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do not look at, we shall escape its influence. If Constantinople and the Dardanelles belong to Russia, the Mediterranean is hers. Can we see that with indifference ? But for a u ation whose commerce is every where, there is no distant danger : every change of relative power between nations in all quarters of the world is at her door. I's she therefore bound to take up arms every where ? No ; but to be no where off her guard. Expel the barbarians from Europe,—well and good : but establish on their ruins, by the con sent and with the aid of Christendom, another empire,—a Greek empire, if you will,—not un der ale dominion of the great Czar of Muscovy. This subject requires much future consideration. A volume, entitled " On the Designs of Russia, by Lieutenant-Colonel De Lacy Evans," which has just made its appearance, deserves, and will no doubt obtain, attention at the present moment, when the public mind is so anxiously directed towards the East. Colonel Evans is evidently a strong-minded man, who has taken much pains to obtain an acquaintance with his subject. We are far from sharing many of his opinions, and conceive that he has greatly over estimated the danger to the world from the oc cupation of Turkey, even if Russia should be allowed to sit down quietly in Constantinople. His ideas as to the changes which would be effected in commerce by Rassian conquest are peculiarly unsatisfactory. Neither do we share his aporehensions for the safety of our Empire in the bast. Indeed his own volume furnishes to a careful reader the best antidote to the ap prehensions which he seeks to excite. The situation of Constantinople is well known to be one of the finest in the world. In the language of the Journaldes Debats, it is eminently Offensive and defensive. " The ardent desire of the Rus sians (says Colonel Evans) to possess a fleet, has long, eapensively, and even prematurely been dis played. And thus it is, that though incapable hitherto of adequately employing them, they have usually, nevertheless,incurred the burden of main taining about fifty sail of the line ; a large propor tion of which are necessarily frozen up during .line mouths of the year, the remainder being at all times without any egress to the ocean. A new era must under these circumstances be anti cipated in naval affairs. Russia having at length accomplished the establishing herself on the Me diterranean, will descend into the arena as a ma ritime power. The port of Constantinople can not now fail, from its resources and locality, to become in a very short time the most formidable arsenal in the world. But very few and unimport ant marine stores will any longer be necessary to be sent from the north, by the Borysthenes. The forests of Asia Minor (the timber of which is considered superior to the English oak), the iron of Caucasus, the copper of Calcedon, the hemp of Synope and Trebisond, celebrated for its long staple and strength, all will flow to the provision ing of the depots of the Bosphorus. A more extended application of steam will also probably be essayed. The extraordinary cheapness of ship-building in the Marmora has been al ready alluded to. No great number of years s likely to elapse - before the Czar will have a hundred sail of the line in eonstructien„ or exercising in the Marmora and Etixine, manned by the expert Greek and docile Russian, and possibly under the severe and skilful direc tion of North American officers. If Napoleon had had such unassailable lakes on which to make sailors, the invasion of this country might not have been impracticable—the war might per haps have taken another turn." Military men spring rapidly to conclusions. There is, no doubt, a great capability of production in the re gions alluded to ; but capability and develop inent are not exactly the same. The Russians will have to struggle with the prejudices and vi cious habits of the barbarous population inn ae biting their conquests, who cannot all at once be converted by Cossacks into Birmingham and Manchester manufacturers, or even into patient German agriculturists. Look at the wretched state of Hungary even at this day, in spite of the exertions of Joseph—look at Poland—look at our own Ireland, which, with a fine soil end climate, and a number of admirable ports, has not more shipping than a single town in Scot land ; and then say whether Russian civilization is likely to cover the Euxine and Sea of Mar mora with fleets of merchantmen, to convey from port to port the produce ofher varied industry. The fact is, that for a long period to come, Constan tinople will be a source of heavy expence to the Russians, wleo, so far from deriving revenue from the country, will be at a considerable expence in keeping down the barbarous and discontented inhabitants. The chief advantage for some time, probably, will be the security to the commerce between the old Russian provinces, on the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean and West of Europe. it hundred sail of the line can only be kept up at a great expence, and suppose the pre-existence of a considerable commercial navy. The author, however, supposes R uss i a a d vanc i ng smoo thly and rapidly to a degree of power which will prom pt her to attempt, an d ena bl e liar, if unchecked, to obtain, universal dominion.