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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, `We believe we may announce that result i of which we yesterday indicated the probability,—that Lord Harrowby, in his interview with his Majeity at Windsor, declined the offered Premiership. To that station of labour and responsibility, it was, we believe, proposed to add, in favour of his Lordship, the more tranquil honour of the Garter possessed by the late Earl of Pembroke, and not yet disposed of. Some situation might also have been found for Lord Sandon, his Lordship's eldest son, who has for some time attained the age of business, and has been hitherto without employment. The refusal (.1 Lord Harrowby to accept of the Premiership,—for we must not disguise or mince that fact,—imposes for a while upon Lord Goderich a kind of necessity for discharging the functions of an office from whic 'h he has decided to retire, till a successor can be ap pointed. It was, we have been informed, proposed by Lord Goderich before his resignation, together with Lord Dudley and Mr. Huskisson, in a joint re presentation, that Lord Holland should be called to the councils of his Majesty. We do not hear that the proposition was acceded to. But it is probable that a measure which had the recommendation of the Ministry, with Lord Goderich at its head, will be supported under any successor of his Lordship, or under any minor change that may take place in the internal organization of the present Ministry.— Times. Ministers are said to have had despatches yestee day from Mr. Stratford Canning, and up to the 24th ult., as we learn. Their contents may not be very agreeable, as they have not transpired : yet every one sees the extent of the mischief that can result from the active operations of the Turks exclusively, in the way of offensive warfare. There is, perhaps, more to be dreaded from the pretexts afforded by their perverseness to the desires by which others maybe actuated for exclusive aggrandizement. How ever, as we hinted some three weeks ago, due time having been now allowed to the Turk to cool, we think that decisive measures should be taken with him. He knows the magnitude of his supposed injury : let him make his election. If he threaten war, we should lose no time in making a declaration of it, in order that our subjects may have the advantage of prize-taking. if he acquiesces in prey.; we should be equally prompt to secure his dominions from the aggression to which they might be otherwise sub jected during this his period of vacillation. But in every case he should be given to understand, that his war with the Greeks is at an end.—lbid. We gave our readers to understand, yesterday, that Lord Goderich had resigned. This we now repeat, notwithstanding the assertions of some of our contemporaries to the contrary. We will not say that Lord.Goderich may not wish to return; but we believe we cannot be contradicted from autho rity when we add, that his resignation has been ac cepted. We will not conceal from our readers, that we have heard a report that the Noble Lord and some of his friends are seeking his return to power, and we are not disinclined to believe there is some foundation for this rumour. If such be the case, we can only say that we wish Lord Goderich knew his own mind a little better ; because, if he had a good Treason for wishing to retire from office, he can hardly have a good reason for wishing to remain in office ; and the exhibition of irresolution and vacillation is not calculated to add to the benefit which an Admi nistration could derive from his being at their head.— Morning Chronicle. We hear that Lord Harrowby went to Windsor on Monday, at the eequest of his Majesty, but it is understood that his Loedship declined the honour of filling the situation of Lord loderich, as head of the Government.—lbid. A more striking proof could hardly be given of the rancorous feelings which the Catholics and Pro testants entertaintowards each other at present in Ire land, than the trial of Father Maguire. The expence of the prosecution was defrayed out of the stock purse of the Saints. Of this there can be no doubt, as the prosecutor was literally in a state bordering on men dicancy. There are many cases in which it may be proper that individuals in affluent circumstances should aid their poorer brethren in obtaining that redress from the Courts of Law, from which their own means preclude them. But, unquestionably, prosecutions, of which the object is, not to aid the poor to obtain justice, but under the pretext of ob taining justice for the poor, to make them mere in struments for running down individuals, do not come under that description. Those who subscribed their money for this prosecution, were either acquainted with the character of Anne .M‘Garrahan, or they were not acquainted. If they were not acquainted with her, it was criminal in them to lend themselves to proceedings, which were calculated, from the ex pence alone, to ruin a poor parish priest of Con naught. On the other hand, after hearing what so many , witnesses swore respecting the loose be bs,viour of Anne M`Garrahan, with the knowledge, too,that in country places such behaviour becomes necessarily, a matter of notoriety, it is impossible to believe that those who had any knowledge of the family, could be ignorant that she was not entitled to redress from a Court of Law, and that her father was not entitled to seek any thing on her account. The subscribers, therefore, sought only by the pro secution, to establish the fact that the Rev. Mr. Maguire had not observed his vow of chastity, but had allowed himself to share with others, the favours of a lady of a certain description, with a view to wound the Catholics, by the detection of this flaw in the character of one of their stoutest champions. " When Mr. Maguire (said Mr. North in his reply) went to Innismagrath in February, 1825, he was, if we may be permitted to judge, at that period of life when the energies are most powerful, the feel ings most warm, the judgment not sufficiently con rmed to oppose dangers and temptations alike nu merous and irresistible. He is, as it appears, nay, as it has been proved to the world, a man indubitably possessing vigour of intellect, and powers of reason ing, calculated to u s e the judgment of others as counters in his hand, which he could dispose of at his eville It istrue that he is a Roman Catholic Priest, and that the possession of this elraracter has subjected him to a course of discipline which binds him to strict obedience to the rules of his church. I, kr one, never spoke of him with more high respect than when I consider the class to which he belongs. The duties of that class are onerous and worthy—their cares possess the deepest interest, as they include affording consolation to the poor and afflicted; and through, their kindly offices are justly endeared to the great body of the population, and more particu larly, as, fiom the want of a suitable endowment,' they were more dependent on the bounty of the people. But, amitlemen of the Jury, Roman Ca • tholic, or Protestant, or Presbyterian, are no more than mere men—nature asserts her rights; she is not to be repelled, and this case exhibits a proof that the frailty belonging to eor ruined nature still exists amongst us. There. was a sort of sinless perfection attempted to be attributed to Mr. 