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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Rextrarts from the Morning Perpers)Jealy Q 7. fleortatmo citaometz.] Mr. Morler will leave London to-morrow, for Mexico, to embark on board the Diamond frigate, as Charge d'Affaires of the British Go vernment in that great Republic. A Gentleman is immediately to proceed, on board another frigate to Colombia, iii the same character ; and commercial treaties with both these States are expected soon to be concluded. Mr. Alatnati, the Foreign Minister of Mexico and the Presi dent of the English United Mexican Mining Company, writes in the latter end of May to the Secretary of that Association, the most favour able accounts of that undertaking. At that date a most important mine had been cleared of water, and the produce, previous to the revolu tion of 1810, may in future at least be expected from it. The energy of the present Government of Mexico, and the return of industry, will re ster° prosperity to by far the most important portion of the globe, and a commercial treaty with regenerated America will give ample em ployment to the muuufacturing classes iu his Britannic Majesty's dominions. [moil td trio POST.] We received last night, by ex press, all the Paris Journals of Sunday. The Funds had re covered a little since the passing of the Budget in the Chamber of Deputies, but were again on the decline, and are not likely to return to par, as long as an assurance is not given, by M. (le V illele that he will not renew next Session his attempt to reduce the interest. Till they are satisfied on this point, the Rentiers keep back their capital, or employ it to other uses, and but few, if any, venture to buy in ngain, lest they shoidd find themselves exposed a second time to the :Anne danger. The Budget was presented to the Chamber of Peers on Friday last by the Minister of Finance. It was briefly taken into immediate consideration, and then referred to a Special Commission, who are to report their opinion on the subject. The Project relative to the Supplementary Grants for 18'23 was then discussed, or rather not discussed ; for after one single speech, made by the Marquis of Barbe-Marbois, Viscount Chatenuhriand and his friend Count de Montalembert, who had been inscribed (before the dismissal of the former) to support the law, gave up the right of speaking, and the Chamber came to a vote with out hearing any other orator. This, however, -was more curious, as showing the temper of the Ex-Minister, than important. The law was one of absolute necessity, and was carried by u ma jority of 129 to 8. The Quolidienne mentions a current rumour that a Royal Ordonnance was on the eve of appearing, which, ;tweed of closing, Ivould prorogue the present Session to the be ginning of December. It adds, that the Session for 18'25 would open on the islth of January so that both Sessions would only be se panted horn each other by the lapse of a few days. [Nuif The Appendix to the lteport of the Conlin's sioners for Building New Churches contains a Statement of the applications for further Church acconmoniatloo, the consideration of which has been postponed on account of the state or the Parliamentary Food. This document speaks so p i a ioy f o r itself, that it is quite uneecessary to point out the facts it communicates to particular ol)servution. When we see such enormous dis.' proportion as this statement exhibits bet wren the accommodation fur public worship end the popu lation to be accommodated ; and when we find alNo that, we believe we linty say, all the new cintrches were cmnpletely tilled as soon as they wf•re finished, it cannot but he a matter of some regret that the present plan was not adopted et an earlier period. Is it trot probable that many, very many, of the present fre gueoters of the new churches,but for their erection would have resorted to some other place of wor 'hip, not front any tlislike of the doctrines and forms of the Establishment, but merely from the impossibility of obtuiniog room? And if this be the fact, is it not fair to infer that in like manner many have resorted to other places of worship, estA have been thus driven into an appearance of dissent, without being really dissenters ? Nor it the crowded state of the recently erected churches a proof may of the general utility of the measure ; it is also a strong evidence of the sound judgment with which It ball been curried Win effect. [monutsu weaxLth] Vie increase of buildings, to which we alluded * few days since, as taking place all round the getropolis, is a matter of very considerable mo. went to its inhabitants ; and as it is extremely probable that the paying off the dissentients In the Four per Cents. will (as was the case on the pttylog off the Fives) cause a still greater capital to be so employed, we cannot help calling the attention of the public to it. When WC consider the pestilential diseases to which London was formerly subject, and