— Tie points out the cour se w hi c h s h e i s l i likely to pursue In 111 r th e r tnce of her plan for effecting the destruction of this couutre. A more valuable part of the volume is his eu gges _ titan of an intervention, for the purpose of settling Turkey in such a way es should afford security to Russian commerce, without the evil of Russian occupation. We, see great difficulties, howev er , in the wey of all his modes of disposing of furkey. We were best pleased with the chapter in which he points out where the Russian empire is most tangible of attack. In this chapter, however, by showing how much more Russia has lately b3en beholden to the blunders of her adversariee than to her own power, he has furnished the antidote to what he had before advanced with a view to excite our apprehension. According to him, though Russia was effectually supported by us, who completely covered her flanks by shield ing her maritime frontiers, and by obtaining for her the alliance with Sweden, and peace with Turkey and Persia, ehe was every where beaten by Buonaparte, who failed not from tinder esti mating the Russian power, but from the defec tive nature of his plan of operations. Buona parte succeeded in the military object he pro posed to himself in commencing hostilities, beating the R ussians on every poi n t ; b u t h e " lost his army, n e ver th eless, by neglecting the grand principle of the basis which can alone secure operations and consolidate conquests." We think Colonel Evans has at all events shown that the invulnerability of Russia remains yet to be proved. If ever it should become necessary for the West of Europe to put themselves to the expense of a war against. Russia, we have no doubt that she could, without anygreat difficulty, be stript of most of the conquests she has made ,©f late years.—Morning Chronicle. With the exception of cases of murder, the tisinese at the different Assizes, this summer, has been comparatively very light. This is, per haps, one of the best proofs that the condition of the lower classes has improved, and that the great body of the people, instead of being forced to steal and to cheat one another to procure a precarious subsistence, have found other more honourable means of employment. It cannot he doubted that poverty and wretchedness are the great sources of those numerous larcenies with which the criminal calendar is so often filled. We rarely see a man run the risk of banishment or death for stealing the property of his neighbour, when he can do without it. In stances to the contrary certainly do occur, but these are only exceptions to the general rule, and we may conclude that, in proportion to the de crease of thefts, particularly of petty larcenies, the condition of the lower classes is im proved. This happy change, however, is not confined to England. Perhaps on no other Assizes within the recollection of any person living have there been so few cases for trial on the Irish Circuits as this rear. This has been attributed by some to the influence of the Libe rator and the Catholic Priesthood ; but, on the slightest reflection, it must appear that some other cause must be found for that state of order and peace which now so happily prevails in Ire land. The Priests may, for a few days, at an election, repress rioting and excess, but it would be difficult to continue that for any length of time, unless the causes are removed, — and still snore difficult to put down robbe ries and thefts, and assaults. We have no doubt that the real cause of the change is the improved condition of the working classes ; and the increase of the Irish revenue for some time past puts this almost beyond a doubt. If affairs go on in this way for some tune, and the local authorities, by acting impartially between Protestants and Catholics, should endeavour to put an end to the animosity that has prevailed between the two parties, we should not wonder soon to see Ireland the most thriving part of the British dominions. The great bars to the im provement of that country have been its dis turbed state and the lawless conduct of the pea santry. Let a decided change in this respect take place, and we shall soon see English and Scotch capital flow into the country, to erect cotton-mills, improve farms, and furnish em ployment for the people. If the Priests had only the good of their flocks in view, they would, in stead of teazing them about the Catholic Ques tion and the Catholic Rent, and other similar subjects, which so little interest them, impress upon their minds the great advantages which might accrue to them by remaining quiet, and thereby encouraging the influx o f British capi tal. The) know well enough. that this would be advantageous to the country in general, but, probably, are not so convinced of the benefit which they should derive from it themselves.— Proselytism has made rapid strides in the North since the introduction of the linen manufactory from Scotland, and it is not improbable that they may be afraid of a similar change in the South by the establishment of factories for cotton goods, hardware, and the other kinds of manufactures carried on in England. Even supposing, how ever, that, for the sake of their religion, they would endeavour to put a stop to a change which has evidently been going on for some time, we doubt much whether they could, great as their paver is, produce any considerable effect. Self interest is the most powerful agent ; and when the people find that, by remaining quiet, they excite the confidence of their neighbours, and thereby procure employment, they will continue to go on in the course which they have so hap pily begun.—Morning Herald. The downright Whig and Tory prints are rending and tearing one another without mercy, respecting the conversion of Mr. Dawson, and the implied conversion of the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel, on the subject of the Catholic Question. Such a contest, we think, is rather silly, and betrays a regard for mere names which is due to reason and sound argument only. The three personages, whose names we have men tioned, have been uncompromising enemies of Catholic Emancipation ; and their conversion to A different mode of thinking, is, undoubtedly, a step pined in the great cause : but beyond this it is nothing ; for the People of England, how ever foolishly they may have acted at times, are not so far gone in folly as to be led away by either in a course which they do not approve. The conversion of Mr. Dawson will, undoubt edly, have its effect in stirring up those to think who never before had any idea that thinking had any think to do with the question, while not a arx of those who invariably follow the multitude " to do evil or to do good," as chance may happen, will, in all probability, fol low his example. But to suppose that because Mr. Dawson has been converted, or Mr. Peel, or the Duke of Wellington, the Catholic Question must necessarily be carried, is not only extremely foolish, but 'extremely insulting.