The Sun. — London, England, 1828-06-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THI PUBLIC JOURNALS. The public is ax:quainled with the circumstance that a civil wax exists in Portugal, in consequence of the assumi2;aO n of regal powers by the Regent. The beadlVlArters of the party opposed to the usurpa tion are at Oporto ; and a blockade of that harbour has been declared by the chief of the other party. T..tie event is thus announced to the British public by the aut*rities of our country : " BLOCKADE OF OPORTO. " Foreign-Office, June 24, 1828. " 81 4.—1 am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to ac "o44' volt, for the information of the Committee of that intelligence has been received at this office I • Lad en effective blockade of the bar of the city of Oral to has been declared by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal.—l am, Sir, your's, &c. Er.c. (Signed) " DUNGLAS. " To the Secretary of Lloyds." We do not exactly know wh3t is meant by this announcement. It is very proper, no doubt, to call the blockade effective; for no blockade that is not effective—no blockade which does not possess ade quate means for enforcing its own execution—is in any degree to be regarded. But if our Govern meat means to have it inferred that because this blockade is effective it is therefore legal, we think they are in error. Of two independent king doms, acknowledged by the voice of Europe to be such, one has a right, if it has the means, to declare a port of the other in a state of blockade, and thereby to exclude neutrals; but this rule teas never applied to two parties exist ing in one rea and engaged in civil conflict with each other. The law of blockade has reference to an international, - and not an internal war,—to a war of States, end not to a conflict of parties. We are of opinion, therefore, that the blockade of the bar of Oporto is illegal, if it be' meant to affect aliens; and should be disregarded by independent Powers, as it ought to have -been disregarded by the Mini sters of Great Britain, except in so far as every Go vernment is in duty bound to warn its seafaring sub jects of foreign dangers suddenly discovered, as of rocks not before laid down, or of pirates. The Ame- Ticans will regard this blockade of Oporto very much, no doubt, if it should continue t But then the Ame rican Secretary of State does not understand these matters so well as Lord Aberdeen t But, further, how has this blockade been announced to us? Or by what legal and official organ has it been made' known ? Has Lord Aberdeen—being a social and affable man, we suppose—become acquainted with the fact by hearsay ? Mr. Peel d.clared in the House of Commons on Tuesday night, in reply to a ques tion froM Lord John Russell, " that in con- I sequence of the British Government's entire disapproval of the individual' (mark that word) to whoM allusion had been made (Don Miguel), the diplomatic functions of his Majesty's Am bassador at the Court of Lisbon were sus pended :" and it is clear that that indivi dual neither has, nor ran have, any accredited Ambassador at this Court. Upon what principle, then, can the acts of such an individual be recog nized by us as the acts of a legally-constituted au thority Or by what organ, acknowledged among civilized nations, can they even be officially made known ? Don Miguel is not to be Regent to us, and to make war upon his fellow-subjects in order to substantiate his title to be King. We are in clined, therefore, to think, that our Government, finding itself in error through ignorance, will attempt to " shuffle off" upon the word " effective," saying it meant to declare the fact, but not-to acknowledge the legality of the blockade. But this, unhappily, is rot an affidr of mere paper argument. What will become of the English families in Oporto; when the Constitutional Portuguese find, themselves be trayed by Great Britain, and the blockade of the ut'..urper acknowledged by her as legal ? What will become of the Marquis Palmella and his associates— whom we have almost forced out of this country to take up arms against Don Miguel--when they.shall find themselves met.upon the Portuguese'coast by a blockade.which Lord Aberdeen in their rear has intimated to be legal ? They are entrapped, and We fear sacrificed. We really dread to think of the consequence of this ill-advised act.—Tietes. There is, perhaps, no country in the world in whieli the science of pillaging under fair pretences is so well understood as in England. Go where you will, you find lovers of their fellow-creatures profes sing an anxiety to promote moral and religious im provement ; and, under the mask of these fine words endeavouring to get access to the pockets of their neighbours. The foulest jobs in Parliament will always be found associated with the words Religion and Church ; and people of any experience in the world know so well the connection between the use of these words and schemes for raising the wind, that the moment they hear the words mentioned they are prepared for some encroachment. On Monday night Sir Robert Wilson presented a Peti tion from the parish of St. George, Camberwell, complaining of the provisions of the Additional Churches' Bill. We were induced, from the notice then taken of the Bill, to look into it ; and we must say, that a more objectionable measure never was at tempted to be smuggled through Parliament. Our readers are aware that the erection of additional Churches has, in many parts of England, been con verted into a means of oppressing the Dissenters for the fithherance of jobs, for the benefit of influen t ial persons. The Dissenters might have overlooked the erection of new Churches at the expence of he nation, however objectionable, had the evil ended with the expenditure of the public money; !hat they soon found that this was only the com mencement of the evil ; and that the support of the new Churches- would entail a permanent burden on them. A large and increasing revenue is set apart -for the Clergy of the Establishment; and the Dis t;entera do not demand too nuteh when they insist that the spiritual wants of their church-going bre thren should be provided for exclusively, either out of that revenue by a better and more judicious dis tribution suited to the changes in the state of the population, or from the contributions of those who benefit by the additional Churches. Accordingly the Dissenters opposed the attempt to raise rates for the support of the Churches, and in many cases with auccess. But this Bill introduced towards the end of