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LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Arm 20. TEOMPSON AND Timis v. ?MUM. This was an action of trover, to recover from the defendant the value of 78 bags of safflower, a ma terial used for the purpose of dying. The plaintiffs are merchants residing in Great St. Helens, and the defendant is a manufacturer of glue. It appeared from the evidence of the plaintiffs, that they purchased the safflower at one of the East India Company's sales in October, 1825. The weight of the 78 bags collectively was 210 cwt. 2 qrs. 121 b. They paid at the rate of 121. per cwt. In January, 1826, the plaintiffs employed Messrs. Humpleby and Tarte, brokers, to sell the safflower. For which purpose they delivered to the brokers the transfer warrants, and received from them their acceptances for the several sums of 8004, 700/.,and 7501., which sums it was arranged the brokers should retain in their hands out of the proceeds of the sale. In October, 1826, Mr. Humpleby wrote to the defendant a letter, stating that he could pur chase for him 78 bags of safflower at 71. per cwt., and sell them again to a Manchester house at 71. lOs per cwt.; 15 per cent to be paid on the day of sale, and the remainder in . April, 1827. The letter further contained an acknowledg ment of a debt of 6001. due from Mr. Humpleby to the defendant, and stated, that deducting that sum, together with the 15 per cent. to be paid by the Manchester-house the whole of the purchase money which the defendant would be required to tdvance would not be more than 6001. The de fendant agreed to the proposal made by Mr. Hum pleby, and on the 30th of October the goods were sold to the defendant, and on the following day re sold to the Manchester-house, both sales being exe cuted upon the terms stated in the letter. One of the acceptances before-mentioned was taken up by Messrs. Humpleby and Tarte, but they became in solvent before the others were due. Under these circumstances the plaintiffs brought the present action, and the grounds on which they proceeded were, that the sale to the defendant was not bona fide ' but merely colourable, and intended to protect the defendant against the loss which he must have suffered from the insolvency of the brokers. Mr. SCARLETT maintained there was no ground for supposing that the sale was not a bona fide trans actiOn• The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that a person having a lien upon goods in his possession, was en titled to sell his interest in them ; but then it must be distinctly stated that he was selling only his in terest, and not the whole of the pledge. The only fact for the consideration of the Jury was, whether the defendant purchased the goods under circum stances which ought to have excited suspicion in the mind of a reasonable man that the sale was not a fair bona fide mercantile transaction. The Jury immediately found a verdict for the plaintiffs—Damages, 1,4001. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Aran. 20. COLONEL BERKLEY V. COL. FAIRMAN. Mr. CAMPBELL opened the pleadings. The plain tiff was the well-known Colonel Berkeley, who had brought the present action against Col. Wm. Blen nerhasset Fairruan, to recover compensation in da mages for a libel which had appeared in a newspaper called the Palladium , of which the defendant was the proprietor. The defendant pleaded the general issue. Mr. Sergeant WILDE stated the case. In the present action the plaintiff was under the necessity of appealing to a Jury of his countrymen to protect him from the malicious attacks made on his charac ter in the publication of which the defendant was the proprietor, and which was known by the title of the Palladium newspaper. Tbeplaintiff;by this action, did not wish to obtain damages for the sake of money: His only object was to vindicate his honour, and protect himself from any further attacks that the defendant might think proper to make on him. In deed, profit could not have been the object of the plaintiff, for Colonel Fainnan *as known to have been in very bad circumstances, and for some time had been an inmate of the Fleet prison. The cha racter and conduct of Col. Berkeley had been highly respectable throughout life, nor had he departed from it now. How his Learned Friend had been instructed to defend the cause he really did not know; but he begged to say, on the part of Colonel Berkeley, that he was willing to drop all further pro ceedings, provided Colonel Fairman would express his regret for what had appeared, at the same time declaring that it was wholly false. Mr. Sergeant TADD'r, for the defendant, said that his client would make every apology in his power to Colonel Berkeley; but, being absent, he was not au thorised to say that he would also declare that he had no foundation for what he had published. A long conversation here ensued between the Counsel on both siti,"s, during which the Lord Chief Justice re marked, th:t in the present state of the Press, we were living inthe greatest tyranny under the sun. Mr. Sergeant .T.ADDY not being prepared to make the required apology a,-id declaration, Mr. Sergeant WILDE resumed. The plaintiff, in the publication complained of; is represented as being a writer in the Age, which of itself would be a libel to a person of Colonel Berkeley's character. The defendant in his paper has described the Age as every thing that is bad ; and in the number in which the libel is contained, he has drawn a character of it in doggrel verse, in which he terms it the gazette of filth. After having described it in this manner, he says that Colonel Berkeley is a. contributor to it. He challenged the defendant to prove the truth of his base insinuations. The libel was itself written in a sort of doggrel verse ; but the Learned Sergeant did not doubt that the jury would justly estimate its malignity, although in the form of poetry. In deed, it was rather an aggravation, as it could by that means be put in the mouth of every person, lim`ever low his situation in life. It was contained i n the Palladium newspaper, dated July 6, 1826, and ran L 'e follows cc Who are the writers of the Age cc Hilning darkly, hitting darkly Whoa war with ladies wage ? " B unn an , -1 Berkeley, Bunn and Berkeley. " Who e x/met ,' the beastly crew ? (These were the terms ju which they were desig nated throughout.) " Who exposed the beastly crew, cc Stout and manly, stout and man! " Made them cry peccavi too ? cc 'Twas Alvanley, 'twas Alvanley. " Who to Berkeley Castle went, " And made a racket, made a racket? " Who an awkward menage sent? " Horace Claggit, Borace Claggit. 