The Sun. — London, England, 1827-12-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. There is, even to this late period of the public anxiety arising out of the Turkish question, no de cisive intelligence leading to a belief that the dif ference wilt be speedily and amicably settled. It may, we think, be safely asserted, that whatever ob stacles in the way of negotiation had been caused by the battle of Navarin, have in a great measure disappeared, and that the Porte is understood to have waved, or relinquished, all claims to indemni fication for her ruined navy. But every one, per haps, will not be prepared to learn that the great object of the Allied Powers—viz. the acceptance by the Turkish Government of the conditions held out to it in the treaty of the 6th of July—seems to be not much advanced by the arrangement of that secondary ground of quarrel. In fact, it may be as well to state at once, that on the main and original topic of debate, the Reis Effendi has not yielded a single particle of the declaratians.made by his Mas ter in the manifesto published several months ago, when his Highness announced the resolution to re ject every species of foreign interference between himself and his Greek subjects, come from what quarter it might. To the decision then promulgated, the Turkish Government, we have reason to believe, adheres with pertinacious obstinacy, still pretest ing against the principle of the treaty, as con trary to the European law of nations, and violat ing the most sacred rights of an independent So vereign. To this it need be only answered, that j vilether the intervention be in aid of the Sovereign or of the people, the argument which defends it is the same, and that there is not one of the Powers of Europe which has7not within the last eight years either asserted or admitted by its actions the privi lege of interference in the civil conflicts of neigh bouring states, whatever may have been its language or .professions. The right was assumed by Austria with regard to Naples, and in a broader and more barefaced insurer by the French Howse of Bourbon, when it invaded Spain, while Louis XVIII. in his outrage, was directly advised or half compelled by the Court of Russia, and meanly con nived at by the British Government, which thus established a disgraceful precedent of at least subor nation of tyranny. The Turks, therefore, cannot say that whatever may be the written law of Europe the law, as administered, is contrary to the treaty Of intervention ; nnless it means to affirm that despots are always to be assisted, but persecuted nations never,—Times. Since the preceding remarks ware written, we have heard from the. hut authority, - - that M. Otten fels, the Austrian Internuncio, acting in concert with M. Guilleminot, the French Ambassador, (who has received orders to leave no stone unturned to produce delay),. is exerting every nerve to prolong the stay of the Allied Ambassadors at Constanti nople, though they both know that the Sultan will not bear the mention of the treaty for the inde pendence of Greece. The English and Russian -Ambassadors are not the dupes of this shallow po licy, and will listen to nothing short of an imme diate and bona . fide armistice. The crooked policy of Austria has involved her in a difficulty from which mere cunning cannot extricate her; and though the French Minister, at a late hour, in order to save Villele, is playing Austria's game, it is to be feared that . the quarrel has now reached that crisis. when great passions and great interests will overwhelm all the little intrigues of crawling diplomacy.—lbid. Severe and not unreasonable complaints are made by many of the most respectable inhabitants in and near Clapham, that the scheme which is now in pro gress for enclosing the common will be most in jurious and oppressive to the neighbourhood. We really agree with some of our correspondents, that the overbearing pride, find sometimes the odious rapa city, of great proprietors, living in the vicinage of common;, has been too long and too extensively indulged by the Legislature, whenever plans of en closure have come recommended to it from power ful quarters. An enclosure bill is - almostinvariably an expedient for accommodating the aristocracy at the expence of the poor, who are excluded from space, and in a degree from productive space, which was formerly accessib% to them, and are thus every day robbed more and more of their scanty comforts, amusements, and enjoyments. The right of commonage previously possessed by .small cottagers and occupiers within a certain dis tance, serves in lien of that portion of land which, by a benevolent, wholesome, and politic' enactment of Elizabeth, was directed to be attached to every new habitation, and the extinction of the coinmon itself cannot fail to inflict upon that class of the community the most cruel and incalculable distress. Besides these new bills, in most instances, contain clauses under which a numbar of small houses are crowded together, without a foot of garden or other ground to constitute an accessory source of employ ment or support to the tenants ; from Which it is felt that a large increase has invariably been made to the .poor rates of the parishes so dealt with, and that the insecurity of property has extended in an equal pro portion. We trust that the worthy and estimable nobleman whose name has been referred to as most connected with the promotion of this Clapham En closure Bill, may be induced to listen to the sugges tions of the neighbourhood against it.—lbid. We refer our readers to some extracts from !the Leeds Mercury of Saturday, and the Cheltenhanz Chronicle, in another column, under the head Game, Laws. They will there see a fresh proof of what we affirmed some months ago, that the poachers have, at length, organized themselves in such a way that all attempts to oppose them are fruitless. Be tween sixty and seventy assembled in the grounds of the Marchioness of Hertford, at Temple Newsam, and shot pheasants close to the mansion. The:poachers having once attained to so perfect an organization that they can bring a large body on any given point, must almost always be victorious, because no one game preserver can possibly keep up a force equal to them ; and as the point to be attacked cannot be known beforehand, each estate must depend for its defence on its own resources. We consider, there fore, the attempts to preserve game, where such a system of attack has been once organized, as no longer practicable. Besides the preservers will na turally become more and more intimidated, and wit-. nesses will be afraid to come forward; and the sa crifice of a, poacher now and then will only stimulate his associates to take vengeance on the preserver by the entire destruction of his game. The feeling of the inhabitants of towns is pretty obvious from another paragraph, where a poacher lying:upon a gun was acquitted by a Magistrate in Leeds, because it was not seen in his hands. The Gentry of England have looked with cold-blooded indifference on the transformation of the