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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, March 4. [BRITISH PRESS.] The proceedings at the India House yesterday form a subject of extreme interest. The Court was completely crowded at an early hour, and every avenue was filled by Proprietors. The discussion that took place was anxiously antici pated. It was impossible the friends of Lord Hastings could remain silent, or the charges against him continue undenied. The Hydera bad affair and the loan to the Nizam, on their first mysterious mention, arrested public attention at once, and the doubtful answers of the Chair man of the Company at the last Court brought more than implication to Lord Hastings, particu larly when connected with the previous negative of the pecuniary grant for his distinguished ser vices in India. When the numerous rotes to the Noble Marquis, as the reward of his administra tion, both in Parliament and that Court, were re collected—when it was remembered that a munifi cent grant of 60,0001. was decreed him in 1819,as a test of the gratitude of the India Company—when the disinterestedness of Lord Hastings was re called to memory with which he rejected a large sum of prize -money, the result of his successful direction of the Mahratta and Pindarre war— when, farther, it was known that he had returned home from India after a brilliant administration, himself unenriched, but leaving the Company with a territory in Hindostan great and peace ful beyond all former example,—it could not but have created surprise that the mark of gratitude which was dealt to - Warren Hastings, to Lord Wellesley, and others, who had filled the Government of India, should have been negatived to this distinguished Nobleman ; and it was plain that the change of feeling must have proceeded from some causes known only to the Directors, and only darkly whispered to the public at large. The whole life of Lord Hastings was opposed to any peculative charges. If the loan to his Highness the Nizam, by Palmer and Co.'s house at Hyder abad, was tainted with fraud or exaction, it was not even probable the late Governor-General was in any way implicated. Such was the feeling of his friends when they came forward so cre ditably in his defence; and such, we are sure, was the feeling also of the public at large. We do not think that Mr. Hume's remarks, on the motion of Mr. John Smith, when he moved for all documents connected with this Loan, were ,just; because the production of these papers, if Lord Hastings be free from criminality, would at once form his best defence. Far from reflecting on the late Governor-General, or connecting him with any thing doubtful in this transaction, the papers, when produced, must form the best proofs of his honour. Though this particular mo tion was not carried, it led to the general resolu tion, which was voted, for all papers before the Directors, connected with the government of Lord Hastings, which will elucidate the whole conduct of the Noble Marquis. We shall, in deed, be disappointed if their production will not at once dispel all doubts that have rested on the character of this distinguished Nobleman. We can remember that pecula tion was one of the leading charges pressed by Mr. Burke, with all the force of his vituorant oratory, against Warren Hastings; yet Mr. Sullivan, his private Secretary, solemnly deposed that at no period of the fourteen years' government of that great man, was he worth 100,0001., and that he never could be brought to attend to his private affairs. Had not the India Company subsequently paid the costs of his im peachment, amounting to 80,0001., and voted him an annuity of 4,0001. for his own life and that of Mrs. Hastings, that illustrious individual must have been ruined. So easy is it to conjure up shadows, and whisper dark charges against cha racter without the smallest truth or foundation. The result of the present investigation will, we are sure, be most honourable to Lord Hastings, and his splendid services will ultimately meet, we trust, the reward they so richly merit. [THE TIMES.] The feeling of the public with respect to the finance plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is at this moment very peculiar ; for, to what ever cause it may be owing, no one thinks the plan settled. On the contrary, all seem to con sider the budget of the year in the light of some college subject proposed to the consideration of the students, and on which the best essay will obtain the prize. We have written our treatise, and are sure, also, that we have obtained the ma jority, or nearly the whole of the free suffrages ; or rather that the free suffrages were with us ere we began to write, and that we only said that which every one felt before—" Repeal for us the assessed taxes," and the vigour infused into the people by that act will enable them to break the fetters which controul their foreign commerce. — The Chancellor of the Exchequer's system has been the direct reverse. He is like one who gives the rein to an horse not yet recovered from a state of exhaustion. We 'would infuse his na tive vigour into the animal, and then, if he is im patient of controul, slacken the rein,•and suffer him to bound into the open space. We do not blame Abe principles' of 'the•Chancellor of the Exchequer ; on the contrary, we approve of them