4, Who b egge d pardon humbly quit e ? " This Colonel hot, this Colonel hot. " Why did not the Colonel fight? cc Oe'd rather not, he'd rather not." Here was a direct imputation on the courage of Colonel Berkeley. It was insinuated that a dispute had arisen between and Mr. Claggit, and that he was afraid to meet 11.'01. But if two gentlemen had quarrelled, and afterwards had made it up, was it the business of a newspaper to throw on them a charge of cowardice ? The libel continued — cc he's the real butcher's I,O Y , " Noisy bragger, noisy bragger ; cc The toady's pride, the bully - ); joy, dc Froth and swagger, froth and scragger." The Learned Sergeant really did not kuow the meaning of the expression, " bully's joy." " How ill suits steel with apron " His haughty tones, his haughty tone . ; " He's now reduced to vapour an " His marrow bones, his marrow h ome. , The Learned Sergeant continued to read a good i deal more of this poetry, which was all in the sa me style as that we have given, and having remarked upon it,ugain offered to withdraw the action, provided Colonel Fairman would make the required apology ; but no notice being taken, he concluded by exhort ing the Jury to give such a verdict as they them seves should feel entitled to were they in a similar situation. The libel was then put in and read by Mr. Knapp, the Associate. Mr. King being called, stated that he had read the libel, and had no doubt that it applied to the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant TADDY addressed the Jury for the defendant. In the first place, this could be hardly termed a libel, the whole piece was to him perfectly unintelligible ; in fact, he thought no one could apply a meaning to it; and if unintelligible, Colonel Berkeley had no right to apply what no one could understand, to himself. His Learned Friend, al though he took great pains, appeared to be quite at a loss how to explain what it meant. For his own part, he (Mr. Sergeant Taddy) certainly could not understand it; if it were a libel at all, it appeared to him to be one on Mr. Claggit. The only intel ligible point was that in which that gentleman was described as going to Berkeley Castle. The remain der was not at all explained, except that it must be taken to apply to Colonel Berkeley. The birth of Colonel Berkeley had been the s u bj ec t o f di scuss i on in the Ho u s e o f Lords, when it was decided that he was not the heir to the Peerage. It could be no libel for a person in any stage of life, to repeat what had been discussed before the highest tribunal of the country. All that could be learned from the alleged libel was, that there had been a quarrel, and that Colonel Berkeley had begged pardon. If his Learned Friend chose tq leave the Jury in the dark, he could not ask them for such damages as he would have been entitled to, had he succeeded in throwing any light upon it. Whether the_plaintiff had written in the Age or not, did not appear, and he had no evi dence to prove that he had. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, in summing up, said, that as the law stood at present, an action of this description was the only means by which a person whose reputaticn had been injured could seek to re establish it. It had been said that this libel was per fectly unintelligible, but that would be for the Jury to determine. By the account given of the Age in the Palladium, it was a paper teeming with lies, and the meaning of the present libel appeared to insinuate that Colonel Berkeley was engaged in this paper to write libels on females. Could there be any state ment given to the world which would be more cal culated to exclude Colonel Berkeley from society, than one in which he was represented in the cha racter of a coward and a base monster, employed to write against females ? It says also that he has not that spirit in him which should become an officer in the army. Was not this calculated to . injure him in the opinion of his brother officers ? It was for them to say whether the whole of the libel that had been read did not hold up the plaintiff to public ridicule. As to the amount of damages, he should advise them to give such as they, in a similar situation, would expect themselves. The discussion in the House of Lords as to the heir of the Peerage in the Berke ley family bad been adverted to; but an editor of a paper had no right to rip up affairs of this kind, to gratify his own malignity; and it was the duty of the !Jury in such cases to give damages to an amount that would prevent such statements being circulated. The Jury retired for upwards of an hour, when they decided on a verdict for the plaintiff—Da triages 501. EASTER TERM. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings appointed to be holden before Sir Wit.t.mat DRA PER BEST, Knight, the Lord Chief Justice, at Middle sex and London, in and after Easter Term, viz. : IN TERM. LONDON. Wednesday... ............ ...May 9 Thursday 11ay 10 Wednesday May 16 Thursday May 17 Wednesday May 23 Friday May 25 AFTER TEAM. Tuenday 14:67 ire wcetni The Court will sit on May the 9th, 10th, 16th, and 7th, at one o'clock, and at half-past nine precisely on be other days. LENT ASSIZES. CHESTER, APRIL 19. Thomas Byrom and Sarah Byrom were charged with stealing a large quantity (about 80 dozen) of wines, the property of Mrs. Patten Bold, of Win nington Hall, near Northwich, in this county ; and Mr. Samuel Roebuck was charged with having re ceived a part of the wine, knowing it to have been stolen. The Jury acquitted the female prisoner as the wife of Thomas Byrom, and found him Guilty, and Mr. Roebuck Not Guilty, which announcement was re ceived with strong marks of approbation by a crowded Court. GLOCESTER, THURSDAY, APRIL 19. CROWN SIDE. Mark Dyer and John Dyer were indicted for shooting a gun or guns at Thomas Mills, on the 24th of last October, at Yate, with intent to kill him, to wound him, and to do him some grievous bodily harm. There was another indictment against the same prisoners, for shooting at Sarah Mills, the wife of Thomas Mills, with the same several intents. Mr. LUDLOW commenced his address by observ ing that the prisoners were indicted under Lord El lenborough's act, and if they were found guilty, the consequences of their conviction must be most seri ous ; the case, therefore, required the deepest atten tion. It arose out of the apprehension of a very considerable gang of depredators, who last year in fested this county, which is / greatly indebted to the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions (the Rev. Dr. George Cooke) for his exertions upon that occasion. It WlsS found necessary soon after the apprehension of this gang, that one of the persons connected with them should be admitted evidence for the Crown, and it was soon known that Thomas Mills would be selected by the magistrates for that purpose. Threats were then thrown out against Mills, who was after wards admitted King's evidence. No less than 37 persons were tried at the last Summer Assizes, on indictments for felonies, arising out of the transac tions of this gang. Among he persons tried, were the present prisoners, Mark and John Dyer. Mills gave his evidence against them, but they were acquitted. On the 24th of last October, Thomas Mills returned at seven o'clock in the evening from Wickwar to his father's cottage at Yate. The whole family were in the room on the ground-floor, the windows of which had no shutters. They were suddenly alarmed by the sound of guns, whether one or two I cannot sa y. ran immediately to the door, and saw two persons, to , I y rh o o ti se wi i i d i e p n a ti y ty t , he an in d o a s l t l t p h a e rt e ie v u id la e r n a c t e te r n e - - tsroenc,tinTgheitpresent indictment is for shooting at Thos. Mills, who was not struck, but it is not necessary that he sh , suld have been hit. The shot took effect upon his wife, F,arah Mills, who was wounded, but you will have to inipire whether Thomas Mills w as not the person aimed at. Thomas White, assistant-constable--I helped to take Mark Dyet into custody before the last summer Assizes. Mark Dyer paid to nre, " William Mills and Thomas Mills ought to be hung, they ought to be shot, and I would shoot them if ever I saw a chance as soon as I would a sparrow." News was brought that the Dyers and William Mills had cut Mr. Cox's trees, and that William Mills had made the discovery. When Mark Dyer heard of it, he fainted away. John Dyer was not present when Mark Dyer spoke the words. Thomas Mills, the prosecutor.—Last summer, before the Assizes, I was in custody, and taken before the Magistrate at Wickwar. Mark and John Dyer were also in custody. I had been engaged in several transactions with both of them, but not so much With Mark as with John. I went before the Grand Jury as a witness against them both. They were both tried in this Court I was examined as a witness, and they were acquitted. On the evening of the `4: of October last I walked with William Coventry from Wickwar to Yate. We parted at Coventry's house. liis clock was then striking seven. I immediately went home to my father's house at Yate, which was about 300 yards from Coventry's, and about ten minutes after I Sot home something happened. My father, mother, brother, sister, and my wife, Sarah Mills, were, with myself, all in the room. I was just sitting down when a gun was fired through the window. I ran outside immediately, stooped a little, and saw two men, each with a gun: one had on a low-crowned hat, the other a cap, without a brim. The night was dark, but light was thrown out of the window, and extended as far as the men, who were about four yards and a half eff the window. I knew their per sons: one of them was Mark Dyer, he had the low crowned hat on. lam certain it was him. I believe the other to be John, from his dress; he had on a cap, and a light fustian jacket. I was out of the light, and do not think they observed me, although not more than three yards from them. They then turned up their heads, so that I could see them better, and turned round and began to run away. They had not gone five yards, when one fell down. I heard John Dyer say, " Give me thy hand, give me thy hand." I was acquainted with the voice. I positively swear it was John Dyer's voice. I have no doubt of it. When I went in doors, my wife was bleeding. Did you give informations for between 30 or 40 offences, in which you were a principal felon ? Mr. LUDLOW objected to this question. Witness--I did give information on several charges in which I was implicated. Re-examined--William Dyer went away after the Lent Assizes. I had given informations against him. He has been off ever since. Sarah Mills—l was sitting by the fire when some thing flew out. I thought it flew from the fire. I do not know if there was any noise. I thought something flew out and struck me on the arm and left side. I was not asleep. My husband went out directly. I fainted. I was sensible of my husband's going out, and then fainted. Mr. Percival, surgeon—About eight in the morn of the 25th of October I saw Mrs. Sarah Mills; the thigh was mudh wounded and bruised, and also the elbow and arm, evidently by shot of a large descrip tion. She was very severely wounded. Job Mills produced a stout wooden chair. My father was sitting on it. The marks were made by the gun on the 24th of October. [The chair was handed up to the Jury and to the Judge.] The chair was sideways to the window. My brother was sitting a little further from the window on a stool, and his head not so high as my father's head. Cross-examined—l was tried at the last Assizes and acquitted. Sampson Townshend.