the Session enacts, " That it shall be lawful for the Church or Chapelwardens of any District Church ' Chapel, and they are hereby required to pay all such expences as may have been incurrid in relation to the performance of Divine Service in any such Church or Chapel, after the consecration thereof, out of any rates which may be hereafter made in re lation to such Church or Chapel; and in case any such rate shall not be sufficient for the payment of such expences, it shall be lawful for such Church or Chapel Wardens, and they are. hereby required to make provision in any subsequent rate for the pay ment thereof, and to pay the same out of such subse quent rates ; or, in case it should be necessary, to make a rate for that purpose ;• anything in any Act or Acts, or Law or Laws, to the contrary notwithstanding. And whereas it is expedient -to provide for the repairs, and odicr expences necessary for the maintenance and proper performance of divine set vice in the Churches turd Chapels built under the au thority of the said Commissioners, when the pa ishioners of the parish or place wherein the saute are situate, or persons exercising the power of vestry therein, ma y have omitt e d t o ma k e any rate, or. a rate sufficient for the defraying such necessary ex pences; and therefore be it enacted, that in all such cases it shall and may be lawful for the church or. e chapelwardens of such parish or place, or for th churchwardens of any such church or chapel therein, as the cage may be, oftheir own authority, and they are hereby required to lay a rate sqffiezent for th t • c!,fraying,suchnecessary expenses; and the said rat e t.o made shall be to all intents and purposes legal and valid, and may be collected, and payment of the can t enforced by all ways and means by which any legal church rate may have been demanded, collected, and enforced." This is a power to tax with a ven geance ! If the whole expense of the performance cr, Divine Service, as well as the repairs of the build ing may be thrown on the Dissenters, where is the limit to imposition ? When a Dissenting Chape T l is erected, care will always be taken to obta►n a popular Preacher, to insure the payment of all the expenccs connected with it. But in these new Churches, the only security against abuse of patronage, by the appointment of persons not acceptable to the con gregation, is removed by throwing all deficiences on the Dissenters. lit many parishes Churches have -been built in Dissenting neighbourhoods, on the of drawing over Dissenters; and these Discerners, in addition to the support of their re spective Chapels, will thus have to pay an additional expenditure, the heavier the less it is wanted. We trust this vile job will not be allowed to pass without a strenuous opposition. About this period of the Session all sorts of tricks are attempted in Bills ; and the most vigilant Member can hardly succeed in detecting the various manoeuvres resorted to by those who, like the framers of this Bill, are on the constant watch to prey on the public.—lllorning Chronicle. It will be seen that the Alehouse Licensing Bill went through a Committee last night in the House of Commons, and that its main clause—we mean the power of appeal to the Quarter Sessions—was allowed to pass. Public-houses also, if the Bill passes into a law, will in future be allowed to afford refrcshment to travellers during the hours of Divine Service on Sunday ; and as there is no clause in it to compel the Licensed Victuallers to turn visitors out of their houses on such occasions,the accommodation to the public will be considerable. The Bill, how ever, would certainly have afforded more satisfaction had it enabled the Licensed Victuallers to keertheir houses open for the convenience of the public during the whole of the Sunday afternoon. No attempt was made to define the word " tippling," of which we lately gave a very learned account from a cor respondent.—Morning Advertiser. We are delighted with the knock-down blow which Mr. Peel, in the debate on Tuesday night, gave to that part of Mr. Wilmot Horton's Emigra tion Scheme, which proposed that money should be borrowed by parishes to carry it into effect, charged upon the poor-rates. With great good sense Mr. Peel spurned this idea as preposterous; and well he might. No—the country at large has had enough of borrowing, and to entail its evils upon particular districts, would be an act of political insanity, too preposterous, we trust, to be ever for a moment seriously entertained, either by Government or Par liament. Emigration must be voluntary, and its ex pense volur tary too ; or else, what is it but to treat the surplus population, as it is called, as criminals, and to transport them, like the latter, at the public charge ?-11forning Herald. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. THE KING V. HENRY BROOKES AND OTHERS. This is the Wells corporation case, in which a rule nisi had been granted for an attachment against two masters and three capital burgesSes of the borough and city of Wells, for their contempt in not proceed ing to the election of a Mayor of Wells:, pursuant to a writ of mandamus. When the Case came before the Court on Saturday, week, it was ordered to stand over until it should be ascertained whether or not the defendants had, in obedience to a peremptory mandamus, proceeded to the election of Mayor at a meeting of the corporation held for that purpose on the 16th inst. . Sir J. SCARLETT now stated, that the defendants had, in pursuance of the peremptory mandamus, at tended at the meeting on the 16th inst., and had concurred in the election of a mayor. lie had therefore now to apply to the Court to discharge the rule for the attachment ; and he hopod they would do so without making the defendants , pay the costs. Mr. TAUNTON• said tint the defendants, by giving their attendance at the last meeting, had redeemed themselves from the. attachment,' but not front the costs attendant upon the proceedings. Lord TENTERDEN did not think that the de fendants ought to be relieved fro►n the costs. The rule was then discharged, the defendants pay ing the costs. `THE KING V. MOORE. This was an application for a writ of Habeas to bring into Court a lady named Buxton, who had Been carried away from her husband, and detained by her uncle. Mr. FOLLETT appeared on a former day, and moved to quash the writ of Habeas Corpus, on the ground that the young lady was not married. It was stated that she had been persuaded into an in vslid marriage by the person who claimed her as his wife. The