The Sun. — London, England, 1827-09-29 00:00:00

• that the Papists.; have assumed as many disguises to contains', and perplex the 'poor Protestants as ever the Devil did to brother St. Anthony. That pious and learned man, Richard Baxter, tell us, .nt his Memoirs, that the Papists, out Of spite to the cause of true religion, and to throw a slur on it, sent numerous emissaries among the Sec taries, who were the most violent and extrava gant in preaching up heretical and schismatical doctrines. He instances a Captain Everard, very violent Sectary, in Cromwell'S regiment, who afterwards shammed a conversion to Po pery, which he had never quitted, as one of those instruments of evil let loose on the poor Protestants. When we saw Mr. Canning apparently implicated in this Popish Plot, we sus pected that more would come out of this busi ness. Whoever has attended to the doings of the Papists, must know that a stroke of policy of w hich • they are particularly fond, is to act under ills . guise, and to have their most devoted instru ments assuming the character of most zealous Protestants. Of Mr. Canning we were never afraid—he was too open and undisguised —but we confess we have long had our suspicions of Mr. Peel. Notwithstanding all his warmth for the Protestant establishment, we could never help fancying we perceived something of the Jos suit about him. Loyola, said we, when we first heard him open his mouth, has surely laid his paw on that man. We may take credit for our sagacity ; for,. would our readers believe it, this Rev. Mr. O'Brien, who, according to the Dublin Evening Mail, was a Popish emissary, employed in plotting against our glorious Pro testant Establishment, actually received Fifty Pounds from Mr. Peel ? We have the fact on the most unquestionable authority. Fifty pounds is a large sum. Strap, in Roderick Random, exclaims, on an occasion of his friend parting with a comparatively small sum—" Ah, God help use ! what a number of grisly beards must I have mowed for such a sum !" So Mr. Peel's father might exclaim, what a number of fingers must have ached before spinning these Fifty Pounds. Is Mr. Peel in the habit of giving gratuities of fifty pounds to Protest Clergy men ? Has be ever given the third part of fifty pounds to a Protestant Clergyman—God knows there Is no want of Protestant Clergymen, to whom even a guinea, not to say fifty pounds, would .be an object. Many pious men labour . for a whole twel vemon th at t h e a lt ar , on l ess than fifty pounds, with a numerous family, to support on it. We have, at all events, made out a strong pfrima facie case against Mr. Peel.— When a man opens his purse-strings iu this country, it is a strong presumption that his heart is also opened. Words are words ; but guineas are guineas. We know very well how little words cost many of our great men now-a-day.— We know Senators who would speak for two hours rather than pay half-a-crown.. If Mr. Peel gives his words to the Protestant religion, and Ins guineas to the Papists, we can only say that the Papists have the best of the matter ; for, ~ : ipeaking conscientiously, we do not believe all the speeches he ever made in favour of our glo rious Establishment, including his learned stric tures on the Popish mode of doing the people out of one of the Commandants, are worth the fiftieth part of fifty pounds. We are Very much mistaken if Lord Eldon, who is as good a judge of the value of money as of the best way of serv ing Protestantism, would estimate these speeches higher, especially if the money was to come out of his own pocket.-- 7 Morning Chronicle. Various changes in the law have been, for some days, currently reported. Of these the most new, and, that to which we give the least credit, is the proposed appointment of Mr. Brougham to the office of. Attorney-General. If any such appointment should take place, the hig ascendant may be considered as complete. To make this office vacant, it is said that Lord Tenterden will leave time King's Bench to be come Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords ; that Sir James Scarlett will succeed his Lord ship ; and Mr. Brougham supply the place of Sir James. The present. Solicitor-General will, as it has already been said, become Chief Baron, on the removal of the present venerable holder of that office to that of the Great Seal of Ireland. For the office of Solicitor-General, if thus va 7 : eated, we have as yet beard no one }tamed but Mr. Sh;dwell, whose intimate connection with ,Lord Goderich, as the auditor of the estates of the wealthy Northern landowner, Miss Law rence, renders his appointment extremely pro bable. But we give the whole of these changes as merely reports, currently mentioned in the profession, without vouching for the accuracy of any of them,. Though there is probably no man in the profession so well calculated to take his place as Sir James Scarlett, we cannot hesitate to lOok upon the alleged retirement of Lord Tenterden from the Chiefship of the King's Bench as a circumstance which would produce the most general regret ; and though, as we have said, the present Attorney-General is the per son, of all others, probably, to whom general :consent would assign the office, he would enter upon it under circumstances of greater difficulty, in point of comparison, than probably ever fell to the lot of any man's successor. That Mr. Brougham will ever be the .King's Attorney- General, and, as such, placed on the high road . to the highest judicial appointments—ready, for instance, to take the Great Seal, in the event of Lord Lyndhurst's retirement- e -we :do not very readily believe.