—l met John Dyer at half past six on the evening of the 24th of October, with such a cap on as soldiers usually wear. He was 70 or 80 yards from his own house, and was going towards it. _ _ Cross-examined.—lt was a common sort of cap, without a brim. Benjamin Cook, constable.—On the 25th of Oc ober, at 11 o'clock, I went to Job Mills's house.— I examined the window; there was a large pane of glass and two small ones broken. The window curtain had marks of powder on it. There were seven shot marks on the table. I took one shot out of the table. (Witness produced the shot.) From the position in which I understood Thomas Mills was sitting, the shot must have gone directly to his head or very near it. On the 26th of Octo ber I searched Mark Dyer's house, and found a gun; no lock was upon it. I observed the marks of fresh oil where the pressure of the lock bears, as if the lock had been taken off. I smelt at the mouth of the barrel ; there was a fresh smell of powder, as if it had been recently dis c har ge d. I f e lt inside the barrel with my finger ; a damp blackness came away, such as is common to a gun after being fired. The trun was not then charged. I went to the house of Wm. Dyer, the elder, about three or four hundred yards off, and searched that house, and found a gun loaded.- with phasuLant. alaot. --I- -460w-cia•-- ( The charge was produced, and handed to the jury.) The gun looked as if it had been fired within the last week. Charles Barter accompanied Benjamin Cook, and confirmed his testimony. The prisoners were called' upon for their defence. Mark Dyer said, I was in a coal-pit between seven and eight o'clock that night, and never came up until the morning. lam innocent. John Dyer said, I was at the house of Tamar Hol brook, from about half-past six, and it was some where about nine when I went out of it; and had nothing to do with the matter. Mr. Baron VAUGTIAN.—After a patient attention to the investigation of this extraordinary case, it be comes:my duty to sum up the evidence, and make such observations as have occurred to me upon it. It is difficult to conceive a more important prosecu i ion. The prisoners . are charged under the act, usually called Lord Ellenborough's Act, for malici ously shooting, with intent to murder, maim, or do some grievous bodily harm to Thomas Mills; and the statute enacts, that the offenders, their coun sellors, eiders, and abettors, are felons without be nefit of clergy. Therefore, in point of law, the fir ing by one, is the firing by both, if both are present aiding and assisting. The question therefore, for your consideration is, whether you are satisfied that the prisoners, or either of them, did shoot at Thos. Mills maliciously. You will weigh most attentively the evidence of that person. He comes before you under most suspicious circumstances. Time is a most material thing for you to attend to, because the difference of half an hour makes the whole dif ference. If you are of opinion that the gun was fired at Sarah Mills, the case does not come within this indictment; and in this view, the situation of the persons in the room alluded to is most material. About the identity of the prisoners, you will watch the evidence with the strictest attention. It de pends entirely upon the credibility of Mills. He gives the only evidence of identity, and he is unques tionably a man of very bad character. I am bound to say, that if you convict, the law must take its course. The Jury requested that the witness Thomas Mills might be recalled ; and they asked him whe ther the smoke of the gun had any effect upon the light, so as to impede his vision. Mills.—No, My Lord, I could see their faces quite plain. - The Jury retired for about an hour and a half, and then returned with a verdict of guilty against both prisoners, but recommended them to mercy. Mr. LUDLOW.—My Lord, allow me to say, that perhaps the offended laws will be well satisfied by sending these men out of the Country. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN.—I am always most happy to attend to the recommendation of a Jury. After a pau3e—l will take care, gentlemen, that your re commendation and the learned counsel's shall be for warded to the proper quarter ; but I am afraid I see nothing to justify me in saying otherwise than that, as far as I am concerned, the law must take its course. The prisoners were severally called upon to say why judgment of death should not be passed against them. They both said they were innocent. Mr, Baron VAuGHAN—You stand severally con victed, after a most patient and painful investiga tion, of thi s h eav y o ff ence , to which the law has an nexed the penalty of death ; and it is my m os t pain ful duty to i n f orm you, t h a t the circumstances of your case are such as leave no hope that the penalty will not be executed. I have only, therefore, to entreat you to consider the awful change which you must so shortly undergo. You days are numbered, and your course is run ! and I implore you to bid a long, long farewell to al, the concerns of this world, and if you value your immortal souls, that you will on bended knees, and with penitent and contrite hearts, supplicate at the throne of grace for that mercy which I feel cannot be extended to you here. His Lordship concluded with pronouncing sentence of death. ST. CLEMENT DANES.