peasantry into criminals, through the agency of the Game Laws. They have been called on as men and Christians, to consent to such a change in those laws as might arrest the pro gress of this evil. They have again and again been told of the fearful responsibility they were incurring, by insisting on the maintenance of a system which was the parent of so much vice and crime.. They were told that they would be called on one day to render an account of the thousands and thousands of their fellow creatures whom they had ruined body and soul; and that though as Legislators they could not-be reached here, Divine justice would assuredly Overtake them hereafter. To all these Monitions they remained callous and insensible. They closed their ears to the suggestions of pity, and the dictates of justice. But they are now doomed to experience the mortification of seeing that extorted from their impotence which they would not yield to elevated c onsiderations : they will be compelled to stop their persecution, not from a sense of what they owe to God or their fellow -creatures, but sheer inability t o be longer vi ; and, instead of receiving credit f or their tardy amendment of the laws, they must prepare .them selv es f or delightedthe derision of an insulted co untry, shove measure with their embar rassment. As to their in the military to aid in the enforcement of the c.2,,,, a0 Laws, such an in suit to an overtaxed community durst not be offered. —Morning Chronicle. We are now nearly arrived at the end of the quar ter, and we are assured that there is a very great falling off in the Revenue. The deficiency is re ported to amount to a greater sum than we choose to name : a few days will serve to clear up this point. The energies of the people of this country arc very great indeed, but there are limits to taxa tion. These limits, we fear, have been already passed, and every year, and every quarter, our pro spects seem only to be more gloomy.—Thid. It requires a more than ordinary hardihood to per suade the world that that which is clear as the sun at noon-day has never happened. Of this descrip tion arc the efforts of suehof the public Jurnals as are now instructed to deny that there has been the least schism in the Ministry, and that the Premier has never tendered his resignation, or even expressed any wish to resign. Of Lord Goderich's wish to retire from the Government there can be doubt : as little doubt, we believe, is there that he had vir tually resigned, and that the attempt to persuade Lord Harrowby to take his place having failed, he has been prevailed upon to continue in office a little longer. In the mean time conjecture is afloat as to the most probable person as his successor. Some assign the post to the Duke of Portland, others to the Marquis of Wellesley; while the Whigs look to Lord Holland, and the Tories to the Duke of Wellington. With the exception of the Whigs,, there are, we suspect, no persons very anxious for the office. Lord Harrowby, it is pretty clear, has declined; and Great Britain witnesses, for the first time in her annals, a period when the high distinc tion of presiding at the head of her affairs is rather avoided than sought after. This is no very gratify ing state for the country to be placed in.—Morning Herald. If Mr. Herries in seriously looking out for objects of retrenchment, why should he not put an end at once to the Hackney-coach and Hawkers' Office, with its whole train of Commissioners, Clerks, In speetors, &c. ? nothing so utterly useless, we will venture to say, having ever been saddled upon the finances of the country. Why it is so we cannot pretend to say—but that it is really the case cannot for a moment be doubted by nny one who has occa sion to see or use the public vehicles, a great pro portion of which, instead of being a couvenience, are an actual nuisance and disgrace. None of those persons can have any right to complain, should they be ultimately, and that very soon, obliged to quit. They have had hints and warnings enough, which, if they had not had the wisdom to take, why they must expect to take the consequences. No doubt but their services, even were they well performed, might be easily dispensed with ; but as for keeping up useless Boards arid Offices at any time, but more especially in times of financial difficulty like the pre sent, the idea is preposterous. We should strongly recommend, therefore, this establishment being forth with broken up—as the French say—" pour encou rager les attires." There is a homely saying about more cats than mice, which seems to be strongly illustrated in the existence of this useless Board— one part of whose duties might be transferred to the Police, and the other to the Stamp Office. We are not prepared to say what this useless establishment costs the country ; but, be it little or much, it might as well be saved, and the use which it ought to be of derived from some other quarter.—lbid. We have seen in the columns of a contemporary a very interesting letter, signed " A School As sistant," in which the writer, who describes himself as a young gentleman, a graduate of one of our Uni versities, details the treatment and degradation he received from the head of the establishment in which he was engaged as worse than that of a menial ser vant. We believe that such instances are not un common, nor the less disgraceful on that account. — Avarice is too often the accompaniment of pecu niary success ; and that which should make men li beral often freezes up the channels of common jus tice. Pecuniary liberality and mental liberality are very different things. The latter is often possessed when the means of gratifying the former are wholly unknown. But education, we are told is to produce liberal ideas ; whilst its enormous cost in this coun try now enables those who are engaged in it, one would think, to indulge in the more substantial liberality of the other kind. But mark the sort. of liberality which ushers and teachers in schools receive from the heads of these establishments, and then let parents reflect what sort of principles their children are likely to imbibe, where selfishness and meanness mark the conduct of the principals towards the hands and the heads of those from whose labour their profits are derived. It is no uncommon thing for persons, whose schools produce them an income of two or three thousand a-year, to give 301. or 401. to the principal assistant, who generally finds all the higher kinds of knowledge which are required in the establishment. In many female schools this is still worse ; for there the young creatures, who undergo the drudgery, ac tually themselves pay for the privilege of so doing. In the shape of articled scholars, premiums are given under the idea of these young girls becoming qualified as governessesor schoolkeepers themselves ; while, in fact, they frequently find themselves mere slaves of people incapable of teaching them any thing,and without time to attend to theirown improve ment, were it otherwise practicable. We wonder that parents and guardians do not look