The Sun. — London, England, 1824-04-24 00:00:00

.LONDON LIQUItNALS. DAILY tarae!i from the Meriting Papers, April 24. DIORN INC CIIP.ONIgi E.] The - important consequences which must at, :and the result_ of the present attempt, on the part of those who' are deeply interested in West in property, to form a Joint Stock Company, fOr, the purposes of receiving consignments of West India produce-, and of lending money On West India mortgages, are becoming daily wore nounifest-to the mercantile classes of the City . of London,. for the success of this Company can unly be attended by the formation. of a mono.' poly, which must prove ruinous to ,all receivers vtoonsignments of Westiodia productions in the United Kingdom ; and, should, this attempt prove abortive hereafter, as most undoubtedly it will, the losses and difficolties at present expe rienced by what is 011e:t1• the West India lute-, rest, will be removed irom those who, from past profits, are alone legitimately entitled to bear them,. to unsuspecting individuals, 'who have oever reaved any advantage's from the West _lndia trade when it was prospercrus, and who never would have been admitted into it, had its future prospects been more favourable than its effects are calamitous at the present mo ment. -- Surely some suspicions ought to hang over the formation of a CorEpany, recommended by the great West India Agents, to whose future trade the success of this Joint Stock Speculation must prove ruinous,' and before individuals em bark their property, and the future welfare of their families in an undertaking of this descrip tion, they ought, at all events, to desire to have some sound and solid reasons from the half of the DirectorS, for their abandonment of a trade which promises such mighty advantages to this Association, which is to be their•successor. The want of capital cannot be urged, for so long as the trade was good,. it was supported by abun dance of- :mild that too at a time when three times:the,Capital, now requisite, was re quired successfully to supply all Europe with West peodnetions. The price of - Rums Low is 11. 4d. trV is. Bd., per gallon ; the advances required for consignMents are far above 'value of their commissions; the trade remains amongst the present •West India agents , only, because a vast capital is sunk in West India mortgages, and it is well known that the West India merchants are perfectly satisfied to 'resign either to an individual, or to a Joint Stock Company, that portion of their trade on which these advances are heaviest. No regular trade. will be surrendered to this Joint Company, nor is it possible to conceive that any merchant will hand , over to it an agency of re- gular consignments on which the advances are within the value of the property lodged for se- curity. In the present uncertain state of the West India estates, and of the property of Chris tians in human beings, may, however, be found the real cause of a West India monopoly. In ' consideration of the repayment of money ad vanced on West India property, the consignees of West India produce are perfectly ready to resign any agenCy which is not in any degree equal to the chances which they now run of never receiving the capital which they have Nested, and consequently that part of their trade which is bad or aoubtful, they with pleasure will hand over to this new mono poly. It is understood that all the shares • are already disposed of by the original projectors of this society, but a vast portion of them are way meant for a re-sale in the market, with a - view to immediate profit. Beyond the original subscribers, however, it will be difficult. to find capitalists who will become willingly proprietors 9f a society, the first of whose operations will be to Pay up the mortgages, which eminent West India agents possess on West India estates, and vthich they part with because the risk is much greater than the profits, and to take the chances of los4es which - individuals are unwilling to en- . counter-,-a hopeful prospect, this is, indeed, to a company, whose interests are to be attended to weDirectors, reaping annual salaries for their ekly attendance at the honourable Board, as, go doubt, their round table still be denominated. [MORNING POST.] • Some of our contemporaries. have .exulted so extravagantly at the verdict against the Bank of England on Wednesday last, that a stranger might well suppose the impartial administration of jus tice in this country an event of singular occur rence. It is also made a wonder that 'the Chief Justice declared the Directors of the Bank of England did not act for the public, but for the Bank Proprietors, and by implication we-are in formed, or at least given to understand, that the nature of the verdict ought to be ascribed to this distinction. - Does it then necessarily follow, because the defendants in a cause repre sent the public, tbat the plaintiff can have no justice before the tribunals of a free nation ? Nay, is it so uncommon a thing for the Go vernment, when the immediate prosecutor, to be defeated, as to render'it a matter of