much us general principles ; nor 'are they in truth' 'his--they 'are' those for •which every liberal man 'has been contending for years ; and it is upon this very feeling that lie has seized; it is this' prevalent Conviction' that' he has flattered or attempted•to flatter, in offering to us the al lurement-4 foreign trade, when fle•ought to have removed - domestic pressure. But'who, we ask; ever thought of relieving :the sufferings of a - ptiople by operations of an external nature ? That - , which is felt at home must be femoved at- hoine. lie would place us at the goal, - when ire tire but in the•middle of the course. In all'their'foreign transactions, '-also, reciprocity is necessary be tween states:. '%Ve are to receive' the raw and manufactured articles 'of our neighbours: what. assurance' have we that- tliey' will' accept ours in return ? The new project may give us silks : the repeal of the assessed taxes would give us com forts, and luxuries would follow.—Besides, it is proper to observe, that the present is not a con test between two parties which shall receive a boon exclusively ; the contest is, whether a part only shall be benefited (supposing benefit to accrue from the change of the silk and wool laws), or the whole nation, comprising that part, shall receive the most sensible relief. For will not the silk-merchant and manufacturer be re lieved, if their window and house duties be wholly repealed ? But of what advantage is it to the farmer and shopkeeper, and ge neral artizan, that silk should become cheap ? The Chancellor of the Exchequer has given up the oppressive duties upon law proceedings on the representations of Mr. J. Smith : in this respect a good thing has been conceded to a good man. But Mr. Smith perceives no less strongly, that farther relaxation of domestic imposts is neces sary. We could say much of the manner in which is proposed to waste the public money, in repairs of Windsor Castle, &c., but shall delay resuming our remarks on this subject, in the hope that the provoking occasion may be removed. [NEW TIMES] The state of the weather prevented any com mercial expresses arriving in the City yesterday it being also a holiday at the Bank, little busi ness was transacted in the Funds; but that little produced a variation in the price of Consols from 941 to 9482, at which they closed for the Account.—lt is stated, upon pretty good authority, that not only will France follow our example in reducing the rate of in terest upon Government Securities from 5 to 4 per cent., but that such a measure is in con templation by Russia, Austria, and Prussia ; and that from this circumstance arise the recent or ders from the Continent, for purchases in the Se curities of those Powers in the London Market ; and to which may be attributed the late advance in prices. French Scrip was yesterday done at 154- premium. The plan of the New General Insurance Company, which was announced a few days since as forthcoming, will make its appear ance in a day or two. The Shares are stated to be all subscribed for, and are already at a premium. MORNING POST. The intentio of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer to remove the prohibition upon foreign wrought silk goods, though attended with the almost total remission of the duty on the im portation of raw silk, has created considerable alarm throughout the silk trade in this country. One of its most important branches in particular, the ribbon manufacturers, seem to look upon the measure as the harbinger of certain ruin to the business in which they have been so long and so creditably engaged, and justice requires that serious attention 'should be paid to their re presentations. They had a meeting yesterday, at which they adopted certain resolutions, strong in argument and temperate in language, in which they clearly set forth the fatal consequences which they anticipate from the proposed admis sion of foreign manufactured silks. They urge, that, after the most mature and anxious delibe ration, they have attained the perfect conviction that it would not be possible for them to com pete with the foreign manufacturer. As a proof of this, they state that a very large proportion of the prime cost, in this country, in many instances to the extent of two-thirds, is expended for la bour only. Their arguments, however, with respect to the quantities of foreign Silks smuggled into England are less fortunate. They show, indeed, that even under the losses attendant on a system of smuggling, foreign silks sell at a lower price than those of home manufacture; but they also show, that, notwithstanding the secret introduction of those silks (in quantities which would probably not be greater were the prohibition removed) the ribbon manufacturing trade has continued to in crease, and has attained its present pitch of pro sperity. It may therefore be inferred that it would not be so deeply injured as they appre hend, by a regular importation checked to a cer tain extent by an efficient duty ad valorem. Their assertion that the opening , of the trade wo u ld only serve to encourage smuggling is equally un fortunate; neither was it wise to refer to the ex ample of other countries as protecting their own manufacturers by prohibitions ; for those countries have resorted to prohibitions in consequence of our's; and the effect of the liberal system