— Neither one nor all of them can carry this•point —the people of England must ago be con verted, and convinced, both of the necessity and safety of the measure, before it can ever pass the Collective Wisdom pf Parliament ; and hence it becomes the Catholics of Ireland, as we have often told them, to endeavour to convince the people of England that they have been un justly treated, and deserve the emancipation which they crave ; for whatever abstract right they may possess to the enjoyment of equal privileges with Protestant 6kikigrts-however zealous their friends in this country—all the influence of both will he as cc water spilt upon the ground," un less the people of England re-echo the feeling. W e trust, therefore, that they will conduct them selves as good and loyal subjectc—as men bent upon the attainment of their rights, tint who con sider their rights based on too solid a founda tion to have recourse to any other arm than that of sound argument. Violence and threats, they may rest assured, w4l only retard a favourable issue to the cause in whi c h they are engaged, and furnish their blood-thirty opponants with additional arguments for opposing their claims. Obedience and perseverance are their true and only mo tto—the rest they may safely confide to their friends.—Meotirining irtg it i: t d he vertisei-. something There isaffected be authoritytoo of some of the J ournals which can n o t soon explodej, nor, for the sake ev en o f t h e parties who assume a , too often exposed. Th ose who think they can in • duce die public to b e li eve that they represent the opinions . of the Ptarc.eiof Wellineton and ire privy to th oie ss which shows Government, evince a veal , e secrets of the how little they know of the habi e te of the Noble Duke, and how unsparingly they calculate Upon the credulity of the • public. Perhaps of , all the Statesmen of Europe, at the present day, the illustrious individual at the bead of his Ma jesty's Government is the most careful, the most Erudent, the most abstemious, in making known is intentions on any public question. The e e r Noble Duke listens attentively to all Advisers? he courts every varied opinion, he . seeks in formation wherever he can find it, hut no man is able to tell, not even his most confiden tial friends, what impression these opinions make, or what line of policy he will pursue.— Hints may emanate from the highest quarters— inference may be drawn by shrewd men from casual expressions, or from the nature of the in quiry ; but still the mind and the measures of the Duke of Wellington are as impenetrable and obscure as ever. This fact is so well known that it has only to be repeated to restrain the public from forming any opinion from what they see stated officially in the official journals.— During the late Mr. Canning's oratorical career, we were not so kept in the dark. The -London politicians knew as well what that Minister in tended, what he would say, as he did himself before the delivery of the splendid speech in which his views were to be publicly explained. The Duke of Wellington, however, is not the god of the winds. He does not send forth in gentle and hollow murmurs what he . in tends to do in the storm. it he should find it necessary to restrain the march, or curb the pretensions of any power in Eu rope, we may rest assured he will not, even in the first instance, do it with a Speech in Parliament and an article in the News papers. We must not, therefore, flatter our selves that because he is silent he is inactive, or that because he cannot fulminate words, or let loose this or the other leash of a spirits," that he is not anxiously watching what is passing around us, and preparing himself, if circum stances should require it, to protect the interests and assert the rights and power of the Empire confided to his charge. \V do not point invi diously at at any of our contemporaries, but we make these observations merely to temper the air which some of them, from habit or vanity perhaps, assume, when denying this or affrining that, of and concerning the measures or the policy of the Duke of Wellington. These re marks will accordingly satisfy our readers that what we have lately stated, and are about to state, has no pretensions to what is termed authority, But we take leave to assert, that what we do state, touching past or passing events, we speak upon information of the very highest character ; and information, too, which few, if any, of our neighbour Journalists have access to. Various reasons have been assigned for the re signation of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. But we believe the facts to be these : The Duke of Wellibgton felt the inconvenience of an office of such grave importance as that of the Lord High Admiral being filled by an irre sponsible agent. However well qualified the Duke of Clarence might be to discharge the duties of his situation, still he was an irre sponsible officer. He was under no controul— he was amenable to no superior—and his power was as unlimited, as his errors, if he might be led into any, were beyond the restraint of the Executive. The Duke of Wellington felt the force of this objection, and the irksomeness of au uncontrollable responsibility which fell upon himself, and he was naturally desirous to be relieved from it. He, therefore, proposed that all the orders of the Lord High Admiral should be countersigned by an Officer appointed by the Ministry, and responsible to them and to Parliament. In short, he wished that his Royal Highness would confide his power to a deputy exclusively under the restraint of the Govern ment. To this arrangement, upon the repre sentations of the Noble Duke, . his Majesty as sented. But to this arrangement his Royal Highness demurred, and his resignation followed. These are the facts of the case, which led to a secession which has caused so much speculation in the liberal world. We do not state them upon (ffcial information—but they are true ! New Times. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH', AUG. 21.—Lieut. Charles Hotham (First of the Meteor bomb-vessels) is appointed to the rank of Commander. Commander C. E. W. Boyel is appointed to the Cordelia, vice Capt. G. W. St. J. Mildmay, pro moted to Post rank. Hon. Lieut. Edward Gore, to the rank of Commander; Messrs. John Saunderson, W. C. Nowell, John Barrett, George Goldsmith, F. P. Blackwood, H. T. Harris, Midshipmen and Mates of the Royal Sovereign yacht, to the rank of Lieutenant. Lieut. NV. J. Cole, :now in command of his Majesty's ship Onyx, promoted to the rank of Commander. The Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, Commander of the Procris, is promoted to the rank of Captain; and Commander C. H. Paget is appointed to that vessel. Lieut. George Wood has taken the command of the Nightingale schooner, vice Smith. The Pyramus, 42, Capt. G. IL Sartorius ; and the Galatea, 42, Capt. Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., arrived on Sunday forenoon from Lisbon ; having left the Tagus on the Bth of August, and the former ship brings the Countess D'Alva and family, as pas sengers. These ships spoke the Duke of York, steam-vessel, on Friday, .off the Lizard. The Galatea frigate sailed yesterday aftei noon for Spithead, where, it is understood, she will receive on board Lord Strangford, who is about to proceed on an important embassy to his Imperial Majesty Don Pedro of Br azil. The Goldfinch packet-brig, Lieut. Walkie, came up from Falmouth on Sunday evening to be new coppered ; the Basilisk cutter, 10, Lieut. J. Chim ley, during Sunday night from the squadron off Scilly, which she left at five o'clock on Friday, having carried away her topmast; she sailed again on Tuesday for Falmouth, on her way to rejoin the squadron off Scilly. The Procris, 10, the Hon. Commander Wralde grave, came in on Sunday, from Sheerness, on her way to Cork.—Commander C. H. Paget took the command of the Procris on Tuesday. By the Basilisk we learn, that in consequence of the Prince Regent hiving cleaned her bottom in Torbay, she has recently beaten the Britannia, both large and on a bowline ; though the latter entertains c. hope that, by restoring the stowage of one of her holds, which was altered in Torbay, she will move her lost superiority, The Russian ship of war, Czar Constantine, 74, Commodore Butakoff, was taken in tow on Monday afternoon, by the Brunswick steamer, and towed into Hamoaze, for the purpose of getting out her xn4inrpast, damaged in the recent gales of Scilly. His Majesty's ship Samarang is expected at this port, from the River, on her way to the Mediterra nean. Ifis Majesty's ship Ferret has arrived at Jamaica from Cuba. The Menai arrived at Lima sth April, and sailed 9th for Valparaiso. The Isis arrived at Vorley 3d July. The Rinaldo arrived at :Nome', from Falmouth, 28th June, and at Jamaica, 30th of June. The Forte arrived at Rio de Janeiro from Monte Video 7th June, and the Ganges from St. Catherines, 11th June. The Redpnle sailed from Rio de Janeiro for Monte Video Bth June. The Pereeval, Letbaby, of and from this port for St. John, was spoken with 4th inst. in lat. 50, 30., long. 13. 30. The Solace, Ccosi, of this port, sailed from J.;,verpool for T er c e ira 13th i ns t. The En chantress, Parringt on , of this port, arrived at Graves end from St. Petersburg!' 17th inst. In consequence of the unpropitious state of the harvest, I'ead has risen in this town to 9id. the guar- tern loaf,POreet Chrolikle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday the grave-digger of a parish in the city was charged before Mr. Alderman ANSLEY, who sat .for the Lord Mayor, with leaving tripped up the heels of the beadle, and laid him flat on the pave ment. There was a very full attendance of spectators in the Justice-room, the grave-digger having vowed that even after the death of the beadle he would show that he had a deep recollection of injuries. The beadle stated, that in the early part of the preceding day, the grave-digger had been amusing himself with blowing up the churchwardens, without the slightest pro vocation, but that, as he was generally a very civil man, and had a drop on the occasion, no notice was taken of his conduct. The beadle afterwards went with the doctor to visit a patient, who was in a very delicate state of health ; but when he had just reached the house, the grave-digger, who had been walking behind, tripped up his heels, and down he fell ou his back like a corpse. The ALDERMAN supposed that the grave-digger was suddenly seized with a professional fit, and wanted to bury the beadle; and his Worship asked the former why he had attempted so unnecessarily to disturb the living. The grave-digger replied, that be was rather merry that morning, having just come from a funeral.— (A loud laugh.) He did not exactly know what he was about when he came across the beadle, and be was surprised to see the gentleman measure his length on the ground, us if he was laid out for it. He lamented the accident, for he I had always exiferienced civility in that quarter ; but be hoped that the offence would be forgotten, and he should pursue his business without ever troubling his head with a living beadle again. The beadle evidently did not like this significant allusion to the conduct the grave-digger might adept in the event of his death, particularly as the grave-digger cast a very awful eye at him. He said he did not wish to hurt the poor man, and he hoped the Alderman would dismiss him, upon his promise not to give offence to any of the parish au thorities again. The grave-digger still spoke mysteriously. He vowed that neither churchwarden, nor overseer, nor beadle, should ever have it in their power to complain of him : lie would never hurt the feelings of any of them.