astonishment that the silly, and popular error of imagining the Bank of Eagkind.to be-identified with the State, should be corrected by the Chief Justice of the. Ring's Bench . In.. truth, however, the action which has produced such -miraculous effects upon the wiseacres of the Press, partook, in every sense, of the nature and consequences of a suit between private parties, and in that simple and common-sense light it was received by the Court. As the Chief Justice observed, the sole question was whether the Bank of ling_ ]band bad taken more time than was absolutely necessary in ascertaining the correctness of the Power of Attorney for transferring stock, and if so to what amount the Directors were liable for the loss incurred by such superfluous delay—but by no means (the first point having been decided in 'tile affirmative) whether they were bound to compenSate for the injury done to . the Plaintiff. ' The latter in short ,was not once at issue throughodt the proceeang,bufwas taken for granted ; and therefore th'eJury found solely upon the other grounds already stated. For our own part. we.linow not. what object could be in scent forholding - up the case or the result as remark able. The impartial administration of justice is not we.believe singular in this country ; and although we might understand how an improper charge from the Bench, or an irregular verdict from the -Jury, should be made themes for animadversion, we really are at a loss to imagine how a matter of every-day occurrence should be blazoned about as a phenomenon, unless for want of 44 metal more attractive," to enlighten the Public. [THE TIMES.] We received, in the course of yesterday, the French evening-and morning papers of Wednes day, as likewise letters from Paris of the same (late. The former contain no interesting intelli gence : the information which we derive from the latter deserves considerable atteen. It hai s excited ()Teat surprise in France that M. de Villele should have been out-voted in his pro position with respect to the commencement of the dischssion on his new financial project, and that the suggestion of M. de Labour donnaye, the leader of the Ultra opposition, which, had the effect of postponing it from Thursday to Saturday, should have been adopt .ed, notwithstanding the urgent reasons advanced by the Minister for a more early decision. The temper of the Chamber, thus manifested with respect to the time of the debate, has created -considerable anxiety with respect to its result. in the Chamber of Deputies there are no less than c , 25 emigrants, and 350 nobles, out of a list of 460 members ; and the proportion of such men in the Upper House - is still greater. These punctilious and consistent gentlemen, who ever since the restoration have been constantly call ing for an indemity,.and for whom M. de Villele intended the million and a quarter sterling which he is to save by a reduction of the Rentes, have been consulting about the propriety of opposing the project, and refusing the boon of their be nefactor, as the result of a spoliation indicted on the small annuitant by a combination of foreign bankers. In consequence of a union thus effected between the pride of the Ultras and discontents of the popular party, the influence of M. de Villele has never been in more imminent peril since his accession to office. Embarrassed by the resist ance offered to . their domestic measures, the French Cabinet are not less so respecting their foreign policy. The questions respecting the tranquillity of Spain, and the independence of the Spanish colonies—the difficulty of keeping on good terms with England, and obeying the dictates of good sense, while they remain sub missive to the views and are propelled by the fa natic folly of the Holy Alliance, afford sufficient employment foi all their talents and dexterity, though they had neither to manage the Stock Echange nor the Emigrant saloons. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Paris Papers . of Wednesday, with Thurs . - day's Etoile, reached our office yesterday. The Etoile, which far teveral months - has been-harp..l ing on South America, contains. some new-fangled statements from the Madrid Gazette—a most, un worthy authority—on the present state of Colom bia. These accounts are stated, by ibe -Madrid paper, to have been received-by the Spanish Go vernment from Porto Rico, and to have been transmitted to that island, from the Continent.