'Maguire, which I em certain he would dis claim. There is nothing improbable in our case, or that he should, at his time of life, yield to temptation." All, then, that the establishment of an illicit intercourse between Father Maguire and this equivocal lady, would have ationinted to, was merely that a man in the prime of life had yielded to a natural impulse. It does not require a g . host to tell us that as long as pen are men, occa simnel deviations from the path of ,duty will take 71ace ; and so far from finding in this a er3umph to She Protestant, we should be disposed to attribute the importance attached to the discovery of a single case,a high testimony to the exem p lar y strictness of life of the Catholic Clergy. If then, as Mr. North fliers was nothing to be wondered at, had -I " t ' ll agulie yielded to temptation, the poorer would 1p have a l v th e triumph of those who so u g ht his ruin. e ves have said, was entirely out of the a the abettors of the p rosecution luoltiei°vne'frrr tWoue tecnieut that he w . as deserving of coma They eould eetita 1331 C "%believed her an injured woolen. e .- • etrh priesthood is merely a matter-Of d*ClPP lll eelliered to from a be sae-Nee' ‘7.o‘ lief that Clergymen are better able to discharge their duties without the anxieties of a family to distract . them, than with a family. Experience is so .f a r on their side, that in those countries on the Continent, where Catholic and Protestant Clergymen live in the same neighbourhoods, the former are generally Most respected by the people. Dr. Fodere, in his work on Poverty, takes particular notice of the ad vantage which the Catholic Church gains by the contrast. The Protestant Clergy, he says, present the alMoSt - uniform spectacle of men struggling with poverty, and steeled by it against all other conside , rations, but those of uneasiness for the support and furtherance in the world, after their deaths, of their sons and daughters. They are often reduced to the necessity of having recourse to disreputable shifts to subsist, and of paying unworthy court to men in power, to obtain situations for their children. Hence many of the Protestant Clergy, as Richard Baxter, for instance, have disapproved of the marriage of the priesthood.—Mid. The Earl of Harrowby arrived in his travelling chariot and four at the residence of Mr. Secretary Huskisson, in Somerset-place, from Staffordshire, on Monday morning, at eleven o'clock, and remained with Mr. Huskisson about an hour and a half, when the Noble Earl left London, and proceeded to at tend the King at the Royal Lodge, Windsor Park. Mr. Huskisson followed the Noble Earl at one o'clock. They were closeted with his Majesty about two hours, after which they left on their return to London. The consultation with the Earl of Har rowby upon any contemplated change in the Admi nistration has, no doubt, terminated, as the Noble Earl left town yesterday soon after one o'clock, on a visit to his brother the Bishop of Litchfield and Co ventry, at Wells.—ilionting Herald. Next to asi incompetent Administration, one of the greatest calamities which can befall a country is to have a divided one. The latter quality, in deed, in some measure, implies the former; for as horses in a team, though they may be individually strong, yet, if . they do not draw together, spend their strength in vain; so in the affairs of the State, if Statesmen draw different ways, the machine of Government not only cannot advance, but stands the chance of either retrograding or being torn to pieces by different and adverse pulls. There are many, we believe, who consider that since Lord Liverpool's political demise, this country has been in both these situations; at any rate there can be no doubt but that we .have been in the latter; and the result seems to prove it in the fact of the anomalous head of an anomalous body being anxious to retire from a scene of action in which his own personal re spectability cannot maintain him with credit to hilo self or advantage to the country. We are not among those who are slaves to any party ; it mat ters not to us whether the Administration be Whig or Tory, so that the true interests of the coun try are consulted, and prosper in their hands ; but we candidly express our conviction that an un prejudiced person can look back upon the state of the country, and what it was, and what its prospects were a twelvemonth ago, and compare both the one and the other with what they both are now, and not admit that, whatever Mr. Canning's claims to a mo nument may be from the hands of private friendship, his memory and his measures have no such claim upon the country. The interference (especially in the way in which it has been brought about) between Turkey and her Greek subjects alone is sufficient to show how wide of any thing like statesmanlike views a matter has been undertaken, and carried into effect, placing the policy of the country, as it has done, in this absurd and perilous state; when victory becomes a calamity, and every point we gain implies a loss of ten times more. That the Noble Lord who succeeded Mr. Canning at his post was not the Atlas to sustain the political world, under the weight. and difficulty in which the measures of his predecessor had involved it, seemed apparent from the very first to all impartial lookers-on ; nor was it likely that a Ministry composed of such discordant materials could long hang or draw together. We do not mean to trifle with infirmities when we say that even the want of bodily health, among some three or four of them, furnished obstacles enough to their giving their whole energies to the service of the country ; while the avowed fact that others had only taken office for a time, and as substitutes for permanent Ministers whenever they should turn