which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is desirous of estab lishing will be to induce them to abandon a line of commercial policy not less effectual than inju rious to the general interests and universal pros perity of trade. Their representations acquire much more weight when they confine themselves to matters of fact : and when we find it solemnly declared that upwards of one hundred thousand persons are now employed in the various depart ments of the riband manufacture, who all anti cipate " absolute ruin" if the proposed measure be carried into effect, we cannot but recommend their case to the most serious attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and of Parliament before a final decision be taken on a question in volving the welfare of so large, so industrious, and so respectable a body of loyal subjects. The General Silk Weavers had also a meeting yes terday, at which they agreed to petition Parlia ment against the repeal of the prohibitory laws. [MORNING HERALD. The Court Of Chancery, as a subject of Parlia rnentary discussion, increases in interest every Session.; and, what is something strange, the fair and real merits of the question seem more and more. lost sight of, in the manner of treating it. It is made almost exclusively a personal question, which is not only unjust, but defeats the end of reform. It is indeed scarcely. in reason to be expected that Hon. and Learned Gentlemen 'should pursue the'subject in the right line of dis, cussion. -The crying evils,which are acknowledged .to exist, and some peculiarities . existing in, or only imputed to, the judicial mind. of the 'Noble holder of the Great Seal, are resistless incentives to declamation and pleasantry, which are never so piquant as when the run into personality. View.' jag the question fairly, the individual Lord Chan cellor can enter into the subjact matter and merits only in two ways. The accumulation of business can arise only from either or both of two causes—the mode in which the Chancellor per forms the duties and goes through the business of his Court—or else the constitution and forms of the Court itself. Now as to the former, no one will have the folly to propose or to expect any thing so utterly absurd as to apply any ex ternal stimulus to the conscience or discretion of the Judge—and as little is it probable that any one in his senses could suppose the distribution of justice would be advantaged by his removal or retirement. To throw down, then, an iron for mula of proceeding, to which a Chancellor must screw into conformity his intellect and his con science, so as to dispatch a given quantity of Chancery litigation in a given time, is too grossly foolish even for a jest : and yet it is upon some such supposition that the individual Lord Chan cellor can be hitched, on this view of the sub ject, into the debate. But it may be said, that the Chancellor might dispatch causes more expeditiously without injury to the ends of justice. The only answer—and it is a conclusive one, to this is, that he does not think so ; and it is further to be observed, that by deliberation or delay, he but imposes addi tional fatigue upon himself.—l n the second place, suppose the evils to proceed from the constitution and forms of the Court, how can the individual Chancellor be fairly made a party or an ingredient in the inquiry ? He is not in the House of Commons to resist any change that may be proposed in the organisa tion or jurisdiction of his Court. lie has not, that we are aware of, publicly expressed any opinion which could be combatted, or of which cognizance could be taken in the House of Com mons. What his private opinion may be is no thing to the matter. That opinion has not been marshalled against the motion, or any of the motions made in the House of Commons, and therefore it is a question purely between a portion of the House of Commons and itself. If the foregoing observations be correct, the Noble and Learned person referred to has been not only unfairly, but absurdly dragged, as an individual, into this remarkable inquiry. It requires no great effort of good taste to abstain from urging the unnecessary and hacknied topic of the sound equity of his decisions—his patient, impartial spirit of inquiry —his unassailed and un assailable integrity. When somebody proposed to compose a panegyric upon Hercules," who,' said an honest Spartan, " ever thought of blam ing him ?" [MORNING CIIRONICLEd The Chancellor of the Exchequer's trial is now commencing. He was, no doubt, prepared for great clamour, on the part of all those in terested in the change in our Commercial Sys tem which he has proposed ; but, whatever firm ness he may possess, we are certain he will have occasion for all of it. Already certain Meetings of the persons engaged in the Silk an d W oollen manufacture have been held. There was one on Wednesday, the sth Feb., at Weavers' Hall, of the Manufacturers, Merchants, D ea l ers , and i others engaged n the Silk trade ; a series of Resolutions was Passed at an adjourned Meet ing of Ribbon Manufacturers resident in London, held yesterday. The latter contend, that the of thi s Manufacturers country are subject to great di Iv:rfi tages, in comparison with the Ma nufacturers countries, in the price of labour, not merefo iy reig fo. foreignr the actual manufacture of silk goods, but