a little more into these matters before they place children of either sex in places where so much abuse, negligence, unfeelingness, and want of liberality prevails towards those whose treatment is too often but an earnest of what the children themselves are liable to receive. If parents and guardians were not negligent in the extreme, could we hear of such things as a whole schoolfull of children being handed over to the highest bidder as sheep at a fair; or could the common feelings of humanity be outraged by conduct towards children which would be disgraceful as applied to the brute creation ? Instead of being led away by specious prospectuses, it would be more creditable to parents to look a little into the nature and the details of these establishments—among the rest, to enquire who the teachers are, and how they are paid and treated—in fact, whether the person to whom the solemn charge is to be confided of training up their children in the way they should go is qualified for the task, or, as is too often the case, a mere selfish specious pedagogue, bent only on his own aggrandizement, _without liberality or justice, and of course without the means of communicating them to others.—lbid. We have alreadiy communicated to our readers the substance of a Note addressed to the representa tives of the several European Powers resident at St. Petersburgh, and said to have been drawn up under the personal and anxious superintendence of the Emperor Nicholas. In this Note, " Russia repeats to the Powers of Europe the most positive assur ances of not desiring to aggrandize its territory at the expense of any of its neighbours ; but it also re peats the resolution, taken by the Emperor himself, to prosecute the plan agreed upon with his Allies, for the pacification of the East. The treaty of in. tervention, it will be recollected, disclaims with suf ficient distinctness on the part of all the Powers who are parties to it, any motives of ambition. This reiterated disclaimer by Russia separately, and, above all, the importance which the advocates of the Treaty every where attach to it, can serve no other purpose, therefore, than that of attesting the rea sonableness of the suspicions which all who are not advocates of the Treaty have entertained, as to the intentions of that Power. Between good faith and tautology there is at least no necessary alliance. It would be idle and perhaps indecorous to dis pute the solemn and repeated assurances of the Court of Russia as to its desires. These must of course be best known to itself, and we are perhaps bound to take its word, that territorial aggrandize ment is not one of them. But if this be so, we are compelled to pronounce the Ministers of Ruse', the most unskilfid and unfortunate set of Sta . h en t a b e that se ever existed upon the face of th e e e • . ct h miserabl e M uscov it es every thift appeals, to N ye gone svrong. They have beta foilectandeotinterected.i on every side. In spite of their earnest desire to confine the Russian territory within its present limits, such is the perverse fatality which over-rules their affairs, that almost at the same moment some of the finest and most important provinces of Persia are added to the Russian Ernpire on the one hand, and they are beguiled by the subtle Ministers of England and France into a Treaty, of which the certain effect is to aggrandize that Empire on the other. Pro. fessing our willingness then to believe, in deference to those who are the adulators of Russian virtue and honour, that Russia is and always has been actuated in her political movements by motives the most pure and disinterested ; that she possesses Poland in virtue of a miscalculation; that her in fluence and pretensions in Wallachia and Moldavia have resulted from mischance ; 'she has been en trapped and defrauded, in short, into an elevation from which she can overlook Asia with one eye, and Europe with the other; professing our willingness to believe all this, we still venture to say that the Treaty of Intervention is sure to add another to the long series of instances in which Russia has had " greatness thrust upon her;" that upon this occa sion also, the uniform tenor of her history will be preserved, that the disinterestedness and humanity of her Councils will once more miss their aim, and be compelled, however reluctantly, to bear the in appropriate trophies, and reap the unwelcome liar vest of ambition. It is yet doubtful whether the Porte will submit to the Treaty of dictation, or persist in refusing acquiescence. In the former case, Greece including both the Continent and the Islands, falls under the power of Russia — of necessity, and without a struggle. The Turks who reside in Greece are, by virtue of the Treaty, to be expelled, and are to sell by compulsion to the Greek inhabitants, or in other words, are to be plundered of their property. This in the new state of Greece is to be the auspicious commencement of civil Government. Nor can it be doubted that Greek authorities may lfe found com petent enough to carry this preliminary operation into effect. But to our minds the proof is abun dant that among the Greeks the materials are not to be found wherewith to form an independent national government, fitted to discharge its regular and per manent ditties; and from the day upon which the Grand Seignor shall testify his submission to the Treaty, we are quite certain that twelve months will not elapse before the opinion of the Court of Russia is upon this point precisely similar to our own. The Russians and the Greeks, dissimilar as they are in many respects, are united by the tie of one common superstition. If independence is to be preferred to foreign domination, the latter, with a view both to the welfare of the Greeks themselves, and to the interests of other nations, will be considered pre ferable to anarchy; and thus the Czar of the Rus sians will without a struggle become the Monarch of the Greeks. And if on the other hand the Porte should persist in rejecting the treaty, Russia, not withstanding her desire not to aggrandize her ter ritory, will invade Turkey in prosecution of the plan agreed upon with her Allies for the pacification of the East. But suppose, after the Russian armies have advanced to Constantinople, the Pcirte should then at last acquiesce, will Russia restore in their integrity to the Porte the territories of which she will have acquired military posses sion ? Nothing of the kind is said. It could not be expected to be said, or believed if it were said, no matter how solemnly. If the treaty of Intervention is just, the conduct of the Porte in withstanding it will be unjust, and will deserve pu nishment at the hand of Russia. By invading Turkey it is clear that Russia would punish herself as well as her antagonist, if it were previously de termined that no permanent gain or loss of territory to either party should be the result. It would re quire indeed only this determination to confirm the obstinacy, as it is called, of the Porte. England had a right to resist the dismemberment of Turkey byßussia in any possible circumstances previous to the Gth of July. By the Treaty of that date England in effect relinquished her right to interfere in favour of Tur key—even to preserve. her from annihilation, or re tained it only upon condition that Turkey should, by submission to the demands of the rreaty, withdraw every pretext for the coercive measure of invasion. All the world, except the parties to this wicked and absurd Treaty, might justly resent any attempt on the part of - Russia to possess herself of Turkey; but as between Russia and England, the Treaty creates a factious and occasional kind of justice, which in the event of such an enterprise would con fine the Government cf the latter to ignominica!in action.