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gree subsided, and that these obstreperous blun derers or hypocrites begin to find that it is at once wearisome and imprudent to disguise any longer the selfish objects of party under the mask .of affection for the memory of departed genius, we think it due to the character of a host of 'tatesmen, the predecessors, the colleagues— many of them the superiors, in all the essential qualifications of Statesmen ) of the late Premier— to look back to the course of British policy for the late few years; and if in doing this we shall in evitably dim the glory by which it is attempted to surround the name of a servant recently lost to the State, it is because other and more valu able servants of the State have been injured by this fraudulent attempt ; because the rays of this glory ought elsewhere to shed their brightness—. because the precious ointment by which it is sought to emb“ l -» him, is ointment stolen from the hallowed tomb of others, It is since the conclusion of the late war that all the events have occurred, and all the principles have been asserted or established, upon which it is at tempted to found a claim on behalf of the late Premier to an historical pre-eminence over his contemporaries and his more immediate prede cessors. It is only necessary, therefore, briefly to examine these principles and events, in order to show that the pretension is at once the most fraudulent, arrogant, and senseless, by which it was ever sought to obscure and distort the annals of a nation—in order to show that there is not one occurrence in the 'whole series of events, or one maxim in the existing volume of national policy to which the name of Canning can be appended as a solitary name—not one even to which it can be appended in the highest place. The first important event to which we can refer was the formation of the Holy Alliance—a league of Sovereigns, having for its declared object to check the tende ncy to revolution supposed to exist at that period in many of the Continental States, and to gua rantee the world, agitated and almost torn to pieces by antecedent revolutions, a period of calm and of repose—a league of Sovereigns sus pected, and with much appearance of reason, of having for its real object to perpetuate and ex., tend the sway of arbitrary principles, and to ex. ! tinguish among nations the hopes, thc aspira tions, and the intelligence, which lead to free dom. This league was, it is now said, sane tioned by the British Government, the two most in. fluential membersof which were at the time Lord Liverpool and Lord Castlereagh ; and England; chained by them to the car of this league, was finally redeemed from the bondage and degrade) tion by the bold, generous, and energetic mind of Mr. Canning. Both assertions are noto+ eiously unfounded. England never was in tbe trammels of the Holy Alliance, and never • therefore, could be rescued from them. Frond the first she stood aloof, in declared and une quivocal disapprobation. The form of thq league, bearing as it does the personal signatures of the confederated Monarchs, was not the cause why England refused to become a party to it ; that form might easily, and for sake of an acces sion much less important than England, would have been changed. It was the refusal of England more probably which suggested the expediency of that extraordinary form, as a means of concealing from the world the im. i portant fact that the E ng li s h Government sulel stantially disapproved of the league. We are warranted in affirming that the principles of the English Government were the same at that period as they continued to the moment of Lor d Liverpool's illness. What its principles are :1 the present moment, it is impossible for any body to say. The conduct pursued by England when the views of the Holy Alliance werd practically illustrated—first, in putting down by force of arms the new Constitutions adopted by certain of the Italian States ; and next, in re-es tablishing the despotic authority of Ferdinand in Spain—affbrds the fullest proof of the iden tity for which we contend. The language and policy of Lord Londonderry in the former of these instances, and of Mr. Canning in the latter, were substantially and in effect the same, But the merit of having determined the course of national policy upon these and similar consei quences, and the scarcely inferior merit of having invariably maintained that dignified consistency which ought always to subsist between the policy of the State, and the tone and manner of its highest functionaries belong exclusively to the form er . It w ill in like manner be easy to show, as we shall soon take an opportunity of doing, that the praise which has been lavished upon Mr. Canning on account of the recognition of the South American States, is equally misapplied as regards him, and an equally fraudulent substruc tion from the merits of other men. The same thing may be said of the new commercial regu'. lations. It is thus that for the purposes of party the memory of the deceased Statesman is really dishonoured under the shew of affection. The statue of Canning might surely be crowned by a wreath appropriate to himself; rather than