—Morning Herald. The strange " goings on" in St. Luke's pa rish will, we trust, have some more light thrown upon them ; one of these days, in the Court of King's Bench. There has 'long been a great deal of dissension in that parish respecting the assessments, and we observe that several persons were summoned, on Tuesday last, before the Petty Sessions held in . Worship -street, for re fusing t o pay them. O n that occasion a M r . M'Hugh, one of the parties summoned, submit ted as a plea in justification of non-payment of the rates, that the overseers were bound to pro duce all their accounts, according to the Act of Parliament, and were also liable to the penalty of 501. for any act of embezzlement on the part of themselves or their officers. Now, , w hether there has been any act of that nature which i s tech nicallycalled " embezzlement" we cannot tell, but Mr. M'Hugh went on to say that there was a defal ca ti on in' the accounts of Mr. Wilks (late Vestry Clerk and Solicitor, we believe, to the parish), to the amount of 5,0001. or 6,0001., ' and that the overseers were bound to make good this e e fi . , eteney t he poor rates before they were entitled to levy any more rates on the parishion ers' Th is is a serious charge which Mr.' M'Hugh has made against the parish authori- , ties, and dem an d s . investigation. If there has been the defalcation specified in the accounts of a person actin g as agent of the' parochial autho rities, it does appea r very unjust that the pa rishionersswhO are already so highly taxed, should' be compelled to p a y an a ddi t i onal tax to make' up this deficiency, or else the poor must starve. We recollect that when Mr. Willa resigned his office, he had still influence enough to have a son of his put ill nomination, and very strongly supported, as candidate-for the same situation; At that time the defalcation in the accounts was strongly urged by those .who were opposed to the appointment of Mr: Rowland Wilks, and they argued at the same time, that as the parish intended to prosecute the elder Mr. Wilks, it Would be very unseemly as well as unwise to elect the son to an office which would impose ' upon him the duty of prosecuting his own. father. The son, however, with a noble disdain of those common instincts which men of less heroic public virtue would have consi dered insurmountable, declared that the duty of prosecuting his father at the command of the parish would form no objection to his acceptance of the office, as he would be quite ready to do it when directed. The parish did not then put his principles to the test, as he lost the election; but since that we believe he has succeeded to the office, by some arrangement (if we are wrong we should like to have better information), and from diet time to this we have not heard that any legal proceedings whatever have been taken against the elder Mr. Wilks. In the mean time, it appears, loom what was stated at Worship-street on Tuesday, that the parishioners were taxed in a larger sum than usual for the purpose of making up this deficiency in the accounts of Mr. Wilks! It was mentioned by Mr. M'Hugh, that the former rate of tenpence, which was sufficient for all legal purposes, was now raised to one shilling, in order to make good the deficiency in the parish accounts by Mr. Wilks's defalcation. We do not hesitate to say, that the overseers have no legal authority to increase the rate for any such purpose. If Mr. Was was an agent of the parish officers, and they placed the funds in his hands, there is nothing clearer than that they are answerable for them, as the trustees of these funds for the benefit of the poor. Did they take competent security of Mr. Wilks for the proper discharge of his office, or did they; not ? If they did, they have of course their re medy against his sureties for the sum in which they were bound ; and if they did not take se curity, they deserve to be at the loss of the money for their negligence, or partiality, or what ever it may be that induced them to act so unlike men of business and common-sense in this matter. We wonder that the parishioners have not before now brought the subject under the notice of a competent tribunal. If persons who suffer from such doings as these in St. Luke's parish will be supine—will take no active measures for redress—they must expect the result to which all people are subject who have not the spirit to defend their rights—an increase of the grievances of which they already have so much cause to complain 'bid _ • The case of the Peninsula, from which the unexpected obstinacy of the Porte, and the con sequences to which it might posibly lead, had for the moment withdrawn the eyes of the pub lic, will now, when the fears respecting a war in the Levant begin to subside, claim once more our attention and that of our readers. We know, very little of the Prince Don Miguel.- It is not very easy, therefore, to predict what effect his assumption of the Regency, under his Imperial Brother, may produce in Portugal. The forms of the Charter, from which the more sanguine of our countrymen have looked for more than there is any chance of its ever realizing, will in all pro bability be preserved. It is, indeed, not easy to see how he can consistently or safely abrogate a law on, which his own authority depends : nor.. do we mean to say that the mere forms of civil liberty are by any means to be despised. It is much that the caprices of despotism, or the man dates of absolute power, should be compelled to issue through certain recognized - channels, and to be executed by certain recognized ofliciaries. In this way much of their noxious qualities are purified during their progress. The Portuguese are at present only recovering from their political blindness; they are incapable of fully comprehend ing the benefits, and unfitted to bear the restraints of freedom. They are yet as raw levies, who re quire much time and much instruction before they can be trained to the endurance of legal disci pline. For many years to come we may expect that, under the most enlightened system of Go vernment, they will prefer the stiletto to the po lice officer, and bribe the judge instead of teeing the advocate. It requires but a slight acquaint ance with history and human nature to be con vinced that man has his political as well as his physical childhood. The duration of that age of weakness will, indeed, differ greatly in States as well as in individuals, and some miserable ricketty specimens seem destibed by nature never to be emancipated from