—(A laugh.) Alderman ANSLEY asked why the beadle wished to keep in the employment of the parish a man who set such an ex ample of insubordination to the paupers ? . . One of the authorities mentioned in a lew tone to the Alderman, that the fact was, they could not get a man to supply his place properly, as he knew the ground so well. Another grave-digger would not know where to shove his spade when a place was wanted ; but the defendant was so well acquainted with the ground, crowded as it was, that he could prick for room in little or no time. —(Laughter.) The beadle said that the defendant knew his own worth, and when threatened with dismissal laughed at the authori ties. Indeed, if the grave-digger went away, he (the beadle) would he obliged to take his place. Alderman ANSLEY said this kind of independence re minded him of the conduct of an executioner, when a brother Alderman was Sheriff. A man was to be hanged one morning, and the hour had nearly arrived, when the Jack Ketch, who, he supposed, was also in his cups, swore his eyes if he'd do the job without some ready money. Mr. Ketch got the eum lie required, because, if the Sheriff had refused, he would have been obliged to tie up the criminal himself.—(Loud laughter.) The grave-digger assured the Alderman that he would perform his duties with the greatest decorum, and the beadle pleaded hard for him, urging that he had a wife and children, and was generally very well behaved. Mr. Holder—The least that can be done is to fine hint five shillings fur being drunk. The grave-digger went into the next room, and sent word to the beadle that the parish must pay the money, or the consequences would be disagreeable. He did not mean, lie said, to break the law; but if the beadle happened to go first, there should be very little mould over him. Whether the fear of the body-snatchers operated upon the beadle or not, the fine was certainly paid without delay. A waterman was fined under the New Act, for having charged 2s. instead of 9d. He committed another offence, for he had no list of the fares, &c. The penalty was mitigated to 10s. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday TYilliarn Brown, a re spectable-looking man, was charged with endeavouring to incite James Woods, a person in the employment of the Post-office, to commit a capital felony by stealing a Post office letter containing money. The evidence was gone into at some length, but for -the present we shall merely state the circumstances which led to the prisoner's apprehension, as the case involves some legal difficulties, the publication of which might defeat the ends of justice. It appears that the prisoner Brown had formerly held an employment in the Post-office, and in the year 1817 he stood his trial at the Old Bailey on the capital charge of stealing a money-letter. He was convicted and cast for death, but his sentence was afterwards commuted to trans portation for 14 years. Owing to good conduct in Botany Bay, the term of his exile was remitted to half that sen tence, and at the end of seven years he is supposed to have returned to this country. Having become acquainted with Woods, who held a situation of trust in the Post-office, be opened to that individual a plan for stealing money remitted through the Post-office, by which, as he alleged, detection would hardly follow. The plan was for Woods to convey to him such letters as came to his hand, containing money, the prisoner undertaking to open the letters and run the risk of changing the Bank-notes which they might contain. It appears, that Woods listened to this proposal, without in tending to adopt it, for he immediately waited upon Sir Francis Freeling, the Post-office secretary, to whom he dis closed the proposal of the prisoner. Means were then adopted to enable the prisoner to carry his design into exe cution, in order that he might he made amenable to justice. Woods was accordingly directed to appear to enter into the prisoner's views, and a letter containing a 51. note was made up, as if it came from the country, which letter Woods handed to the prisoner as the first fruits of their supposed plan. The prisoner was then watched by an officer pur posely employed, and having been detected in the act of opening the letter and pocketing its contents, he was taken into custody, and Woods, his supposed confederate, was brought forward as a witness for the Crown. Sophia Cheeson, a servant at the King's Head public-house, Sher borne-la-le, Lombard-street, deposed to her having fre quently seen the prisoner and the witness Woods together, as if engaged in business. Evidence was adduced as to the other facts, and the prisoner was remanded to a future day. MA R Y LEB ONE- OF FI CE. --Edward Jones was chargeel with stealing a piece of jeaa front the shop-door of Mr. Watts, a draper, in Crawford-street, Wyndham-place. The prisoner is a young man, and, in answer to ques tions put by Mr. HOSKINS, the Magistrate, said he had no home, no friends, and nothing to say in answer to the charge ; and he was committed to Newgate fur trial. II AT TON- GARDEN.--Yesterday Mason, the driver of the Barnet and Hadleigh stage-coach, appeared on sum mons to answer an information laid against him by Ihle, the informer, for carrying a greater number of outside passengers on his coach than allowed by law. The information was dismissed. It scents that the defendant has another information pending against him at Worship -street, laid by Johnson, for the same offence, one of these worthies being on one side of the coach, and the other on the opposite, taking ob servations at the same instant. Robert and Richard Clinton, the former of whom has been no less than fourteen times in the House of Correc tion, were yesterday placed at the bar, charged on suspicion of stealing some silver table-spoons, and a silver soup bile, from the Pavilion Hotel for foreigners, in Henrietta -street, Brunswick-square.—Remanded. IJNION-HALL.