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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Erfracts from the Morning Papers, July 20,1825. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] From the Diario Fluminense, published at Rio de Janeiro, and corresponding to the 2%%0th of May, it would seem,' that among the import ant iMprovements in Broil!, sanctioned by the Emperor, is one for the opening of the - naviga tion of the Rio Doce, an interesting river, flow ing through the province of Espirito Santo, by which means the communication with Minas Ge raes and the other interior provinces will be mate rially shortened. EsperitoSanto is one of the most valuable provinces in the Brazilian Empire, both oa account of its mineral riches and its geogra graphical situation. The Rio Doce is the prin cipal river flowing through it, and it is suscepti ble of being rendered navigable to a considerable distance into the interior, by which means a land conveyance for nearly 300 leagues will be avoid ed. The difficulty of inland communications is now .the greatest inconvenience felt in Brazil, and the Emperor has seriously turned his attention to the surmounting it. The province of Espirito Santo affords facilies beyond any other, , and the opening of the Rio Doce will b e the greatest benefit that can be bestowed on the Brazilians. It will unite the interior provinces with the great commercial cities on the Atlantic coast, and make up for the great distances which intervene between them. The project is not a new one, as the former Government of Brazil, struck with the immense importance of the enter prise, had some surveys made and roads traced, in anticipation of the scheme ; but the glory of carrying it into execution was reserved for the days of independence. Henderson, in his work ou Brazil, speaking on the subject of the Rio Doce, uses the following words :—" The only natural difficulties of this river which present any impediment to its free navigation, are the Escae dinha'Falls, met with in its course between the province of Minas Geraes and that of Porto Se guros. They are three in number, and do not extend more than three miles, being nearly toge ther, so that the construction of a railway or auy other expedient the Government might be inclined to adopt, for the space only of three miles, would connect a conveyance by water to the coast for the produce of the interior districts, which at present is sent on the backs of mules."—Several mercantile letters we have seen, received by the last packet from Rio de Janeiro, consider this one of the most princely schemes that could possibly be projected, and highly extol the ardour with which the Emperor has taken it up. Its success will no doubt lower the prices of several articles of produce now brought down from the interior at an immense expence, and greatly increase the population of Espirito Santo, where numerous settlers are flocking, under privileges of the most inviting kind. The opening of the Rio Doce will also enhance the value of the Costello Mines, as this river flows very near the base of the mineral ridges in which they are situated, [THE TIMES.] Letters from the Cape of Good Hope to the 11th of May, give us reason to believe that Mi nisters have acted in regard to that famous per sonage Lord Charles Somerset, as the country has a right to expect from men who have so deep a stake in the national prosperity, and in the maintenance of an 'honourable reputation. The Owen Glendower had arrived out with dispatches for the Governor from England. Enough had transpired to persuade the colonists that Lord Charles had something to apprehend from the charges preferred against him, and from the mea sures taken to show fair play to his accusers, or, in other words, that there was still some chance of the laws of honour, justice, and humanity being hereafter respected by the officers of that unhappy settleinent, and of their authority being administered on principles which English functionaries need not blush to acknowledge, nor the subjects of a . free and enlighten ed kingdom to endure. It is stated that Lord Bathurst had communicated to the Go vernor the long catalogue of accusations against him, and had intimated that as his Lord ship might find it expedient to return to England and defend himself, he (Lord Charles) had the Authority of Ministers to request Sir Lowry Cole, British Governor at the Isle of France, to repair to the