by one composed exclusively of mock materials—by one containing in fact not a single flower but what is a spurious imitation of such as flourish, and will for ever flourish in unfading fragrance upon some other brow. The object of this injustice is how ever sufficiently evident. The policy of the English Government is to be nick-named the policy of Mr. Canning, in order, if possible, to shield the Whigs from the ridicule which must pursue them when they imitate, as imitate they must, in most respects, at however humble a distance, the policy which is really that of Lord Liverpool and the Marquis of Londonderry. A thousand false distinctions are to be imagined and asserted between these distinguished States men and the late Premier, to the manifest injury of the latter — for the mere convenience or the present Whig Administration.—Morning Post. The return of the Duke of Wellington to the command of the Army, a source, we will ven ture to say, o f a s general satisfaction as his re tirement from it was of regret, furnishes a fresh opportunity for displaying that ready adaptatien to existing circumstances of which the Ministe r i a l Press has of late shown such striking specimens. One thing cannot be denied — viz. that if the Duke of Wellington's retirement from the com mand- of the Army was a misfortune to the country ; that misfortune was brought on it by Mr. Canning ; and if his Grace's return be an advantage, it is owing to the absence (me lancholy enough it is true) of the cause which led to the other. But what we would allude to me the fulsome eulogimns which are now show ering on his Grace from the same fountains, 14 hnne streams are hardly dry, with which they vomited forth all the filth and spawn of vitupera tion Upo n the very head they now so loudly honour. These• convenient, but disgusting changes of opinion, bring, it must be confessed, more dishonour upon the Press than any cir cumstance whatever. If truth be immutable, what kind of permanence has it in the eyes of those who thus pervert its plainest dictator, and to-day call the self-same thing white, which yesterday was to their vision " black as jet ?" But this is, and always has been, the result of fac tion'. Men and things viewed through the medium of party feeling, lose their true colours to the jaundiced eye ; and though the Duke of Wellington of to-day is the self-same Duke in all respects as him of yesterday, yet he is on a sudden once more an angel in the sight of those who, up to the very hour of his return to office, depicted him in colours dark enough it is true, but only disgraceful to themselves. Those who conduct the press ought to remember, that it has enemies enough ready to seize, with se cret exultation ; on these discrepancies ; and, if they t attic their own fame and interest at all, to say nothing of the cause of truth and consistency, they ought to hesitate before they commit them selves in such scenes of unblushing tergiversa tion as such instances as that in question involve them in. For ourselves, though valuing the Duke of Wellington's services most highly, and rejoicing at his return to a post he is so emi nently, if not exclusively, qualified to till, we do not rejoice at it the less from there being now a personage at the head of the Admiralty, whose zeal and attention towards that main pillar of our national strength is calculated to rescue it from the degree of comparative neglect into which it had fallen. We do not mean to undervalue the splendid and valuable services of the Army, or of its great leader, when we say that it is well for the country that during the Duke of Welling ton's temporary retirement a new era for the Navy has arisen, and that there is now every prospect of the one service being as much fos tered and attended to under the Duke of Cla rence as the Army has been under the Duke of Wellington and the Duke of York. One thing we must, in very homely language, recommend . to both these exalted persons, which is, " to cut their coat according to their cloth." It is a mis take to imagine, as is too much the case in all public departments of this country, that nothing can be done without unbounded expence. There can be no doubt but that in both services, but especially in the Army, great expence might be cut down, with benefit rather than disadvantage. It is from no feeling of beggarly economy that we say this ; on the contrary, we are convinced that we but reiterate the general feeling of the country, when we declare, that we would on no account see diminished one iota of charge, which can in any way tend to the comfort and due splendour of the two services, to which, under Providence, we owe the preservation, the safety, the welfare, and honour of the country.