-- , --4 middle aged man applied fur a warrant under these circumstances :—He stated, that he was married that day week to a most amiable woman, whom he loved to adoration, and he had no doubt the feel ing was reciprocal, as she appeared to be completely happy after they were united. On the preceding day ire left home, desiring his wife to prepare dinner, and he promised to return home at one o'clock. He returned at that hour, but no dinner was ready, nor was his wife at home; and he learned that she was seen to leave the house in the course of the morning, with a tall, stout man, who was a constable, and whose nape was Walmsley. He had since discovered her retreat, and was satistied she had been taken away against her inclination. In answer to the inquiries of the Magistrate, the applicant said that his wife was twenty-six years of age. He knew not whether the con stable was authorised to take her into custody; he heard something about felony, but he thought it was a plan of the father to tear his daughter from his arms, as he was averse to the marriage. The MAGISTRATE observed, that she might possibly be brought before him on some charge. The applicant then stated he would remain in the office during the day, to see whether there was any chance of his spouse being brought forward, and if not, he would apply for am habeas corpus against the father, to state the grounds upon which she was detained. On Wednesday last the assize of bread for this town was advarn;ed three farthings in the gnartern loaf wheaten, the price of which is now I Old.— Cam bric/Fe Chronicle, INQUEST ON ELIZE SERMIROT. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, an inquest was held before THOMAS SuEuroN, Esq., Coroner for the city of London, at St. Bartholomew's Hos spital, on the body of Elize Sermirot, a young French lady, who died in that establishment on Wednesday night last. Robert Eson was a porter in the service of Mr. Waterhouse, proprietor of the Swan-with-two-necks, Lad-lane. On Sunday, the 29th of June, he was attending upon a Birmingham coach called the Eclipse, at the Angel Inn, Islington, about eight o'clock in the morning. He was standing at the hind part of the coach, as it was going out of town; the deceased, who was going as an outside passenger on the coach, was on a ladder getting up on the hind part of the coach, at the near hind-wheel next the pavement ;. she was nearly at the top of the ladder, and too hi g h up for him to hold her; the coach just at this time moved about half a wheel round, and the deceased slipped and fell down, and pitched on the ground. She fell quite flat, and was picked up by the guard of the coach, and taken to a doctor's close by. Witness perceived, on her clothes being raised a little, that her leg was broken, and that the bone came through the skin. The wheel of the coach did not go over her leg, for she fell away from the wheel. Witness did - not perceive any fault on the part of the coachman. Mr. Powis, a gentleman rasiding at Islington, had nothing to add to the evidence of the last witness, except that the deceased and the ladder fell from the coach together. Witness was standing at the door of the Angel Inn at the time. The deceased was in appearance an elegant little woman, as much so as could be seen amongst a thousand. John Weeks, house-surgeon to the hospital, de posed that on the 29th of June, deceased was brought to the hospital, labouring under a fracture of the left thigh. Witness reduced the fracture, and every thing that was possible was done to preserve the limb, and the patient went on pretty well for some days, lilt after that a good deal of inflamma tion, together with a formation of matter, took place, and amputation became necessary as the only chance of saving her life. When her limb was taken off she became more feeble, and that debility increased until at last she sunk from exhaustion, and diet: on Wednesday night, or rather early on Thursday morning. The deceased seemed much attached to the gentleman with whom she was travelling, he paid her the greatest attention, and visited her every day at the hospital while in town ; but was at last compelled to go over to Ireland to vote at the late election for Clare, where he gave his support to Mr. Fitzgerald. It happened, fortunately, the witness said, that there was another female, a patient in the hospital at the time, who spoke French, and he placed the bed of the deceased close to that of the other female. She wanted for nothing, and it was a mistake that she was neglected. One of the Jurors inquired whether the guard or the coachman who were with the coach at the time of the accident were in attendance. The porter replied that they were not present ; they were both out of town with the coach, but they could be produced, if necessary. The Juror thought their presence, or at least that of one of them, very necessary; for as yet there was no evidence to show, except that of the porter Eson, whether or not the coachman or guard were in care of the horses, or on the coach-box, at the time. The other Jurors agreed as to the necessity of further evidence on this point, and the inquest was therefore adjourned until two o'clock on Monday next. IRISH ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. GLONMEL, AUGUSiT IS. Ednumd Kirwick, Michael Kirwiek, Thomas Phelan, James Martin, and Jeremiah Dwyer were indicted for cutting the tails off six -cows, the pro perty of Thomas Phelan. The prosecutor had been served with threatening notices for taking some lands formerly in the pos se3sioa of the prisoners. He watched his cattle , in consequence, and on the night of the Ist of August about eleven o'clock, he went to the field, where he had twenty-five head of cattle. lie observed about sixteen persons collected about them, and he con cealed himself in a ditch, from which place he saw them cut the tails off as many cattle as they could catch. Cross-eNamined by Mr. Hatebell.