Cape, and officiate as Governor ad interim. The above intelligence, added to that contained in letters from Mr. Greig, editor and proprietor of the newspaper suppressed in a manner so worthy .of the Holy Alliance, but so little cha racteristic of an English nobleman, whether Whig or Tory, had put the colonists in high spirits. Mr. Greig was to go back immediately, and to re-esta blish his paper under the full protection of His Majesty's Government at home. The King's subjects would, therefore, enjoy the privilege of -conveying their. respectful and loyal sentiments, , their wants, their thanks, or their remonstrances, io their own language to their natural friends, the King and . Parliament, without employing as .oivir‘ntouthpiece one whose interest and passion titould be first to gag, and then misrepresent them. We cannot for ourselves conceive a com manity—we mean always a British community—. existing under such wrongs as have been described in letters from South Africa: Such a system of Ti#government speaks volumes for what might be expected.iit Great Britain herself, were her con stittittOn"or the habits of her people to tolerate, evetaora single twelvemonth, the exercise of irresponsible power. Lord Charles Somerset may not be quite a fair sample of his caste, but there is,not a man of them who might not soon de generate into a jealous and overbearing tyrant, wer,e. the right of petition suspended, or the , vigilance of the .public press relaxed—of that 'pies, . whose -inevitable tendency it is to put dcksvtl,its. own excesses--.40-purge its own vices ---to :nature its own , and correct and elerttit its own viewsald opinions, by the very 4 pipcois.iyhich it,Vrikptoysto modeiate and animate ...tteshatitet:and, tekleform . 7 .. 7 to,tead and enlighten the society by vihose favour, as well as for.whose benek, itexists. If it shall indeed turn out, that Ministers have adopted the manly part which we are willing to ascribe to them on this occasion, they shall have our hearty acknowledgments and support. There are, it i, obvious, no in dividuals of the whole nation so deeply inte rested in that general prosperity, which, when it does prevail, few others can contest with them the honour of so immediately promoting. But they are wofully beset by that hateful incubus, a spendthrift rapacious, importunate, jobbing, and unforgiving aristocracy—men who feel for none but themselves, who regard the King's Ministers but as trustees for their mo nopoly, not for the greatness of the Sovereign or happiness of the people—men who would not be effectually subdued by any scheme of Parlia mentary reform which we have ever heard of, and whom it is therefore a doubly precious ob ject to make war upon by the only unconquer able weapons—by the public Press and the Law of England ; which are equally, thank Heaven, above corruption and controul ; which can neither be defied, perverted, nor eluded. [NEW TIMES.] Our private letters from France strongly con firm the statement which we were the first to publish, that the French Government had come to a resolution to recognize the independence of Hayti. One letter from a most respectable source says, " The Treaty with the President Boyer is considered l •re to be all but signed; for the pro ject was forwarded to Hayti in the month of May, for his ratification, was founded on the results of the preceding negociation." It can hardly be doubted, and, in fact, we believe it to be unques tionable, that the recognition of this ancient French colony as an independent State will be followed up by a similar recognition of South American independence. Our Correspondents, who applaud the policy of these recognitions, are by no means disposed to pay the same com pliment to the fiscal regulations of the French Government. A new Custom House Ordinance (they say) has just been issued, the only benefit of which must be confined to the very few mer chants who may wish to trade to India direct, whilst the great mass of those who have indirect relations to that country must be seriously in jured. The duties on indigo, lac dye, pepper, pimento, and other spices, as well as on salt petre, &c. imported into France from the Euro pean entrep6ts, will be doubled, trebled, and in some instances quadrupled, while the duties on the same articles imported direct from India in French vessels will be proportionably dimi nished. [BRITISH PRESS. J The Aggregate Meetings under the. New Ca tholic Association