congratulate ourselves that It is to a better description of building, and to a vreater degree of cleanliness, both personal and ftenerui, that we owe our exemption from similar celainities, it must strike every one as must essen• tiel, that nothing , should be done to defeat such fe?Vions improvements. We fear, however, that ill• tIII/1110111 cupidity may do this, unless some ITIPAIIS ati Liken to prevent it. If, for Instance, the me "ION, In its p were to I e Alien mmente site, , narrow i►«c, taa is with r streets, composed of small "rect the ttelrlT, such `a circumstance would t i, same wa , of the inhabitants, in affected if ,the human body would be hsr pedviopil. it;Vion of the lungs were irn 140)Tiluthit 11.000 on , poisoned by noisesome, , rs. 11, 0 flat Iding Act of the iitit*ltehert T. tor, th b4O been of atitcomplex in its de. 4110,, U. • ; but that ACt, we "m"..tiaeo to it s great part of Loudon w a y now , b t a . :d h as one out of town, many thal"slit -a aili ye ate trectlag to the environs are one of of the teach of its salutary provisions. As it is well under stood that no man can be allowed to use his property so as to annoy his neighbours, still more essential is it that he should be prevented from dying that with it which may ultimately produce a great public injury. Without wish ing then to intrench unnecessarily upon the free dom with which every man should use and enjoy his estate, we cannot help thinking that it would be well if Government were to inquire how far the provisions of the Building Act do extend ; and if it should be found (as we are assured is the case) that many of the new buildings around th© metropolis are beyond its reach, that they should also ascertain whether there is any reason to apprehend that such buildings are so construct ed as in any way to endanger the health and well being of the whole community. [TIIC'IntES.J COLOSSI e Itaye been favoured with some very interesting information respecting Colombia, conanuni. cated by a gentleman recently returned to England, Mier a residence of upwards of six years in that section of South America. This gentleman has traversed the country in a va riety of directions, has lived on terms of intimacy with all the leading characters, and has, in fact, had opportunities that sel dom fall to the lot of a foreigner, of becoming acquainted with the real state of things. Colombia has not purchased liberty and independence without paying dear for those blessings. In the course of the late sanguinary conflict, the people have un dergone sufferings terhaps unexampled in the history of any ti naon : and, indeed, at various perimu b ! , it might have been justly said, that misery of every downtown had reached its acme. Under the cruelest privations, the idea of submitting to the Spaniards never entered the mind of any one—so strong was the feeling of antipathy to their ancient oppressors. Ilut although the war has occasioned incalculable evils to Colombia, and extensive districts of as tine a portion of the dlobe as the sun ever shone upon, are reduced comparatively to eserts, It has produced the important result of uniting all parties, and has thereby given to the Government a degree of consolidation superior to that of any other South American state not the scene of actual conflict. Ever since the assembling of the Congress in Angostura by General Bolivar, in February, 1819, the progress has been uniform, and no change has taken place In the form of government. The people orColoinbia have as yet taken but little interest in political afairs, nor have the questions of universal suffrage and equality of rights, which have given rise to so much confusion in Europe, yet found a place among them : but the universal wish is Independence, with that portion of rational and practical liberty which the circumstances ()Nile country can admit of. The people at large take no share in the Government, except in the primary eke thins. Those only who possess a certain property—that is, who exercise certain professions or employments, without de pending on others either as journeymen or servants—elect in cacti canton or district, two persons for four years, who, when united in the capital of the province, form what is called the Electoral College, and by it the members of the Senate are elected for eight years, and those of the Chamber of Repre sentatives, Or lower house, for four. The general security is perhaps best protected by the general equality subsisting among those who form the upper claws of the state, for there is not perhaps, in the whole country, one individual of such weight and influence, that he could endanger the public tranquillity were he so disposed. In Colombia knowledge is advancing with rapid strides ; in several cities, colleges and seminaries have been established, public libraries have been opened, and a number of periodical papers and writings published, which dis seminate instruction and political information. Our Informant