also In the price paid on the dif ferent processes through which the raw material must pass, before it is ready for manufacturing purposes ; and that, 111 the manufacture of fancy ribands, in particular, a very large proportion of the prime cost in this Country, in many instances to the extent of two thirds, is expended for labour only. They state that upwards of 100,000 per sons are now employed in the various depart ments of the riband manufacture ; that, if the mea sure be adopted, thi s numerous body will be thrown out of employ) and that it will have the ef fect of destroying the extensive property embarked in this trade, under the positive protection and sanction of the Legislature. As we have always advocated the system of free trade, and called on the Chancellor of the I, xchequer to remove the existing obstacles to it, with as little delay as possible, we should be abandoning our own prin ciples w ere we to turn round on the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, and take part with those against whom he has now to contend.— What we complain of in the Chancellor of the Exchequer is, not that he endeavours to remove restrictions on trade, but that, by removing the restrictions in one case, and not remov- ing them in another, he deprives himself of the best justification of his measure. For in stance, the Ribbon Manufacturers say, that not less than two-thirds of their outlay is for labour, and that there is a great disproportion between the price of labour in this country and in France. This leads to the question, why there should be Such a disproportion ? Because the trade in food is not free ; because the Land-owners are pro tected against competition, till food in our market attains a famine price. This is the most important of all the restrictions ; and by leaving it untouched, the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer deprives himself of the best arguments for the alterations he now proposes. The Silk Ma nufacturerS, theWoollen Manufacturers, the Linen Manufacturers, and all others whose interests' are about to be touched, are entitled to ask the Chanceller of the Exchequer, why he does not carry his principles through and through ? why he lets in foreign goods on theM, 'while the price of food is forced above the level of other countries, by the monopoly given to the Landowners ? why he expects them to compete, ,while the means by which a successful com petition can be carried on are denied them ? Place'all classes of the community on an equal fOoting—do not protect one and leave another defenceless. We know this is an unwelcome subject to the Members of the Legislature, but for that reason the - Press is more peculiarly. called 'on to exert itself. They would l'ingly allow the, food monopoly to he continued,l because they are all, ' or nearly all of them, I land-owners. So long as the country remains quiet ander the monopoly, they will not be disposed to agitate the matter. But the country will not be quiet, and the question will soon be forced on them. Already, in the manufacturing towns, the effects of the monopoly are visible in the pallid looks of the working classes. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, MARCH 3. The LORD CHANCELLOR, on coming into Court, stated that he should be obliged to attend the House of Lords to morrow ; but that arrangements had been made by which he should be enabled to sit in this Court on Friday and Saturday. He would then hear farther arguments in the appeal which was before him on Friday last. After the present week, he appre hended there would be no difficulty in ascertaining the days on which he should sit here. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, IVARcn 3. In this Court there was no trial of any interest, except to the parties concerned. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MARCH 3. PEYTON AND OTHERS V. WILLIAMS AND OTHERS. This was an action, to recover a sum of 19,0001. being the value of some goods which had tome into the possession of the defendants, under the circumstances hereafter mentioned. The plaintiff's were the assignees of a bankrupt named William Grenville Peyton, and the defendants were bankers at Chester. Some time previous to the 28th of June, Mr. Peyton borrowed a loan from the defendants, and deposited with them, by way of security, some Dock orders, which authorized the delivery to them of goods lying in the London Docks, to the amount of 19,0001. On the 28th of June Mr. Peyton stopped payment, and on the 4th of July a commission of baakruptcy was issued against him. After he stopped payment, and before he be came a bankrupt, he wrote to the defendants, directing them to take the goods out of the docks, which the defendants accord ingly did. The question to be decided was, whether the pro perty which the defendants thus possessed themselves of was not the property of the assignees. • The Jury found a verdict for the defendants. The LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE intimated, that as the question was one of great importance to mercantile men, he would take the opinion of the Judges upon it. SECONDARIES' OFFICE, MARCH 3. PINNET V. BEST. A Jury was summoned to assess damages in this cas e , w hi c h referred to two orphans, and in which Captain Best, who is remarkable for the fatal duel with Lord Camelford, was