are proceeding with all the energy of which they are capable ; but we do not think the result will afford Mr. O'Connell and his party any real cause for exultation. It is declared, and that too very gravely, that— " The first purpose of the New Catholic Associ ation is and shall be, that of promoting public peace and tranquillity, as well as private har mony and concord, amongst all classes of his Majesty's subjects in Ireland.." A very laudable purpose this, no doubt, and entitling the worthy projectors of it to the gratitude of ages. But the mode of effecting this desirable end is truly Hibernian. " Let us not forget," says the elo. quent Mr. Sheil a in the speech which ushered in this benevolent design, " that the former great confederacy of the Irish people, for such it may be justly designated, may still hold its meetings for fourteen days, for the redress of grievances in Church and State. What then do I propose ? Let the Hierarchy, the chief Clergy, the Nobi lity, the Gentry, and the leading Citizens of our body assemble from all parts of Ireland. Let their debates be continued from day to day, and let the whole mass of national grievances be brought under review." Who but an Irishman could have devised such a plan for promoting public peace and private harmony as this same ? And to take this course too with Paddy, who of all animals on the earth is the least peaceable under irritation! To assemble his countrymen of every rank, and from all parts, to debate ; and then to let loose upon their passions all that remembrance can furnish to exasperate—to empty at once among them the bud 4et of greivances—to bring the whole, in a mass, under review—and all this for the pur pose of pmducing national tranquillity !—peace and good-will, public and private ! This is an age of miracles in the Emerald Isle, so we will wait the event ; in the mean time, 'however, we do not underrate the danger. It is gratifying to observe, in the midst of all this, that Ireland is advancing in prosperity, in spite of the intempe rance of her agitators. The reason is, that the question of what is called Catholic Etrianci patiou does not interest the great mass of the community. They have other cases,other concerns, other anxieties; their care is to get food and rai ment : the sufferings of the peasantry of Ireland are those to which Catholic Emancipation can bring no remedy. To the wants under which Ireland herself labours it can bring no remedy either. She wants a respected middle class—a substan tial yeomanry—agricultural capitalists, wealthy by inheritance, and imbued with the spirit of euterprize : these are among her most pressing necessities. If you wish to emancipate Ireland —to emancipate her, that is, from the real grievances with which she is struggling, and by which her industry is overlaid, and her best energies enslaved —prepare her to profit by the advantages which surround her—keep her in that state of tranquil allegiance which will give en couragement by giving protection to the employ of British capital—rescue her population from igno rance, and f rom th at mora l pro fli g acy and habitual sloth which i gnorance a l ways b e gets. Emancipate the tenantry from the series of sub-landlords, the sinecurists of the soil, who reap the profit of har vests which they neither plough nor sow, and leave these miserable rack-rented slaves to con tend with Fate as they may. If the Hierarchy, the chief Clergy, the Nobility, and the Gentry of Ireland would turn their steady : and serious attention to the means best adapted to the eman cipation here reco mmen d e d, they : would do more to promote public peace and tranquillity, as well as private harmony and concord, than by any other mode which the patriotism of Mr. O'Cou nell can meditate, or any plan of association which his evasive ingenuity can devise. [MORNING POST.] We received last night by express, French Papers to the 18th inst., with the Eloile of Mon day. Accounts from Syria state that most of the foreigners who had enlisted in the service of the Pacha of Egypt, finding that, contrary to his promises, he was directing his forces and their abilities against Greece, had taken the first op portunity to effect their escape. They had en tered into engagements with him, because they considered him a liberal man, who was more dis posed to assert his own independence, than to bend to the dictates of the Porte. Indeed, it is said that he had assured them