—He took the benefit of the Insolvent Act, and did not pay a far thing to any of his creditors. He went to bed about nine o'clock, and slept till lithe same night, when he got up to look after the cattle. Did you dream of the cattle whilst you were in bed ?—Certainly. (Laughter.) When you got up at eleven o'clock did you put ou you breeches ?—No, indeed ; I don't wear breeches. (Laughter.) When you went to bed again, did you dream of the cattle ?—Why, they were certainly troubling me, and I believe I did dream again of them. (In creased laughter, in which the Learned Judge heartily joined.) Rhody Ryan saw the cattle at 12 o'clock on the night in question, and they were not injured. This witness and the prosecutor were confronted, and contradicted one another. An alibi was the defence set up by the prisoner, Kit wick. Patrick Phelan, a quack doctor, residing in Too mevara, said, I have been i n t h e h a bi t o f bl ee di ng peoplefor2oyears. I w as ca ll e d upon to atten d Edmond Kirwickl the morning after the tails of the cattle were cut. I found Kirwick very ill and in a weak state from pleurisy. I felt his pulse; it was very quick, and I th oug ht it wou ld be very danger ous to bleed bite. I prescribed for him, and ordered plenty of whey, with directions to the womenkind to keep him very well blanketted.—(Great laughter.) Cross•examined by Mr. PLUNKETT. — Yon are a man of great skill in blanketting people. In what university in Toomevara did you obtain your degree for bleeding and blanketting?- o h, sure, you know there is not any university in Toomevara, ounly the one where the Peelers lain to bleed the people.— (Roars cf laughter.) Did you study there I Is it me faith ! I ounly bleeds with the lance. (Laughter.) 'ell, tell us, Mr. Pat, in 'what university, as you call it, did-you get your degree ? Oh, sure I tould you I wasn't bred in any university at all; but I got all the laming from myself. (Laughter.) Oh, I perceive, then, you are only a cow-doctor ? Faith I am not, Sir, a cow-doctor, nor a horse-doctor neither, for I'd scorn to be both one and t'other. (Great laughter.) Were you net, upon your oath, called upon to doctor the cows ? No, I was not, Sr, I don't doctor no cows; isn't it a shame for you to be saying such thing upon me? Well, if you are not a cow-doctor, what do you call yourself? Faith, I sometimes doctors min at your sarrice, your honour. (Laughter.) I)o you ever prescribe cold water with bleeding ? Oh, no, when I orders plinty of whay, and the blanketting. (Laughter.) I)o you know any of these parties ?—Sure I'm first cousin to Tom, the prisoner, and second cousin to Tom, the prosecutor. Which of them stands bleeding better ?-011, is it my own relations ? sure I bleeds them both.— (Laughter.) You appear to have bled pretty freely for one of them to -day ; I think if you were to be \ve il " blanketted" after this, that you would live 20 years more to the great joy of the Phehms of Toomevara. Witness--Indeed you need't be making game of me, for I intends soon to lace off practice entirely, and Mr. PIAINKETT—" To kill characters no longer." —(Laughter.) The prosecutor's brother• was called to speak to the character of Ryan, who contradicted the prose cutor, and he said that Ryan was turned out of Thomas Phelan's service. Mr. Justice MooRE summed up, and the Jury found u verdict against all the plisouers of—Guilty. PRICES OF FOREIGN GRAIN• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Table of the Average. Price of Wheat, per fleet in various Foreign Markets, according to the price' rent ruck recently received in this o£fice: Placc4. Dates, Prices. London Dantzic Bremen June Lubeck June flamburgh June 30 Wismar Antwerp June Trieste July 15 Palermo Milan Genoa July 12 /slice France July 15 THE MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of 13read in the Metropolis is Dd. -' 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell fro& %d. to ISvd• that price. Kent PRICES OF HOPS.—Aug. 22. 31. 3s. 31. 1(14. to 41. 31. Os. 31. Ss. to 31. 24 Os. 31. Pla. to 41. 0/. Os. 51. 12s. to , Seconds 0/. Os. 4/. 10s. to SI,: 21. 14s. 31. ss. to • 21. 103. 31. Os. to 0 .2,. -2/. 12s. 31. 3s, to :v. Old Duty laid at X 150,000. Sussex Dii Kent 8ag5,,,,, Sussex Ditto Fesex Ditto. WHITF:CHAPEL HAY NI AAKET.—Aug. Hay 704. Od. to 935. Ott 19over —80 a. W. to 1 1, ' Od. to :38s. Od. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown TN. 68. Refilled Linseed Oil ...„,......—.......... Linseed Oil Cako at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton _ PRICE OF POTATOES.—Aug, 22, New Ware - 2 t. 50. to 31. las. per tOn' PRICES OF Per lb. - Butts 50 to :rib.— f 54 21 Ditto ----till to t;ab.— 22 23 Dressing Huiee 15 17 Fine Coach Llides —..... 19 201 Crop /fides, 35 to 4011). 151 18/ Ditto t 5 to 501 b. 181 21 Ditto 2O 22 LEATHEIL Per lb. d. Tanned Hone P, Spanish Ditto • Per dozen. Calf Skius...S6 to 401 b. _ l9 Ditto to 701 1 . 2 4 Ditto 70 to 801b. t i2 I Small Seals, Oreenland RAW RIDES. Per Stoic. s. d. to Best Heifers & Steers 3 0 3 8 Middlings 1 8 210 Per Stone. L Ordinary 2 0 Market Calf- 9 0 PRICE OF TALLOW, SO Town Tallow 425. Oa. Yellow 335. 6d. 393. Od. Snap Ditto 373, OcL Melted Stuff Od, Ditto Rough. —a. RI. 2:s AP, Sze. per 11211).—Aug 4 Yellow Mottled White _ Graves Good Dregs PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail , hops, is as follow* Candles, per doz. it. Pd. to Os. Od. Moulds, per dozen PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone ot Price of Tallow (as stat e d by the Tallow Melters)..--.....e&' COAL MARK Beaumont , 30s. 9d. Heaton ..„ S. 9 Holywell 32 0 Killingworth i 4 Liddell's .30 3 Pelaw , 31 0 Pontop Windsor.-- il 0 Tantield Townley. 3l 9 Willington Wylam Walls End Bell and Co. 31 3 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 35 0 Ditto Bewickeand Co..- 37 0 Ditto Burraton 33 0 Ditto Carr and Co. :30 3 Ditto Cramlington :3o' 0 Ditto Hilda Ditto Hotspur 0 Ditto Northumberland 33 6 Ditto Peareth 33 0 Ditto Perkins and Co. 34 6 Ditto Bidden's_ Ditto Russell's Ship; at market, 94X—,---Shi El'.