- They profess to be dated the bth of February, and state, " that the people of those countries, charged with the yoke of therevolutionists, every where rise to throw it off"—that cries of love and fidelity to the wretched tyrant of Spain are heard in all places. " Spectatum admissi risum teneatis." Can any one acquainted with these countries read these tales of invention with feelings of any thing but utter incredulity and contempt ? This account goes on to say, that there are only two thousand men in- arms at Venezuela—that the rest have deserted—that the fortresses of Puerto Cabello, Maracaibo, and Cumana, were nearly without garrisons, and orders had been given to withdraw all the materiel to the south of the Apura. —These dispositions indicate (the Madrid Paper adds), an intention to fall back on Aranca, in case of invasion, by the Spanish royalists ? Where, we ask, are the invaders to be found ? There is no force in Cuba equal to the attempt, or more than sufficient to retain an uncertain possession of that exten sive island. Since Morales and his followers were driven out of Colombia, and Puerto Ca bello taken by storm, the Spaniards have not an inch of that territory in their possession ; nor is there now a Spanish soldier in arms throughout that vast Republic. Where then is the danger ? or from what is it to spring, unless the Colom bians themselves, who, during past years of strife and danger, bore arms in the cause of li berty, and adhered to the Republic, until every enemy was driven from its soil, should now, in their day of triumph and security, grow sud denly tired of freedom and growing prosperity, and sigh for the happiness of Spanish tyranny and monopoly again ? Though the illustrious Bolivar is in Peru, he left the Government of Colombia assured and. settled before he sailed. The tales, therefore, of the Madrid Gazette, and its ally, the Etoile, are destitute of even proba bility ; but both these Journals have dealt in these fradulent inventions for months, ,and unable to make any other war, the Paris and Madrid Cabinets have put these Journals in com mission. Southern America, exhausted by a long and desolating contest, may, for a while feel domestic pressure heavy, but would Spa nish tyranny renew her resources, or the burthees of her people be lighter under the iron Hyoke of- the -merciless Ferdinand, and the fa natics who now desolate and oppress the mo ther country, than they are under a free go vernment ? Bourrnont's return to France, by the last accounts, is spoken of as certain ; and Mar moot, the Duke of Ragusa, is now mentioned as his successor. On Sunday, the 4th of April, our Bayonne letters, some French were assassi nated by Spaniards. These sanguinary crimes, it adds, are now but too frequent. Ferdinand was to have been at Toledo on the 9th; the French were to accompany him, and their head quarters were to be at that city during his stay. Orders were already given, as at Aran juez, not to suffer any person to enter the city without the tyrant's permission. The return of 'the French gardes du corps to France was looked for. Among the Spaniards, already amounting to 200 men, who are to take their place, there are several French ; in fact, Spain is now a mere province of France, where the French Com mander is absolute, and the despot is a mere puppet in his hands, suffered accasionally to in dulge his prejudices and his caprice. General hatred to the French appears every day gaining ground; all parties are now gradually uniting in that feeling, and the French troops may soon have a most dangerous and uncertain footing within the Pyrenees. [NEW TIMES.] Yesterday being the day appointed for the ce lebration of his Majesty's Birth-day, the Bank, Stock Exchange, &c. were closed with the most rigid exactness. Some few speculators, however, were'congregated upon The the Royal Exchange, and some business was transacted in the latter part of the day, both in the British and Foreign Securities. prices at which Consols were sold were 964, and for the Account 961; but these may be con siderd as little better than nominal prices, for the business transacted was very trivial compared with what usually takes place on an open day. The French Funds were quoted at 103 in Paris on 'Wednesday, and 'the price they bear in Lon don is near one per cent. higher. Some extensive business was done in the French Scrip, in pursu ance of orders from Parisond these circumstances tend to spew the confidence entertained of those Funds improving. The Scrip fully main tained a premium of 18 Per cent. The Colorn bian Scrip was lower in price, as were most of the other Securities. The following may be quo ted as the correct prices of the Securities in which any business took place :—Austrian Scrip, 174 : ; Colombian Bonds, 934, 4 ; French Rentes, 1034, 4 ; Mexican Scrip, 1041 prem. ; Neapolitan Bonds, 971 ; Russian 971 ; and Spanish Bonds 18, and the New 16.—Consider able interest is excited as to the plan of the West India Company, and the names of the Di rectors have a strong influence upon the Public, from their highly respectable character and station in society. The list of subscribers is stated to be already nearly completed. [MORNING HERALD.] The increase of crime, to which we alluded yesterday, does not say much in favour of the universal system of education so much in fashion ; at the same time it must be admitted, that in proportion as a nation increases in population,. and in that which is called commercial prospe rity, so will also its crimes increase, in a pro portionate ratio. Also the system of machi nery introduced so universally in the manu facture of goods tends to increase crime ; Inaagre more, ha d everyfor machioery concentrates population. For merly the