that his policy was to let the Grand Seignior exhaust his means whilst he strengthened himself, and that whatever aid lie might promise to give, he was too sensible 117 his own interest to afford it more than ver- Bally. The dilatory nature of his conduct dur ing the last two years was considered as a proof that he meant to maintain a disguised neutrality. From the moment, however, that he took an active part in the contest, those officers conceived themselves deceived if not betrayed, and hasten ed to quit his dominions and service as opportu nities of doing so presented themselves. Among those who have abandoned the Egyptian cause, are the two Counts of Lantosca, Piedmontese, and a great number of French and Italian veterans. Those who have remained, complai❑ loudly of the manner in which they have been treated, and say that they have found in Egypt " abundance of promises, but few effects, and a total want of good faith, and that envied, hated, and constantly menaced, there was no situation more deplorable than their own." In order to prevent the Austrians from reiterating their complaints, or threatening to take hostile measures, the Greek Government has issued a Decree, ordering the establishment of a Commission of five members at Napoli di Ro mania to examine strictly the merchant vessels sent in by the Greek fleet as having violated neutrality, before proceeding to condemnation. [TrIE PUBLIC LEDGER.] We have received the Paris Papers of Sun day ; but, with the exception of news from Greece, and this copied from The Allgemeine Zeitung, they contain nothing worth noticing.— According to this news, the Turks, who are be. sieging Missolonghi and Anatolico, are reduced to the greatest hardships for want of provisions. They had received some supplies from the Castle of Lepanto on the opposite side of the Gulph ; but these were soon consumed ; and to a second application an answer was return ed, that no more could be spared. By this scarcity the army of the Seraskier has been re duced from 16,000 men (its original amount), to less than 10,000. Moreover the Greeks, it is said, have been successful in all their sortees, and, upon the whole, the picture of their affairs in that quarter is favourable. When we recollect, that, to the last moment, reports equally gratify ing had been circulated respecting Nayarit], we cannot help distrusting the present accounts ; and, indeed, our fear is, that the results will be the same in both cases. Who, that had only read the statements, published by the friends of the Greeks, with respect to Navarin—the uniform success of the besieged, and the frightful difficulties to which the besiegers were reduced—could have possibly anticipated the fall of that important place. It had been even stated more than once, that the Egyptians were compelled to raise the siege, after having been defeated in a general engagement ; and other accounts went so far as to say, that they were obliged to surrender at discretion, after having attempted in vain to negociate a ca pitulation; by which they could retire un molested. It is now known that there was not a Word of truth in any of those state ments ; and what security have we that the intelligence respecting Missolonghi, is not fully as faithless ? 'the latter has not, in the first place, a thousandth part the chance of being relieved which Navarin had, because the chief strength of the Greeks lies in the Morea ; whereas their affairs in western Greece, of which Missolonghi is the capital, never assumed a con solidated character; and they are even indebt ed for the footing which they have held there hitherto, to the previous apathy of the Turks. When this apathy was exchanged for a little vigour, and when the Turks invaded the coun try to the amount of fifteen thousand men at most, they marched through it without encountering the slightest resistance ; and we therefore say again, what probability is there that Missolonghi will make a more snccessful resistance than Navarin has made. It is ex tremely painful to us to be obliged to make these remarks ; but the cause of truth and even the interests of Greece require them ; and it is far better in every respect that her real situation should be made known, than that a false should he thrown round her affairs. Well might she exclaim " save me from my friends;" for they have done infinite injury to her cause by their extravagant representations. When the exact truth is known, universal