—Morning Post. It must be a matter of sincere pleasure to the public to see the endeavours of the Home Secre tary directed to a subject which has an intimate and immediate bearing on the comfort and security of the metropolis, and, consequently, on the good of the Empire at large. We allude to the Police Regu lations, which, it appears, the Marquis of Lags downe has suggested, for giving increased facility to the detection of offenders, and which our readers will find in a subsequent column. The labours of the late Home Secretary were directed to a higher object, and the fame to be derived from them will be proportioned. But the task of preventing crimes, even in the locality of London, is not to be under rated, because there are others which require greater talents and more application. Tice preven tive process in general is less ambitious than the cu rative, but it is not less valuable on that account. The plan, or rather the suggestion, of the Marquis of Lansdowne, has probably been impressed on his attention by the advantages which have accrued to the public from the system of police reporting. In deed the proposed measure is but an imperfect spe cies of it. An account, it is proposed, containing the substance of the whole of the informations re ceived at each separate police office, shall be drawn up every night, and the whole printed for the benefit of the police offices, by the Editor of the fine and Cry. This account is to contain to evidence, nor names of witnesses, but the name of the prosecutor in every case, and, in those of robbery or theft, a shmt description of the goods stolen. Such a plan can be looked on at present as tentative only; it will doubtless receive numerous modifications and improvements before it works easily. Onemf the most obvious defects is the non-publication of the evidence, and the limitation of the reports to the police offices. 'With respect to the first, we doubt not the argument will be urged, that the evidence is ex-parte: It ;nay no doubt be a Very considerable hardship on a person accused of a crime or misde meanour, to have the circumstances bruited in all the newspapers; but it would be a still harder case s were an innocent person to suffer whoM such a publicity might have saved. We never, indeed, find that there is any great disinclination to publi city, unless where the case deserves exposure. We have known hundreds of instances where the guilty have been prosecuted to conviction s and where the innocent have been vindicated, in consequence of ex parte statements, and we never yet met with a case where the publication had a contrary effect.. It has invariably, so far as our experience goes, either ef fected nothing or effected good. But lodging an information at the twelve Police Offices is not pub lication, neither does it possess any of its advan tages, and as little will insertion of the informa tion in the line and Cry, a contemporary by-tbe by, which, in the range of our periodical read ing, we never even by accident happened to meet. The great object gained by Police re porting is, that it interests the community in the administration of the law. The proposed method will, to a certain degree, enlighten the Magistrates and Officers of Bow-street - , as to what is passing at Union-Hall, and vice -versa, but it leaves the public a w s h u il n e in th s e tru N eted l is before. W e therefore hope, that: every information tois v t e h r e y I p au o d li a c b e ly ,vi d a e g s i i s r t o ra u t s e o 3 f , ive-,liee"s'a uplpprovide that th e public, who are interested in the suppression of crime, as they derivleinthoobuet ea posingnefit receivefromitstiitestyei,nheoestulayishthem to alittle, v actions for libel, or extrution torn aii office which is open to every One else, 'whomever the delicacy of a defendant, of the pride of a :Alagistrate, happens to be offended. In short, we hope that he will legalize police re porting, in the same way as law reporting is legalised, and allow no one to be challenged for publishing the truth in the one case any more than in the other.— Neu, Timcs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—On Saturday, a fellow named Ed ward Brown, well known in the prize ring us " the Sprig of Myrtle," charged a young and rather good looking woman, the wife of a baker, named Phillips, at Kensington-gravel pits, with robbing him of a sovereign. Mr. MiNstroLL.—Who are you, Mr. Brown? " I am a dealer in horses, your Worship." " He is a prize-Sghter, your Worship," said Jones, the gaoler, " and he goes by the name of the Sprig of Myrtle.' " The prisoner underwent a strict examination, the result of which left no doubt that the charge of felony was wholly unfounded. The accused said that she and her sister, Caroline Alex ander, ❑ow present, went to visit another sister, also a married woman, and on their return home they met two men in a cart near Knightsbridge Barracks. The accused had in her pocket two sovereigns and 12s. Gd., having spent 2s. (3 , 1. in some trifling purchases. It rained hard, and wishing to get house as soon as possible, she was im prudent enough to ask the prosecutor and his companion to give them a lift. They got into the cart accordingly, and on arriving opposite the Prince of Wales public-house, the men pulled up, and she offered to treat them with some thing to drink for their kindness. They all four entered the parlour, and drank three glasses of spirits and water. About nine o'clock, the two men, Brown and Bevan, went out of the parlour, and her sister, who had heard them whis pering, informed her that she believed they intended to rob them. By the advice of her sister, she went to the bar of the. public-house and deposited 2/. 10s. with the landlady for safety. She then returned to the parlour, and Brown, whose companion had seen her give the money to the landlady, accused her of taking a sovereign from him. She denied the charge, and Brown swore an oath, " that he would have it out of her." He afterwards said, that he would forego the Charge, if her sister would go home and sleep with him. She told him he was a ♦illain, and endea voured to get away from him. When they all were in the street together opposite the door of the public •house, Brown struck her a severe blow on the face, and she fell under the horse's feet, screaming " Murder" as loud as she was able. Bevan then attacked her sister, when fortunately a con stable came up, and they were all taken to the watch-house where she was charged by Brown with robbing him of a sovereign. Caroline Alexander confirmed this statement, and swore positively that her sister did not attempt to touch Brown's money. _ • . _ The constable of Knightsbridge had made inquiry of the landlady of the Prince of 'Wales public-house, and found that Mrs. Phillips had deposited 21. 