travelled from Maracaibo to Bogota by land, and returned front thence to Angostura through the interior of the country. In that journey he found schools established, not only in every town, but in every village ; and it was with astonishment and delight he whitened the progress in knowledge and civilization every where made. The national character he describes as mild and docile in the extreme, and therefore apt for receiving instt uc (ion. As an additional stimulus to improvement, it has been made a law. that after the year 1819, those who cannot read or write shall have no vote in public elections. The effects of Spanish education and prejudices are fast wearing out. The greatest part of what were formerly time possessions of the church has been applied to the laudable object of supporting schools ; arid our Infmniant has himself ditributed sonic hundreds of Spanish New Testaments, which were sought after by all classes with the greatest avidity, wore especially by the Clergy, many of whom are liberal and enlightened men. It may men tioned as a very striking Instance of this, that our informant, previous to his departure from Bogota, dined with a large party, at the Vice-President's, General Santander's, and amongst those present was a Dr. A zuero, a dignitary of the. Church, much re spected, arid of considerable influence. (hi being requested by the Vice President to give a toast, he drank " To the most 'tiered of all rights—liberty of conscience." Many other Priests were at table, by whom, and by all, the sentiment was hailed with enthusiasm. Protestants can hold any employ or office, and Are eligible to either !louse of Representatives, without bring subject to any species of test whatever. —The natural capabilities of Columbia are very great ; navigable rivers inter sect the country hi every direction, and afford every facility for expeditious and cheap conveyance between the interior and the roast. Steam-boats are esiablirliing in mill the principal :dreams, anti in order to bring that species of navigation mor e s p ee dily i nto use, exclusive privileges have been granted to different indivi duals. fly mean* of the Meta, time communication is continued to within a few leagues of Bogota ; and by time Apure, th e fluanare, the Santo Domingo, the Portuguee Za, the Acaura, the Sinacuco, and others, th e re Is access to t h e greatest part of the province of Cnracces, and of the extensive and fertile pro vinces Verities and Cusinare. A plan ix now before Congress for opening . a communication betwixt the Pacific and Atlantic ° sca ns, which, from surveys actually made, is found to be prac ticable in no less than four different points. Colombia possesses t ow mineral riches; mines of precious metals abound in al most every mountainous district, which, from surveys made under the Spanish regime, and again lately, and which our in formant has seen, require but litthe capital or labour to bring into complete operation. The soil is extremely fertile, and such is the variety of climate, that frequently within a short distance are seen fields of wheat or other /crib', and luxuriant plantations of cane, cocoa, coffee, or indigo. In Colombia, the feeling in favour of Great Britain is very strong, originating in part from the knowledge that the only succours received during the even t f u l struggle came exclusivel , from this country, and in pert in an i n creasing insight into the true i n t e rests of the Republic, and the value of the friendship arid protection of Great ltrit,,in. I n d ee d , i t w ould almost appear, that in Colombia two nations only were supposed to exist in Europe, for every foreigner not a Spaniard is called an Ingle:. British manufactures are preferred to all others, both IN being best calculated for the market, and being what the inhabitants have become most accustomed to. The extensive exPnatitexportations"l already made to Colombia i n t h e actual state of comparative poverty and insecurity, will give some idea of what they will he when repose and the capital now flowing in will have brought the unbounded resources of the country into action. [BRITISH PRESS.] We lately mentioned, casually, the existence and object of a proposed Canadian Company we shall now advert, more in detail, to the ob jects which that Company have in view, and to this course of proceeding we are induced, by an understanding, that an ufliciul prospectus will be laid before the public, by a Committee of Ma nagement, during the course of the current week. As Upper Canada, which, in the course of a few years, mast become one of the most valuable colonies possessed by this country, is, from an unaccountable npathy, which seems inherent in the people of England with regard to all their colonial possessions, as little known to the great mass of the population of this country us the in terior of Africa, some short account of it is absu. lately necasary as a preface to our remarks. —Front the River de Lisle to the Detroit River, a space occupying about five hun- Aired miles, the cultivated and inhabited part ot Upper Canada extends, and is between the 46th and 4td parallel of north latitude—that is, between the parallels of Rochefort and Valla dolid, and along the whole of this space the climate is good, and the soil rich and deep.