sympathy will be ex cited in her favour ; whereas, if the present system of delusion were kept up, she might sink irretrievably, whilst hollow or indisgreet friends were' blazoning forth imaginary trimplis on her part. [MORNING lii-:RALD.] There is something in the general tone and character of Irish oratory which resembles very much the tawdry tinsel embellishments, with which a certain class of the community are wont to adorn their persons ou May-Day. This is particularly discernible in a speech of Mr. Shiel, as reported in our paper of Monday ; and to which, it would augur quite as good taste to at tribute any one characteristic of true eloquence, as it would be to introduce the sooty we allude to, as q ualified to shi ne i n a drawing room. persons Yet this very speech is represented as having been received with " thunders o f a N plause;" just as we see similar effects produced by the rantings of a bad actor, on those upon whom the finest touches of nature are entirely thrown away. We wish that the rubbishy- em. broidery with which it is thus o roarneuted were all that we had to quarrel with it about. It carries with it, however, faults both of the head and heart, far from exceeding those of taste or composition ; and contains, in fact, expres sions which we will not sully our pages by repeat ing—but such (particularly those which relate to the King and Duke of York) as must do irre parable injury to the Catholic cause wi h every rank and description of Englishmen. Though we believe there is more of vanity than any thing else about all this, we have no hesitation in saying, that if the object of these agitators were to urge men to rebellion and bloodshed, that they might themselves share the spoil, we do not know of any language more appropriate to such an object than that attributed to M . Shiel. So completely fabulous (or perhaps, we should rather say, poetical) is this gentleman's imagination, that poor old Matter-of fact seems quite a stranger to his harangues. In proof of this, we have him on this occasion talking of the unbought CathOlic Priesthood—" our Clergy," says he, " the unbought Teachers of the Gospel." Now truly, we had thought, in the downright simplicity of our nature, that the Catholic Priesthood, like that of every other Church, " lived by the Altar." We thought, too, tha the way in which they were paid (for bought and paid mean the same thing here) was so extreme• ly oppressive to the people, that the object of one of the far-famed " wings," was to hand them over in one lot, to be bought in a good round sum out of the English Protestant Taxes. The bargain, it is true, did not take effect; but to talk of people as unbought, and that by one of the very deputation which was so ready to sell them, is somewhat amusing, and not a little fabulous and incredible. But so it is, a hen ardent zeal and bitter disappoint ment get, as in this gentleman's case, the reins of the imagination. Wretched Ireland ! when such people as these are your organs—thrice wretched - country ; when your wordy patriots are merely candidates for office ; and while in the pursuit of personal objects, and in the bit terness of personal regret, the great interests of the community are thus lost sight of and aban doned ! SURREY SESSIONS, JULY 19. Edward Partridge, aged 12 years, was indicted for feloniously stealing a hat, value 205., the property of Samuel Partridge, on the 13th of June last. It appeared that the prosecutor and the prisoner were brothers, and that the present proceedings were adopted from motives of humanity towards the prisoner, in order, if possible, to save him from a disgraceful end. The prisoner for nearly the last five years has been connected with a gang of thieves about his own age, whose depredation in the neighbourhood of the Borough have been carried to an alarming extent. The prisoner had repeatedly committed robberies on his parents and neighbours, and had been, in consequence of his youth, sent to the House of Correction at Brixton upwards of six times for such offences ; but all reformation appeared hope. less, as had been only a few days liberated from the above prison when he committed the robbery on the prosecutor. The case having been fully proved, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The CHAIRMAN, on passing sentence, observed that the Court were actuated by motives of mercy, in the hope that, at the period of his liberation, the prisoner might