it. But it ought to be recollected that the feebleness of infancy may be unnaturally prolonged into manhood, as easily by too much as by too little care—that tight ban daging may prove as injurious as broken limbs. To drop metaphor, the attempt to subject a na tion, while ignorant, and impatient of regulated controul, to the rules and institutions from which an intelligent community derives peace and hap piness, may be as injurious to its political ad vancement as to leave it unprotected by law alto gether. We have, on more occasions than one, endeavoured to impress this truth on the public, and we feel the necessity of recurring toit again and again, because there is no point on which the public are so hard of conviction. Not only do we perpetually hear the contrary doctrine from the ignorant and the short sighted, but from many of our contemporaries, whose re searches, observations, and general sagacity, must have taught them its falsehood. Whenever the condition of a people is proposed to be ame liorated, no matter what that condition happens to be, nor what causes have -placed them in it, the first step that is proposed by an Englishman is to get up a charter for them. How can any political regeneration be expected without a Charter ? Has not England a Charter ?—And by the same very conclusive argument, a House of Lords, and a House of Commons, must be' formed, because the liberties of England have long been linked with those institutions.. Add: to these the accompaniments of Trial by Jury, and a Free Press, and, presto pass, begone ! the t lying cheating Greek —the wily and vindictive Italian—the bigotted and lazy Spaniard—the' cowardly and lascivious Portuguese—are all, and' every one of them, converted in a month, into so many plain, honest, strait-forward, independent John Bulls ! Now, it is of importance to call. on those who attribute such supernatural powers to those institutions, to remember, that for ages after the Charter of their liberties was gained from the pusillanimous Lackland, the tyranny under which the people of England groaned, was rather transferred than removed; that for ages after the usurper Leicester had laid the founda tion of a Commons House • of Parliament, it con tinued the pitiful abject tool of every successive Minister ; that Juries have been made on many occasions the instruments of the most wanton oppression ; and that the liberty of the press, even though of later growth, and operating.on better materials, has been used as a means of tearing lowa the pillars of the State, and involv ing the country in the horrors of civil war.— We do not say that such considerations ought to keep us from attempting to introduce into other countries forms from which we derive so much benefit ; but they ought to render us less san guine than we usually are, that their mere intro duction will suffice to assimilate other countries to ourselves. We are prepared, if Don Miguel should in the slightest way attempt to modify the regulations of the Charter—whose aptitude to the.wants of the Portuguese Nation none but the Portuguese can possibly determine—for a cla mour long and loud against the change, however salutary it may be. And we even see it propo sed gravely to take the pledges of an oath from that Prince before he enters on his Government, that he shall make no such attempt. Who is to take the pledge is not very distinctly stated ; but as it has been reported that he is to visit this country on his way to Lisbon, we suppose his Highness intends to make affidavit before the Lord Mayor. But we need not stop to point ' out the absurdity of any Foreign Power attempt ing to impose obligations on the Regent of an , independent Monarch, proceeding, under his Sovereign's order, to take charge of a trust, sub ject to the regulations which that Sovereign has seen fit to lay down. There is a circum stance connected with the anticipated return of Don Miguel, which has been caught up as a matter for declamation. That return will, it has been said, show the folly of our interference with the affairs of Portugal, and of the expedition thither, which has been the theme of such general approbation. - All that we have been doing is lIGIV to be undone. We sent troops to Lisbon to support the Princess Regent and the Charter, and now we must aban don both. It might puzzle these worthies to show how we are made parties to a violation of the Charter, by the appointment' of Don Miguel to the Regency, for which it expressly provides. But the whole argument proceeds, as the argu ments of the party have invariably done, on a complete misrepresentation of the facts of the case. We did not send troops to Portugal to I support a particular officiary, or to support a par ticular Constitution. Neither the one nor the other came within our view, or formed an ele ment in the judgment to which Government so promptly, so energetically, and, as the event has fully proved, so judiciously came. It was no feeling of general benevolence, no sympathy with struggling liberty, no regard for congenial insti tutions, which prompted Mr. Canning to advise, and Parliament so unanimously to applaud, the plan of assisting Portugal, by our influence and our troops. We do not decry those feelings, and no man was more deeply embued with them than the late Premier ; and while he felt as a man, he reasoned and acted as a Minister. He was' the last person to recommend a crusade in favour of liberty. He stated expressly in that never-to-be-forgotten speech which he pronounced on the occasion—the echo of which has been heard from the Tanais to the Orinoco—that in answering the call of our ancient Ally for succour, we were acting in strict accordance with treaties long entered into, and he claimed the approbation of the world to that act of Great Britain, not as one of romantic benevolence, but as a proof of her sacred regard to the faith which she had solemnly pledged. He spoke to the nations of Europe as an Eng- . lish Statesman ought to speak. We are not a nation of sentiotentaiista—we are not to be won by fine appeals to feelings and sympathies—but show us the bond, and as honest plain-dealing men of business, we will pay to the utmost farthing, though we go beggared in consequence. Such was the principle on which the English Cabinet acted. The demand was made on their justice in terms of an existing compact, and they answered it. Such being the real state of the question, whether the internal Government of Portugal is to be managed by the sister or the brother of her King—whether, putting the extreme case, it is to be managed by the preser vation, or by the abrogation of the Charter—the conduct of England remains unimpeachable. She has acted as became herself. She has car ried into her foreign the same feelings which re gulate her conduct in her domestic policy. Eng land is the land of fixed rules—the land of im mutable laws-.