up, was sufficient to show that no very powerful or im portant service was to be expected from personages who were destined ultimately neither to reap the glory of success nor to undergo the perils of failure. Who then can be surprised that a machine so con stituted moves ill, and at length, from the works being soon out of order, stops ? The wonder would be, that it should be otherwise. To drop the metaphor, it now remains to be seen what the iesult of tile present state of things will be—viz. whether the present Members of the Cabinet will meet Parliament after merely sup plying themselves with a new Head ? whether their present Head will be prevailed upon to remain with them a little longer ? whether we shall have an Administration composed exclusively of the "cilligs ? Or whether, lastly, the Members of Lord Liverpool's Govermnent,who left office at the time of his (political) demise, will resume it again, with such accessions of men of their own principles as are to be found among their peculiar party ? Of the probabilities leading to each of these results our readers are as capable of forming an estimate as we are to guide them; all that we hope is, that the country will see its affairs in the hands of competent and united per sons, whose attention to its interests may not be drawn off by fears and jealousies of each other. • No reasonable man could for a moment despair of the country, were her difficulties even ten times greater than they really are; but in proportion as her ener gies.and resources are mighty, so it is desirable that their direction should be confided to hands capable of so momentous a charge.—lbid. It will be seen by our communication from Wind sor, that the Earl of Harrowby and Mr. Huskisson had an audience of his Majesty on Monday last. That this interview was in reference to the ten dered resignation of Lord Goderich may, we believe, be safely affirmed; and as we have ever held the character of T.oittfilarrovelay , in high -estimation, we are not without -hope, that should his Lordship be principally selected by his Majesty -to form a new Administration, the most propitious consequences for the country will ensue. The Noble Earl; we have the happiness tO know, is of ,sound political princi ples ; and we have reason to believe that he, as well as the Marquis Wellesley, has of late discovered sufficient cause to induce an alteration of sentiment ie regard to the Catholic Question. We are at least quite certain, that neither of these Noble men would be desirous of ,having a prevailing Popish Party in the Cabinet; and hence do we cherish the pleasing expectation, that we shall ere long find his Majesty's Councils so constituted as to reranve all those grounds of serious apprehension which have of 'ate been so justly entertained for the safety of the Constitution in Church and State. Am ply materials are in store for tbilcheering and happy purpose; nor do we despair of seeing shortly united in the same Cabinet, a Wellington, a Peel, an Eldon, a Welleakey, a Harrowby, a Melville, a Bathurst, a Huskisson, and* Herries, if not also an amiable and esteemed Goderich. With such a phalanx we should have no doubt of the conntry being brought trium phantly through the difficulties in which it is at present involved ; and we hope ere many weeks elapse to have the happiness of congratulating the King and the Nation upon " a consummation (in every respect) so devoutly to be wished."—Morning Past. The rumotrs of an important change in the Mi nistry continue to thicken upon us. As a prelimi nary to the opening of Par,ljament this was to be expected. Many things are said, and many things a re sometimes done a ls o , to produce that whichhad no original existence but i n assertion. Attem p ts of that kind, however , are but seldom successful: whereas it frequently happens that those'who have embarked in them defeat the dearest objects of their ambition. Let not this be forgotten. It may be too late to teach wisdom, and yet time enough to illustrate failure. With respect to the alleged ten der of resignation which is said to_ have been made, and to have been refused, we shall only say; that we have hitlieito seen no reason to change the opinion which we expressed yesterday.7—New Now that, instead of avoiding Parliament as their opponents anticipated, his Majesty's Ministers have hastened the period of its assembling, and directed it to be called together nearly three weeks before the usual time, all the Nonentities which fancy them selves of importance begin to rsove, and strut and bustle, to appear to others what they are in their own eyes. Powerless as is the attempt, it is amus ing and instructive. In every direction pigmies are aping giants ; and, unmindful of the Fabulist's warning, political frogs swell themselves up even to bursting, in the vain hope of passing for bulls, and, perchance, of getting into their places. That it will lead to some sad catastrophe, is not only a law of nature, but of necessity. Who are to be the victims, however, being a matter of choice, must remain a secret in the bosom of the silly and ambitious, till they reveal, at length, their vanity and their ambition. Amongst the least sensible and most malignant of these politicians, the M.ivlst; Ka>:xv, who can anticipate nothing but difficuties, dangers, and disgrace for their country, the cry is still, " why have we no arrivals Whence comes it that no less than thirty days have elapsed since the date of the last public despatches ?" —We might answer, that if Ministers had received despatches, the publication of which, pending ar rangements which require to be managed with con summate delicacy, might tend in the slightest degree to hamper the operations of the Ambassadors, they would do well to suppress them. But, in truth, what, in his present dealings with such diplomatists as the Divan, can Mr. Canning have to communicate ? The Allies have made their demand—they have submitted their projet, —they call for no contre projet; their agents are not in the condition of ordinary Am bassadors—they are not called on to compass peace or war by • contingent sacrifices—they have but one story to tell, but one plea to urge ; they ad dress the Porte with voluntary truce in the one hand, and compulsory truce in the other, and to the complaints and arguments of the Reis Effendi they can only answer utrumvis accipias. To the sturdi ness of the Turks, it is evident that Ambassadors so situated have but one form of opposition to offer, namely, sturdiness as perdurable. There is no need of discussion where one party is determined to abate nothing from their demands. It is only when one is disposed to come down and another to come up, that protocols, and notes, and memoranda, are multiplied, which are, after all, but chaffering of a higher order, each party being desirous to cheat the other into as good a bargain as they can. The three Powers have, consulting the dignity of themselves and the importance of the occasion, determined on one plain intelligible arrangement, from which they will not swerve. They will abate nothing of their charge. The Turks, in all their former diplomatic dealings, have encountered Powers who professed this line of honourable conduct, but who have, notwithstand ing, invariably allowed themselves to be beaten down. They judge of the present demands by the past, and the mode of arguing is quite legitimate.