—Morn ing Herald. We give in a preceding column a letter from our Correspondent at Lisbon, which contains mach interesting and important information, re specting the events that have lately taken place in that capital. It would appear that illness had broken down the spirit of the Princess Regent, who originally met with so much energy the dif ficulties and dangers of the period when she was first entrusted with the direction of public ffairs, for she now displays a degree of timidity which destroys all the strength of her Government, and greatly increases, if it does not altogether create, the divisions and disturbances to which Lisbon is a prey. She is said to have threatened, in her alarm, to abdicate her high office, if decisive steps were not taken to suppress the expression of popular opinion, and to have almost shown a disposition to submit to the dictation of the Mother Queen, who has throughout been the most bitter enemy to the Constitution. In 'fact, the Ultras begin to entertain the most sanguine hopes. They see the Constitutionalists divided into two parties, the Ministerialists and the Revo lutionists. They see them ready to come to blows, and they wait patiently whilst their oppo nents are destroying their respective strength, in order to rush upon the weakened combatants when the signal shall be given, and to seize the chief authority of the State, without the possi bility of meeting with effectual resistance. It is lamentable that the friends of the Constitution should be so blind to their own interests, and to those of their country, as to throw away all the advantages which they possess in senseless squab bles ; and the only gratifying feature in the whole business is the steady neutrality of the British force, which, though not uninvited to take part in the conflicts of political antagonists, gives to all parties an example of order and self-command, which it would be for the welfare of the King dom that they should imitate. It was reported that the arrests made to dissipate the apprehen sionS of the Princess Regent, amounted to 300 individuals, most of them of high distinction, but our correspondent believes that they did not ex ceed sixty. He also states that Oporto was cer tainly the seat of disturbances similar to those which had agitated the capital.—New Times. It is stated in most of the daily Papers, and we ourselves have inadvertently admitted, that the foreign exchanges have " turned against us." If, by " turning against us," means that they have done so relatively to what they were a f ew posts since, the position is correct ; but if i t means that the exchanges are absolutely agai ns t us, that is below par, it is erroneous. The par of London with Paris is 25f. 15c. ; the sti l t course of last Friday was 25f. 45c., that is to say, about 14 per cent. in favour of England. The late export of gold is, therefore, unconnec ted with the state of the exchange ; it has not taken place as a substitute for bills, because they are, in the above state of things, a preferable remittance. The real cause of the export in question lies in the relative price of gold and silver in France. The par of 25f. 15c. is obtained by a combination of the price of gold, the stan dard currency of England, and the market price of gold at Paris in silver, which is the standard cur rency of France ; and this market price of gold is variable. Napoleons are worth, intrinsically, compared with the sovereign, 15s. 9id. They are now at a premium of 12d., something more than per cent., a profit sufficient to occasion the transmission to France of sovereigns, and still more of gold bullion, on which, a t 3/. 17s. 6d., the market price, till within these few days, there is an additional profit of about one-third per cent. And yet, to this operation, so easily accounted for, is traced the fall in the funds ; from it the conclusion is drawn, that " too much gold has been suffered to float upon the market," mid that " the duty of the Bank is," in this case, " obvious ; they must reduce the paper circulation." In short, to believe those who arc interested in exciting . alarm, we are on the brink of another panic, unless timely measures are taken by the Bank to avert it ! We quote from a cotemporary, rather given to dogmatizing upon most subjects, and least of all entitled to dogmatize upon this. The whole of that writers reason ings upon the currency apply to an in convertible paper ; they are good for nothing applied to a convertible paper, which the paper of the Bank of England is to all, intents and purposes ; and of which it is an inherent quality to adapt itself, with the greatest attainable accuracy, to the demands of the circulation. The slightest excess must produce a. demand for specie, and that specie, be equally superfluous with the paper which it had displaced, must merge in the common market of the world : as, on the other hand, the void occasioned by any deficiency of such paper must immediately be filled up, either by the additional issues of it, for which there will be a demand, and which it is the inte rest and the appropriate function of the Bank to supply, or by coin, which will be required from the Mint, in exchange for bullion taken to it, at the reduced market price, which must follow an un due contraction of the paper currency. Even the case of the exchanges being absolutely against us, by no means argues an excess of paper ; it happens indiscriminately in countries or places where the currency is wholly metallic, as at Hamburgh, where it consists in convertible paper, as in France and Austria—or in non convertible paper, as in Russia, it is occasioned by the state of the balances of payments at the time, or by the local and temporary demand for the precious metals in any particular country, forming an additional item of the payments to be made by that country. This exportation of coin is, therefore, no symptom of an over-issue : it forms no ground of alarm ; and for the Bank of England to take the hint of our cotemporary, on such grounds, to contract its issues, would be about as wise a measure as for a physician to drug and debilitate a patient in whom nature was working her own cure.