Court having heard Mr. Follett, allowed him a rule to enlarge the time for the return of the Maher. s. Sir JAMES SCARLETT this day showed cause against the enlargement of the time for the return, but the Court ordered it to be further enlarged until this day se'onight, when the lady is to be brought to the chambers of one of the Judges, and the ques tion will be argued. Mr. Moore, the defendant, is to bring forth the lady; or be liable to an attachment for contempt. MURRAY V. REE%£S. This was an action on an agreement of this de scription :—A person of the name of Shearer claitned ' the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act, and was opposed by M... Murray, the plaintiff. The defen dant, who acted as attorney for the insolvent, m order to induce Murray to withdraw his opposition, entered into an agreement to make the plaintiff sole assignee of Shearer, to make various disclosures, and to guarantee to Murray, as assignee, some small sums of money, amounting to about 100/. On these con ditions the plaintiff consented to the discharge, but the defendant refused to perform his part of the agreement, and the plaintiff brought his action for the money, and'had a verdict for 1051., with leave to the defendant to move the Court to enter a non suit. The Solicitor-General obtained a rule for this purpose, against which Mr. Campbell showed cause. Lord TENTERDEN now pronounced the judgment of the Court. It was contended for the defendant, that this agreement was void in law, and could not be made the foundation of en action, and the Court are of that opinion. The Insolvent Debtors' Court have the power of imprisoning debtors who have misconducted themselves, for a certain period, and such bargains would deprive it of that power. They might likewise give occasion to much fraudulent concealment. It was said that creditors might con ' sent to the discharge, and that then it would be valid. It may be so; but it is questionable whether this would bind other creditors who were no parties to the consent. But at any rate, such agreements are contrary to the policy of the law, because they interfere with that full and complete disclosure which the Act requires in the first instance ; and the Court is of opinion that the rule for entering the nonsuit should be made absolute. A curious circumstance occurred about a forvtight ago, at the Assizes for the Lower P)rennees, in France, on the trial of two persons upon a charge of mur der:—At the end of the first day's proceedings, when the judges, bar, &c. quitted the court, an altercation arose be tween the huissiers (a kind of constables or door-keepers) and the gensdarmes, as to which of them should manac l e the prisoners, and conduct them back to pci,n. The geusdarmes insisted that it was the duty of the huissiers, and, to prove their conviction, they marched away. Th e huisxiers, equally positive of the contrry, followed their example, quitted the court, and left the prisoners alone and unguarded. The prisoners, though their lives were still in jeopardy, and that the crowds in the streets (it being market-day) offered them every facility for escape, very calmly -ttalked back to prison, and presented themselves to the gaoler. Here another difficulty ;nose 5 the gaoler refused to receive them without being legally authorized by a huissier, and tOr a considerable time these two men, under a charge affecting their lives, remained soliciting, as a favour, a re-admission to their dungeons. This circum stance was of course made good use of by their counsel, and the prisoners, against whom the evidence was indeed slight, were unanimously acquitted. —Hun:burgh Reporter- MEXICO. (From El Sol of April !.:).) Decree of banishment passed by the Senate end Chamber of Deputies, and published by the Government, on the subject of the parties implicated in the late conspiracy, called the plan of Montano. r The President of the United Mexican States to the in habitants of the Republic.— Be it known that the General Congress has decreed is folltrws:— Art. l. The Government shall immediately banish from the territory of the Republic, to such places as it shall deeni expedient, for a period of time not exceeding six years, all the parties implicated in the conspiracy of Montano up to the date of this decree, including those already sentenced to certain punishments by the respective taibuids. Art. 2. All further proceedings in this affair shall be put an end to. Art. 3. The Government shall allow to all the parties included in the present decree, during the time of their re spective punishments, as far as one-half the pay which they enjoyed in their military capacity, previous to their arrest, so long as they continue to reside in the place or places designated. Att. 4. To those who are not of the military profession, such monthly allowance shall be made as the Government shall consider necessary for their subsistence. Art. 3. On the expiration of the period of banishment those only shall be Permitted to resume their former rank and employment whom the Government shall judge worthy of this favour. Art. 6. Those who shall return from baniblinient before the prescribed period shall experience the full rigour of the laws. (Signed) GUADALUPE VICTORIA. Mexico, Palace of the Federal Republic, April 15, 1828. (From El Sol of April 16.) Official statement of receipts and payments at the Custom • house of Vera Cruz, for the mouth of March, 1828 : RECEIPTS. Dollars. Balance from last month 2,217 1 Collected this month PAYMENTS. 574,772 2 To the General TreaSury of Mexico 142,680 4 To the General Commissariat of State of Vera Cm , 19,606 I To Ditto of Puebla 6,455 0 Compensation for Tobacco CreGits 37,268 7 Compensation for the Export Duty of 3i per Cent - - 38,569 3 Return Duties Rewards for Seizures 265 0 418,161 6 Receipts 574,77 E 2 Pqments 418,161 6 Balance 156,610 4 The ship Terror has just arrived in PlymOuth Sound, from Lisbon. Many Portuguese gentlemen Lave landed from her ; but they appear desirotts to evade any communication on the business going on in that country. — Exeter Alfied. A. steam engine of half-horse power is em ployed in a grocer's shop in Waingate, Sheffield, in roast. ing and grinding coffee.