10s. there according to her statement. Sir R. BIRNIE had not the least doubt that the object of Brown and his companion was to make the women drunk, and then rob them. He did not believe one word of Brown's story respecting the sovereign. Mr. MiNsnum. concurred in this opinion, and Mrs. Phillips being acquitted of the charge, both she and her sister, in their turn, accused Brown and Bevan with assault ing- them; and as their bruised faces, in addition to their plain story, formed sufficient evidence of the fact, the two fellows were ordered to put in bail, in default of which they were committed. MARYLEBONE.—On Saturday Signor Velluti, of the King's Theatre, charged Mr. West, a tailor, in Gol den-square, with unlawfully detaining two coats. Signor Velluti's complaint was laid before Mr. GRIT-, Funs by means of an interpreter, as follows : Mr. West received orders to make him a coat for six guineas, and as he had a drab one which he wished to dis pose of, Mr. West .agreed to allow him 3/. for it in pay ment, and according to the evidence of two witnesses care fully examined it at. the time of the bargain. He after wards refused to keep it, because it was moth-eaten, and detained that and another given to him as a pattern, by way of compelling Signor Velluti to pay him six guineas in cash for the new one. The new coat was also complain ed of as not-fitting, and being made of different cloth to that chosen. 1 " You hear. what has been stated, (said Mr. Gain - rots to Mr. West); I think you bad [totter fulfil your con tracts'•' " I made no such contract, (replied Mr. West ;) I took the old coat home to dispose of it for Mr. Velluti, thinking I knew a gentleman it would suit, hut I found it full of holes as if it had been shot at, and not worth a pound. Mr. GRIFFITH—Your better way is to send the two coats back. Mr. West—When Mr. Velluti sends six guineas for the new one, 1 shall do so, and not before. Mr. GRIFFITH—You are a little too peremptory. If I say you shall, you must. ,Mr. West—l consider this a case for the decision of a jury, and not a magistrate. Mr. GAIFFITII-You and I can't talk law together : you must deduct 31. from the bill, and pay costs. Mr. West not being provided with silver, Signor Vel luti paid the ousts for him, and they were to be deducted from the balance.. Sarah Young, charged on suspicion with the murder of her infant child, underwent a final examination. The prisoner's mother, a widow named Evans, at Creamer Hyde, near Hatfield, in Hertfordshire, earns Bd. a day on the grounds of Lord Melville, and with these small means, it is stated by the officer who apprehended the prisoner, she is left.. to support four small children be longing to the prisoner, whose husband has deserted her. Henry Coxeter, a Paddington coachman, was charged with endangering the lives of his Majesty's subjects in the New-road, on Sunday, the 16th instant, by furious driving. Mr. Thomas, of No. 6, Great James-street, Bedford row, gave evidence in support of the charge, and Mr. GRIFFITH asked the defendant what he had to say in answer ? _ . _ Coachman.—'Pon my honour, Sir, the gentleman's mistaken; my mare can't gallop, she's been used to carry a lady, and she is rather groggy. Mr. Clarmrir—Groggy! I thought yOu was speaking of a horse. Coachman—Yes, Sir, of my little brown mare ; she is groggy. Mr. Gairmir—Your mare groggy! What do you mean, man ? Do pray speak to be understood. Coachman— Why, Sir, when a horse is shook afore, and lame a both legs, we call 'em groggy, and they can't gallop. The defendant ;produced no witness, and he was fined 50s. and costs. QUEEN-SQUARE.—On Saturday John Mansfield was bfotight up for final examination before W. A. A. WHITE, Esq., charged on suspicion of being one of the persons who robbed Mr. Thomas Cushen, in Hyde-park, of 16 sovereigns, and afterwards threw him into a gravel pit. On the first examination Mr. Cushen could not identify the prisoner. Charles Smith, a private watchman to his Grace the Duke of Wellington, stated, that the prisoner frequented the Park every night along with a woman who was in the office. The prisoner generally stands near the statue of Achilles, Another witness deposed to the prisoner's nightly frequent ing the park with a woman ; he watched about while she picked up uten. Mary Saunders, the female with whom the prisoner co habits, here stepped forward to claim two cornelian stones which were found on the prisoner, which she said were her property. Mr. WI-arr.—What is the reason you frequent the Park every evening? Witness-1 o get my living, as other un fortunate girls do. Mr. WHITE—You meet with men in the Park, and the prisoner acts as your bully, I suppose. Witness—Never, Sir. Mr. WHITE.--..1t looks very like it : if you are living with him, what occasion has he in the Park? Smithers, a tow-street patrol, stated that Saunders told him that the prisoner came to the Park to get his living, as many other men did there—The prisoner was committed, and ordered to give 24 hours' notice of bail. Mary Jones, a respectably dressed woman, was charged with stealing a piece of pork and two pieces of beef from the shop of Mr. Stent, a butcher, in Charles-street, West minster.—Fully committed. The prisoner is the widow of a soldier who lately died on the continent, and the money found upon her was the amount of a subscription raised among the officers of the regiment. WORSIIIP-STREET.—Charles Melford, William Melford, and Richard Moss.—These three young men have undergone several examinations before R. E. P I eOUGIITON, Esq., for felonies of the most outrageous nature. On Saturday, the Magistrate informed the two Melfords that he should finally commit them for the robbery of 111 r. Prig's house, in the City-road, and for that of Mrs. Norbury's house, in Birchin-lane, London. Charles Melford is about seventeen years old, and his brother, William, about nineteen. They have both the appearance of determined ,haracters. William's face is disfigured by disease, but Charles is good-looking, and re spectably dressed. Mrs. Mary Pring, a respectable -Looking lady, gave her evidence in nearly the following words ;....1 am the wife of John Pring, of No. 9, Plummer's-row, City-road, cheese monger. The prisoner Richard Moss has been in our ser vice as a servant generally for the last eighteen months. He' slept in the house, but on a Sunday he did not dine with us, he used to go out about eleven o'clock, or a little after. Last Sunday week, the 9th of December, lie did so, and he' said he was going to dine with his sister in Grub-street. At the time he went out, it was about eleven o'clock