become a use ful member of society. The sentence of the Court was, that the prisoner be transported for the term of seven years. The prisoner appeared during the whole time with a smile upon his countenance. M. MACREADY has kindly forwarded to Mr. Rontss 5/. to be placed to the subscription now forming for the widow and family of the late Mr. JAMES BRANDON. Mn. OwEN. —A Gentleman in Louisville, on fhe Ohio, thus expresses himself on the schemes of Mr. ROBERT OWEN Lanark Owen is here, establishing a society on the Wabash, on a new plan. I was requested to give my opinion on the merits of his plan, which I did in one of the Louisville papers. I considered it as impracticable, from the dislike that free-born independent men must have to be told what they must eat, and what they must wear, and what they must do, by a man whom they might soon consider as neither better nor wiser than themselves. I also thought that no man, not a slave, would willingly give up his children, at the age of two years, to the charge of others, or consider him self as unfit company for his own child. 1 considered the greatest part of the happiness of mankind to arise from the ties that connect father and child, and that the severing -)f these ties must tend to render them selfish and heartless. I believed that there was not much advantage to be gained by co-opera tion of numbers—at least not enough to compensate for the absence of those most powerful motives to exertion, the fear of want and the love of wealth, neither of which could exist to any great degree in a society where all was in common."— ( Afanehester Gazette.) COURSE OF EXCHANGE, July 19. ‘msteittatu Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam l2 3 Antwerp l2 3 Hambtirgh • 86 10 24 Lis. Altotnt Paris,3 Day's sight Ditto finnuck:nix, ditto Berlin 7 0 i Fiankforton the Alain . Peteisburgh Vienna Trieste Madrid - -- Effeci ire . Cadiz Bi'boa Sq Eff e cti ve 35 Barcelona 3CI Gibraltat .. Leghorn Get,oa „ 451 -Venice, Ital. Lir 27 Malta -Naples 4of Palermo .. 122 pei (is Lisbon Oporto RioJatteiro Balms ...• 9t Cork 91 pet Cent. BULLION. Portugal Goldin Coin ..1,.0 0 0 per it s Foreign C;o1d, in L 3 ars New Doubloon ., New Dollars.. , • 315 Is Silver Standard in Bars, 0 0 u 0 lt u BIRTHS. On Saturday, Mrs. W. W. Simpson, of a daughter. On Monday, the 18th inst., at Lavender Sweep, Clapham common, the lady of John Ravenhill, jun., Esq., of a daughter. At Lucca, on the 2d inst., the Hon. Mrs. Burton was safely delivered of a son. On Monday evening, at his house in Queen-square, Blooms. bury, the lady of D. G. Dowling, Esq., of a daughter. 411A.RRIED. On Saturday last, the 16th inst., at Fulham, Mr. Robert Vizer, thnber-merchant, Holborn, to Miss Amelia Hollis, daughter of Thomas Hollis, Esq., Fair Lawn Cottage, Kew green, Surrey. On Tuesday morning, at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Thomas Somerset, Esq., of East Wick, near Marlborough, to Alice, youngest daughter of Joseph Munden, Esq., of Bernard-street, Russell. square. DIED. On Monday ;:yening; in the 9th year of her age, Anna Maria daughter of Viscount and 'Viscountess Folkestone. On the 17th inst., Mr. Lamb, of Pentonville. At Dover, at S atur d a y, t h e 16th inst., suddenly, Jonathan Osborn, Esq. ; in the Seth Jr:tar of his age, ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. CHELMSFORD, JULY 19. The Assizes for this county commenced yesterday. Th e Learned Judges, Lord Chief Justice BEST, and Mr. Bail GRAHAM, arrived here a bout t wo o' c l oc k. H av i ng oPeue • their Commission, their Lordships attended Divine Serviced : where an appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. Cautley, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Chaplain Peter Ducane, Es q . th e Hi g h Sh er iff, f rom the 18th chapter o `. St. Matthew, 7th verse. The Calendar contains only fort( prisoners, w but of whom there are no l es s th an s ix c h arg ed stealing horses. Upon the whole, the offences are of a f li serious nature, and likely to oc c upy th e at t en ti on o f the Cou rt to the full exten t o f th e usua l p er i o d cshich the Assizes gen rally last. Th e n um b er o f causes entere d f or tr i a l i n the €. , 1,1 Court, we h a v e n o t b een a bl e t o l earn ; th a t i n w hi c h o', Scarlett and the Att o r ne y-G enera l were ex p ec t e d, i s re ported si not likely to come on. HERTFORD ASSIZES. is i The Assizes concluded on Saturday night, when Tilorn it (ire n, for sheep-stealing ; Wm. Hills, for killing a calf , v" a intent to steal the same; Wm. Holder, for stealing 205. in ,; dwelling.house ; James David Carter, for a burgl a ry ; 111 % Wrench, for horse-stealing; Samuel Newman, for stealing j , watch ; Fran c is Anderson, fo r ste a lin g a l a mb ; Thos. Clar k and Thos. Arnold, for a robbery and assault on the highWY Nathan Warner, for cutting and maiming ; William Wa i l i n and William Wittick (being nine in number), were caPit'.