— When the attention of the Government was first called to the Province, about 30 years ago, a rough survey was made of it, and the land was divided into townships—not as in this, and other cultivated countries, separated by the natural boundaries of rivers, brooks, or mouutains—but, as is uniformly the case throughout America, by straight lines arbitrarily drawn from one point to another. These townships were again, and in the same manner, divided into lots of two hundred acres each ; and this was done so regularly, that, but for the streams which intersected it, the map of any one township might pass for that of any other, and all bear a very close resemblance to a chess board, the checkers representing the different lots. When Government granted these lots to different individuals, two-sevenths of the whole were uniformly reserved ; one sevutith for the behoof of the crown, the proceeds of which were to be applied as the Government might see fit, and the other for the clergy ; that is, to provide the means of religious instruction to the commu nity (without regard to sect or persuasion), and to establish schools throughout the province for the instruction, at a cheap rate, of the children of the settlers. When the whole township was a wilder nesst hese crown and clergy reserves were of little value ; but, being chosen in such a manlier as that each reserve was surromuled on every sid e by lots granted to private individuals, when roads were cut, hedges built, pens and mills established, and the surrounding country brought into culti vation, these lots, originally valueless, rose in price, and not only were they desirable purchases for the farmer, hut, as uncultivated patches placed in the amidst of cultivation, they stood in the way of improvement, paid nothing towards forwarding the general progress of the country, and were considered as public nuisances, as time local government had no power to sell or cultivate them. '!'he Cumin (Han Company propose gradually to purchase these reserves from Government, at a valuation to be estimated by Commissioners, appointed by both parties, aud to sell them to farmers, taking a certain per centage of the price in hand, and receiving, for the remainder of the sum due, six per cent. per 1111110111, the legal interest of sh e colony, and retaining; as security in their own hands the title deeds of the lot ; so that they become possessors, with all the improvements that have been made, in case the purchaser fails to fulfil his engagement.--,From a thorough in vestigatiou of the plans of this Company, and an intimate knowledge of the country on which these are to be put in practice, we are tof opinion, that for a person who will be satisfied with a fair and steady return for the capital he invests, the Canadian Company's is a desirable stuck. For those who expect to double their principal in a short time, we cannot recommend it. Rut we think that sober people had better invest their money in such a concern, where (here is every prospect of an adequate re turn from solid security, than to cast their bread upon the waters of a foreign loan, to raise a bub ble, which, as is naturally to be expected, gene rally terminates in u squeak. ''which being accepted by the plaintiff's Counsel, the Jury re turned a verdict accordingly—For the plaintiff, 80/. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JOLT 26. Sittings at Niti Prins, at Guildhall, Le P ure the LORD CHIRP Jti lc and a Special Jury. BLANK ACCEPTANCES. HALL V. DEARER. Mr. HAL t. opened the pleadings.—Mr. Serjeant VAIN/lAN stated that this was an action brought by the plaintiff, in the character of assignee of a bankrupt of the name of Harris, to recover the sum of 691. fis. upon a bill of exchange, drawn by a Mr. Bond and accepted by the defendant. The object appear ed to be to try whether Harris bad subjected himself to the bank rupt laws, and whether he had committed an act of bankruptcy. Harris had been for many years a bill-broker. Whether it was meant to say that brokers of that description were not liable to the Bankrupt Laws, he did not know. Harris had large trans actions with Mr. Hall, and discounted bills far him from time to time, at the rate of one-eight per cent profit.. The defend ant had given notice that he should dispute every step on these proceedings, and at the time of the bankruptcy of Harris there was cash balance in his hands in favour of the plaintiff, of up wards of 8001. The bankruptcy of Harris was occ as i one d by the failure of a Mr. Bramley. In consequence of Bramley not making good his engagements, Mr. Harris found it im possible to make good his, and therefore