--the land where the inviolability of compacts is best understood, and most reli giously guarded. She can spare to her more mercurial neighbours the fame of generosity, con tenting herielf with the less dazzling and better understood virtue of justice.—New Times. STATE OF TRADE.—For the last three weeks the demand for goods in our market has been much more limited than it was for some time previous. On Tuesday last the demand for grey cloth was particularly dull, and we believe few sales were effected without a par tial sacrifice in price. There has been, however, a con siderable number of London and country buyers in the market, and the business done by calico printers has been very considerable. Yarns continue in a very distressed state, and we believe were never more unprofitable to the spinner. Upon the whole the present state of the cotton trade is by no means flattering ; but, on the other hand, we do not perceive any jut grounds for despondency. The circumstances of the labouring classes in this district afford a gratifying contrast to the situation of this class of persons at the same period last year, the wages of weaving having advanced in many instances to nearly double, and in some to more than double the sum they obtained at the time we speak of ; in addition to which the poor can now purchase potatoes on lower terms than they were ever able to do so before, and the full in the price of oatmeal and other pro visions, which has just taken place, enables their earnings to purchase not only the necessaries but the comforts of life.—Manchester Herald. WHALE. --A female whale, of the Finnert species, was discovered about five o'clock en Saturday morning last, in Cairndow Bay, by James Farquharson and Andrew Kimmon, fishermen to his grace the Duke of Argyll. They both went out in a small boat, and when they first approached her, she was lying with great com posure shallow boat round her head, they came close in to the one side, posure upon the surface of the water. After rowing the and gave her a stab with a large knife (the only offensive weapon d they her Ladso as ttvoi tthedra drag i l i o e t t v water ; but on making an attempt to fasten a rope round her, by two or three successful struggles she got off, and enable hi them themt nearo swam pick into the deep. The two fishermen pursued, and in earning up to the animal, inflicted several wounds which they considered to be mortal, and, securing her with a rope, they again dragged her on shore. Supposing she was dead, they both went away, with the intention of chang ing their clothes. The tide was flowing at the time, and the whale was observed, after it had been surrounded by the water, to make off a second time, and before the men could reach the spot, she had drawn upwards of 40 fathoms of the cord, along with the boat and anchor, after her. They succeeded in recovering the boat, when they again set out to reconnoitre the monster. From the wounds it had pre viously received, it was much exhausted ; and after giving it a very deep stab with a long spear they had brought with them the second time, they finally got it on shore, with considerable hazard, where it heat the sand furiously with its tail, and made the water rise to the height of 40 feet. It expired about half an hour after. It was towed to Greenock in the course of the day, from whence it was brought tip to the Broomielaw on Monday night, in tow with the Gulliver steamer. It measures about 30 feet in length, IS in circumference, and the ta;l is 74 feet broad. The Magistrates have given the fishermen liberty toexhibit it for two days, in a yard at the foot of York-street.-- Glasgow Free Press, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterhy a man of decent ap pearance, named Milton, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having attempted tdclestroy himself. Turnpenny, the officer appointed to attend at the watch house at London-bridge, observed the unfortunate man de liberately get upon the balustrades of the bridge, for the purpose of throwing himself into the water. The officer just reached hitt' in time to prevent the catastrophe. Thu defendant said that he had, by his own imprudence, lost an excellent place, and that he despaired of getting an other. He had therefore thought that the best thing he could do was to despatch himself. The LORD MAYOR directed that the defendant should be kept at the Compter until his mind shall have recovered froth its agitation. GUILDHALL—The Stewards of the Amicable So ciety, a club instituted, as the preamble sets forth, " to contribute to (an awkward expression by-the-by) and alle viate each other's distresses," appeared betbre Alderman ANSLEY and-Lnuatc yesterdly, upon complaint of having unlawfully expelled one Hugh Price. The complainant had belonged to the Society 20 years, and had paid about 50/. into the box, while he had drawn back only 101. In June last, while receiving 18s. a-week as a sick member, he was observed putting up the shutters of his shop at eleven o'clock at night, without a hat on. The Steward, who witnessed this act, walked up to.him and gave him notice that he should report the circumstance to the Society. Two general meetings were held upon the subject, and finally Price was expelled. I)*e said, he was a green-grocer, and his wife, who was a very fat heavy woman, having been trudging about until her legs were swollen, he was obliged to put up the shutters. He acknowledged he was found shelling peas the next day, but that vas under an impression that he should not be allowed the sick money for that week. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY said, that all societies of this kind were disposed to draw the line too tight, the body feeling a natural anxiety to get rid of members as soon as they arrived at the age when they were likely to become burdensome. They could not look at a question whether the rules had been infringed by an ailing member without prejudice, and authority was very properly accorded to the Magistrates, who had no interest, to decide between the parties. In this case, if the man had been detected i❑ bringing home goods from market, or serving in his ishOp, and carrying goods to his customers, that would have fairly been following his ordinary calling. But putting up two or three shutters on an emergency was not so, and the pea shelling was not set up as a ground of expulsion. Sir PETER Lauele should concur in ordering the man to be reinstated in the society. The complainant therefore was reinstated. BOW-STREET.—CIorks, the officer of the Court of Requests, Vine-street, Piccadilly, who was charged, in con junction with Foster, another officer of the same court, who was ordered to find bail on Wednesday last, with an outrageous' assault on Mrs. Teesdale, and her brother (Mr. Jones), was yesterday brought before Mr. Mussrlutt, to answer to the charge. • Mr. JoneS restated his former evidence, and swore dia.. tinctly to his .having been struck by the prisoner. Mrs. Teesdah, corroborated her brother's statement, as did also two other witnesses. The prisoner was ordered to find bail, himself in 401. and two sureties in 201. each. Lieutenant Empson, an officer of the army, charged Henrietta Stevens and Ann James, two women of the town, with robbing him of the chain of his watch and its appendages. According to the statement of the complainant, he was returning on Thursday night from the city, where he had dined, when he was accosted by the prisoners, who wished him to give them something to drink. It being half-past one in the morning, the public-houses were closed, but the complainant knocked at the Black Boy, in Long-acre, the landlady of which he knew, for the purrose of treating the ladies with a little refreshment. He found, however, that one of them had made free with his watch-chain, &c., on discovering of which he gave both the prisoners into custody. The landlady of the house in question, however, admit ted that he was 'very much in liquor. There being no evidence against the prisoner, James, she was dischaiged, and Henrietta Stevens was ordered to be detained for a further examination—the Magistrate being unwilling to commit her for trial upon such evi dence, although the fact of the robbery was dtinctly sw to to. - . lIATTON-GARDEN.—A youth named George Miller, late gloom in the service of an Oxonian, was brought be fore Mr. ROGERS, by the Overseers of the Parish of St. Pancras, on an order *affiliation.—The mother, a some tbit fa s cinating little body, about 25'..iief age, with a well-dressed chubby boy in her arms, positively swore to the fathership of the youth. Mr. Roczas---=Well, what have you to say, young man ?—Master Miller (smiling)—l can only say as this, your Worship, we were fellow-servants at Mr. S 's, at Oxford, in the beginning of last winter, and that she seduced me to her bed; I went to her purely out of good nature; but I have now good reason to believe it was a trick played upon me, and that my master has a preferable claim to the honour of being the infant's parent. Your WOrship,.the baby is the very picture of him. Mr. ROGERS—How old are you, young man ?—Miller Seventeen, come Sunday, your Worship. Mr. ROGERS said he was not ignorant of the way in which such affairs were managed, and ordered the youth to pay Is. 6d. a week for the support of the child. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday, soon after Sir GEORGE FARRANT, the Sitting Magistrate, took his seat upon the bench, a letter was handed to him by one of the Overseers of the poor for the parish of St. * James's, written by the governor of a farm-house at Islington to the said parish, and to which it seems the authorities of St. James's are in the habit of sending such paupers as may require a change of air, or for whom there may not be suf ficient accommodation at the work house in town. This letter stated that the governor of the farm-house was that morning under the necessity of turning out three male paupers, whom he named, and who who had for some days past conducted themselves in a riotous manner. Scarcely had the Magistrate finished the perusal of this epistle, when in marched to the office 'the three worthies alluded to. They declared that the statement made of their conduct in the governor's letter was altogether unfounded ; they were literally kept in a state of starvation at this farm-house, so that they were often driven to the most painful extremities ; and they need only state as one slight instance of which, that they were compelled on Thursday night last to kill one of the farm-house cats, which was much better fed than themselves, and eat it for their suppers; and as a proof of this fact, one of them held up before the Magis trate the rope with which they hung the cat, while a second displayed the blade, and the third a thighbone of the poor animal, which,. they said, they were driven to devour. Sir G. FARRANT, who seemed rather surprised at this statement, asked them if they had eaten the animal in a raw state, or had it dressed I—They replied, laughing all the while, that they first hung the cat, then boiled it in a pip kin, after .which they made their supper of it. The Magistrate, observing, that they seemed very merry in their hunger, asked if they were sure it was a cat they had eaten, for he could scarcely believe the story : perhaps it was a rabbit. They assured his worship that it was a cat, as any one might see by the bones. They had no opportunity of treating themselves to such dainties as rabbits ; it was a pet eat of the governor's that they fortunately got hold of or they mast have starved. The Magistrate ordered the paupers to be taken for the present into the town workhouse, and that the governor of the farmrhouse should be directed to attend at the office to give some further explanation of this cat transaction. MARYLEBONE-OFFlCE.