„ e convicted.—Green was sentenced to be hanged, and sentev_7 l , of death was record e d upon th e oth e r s , b u t th e y wer e reprieve_t Wm. Dunnage, Charles Searle, and Wm. Hudgell, for ste xi c , ing tame rabbits, each to be transported for seven years; JO Dell, for feloniously ste a ling divers moni es , to b e transpor t `" for life. . WORCESTER, Jtruir 18. The Assizes for Worcester c mmenced to-day before 31 5' Baron GARROW, who presided in the Nisi P r i u s Court, $ 13 ,4 Mr. Justice -BURROUGH, who tried the prisoners. Tht; were 17 causes entered for trial, but - only 14 prisoners calendar. NISI PRIUS COURT. WRIGHT v. COURT AND OTHERS. This was an action of trespass brought by a labourer reSal i l at Redditch, in this county, aga in s t the D e p u ty Constablea o that place, for imprisoning the plaintiff without any reasorTiw or lawful cause, to which the defendants pleaded Not t t on which issue was joined, a nd a l s o sev e r a l sp e ci a l pleas P s Eying the arrest on suspicion of felony, to which there wag demurrer, which is not yet decided. re' The plaintiff's case was stated by Mr. Cuawoon, wh e .o a, presented it as one of considerable hardship and oppres',,, a t The plaintiff had been taken and imprisoned without wa,r7 r a: for three days; he had then been examined before a Alst strate on pretence of felony, but no evidence appeared ago' him ; and yet, because there was no evidence, he had D eo i, remanded till the Monday or Tuesday. Now, when her e „ lected who the Magistrate was who thus acted, and wh e ' r , s . found that a search in a wood was connected with the trap 0$ tion, he could not help suspecting that the plaintiff was `" 00 • dealt with, not because he was a felon, but because lie was c sidered a poacher. . $ 5 Mr. Baron GARROW checked this line of observation' as the conduct of the Magistrate (Lord Anson) was notti°7 , oc h issue, and as the question was solely on the legality of $ ' detention as the constable must answer for. The imprisonment was proved by a witness named ‘ 3143 ,,,0-• Cousins, who lived in a room over the place used as 3 t en:1 4110 rary prison, and in which the plaintiff was co nfined- rSA , proved, that between one and two in the morning of Thil,7;l i t November 4, Court and the other defendants brought W l 4.e. to the prison, which she described as damp and u ncoltu b e. able, and left him there till Saturday, when he was taken ao fore Lord Aston, and remanded till Tuesday, on whichl t h a t he was again examined, a nd di sc h a r ge d. Sh e a lso 54'his , since the action was brought she h a d h ea rd Court exPre so sit determination to ruin the family o f the Wri g hts', and t„ i c s4' months to leave them without a b e d to lie on. She Was, - boY examined as to a conversation between the plaintiff and n who was related to him, on the night of his conarnitrue l ? 4 , b he at asked if lie did not say th a t th e officers had found notiu n ,°„t his ferrets, as he h a d t a k en care ; b u t s h e persisted t•L l : s lie merely said `'the officers had found nothing," and t hn ` had never given a different account of the dialogue. • e idict Mr. JEavzs, for the defendants, admitted that a v so must pass for the plaintiff; but contended that, inasratldO the constables had acted bona fide and oa reasonable gwidie of suspicion, they o ug ht only to be visited with n oiniaa got mages. To substantiate this defence, he proved that at t ie several times in the four months preceding the tresrslbt, manufactories in Redditch had been broken into in t 7011' and large quantities of needles and fishhook, finished 101,101. finished, stolen. On the 3d November, a person named' i 7 iFt ) nett was taken into custody, and made some disclosures , 7 0 , could not be given in evidence, in consequence a yin, di; meeting of the prosecuting association was convene of? evening. At this meeting it was resolved, .that the lin t ij Ad man named Crowther should be searched, and