in the forenoon. I was alone in the house, my husband was gone' to church. Between eleven and twelve, about half an hour after Moss had gone out, I was up stairs in my bed room over the parlour. I heard a ring at the shop-door ;: I went down stairs, and to the shop-door, which I opened. The prisoner, Charles Melford, stood at the door. ' He said he wanted a piece of good Cheshire-cheese, for, Mr. Law, surgeon. I said, "We don't serve on Sundays,: but I don't wish to disoblige Mr. Law." tie walked into the shop. lie passed me. When he was in, another man, whom I had not seen before, also walked into the shop._ As soon as the other man was a short way into the shop, I said I have no one to send. The last that walked in said, "We must, then, take it, I suppose." I walked behind the counter, and pulled down a piece of cheese from the shelf. I saw then the shop-door was shut, but I don't re collect who shut it. The moment I had taken the piece of cheese down, Charles Melford came round the counter close to rite, and, I think, touched me on my left arm. At the same moment the man on the other side the counter presented a pistol very near my face over the counter.— Charles Melford, at the same time presented another pistol at the side of my head. ' The man opposite said, , " It is your money we want; and if you make the least' noise, you are a dead woman." I said, " God forbid." The man in front said, " Don't be frightened, we won't hurt you, but we must have your money." I said nothing, but stopped a little, when Charles Melford said, " Come, come, show us where the money is." I walked from behind the counter and said, "If you'll atop here, I'll fetch it to you." Charles Melford said, " No." I then went np stairs, Chas. Melford close behind me. He followed me into the bed room, and said, "Where's your cash-box and your plate?" I went to a chest of drawers which stands in a small room over the shop, and he followed rne. I opened the top drawer, and he stood over me while I took out a purse containing 5/. 4s. in silver. Ho said, " What's that?" I said, " silver," and I gave it to him. .1 then took out a purse containing nine sovereigns, and gave it to him. He said that was very little, lie thought there was more. I said I had no more, and that was true, though we bad more two days before, but on Friday my husband paid away 40/. I heard our dog bark below, but he barked a very little, and then was silent. 'We came down stairs, and I went to the parlour. I saw a joint of meat, which was on the table ready to be cooked, before these men came in, then lying on the floor. The other man was in the parlour, just turning from the cupboard. I said, "You have taken my husband's silver spoon. It is a family relic, pray give it me." He said, " What spoon ?" and presented it to me, and I took it. He went out of the parlour, and stood on the mat at the door; and looking at me in the parlour, he pulled out a cord from hie pocket, and said, "We must tie you." I said, " For God's sake don't tie me, pray don't tie me, I can't do anything, I won't move." lie said, " You must not move for a quarter of an hour ; if you do, we have plenty Outside." He then went into the shop to Charles Melford, and I heard one of them say the money was very little, and presently the door banged to, and I sat still in the parlour till my husband came home from church. Mrs. Pring then stated, that she made this known to the police, and described the robbers. In the course of that day, Garton and Hanley showed her more than a dozen thieves at the King's Arms, in Charles-street, baton; but she said none of them was either of the robbers. About ten o'clock that night Moss came home, and Hanley told him he suspeted him of being concerned in the robbery, and asked him where he had spent the day ? He said, he (lined at his sister's in Grub-street, and had spent the rest of the (lay at the west end of the town, with a young man as respectable as himself. Hanley said he must know the name of that young man. Moss said, his name was Charles Milton ; at least so Hanley understood him, for it brought to his mind the name of the poet. Moss also said he lived in Henrietta-street, Hackney-road. The next morning Hanley went to Henrietta-street, and inquiring for Milton he found Melford. There he apprehended Charles Melford, who was at home with his another and sister. He took him to Mr. Pring's shop, in the City-road, and seeing Mrs. Pring in the shop he directed bis prisoner to walk in by himself. The moment he entered the shop, Mrs. Pring lifted, up her hands in the wildest alarm and said, "That's one of the men that robbed me." Having secured his prisoner, Hanley returned to Henrietta-street, where, at that time and subsequently, he found a horse pistol, loaded and primed ; a number of bullets and flints; a bullet-modd; a sword-stick, a cut glass cream ewer, two s m i i a c s e k . s, Mo p s a s re u n , a t a t l i s s o e d t , ak a e n n d in a t d o u c p u l s i e t o a t e d y, of a nd a tsilver fi l :E l !: e l two prisoners were un devexamination in a p rivate room at the office, a young man named Henry Tibbs was shown into the room by Hanley, and lie swore that Charles Mel ford was one of the men who robbed his mistress's house, in Birchin-lane, on Sunday, the 11th of November last. He also described another of the men, whose nose was partly destroyed, and whom the officers knew was Charles Melford's brother. The mother and sister attended the office at this exa mination, and in consequence of a judicious watch e'er -cised by the officers, they obtained information of the retreat of Wm. Mefferd. They went to the Olive Branch, in the Maze, in the Borough, where they apprehended him. On his person the officer (Brown) found four duplicates. He was brought to the office, and on the next examination, being placei in the midst of the crowd, with hats on, Mrs. Pring immediately recognized him as the other man con, corned in that robbery. Henry Tibbs then related the circumstances (as witnessed by himself) of the robbery at Mrs. Norbury's, monger, which, as it was similar to the first in violence and address, committed on a Sunday, under similar cir• cuinstances; we forbear to detail. With respect to -the prisoner Moss, there aro circum stances Of strong suspicion. The two Melfords were not known as reputed thieves, but have been seen in bad corn piny. In justice to the officers, and particularly to Hanley, much praise his due for the skill used on this occasion. UNION-HALL—The' Magistrates of this office have issued directions that the whole of the public-houses within the district should be visited by the officers on Sundays during the hours of divine service, for the purpose of a strict observance of the Sabbath.. Joseph Smallwood landlord of the Boatswain and Call, in Great Maze-pond, was summoned for serving some of his customers with liquor between eleven and twelve o'clock on Sunday, the 16th instant. Gill and Hammond, the officers, having proved the charge against the defendant, and it being his first offence, he was fined in the mitigated penalty of 40s. and costs, making a total of 21. 