or instances. Prices even advanced for some of these, ti ° o o we cast hardly give the increase a name. The be ' O , lots in the market, made up of four and five-yeare - l o r were a fine specimen of the Gallaway breed of cattle-- - bi , were indeed all fit for killing, and were sold early e day, but we have not been able to ascertain the price - ' - , beard it stated to be nearly 151. per head : if our iciforinla lion is correct, this will be the highest price that bag b e : - realized in eur market this season. A numbea of ° ,, t ",: r • lots, nut much inferior in point of c o n ditio n t o those ev -' nientioned, were exp o S e d, an d we o b serve d the f' d ll / ,' chaser's tar-mitek on almost all of them early it' t e, afternoon. Three-years-olds sold in general at frOu l 1 ,1 5 10s. to 11/. Two or three lots of Irish three-year n -°l were expesed, but we heard of only one being sold, wh ic ,. brought 8/.135. The show of Highland heavy cattle ‘t fair--they were neatly all from Falkirk Tryst, and 'peul, with a quick sale ; we . heard of only one lot being or' L 9° „,, The young cattle, generally rpeaking, were asood e 9 t t . but we observed some very inferior cattle in the rinarP e ,, c An immense deal of business had been done in the be!', sorts of them by mid-day, and prices were 'considered Bair we know, however, that a Dumber of atirks and two-Y 6l i r d. s olds were driven off unsold. Galloway two-yearli;,,°lo - at from Si. to 9/. Highlanders of the ante age ");.• 4!. to 6!. 10s. and stirks much the same as last Atl e hut We don't expect to tee such another show this seaso n ', , he we are happy in b e ing a bl e t o speak so favourably' or 4, 0 , result of this one. The lots brought from Falkirk left' s . holders, in most eases, a fair profit, although a few 0 plaints met us that the reverse had been the case. ItSDAT, Om 23.—We have learned t.-day the a, considerable quantity of cattle, which were driven off:0 sold yesterday, have been disposed to-day at the ° 1 / 4 _ (?T , *me, Daent t , bolt 1 thi ,T. Vfh( teril ta ofd tbei Zeit% x'ol_l rarell 41iinat e Attkel woad, a. A f a ndell ' V erY d lad w t No n f ro b hiP, ar ALI 4,1 the 'Filtered ' VE Ora 41 , 101 Dinti 1 ", 41 h .tria r ,f 4 101,134 'tikf t u r tin t i t% (Sim Co a , 14k "Fire binn, aad A air w i t 1 " 1 "et, ti1;6214,x1 4