manufacturing of the country being comparatively performed by hand, every littlevil ts f a r m m a - ta ho u o ra s c e t manufacturing ]r n g establishment; a manufactory, on a small scale, of its own. But now,, instead of this being spread over the country, it has, in consequence of machinery, resolved itself into, probably, not more than half a dozen large towns. The oldest writers on the subject of large cities, dwell on the bad effects arising from the-con gregation of a mass of p eo ple ; and for this reason, that in a large place, a wicked man can comparatively be wicked with impunity; the eye of his neighbour is not upon him. In -the Country, on the contrary, what a man does, if It be improper, is soon known, and the gossip of his neighbours obliges him either to be more virtuous, or he is compelled to leave the place. We consider 'London to be the most corrupt Place in all England, and this corruptness, we are persuaded, arises principally' from its immense size. And in proportion as London increases, so also will its wickedness increase, because its means for the concealment of crime increase. It is not improbable that wicked-cities carry with them their antidote ; in time they grow so bad, that it becomes the fashion not to live in them. Who can say but the infamousness of Gomorrah,Baby lon, Nineveh, and other large cities, was the cause of the inhabitants retiring from them ? As to whether universal education has a tendeocy to check corruption remains yet to be demon strated : but the abettors of universal education should bear in mind, that in proportion as they educate people, fitting them for the superior employments in life, so in proportion they ought to create a sufficient number of the supe rior employments. How many men and women are now living in this great city, whose education causes them to be too proud to accept a menial employment, but who cannot procure a superior one ? Sir John Newport is going to diffuse the blessings of education throughout Ireland. After he has diffused those blessings, we should like to know who are to run up and down English lad ders with hods of mortar and bricks on their shoulders, helping the English and Scotch builders of houses ; and if Sir John extend his beneficent regard to Wales, who are to carry pails of milk ? Does Sir John intend to follow his measures up with a Bill to import black men to +u - pply the Irishmen's places, or black women to deal out milk to London ladies, instead of Welch milk-maids ? Sir John says, that he will improve the condi tion of the lower orders of his country men, and that they should no more run up and down ladders in England, with hods of mortar and bricks upon their shoulders—they shall no longer be slaves to the well-educated Scotch and English. He will teach them all to read, to write, and to cipher ; and, no doubt, he will give them some little knowledge of political economy, and then, as a matter of course, Mr. Hume will send them off to the East Indies to become writers or officers ; such few, however, as stay at home, will have to discharge the func tions of secretaries, clerks, &c. We are happy to hear that Mr. Alderman VENABLES is so far recovered from his late indis position as to be able to leave town. OBSCURE PHRASES, &c. INQUIRY into the MEANING of CERTAIN OBSCURE PHRASES and OLD COMMON EXPRESSIONS. THE 11Itt.LcrOs THUMB.—In Chaucer, the mil ler is thus described— Well couth he steale come and told it thrise, And yet he had a thumbe qf gold parde. A white come and a blew hode weared he, &c. Tyrwhitt observes on this passage :—" If the allusion be, as is most probable, to the old pro verb, Every honest miller has a thumb of gold,' this passage may mean, that our miller, notwith standing his thefts, was an honest miller—i. e. as honest as his brethren." " I suspect," says Mr. Ellis, " the Miller's Thumb" to have been the name of the strickle used in measuring corn, the instrument with n•hich corn is made level and struck off in mea suring. Perhaps this stricle had a rim of gold to show it was standard ; true, not fraudulent." PUTTING THE MILLER'S EYE OU I.—ln the Gentleman's Magazine for November, 1783, the inquiry after the meaning of the expression " putting the Miller's Eye out," when too much liquid is put to any dry or powdery substance, is answered by another query :--" One merit of flour, or any powdered substance, being dryness, is it not a reflection on, or injury to the miller, or vender of such substances, when they are debased •r moistened by any heterogenous mixture ?" TO BEAR THE BELL.—" A Bell was a common prize," observes another writer in the miscellany just quoted : " A golden bell was the reward of victory in 1607, at the races near York ;" whence the proverb for success of any kind, " To bear the bell ;" or in Ray's English Proverbs (which seems to be the genuine reading) 44 to bear away the Bell." Another writer inquires "If the proverb bearing away the Bell' does not mean carrying or winning the fair lady (belle)." TURNING CAT IN PAN.