15s. Thomas Rolfe, landlord of the Hone-shoo and Wheat sheaf, in Southwark, was summoned for a similar offence. f h em ou a s i e es at standing ten mi nutes - at the bar, one of t hem was served with • li q uor. On He was also fined 21, and 15s. costs. ' • John Champ, the landlord of the Two Saw y ers, in Glean-alley, Southwark, was the next whose case was sal three heard. He pleaded "not guilty . " Hammond deposed that o n Sunda y , the 16th in st. he ' nobuttaeisnpedastadtxmveitltvaencemioentko, andthe v defendant ' s going into the tap-room he also saw a man and woman . drinking; they both seemed to be drunk. • Gill confirmed the evidence. The fine was mitigated in this case, as in the two pre ceding it. Win. Gelding, landlord of the Olive Branch, in Maze pond, Borough, pleaded "not guilty" to an information charging him with suffering tippling in his house, on Sunday the 16th instant. —He was fined V. and costs, TOWN-DIALL, SOUTHWARK. —James Cane was summoned at the suit of the officers of St. Olave's, fur re fusing to maintain his wife Ann, who had become burden some to the parish. After some demur, the husband agreed to allow her ss. per week till he could legally get rid of her, which he ex pressed himselfdeterrnined to do, if possible. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DlARY.—Tnussntor, DEC. 27. Burnand, J. Chesterfield—Mr. Hardy, Sheffield ' • 11 Curtis, R.,Bles-sdale—Commercial inn, Lancaster Edwards, V., Liverpool—Court-house, Leeds l2 Kirkland, W., Ripley—Angel, Alfreton ll Palmer, G., Shrewsbury--Talbot, y—Talbot, Shrewsbury Parsons, S., Chorley—Messrs. Topple and Co., Chorley ll Rideal, G., Manchester—Royal hotel, Manchester ..... Ringer, G., Aylsham—Norfolk hotel Norwich b Sibson J., Newcastle—Half-moon, Newcastle Simpson, G., Leeds—Court-house, Leeds ll Stephenson, C., Liverpool—blorecroft, Liverpool ll Straftbrd. D., Ripley—Angel, Alfreton lO INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Dec. 28, at Nine o'clock. Beasley, T., Greenwich Harrison, W., Bermondsey Cooper, T., Flower.street, Spi_ Johns, J, Shepton taltields Kershaw, J., Rochdale Davies, D., Homer's-place, Kingston, T., Bond-street Marylebone Lee, A. ' Sheerness Elflain, A., St. Luke's Lower, W., Brighton Fenton, G., Fulham Stubbs, A. Deptford Glover, A., Lewisham White, J., Lambeth Gordon, J., Drury-lane Williamson, J., Hoxtoa Grey", J. From COUNTRY CORN MARKETS COM N °Tiel be shut on M c again 0 , sA;rt soma to Act PRopßitic 11th Jan u; Pr!!theiy, for briidend. card DURING LAST WEEK• Wheat. 1 Barley. °ate,. too 52 50 O 40 40 j 40 s. d. $ O l o 6 9 o 1 7 0 v d 6 6 6S . 0 1 00 9! II! 4 4 10 013 0 11: 50 76 1 30 IP 50 6 6 100 00 i; 0 0 00. rtighoul the coupw Per Quarter. llexhain Morpeth Penrith Sheffield. Winchester -. s. to s.. 59 64 48 64 42 52 s. to s. 26 26 29 33 28 32 R. to s. 21 26 20 2 6 19 2 5 21 20 29 20 25 s. d. v. d. 16 8 3 38 5 0 3 9 4 0 24 3 0 40 44 26 2 gl 38 50 43 64, 40 60 s, a. 63 69 62 76 90 83 59 70 00 88 6 6 69 60 72 SO 37 26 S 2 s. tl. s. d. 36 40 30 44 54 56 40 43 50 54 39 46 36 40 Per Bushel. Carmarthen—,—. Coventry Newcastle (Staff') Northallerton Stafford • Swansea Warwick Conn, Per Roll. Barnardeastle Darlington .—. Durham —.— NWlsingham n. The size of PIANO; CABIN ] t u , FORT 40i , Wilkins° and ,t 6/ 144 ; also s • T o be c on seen sir oet cat 119 IGO n o 160 10 6 14 9. :2 0 110; the measure 90 100 46 50 83 9 0 9 0 9 6 re varies thr SCOTCH MARKETS. HADQINGTON CORN MARKET.—DO- 21 ; di 0 1 There were 92 quarters of Barley offered, 1 10111 % - y e rie which found purchasers ; top the same as lastr o sitei° about 4d. up. A very full market of Oats, i ' t ;p F, offered, but oue-half of which remained unsold; - :Dly 0 Is. Bd. and average Sid. down. An abundant s ; l k Of Wheat ; Old average up, New down about ls' v :i i ge of Pease 19 quarters, and of Beans 13 were sold, 06 000 Pease considerably down, current price of Ne ll ' much the same as last day. Wit ' Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Pease. 1 ,s.-,' First 6os Od 31s Od 24s Od 32s Od sso o va Second 525 Od 29s Od 22s Cd 30s Od 90, Third 11 1 20 'h er a e t were 37 6: 3 q octo rs. of 333 lV . h . e a a t t in m 44.5 a 6 r e k . e 00 t a. 309 335 wh : er :.a. e t. 0 : f .... 7 . 1 0 t : 7 50 0 29 61 30 N Adetrik, in ' 41 14 pro pe ,„ "Y sou, and Daniel 11.1.1)iin %e:iiect id theft Vesw, co but it • n al I_, Is under aud c e — lo kat 30 Y o r I' 6 ? °f . 4 4 Pea* 11, 4 jai 67. - •• A 64 Unsold.-0 Grey. 2/. 38. S il?""en-st n i 74441 tY 1 1 an L ING t Average. 4.liths. DALKEt .TH CORIs MARK: The supply of Grain at this day 't siderahle, and, in general, sold at fully Wheat. Barley. Oats. First Otis Od 31s Od 2tis Od Second 5B; Od 28s Od 21s Od Third 42s Od t4s Od 18s Od U.—Dec. ' l3 * colr 's market •00:10, last week l a si , Pease. 96, :i6s Od Sas i t 303 o ' l Yls '21.4 01 sk , Pito! 71, "Lunring CORNWALL MARKETS. i ., 65. 6(1. TRURO.—Wheat (average) 20. dil.—Barley, 10s.- - " alf, llEL3Tus—Wheat, 20s. Od.—Barley, 125. ....a5t % ! 'T. AusTELi—Wheat, 19s. to 23s.—Barley, 10s. t o 4d' Sr. to lis. fionmix—Wheat (average) Vs. Od.—Barley, I Is.--0A0,19 ..,TO . O LAUNCEsToN—Wheat (average) 21s. thl. —Barley, 10 '• I , f, Ss. 6d.—Beef, sd.—Mutton, 40. , q a ...Os"' Lisitssnu—Wheat, 19s . to 20s. al.—Barley, 1 is. •-•-• so f, to Ss. Oct. ST. Cottimc—Wheat, 20s. to 24s.—Barley, 95. to 116-' and Mutton, ~ I fd. to sVeal and Lamb, Od to od. , 0 „,.. 03 „, PRN7ANCE-= — Wheat, 19s. to 21s.—Barley, 9s. 1 0 . tou's " Os. to is. 6d.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to 6d.—Pork, 4 w Butter, 11d. per lb. =_.-7 CO MINING INTELLIGENCE. iI To ;05 4 Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursd tr oi lo Average Produce l 4l Oil' Quantity of tine Copper 1011 , 111. Amount of Sale, 10,0341. 16s. dd.—Average Standard , - : Id i r l y l ,4 e tia l:t. : .°s e t z i e •ee °4 B t t , r e ,( l Ivi th t irlhain '`JOYI trstford, l 'afi, tI. Y , PM i Nheit tt Shiffin and I T; Osi, v .„ l ti °At a ri, co„, r tOncri eb, 4 .:, tarn Wick, I .." 1, 1 / 4 1,- e , ali t ( mi ntlain, t INll: kunB tspi t u Chard Lls.to 4 ' s 4 t i h ti6, ll' her o litkl r VI, if Br 1 ' 7 4 at i , "CI roL ia ills; a. ti„ ll4t "'n 4 ;; r4 ' e5 k ,,.., A t , (- pi t t i t ti by 4 r li 4 r il 4 tib tl • nd *Y. a n d lto rid ge. A, tiltat he , iof o4 n. , r O ,. ‘ 4 11,11,1. ,: e 6 441 NviSt • Pleb y 6 t414,, Pi ilit ' r• 0 e " „ I I lefo l o VI, st et Nt Cat tilt o '"elveo„ air ii, ii . -..., NI p„ 'ggleel eti e , - Z a tif to , P 4 ley I ,'''' , dual ('4;'"itidlevri t , 14 04 L te4 tt 7•41 "Ire" Th Y .tlburi b o - , 4 , Davey' anti p a 4 7-ftter, ii 1 / 44 4". , Bs! t v , k , wood br t4 u4 light in i )( 4,....,,th , j t'll ktq, e 7 ;tr t '''g'. ~ pit %,,••-', Bri 'ta e :l l4 inley, 06. 