— They will And out their error, and the Ambassadors, compassionating their weakness, have kindly granted them leisure for that purpose. The delay, up to the date of the battle of Navarin, was probably misinterpre ted—it was attributed, if not to the fears, at least to the weakness of the three Powers. That victory lei 4 dispelled this delusion for ever. The Divan may still hold out, and probably will ; but they will yield, when they are at last convinced that no better terms than those which they at first haughtily rejec ted, can be, under any circumstances, obtained. If this should really happen, as we believe it will—if the peace of the Levant be established—if the resto ration of Greece be agreed on, even putting the case of the allied interposition, as the virulent opponents of Ministry have put it—even on this showing, the battle of Navarin will be one of the most glorious that ever England was engaged in, for of none Will the consequences have been more important nor more permanent.—lbid. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, DECEMBER 18. FORGED DEED. PEAKE AND OTHERS V. mouriatti. Mr. SUGDEN appeared for the plaintiffs. The defendant claimed an estate called Bowers, in - Staf fordshire, under a deed which he alleged had been executed in 1818, by a Mr. Ward, to whom he had formerly been tenant. Upon the trial of an issue at the last Staffordshire assizes, that deed had been found a forgery, and criminal proceedings had since been instituted against the defendant, who; a short time ago, applied to the Court to grant - a new trial, which was refused. The plaintiffs were now de sirous of having their rights detec,mined by the Court. They claimed the estate in question, in op position to the alleged deed of gift to the defendant, under a will dilly executed by Mr. Ward, the for mer owner of the estate, a short time before his death, in 1819. The bill prayed that the deed might be declared fraudulent and invalid, and that fact having been found by . the verdict of the jury, the plaintiffs were now entitled to have effect given I to their claim under the will. The decree which the plaintiffs therefore prayed was, that the defendant might account for the rent of the estate of which he had been in possession under a lease granted by Mr. Ward, and that he might deliver up such lease to be cancelled. The decree was then granted. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Dxc. 18. STYA3I AND OTHERS V. HOWELL, :MOUNT, AND OTHERS. Mr. HEALD applied to the Court to dissolve an injunction which had been obtained in this ease.— The circumstances of the case are these :—Two gentlemen named Ebden and Houghton, were in partnership. The former resided at London, and the latter at the Cape. Mr. Ebden gave a power of attorney to some persons at the Cape to act for ,him there, in the.. event of anything happening t? . ". Mr. Houghton: and Mr. Houghton took a sitnillir precaution in reference to Mr. Ebden. The persons who held Mr. Ebden's power at the Cape were Messrs. Howell and Mount ; and Mr. Houghton dying on the 23d of December, 1826, they called a meeting of the creditors of Ebden and Houghton, at which meeting a resolution was come to and signed by all the creditors present, by which it was agreed that they should take a composition of lis. in the I pound. Now it must be observed, that the power of attorney was merely a common power . of attorney, and authorized no such act as this on the part. of Messrs. Howell and Mount; but he did not mean to raise any argument on this point. It was upon the re solution that he relied, and that contained two very re markable qualifications : the one was, that Mr. Ebden was to be consulted as to whether he would consent to the terms of this resolution ; the other was, that if all the creditors did not agree to sign the resolu tion within three months, the resolution should be void. IYow the plaintiffs had signed the resolution; but some . doubt laying arisen as to their debt, Messrs. Howell and Mount wrote to them, saying that they had referred the claim of the plaintiffs to Mr. Ebden. The plaintiffs, upon this, filed a bill for an account, and obtained an injunction to restrain ' ' Messrs. Howell and Mount from disposing of any had refused. to sign t h e , esolution, and that some of t h em were .so dissatisfied, that they had actually issued out process against Mr. Ebden. When he cons idered these facts and the cruel situation in of th e property ie their hands, except in the way me ntioned in the terms of the resolution. Messrs. Howell and Mount had put in their answer, in which they stated , that they thought Mr. Ebden would have agreed to the resolution, but that on being ap plied to he had refU4ed; that many of the creditors WhiCh Mr. Ebden h ad . bon placed by the injunc tion, lie could not conceive upon what principle the Court had ever granted the injunction, An the facts could . notod that time, have been brought be fore the Court.' NoW that they did appear, he was sure the• Court would dissolve the injunction. Mr. SUGDEN, on the other side, argued, that from all the circumstances of this case the Court ought to look at it with some suspicion. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said the resolution, from the very terms of it, being void, he must dissolve the injunction. His HoNouw-intimated his intention of keeping the seal open to-morrow and the next day, and, in deed, until all the motions were disposed of. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEc. 18. THE KING V. 7.IEREILLOS. In this case, an action of conspiracy, which we gave in part yesterday, the Jury found the defendant Guilty. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 18. CODEFROY V. JAY AND ANOTHER. The defendants in this case were attornies of this Court, and the action was brought against them by the plaintiff to recover compensation for a loss sus tained in consequence of their neglect of duty in a case which he had intrusted to their care. The plaintiff some time since had an action brought against him by the father of a boy whom he had ac cidentally injured by throwing him down whilst driving his chaise. The injury sustained was very slight, and he tendered a guinea, which he con ceived would be a sufficient compensation. It was, however, rejected, and on refusing to pay more, an action was commenced against him. The process in this action was s.?,rved at the plaintiff's house, but, by some mistake, upon his son, and conceiving that service to be irregular, directed the defendants to move the Court of Common Pleas to set it aside, and they undertook to do so., but subsequently neg lected to take any step in the matter, and the pro ceedings continued ; the plaintiff being perfectly unacquainted with that circumstance until he saw a report in the newspapers, that the case had been tried in the Sheriff's Court upon an inquiry, and a verdict given against him for 301. The amount of these damages, as also a further sum for costs, was eventually levied on the plaintiff's goods. The ob ject of the present action was, therefore; to recover damages for the loss he had sustained. Mr. Justice BußnouGH was of opinion that the objection was fatal, and directed that the plaintiff should be iionsuited. His Lordship observed that the plaintiff could never have expected to recover— there never was such an action in this world before. If the defendants had made the application to the Court, tliey would have been laughed at. Mr. Sergeant TADDY and Mr. COMYN appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant WILDE and Mr. TOMLINSON for the defendant. HIGH COURT OF DELEGATES, DEc.IS. This Court was occupied this day and the pre ceding in hearing two appeals of considerable men cantile importance from the High Court of Ad. miralty. THE TRIAL. This was a question arising on a bond, purporting to be a bottomry bond. The vessel having sus tained considerable damage during a storm in the West Indies, whilst waiting for cargo, and the mas ter being without funds or connexions there, raised a sum of money for repairs on the bond in question, at. 8 per cent., hypothecating the ship and cargo now on board or that might hereafter be put on boarcL" On her arrival at London, the vessel was arrested at the suit of the obligor, and it became a question in which all parties were interested, whe ther the bond secured the liability of shippers of freight subsequent to the date of the bond, and who were ignorant of its existence, as well as consignees of goods in England, who had been compelled to pay freight, and were now required to repay it. Lord Stowell, in Michaelmas Term, 182 G, decided that all the parties were liable, and that the bond was good. From this sentence an appeal was brought into this Court.. Their LoßD6tur3 decided in` favour of the appel lants, and reversed the sentence of the Judge of the Admiralty Court. TIIF ATLAS. In this case, which was repeatedly before the Court below, it will perhaps be recollected, a bot tomry bond of a very peculiar kind was the subject of the suit. It was executed by Captain Clark, the master, in the East Indies (Calcutta), mad, in ad dition to the ordinary stipulations, it conditioned that o, e t rs he in _ au ca m se. b ot or t r i O ,.. w i e o d . f shouldthe vessel,, e r l e , repaid the e b b y y ex cluding sea risk, supposed' to he the essential ingre dient in bonds of this nature, and warranting what is termed the fienus nauti( um. It was alleged, in the course of argument in the Court below, that this form of the bond was customary in the East Indies. Lord Stowell, in Easter Tern, last, after some ineffectual attempts to prevail upon the parties to resort to arbitration, dismissed the party proceeded against upon the bond, on the grounds of want of juris diction, and the difficulty, complexity, and mag nitude of the case, expressing a wish that the question might be brought before this Court,—a cir cumstance relied upon by the appellants as denot ing that his Lordship rather . referred the question than decided it. The Counsel for the appellants wished for time to consider and make researches ; and the Court ad journed the case till the 15th of January next. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. MONDAY, DEC. 17.—High water 55 minutes past nine o'clock.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the Bahamian, Peace, from Demerara, with sugar, rum, &c. ; Margaret, Patter son, ditto, with ditto ; Jane, Watson, from Bahia, with cotton and sugar ; Ann Paleyn, Neale, from Lisbon, with wine and fruit ; Young Norval, Walleburg, from St. Mi chael's, with fruit ; Pease, Dodson, from Drogheda, with wheat and flour ; Lord Kelwarlin, Gibson, from ditto, with malt and beans ; Elizabeth, Cotter, from Westport, with oats; Fame, Ballantine, 'from ditto, with ditto; Susanna, Human, from Sligo, with ditto ; Skylark, Edward, from Strangford, with barley; Nile, Parry, from Dublin, with sundries ; Sheffield, Richards (steamer), from Belfast, with ditto ; George the Fourth, Parsons (steamer), from Newry, with ditto; Earl of Surrey, Griffiths, from Isle of Man, with ditto ; Comet, Phillips (steamer), from Dublin, with the mail. It now blows almost a gale, 10 p.m. Wind S.W. One ship, one brig off at four o'clock. Pri vate signal T. and J. Brocklebank's. CLEARED OUTWA RDS. —Providence, Potter, for Havre de Grace ; Florida, Tinkhant, for New York. Telegraph Office, Liverpool, Dec. 17. Wind at Holyhead at Ten, 15 a. m. West, blowing fresh. LONDON MARKETS. COUNTRY OORN MARKETS DURING- THE WEEK. Wheat. ; Bar lay. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. Boston*—.. 38 55 26 30 17 24 40 60 Grantham 48 50 30 3.1 20 26 46 50 Grimsby 45 4S 27 29 21 22 40 42 Horncastle 42 46 24 27 16 22 40 42 Hull 42 54 20 34 16 33 40 44 Lincoln 44 52 28 34 21 30 50 54 Spilsby 44 48 26 30 18 20 40 42 Stamford---. 4O 55 24 33 24 31 49 60 29 31 18 30 46 60 NOTTINGHAM.—Dee. 15. The supply of Wheat was fair, and rather better prices obtained. Barley rather cheaper, but had a ready sale. New Oats were heavy sale. Beans plentiful, and Is. per quarter lower, but few sales effected. In other articles no variation.' The following are the averages per quarter. Wheat £2 13 8i Oats £1 6 011iye £1 12 0 Barley 1 14 6 Beans, new 2 8 diPease, boil. 0 0 0 COTTON WOOL. LIST of IMPORTS AND EXPI DIPOUTED. r . ----A Same pc- This 1 - iod last • year. year. Bags, &c. Bags, &C. Liverpool :32,615 477,213 London . 