— York Courant. At the last Assizes at Mans, in France, an Abbe, named FROMENT; only 28 years of age, and de scribed as possessing considerable talents, was sentenced to hard labour for life for an attempt to violate a female only thirteen years of age, who was his pupil. The prisoner was much distinguished in his parish by the external sanc tity of his manners. A journal is about to be published at Tiflis, by authority, conducted by a committee and placed under the superintendence of the Military Governor. It will be printed 'in the Russian language, and if the sub scribers desire. it a Georgian. translation will be added. The Tiflis Gazette is intended to assist the progress of civilization -in the provinces of the Caucasus, and to impart early intelligence of the events of the war. The profits will be made over' to the funds of the charitable institutions in those provinces.—llantburgh Reporte r. 'THE RIVER OUSE.-011 Wednesday last, two very fine specimens of the " Petrowyzon Marinas," or Sea Lamprey, were caught in the river Onse, near Naburn Lock ; and were kindly forwarded to this city by Mr. WurrwELL, of Naburn, as presents ; one to the York shire Philosophical Society, and the other to the York Mechanics' Institute. The larger of the two, is two feet and a half in length, seven inches and a half in girth, at the head, anti six and a half in the middle; and it weighed, w hen caught, about two pounds and three quarters. They usually leave the sea in spring, in order to spawn, and re turn in a tov months, with their little progeny ; and it is hence supposed that these have not been lung in our river. Such is the great rarity of this species in these parts, that no man, now living, can remember any of so large a size ever having before been seen or caught in the river Ouse. York Courant. HEAT OF THE NIGHT IN LONDON.—The celebrated meteorologist, LUKE HOWARD, discovered a very singular difference between the temperature of the night in the metropolis and in the country a few miles distant. On an average of ten years the night temperature of Lon don was found to be considerably the highest, giving 44 80 min., while that of the country was only 41 min. 10 deg. The mean variation of the temperature, from the heat of the day to the cold of the night, is, in London, 11 min. 37 deg. ; in the country, 15 deg. 40 min., the greater mean variation being 4 deg. 4 min. in the country. It renders the preceding facts more striking, that the same does not hold of the temperature by day, the average dif ference between the metropolis and the country, when taken by the month, being sometimes •above, sometimes below, and at others nearly parallel with that in the cumin try.—Edinburgh Evening Post. ANECDOTE OF THE KING.—OD the death of the late organist to St. George's Chapel, Windsor, great interest was made by several Professors of eminence to sue.. ceed to that honourable and lucrative situation. 01,1 IloaNE, thu music toaster, who taught the KING, and other Members of his August Family, in their juvenile days, was at this time very low in his circumstances, arising from losses Snd other untoward events. The fact was mentioned to his MAJESTY brone of the Lords in Waiting, who at the same time ventured to add that the existing vacancy would enable the poor old man to weather the norms of life, and pass the remainder of his days in competency and ease. His MAJ ESTY expressed his astonishment, and could scarcely credit that his old tutor was still in existence, or that, if so, he had not applied to his former pupil, stating his embarrassment. Modest merit is always dumb-- Hoes: E " knew if he bud made his case known, lie should have been relieved ; but lie dared not intrude his sufferings on his gracious master's attention." The fact, however, of his situation being thus brought to his MAJESTY'S notice, he ordered his carriage, and proceeded immediately to can vass the Canons and other Dignitaries in wheee gift the ap.. pointment lay : they had made their promises, but—it must be so—the KING'S wishes were a law, and HORNE was nominated to the vacancy. Wishing, however, to gratify the old man by himself announcing the joyful tidings, his MAJESTY commanded him to attend at the Royal Lodge. The summons was unexpected, was distressing : " how could he appear before the Presence, with a wardrobe not fit to visit a private friend ? But," continued the gratified veteran, " it is not the coat, it is the man the KING wants to see : I must, I will go :" and he took a change of linen and proceeded to Windsor. On his arrival at the Lodge, he was received with kindness by the major demo, and re freshments were placed before him, with an intimation that his attendance would be required in the course of the even ing in the drawing-room. That time arrived, and the old man, on entering, was oven-powered by the condescend ing affability with which he was received. The KING, surrounded by the brilliant circle of his private friends, rose from his seat, and taking poor HORNE by the hand, led him to the piano, requesting him to give once more a siiecitneu of that skill which had entranced his juvenile mind. This was too much—he eat down overpowered with contending emotions, and the modest tear trickled from his aged eye. He forgot every thing, ran his fingers over the keys in the most abstracted- manner, and was any thing but himself. - A few affectionate words revived him ; and, as if inspired by tame sudden recollection of days gone by, struck off a fantasia, which he performed with all tIM execution of his best days. The KING was delighted, and having only a slight recollection of the air, asked what it was. The old man could no longer contain his joy— That air, your Munn-, was cnrnposed by my pupil, Ins Royal Highness the Prince of Wat.es, when he was eighteen years of age." We need not say that the KING ft‘‘t,F.iraes ldMightyntagratified. The momentn.s hand, told familiarity I,hno f dignityhis of h s t g h o e o f d t ri f e e o n r c Ao t l ul;nrieh:::h sank n p d r e a bades•d him retire and compose himself. He remained at the Lodge ten days, and was then inducted into the organ gallery. Ile is now between seventy a n d e i g h ty , an d per forms his duty with all the enthusiasm of his early days. , — Jelin Bull. ~. SUPPOSED MURDER. • A singular instance of the inscrutable means by which murderers are detected, has 'occurred here • within-these few days. A • respectable young man,' of the name of Larkin, left his home on Sunday, the 4th of May lost, to spend the day - at Kingstown. For several days no trace of him could be disco vered, and not till the 13th of May did any disco very take place. A young man passing along the Gr.snd canal, near Harold'i-eross, between five and six in the morning of that day, saw a dark body floating on the water, which he, with the assistance of others, took out. This was Larkin. He had no marks of violence on him, and it was concluded he fell in, till it was discovered that a handkerchief, which was tied round his head, was not his own.