-Dr. Pegge supposes turning " Cat in Pan" a corruption of turning tale (the old word for cake) in pan—i. e. says he, " when the lower side is made brown in a frying pan, the cake is turned the other side downwards." In the Workes of John newlie im printed, 4te. Lond. 1598, is the follow " Thus may you see to turn the cat in pan." Cock AND PTE.—This phrase had an allusion to the peacock or pheasaut pye, a highly esteemed dish with our ancestors, and from which a. ludi crous oatli . was prevalent in the days of Shakspe.are, which he has, with much propriety,. put into the mouth of Justice Shallow, who, soliciting the stay of Falstaff', exclaims, - By cock and pye, Sir, you shall not away to-night ! This dish is said to date its origin front the days of chivalry, when it was usual for the knights to take their vows of enterprize, at a solemn feast, on the presentation to each Knight, in turn, of a roasted peacock hi a golden dish. For this was afterwards substituted, though only in a culinary light, and as the most magnificent dish which could be brought to table, a peacock in a pye, -preServing as much as possible the form of a bird, with the head elevated above the crust, the beak richly gilt, and the beautiful tail spread out to the full extent. The use of the yeacock, however, as one of the articles of a second course, continued to the close of the seventeenth century ; for Gervase Mark ham, in his English Housewife (1683), enumerst. ing the articles, and ordering of a great feast, mentions this, among other birds, now seldom seen as objects of cookery :" " then in the second course ye shall first prefer the lesser wildfowl, as, &c., then the lesser land fowl, as, &c, &c., then the great wild fowl, as bittern, kern, sho veler, crane, bustard, and such like. Then the greater land fow l, as peacock, pheasant, puets, gulls, Ste. This term of cock and pye, most likely gave name to Cock and Pye Felds, now Seven Dials. DINING WITH DUKE HUMpIiREy.--The mean ing of the common expression " to dine with Duke Humphrey," applied to persons, who being unable either to procure a .dinner by their own money, or from the favour of their friends, walk about and loiter during dinner time, has, after many unsuccessful attempts, been at last satis factorily. explained. It appears that in the an cient church of St. Paul, in London, to which, in . the earlier: part of the day, many persons used to resort for exercise to hear =the news (and on . whiCh account it was called " Paul'S , walk,")one of the isles was called 'Juke Humphrey's-walk —not that there ever was in reality a cenotaph there to the Duke's memory, who, every one knows, was buried at St. Alban's in Hertford shire, but " because," says Stowe, " ignorant people mistook the fair monument of Sir John Beauchampe, son to Guy, and brother to Thomas Earl of Warwick, who died in 1358, and which was on the South side of the body of St. Paul's Church, for that of Humphrey Duke of U louces ter." Abundance of passages in the works of our old writers tend to confirm this - explanation— Thus we find in 4 ' Iliervey's Letters and Son nets," 1592, " To seeke - his dinner in Ponies with Duke Humphrey—to licke dishes, to be a beggar." And in an old tract of Dekkars,intitled " The Dead,Tearrne," (1607), St. Paule's steeple is in troduced- as describing the company walking in the body of the church, and among other things, says—" What layinge of heads is there together and sifting of the brains still and anon, as it groves towardes eleven of the clocke (even amongst those that wear guilt •rapiers by their sides), where for that noone they may shift from Duke Humphrey, and bee furnished with a din ner at snme meaner man's table." And Gayton, in his " Art of Longevity," 4to. 1659, Wherefore we do amand Dick Humphrey's guest, For their provision truly is o' th' A PEG TOO Low. —'phis expression is said to have taken it rise from the Peg Tankard, a. spe cies of wassail bowl, introduced by the Saxons,. which was divided by pegs, to ascertain the quan tity each person drank. Tiiis form of the wassail, or wish-health bowl, was introduced by. Dunstan, with the view of checking the intemperance of his countrymen, In " Paradoxical Assertions and Philosophical Problems, (16434) speaking of women, the Author says, " whoever bears the Bell avi%y, yet they will ever carry the Clapper." which for a time it ef f ected ; but subsequentlif the remedy was wore than the disease, being converted into an additional stimulus to excess; " for refining upon Dunstan's plan, each was obliged to drink precisely to a pin, whether ha could sustain a quantity of liquor equal to others; or not; and to that end it became a rule, that whether they exceeded, or fell short of the prow scribed bumper, they were compelled alike to drink again, until they reached the next mark. In the year 1102, the priests, who had not been backward in joining and encouraging thesis drunken assemblies, were ordered to avoid such abominations, and wholly to discontinue the prac tice of drinking to pegs." Some of these peg, or pin -cups, or bowls, and pin or peg-tankards, are yet to be found in the cabinets of antiquaries; and