1 ' 4 gshot, 84, 1v m ith lw, L ''ell -", T1 3 0 1 :- li ksti all ~, ()lA. par Nkl. Nei. till 2 11 111 l' Morn 4 Ott, , I Presa, Ito ol , to rn i, It 4 1 4 11 tha m " , F 1 t lietk y l, b y I 'l , 116 1.4 4111 /zit -sk i y,,,7 i ttemp a : l ng kki . i,i- Ea vt' irk ha kft `rd 1 A * q l 4. ;.1_ kr] 4Liq ' uor it tr -L I . ttti• .., sl ,Niti --.) ie tst a 61 k41 44 44 04 " ' I Lit,LY./ a. t 1 kat "Pool "li bax. Itki Lir With, itod "Tool k arriy_ D u t:.:P 4 t 74 at Li °l lll, "rtiaii Rod € l4 11 ' 1 ' 0 ic , 1.1 . Nip 3, , 8,,, a( t,i ar rin tea (-14 Z er peof gt°l eit, moy '(ibglttot, "ally, ~,.. skia:,', l%t ilw, limo (0111 i thil 4, 'ir i ,... lit e , • -- atid a we nch •Awan I nPton tit "' 14 1tri , and x t., 1 „. bcrn a „ ) ., , r,,, 'e154 1 ,,,, h" . %l e i, Y, h Nu n, lai tua en ib , ViNat,... Aft,, c ' eaek ''n in k P1y.,7- d u 'ipt - "Nth 4 41 l'ali Um o..) 4 Nat i)'ll ~,,, --.4 il _ I Ito T 4 ' l ' i t 4411 f: Can k othe et cgd Pr lx t I..'° l 4 v t l l 4 l :,: la u ' Qrn tiaZ i , alt*t rtrt, ul t 144 tu i tita• 644 Nor, i .gttrui C. Y, St. M a i Staffordshire: T i elt 'n, Bn r ,t e' T he Warwicl ° tit,. Y, and , Y, W ' 1 W e il., , e4l ~, W-, orid g on e , t4 ' a nd to r Ybautith Iter, 1 1 . Al I ti t , i - ti Vit at : „. :;& ita litt . W e b s 1 1 04 t 'eh, li eLda , i '"t , pt ( vr . -------- • /ur ee4te t ' ' DIED. • - of rit 4 t AI ...fa e ii,t , t k , On the 9th inst. at Murthly, Sir George St- - ' - 0 40 04 11 Grandtully, Bart. aged '77. 0 00r: t i"ad t ray, md . On the 21st inst. at his house in Park-street, Gl a rtsy II Le -_tve tt i n r square, Henry Peters, Esq. of Betthworth Castle, the' ft i: l : l 7ord i , r ! , f t i i On the 21st inst. at Upper Claptoo, Susanna, ' yoNt% of of Henry Patteson, Esq. aged 38. 4 0 zi t k,. __ S o t . Fr ' 4 laud V . Preal On the 21st inst. at her house in Guilford -Wee- l ',l t 'lts! 1, ; ISf otw es Catherine Mary Van Dam, aged 81. ito sr • of the ' t 'Ybridg e , 4l 4, On the 18th inst. Aaron Young, El* too k 'td, Dirhsa,c" Marines, aged '75, 'id age O d n so th , e E 2 li 2 z d ab i e n t s h t : rinelißctelocafomnt-r.teHrreancery, Wmatirndebst .ofrltoof - Y B A ex t t l t z y;_ ( so9' ) S, A. lia,„,, court, Broad-street. Os ,'lends" On the 16th inst. at Edinburgh, Isaac Nichols° . ,1 1 a nd at late of South-end, near Bromley , Kent. n or it' anY l'are e h , On the 19th inst. of apoplexy, a t S t . mb a ne, .-- A L ftLe z . e than vi, Adey, Esq. aged 69. / P• l6 . ottece t t al 1 4 t14. 84 44.t0n Mott; PRINTDD and PUBLIMIND by M. YOUPury SwN Onus, tic 112, Strand. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE• LIVERPOOL. FRIDAY, 21.—. High water four- oliou7n'oisi one o'clock.—Wind S.S.W.--Arrived the 1 31 c se „ -- I Marshall, from New York, with cotton, a PP Ie4 bee) Mary, Mann, from Maranham (sailed 17 th Nove/4.0.1 with cotton ; Henry, Wright, from St. Andrew's' _ i , s , with timber; Earl of Annesley, Livingston, *on:1111'11i with fruit, oil, &c. ; Mary, M'Keller, from Dub th i l io vv iid wheat and oats ; Mersey (steamer), Beazley, f &it*, With sundries ; Manchester (steamer), Penn, fro Isle o ' with sundries ; Duchess of Athol, Christian, from Man, with sundries ; Etna (steamer), Emerson, froM lin, with the mail. P r CLEARED OUTWARDS.-The Ball Nelson, Wood, zo je Havannah ; Margaret, M'Donald , for U • onduras _ ronden, Holm, for Leghorn and Genoa; Nimrod, from Mobile. Telegraph Office, Dec. H oy t, Wind at Holyhead, at 45 minutes past nine a. w., nothing off. SATURDAY.--High water 53 minutes past one oe we WindW.N.W.—Arrived the Thomas, Curry, from Chilffro ston, sailed 24th Nov. with cotton; Union, I.'" Greanforki Macao, with ditto; Gnu, Gardner, from 11 e s :Digbf! Voluna, Gaskell, from Pictou, with timber • 7 fret. Wood, from Newry; Comineree,'(steamer): Bibby, ) t Dublin, with sundries ; City of Londonderry, ("710 Keay, from Londonderry, with ditto,. Earl of I t >, Spencer, from Dundalk, with ditto ; Traveller, - II from ditto, with wheat ; Thetis' (steamer), Townley , Dublin, with the mail. {et CLEARED OUT WA RDS. —Sailed the Oporto, Malt, - :0, Oporto; Arrnanthea, Bartlett, for Marseilles; l'fre Dawson, for New Orleans ; Norwich, Watson; for isP' lona ; 'Panmure, Tait, for Demerara ; United State' son, for New York. • ...... ae d sse.,., t il b b e;:i fies f t, In consequence of number of depred s . cb ti° , o lls o into a town guard v . e of a h en a ied vin sht g oret b ies e te e sh n toil c ld o le m rfis mitted in Falkirk of late, the v ier AO o, t c h laote Eightk t oi o nf w tnhe their h m a n v ou e r nm : b o o r: n night in the guard-house at ten o'clock, and Pe r ,t o o, -° 4 O op•• Mercury. o Custom s CORK CUSTOMS REVENUE .---11- , re• sent year, continued steadily to increase in Revenue of this port has, from an early period of toef-pniv one-fourth, monthly, upon the product of correol or periods of last year, which augurs strongli, $1 if ei n ° provement in the condition of this part. of the o - i" or the sound policy of moderate duties upon edifies Tea in ral consumption, and which has been fully exeloP a " the ease of wine.— Cork Mercantile Chronicle. a th gl WATER COMPANY.—We Understan .41, the gentlemen who were appointed to survey this set ti bourhood, for the purpose of determining from what O li v e an adequate supply of waternight be obtained,' har e little their opinion, that a sufficient quantity may be ha o ) s 3 er above Meersbrook. They propose that a spaciou 1.70,/ voir should be made, extending over fifty-two acres ; to twenty yards deep, and in one direction, a full mile n c As It will be altogether a grand undertaking, and will su s s the present Company, not only to satisfy the wants ol jf people in those parts of the town, where pipes are 0 11 2 laid ; but She ffi eld Moor, West.street, Carver- street , !",j, the Park, as far as the new Hospital, will be aceoznsuodatp It is said that this undertaking will not cod lest 40,000/. Sheffield Courant. . , ..... , BIRTHS. ' G P On the 21st inst. at Cos;in ton the wife of A t chde... g ~ King, of a can . ag t ‘ dr On the 22d inst. at Prospect-house, Stoke Novi road, Mrs. B. clement", of a son. 4' e E ti: q. C o h f u t r h e r h ogi„ , _ Lalrg ra ira : a ratio )onidiog fAt On the 22d inst. the lady of John Walter 107; ......:„...„....---- of a sol2 : •______„_________ 1 1 IARRIED. • ek , lte;' Whitehall,Ch O a r n les youngest daughter 0_ ,... 1• 1 _7 - i West" ing, Esq. of rue Roeherchoust, Paris , and W lr ' ll -11 t pbalia. r - , et, On the 22d inst.' at St. John's, Ha c kney, ..- ',et, W'' Strickland Cookson, of Hadlow-street, Burton -er r - me t b Teu 2 rt 2 on d evr i , n icc s t t o i liarse a . : Sarah; eldest daughter of John•Todhunter, Esq . °h.- t he - get On the 22d inst. at All Souls, Marylebone, bi c.r " 0 11 ! W. J. Hall, Henry Ashley, Esq. of Hackney, t ° 7;0 1 eldest daughter o f J ohn Marks, Esq. of Ailvear.,--.• • Stanmore. ' '' c hin On the 23 d inst. by license, at. St. Jamb ' 04 Charles Andrew Nosotti, of Great Windmill-s tregi n i er r 'market, to Rueni Amelia, daughter of Mr. Gerba— ' Southampton-street, Strand. ..r., 'no tis On the 22d inst. at St, James's church, westini 4 by the Venerable the Arshdeacon Pott, Rector_of:l‘, eg'.l fide d ton, V. Bartholomew, Esq. of Foler-place, to Eve l le r !aide, daughter of the late J. N. Hulleaandel, Nil. 0. • , Marlborough-street. -