absconded, and se creted himself from his creditors. There would be no difficul ty in proving the act of bankruptcy, the petitioning creditor's debt, or the dealings of Mr. Harris ; and he (the Learned Ser geant) dared say he would be entitled to a verdict in behalf of the plaintiff: Evidence was given to substantiate the above statement. Mr. Serjeant Oris Low (with whom was Mr. Serjeant Pell), addressed the Jury for the defendant, and contended that unless Mr. Harris showed that he was the holder of the bill in question for a valuable consideration, he was not entitled to recover on it. The bill was dated in 1820, and was made payable at three months. The defendant had resided ever since that period, and carried on business, at the same place at which lie lived when the bill was drawn. He was always to be found, arid process might at any time have issued against him. It must, therefore, strike the Jury as extraordinary, if Mr. Harris was the holder of the Bill for a Lona fide considera tion, that he, a man in difficulties, had not sought to re cover the amount before, instead of leaving this action to be brought by his assignees. He would now state what the case really was. The defendant had been in the habit of giving to a person, whose name need not be mentioned, but who had in volved others to a considerable extent, accommodation bills.— A person of the name of Pantin had been accustomed to draw bills on the defendant, anti on the defendant's acceptance to get money in the market through the medium of bill-brokers. This bill was one of those intended to be so used. The defendant had, however, accepted it before the drawer's name was put on it, and instead of l'antin's, the name of Bond, who was altoge ther unknown to the defendant, was afterwards used as that of the drawer. Pandit went to ;;ond, asked him to draw the 1)111, and bond did draw it. By what means the bill got into the hands of Harris, his Learned Brother had not chosen to show ; and if it were not proved that he had given a valuable consider. ation for it, the defendant must have a verdict in his favour. Witnesses were called in support of this statement.—Mr. Edward Harris, the bankrupt, proved that he discounted the bill for Puntin, and that he left it on its being returned unpaid in the hands of his accountant to recover the value. The checks by which the discount was paid, and the bill taken up by Harris, were put in in evidence. Mr. Sergeant Oxst.ow submitted that those checks might have been given for any other purpose, as well as for this.— From the account of the transaction given by Mr. Harris, be argued that the checks could not have been given for the pur pose stated. Mr. Serjeant VatruitaN commenced his reply, but was in terrupted by the CHIEF JusT Ica:, who thought it was an es, ceedingly clear case. His Lordship was of opinion that Harris, • as a bill-broker, came within the limits of the Bankrupt haws. It appeared that a full consideration had been given for the hill ; but if the Jury entertained any doubt upon it, they would hear Mr. Serjeant Vaughan. The Jury gave a Verdict for the plaintiff for the amount of the bill and interest.—llumages 721. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JuLT 2d. (liefiwe the Mat Tim ty' the Itraa.s.) 'Mk day Ida Lordattip heard rootiona, *tone of which were of any importance. ut.4isillwaTON V. TliwalTies. At the rising of the Court, the plaintiff in this case, which relates to the proprietorship of the Morning Herald newspaper, addressed his Lordship, and maid that lie had now for fbur years been kept in a state of anxiety by the defendant. On Friday week the defendant filed an affidavit, to which he (the plaintiff) replied on:Monday. lon Wednesday, when the cause was coining on to be argued, Mr. Agar, the defendant's Counsel, requested that it might stand over till Friday last. Tina was complied with ; but on Friday Mr. Agar did not intake his appearance in Court. To-day, also, Mr. Agar had not appeared, although bis (plaintiff's) Counsel, Mr. houpell, had been waiting in Court all day to make his motion. Ills i.ounsuir told the plaintiff that on Wednesday Mr. whether Mr. Agar s h ou ld b e Itoupell might move the Court, present or not. COURT' OF KING'S BENCH, JIMY 26. ikfurg Loa') Cif !Er JusTicE and a Common Jury. MEDLAND v. INIGHT AND LACE Y. Mr. ADOLPUUM stated this to be an action brought by the plaintiff, an engraver, against the defendants, to recover damages which he had sustained, in consequence of their having pirati cally published copies of plates, the property of the plaintiff. The plates consisted of likenesses of Thurtell, Hunt, and Pro hen. The were engraved at some expence and pains, from drawings which were taken by a relation of the plaintiff; in the court at Hertford, in December last. Having been engraved by the plaintiff; they were published by him, and sold by Mr. Cribb, a print-seller in London, on his account, and at first they sold very well at the price of one