alti•O' being made to Lord Aston, for warrants to search ` 0 ,1,‘ other places, they were granted, and put into Court's_ i 3 O h it, Court, thus authorized, took with him assistants, o.lstr oil e could not that night search the house, determined to t oilt in order that no property might be conveyed away. 0 14 11 43 4 a in the morning, Wright was observed to come froth i" t ole' 4• . l , in company with Crowther, and after some conversatiOl be him and proceed to the neighbourhood of a wood. •,;(1 taken by Court and the other defendants, and convele4o,o,o prison, no warrant having been issued for his apprehea:oo,'" o g detained till Saturday, when he was examined and 700 11 ;$ till Monday, upon which day, and not on Tuesday, to the testimony of Lord Aston, he was discharged. C,,,P' e house was searched, but nothing was found to justify w ro el„ . l i s cion which had been excited. Mr. Robinson, the att ° ,goi the defendants, contradicted Sarah Cousins as to that 17 0 . b , evidence which referred to the conversation in the fnl s ortap. Lord Aston, being called to prove th a t h e i s sued the fhila warrants, said that he h a d d e stroyed th e inforto!'-eil, other papers, which he considered useless ; and expla i n,so o ,, he remanded the plaintiff under expectation that evideon' te d for be produced, as much alarm had been caused by retied ,s • fir, beries. ',,'ect Being questioned by Mr. CURWOOD on this Suq,„ t ioa,„, some sharpness, his Lordship complained of the insinl i ;plV: the Counsel, that he was actuated by a suspicion that c tiff was a poacher. Mr. Cu swoon—My Lord, I must do my duty , • o f Lord Aston--You have done it a little roughly, , An otan Mr. Baron °ARROW interposed, and said he wouT,„ e ss this kind of conversation between a Counsel and a The Learned JUDGE took a view of the whole olfil o - t ac o ously with a feeling that the defendants had acte, ti ti ght t vi and without malice. He directed the Jury, if they W„ e psi;,o view correct, to give the plaintiff a moderate COt. r g re d P;il for the injury lie had sustained; but if they euns t Court was actuated by a malicious motive, to give t he p far ample damages. yer elet The Jury, after a short consultation, returned . • the plaintiff—Damages 5L WINCHESTER ASSIZES, JULY 10' ht THORNTON V. WARD, ES Q. 010, The plaintiff, a civil engineer, re s ident a t Hayan L ,pc this action against George %% Esq., of Nort— h bc .di p iroi in the Isle of Wight, to recover 9001. a nd upwards , A . ' plaintiff claimed as due to him for erecting a wharf 0 7 a dock, at Cowes. It appeared from the opening t n cewria Williams, the plaintiff's Counsel, that the expected e'''''-estii„,pi that the whole work had failed. The Learned Ju e ; r e ?, the cause, suggested the propriety of a reference , 4 , 4 11- AO O , l O declined, not only by the defendant's Counsel ori":4 1 pl y but by the defendant himself, who stated ( opt deference to his Lordship) his wish to have t ,, cs ie o of the Court and the Jury on the facts of although, if that should be that th e plaintiff was el' at h i e r: s tl 6 thing, the question of amount mi g ht b e r eferred. tiff's case having been gone through, a suggesti° ll , from the plaintiff, to Which the defendant instant4.olo,ol and, to the satisfaction of a ll p art i es , a juror wits ~W O , l rtY:iie# by which the plaintiff gave up hi s de m and, and ea c '' pay his own costs. By this all differences between,it are at an end, a result honourable to both—to th e „,: t4 , e %rb e 'f i cel' at once withdrawing without puffing in at dele n— 't found his claim untenable, and to defendant fora c °- 0 5-41 tx d.' 'M r ing, although tenacious of right when it is contes, not to press when that right has been admitted.--i '- Paper. - • t 5 f 11° V °. In • • Lot,sequenee of tile disgruce.ti Whitecross-street, and its vicinity, the Staff of the P O 4- r e. don Militia have b een on d uty ever w i nce , a t th eir ' h oe °I: p4 ters, Bunhill-row, in order t o b e i n rea diness, to c.i p esve petition of such di sagreea bl e scenes a s We" . WI Sunday evening. 9 to oil Last week, a woman happening to Pa!„ th ictl . „ A tr. a field near Bruff, in the county of Limerick, in ,""is re., l)l o' was, was gored to death by the animal ; and wA a .. O l able, she was on her way to the Sessions, w P.. owner of it for an assault. tbi Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS+ ir ;00 °MICE, No. 112, Strand, by J. 13. Cell-