—The new Church win-dens and Governors of the Poor for this Parish, for the ensuing year, were chosen yesterday. After the Vestry business had been gone through, upWards of fifty of the leading parishioners, including Sir Francis Ommaney, the ftev. Mr. Gurney, Ur. Twining, &v. dined together at the Crown and Anchor. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (Front the'Etoik,' dated Thursday, April 19.) PARIS, APRIL 18.—The Gazette of Lyons gives the following paragraph of a letter, dated Toulon, April 12 :-- " The Circe frigate, Captain Duval Dailly, sailed this morning for an unknown destination; it is only said that the Captain has sealed instructions which he is not to open till after he has passed the Straits of Gibraltar.' (From the tlfoniteur of Wednesday.) NON-OFFICIAL PART. PERPIGNAN, APRIL 10.—(Extract from a Private Letter.)--" Tranquillity is gradually returning in all Catalonia, and it is wholly restored in the district of Figueras. Five officers are come to submit; they are confined in the second inclosure of the Fort D'Etienne Dinot, called Gure. An indefinido, and chief of a band who had organised the assemblage, has disappeared from this district. In that of Gi ronne, Joseph Perrapers and Joseph Solers, Chiefs of bands, have been arrested : they are going to be tried by a Court Martial. The following Officers of the Class called Indefinidos have been arrested at Vich :—D. Thomas Mora and Don Sigismond Puigbo, called Pocaropa, who are accused of plotting against the public tranquillity. No persons have yet been arrested on the banks of the Seine : but those who organised the insurrection at the Seu d'Urgel, and who had induced the populace to throw stones at the French troops, will probably be brought to trial. "At Tortosa, D. Sauveur Llovet, Capt. Indefi nido, and chief of a band, was shot on the sth of this month, in the afternoon. He had been taken in the night of the 4th, at Cheita, at the Ferry.— The Royalist volunteers and some Bens d'armes, ar rested on the 4th, in the territory of Torrera, dis trict of Mont Blanc, D. Antonio Trillos, Colonel Indefinido, with four of his companions. This officer had endeavoured, last summer, to excite the inhabitants of that district to insurrection. He has been conveyed to Tortosa to be tried." (From the Pilote of Wednesday.) PARIS, APRIL 17.—Letters from terlin, of the 9th April, say, that the last accounts from Saint Petersburgh leave no doubt of the determination of the Russian Cabinet to come to a decisive arrange ment with the Porte, relative to the affairs of Greece. They affirm, also, that the Russian Mi nister of War has sent eventual orders to the Ge nerals commanding the divisions stationed from Choczym, on the Pruth, to Czerskasy, on the Dnieper. It is thought that, to put an end to the tergiversations of the Divan, this mass of troops, which amounts to above 100,000 men, will be con centrated on the Pruth. Such a measure cannot fail to produce a great sensation at Constantinople, and must dispose the Porte to consent to an ar rangement with Greece, and to conform to the sti pulations agreed upon at Akermann, especially in what relates to Moldavia and Wallachia. Letters from Cuba say that the Government of that Island has issued a proclamation, declaring St. Jago de Cuba a free port for the exchange of all the productions of the Western Islands and the United States. This measure was taken as soon as infor mation was received of the final determination of England and the United States, relative to the laws which are to be put in force to prohibit the intercourse between the ports of North America and those of the Western Islands. (From the Constitutionnel of Wednesday.) TRIUMPH OF THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. PARIS, APRIL 17.—Constitutional opinion has just obtained a great and noble triumph. The Law respecting the Police of the Press is withdrawn!!! and all France will hail the event with a shout of gratitude. Truth at length has reached . the Throne! 'The MonntcW, ‘wlso k 'sigrnilized - his . accession by the abolition of the Censorship, has marked the anni versary of his return into the capital by the support of that liberty of the Press so dear to the French people, who wished to be indebted for it to Charles X., and that no faction should henceforth ravish it from us. The King has restored it twice to France, and France will never forget it. We, the advance pests, have only been the echoes of France • we have only defended its d eares t an d most sacred rights ; we can only announce before hand its gratitude towards the Throne, and that noble hereditary Chamber which has felt a real hap piness in not discussing a law, the debates on whi c h would ha ve b een a fatigue to its loyalty. We shall never forget _that its Commission has heard our ob servations with an attention full of kindness—with that desire of truth which factions reject, and all tutelary and benignant powers seek. We are now permitted to publish what we have known of the results of the impartial and rigorous examination the project has undergone. It had re-, jected all the articles which violated property and acquired rights. It had repulsed every thing de structive of the original constitutional liberty of Frenchmen ! All the conclusions of the Report had been adopted with unanimity which presaged that of the Chamber ! The Ministry has at length acknowledged that the contest was impossible. The law is withdrawn, arid transports of joy burst forth throughout Paris, and will echo throughout France. Every one sees in that event the pledge of better times. Let us learn to be worthy of this memorable vic tory; let us continue to point out with firmness and moderation all disorders—all abuses. Let us give our enemies NO pretence for calumniating liberty. A faction triumphs wi'h insolence; a constitutional people with wisdom. Although the news was but little known this evening, a considerable number of the streets were illuminated. It is probable that to-morrow (Wednesday) the