— The suspicion of murder was immediately excited. On his person was found half of a 305. note of Ball's bank, which was. presented for payment. The moment the clerk in the bank saw it, he said the other half was presented on the 6th of May, by a person who called himself Kelly, who swore that he got it on the 4th of Mav, and • that he lost the other half. The clerk desired him to call in a month, and that if no other person demand ed it in the interim, he should be paid. On the 7th of June he accordingly called, and brought a man of the name of Rourke with him. Police-efficers were in waiting, and instantly took both into custody. Kelly, whose real name was discovered to be Pur field, on being questioned, admitted that he swore falsely, and that he got the note from Mary Ayres, a girl of ill fame. She was immediately searched for and found in an infamous house belonging to Rourke, but no satisfactory account could be elicited from her as to the means by which she got possession of the note. All the parties were detained in custody, but no further evidence could be procured. A re ward of 1301. was then offered to any person who could give such information as would lead to the apprehension of the murderer or murderers. This brought forward a girl of the name of Elizabeth Crawley, who said that she knew the persons of Mary Ayres and Rourke, from having seen them often before. That on Sunday, the 4th of May, she was passing' along the Grand Canal about 12 at night, and saw three men linked together; the one in the middle was a genteel-looking man, but ap peared very drunk; that Rourke was' one of them, and Mary Ayres was walking along with them. She turned round to look at them, and as they passed her, heard one of them say, " We have lost the other half." She said the watchman mustbave seen them together also.' The three were remanded till the watchman be produced. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY. 1. Mr. Stanley—To refer to a Select Committee the Peti tion of the Baron de Bode [presented May 18, 1826], resparAing award in his case of the Commissioners of French Claims. 2. Mr. Hume—Quarterly Return of Bank Notes issued by Country Bankers. 3. , Mr. Sugtien—pill to alter and amend the Law relating to illusory appaintments. 4. Mr. Spring to facilitate the establishment of &loots for general instruction in Ireland. 5. Mr. Grattan—COpies of Correspondence between the Magistrates of Wexford Sessions and the Secretary for Irehind, in the years'lB23 . and 1824. 6. Mr. Robinsort—lPbtition from Worcester on the subject of. the Glove Trade. 7. Mr. Huskieson—Xopy of a Letter written by the Co lonial Secretary , dated October last, to the 'Governor of Jamaica, on the subject of the Slave Trade. S. Mr. Croker—Bill to regulate the Board of Longitude. ORDERS OF TUE I).tY FJit THIS DAT - . 1. Property in Infants, &c. Bill—Second reading. 2. East India Prize Money. Bill—Committee. 3. Pilotage Bill—Second reading. 4. Additional Churches Bill—Second reading. Promissory Notes (Ireland)Bill—Third reading. 6. General Turnpike Acts Amendment Bill—Third reading. • • 7. Game Bill—Committee. S. Charing Cues Improvement Bill—Second reading. 9. Night Poaching Prevention Bill—Further considera tion of Report. 10. Customs Bill—Second reading. 11. Supply—Report. 12. Distillation Bill—Third reading. 13. Registrar's Office (Ireland► Bib—Third reading. 14.. New Saudi Wales Bill—Report. I. Hops Excise Bill—Third reading. 16. Cider and Perry Excise Licenses—Committee there upon. 17. Butter Trade (Ireland) Act--Committee thereupon. 18. Militia Bill—Second reading. 19. Constabulary (Ireland) Bill—Second reading. 20. Alehouses Licensing Bill—Third reading. 21. Prisoners Conveyance Bill—Report. 22.- Corporate Funds Bill—Committee. A native of Andalusia, who is described as being fire proof, has been engaged by the Nfanagers of the Tivoli Gardens, at Paris, to exhibit his wonderful powers. It is advertised that he will enter an oven, heated to the highet.t point, and remain there whilst a fowl is being thoroughly baked. On leaving . the oven he is to under go the ordeal of cold, by having iced water thrown over him, In digging for a foundation of a new wall, near St. John's Burial Ground, in this town, a human skull. in a very perfect state, was found at the depth of about three feet from the surface. As the spot where it was found is considerably beyond the boundaries of the present place of sepulchre, the discovery can only be ac counted for by the fact, that a monastery of the order of ST. JOjiN is understood to have existed upon the spot, and probably the skull found as above stated is that of one of the monks who had been interred there.—Boston Gazetle. FATAL AFFRAY.—A great number of the Morar, Knoidart, and Arisaig people met at a wedding at Mallaig, North 3lorar, on the V.d April. During the night, two men, of the names of Mac:l,Eu.), sr and MAC DONELL, quarrelled ; the friends on both sides interfered, and a general fight ensued, after which the parties re turned to the house, and continued dancing and drinking till ten o'clock in the morning, when the Morar people left the wedding ; on missing one of their party, they sent back a messenger and waited for him at the hill of Mallaig. In the meantime the Arisaig people came up, and after some words the battle was renewed, and severe blows were exchanged, but dangerous consequences were not-appre hended. On the Ist instant, however, D. MacnorraLL died of the injuries he received in %lie fight. FtoN.kt.n and JOHN MACGILLIVRAY, A LEXANDAR and DONA LT, MAC • riratoc or MAC.OONxLL have been apprehended and com mitted to our jail for trial, as parties to the affray; another man of the name of MA CIN NES was also taken into cus tody, but escaped at Fort William from the party convey ing them to Invernes , . A petition was presented to the Sheriff. for admitting the prisoners to bail, but as it we; understood the prayer would not be granted, the petition was withdrawn.—lnverness Journal. ANA PA.