—Yesterday morning, soon as Mr. GRIFFITH entered, a gentleman informed him that with respect to an alleged charge against two of their men, the Directors-of the Imperial Fire-office would do all they could to further the ends of justice. Mr. GRIFFITH observed, that there were charges, and whether they could be answered he did not know. He thought it quite necessary to give them information. The Gentleman said, that the information the office bad received, was by a report in the Times of that day. Mr. Nathan, a broker in Chapel-street—On the 4th of September, saw the firemen selling things in front of the ruins of Mr. Fairbrother's house, which was burnt the day before, and bought the remains of a bed, tied up in a* old carpet, for 12s. He thought what he did was right, for the fireman said Mr. Fairbrother had given the things to them, to get themselves a drop of beer. The Foilnan of the Albion, in which office the pro perty of the sufferer was insured, stated, that the fire was abandoned by his office, before the above circumstance took place. The deputy-foreman of the Imperial said, after the pro perty was abandoned by the Albion, he took as much care of it as if it had been his own. On the night of the sth lie collected the things together. Mr. Fuirbrother threw some of them aside, saying they were of no use, and told him to let the men have the remains of the bed tied up in the carpet, to get them something to drink. This Atacama pot being refuted, Ur. upsirriril 6 d 1 Mr. Fairbrother bad acted very improperly in bringing for ward such a charge. WOR S HIP-StREET.--,Yesterday Mr. BROUGwrox gave his decision in the following case under the Turnpike Act, between Mr. Davis, a lessee of tolls, and Mr. Bennet, a coach-maker, who was summoned for non--payment of a certain toll. Mr. Bennet resides in Worship -street, within a short distance of the toll-bar, near Clifton-street. On the occa sion in question he drove in a single horse chaise through the gate, and no toll was then demanded, as he had not passed 100 yards along the road of that trust. Having passed the bar, he turned through Clifton -street, proceeded round into Bishopsgate-street, and in about-half an hour returned to his own house through Worship-street. In the latter part of his route he entered upon the complainant's trust nearly opposite the Curtain-road, but the distance from that point of his own residence is still less than 100 yards, and he claimed an exemption from tell under the Act, on the ground that he had not at one time passed a distance of one hundred yards along the road of that trust. The lessee, on the other band, contended that he was liable to the toll, the distance from his house to the gate, and from the point where he entered the road the second time to his house, being together about 150 yards. The MaorsraaTE had adjourned the case in order that he might have an opportuuity of personally inspecting the ground. Mr. BROUGHTON yesterday observed that the question now raised was, perhaps, one of the most curious that had ever arisen. Since the last hearing he had looked for cases, but he could find none bearing upon the point at issue. In deciding the case, theiefore, he should have to decide according to the best Of his judgment. It happened that when he inspected the ground, he met both of his brother Magistrates on the spot, and they concurred in the opinion which he had formed. One ground of exemption, he observed, was in favour of certain descriptions of car riages merely crossing the road : the toll could not be de manded for them, although they might cross the road 100 times a day. With respect to the other exemption, the distance of 100 yards must, in his opinion, be a pass2e,e of that distance on the road at one time only, and could not be made up of parts of that distance performed at dif f erent times. The defendant, therefore, was not liable to the toll demanded.—The case was accordingly dismissed. Mr. M'Hugh and others, vestrymen of St. Luke's parish, attended before the Magistrate yesterday, with a view to proceedings against Mr. Wilke for the recovery of numerous heavy penalties alleged to have been incurred. Mr. M'Hugh stated briefly the complaint which the vestry had to make with respect to an embezzlement of up wards of 5,000/. of the parish monies, and the withhold ing of accounts, and other important documents, from the vestry, and intimated that it was understood that Mr. Wilks was about to leave this country, and to retire to Italy ;, and it was their anxious wish to compel him to come to a reckoning, before he went. Mr. BROUGHTON asked the applicant if he was a trus tee, or appointed by the trustees 1 Mr. M'Hugh said " No ;" but he was a vestryman. Mr. 13Roucurox said, it appeared to him that such an application must come from the trustees. The parties retired with the intention of renewing their application. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, SEPT. 28. Sarah Eaton, Harriet Brag, John Cough, Hannah Collier, Wm. Wined-, and W, z. Row, were indicted for a riot in the parish of Bethnal-green, on the 14th of August last. The Jury found all the defenclant,s " Guilty." They were ordered to be brought up for judg ment on Thursday next, to which day the Court adjourned. THE CAMEL AND THE ORGAN. HEAD POLICE-MICE, DUBLIN. On Thursday morning last, the Board-room of the Head-office presented an assemblage certainly of a different nation, and, we trust, of a different character from those commonly paraded before the Magistrates, in the capacity of plaintiffs and de fendants. The complainant's name was Toa Sperini ; the defendant's, Isa Toadi. _ Sperini, being called upon to state the complaint, asked the Magistrate, in very broken English, if he remembered the camel that made his first appear ance before the public, in our streets, some months ago ? Mr. Tudor said that he did, and also felt consi derable gratification in viewing a descendant from the patient traversers of the sultry desarts of Arabia. Sperini then continued his statement, in which the dialect of Palermo, a slight mixture of the patois of some of the French provinces through which he had travelled, and no small spice of our own native oddity of expression, were mixed up in most delicious confusion. lie stated that the camel was divided into four quarters. _ Mr. Tudor confessed that this was to him a sore puzzler. Sperini thought he was quite clear; he meant that four of them had split the camel into four halves between them. Mr. Tudor declared that so far from this explana tion getting him out of the labyrinth, he was more involved than ever. Sperini here forgot his Italian, cried out " sacre," and walked about the board-room in a fury. Mr. Tudor begged he would be composed and finish his statement. Sperini declared that he meant four shares, and that Toadi had bargained for one, for which he was to pay 271.; but not having the money he gave in lieu a barrel organ. The bargain was, that the camel should be ensured sound, and the organ in good order; and the contract having been conclud ed, he took his quarter of the camel to Cork. Mr. Tudor—l suppose the other shareholders did not leave the remaining three quarters behind ? Sperini—Signor, si—l mean no, Sir; we took all the quarters to Cork; but the poor thing got sick in the nose—very sick, and died of the glanders. Mr. Tudor—Was the animal sound before he left Dublin ? Sperini was about to answer, when an universal burst of voices from the sons of Palermo, Padua, Milan, and Venice, asserted the soundness of ' the animal at the time of the contract. Sperini then stated, in effect, that when the fune ral obsequies had been performed, Toadi, without any ceremony, feloniously seized the organ, which he had given for his share, swearing in the purest Italian, that the camel was in a deep decline at the time he took the quarter of him. For this offence, he charged him with felony. Toadii who appeared to know but little of the language, made a sort of sputtering explanation, which would not be at all understood but for the in terpretation of an Hibernian friend, who swore, that if ever an animal wanted a pocket handkerchief, when in Dublin, it was the self-same Camel, whose nose wasmost shameful to see,and that Toadi would have been humbugged out of the instrument if he had acted in any other way. Mr. Tudor, not considering that there was any thing bordering upon a felony in the case, observed, that it was a mere question of warranty and pro perty, and sugested the propriety of leaving it to some of their friends to settle the matter. After some disputation, this arrangement was agreed to, and the business was referred to a cele brated Florentine, namely, Mr. Del Vecchio, of this city.—Dublin Patriot. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DI ARY.—Tuesnk Commissioners, B Burridge, IL, Chenies-st., Bedtbrd-square lO Burt, R. Lucas -st., Corn mercial-road 1 Chittenden, J. sell and jun , Borough D'Oyle, N.Vauxhall-bridge road ll Downer, W., Leadenhall mat ket Drummond,J. Brown's-Wu" Spitalfields ll Joseph, A., Compton-street, Brunswick - square Y, Our. 2.—(At the Court of Basinghall-street.) Chisholm, J., Harwich n Kirton, J., Durham ...... Lewis and Bevan, High Holborn ll Prudence, J., 111iles-lane ll Sharp, H., Smithfield Strubell, E., Moulsey Wace, R., Castle-street, Falcon-square Walker, W., London Warwick, C., Kennington lane ll Wilson, .1., Bloomsbury ll COUNTRY DIARY..-.TUIISDAV, (,CT. 2. Bill, T., Upton-on-Severn—Crown, Worcester l, Challiner, J., Bolton—Star, Manchester lO Fleming, J. Pendleton —Hayward's, M anc hester lO Fornachon, ' L., Manchester—'White'a, Manchester 2 Harrop, J., Ashton—White's, Manchester 9 Hes t o n. L., Heaton—Star, Manchester 1 Holland and Ce., Cheltenham—Royal hotel, Cheltenham lO Kenyon, J., Blackburn—Royal hotel, Birmingham Linton, T., Crmvle—Town-hall, Doncaster l2 Robinson, J., Keighley—Devonshire Arms, Keighley ... SWOP, T., LIVRO9I-44.41 Kaye, 141verBooi 1110,1111 ....... UM, 2 THE NEW SHERIFFS. After the Sheriffs returned yesterday from Guild hall, having taken the oaths, &c. upon being in .stalled into office, a splendid entertainment was - given to therifliy the Ironmongers' Company. The bill of fare upon the occasion consisted,, of every de licacy in season, served up in abundance, and with the true feeling of English hospitality. " The King," " Duke of Clarence, Lprd High Admiral," " Navy and Army," and other toasts, were drunk with enthusiasm, amid peculiar demonstrations of attachment and yalty to the illustrious individuals whom they concerned. On the health of the new Sheriffs, Messrs. Spottiswoode and Stable, being drunk, Mr. SPOTTISWOODE returned thanks. He felt it impossible to express the high sense he entertained of the flattering manner in which the Company of . Ironmongers had been pleased to drink his health. He felt the importance of the duties of the office to which he recently had the honour of being elected,' and in feeling their importance he was sure that his . colleague would join him in saying, that every exer.. tions would be used faithfully and diligently to dis charge them. It did not become him to promise. It was better for him to perform ; neverthelesS, he . thought he might venture to say, that the prospect before him was not altogether so uncheering, for, if his avocations were as pleasant as the cordiality of. the Irimmongers' Company that day, he should: . never be tired of office. He knew many of the la bours necessarily imposed upon a Sheriff were of. the most painful description, but though unpleasant they demanded'the strictest impartiality and discri-. mination. Such as at his hands they would receive., He congratulated himself upon having an excel-, lent colleague, - doubly excellent to him, as though they were two persons, they would act in conjunc tion with each other, and be, therefore, as one. ne. sincerely hoped the union between paper and iron. would lead to favourable results.