—lbid. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—The Inquest Jury of Cripple gate, by whom Briggs, of Grub-street, was summoned to Guildhall on Saturday, for having used false weights and measures, by which he defrauded the public, applied to the Lord Mayor yesterday for a summons, calling upon Briggs to appear before his Lordship on the same subject. They exhibited to his Lordship the scales which had been taken from Briggs. The Loan 'Hilton said, he perceived that the inquest had not been punctual in their attendance at Guildhall on Saturday, when the case came on before Alderman Crow der, and advised them to make another application at that office, if they thought they had a case. The inquest excused themselves for want of punctuality, by stating that the delay arose from the unavoidable absence of their vestry clerk. They particularly wished to have the case heard before his Lordship, as it was one of great public importance. The Loan MAYOR—And for what do you wish me to summon him ? Inquest—For using false weights and measures. The Loup iIIAYoR said that Briggs's weights and mea sures could not be called false. The Inquest stated, that the string by which Briggs contrived to defraud the public made the weights and mea sures false. His LORDSHIP said, that the Act of Parliament did not so designate false weights, and he could not conceive how a charge under the act could be substantiated. The string was certainly a device, by which Briggs contrived to practice frauds upon the public, but the weights and mea sures would be found upon the closest examination to be liKe others. Mr. Holder thought that the Inquest ought to have gone more deliberately to work, and have ascertained the defici. cures in the article which Briggs sold in half-a-dozen in stances. There would then have been no difficulty in sup porting an indictment for fraud. The LOAD 3lAyoa expressed the utmost willingness to assist in punishing so vile a system of fraud as that Briggs had practised with so much skill, if the means were pointed out to him ; but he could not see in what manner he could interfere. The Inquest still pressed for a summons, but his Lord ship declined granting one, upon the ground that he was not authorized by the Act to inflict a penalty after hearing the case. The Ward Inquest, who manifested a great deal of praiseworthy anxiety upon the subject, hoped that the ne ces6ary exposure would be given to all eases of the kind, however defective the evidence might be as required by the Act of Parliament. BOW-STREET.-1 1 'n Alan.— George Palmer, a rough looking fellow, in the dress of a sailor, was charged with having fraudulently obtained some goods, from Mr. Wilson, a perfumer, in the Strand. It appeared that, on Tuesday last, the prisoner went into Mr. Wilson's shop, and inquired of Mr. Wilson if there was any other perfumer's shop be tween his and Northumberland-house ?—Mr. Wilson said, there was not.—" Oh, then," said the prisoner, " I sup pose this is the shop to which I was sent." He added, " I was directed by Captain Turner, of Bloomsbury-square, to desire you would send him some dressing-cases, and also some teeth, nail, and hair-brushes, as he wishes to see a variety, before he determines upon purchasing them." " Now," said the prisoner, " I am going to the Admiralty; and, if you will pack up the dressing-eases and the brushes, your boy can accompany me, and receive the money from the Captain, for any portion he may select."—Mr. Wilson agreed to the arrangement. The prisoner went to the Ad miralty ; and, when he returned from thence, he found the boy, with the parcel, waiting to accompany him. They, accordingly, set out for Bloomsbury-square; but, when they arrived at the corner of Kingsgate-street, in Holborn, the prisoner told the boy to wait while he went into a house for a letter which he was to call for, for his master. He came out in a few minutes, and then said, that the letter was not written, and requested the boy to wait until it was. finished. The prisoner then disappeared, and hastening to the Strand, he went again to Mr. Wilson's shop, said that the Captain had examined the things that had been sent, but that he wanted a smaller dressing-case, and some clothes-brushes, and if they were sent immediately, he would pay the boy for them altogether. Mr. Wilson, be lieving the man's statement, gave him the dressing-case and a couple of clothes-brushes, and he left the shop. In the mean time, the boy having stood about Kingsgate-street until he was quite tired, went to Bloomsbury-square, and made inquiry for Captain Turner; and being unable to find him, returned home. The fraud was then discovered. On Saturday last the boy, whose name is Waghorn, saw the prisoner in