—The fortress of Anapa which is at present blockaded by a part of the army of Georgia, under s h e command of Lieutenant-General EMA Nun, is situated on the Black Sea, and has 3,000 inhabitants, one-third of whom are Turks. It was constructed in 1784, taken by the Russians in 1791 by storm, and restored to the Turks in 1792. In 1807 it was taken by the Russians a second time, bat given up in consequence of the peace of Bucha rest. The Turks place a great value on the fortress, in which a PACHA used to reside ; it is well provided with ammunition, but the works argils decay. Anapa is notori ous-for a peculiar sort of trade which is carried on there with the mountaineers of the Cau6asus. These hordes are in the habit of selling their captives, and of exchanging young girls'who are sent to the harems of Constantinople, for arms and ammuniticn. The port is accessible to small vessels only, and the gales from the Caucasus render it very unsafe. The possession of this place will be of importance to the Russians; it will serve as a key to Kuban ; an 4 the occupation of it may put a stop to a debasing trade, and at the same time to the resistance of the Caucasian hordes which had hitherto maintained their independence. Poty is the only port of the 131ack sea, besides Anapa, which is at present in the possession of the Turks. Poty is situated on the river Plcisis (now called Rion) of which it com mands the entrance. It was restored to the Porte in 1812 by the Russian Commissioners, who acted without waiting for•definite orders from their Government. A courier with orders from Petersburgh which countermanded the sur rendering of the place, arrived too late. Poty is at present blockaded by another division of the army of Georgia.— ' Ramburph Reporter. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW- STREET. —Ho u NSI.OW POST OFFICE Rt, a- BERY. - Wm. Bull, Wm. Smith alias Cox, and Wm. Dowset, were yesterday morning again, placed at the bar for final examination, charged with the above robbery. Charles 'nicker, who is'a servant to Mr. Brown, a mu sical instrument-maker, in Edward-street, Langham-plaee, Regent-street, was examined ; and lie stated that, on the morning the HounsloW Post Office robbery was committed, he went from London to the house of Sir Wm. Fremantle, beyond Staines,. with a van, for the purpose of conveying a piano•forte to the Hon. Baronet. He passed through Hounslow at about five o'clock in the morning, and he called at the Coach and Horses public-house to take re freshment. He observed a cart standing at the door, in which was a ladder, part of which projected behind. On entering the house he observed three men—they were coming out of the house, and one of them was drinking .t glass of gin. H e h a d a glimpse of their f aces ; h e sa id to them " Good night to ye, gentlemen ;" and they replied " It is a very cold night;" he thought Bull was like one of the .men, but could not speak positively. The witness here pointed out Jones, the gaoler, who was standing by the side of the prisoners, as very much resembling one of the three men.—(Loud laughter.)—The witness admitted that he had pointed out another man in the lock-up-room as a person resembling one. of the three men, but he was mistaken in the 'person ; the three men left the public house about twenty minutes before he did ; and as he pissed near the Post Office at Hounslow, he saw the same cart near the four trees, tin the side of the road, a short distance from the Post-office ; he then observed the ladder in the cart, and a man was standing a few yards' distance from the cart. Mr. Harmer interrogated the witness, and he said lie could not swear to any of the . prisoriers. He said that, on his return through Hounslim, be called at the Coach and Horses, and was told that the three men he had seen in the home the same morning were'thieves, for they had stolen some keys. " Mr. Harmer here observed, that the evidence of this witness was in direct contradiction of that of Curtis, the servant at the public-house, who tad sworn that the keys must have been stolen by the three me n . who came with the cart, because he was sure no one else was in the house till after he missed. them. This witness had sworn that lie was in the house for twenty minute, and he (Mr. Harmer) hoped that the Magistrates would not be of opinion that there was evidence to detain the parties in custody. Mr. MlNsktur.t. said, that he should commit Bull and Smith for trial. Dowset,was remanded, on another charge, MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday, a Mrs• Anne Jones, of 8, Lisle street, Leicester-square, wa charged under these circumstances :—On Friday after noon, a lady entered the shop of Messrs. Gomm, haber dashers, of 32, Oxford-street, and OR leaving she dropped a purse on the floor containing a fire-pound note and a so vereign. The defendant picked up the purse, and although the shop-woman ran out of the shop after the lady, she could not find her. The defendant then insisted upon keeping the purse, and treated the shop-woman with some insolence.—She was ordered to find bail, and the purse was to be advertised. MA RY LEBONE- OFFICE. -.—SWINDLING.. —Yester day 'William comae, an elderly man, pitted with the small-pox and bald, was charged with being concerned with others in the commission of various frauds. The first charge was made by Mr. Jas. Newbury, of 68, George street, Portman-square, for obtaining, a brewing copper under false pretences, which Was sent to No. 22, Titel,- borne-street, Edgware-Ili - ad. The second charge was made by Mr. Charles Brayne, a blind-maker, residing at No. 28, Crawford-street, Maryleboce, who supplied goods to the prisoner, and found they were removed from the house im mediately afterwards. The third charge was made by Mr. Wall, of 117, Edgware-road, who had been ordered by false'representations to send malt, hops, and other goods to the prisoner. The fourth charge was made by Mr. Brewer, a coal dealer, in Coratn-street; Brunswick-street, who had been duped by the prisoner and his coadjutors.-- Other charges were made against the prisoner, and he was remanded. HATTON-GARDEN.--ANOTHER. DEFEAT, AND A MAGISTRATE'S OPINION OF AN INFORMER'S SWEARING. —Yesterday Mr. William Redmond,' of the Salmon and Ball, Salmon and Ball -court, Runhill-rew, St. Luke's, ap peared at this office upon the complaint of Essex, the baker, to account to the Magistrates 'why he kept open until 20 ininutes•after twelve o'clock, oil the night of Saturday the 21st instant. Charles Beggs, who resides in Noble-street. Spafields, and who is, by the way, a new aspirant for the honors and emoluments connected with the Informing Trade, deposed, that on the above night, and at the precise time specified in the information, he entered the defendant's house, in com pany with others. He called for and obtained a glass of gin and a pipe of tobacco. It was the defendant himself who nerved him. He was sure it was twenty minutes after twelve, because he regulated his knowledge of the time by the informer's watch ! Mr. Redmond, in reply to the charge, positively assured tie Magistrate that every word sworn by the witness, Beggs, was untrue. He not only did not serve him at the time mentioned ; but he was actually in bed before then, as could be proved by witnesses. The defendant's; waiter was then called in. He proved that a quarter before twelve o'clock he closed his master's house, and did not suffer a single person to enter after wards. Every one was out by twelve o'clock, and his master was going up to bed as the watchman was calling that hour. Mr. ROGERS—WeII, Sergeant, what do you say to this evidence ?