—(Laughter.)--He. begged to assure the Company that he should be found early and late at his post, ready to discharge_ the serious duties which would henceforward devolve' Upon him. Mr. STABLE begged the Company to accept his: best thanks fur the manner in which they had been pleased to drink his health. He fully concurred in the observations which had fallen from his brother in office. He - was gratified at the manner in which the, subject was introduced, and heartily joined in tke sentiments expressed by his friend and colleague the Sheriff for London. The splendid entertainment, given to them that day by the Ironmongers' Com pany, demanded his warmest thanks. He had been upwards of twenty-seven years a Liveryman of this Company, and always received the same uniform and kind conduct. The Company, and the. Livery at large, had..imposed a debt which he should neverr be enabled to repay. He was, however, pretty easy; in his situation, knowing them to be kind creditors,' and if he did not do all, he knew they would for give him the rest. It would be his study to pro mote the interests, and uphold the honour and dig' nity of the Ironmongers' Conipany. Several songs and glees were most admirably sung in the course of the evening by Messrs. Gouldene Broadhurst, Bellamy, Taylor, &c. The company did not separate till a late hour. DESPATCH FROM THE ACROPOLIS. The followin g strang e story is told in the Cow st it utionnel An affair which a singular concurrence of cir cumstances renders -very interesting, is mask talked of at Marseilles. A young man shooting in a field belonging to the family of B or ely d'lsoard, brought down a bird of the wagtail species ; but what was his surprise on picking it up to find under its wing a small piece of p a per, on which was written the following affecting quatrain : " Deja s'6teint pour nous la derniere esp6rance; " BientOt va succomber l'etendard -de la foi; " Oiseau, sois plus heureux quc moi, " Et puisses-tu revoir la France ! " Acropolis, le 2 Avril, 1827." [Our'last Lope is. extinct. The standard of the faith i 5 doomed soon to fall. Bird, be more happy than I, and again behold France.] On the reverse were the following words, in Greek-4 , Fly freely ! Fly and seek liberty, for whine sake we will soon die . of hunger." This billet, on being brought home by the young sportsman, was immediately conveyed to M. Borely, President of the Greek Committee► which was delivering it according to its proper address. That worthy gentleman, on examining the letters of this note, which were, on accoUll of their minuteness, almost imperceptible, thought he recognized the hand-writing of a young Phil' hellene, named Moliere, who had been recall' mended by au illustrious General to the Mar' seilles Committee. PUBLIC SALES, SEPT. 28. BY MR. MATHEWS, AT GARRAWAY'S. The reversion to a leasehold dwelling-house, No' 8, Mount-street, Walworth, on lease for 50 year* from 1827, at a ground-rent of 31. 15s. per annuOlt of the estimated value of 231. a year. Sold for 55 1 ' Two Houses, Nos. 39 and 40, Little SurreY street, lilackfriars'-road, let at 36/. 165., held fof 61 years, at a ground-rent of 141. a-year-100/. , Two Houses in South Ville, Wandsworth-root let for 401., held for 60 years, ground -rent 10/. 14s• per annum.-1151. , ANCIENT CANNON.—A fi s herman Of Ca lais has drawn from the bottom of the sea, with his nets, • cannon of very ancient make. M. do ,Rbens has ince freed it from the rust with which it was covered, an d ne drawing it was surprised to find it still loaded. Sp ec imen' of the powder drawn from it have been e xamined; the saltpetre was of course decomposed after an emersion of about three centuries. The ball was of lead, and was n ot oxidized more than the hundredth part of an inch.--.100.' nal du Pas de Calais. BIRTHS. On the 27th instant, in Hunter -Street, Brunswick-squa re ' the lady of Henry de la Chaumette, Esq. of a son. On the 27th instant, in Bryanston-square, the lady Thomas March, Esq. of a daughter. On the 28th instant, the lady of Dr. Henry Haringtqf of Lower Seymour -street, Portman-square, of a daughter MARRIED. , On the 25th instant, at St. Luke's, by the Rev, Job il Howard Rice, Dr. Matthew Allen, Leopard's-hill-la' High Beach, Essex, to Elizabeth Blanc, daughter oflX.' David Patterson, Montrose. On the 26th instant, at St. Dunstan's-in-the-Baa l ' T. W. Tipton, Esq. of London, to Louisa Hebena, young° (laughter of T. Mulder, Esq. of New-square. On the 27th instant, at Frant, by the Rev. J. C' Luncena, Frank Cutler, Esq. R.N., second son of the la te John Cutler, Esq. of Upton, near Torbay, Devon, to 010 1 Eliza, youngest daughter of the late John Charles L u eeos , Esq. Consul-General from the Court of Portugal. On the 27th instant, at St; Pancras Church, Jobs Morris Bennett, Esq. surgeon, of New-street, Doriat' square, to Anne Sophia, eldest daughter of John Christina* Esq. of Upper Thornhaugh-street, Bedford -square. DIED. On the 2Stl instant, Mr. William Kelhaw, of Trafalgar square, Stepney, in the 65th year of his age, • . On the 14th instant, at Hooe, Sussex, 'William Toole'', Comber, Esq. late of Camberwell. At Bromley, in Kent, in the 21st year of his g e l Jonathan, son of the late. S. Stone, Esq. On the 25th instant, at Wal tham Abbey, Eliza, tb ° younger daughter of W. Hugh Burgess, Esq. On the 27th instant, at Tyndale-place, Islington, of.° rapid decline, in the 2 1 st year o f his a g e, Charles , thir d of John Wilson, Esq. On the 25th instant, at Tenchley Cottage, LimPs6al4.4, Surrey, in her 55th year, Mrs. Mary Hay, widow of late Major R. Hay, of the Bengal Establishment. eil On the 26th instant, Mr. Kiesewetter, the celebo. t iv , performer on the violin, leaving a wife and numerous fano'• PRINTED and PUBLISHED by M. 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