Westminster, and, having followed him till he saw him enter a public-house, procured a constable, and had him taken into custody. The desk and brushes he had obtained were valued at 18s. When called upon for his defence, he said he should re serve what he had to say for another occasion. He was remanded, and the officer who took him into custody was instructed to make inquiry, to discover if he had committed any other frauds. The improvements in St. James's-park are proceeding with rapidity. They are now raising a large mound of earth, as it is intended to prevent any view of the building for the use of the Horse Guards from the Royal Palace, erecting on the site of Buckingham House. The water in St. James's-park is to be converted into a serpentine canal, which is to be int ers p erse d w i t h sma ll elevated islands, planted with various rare and curious shrubs. The Prince of Wales and Mr. Pitt were walk ing in the gardens of Stowe, apart from the general com pany, who followed them at some distance. They were engaged in earnest conversation, when Lord Cobham ex pressed his apprehension to one of his guests that Mr. Pitt would draw the Prince into some measures of which his Lordship disapproved. The gentleman observed, that the tete-a-tete could not be of long duration. 4 , si r, " sa i d Lord Cobham, with eagerness, "you don't know Mr.. Pitt's talent of insinuation ; in a very short quarter of an hour be can persuade any one of any thing. "..,,Butler's Reminiscences. USEFUL PENANCE.--A Neapolitan curate, whose parish was miserably bare of wood, hit upon the following plan to supply the deficiency, after advice and exhortation had failed. When persons came before him in confession, instead of prescribing a certain number of pater nosters or litanies to be recited as a penance, he directed the sinner to plant a fruit or forest tree, and so abundant was the crop of iniquity, that when be died, after an in cumbency of 33 years, the parish was like a large orchard. —Scotsman. Several pieces of ancient coin were found, on pulling down the organ gallery in St. James's Church, Bury St. Edmund's ; and, what is rather singular, a small knife and fork in a case were also found under one of the pillars, the handles of which are very curious, having figures, &c. on them. They are supposed to have been in the Church upwards of 100 years. The sexton sold them to an innkeeper, 'who has had since his purchase many visitors. WARBURTON'S LUNATIC ASYLUM. SUMMER ASSIZES. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—WARWICK, Auc. 17. The Assizes for this county commenced yester day, the commission having been opened the evening before. The calendar contained the names of 80 prisoners, and in the cause list 37 causes were en tered for trial. one of the cases tried yesterday in the Crown Court were of any interest, and the Nisi Prius Court was occupied during the whole of the day with an ejectment case, and some undefended causes. SATURDAY, AUG. 13. LIBEL.-ADAMS, ESQ. V. MERRIDEW. Mr. CLARKE, assisted by the COMMON SER GEANT and Mr. HILL, stated that the plain tiff in this case, who was a most respect able Magistrate of the county of Warwick, had been grossly libelled by the defendant, who had thought proper to circulate 2,000 handbills, casting the grossest aspersions upon his character as a Ma gistrate. Every person must recollect the circum stances attending the last election for Coventry.— The tumults and riots which took place on that oc casion were so serious, and the local Magistrates were either so unable or so unwilling to suppress them, that a number of the inhabitants presented a petition to Parliament, praying that the county Ma gistrates might receive a concurrent jurisdiction with the Aldermen in the city of Coventry, whereby order would be more likely to be preserved in future. The prayer of this petition having been acceded to by the HouSe of Commons, a Bill was introduced for that purpose, and while under discussion the_ libel now complained of was published. It first ap peared in the Coventry Herald; and lest it might not be sufficiently circulated through that channel, it was re-published next day in a handbill, copies of which were industriously spread through all parts of the county. It was in tile shape of a letter signed by " A Churchman," and addressed " To the petitioners for opening the jurisdiction of the city to the county Magistrates." After describing these gentlemen as being mostly clergymen who could not find time, con sistently with a due discharge of their spiritual duties towards their flocks, particularly as some of them held several livings, to attend to the quarrels or differences of the people of Coventry, the handbill went on to say, (and this was the part set out in the pleadings as the libel upon the plaintiff)—" The other two Magistrates having jurisdiction within our county are H. C. Adams, Esq., and the Rev. Mr. Gregory, the latter of whom is upon the continent. With re spect to Mr. Adams, he is Chairman to the Finance Committee of the county of Warwick, and has audited accounts containing items of 12,0001., for the nominal purpose of furnishing lodgings, plate, &c., for the Judges, but which expen diture, in reality, was