shilling each. After a short time, however, the plaintiff found that the sale had fallen oft; and he almost immediately discovered that this had been occasioned by the defendants having published an account of the trial of the persons whose portraits he had engraved, in the frontispiece to which trial was a plate, in which the portraits of the three culprits were closely copied. The amount of the damage sustained by the plaintiff' might be estimated by the advantage which the defendants had derived from the use they had made of his property, and that it had been highly lucra tive to them cou ld not be doubted, when it should be known that they had sold 10,000 copie s of their first edition, and had afterwards found it necessary to have another copy of the pirated plate engraved for other copies. lie then called Wm. Medland, the son of the plaintiff, who said that he made drawings i n t h e Court at Hertford, in December last, of' Thur. tell, Hunt, and Probert. These drawings were afterwards en. graved by the plaintiff:—(The witness produced the plates.).--- There were some slight variations between the drawings of the witness and the engravings of the plaintiff; the latter having added, of his own invention, the tic of the neckcloth and the folding of the arms to the portrait to improve the effect. itness made the sketches on his in lle had not intended to make them Pre oEualaynk ie b nr u C t d fi bb n °ly t ' l ki : . n 1 g r * llr that he had a good opportunity, from his situation as clerk to the Magistrates, and sitting at the end of' their bench, he did so, and gave the drawings afterwards to his father. John Erry proved thyurchase of a copy of " Pierce Egan's ACCOUId of the Trial ?Udell," at Messrs. Knight and Lacey's, on the 14th of anuary last, and another ou the 29th of the same month. Charles Stothart, Eaq. R. A. on looking at the engravings published b the plaintiff an d t hose In the defendants' pamph. .y let, had no doubt that t h e one set were co pi e d f r om the other. Mr. H. Meyer, an engraver, deposed to the same effect. . • Cross-examined by !Ur. 61; tun:Y.—lle could not tell what the cost of these engravings might have been. Ite-examined —De wo u ld w illingly have given 10 guineas for each of the drawings before they were engraved. Mr. Cribb, printseller, began to sell the plaintiff" plate in December last ; they at first sold very well, but on a sudden the sale ceased. Tbree hundred copies were sent to him, a few of which were left when the sudden cessation took place. The sale was previously what he called brisk. If the plates and copyright had bee bought to ihe would have given M. or NI. a-piece for n eac r h, and would hm, have expected to make a profit of them. Cross-examined by lig r , SCARLETT—Can't tell exactly the day on which he first received the plates, but thinks they c ame about the middle of D ecem b er . The sale continued about a month. has none'of the prints of Thurtell left, and very few of the others. Force, printseller, of Piccadilly, deposed that he had sold the plates readily at first, but that afterwards they declin. ed, in consequence of the publication of Knight and Lacey's account of the trial. At this period of the trial an offer was made by the defend ants' Counsel to permit the plaintiff to take a verdict for GM, SHERIFF'S COURT, RED 14101(-11QUAIIE, JULY 23. SIR /AM ES ERSKINE, BART. V. Slit G. MURRAY, KRT. The following are accurate copies of the letter• which were read in this Court on Friday last, on the inquisition to assess damages against the defendant for trim. con. with L a dy L ou i s , Erskine:— ..... _ COPT or SIR JA3tES EFISKIXFi LETTER TO UNXERAL Silt GEOittif: SILJURAV. " Edinburgh, 4, George-greet, Jan. 18, My. . . " TO GENERAL Silk GEORGIC HURRAY. " Sir,—From an occurrence which has lately taken place, I am imperiously called upon to demand of you to declare upon your honour whether you have ever carried on a secret or elan. destine correspondence with Lady Louisa Erskine, with a view Of its being kept concealed from me, or if you have ever intro duced into any letter you may have written to her sentiments or expressions derogatory to my honour. " I run, Sir, your obedient humble fiery:lnt l " JA.3IES ERSKINL. ' COPY OF SIR OtOROE MURRAY'S LETTER. " Locknell-house, Jan. 25, 11119. " Sir —I have received, this afternoon, your letter of the 18th instant. It is written in a style which appears to me to preclude my making any other answer to it, in so far as it concerns my self only, than my merely acknowledging the receipt of it. " That I may not leave for a moment, however, any opening for surmises which might be prejudicial to another person, and which would be wholly groundless, I take this opportunity to declare, that in any intercourse which may have taken place between Lady Louisa Erskine and myself, nothing has ever occurred injurious to your honour, or which ought in the slightest degree to &Mixt that of Lady Louisa herself. " I am, Sir