—Aug. 22. Walls End Newmarch—• ~Nr ! I)itto Walker, , Eden Main _ • , 7 I Harraton 3` Neshani Russell's Lyon's 1 Walls End Iletton--.. Nj f Walls End Lyons,., „7 Walls End Stewart's 7, Ditto Simpson—.... nus,eirsnetwiesw.E. 3 1 Culat Cox _ O4 1 Cowpen— :3O I Hartley 22 .3 i Silkstone tl Stone Coal . 0 Stone Coal Shear & Co. 4 ,„,' liangetmeeh Coal —,.. :,/ 9 Walla E. Old Etkerley Tantield Trader.' I.iddell's r t p Durham W. F. small—. 1 " 0 Walla End small 39 0 19 Ditto Wear, 5.4 ips sold 49%—Unsold. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DUBING THE Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. n e w Per Quarter.' Ashburn S 6 60 24 29 4 6 '!'", Rasingstoke 59 31 33 22 29 4 2 Bath 6O 46 30 35 24 4:„ 4 Bridgewater 58 72 29 32 Bristol 5O 66 32 34 '24 29 Chesterfield ..53 64 24 28 4 . t.! Derby 64 f 6 24, 27 t Devizes 4 5t: 7 6'7 2 !. 2 ,1 :3031 241 0 28 27 441 Exeter nit tit 20 3 . 4 22 24 010uce5ter—......... 60 00 :P Hungerford 45 60 Y 27 33 22 90 4. Leicester — 63 —94 i 31 40 44 Newbury...--,—. 53 86 30 34 18 31, 118 Itomsey - Shaftesbury 59 28 Shepton Mallet 52 58 '2B 30 20 30 Sherborne--..... 62 78 24 28 22 27 41 56 69 26 129 24 28 4 3 2 Yeovil 56 66 26 30 20 26 Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. e. d. s• d o 0 Shrewsbury 6 100 00 () 0 50 70 (4 SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Aug. We had a small supply of all sorts of Grain a t this mgatet, which sold readily-. The top price of Wheat t o higr. en Oats Is. higher. Barley, Pease, and v ati the same as last day. The top price of New ~ 29a. otl., and of New Barley 34.5. Wheat. Barley. Gate. First 7os Od I 34s Od I 2)s tid Second Cots Od 32s Od 25s Od Third Peace. 38s Od 32s Od 26s 0,1 13 C, 3° Cti ej :3* 6,1 26' PRICES OF PROVISIONS ? B,c. • 1 0° ' Beef, per 1b.... 4d. to 04.7 d. Free }Sutter, top 0 Mutton----.. 0 4 0 7 Salt 0 9 0 0 Veal 0 5 0 7 Ditto, pe r cwt. 76 0 0 4) Pork-. 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per dot. 0 8 9 0 Lamb, per qr. 1 6 3 d OatStraw(kii.) 7 6 0 Tallow, cv, t.... 30 0 31 0 Wheat Ditto.- 9 0 ' 0 (.. Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 9 Barley Ditto 0 0 0 Potatoes, 141 b. 0 0 0 4 Hay, per 0' 6 EDINBURGH MLA: We had a small supply of which met with a ready sal MARKET,-Aug. Datmeal at this day's 11 " - ,c1 at le. advance in the for best quality. Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Fimt Oatmeal £l 18 0 Second ditto 1 15 0 Barleymeal 1 10 0 Pemerneal 1 6 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 13 Per Stone of I.llb. DO' t First Oatmeal XU i it Second ditto Barleyrneal V ' t 0 i PeaAerneal t Y- 11 ' .-2d, 155.--3 d. lEt,._ l' e±ll:./ GLASGOW CORN Wheat continues in &luau ber boll. Oats are likewise Pease, steady. Wheat, per 2401 b. British, old new Canada, free Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English Synth .`l Irish ... BIRTHS. t Dr - thy, Li MARKET.—Aug. 20. to ' it. Id at an adv ance o f le. a pc dearer. Barley, 8e41 1 °7 `• s. d. s. d. Oats, per 1641 b. 't a I . to 13 300 to 33 I) Irish lO ( 26 0 29 6 British 0 :31 0 32 0 I I3ean A, per 2601 b. ~ ..--( 260 29 6 English P Scottish ease Scottish 23 0 30 0 l 24 at 27 0 0 Oatmeal, per 1101 b. 14 ~`' 50 21 0 24 6 Flour, per 213011 a 47 "_.„......: :be lady On the 20th inst. al Junsby, Lincolnshire, ti the Rev. John Bonham, of a daughter. On the I btli inst., in Laura-place, Bath, the lady Henry Cosby, Esq., of the King's Dragoon Guard., o f daughter. MARRIED. On the 12th instant, by the Rev. Archdeacon .r -at Dartington, the Rev. William Martin, Vicar of Static ` ton, in the County of Devon, to Jane, eldest daugh ter the late Arthur Citampernowne, Esq., of Dar tin g V House, in the same county. On the 21st inst., at Chertsey, R. F. Bartropp Kingston, Surrey, to Martha, second daughter of 'll° "` La Coste, Esq., of the former place. -di' On the 21st inst. , at Melcombe Regis, by the Rev. Lei loughhy Brassey, Francis Juice, Esq., to Mary, r ums. daughter of Rear- Adm W iralPea rse , o f ad n incle-house , On the 22d inst., at St. Alartin's.in-the.Field s, b y e Lord Bishop of Barbado es , D. M ac k e ll ar , Esq., of Ely-P1 ° ti to Maria, youngest daughter of Count Meneghetopolo,,, the island of Zante, and widow of tht. late Charles v pont, Esq. On the 16th inst., at m D i l h E iee . , and eight months, Just. Henry Seaforth, e ldest sou ° I Rev. J. H. Alt, of Christ's Hospital; On the 21st inst in her lr hof P t"' ~ at year, a c onsuto r oe Caroline Suffolk, aged font Y e t i j e Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. Win. Haley, n i Clapham -road. be d , On the 21st inst., at Rotherfield, Sussex, Mrs. Wi ll ; ai Dadswell, wife of Mr. William Dadswell, of Newi° s-° Surrey. , jo u, On the Stli inst., at her house, Manor-terrace, C' e • d 1 in the 49th year of her age, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, '4lo°o,e of the late Thomas Smith, Esq., of the same place, hiss is deeply lamented by her relations and friends. di e On the 15th ult., on his passage from the West In ao f John Colhoun Mills, Esq., late President of the iol an Nevis. , $ o On the 20th inst., at Kentish-town, in h is sixth Ir', e Charles Francis, second son of Mr. Joseph Browne, of s t marthen-street, Londo n . . e , 3 iieo - e On the 21st hist , after a short illness , at his r i le in Park-street, Gros . venor.square, Sir James Wynne S. Bathe, Bart., in his 36th year. .....................................„ -- ....-t....5.r.5 t o. - Pars an aul, d PtIBLISII ED by MURDO YOUNG, a SUH OFFICX, 112, STRAND, I.ol4Dorit • TR on TUBS ceive TWO Th, Five RH' Puur ~.T w o Hu Aventv To hk Depth "1 Septet ! month. and of th be Prods, The C Offic e. Inch ui dhed kul the 1 Cu Lis be E Lands, P Within t WanN aftern ( THI fol `Arave j, fcCowing Lot 4T 'd EA! L Aw an eNeased kriah of Eiti The la IQt Croy Ups Lot 2. IQ 16 Ac The bed The , 1 31. . 1 /Piet kat 3. 1 448(41 b. _ ther e b y ! Eat Ded The vz Pet Lit 4. PowBsed Acres or E%t. bet The v cots. Upset Lot 5. Parish el tonsistin Est Ded Vat v about £ Upset Lot 6. Bro E,t Dec Ctrl ,