we are to trace from their use also another term current among us. When a person is much . elated, we say he is " in a rnerry pin," which no doubt originally meant, he had reached that marls which had deprived him of his usual sedate.' ness and sobriety : we talk of taking a man " peg lower," when we imply we shall check him in any forwardness ; a saying which originated from a regulation that deprived all those of their turn of drinking, or of their peg, who had become . troublesome in their liquor; from the like rule of society came also the expres3ion first men tioned, of being "a peg too low"—i. e. restrained too far, when we say, that a person is not in equal spirits with his company ; while we also remark of an individual, that he is getting on " peg by peg," or, in other words, he is taking greater freedoms than he ought to do, which for merly meant, he was either drinking out of his turn, or, contrary to express regulation,. did not. confine himself to his proper portion or peg, but drank into the next, thereby taking a double quantity. TO PLUCK A CROW WITH ANY ONE.—In the second part of Dekker's Honest Whore (4to. 1630), is the following passage : We'll pull thatold crow, my father. The subsequent occurs in the Workes of John Hei wood, just referred to • He lovethwell sheeps flesh, that wets his bred in the wull ; If he leave it not, we-have a crow to pull. A jealous wife is speaking concerning certain li berties hei husband is always taking. with,his maid. In Howell's Proverbs (1659) we read," I have goose to pluck with you;"--viz. I have something to complain of. A curious question, as affecting some of out fashionable Clubs and Subscription Mouses, iS likely soon to come before one of the Courts in Weitininster Hall. It has hitherto been supposed that these places do not come within the strict letter of the law against gaming houses, owing to their not being kept " far the. gain, lucre, or living," of any indi vidual. It has lately, however, been ascer tained that in some of them a large profit• ac crues to the Club by the sale of the cards, and that the house steward or factotum, has sundry profits from the billiard-tables, &c. beyond his Salary, bring h im w c an IA t c h i e rcums ta Committee nces , w t t h n i s the C n l a t e w n , de an t subject to indictment in common with the keeper • of'any other house at which " unlawful games" are played. Tuesday a paralytic old man, who had been receiving his pension, was dogged by two fellows who had, obsgrO ed it to his ovin house, into which they afterwards entered, under pretence of inquiring if he Wished to purchase coals, and find' ing nobody in the house but a poor feeble old woman, his wife, they forcibly took from his pocket the money, amounting to SO guineas, with which they made off: Five or six suspieioureba - Teeters were afterwards apprehended, through the vigilanceof tho police, when two of them, of the names of Grainger and Mar shall, noted Villains, Were identified at the bar of the Court on' Friday, by the old man and his wife, as the robbers, anderdered by the Magistrate to be remanded, that their case may be it?' vestigated by the Sherd - 11-( Edinburgh courant.) COURSE OF FNCET ANGE, April 23. A rostet dant • , 11 19 C. F. • Ditto, at Sight . llo'rterdain l2 0 Antwerp l2 4 Remburgh 27 h si Cs Algona , . .... Paris, ?. Day's sight Ditto Plonrdeanx, ditto Berlin 7 , 10 Frantifokowthe Main ........... 1551 Et, Meng/ Pet ersburgli ' . 9 Vienna - • 10 5 Trieste - • • - N!aildif Cadiz Bilboa . , 35/ Effatif. . _ flu: ctiona Seville Gibraltal Leghorn - . „ 47 (341,a , .... .... 43a-Venice,. Ital. Liv. 27' 0 Malta 43 --Nap I e 5.......• •• • 38 t -.5 vet Os. Palermo Lisbon . Oporto Rio Janeiro Bahia . 1 Dublin .... 9f Cork 94 p et Cent. • ' BULLION. ./..0 0 0 perOs• 3 17 " 6' 0 0 0 0 0 *0 Portugal Gold, i n Coin Foreign Gold, in Bar s New Doubloons New Deare siltierin Bars, Standard ..n 0 0 BIRTH. On the 23d inst., in Lower Thames-street,- . Mrs. Von Heyde, of a daughter. MARRIED On Wednesday, at Thornharn, Suffolk, John Heaton, t 3 4" of Plasheaton, Denbighshire, to the lion. Ann Eliza Henniker, eldest daughter of Lord Henniker. After the ceremony, 111,1 bride and bridegroom left Major-house, the seat of his Lot' ship, for Plasheatoo, North Wales. At Lewisham church, G. Walter, E. - 1., of Greenwich, tc' Miss Anderson, of Montpellier-row, Blackheath. On Thursday, the 22d inst., at Cheltenham, ..Mr-C harles Compton, of Camberwell, Surrey, to Miss Caroline Chatfielii, of the same place. DIED. ---- - On the 23d inst., John Brooks EV , . of York-royr, nington, in his 67th year. On the 16th inst., Joseph Darbyshire Pursell. younges t soP of Mr. S. Pursell, of 83, Bishopsgate-street-without. On Monday, the 19th inst., at his house in Patriot.:square: , in the 79th year of his age, Thomas Clibbard, Esq., late Clerkenwell. On the 21st inst , in his flth year, Richard Wheaden_Wac l ' tern, only son of Mr. William Warlters, Marlborough-place' Old Kent-road. .. - Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the OrFlc, 112, strand, by J. B. CARSTAIRS.