67,849 61,835 Glasgow 57,207 22,924 Total exported in 1827 ,t,-, ~, •,, X PORTE revious. I y this • y ear. Bags, 4,,c. Bags, &C. 498 22, 2 3 0 1,190 52,285 120 7 6 ia POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILD HALL. —ln the list of night-charges laid before Mr. Alderman G A Kitten yesterday morning, was the follow ing entry, " Mary Sharpe—assault ;" autr when that name was called, a rather pretty, but very slatternly young woman, with slow and faltering steps, ascended the platform of the bar, and having tottered to the front of it, she grasped the rail as though she was about to swoon. At the instant a young man rushed through the crowd with so much haste and agitation that lie very nearly upset some of them ; and having ascended—or rather stumbled up, the steps of the witness box, he said—" It is me !-1 —l—appear against her !" " Your name, occupation, and address ?"—said the clerk. " Edward—Edward Sharpe, is my name ; and I'm a broker ; and I live in Moor. line," he replied, in breathless taste. "Sharpe is the name of the prisoner," observed the ALDERMAN,—" are you related to her ?" " It is my wife, Sir !"—he replied—" she is my wife; and Oh ! would to God she was not !"—he exclaimed ; at the same time handing in a certificate of their marriage, by which certificate it appeared that they had been married about four years. Having handed in the certificate, he proceeded in the same agitated manner :—" Last night, when I went home from my business—Oh ! I shall never . . • forget Al—the door of our room, Sir, has a spring lock— but it is spoil'd, so that it won't catch firmly ; and when I went home—instead of using the key—for the key is of no use, I shoved the door open, and I saw—Oh, Sir !—I saw the landlord—our own landlord, and Mary, my wife— there she is !—I saw Mary on the bed, and—Oh God 7-7-4 wish I had been blind !"—Here the poor fellow burst into tears, hid his face in his handkerchief, and sobbed aloud ; whilst his guilty wife turned from side to side, endeavour ing to hide her face from the gazing crowd. When the husband had somewhat recovered himself, he. gave a description of what he saw—facts too gross for us tx re peat ; and then he added—" my strength all went away front me ;—I didn't know what to say—or which way to look ;—it seemed as if the house was falling upon me to crush me into the earth; I went to the bed—there she lay —Oh ! why did I live to see that night !—there she " Mary !—said I, " is this possible?—could I ever have believed that you would deceive line thus, Mary !"—She said nothing—l rushed at the scoundrel landlord—he was putting himself to rights by the window—l rushed at him and seized the villain by the throat, and, big as he is, and rich as he is, be trembled in my hand like a thief, and— they persuaded me to take him to the watch-house." Here the poor man again burst into tears, and wept vehemently He then added, his neighbours assisted him to take the scoundrel to the watch-house, but the constable said he could not detain him—that he must proceed against him in another way ; and, upon his returning home, his wife, who appeared to have been drinking deeply during Isis ab sence, answered his reproaches by blows, and by the ad vice of his neighbours he gave her in charge to the watch for that assault. " And separate her from ine, Sir, I be seech you !" he continued—" take her away from me ! let me never see her more !—I never can live with her— Oh, I Never can he happy again !—I will take care of our child—l will allow her half of my earnings—l will do any thing, so . you . will only never let me see her again—Oh, pardon me, Sir !—Excuse ma—my heart is broke !" The ALDERMAN told him he pitied him exceedingly ! but that all ke could do for him was to hold his wife to hail for the assault upon him. " Oh, the assault !" said the, " I don't mind the as sault ; if she had murdered me I would have forgiven her with my last breath—but I will punish her now, I will enter an action—an action, I will, against them both —I will not bear this !" The ALnErtinaN reminded him that an action at-law was a very expensive affair, and that probably he might ruin himself by it. " Ruined 1 " he exclaimed ; " I am ruined—ruined in my heart and mind for ever! But I have friends--good friends, who will take my part in such misery as this." " Well, woman," said the ALDERMAN to the wife, as she stosaaleasily rolling herself from side to side at the bar, " What have you to say to all the grief you have occa sioned ?" It was a question for which she seemed to be well pre pared; for- she instantly threw aside her seeming shame, and accused her husband of—being poor ; declared that the landlord only came to her to talk about the rent which they owed him ; and she was obliged to talk to him—be cause her husband, " like a shabby fellow, as he Was"— would neither pay his rent, nor make excuses to the land lord himself.—" And arn't you ashamed," said she, ad dressing herself to her husband, " to bring a woman here and expose her in this way !" Her husband denied that he owed more rent than he was able well,"etopa pay; said an the womandsaidit teas , a wicked excuse of hers. " it's no use talkin g : " I'm innocent of the crime; a nd ' y ou ma y send me to pri son if you like." And she was sent to p rison, until she should find bail " for the assault she had committed upon her husband. BOW-STREET.—Another instance of the jealousy and bad feeling which exist between the constables of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, and the officers attached to this office, oc curred yesterday, ;in ';!,te case a man named Pardoe, charged by Syers and W7Vart, two parish constables, with creating a riot in the Longs . of Grubb, of Bow-street, one of the persons convicted in the sum of 201. for selling wine without a licence, as stated in our report of yesterday. A waiter belonging; ': , ? -I Grubb's establishment was the complainant. Ott lliondaytniglit, between one and two o'clock, the defendantilin company with another man, came to his master's house, and asked for coffee. They were both dressed like Nr7'!_fig men, and his master, Mr. Grubb, told them to go"elsel...7here,—that they were not re spectable enough for his room. They insisted, however, upon their right to be served, and Mr. Grubb ordered wit ness to turn them out, in ecedeavouring to effect which the defendant knocked hint down. Witness got up, and a scale took place in the street, when the two constables now present, Syers and Wyman, came up, and Syers took charge of the defendant, but let him go soon after. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE asked Syers why he let the de fendant go, after taking him into custody? Syers.— Because I was assaulted and struck by your officers, and the defendant was rescued from me. " Indeed !" said Sir RICHARD BIRNIE. " Who is the officer that assaulted you ?" Syers here pointed to Stephens, an officer of this establishment. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE,—How do you account for this, Stephens ? Stephens explained, by stating that he was the person who first took the defendant into custody, and he was in the act of conveying him to the watch-house, when the two constables came up, and insisted upon taking that duty upon themselves. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE. —Ay, I see how it is this is one of your contemptible struggles to see whether you or the parish officers arc the stronger. Mr. Hat.r.s.—These proceedings are most disgraceful ; but as far as I am concerned I am determined to put a stop -o them. Sir R. BIRNIE told the defendant that be must enter into his own recogniz ances to mee t any charge of assault that might be pref erre d aga i n st him at the sessions by Grubb's waiter, whom b e also bound in the same manner, and then told the parties that they might, if they pl ease d, indict each other. Pardoe, the defendant, then charged Stephens, the officer, with striking him in the watch-house, while in custody there. Bartlett, the wa tch-house-keeper, here stepped forward and said, that the conduct of Stephens was highly impro per. He abused every body in the watchhouse, and struck Pardoe on the breast with his staff. He added that Ste phens appeared to be drunk. Herring, one of the patrol conductors, said that Stephens acted certainly with great impropriety. Sir R. BIRNIE—Did he appear to be drunk ? Herring, —No, your Worship, I don't think he was in liquor, but he appeared in a very great passion. Mr. HALLS—In a passion ! What right has a man in his situation to be in a passion? His conduct has been most improper. Sir R. BIRNIE—And I think we should visit it with an adequate punishment. You are suspended, Stephens, and you may consider yourself well off if you are not dismissed. Lambert, the owner of the coffee-shop in Bow-street, whose conviction in the sum of 20/. we have already no ticed, came to the office to request the magistrates to allow him to put in sureties for the purpose of appealing to the sessions against their conviction. lie stated that finding his continuance in the house likely to offend the magistrates and the authorities of the parish, he had come to the de termination of leaving the house. Mr. HALLS.-It is neither our object nor our desire that you should quit your house. All that we require is, that while you continue to keep it open, the law shall be observed, both with respect to what you sell, and to the hours at which you accommodate your company. Lambert then withdrew. Mr. Thomas, the active constable, whose intention to resign his office and to provide a substitute forthwith, was announced by himself in a letter published in the Times on Thursday last, complained to Sir R. Brat4rE and Mr. HALLS respecting a written communication which he had received,' signed " A Bow -street Officer," threatening him with the contents of a loaded pistol for his officious meddling in matters which did - not concern him. Mr. HALLS said, that if Mr. Thomas could trace the production to any officer of the Bow-street establishment, ~ -.•~ be (Mr. Elizabeth Law and charlotte Nicho ls were cberr punished.n alls) %Vona take care that he shou ld be seierilf 4 with a highway robbery. The prisoners both denied that they wer e of the P 1 4. that had robbed the prosecutor. The Alderman committed them both for trial. 4 . , dayHbAroTuTgiOitNup oms rthwea'Prtlise_tl G u A e f R o I D e E m N r — LA T IN h 7 : I I L B rg O e r a a t tion of the Alderney Dairy Company, with the embezzlenP9 timed, nor all the witnesses presen t ne cessary to en able ' of various sums of money, but as the book s were not Magistrate to go fully into the case, he thought it I:etter it should stand over for le-examination on Saturday lei WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday 49 householderu the parish of St. Luke appeared on summon ses before .7t. sitting Magistrates, for non-payment of poor and Ps ° and lighting rates. fri The majority pleaded extreme poverty, and pt4" -- ,, e it time, which was granted ; others complai ned of wt harshness on the part of the collectors in r efusing t°,• o o one day for payment, although they had been pari„o, upwards of 20 years, which conduct the Magistrste re upwards bated in strong terms; and one claimed exemption l ou se, 9e , ground that his house, which he held on a repto rig had been condemned upwards of six months. • to do 0 ' Mr. BROUGHTON—If the Court Leet were • c on!' duty, the occupant would be indicted for a nuisancella diop tinuing in a crazy fabric to the danger of the surt°°lll neigbours. An order to pay within seven daYs Wa ld 11l cordingly made, with directions that the matte r shoo 'again represented to the Court Leet. • As the parish authorities were retiring, Mr. 80 , -G ; I : t tl; wished to call their attention to some serious d efects se t paviug and lighting of certain parts of that pufailou'. growing parisji. The greater portion of the foonal t the City-road, from Old-street to Islington, '3'311 be wretched a state that no person could pass w ithoo, W O ankle deep in mire. The late hour at which the wat'''ose' set, and the almost total darkness of some of the stre e t ticularly North-street, City-road, inhabited by the °°*•',ol characters, were also grievous causes, of complain t ' IS called aloud for immediate remedy. It was only nights since that a young man was robbed near that street, of 171. worth of silk ; and the case" w; d ios of committed on shopkeepers, between dusk and e i taie the watch at nine o'clock, were almost n ` Pr°' could not be otherwise when the streets were e-it,:erss. tested for four hours, and that in comparative d0...---dincer Mr. Wall, the Vestry Clerk, who was in 11 , tte n — hserW admitted the justness of the worthy Magistrates "'" ..0 the tions, and pledged himself to lay the matter he tb ' - Board without delay. bits ° UNION-HALL.