—Mr. Sergeant SELLoti—Why, what I have often said before, that the case is fairly met. Is the time complained of to be regulated by the informer's watch ? Certainly not, and I shall never consent to a conviction upon such evidence. Mr. Tiouvi:s fully concurred in his brother Magistrate's view of the matter.—The case was instantly dismissed. UNION-HALL—A case of bastardy of a curious nature, inasmuch as both the parties engaged in the illicit amour are deaf and dumb—came on to be heard before the Magi"- trees. The defendant, whose name is George Clarke, and Olive Octon, between whom the intercourse was alleged to have taken place, are both very young, and had recently quitted the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. The defendant was apprehended at Great Badlow, in Essex, where he carried on the business of a shoemaker, which he had learned in the Asylum. .After he was taken into custody, it was with great difficulty that the constable could prevent his laying violent hands on himself. The girl described by signs, that about ten months ago she went to a place called Spring field, in Essex, and there met the defendant,'whom she ac companied to Springfield Fair ; and after they had amused p th aer m en s t e s l , v h es ou tz wh a e l r a e te si l , i e o hour, alleged d e e ott i l l e ad to tak b e e t r i place between them. The girl's• statement was explained to the defendant, but he denied being the father of the child. He admitted having gone with her to the fair, and took place between them. The Magistrates were about accompanied her to her father's house ; but no intercourse to postpone the case, to procure evidence to support the y the re i t n u te " r i ctr h s girl's statement, when it was suggested that the defendant's g : a night.ni di the g they girl's went father father should be exam ined. H e stated that he had seen his son and the young woman at the fair, and he had been ater to andbe g iven to understand that his son proceeded home with her to the residence of her father, where he was treated with home-made wine until he became tipsy, and afterward s th e girl's parents allowed the witness's son to accompa n y h er to Chelmsford Ctilliieerlat; hadsu f informed a the twelve hi m o'clock that a parish-officer, one leaving the defendant and the young woman up, and the next morning they were discovered clasped in each other's arms. Mr. Huish added, that the defendant's father had informed him that he was perfectly willing to have paid all the expenses attending the matter, if ere proceeding had been commenced at an earlier period. The MAGlsTnKres then made an order upon the de fendant to pay 2s. 6d. per week, and the defendant's father paid the expenses of the gill's accouchement. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. TUESDAY, JUNE 25.---High water 34 min. past g —Wind N.—Arrived the Ceres, Davies, from Sava/ Janis, James, from Montevideo ; Constitution, Linde Salon; Providence, Hammer, from Dantaic; Groenewold, from Danezic. CLEARED OUTWARDS.—The York, De Coet, fO . York ; Hazard, Ravels, f or Ri o J ane i ro; ,Jo r ge WiP Bontaker, for Antwerp ; Elizabeth Gillespie, Carso o ; Gibraltar and Adra. Telegraph Oil At 45 min. p. 9, Wind at Holyhead South, breeze ; nothing off Holyhead. One ship, 2 brigs, inward-bound, and a pilot-boat/ Point Lynati,_ _ One brig, inward-bound, off Voel Naut; a brig quarantine flag East of the floating light. Passed Holyhead, at noon, inward-bound, the vo Thompson. Wind W. t;.W. A brig off Point Lynas, inward-bound, with a A flying too far off to see her number. , Four ships and a brig off Holyhead, inward-bonnd► fl not show numbers. Passed Holyhead this day inward-bound, at 30 m. t i (supposed to be the Berlin, British ship, from Jame & and Robert Ker, or the Mary, Britiek ship. )--Wind at Iyhead W.S.W. light breeze. Passed Holyhead, inward bound, the John, Marab, New Orleans, at 30 m. p. 5. The packet ship' Thompson, off Point Lynas, at 4 P and took a pilot on hoard. Passed Holyhead, inward.bound, the Ann, frost vannab, at 30 min. p. 6. EAST INDIA. The Kortenaar, Blummendell,. from Batavia, has arf a l' 4l off Dover. Sailed froin thence 20th Feb. - PASSENGERS PER THE CATHERINE, FROM RENO!' Mrs. Lamb, Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. Falconer, Mrs. /that'll, Miss Dickson,:Major.J. Drysdale, Major P e w, A. D. 'rier, Captain Falconer, Captain H a r e , Li eu t enan t Spay . , Lieutenant Powle, Lieutenant' - Whitten&le, John M I El., John Brown, Eleq., the three Misses Lamb, Limb, Master Barlowe, Miss Barlows, Master Mackey; Master E. Edmonds, Miss Matheson, Master Matheer, Miss Grant, Master La Marchand, Master Gordan, lVf_ o ,, Fowle; Master M'Sween, Master Bally, and Mists-Davide, PASSENGERS PER THE DIADEM, FROM BERGAL-•"°V and Master Gordon. PASSENGERS PER THE MELEISH, FROM BENGAL...O Smith and child, Mrs. Fraser. PASSENGERS PER THE LORD MELVILLE, TROIA 1 36 ; GAL—Mrs. Lieut.-Colonel Swaine, Mrs. Lieut... 0 0 1 .,., Bourdenain, Lieut.-Colonel Bovirdenain, Capt. Roe, .° 0 Majesty's 45th Regiment, Lieut. lt. W. Lang, 37th NO Infant ty, Miss Ellen Lethbridge. OLD BAILEY. ABSTRACT OF THE RESI7LT OF THE COMM' MENTS TO THE LAST SESSIONS. - • Convicted. Marlborough-street Office 3 Acquitted' i d . 6 ' Worship-street Bow-street Hatton-garden Marylebone Thames l5 IR Queen-square. Whitechapel Coroners and Country Magistrates 10 6 180 .119 Lord Mayor and Aldermen Of the above cases— Chid* Justice Best tried • 4 Mr. Justice Holroyd Mr. Justice Littledale ' • 1 Mr. Baron Hullock The Recorder -25 The Comnton' Sergeant Mr. Sergeant Arabia 90 One day last week four topers, just,for, *v ie ! ' drank fifty-one glasses of spirits and water, at it 00 1 late a little north-west of Newark !