the defendant. Mr. ARABIN, for the plaintiff; stated, that his client had long lived in the humble capacity of a butler to a respectable family, and has brought the present action in behalf of two orphans, in the character of administrator to the effects of a man named Newman. The amount sought to be recovered was two hundred and fifty-three pounds. Capt. Best was well known as a man of fashion, who, like many others, pursued a course of animated extravagance, which led him into sharp expence, but the correction of experience had doubtless checked the im petuosity of his spirit. Fortune poured in upon him in a rich flood, and he was now in circumstances of great affluence-- What the motive of the Captain was for refusing to pay the debt due to two orphans formed no ground for speculation in the present case. It was only necessary to prove that it was due, and that the plaintiff had acted in th e b est man ner in is performing his duty to the children. Their father had been valet to the defendant, and was in truth his factotum. As was common with the servants in the fashion able world, he had in the course of his service amassed money ; and, as was equally common, helebnotokwshoaft. thileeadmecaeassesedd,tothhaits master, and kept an account with the defendant, as would be seen from a book that would be produced. In th e year 1821 , Newman was found dead in his bed. It was known t o a man who was in the habit of keeping the the latter had advanced much money to his master and it was remembered by others that the deceased had mentioned that he had made to the Captain a particular loan of 200/. It was with much difficulty that the accounts between the Captain and the deceased had been obtained. Upon a Judge's order, one book had been produced ; but the defe,ndant said that another, in which the particular of the loan of 2001. had been made, was not in his power, as Mr. Harrison, his attorney, had it in his pos session. Mr. Harrison had since died, and 4‘ de mortals nil nisi bonzenz" was a maxim by which a Counsel should be con trouled upon all occasions. He was a clever man who would not easily give up a book that might br fatal to his client's in terest. In the book produced there was found an increased ba lance of 231. to the deceased for daily disbursements ; but in that book, as the jury would perceive, there was one item on which he grounded his claims for the orphans. On the debit side was the following entry—" Paid for interest 10/." There were entries of precisely the same sum due to the deceased for three years previous to his death from his master. Coupling this fact with the declaration made by the deceased, of his having made such a loan, and the obstinacy on the part of the defend ant in withholding the book in which the entry had been made, the jury, whatever ingenuity might be exercised by his advo cate, could feel no hesitation in pronouncing him to be indebted to the orphans in the sum of 2001., with the admitted balance and interest. The book produced . by the defendant upon a Judge's order, was then produced. There appeared in it the successive entries of 101. per annum, as paid by the defendant from the year 1818, " for interest." _ Mr. ARABIN then called upon Mr. Adolphus, counsel for the defendant, to produce the book containing the original entry of the alleged loan for 2001. Mr. ADOLPHUs strenuously objected to the production of the book—first, on the ground that the notice to produce it did not specify it with sufficient distinctness ; and, secondly, that pro per time had not been allowed for the purpose, the notice hav ing been only served the previous night. These objections the Secondary over-ruled. Mr. ADOLPIIUs then said, his client had not the book in his possession. It was in the hands of Mr. Harrison's executors, who would not give it up until they had examined their ac counts, and seen whether any thing was due to them from the defendant. The SEcoNDAnY said this was an insufficient excuse. The possession of the defendant's attorney was the defendant's pos session, and the former might have been subpoenaed to attend and produce the book, notwithstanding any existing account. Evidence might now be given of the contents of the hook. Two witnesses were called, but it was objected that there was no evidence to show that the defendant had a knowledge of the contents and that unless such a knowledge was shown, the contents could not be made to bind the defendant. A witness was called to give the evidence required, but it appeared that he had only seen the book in the defendant's room, and did not know that the latter had read it. Mr. AnoLrHus then addressed the Jury for the defendant, and said it would be proved, that the defendant had borrowed 2001. for the loan of which he paid interest, and that interest had been paid through the hands of the deceased in such a manner as to make it probable that the items were those of payment by the deceased in behalf of his master. Mr. Richard Lowe, an officer in the Guards, stated, that in 1817 he obtained from a Mr. Butcher a sum of 2001. for Cap tain Best, on his promissory note of a month's date. A year afterwards Mr. Butcher complained that he was not paid. Witness induced the defendant to pay interest on the sum, and received from his valet the 101. for that purpose. The SECONDARY ' expressed regret that the book called for had not been produced. The person who held it might have been subpoenaed by the defendant. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 2001., with interest, and the admitted balance of 231.—total sum,' 243/. 14s. 7d. 'FITE GREEN PARK.—The improvements are nearly completed. The ground enclosed as an addition to the garden of his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK now forms a very handsome shrubbery ; and the Royal mansion, as well as the whole of the grounds; is thrown open to public view by the removal of all the old walls and cow sheds, which are replaced by a high and tasteful iron railing, as well as on the side of St. James's as that of the Green Park. The proposed alterations in the laws restrain ing the Emigration of Artisans and the Exportation of Machi nery with the intended rescinding of the laws against Combina tions among Workmen, would effect so complete a change in the enactments which have so long been considered necessary for the protection of the manufactures of this country as to cause no little alarm among the commercial interests in this neigh bourhood. Before a step such as this should be taken, it ought to be proved •to a 'certainty not only that no evil will en sue but that absolute good will result. On a subject of such serious such vital importance to us all, no experiments should be tried till their certain effects are clearly and plainly deMonstrated. We are aware that various have been the opi nions of political economists on this subject; that some have advocated absolutefreedom of commerce in every branch,. whilst others run into abundance of restrictions and protections.— Truth and sound policy may lie in the mean ; if other nations would adt upon a system of freedom towards us we might adopt the same plan towards them, but till this is the case we must act with caution and not give away the advantages we possess without au equivalent. We,would invite the serious attention of the commercial world ; in our opinion much danger may be apprehended from the alteration.—( Stockport Advertiser.) TIIE PRINCESS OF CUMBERLAND• TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD• SlR—Will you enable me to contradict an end roneous statement which has appeared in several Papers as to my Petition to be presented to the Right Honourable the House of Commons, as it was in my proper name, and which the legiti macy of my Royal birth fully authorises me to use, that of OLIVE GUELPH, Princess of Cu'4 BERLAND ? And f take this opportunity of pub licly declaring, that if any further libellous at tacks appear in public print upon my legitimacy or honour, that I shall consider it a duty to re sort to the laws of these realms for redress I have courted every investigation, wishing to satisfy my relatives, although such a proceeding on my part was at variance with the rights of le gitimacy ; and where are the persons who pos sess the power to rob any subject of these realms, BORN in wedlock as I HAVE BEEN, of his lawful birth-right ? I have the certificate of my Royal Parents'' marriage, and my baptises as the daughter of Henry Frederick Guelph, Duke of Cumberland, and Olive his wife, bearing l th• signature of a vir tuous, honourable, and dignified clergyman of the Church of England, a certificate that was af terwards corroborated by Lords Chatham, Ash burton, and Warwick; and I was fully christen ed in 1821, at St. Mary's, Islington, according to the rank of my Royal Parents and myself, which was a sacred duty that I had to perform, in obedience to the respected laws of the Church of England. I take the trouble to give this in formation to the public, to prevent any person, through prejudice or ignorance, from subjecting themselves to legal reprehension. 4, Melina-place, _March 2. OLIVE. 1. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HousE.—Yesterday a case came on before the LORD MAYOR, which certainly regards a question of consider able importance to the public. A parcel, containin g the halves of Bank-notes, to the amount of about 6001., was transmitted from the Bath Bank to London, directed to the house of Jones, Lloyd, and Co., of Lothbury, by the Bath coach, which stops at the Swan-with -two-Neck s inn, Lad-lane. The parcel should have been delivered in Lothbury on Tuesday, but, to the asto nishment of the House, no parcel reached them ; and• as they could get no satisfactory intelligence at the inn, a summons was dispatched, requesting the attendance of the clerks and porters who might have had charge of the parcel, or through whose hands it might have passed. Mr. HARMER attended upon the part of the owners of the . notes. He stated, that what was peculiar in this case was, that in the way-bill the parcel was mentioned, and ticked off as de livered, and that so involved and complicated were the arrange ments of carriage and deli Very of goods, that there appeared, to be no possibility of ascertaining through what means, either of intention or carlessness, the loss had taken place. The public were, he added, deeply interested in the subject, as there was no security for property transmitted from one place to another. One of the clerks produced the way-bill, which included a parcel . directed to Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Company, the carriage of which amounted to Is. Bd. The parcel was ticked off' to