illumination will be , general. We think it our duty to remind our fellow-citizens that fireworks are forbidden by the regulations of the Police. We must leave our adversaries no pretext for calumiating the most legitimate joy. MR. CANNING AND THE CONGREGATION. We foresaw that the Journals of the Congrega tion would be alarmed at the elevation of Mr. Can ning, but we were far from thinking that the expres sion would be so warm and so incautious ; it is quite a declaration of war by our Apostolical Junta against Mr. Canning. Its organs would willingly cry that the casus fccderis has occurred, and that all Kings and Aristocracies must take the field against him. " Liberalism," says the official Journal of the faction, " has just obtained a complete triumph : a new rallying point protects the invasions of revolu tion amid agitated societies. Never were principles more openly threatened : every thing seems to fa vour the march of revolutions : we rush thither, pushed on by some indescribably blind fatality, which precipitates us; and in the confusion of omi nous doctrines, every day sees some just principles effaced—some men die who had insured the restor tion of European Monarchies." We must not forget, that in the language of fac tion, the word revolution is synonymous with Char . te, and that by the restoration of European monarchies, we must understand the restoration of privileges and absolute power. Thus the fears of the faction are excited by the triumph of cons titutional doctrines. which bring nations from a state of servitude to re cognize the rights of men and citizens. The nomi nation of Mr. Canning is to them a mortal blow, for they care little for the fate of the Catholics of Ireland ; what they desire, and imperiously demand, is dominion—absolute dominion. During this cla mour, the Ministry preserves a mournful silence. Our Ministry is engaged in a system totally oppo site to that of St. James's. Hostile to our liberties, it is also hostile to those of neighbouring nations; it has given, by the suppression of the ordinance of Andujar, absolutism to Spain. The English Mini stry has the confidence of the nation; it favours the liberty of Portugal. What a harmony might exist between the two Ministries ! Is not the conduct of Mr. Canning a bitter satire on the conduct of our Ministers ? What means their silence, unless that they regret that the Oligarchy did not prevail in the councils of the King of Great Britain; or that they fear the retirement of an Aristocratical Ministry is a signal for their own-? (From the Courier Francais.) PARIS, APRIL 18.—The voice of alarmed France has reached even the Throne; yesterday the ap pearance of the people, melancholy and silent, re vealed what the Ministers wished to conceal for ever. The King, in the midst of his people, understood, their prayers, and he has listened to them ; and the Ministers, despairing of success, have not dared any longer to oppose the Royal will. Perhaps also the example of England, receiving from a new Ministry a more determinate impulse in the career of social ameliorations, has demonstrated, better than reason ing, the dangers of a retrograding course. Wh en an act is good of itself, we may believe that no praiseworthy motive, no principle of wisdom, was a stranger to its origin. France, in applauding the triumph which Royal wisdom has obtained for its threatened interests, will inquire with anxiety if the Ministry, which has so overstepped its duty, is to preside over its destiny; if the corrupting and hy pocritical system imposed by a foreign power is any longer to compromise the interests of the throne, and the dignity of the nation ? Rejected by the public, and overwhelmed by their own faults, the Ministers have no longer the power, if they have the will, to do good. They can only bring in their train opprobrium, disaffection, and discord. We ask if the same Ministry which formed the project that the Royal will has destroyed were to draw up a law truly wise and useful, would any person be lieve in the reality of this benevolent conception; or should we not rather suspect, in the best ap parent enactments, some hidden design to deceive and to plunder ? Can they repair their work who, by brutal destitutions, took vengeance on the academici ans for an opposition that is now sanctioned by the Crown itself ? The Ministry, by its conduct, has ren dered itself incapable of carrying on public business, and nothing remains for it but to retire, imploring from the national generosity a contemptuous obli vion. By deferring so long this Act of Royal wis dom, the Ministers, faithful to their customs, wished to deprive the Throne of the grateful acknowledg ments due to it. Why was the Ordinance read yes terday in the House of Peers not published the day before in the Moniteur ? The King would then have been saluted by the voice of public joy, and he would have recognized those same—to his, ear— pleasing sounds, which he heard on September 30, 1824. The transports of popular delight which broke forth last night would hare rejoiced his heart. But very soon, perhaps, another opportunity will occur, and public opinion will 'make itself known, and the Sovereign will discover that the calum niated people, so easily governed, are not only grate ful for the benefits. bestowed on them, but also for the evils they are spared. (From the Quotidienne.) " The political change which has placed Mr. Can ning at the head of the English Ministry, and dissi pated all the wrecks of Lord Castlereagh's system, will doubtless long fix tho attention of all Europe. It indicates events of serious consequence to all Cabinets in direct contact with England; but chiefly to France, whose interests have been imprudently blended with the interests of the trading party which sways the destinies of Great Britain. It is a great novelty in modern political history to see a monarchy like that of Lewis XIV. submitting to be dragged