your obedient humble servant, " O. MURRAY. " To Sir James Erskine, Burt., Edinburgh." COPY OF Int 11.0BEItT WILSON'S LITTER TO SIR .710111[11 xitsicrxx. " Charles-street, April 11 lOW. , I "My dear Erskine,—ln pursuance of y our wish, saw Sir George Murray this morning, and having stated the object of the interview, 1 had the satisfaction to have all my hopes con firmed, by an immediate declaration on his part, that in no letter which habits of friendship may have permitted him at any time to send a certain person, was matter of such descrip tion introduced, us could render him personally desirous such letters should be concealed from you, to avoid the infliction of a wound on your honour and happiness. " Sir Georg e regretted that the tone of your correspondence had imposed on him it degree of reserve in his communications, which appears to have rendered incomplete that removal of mis. conception, which he was desirous to effect in justice to another person, whose sense of duty and sincerity of affection towards you would never have permitted any trespass of the nature to which allusion has been made. " 1 assure you that no conversation could be more satifac tory, and I feel authorised to require that you henceforth dis. miss the subject of correspondence from your mind, except when reference to this proof of misconception may dispose to a more favourable view of the whole case, and its total burial in the tomb of oblivion. _ " Yours ever faithfully, R. WILSON. 44 is. t is due to Sir G. Murray to add, that he author ised me to say that the explanation was intended to be most frank, candid, and unreserved; and therefore, if the terms in which 1 have expr esse d hi s feelings and declarations, should appear in any way contracted or dubious, you must ascribe the conciseness to my language. " R. W." [The followin letter has been addressed to th e Edi tor o f A Morning Paper ! :.— 29, Upper Berkeley4treet July 26. " Sir—l hasten to correct a mistake which it has, , since, been proved to my satisfaction I committed in giving my evidence In an important cause (Sir James Erskine v. Sir (1. Murray) which was decided in the Sheriff's Court, on Friday last, the 23d instant. " In my said evidence I stated, that in the course of a v i s i t which I had m a d e to t h e plaintiff and his lady, at a hotel in Clifford-street, &Are they went to Path, I thought that I had perceived some change in their manner towards each other ; whereas it now appears, that the visit in question took . place, not before they went to, but after their return from, Paris. " The A ttorney-Oeneral's allusion to the above circumstance, in his address to the Jury, first suggested to my mind the pro. liability that at that distance of time I might be mistaken. I accordingly, in coming out of the Court, communicated that suggestion to the plaintiff's Solicitor, and have only to add, that various circumstances which have in the mean time been brought to my recollection by ot h er p ersons , h ave conclusively satisfied my mind, that the apprehended mistake was really committed upon my part, and that I was consequently bound to take this early, an d (I trust) effectual step to rectify it. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, " A. MACDONALD." A Musical Festival, upon a grand and an ex tensive scale, is to take place at Edinburgh the latter end of October, to be conducted by Sir GEORQZ SMAUT. LONDON MARKETI. PRICE OF BREAD. Toe prier of the 41b. Loaf is stated at 10id.hy the Wt./basal ba kerc. There are others of the trade who stll flogs a half penny to three halfpence below that rate. I MPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEEK. . English. Irish. Fsmoire Wheat Barley Malt - Oats Rye — -- -- Beans Peas Tares - Rapeseed .-- -- Mustard - Seeds — —.... Flom. Brank - Linseed lO -- 4811 GO .......... 9IA SEEDS, July New English It. Clover, per cwt 44s 681 80s—fino 9$ Old Ditto .. 3os 4its 68o—fine SU New Foreign ditto 6ll 704 84s—fine 941 Old ditto ditto 29s 41s 535-110 e 79' New White ditto bis 74s 77p—fine BO Old ditto d:is 481 631—fine 94 1 _ _ New Trefoil.. per owl 6s 13, 14s—fine 90( Old ditto 4l 91 15s—etne 441 New Itibgrisss Oki ditto 2 is 30. 3.3s—fina 4 t l English Carraway Seeds, fists 401 50s—fine —it Foreign ditto :itis 42s 44s—fine 441 Coriander do. 's tid 9s 10s—fine —s St.Fuies.... per yr 42s 44s—fine 48! IlyeAilralli gill 311--fens 371 l'aieey ditto 5O, 531 Linseed for foreding 4 - s 49s—fine /Is Ditto, for crushing sBs 421—this de Ginary Seed . 58s G3s—fin. 6s. ‘Vbitetslustard Seed.. per bushel 7l 10,— , finti les Brown ditto Turnip Secds ti's 8s Gd—fino 104 Tares :is 45-41114 41 Oki !tape Seed .... per last NIM(IATE AND LEADENHALL NIARKETS, JOY gl' By the CarCASC. 8et........ t$ 4d to ss tid I Veal S t t ) l to 41 ti/ Mutton ..... go 6d t o S s Nd Pork ss °Lite 41 4 4 1.3m1), 41 041 to 5% od. S'l'. JAMF:S'S HAY MARKET, July Q 4. 