—YesferdaY3lr. Cowell, an inbe re st of South Lambeth,' attended at this office for the P o u t to of applying for the assistance of the police, in col e i lbstr of the nightly depredations committed in that lleig t. , o lo hood. He stated that within the last few months house had been attempted seven different times• y t air represented that scarcely a night passed that the 0 3 °.' oc i or ing robberies were not committed in the neigh belo the de' South Lambeth, which was wholly attributab le t° fective state of the watch. i4 gs Mr. CHAMBERS had an interview with the IVla rq : - 're Lansdowne on the subject of the numerous robberled, cently committed in the neighbourhood above ePeecniol and his Lordship had directed Sir R. Birn ie to °3' some of the patrol on that particular duty. tr ot e re Mr. Covrell.—Neither officers nor Bow-street patrol to be seen in South Lambeth. We have only a few P" watchmen, and they are of no use. Mr. CHAMBERS.—There are only eight officer' t ei sli °ll° the duties at this office, and really they cann ' ot be ere fol l to attend at South Lambeth. Mr. Cowell was tb —4 O -advised to apply at Bow-street, which, no doubt, w" be attended to. ht up ' 6 John Butler, a private watchman, wa s hi.°4 a charge of stealing five fowls from Mr. liarveY' d' premises, as well as others, he was set to guard fr° pred T a i tions The Magistrate committed the prisoner, and ° b ..ei ti " there was little doubt the watchmen at South Lam beth '- implicated in a similar manner. A , l OO PEA GROWING IN T HE EAR.--xx few ago a woman brought her daughter (aged six years) t'.0,0, DUPUYTREN for an inflammation and swelling of tbe ,ei pt It was found that the child had been playing with:ol peas a few days before, and had introduced one into t'fbet meatus auditorins. The foreign body bad renoti zied n a, three days, completely obstructing the passage of ' °ll , -- a tie that she was quite deaf on that side. Pain ctuoe ° soon increased, with a serous discharge and , f e ver"d pea could be perceived on pulling the ear a little 010 Oit a and upwards to straighten the c a nal, and was of without difficulty. It had been dry when introthic eu Lfcle was now found swelled, softened, and green, or little stem which had:been developed in the ear. v — . 1, 01 cipient germination at first may appear extraortlinari3O,l ceases to be so when we reflect that in the auditory ,o, the pea was placed in circumstances favourab le to veget n o having heat, moisture, and the presence of Medical Gazette. A II lde : GLASGOW ptohsee MARKETS,diutaoiemarket meetcl DEC. st-he market. f ea, et el y ' °I taken for Sugar being r b l e r e e i s n i o a g i n d d d a ) ! the reduction of 6d, a ls• p er Uie th t s h , e n ra i t il e i s ds o . f I l v a e s i t v w D ee e k n , ier ( a o r f a, wl a i t icl s l 9 a s b . o s u a t ing :100 0 0 .1 thea l t ss lowest uds. bo i point lhi g Jamaica of a Of the brown, and 62e. a 655. for low to ood e e 3 sl i f j . aci ii i , g i: g ari 6 : a d e p l, hhds. boiling St. Vincent's, The stoc k t col at 645. i l lie last ters' bands is now reduced to 1,280 casks, 00 P. l.l ' ' they held 2,700 casks.—Since our la st about 5 f o , aeons Demer ara M o l asses were iota a t 286. 9d * le the landing scale, and almost none are left of th e .je in/P°rtatiouS.—The sales of Coffee this week at e r : , inited p arce l s of good middling Demerara, ' 9i.et and good to fine ordinary Jamaica at 545. a 569;osics cwt.—The only sale of Dyewoods worthy of ._O,/ was 20 tons prime Cuba Fustic , a t 101. 10s. per teisi, About 50 puns. Jamaica Rum w ere sold at Ss. ga• 3d, for 16 0.P., and 10 puns. L eeward at the rat 2d. for proof.—There was a steady demand for particularly:for Egyptian, 'which has advanced oli n ' per lb., in other descriptions there was no alteration. (0)0,4 sales amount to 1,647 bales. The business done ' has been limited, buyers yet being intimidated from %Jos freely, at the advance d rates demanded of 325. per 07;0 Pet as well a s Pearl.—ln Tobacco almost no b osi n o doing, the trade being well supplied for the present .l 1 low sells in small lots at 40s. a. 41s.:per Grain market this week the business done was not, r o ef sire ; all kinds of wheat were in fair demand at r IX % rates. Barley in the latter transactions declined Pcif boll. Best qualities of Oats brought the late cuff Jol o O m n n while ordinary kinds were a shade Asa/ -the of a daughter. in. Half Noon -street, lady o f Philip Wiss, Esq. -of a daughter, the n t On the 10th June last, at Dinapoor, in Ino , a' ve 4 . o l3 Rttltileseselllsl6,tthEhsiignittmila:7BUlpßtorrni,lNSV.an.eieksli.ire, tbe`: of of Lieutenant A. A. Williamson, of the 2br. Bengal Native Infantry, of a son. • MARRIED. b ..1 06411 4 1 On the 18th inst. at St. Leonard's Shor edite.. ' David Everett, Esq. of Ipswich, to Elizabeth' , daughter of the late Mr. John Garwood, of Hat ii) , * pall On the 18th inst. at the Church of St. Clown' tip by the Rev. Thomas Hughes, D.D. Canon 1 110°e/3 50 r St. Paul's, William Wells, Esq. of Arundel-street, to Miss Susannah Adams, the niece of J ohn 8en0.13; srd of Hardwell, Uffington, Berks, and• the onitebi cif heiress of William Adams, Esq. .deceased, foil° 1 1 ; Cricklade, Wilts. On the 17th inst. at Bathwick Church, by the A g o iie Radford, the Rev. Richard William Kerly, Aft. ot Sidney-place, to Eliza Swinnerton, third daughter°' Thomas Swinnerton Dyer, R.N. On the sth of June, at Mooradabad, Robert Terrill/di Esq. to Miss Elizabeth Brown. At Kidderminster, Herbert Hellen, Esq. to Mrs. IV of Brockencot House, near Kidderminster, relict of Mitchel, Esq. DIED. tref tl On the 17th inst. at her residence in Baker-se'll her 76th year, Mrs. Baldwin, relict of the late,, i Baldwin, Esq. of Lower Brook-street. s ` l On the 9th inst. at West Mailing, Kent, durliariri to her son, Mrs. Parsons, relict of the late Aff• i y of St. Albans, surgeon. b if) On the 17th inst. at Pimlico, Mrs. Jane 1 105 ' - 9 , , 79th year of her age. On the 18th inst. at his house, at Barnet, Leuoa r4 1 Esq. B. G. Wright, Esq. of the Polygon, Soutbaol"/ his 82d year. 0 / At Southampton, Mrs. Eliza beth Fin layso n, rellc. ) late Colonel Finlayson, of Aberdeen. . A o: At Hamblecion,,Mrs. Gayton, relict of the late ' George Gayton. ic .a 0 , --- PRINTED and PUBLISHED by M YOVr ' :, ' SUN OFFICE, No. 112, Strind• 'l,- , AtbE~l 7sai a t n a d i l "M ok c ICfl. .Ti.El‘rirvYl,.oEvo t ga S ar C t ' • • 14614 " milei r , )14 1 27. T EAT the uuPortan I dg 0 th e K in F!' ItnaTa°n iugs mut t.vickt ; fotlthe.d Legislature has I Resolved ljnanPt i lion of England tivs-hut t 4 '°Or th Olt PeoPle ;Igoe Lee, ol OL or-th e i tseripat, Ittsv e 4 u lath er , as .ri tuto e ° l 4ling to u 6, , to take C e ttlz to .. perform e; ttedit .to their I h°dy Inditidi Prottqlon. r. -Arne ---1% in 15 . Snuff Ur. G NI , Iluzhata The L i name of Dr. SGI, And e the Stan