in the train of a Minister who threatens to overturn every thing in his own country, and a brilliant resto ration, like that which we have seen accomplished by the united arms of the civilized world, seeking strength in a policy which openly encourages rebel lions, and changes, &c. REPORT OF THE CHAMBERS OF PEERS. The Sitting of yesterday was remarkable, on ac count of the law against the Press having been with drawn. The Report, it is said, was nearly ready, and was to have been presented yesterday. Twenty one Amendments had been unanimously agreed to in the Committee, and this unanimity, conjoined with other circumstances, enlightened the Govern ment. At the opening of the Sitting, when hardly thirty Members were present. The Keeper of the Seals entered, exchanged a few words in a low tone with the Chancellor, and from the Tribune stammered a few words, which were very imperfectly heard. Inquiries were made. He spoke of the Press. In formation was demanded; the Law of the Press was withdrawn and his Excellency had j us t rea d t h e Royal Ordinance which had been agreed to, it was said, that morning in the Council. It would be difficult to describe the effect pro duced on the Chamber by such an unexpected cir cumstance, and the Peers cou ld not , f or a consider able time, do any thing but express their astonish ment and their joy. In the evening these e;tpres sions extended to the saloons of the nobility. It was generally recognised that the act of the Minis- ters was an unwilling homage to the dignity and constitutional views of that fraction of the legislative power; but that there was a volatility and ingrati tude towards the other fraction which had already adopted it, and even strengthened it for the advant age of power. Such of the Peers as intended to speak on the question, congratulated themselves that these preparatory labours would be useless. France, applauding the disinterestedness of their self-love, will remember their intentions, and in the midst of her joy will regret the light they would have thrown on the most important of our liberties. The report having, towards five o'clock, got into circulation, that the law against the Press was with drawn, an illumination took place in several parts of Paris; booksellers and printers, as well as citizens of all trades, put up candles at their windows. In par ticular, the establishm en t s o f M. Didot, rue du Pont de Lodi; o f M. S ante l et , at th e Exchange; and of Ambrose Dupont, w ere rem arked. In the streets df St. Denis, St. Marti n 's, Grenata des Lombards, and others adjacent, a grea t number of houses we re illuminated. In sev era l places the people let off rockets, manifesting their pleasure in an expressi ve but dangerous manner, and contrary to the orde rs o f b t h e e expressed Police. so as nWe believe to supply M. iel'ethepublieopinion m i g h t Delavau and his agents a pretext for creating a disturbance in repress ing the popular enthusiasm. FRENCH Futins.—Renter 5 per Cents. 100 f. 10c. 15 • e., 3 per Cents. '7of. 90c. ; Bank Actions, 2030 f. Foasrcrr Fulins.—Rentes Nap. Cert. Falc. 77f. 40c. 50 c . ; _obl. Nap. Em. Roth. 1. s. 25f. 50c. '77c. 40c. Royal alsSoc.panish Loan, 55i 55.; Haytian Loan, 670 f. 6 GUIDE FOR FAMILIES AND INVALIDS.- A New Medical Guide for Clergymen, Families and Inva lids, by Dr. Graham, has lately been published, which, we understand promises to be of great utility. This Work is entitled Modern Domestic Medicine, and is very highly recommended by several periodicals of established reputation. The Literary Chronicle " conscientiously re commends it, and feels great pleasure in the certainty that it will prove extensively useful ;" and in another widely circulated Miscellany, a respectable Physician states that " it is enriched with much of all that modern practice has ascertained to be valuable, and is not only incomparably superior to Buchan's, but also to every similar work in our language." Besides an ample account of the nature, symp toms, causes, and correct treatment of all Diseases, it con tains a variety of other useful information. So valuable a work cannot fail to recommend itself to every family. THE TANNER TRADE.—The people de pending on the tanner trade are feeling their share of the general dullness of business. This, however, is not so much, owing to a lack of demand as fro m a diffi cu l ty in procuring the raw miderial. The d omes ti c supply has been rather limited this season, and ma n y o f t h e ex tensive hide merchants in Liverpool having failed, or become embarrassed, a want of confidence has been dif fused among the Foreign Merchants, and they will not consign their property till insured of returns. There is in consequence a small advance in the green hides.— In Edinburgh and Glasgow the trade has declined fully one-third : and in the ancient burgh of Linlith gow, eighteen months ago, t wen t y -f our t an - yar d s were in full operation, and all was prosperity and happiness; but now sixteen of these works are shut up, and most of the poor men are wandering over the country exposed to the severest privations. It is something soothing to be able to state, that at the end of the week the prospect was more auspicious than it has been for some time.... Scotsman. DAY ♦T 014 O'CLOCJC. PRICY% OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 821:ir 3 per Cent. Cons. 33% 2% 3 3% per Cent. Ditto Red. ........ 88)iliS% 4 per Cent. New 9 65 i % Ditto, 4826 .......... - Bank Long Ann. ... 19 1-16 N' t India Stock Ditto Bonds 68 69 68 COURSE OF EXCHj Amsterdam C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at sight l2 1 Rotterdam 2U. 12 15 Antwerp l2 5 Hamburgh 2% U. 37 5 Altona 234 U. 37 6 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto U. 25 80 Bordeaux 25 80 Berlin — Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 154 Petersburgh, rble... 3 Us. 9% Vienna, effective fl. 2 M. 10 14 Trieste do. Madrid 33% Cadiz 33% Bilboa Barcelona 33X 3334 Seville Gibraltar 45 South Sea Stock "*. Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. 45 46 pm• Ditto 5OO 2d. 4S 46 pro• " Ditto Small - 2d. 45 46 pin. Ditto Commercial Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Account 1331{ 3 DAY AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Paid. Per Shale• £2O 2434 25 Luoc 5 X 1 9 10 18 2 £1 3 0 5 6K7 25 20% ...... STOCKS, APRIL 17. St. Patrick Insur. (per sh.) -- Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto .-- Hibernian Bank -- Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine --• Imperial Mine - Mining Co. of Ireland - Commercial Buildings -- NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 47% Ger.oa 26 10 Venice 46 Malta . Naples 37% Palermo per oz. 114 Lisbon 40% Oporto 4O ik Rio Janeiro 39 Bahia 43 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork Oi BULLION, PER OZ. X . s. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 6 New Doubloons . 3 13 3 New Dollars 0 4 6# Silver, bars, standard 0 0 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ...21 minutes after 11. I Evening ...49 minutes after 11 LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1827. The arrangements towards the formation of the Ministry, though not yet completed, are in a course of favourable progress. We under stand that the negociation with the Marquis of LANSDOWN still continues, and is expected to be finally settled without much delay. The assertion that Sir JOHN LEACH has been offered the Lord Chancellorship in Ireland, 1 1 premature, if not unfounded. But we can now state positively that Mr. PLUNKETT Suc ceeds Sir JOHN COPLEY as Master of the Rolls, with a Peerage. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the King's Bench is also to have a Peerage. The LORD CHANCELLOR has this day re deemed one of his broken promises, by sitting to give judgment in some cases, and stating his in tention as to others. His Lordship was as cheerful as could be expected under all the cir cumstances of his situation. He expressed his willingness to give judgment in all cases which had been fully argued or part heard—if the parties would consent to consider these judg ments the same as if delivered while in office, for his. Lordship having an eye to the corporal, says that he cannot dispose of them before he gives up the Seals. When he went out of office, in 1806, the parties assented to a simi lar proceeding, and now that he has the ad vantage of so much more experience, there can be no question that they will avail them selves of the offer, because there will be some chance of getting judgment—his Lordship being happily removed from all the tempta tions of delay and doubt. We have heard a great deal from the Ex-party of this person and that, having been invited by Mr. Callrarra to join his Administration, and of their having declined—from differing in opinion with that great Statesman on the Ca tholie Question, or regarding the new Corn Bill. They seem to think that he would be delighted to get them all back, and really sicken one with the stories they tell of the offers made by him to the very ecirculate c m t i o e faction. Secretaryshipo some It is now-a-days rec k one d rather unkind to yuerr friend, sp age. Am ongst t h e rest, JOSEPH HUME ' S rumour of or having his 1 3 e s friends have it, that he was offered the choice of all the places vacant on Tuesday morning; and the rea son of his refusal is truly characteristic. It is said that the only condition made with that active per sonage was, that he should confine himself entirely to the business of whatever office he might select — that if he was Secretary for the Home Department he should not interfere with the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; or, if he preferred the Colonial, he should not consider Ireland as coming within the range of his exertions. Such a proposition could not be entertained a moment by that ener geticojlee investgentleman. h im with H e said,that t woo r thr if they e eo ft he would principalat offices, (thereby effecting a great saving to the Nation,) he might, perhaps, bind himself not to interfere with any others, but that one office would not occupy a fifth part of his time, and that con sequently during the remainder lie would be the most wretched of men. Now, though we do n ot believe this story, any more than that he is to be made a Lord (by the title of Lord JosEPII, °f course), we have no hesitation in saying that it has as much foundation in" fact as most of the others, amongst which we may just mention, with a view to contradict it, the idle report that Lord ELDON is going to travel on the Continent, and is to be accompanied by Mr. JoHN . WILLIAms, the late Member for Lincoln. The French Papers of Wednesday and the Etoile dated Thursday have been received. The joy manifested by the liberal party in France at the elevation of Mr. CANNING is second only to the patriotic enthusiasm so universally displayed on the abandonment of the obnoxious project introduced against the liberty of the Press. That measure was carried through the Chamber of Deputies amid the sternest though ineffectual opposition. The Chamber of Peers, before dis cussing the clauses of a law which excited the alarm of the multitude and roused the indigna tion of cultivated minds, referred the project to a select Committee to report upon its ;spirit and general tendency. Happily for the honour of France that Committee was composed of PRICES OF SHARES THII Brazilian Mining Co. Potosi La Paz and Peruvian A Guardian Assurance Co. Protector Fire Insurance Co French Brandy Distillery Co Provincial Bank of Ireland PRICES OF IRISH Bank Stock 211 I% Consols, 3 per cent --...., Gov. Stock, 334 per cent 88 % Ditto, New BO 4 per Cent. 97%% Goy. Deb. 3% per cent Royal Canal Stock - Grand Canal Stock - City Deb. 4 per cent - Ballast Office Deb. 4p. et - Y. rte .. 4 0„ ; - 4.0 1110 ,