- . —Boston Glaiette. That malignant distemper,' the:srnall-pdxl raging at Barnstaple with the most devastating notwithstanding the deterixiinatian of . the ,unrf.l 4 ."4 part of the inhabitants to counteractiti ravages by vliftj, tion. which certainly cannot be too extensively ettrAni'v —Exeter Alfred. The Crops have made rapid progress to turity during the last fortnight of fine suntmer weatliev' week of warm sunshine having been followed by f et quel heavy showers; a thunder storm this forenoon was. I°. ' lowed by torrents of rain, which inund a t e d th e etreel Hay harvest has begun in our neighbourhood ; there ir tine field of wheat in the ear at Millburn, barley its ge l f, rally coming into ear, and there is every prospect in neighbourhood of an early and abundant harvest....-•" r nes, Journal. It is said that the Wool Committee—in t b° House of Lords continue their inquiry with great a esidni t i: They have already examined many intelligent rnatni.de( turers, brokers, merchants, and farmers,:and have, beffi l , i o obtained several copies of foreign tariffs on wool and e/o°' ev' 1 " f goods, adapted to the English standard. The Millut e , Evidence, therefore, and the Report of the Committee , ~ ho expected to contain much useful and important i n ' c mat ion. BIRTAS. . • On the 2lst inst. the lady of George Cooke ' Esq. of Southampton-street, Regent's Park, and Ro st " House, Middle.ex, of a son. ol On the 21st inst. Mrs. William Simkins Mitehosi ", Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, of a daughter. Oa the 25th inst. at the house of her father-in larr , Great George-street, the lady of W. H. Darby, Egg' * a son. V . " Cheltenham"tbf On the 24th inst. at Vittoria .mouse, lady of .1. C. Tyler, Esq. M.P. of a daughter. t i‘ On the 22d inst. at Clapham Common, Mrs. Frede ri Borradaile, of a still-born child. h , Ox the 23d inst. in Bolto n-s t r eet , Mrs. Br",ght Smi th' of a son. On the 24th inst. the lady of Dr. Burn e , o f Sp lllls' gardens, of a son. , Richard Willan, of the Hil/, On the 25th inst. at Bloontsbury-rquare, the la dy ei 0 Sedberg, Yorkshire, C ol ° °' son anti heir. • MARRIED. On th e 25th i ns t. a t H a dl ow , near Tunbridge( ?d i ) John Sears, of Dartford, to Miss Barton, of the Cl ol e the former pla ce . On the 25th inst. Mr. Jones Spyar, of Austinft Il e , Grace, the eldest daughter of Mr. M. Josephs, of gen" street. On the 25th inst. at St. George's Church, HatzeirS, square, Eugene de la Rive, Esq. youngest son of Profto 6 t de la Rive, Councillor of State of Geneva, to Louisa, eld e ' daughter2sth of the late inst. Al at Rainhexander Ma am r Church, Kent, 4 cet, I, 0 6 On Rev. Dr. Poore, Mr. John Wstherfield, surgeons o f Paul's, Covent-garden, to Charlotte Hood, young - daughter of the late Capt. Fashion Roby, R.N. ne l At Tottenham, on the 25th inst. by the Rev. Lawle,,,,, Gsvynne, B.A. Henry Willoughby,, Esq. of Lan u s, to Maria Anna, eldest daughter of Lawrence Gurf v " Esq. LLD. of Teignmouth, Devon. On the 19th inst. John Hare, of F:rfield-house. f l te l Bristol, Esq. to Miss Anne Cottle , of Dightoa-streets 136 1 i; On the 24th inst. at St. Luke's , Chelsea, by th e and Rev. G. V. Wellesley , the Rev. George 11$10e; Rector of Sullington and of Parham, in the count/, Sussex, to Charlotte Elizabeth , daughter of Thomas Vet nor, Esq. of Chelsea. On the 24th inst. by the Roy: A. L. Lambert, at Claphain Church, Charles Lambert, Esq. of Fitzwi s „, square, and Osborne Howie, Isle of Wight, to Lucy, w ide of the late John Furhor, Esq. of Norwood, Surrey- do On the 25th inst. at St. George's, Bloomsbury, by Rev. T. K. Arnold, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity CAT Cambridge, the Rev. Charles Arnold, M.A., rector Of well, Rutland, and second son of Dr. Arnold, of State u , t o to Ellen, youngest (laughter of Dr. Burrows, of itien t " - street, Russell-square. POLITENESS, WITH A SPECIMEN OF FRENCH Ruciusm.—An excess of politeness and suscep tibility lately led to a battle in Paris between two charcoal porters, the result of which proved fatal to one of them. The Gazette deg Trilunuvx of the ISth inst. thus relates the affair :—" On Friday last two charcoal porters, named CoNnv and DURCER, who had been carrying charcoal to the Rue de Seran, stopped together at a wine shop at the corner of the Rue du Bac, and called for a glass of wine. One of their friends, a corn-porter, passing at the moment, Comm- called him and invited him to drink with them. ' No,' said DURCER, ' I will treat him.' No,' replied CONDY, the honour is due to me.' A quarrel en , ued, and when the time for paying arrived, the dispute as to who should have the honour of paying became so violent that the two porters determined to fight it out. DURCER, took his coat off, placed his watch on the counter, and rushed into the street, exclaiming ' Get ready, I will fight you.' Coxnv followed him and struck him in t. F b Ily ; he fell down and hit his bead against the corner of he pi.ve meat. The blood flowed in abundance, and the unhappy man was taken home a few minutes alter quite d ad. CoNDY took to flight, and it is feared that in his fi.:spai, he pitnrrn and PUBLI3IIRD by M. YOUNG, at the StYN 011 0 has put an end to his existence. No. 11t; Strand, Lesion. At 13rocklin, near Ne‘ D v lE Yo D rk . , in the 51st year of rtt age, Mr. William Williamson, formerly of London. hi a , OK the 24th inst. at Abbott's Langley, Louisa Se'V.,,! twin d aug ht er o f Lieutenant 'William Sherwood, ft'' aged eight mouths. On the 23d inst. at Scole, in Norfolk, aged 57. '° Ward, lo_;.q. many years dispenser of Hasler Hospital. I , At Windsor, of apoplexy, on the 22d inst. Lieuteno.l, General George:Lewis, aged 1;8 years, of the Royal Ar t t levy. His unbending integrity and hononr, added to go,f suavity of manners, bad endeared him to a large circle faiends, who deeply lament his loss. of IR' -- deer' On the /3d lust. in the 60th year of pie ago, regretted, Mr. Charles Foster, of Angel-court, Thrlgio, ton-street. iz ~ 7 - f ,% 'Au THE 4 pit Tons.:: Polar Iwo 11 . 110 ‘aP 3WAL , The 46 P s Loa 5 . 4.0 ,mhobo% despi To laccial 'POR VA HE Fa Buthia sl pod smog . For Ps NATIC THE NI 'the AEI UNITED TORY, lad wilco until turd Et ROY 1 Adages ART having, a of ARTII it requisit of Teeth without tl at little roi if ever se without p ping, and at hone Oxford-et ROY Till give Noti That a hr hula! THonani forenoon, of a GOI (TOYER by Adjou the nine Election will be ai appoint Scrutinee N. B. Will be re the 18th The ( C 9 J. T. B. Francis Sir G. I Sir J. H ton. Sir Rich Sir 3. Capital The I lure, as their req In du Years, t Persons ANNUAI they hay In thi knd 30/. insured) duction gonusee future. 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