0, Hay 41 4s Od to 71 Os Od Clovt r, 41 1010 d to 710# a 4l New flay 41 Os ad to 41 Os OdStiaw Yl lls Od to 31 els , SMITHFIELD. Old Hoy 4l 101 od to 61 10: Od-Average, 51 101 Osi Straw lll lOs Od to 31 Os 01-Aterage, tl 15s 04 Clover 4l 101 Oil to 71 Os 0 0--Avrrags, SI ltis WHITECHAPEL. flay New ditto... 01 Os Oil to 01 Os tut-Average, 01 t" I mi Straw Clover 3l i s ad to 71 7s Od-- Averui4e. 6 1 " PRICE 1W HOPS, per Cwt., July 96. Kent Pockets 61 101 to 71 7 s to Itl Sussex Pockets 610 s to 71 us to 71 10s Essex Pockets 61 Cs to 71 Os to 111 Or Farnham, tine, 101 Os to 1510 1—Si-corn), Al os tu IUI Kent Bags, 61 Os tu 71 101 tu 01 Of Sussex WTI, 51 19. to til lOs to 01 OS Essex hags, 51 15. to 71 Os to 01 Os Ohl Duty ISilt At 150,0001. RAW IIiDES. is Heifers & Steers, per it. OrditlAry ... Qs 6d to Is la as 2il to 31 4.: Market Cislt . • eaLb.. 116 °4 _, NI iddliogs SHEET' SKINS. Pulled Fells ...... Us 0,1 to Us WI I Lambs - gs 04 to VI V 4 PRICE OF LEATHER. Bolts, 50 to 561hs each per lb 20id to 94 , 1 Ditto, 5G to Gt.ilbs each Dressing Hides l7d to 190 I:9'4lsld t• 1: 10 11 1 14 Coach Hides Crop links, :15 to 4011)s tor cutting Ditto .... 45 to tiOlks Celt Skin...Z(3 to 4011,s 914 to 44ct Ditto 50 to 7011). 244 to 274 Ditto 7O to bolls aid to tad Small Scala (Greenland) laid to 19.1 Litrge ditto .. .Itod to tad Tanned Horse Hides Spanish Horse Hides PRICES OF TALLOW, St Town Tallow 375 oil —s od Yellow ltussi►► 365 Od —s Od White dills►.. 34s Oil —Pi O►: Soap ditto.... 331 oil —I Od Melting Stott Sills od —s Od Ditto ltoitith.. 17s tot od &c. per I I ilt).—J il ly 14. Yellow Soap... Mpttled ............... 70, ........ 7 11 # Curd .................. 61 ayes .............. )d. Guohl Di cgs .......... 1140' PRICE OF CANDLE , ;, rrium t.i.ow Price of Candles, per dozen, 8s fed --- Muulds, to, od. fid par dozen allowed fur ready nboney. piticE OF RAW FAT, per Stone of Sits.--July 14. Price of Tallow (as stated hy the Tallow Melton}, (MI COUNTRY Lliruill) M Wheat per I. 1:1; Os lu 171 10► Old Wheat —lO5 to —1 —1 Oats, per ... 11 41 to II 1 ic Old ditto 01 Os to 010 s MARKET. Atitit - r, July 24. 11.kuley, 11 1 II !Irma, per gr. il 171 to 4l 0* !'case, per qr. 01 0s to 010/ Rye, per 01 Os tu 01 U, COAL MARKET, July 26. Ships at Market. Ship% sold. pia. Obi Newcmtle ....... 3 $ 0 0 : O o a d s e 11 4 : 7,1 Sunderland ........ 6 A. snake was caught in the hay harvest, Issiff /Junin; a few day s ago , t h at measured 4 feet 3 Inches "" length. MultDEß.—Bettopen eleven and twelve o'cl ock on Thursday night, Alr. William Berridge, of the tirato!, 2 %..' and Berridge, millwrights, returning from Wrawby & it sldence at lsrigg, Yorkshire, was found within 200 vim" ° Vf e .. Wrawby toll-bar, on the road leading from Barton, nearlY n ot. less, and instantly expired. He had received a and fc t wo h har r aet o icn u thh g a,e h ni ntdi t am h kk e eee yrw: s head, and was rifled of his money and ai ,4 7..1 rltiyoalfwl,athasnefdopuin,,nitadorl.kwedalistehi.eardwaa: washortithisiFe.: h n e T a n m h t e e t i j r e e o p ho g spectable man, and has left a wife and six children. _rif f) ! glad to find, by information received this morning (Satui"alii that the perpetrator, or one of the perpetrators, of this stroc,i act, has been apprehended. He is diituney-sweeper ot- Liu ": of the name of Wetlierill, and a man of very indifferent cha t ter. He h a d b een observed by some boys cleaning A gun 4T,Ay, V day previ ous to the murder, and on b e i ng ta k en i nt o c in 087,0 confessed that h e h ad loaded the gun but that another fired it. Th e gun has been found hid the garden.--4 Rockinearn.) SUDDEN D EATlL—Yesterday afternoon an kap quest was held at the White Horse, in Covent.garden-Dis f . ; „, on the body of William Foster, aged fil, a respectable rituT i , idler, who resided in Lisle-street, Leicester -square- Th e sp. ceased, it appeared, was met by an unfortunate female on turday night, and accAnnpanied her into a house of 1114 . sr" sb , Rose-street' Covent-garden. He had scarcely entortne• room when he coughed up a quantity of blood, and a-- diately died, as is presumed, by rupturing a blood.vess Verdict " Died by the Visitation of Clod." I . On Sunday l ast , the wife ß of R.TH Mr. Richard Smelt of LWOW' square, solicito r , o f a son. MARRIED. On the 20th inst., Robert, son of Robert Denison, et wick Percy, in th e county of York, Esq., to Charlotte, le“ / daughter of the l ate G eorge linthatn, of the city of York, „Z On the 24th inst., at St. Martin's, Ludgate,. Oeorge Patt en, Euston.squa re . Esq., of Ludgate-hill to Miss Lucy F ow l er , o f Seytnour-e" — tt DIED. tat• On Friday, the 23d inst., at his brother's how, BY the 24th inst., d a ti t u ( g 2 t h a L e l r te o n t h Air. John Lancaster, of N 0.410, Drury-lane. Richards, youngest On Wednesday, the 2lst of July, Ann, the vat of Hawkins, Esq., of Cosford, Surrey. the late at e 1 d 40 26 14 c ea hief the i jazorine.oll:::: Printed and Pub!flaked for the PitoPttigTotts. a 4 tbS g I * Orrtcr, Ili, Straus', by J.J. .8. emtsTAtios. f I