one of the porters of the establishment, whose name is Bellringer, who was of course responsible for that sum to Mr. Waterhouse. Another of the clerks, who was in th e h a bi t o f c h ecking t h e waybill, stated th at he had done so in this instance, and that, he had ticked off the parcel to Messrs Jones and Lloyd, but he had not seen the parcel. The LORD MAYOR expressed surprise at his having ticked off a parcel which he had not seen. The clerk said it was usual, in the great hurry of business, to ll tick off' without lookin g to t h e articles included in the way" bi._ _ Lorin MAYOR asked whether it was not the duty of the clerks; when a parcel mentioned in the way-bill was not foun t ' , to mention that circumstance to their employer? The clerk said, in answer to this question, that he really had not observed whether the parcel was or was not to be found. Another person always called over the parcels, and whether this particular parcel had been called over or not, he could not de termine. There were mistakes of the kind constantly occurring. The Loan 31AI - wt.—We must endeavour to put an end to mistakes, which so frequently deprive persons of their property, and leave them no means of redress. Bellringer, the porter, was then quest i one d . He said that he was one of the porters of the establishment, and was allowed an assistant. lie was responsible for parcels directed to the ground where the house of Messrs. J ones an d Lloyd was, but he did not himself deliver on that ground. His assistant delivered there. The parcel was entered in the book to his account, but he had never seen it, nor been paid for it ; nor had he of course paid for it. Mr. HARMER.—This sort of confusion, by which the public are exposed to such serious losses, entirely contravenes the efforts to procure justice. Suppose the notes had been whole and in circulation, a very serious sum would be totally lost. It is a most lamentable thing that a man's property should be subject to be blown away from him, and that no chance either of recom pense or other satisfaction should remain. The assistant to Bellringer was called. He knew nothing, he said, about the parcel. He had never received it, never been paid for it, and of course never delivered it. The Loki) MAYon.—You are perfectly right, Mr. Harmer, in saying that the public are grossly treated by the persons connected with inns. What security can I have, that if a par cel be directed to me I shall ever receive it ? The constant and dreadful impositions to which we are all liable have induced the Court of Aldermen to apply for an Act of Parliament to give Magistrates a power of making more strict inquiry into the cause of the loss of parcels, and to punish irregularities by which confusion likely to interfere with the detection of a felony is engendered. Mr. HARMER said, he was sorry to say the case could not be pursued further. There was no trace of the mites, a nd a ll that would be done at the inn was by reference from one clerk to another, and from one porter to another. One of the clerks observed, that the parcel had been entered as a common parcel, by no means a proper security for property of value, which might be secured by insurance. The LORD MAY on said, the omission with respect to insur ing goods was no excuse for the disappearance of property con fided to the care of innkeepers. He trusted, and indeed he was• convinced, that this session of Parliament would not pass over, without some enactment for the protection of parcels. Here the case ended, but Mr. HAR MER assured the Loan MAYOR that every thing should be done to trace the half notes. Bow-ST nEET.—Yesterelay Mr. Henry Orme, a respect. , able tradesman in Little Russell-street, who is serving as constable in his own right for the parish of Saint Martin, was summoned to answer for having neglected and refused to furnish a certain number of private soldiers of the Foot Guards with billets, when required to do so under the Act of Parliament , Mr. Orme, it appeared, had entertained a• mistaken notion, that•the High Constable was to furnish him with printed forms of billets, and being disappointed in that expectation, left the men to wander about for many hours unprovided for. He was fined in the single penalty of 405., being subject, according to the Act, to that penalty for the omission in each individual case. COAL-MARKET, — 1 74nc zx 3. Ships at Market. Ships sold 29! Newcastle - 154 ji Sunderland . Price. -33 s Od to 40s 3a - 332 Od bo 439 Oct BIRTHS. On the 27th ult., Mrs. Janie Muirhead, of the Great Hotel, Buxton, of a son and heir. MARRIED. On Tuesday last, at Clapham, Mr. John Wheeler, of Hook- Norton, Oxon, to Miss Elizabeth Palmer, of Bourton-on-the - Water, Gloucestershire. DIED. On Monday, the Ist inst., suddenly, Richard Leigh Spencer,. Esq., of New Boswell -court, Lincoln's-inn, aged 54. On the 2d inst, at his residence, Bylock's-hall, Enfield , James Francis Mesturas, Esq., late partner in the house of S ir Francis Baring and Co., at the advanced age of 86. • On Tuesday, the 2d inst., in his 73d year, Mr. Thomas Chapman, of St. Mary C ra y, K en t. Yesterday, at his residence, Upper Holloway, Mr. Charles Bailey Leatham, late of the City-road, in his 51st year. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the SLIX OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CAnsTmßs.