to find accommodation for the Magistrates, as the Sheriff always found the Judges suitable lodgings, without putting the county to any expence." The writer then proceeded to warn the people of Coventry against the consequences of opening the jurisdiction of Coventry to these gentlemen; and again alluding to Mr. Adams, said, " To be sure, we shall have the benefit of his experience in the expenditure." No thing could be more false or malicious than this libel, which imputed to this most respectable Magistrate, and as honourable a man as any in existence, that he had taken advantage of the situation which he filled to saddle the county with an expence of 12,000/. to provide himself and his brother Magistrates with lodging and accommodation, under the pretence of finding it for the Judges. The Learned Counsel, after observing upon the malignity of this libel, and the manner in which it had been circulated, added, that it was still further aggravated by the fact of the defendant having put a justification upon the record, of which the plaintiff dared him to the proof. The hand-bill was then proved and read. It was to the effect above set forth, and was stated at the bottom to have been " printed by Merridew and Son, printers." A witness was called, who swore that he was employed by Mr. Henry Merridew, the defendant's son, to distribute copies of the hand-bill, and that he had done so as publicly as possible. Mr. READER. (who was assisted by Messrs. Gout.- BURN and CLINTON) addressed the jury for the de fendants. lie had never risen with more painful feelings in his life than on the present occasion. He had known the plaintiff, Mr. Adams, long and well, and could take upon himself to say, that a more re spectable or more honourable man did not exist. He also knew the defendant, who was one of the Alder men of Coventry, and was judicially connected with him, he (the Learned Counsel) having the honour of being the steward of their court. He did not believe that the plaintiff had brought this action for the purpose of vindicating his character from any imaginary imputations contained in this publication, but that it proceeded from disappointed ambition, in being refused a distinguished office which he had been desirous of obtaining. _ At the commencement of the Learned Gentle man's address, Lord Tenterden yawned loud enough to be heard by Mr. Reader, who was immediately below him. The latter instantly stopped, and looked up at his Lordship, who said, " I beg your pardon." —" 0, my Lord," said Mr. Reader, " I beg yours ; I hope I have not disturbed your repose."—" I assure you, Mr. Reader," observed his Lordship, "it was perfectly accidental." Mr. Reader, who seemed very much agitated, immediately said, that " one word from the Noble and Learned Lord on the bench was enough to satisfy him. He had re ceived numerous marks of kindness from the Noble and Learned Lord, and be entertained the most un bounded respect and veneration for that eminent person; but his (Mr. Reader's) feelings were easily excited, and were easily wounded." The Learned Counsel then resumed his address. HIS LORDSHIP summed up the case to the Jury, who after about half an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 251. HOME CIRCUIT.--MAIDSTONE, Au°. 18. ADAMS V. MABERIX, ESQ., M.P. This was an action of trespass, for cutting down and carrying away the plaintiff's trees. Plea, not guilty.' The case, as proved on the part of the plaintiff, was this :—The plaintiff was an accountant, gene rally residing in London ; but having a small estate at Beckenham, in this county. The defendant was a gentleman of large fortune, a Member of Parlia ment, and possessed of very extensive estates con tiguous to that of the plaintiff, where he had great quantities of game, which he preserved most rigidly. The plaintiff had granted a lease of his estate to a Mrs. Wildman, reserving to himself all timber of every description, and the reservation expressly named, among other trees, alders, of which there were several clumps upon the land, of particularly fine growth, and highly valuable and ornamental. Mrs. Wildman underlet the estate to the defendant, and her rent becoming in arrear, and applications having been in vain made to both parties for pay ment, the plaintiff distrained upon the defendant for the amount. This produced some angry feelings between the parties, and a correspondence took place, in which the defendant was made acquainted with the reservation, in Mrs. Wildmait's lease, of the alder trees. The defendant then gave the plaintiff notice that he should quit at the next Michaelmas; and four days before Michaelmas-day, he sent between 50 and 60 men upon the estate, who, under his direction, cut down every one of the plaintiff's favourite alder trees, cut them - up into bavins, and removed them in the defendant's waggons, to his own adjoining land; cutting gaps in the plaintiff's hedges for the purpose of taking the waggons through, though they might have gone round by the road without having recourse to that expedient. When the men first began to cut down the trees, the plaintiff sent to the de fendant, and warned him to desist, but the warning was not attended to. The trees, which were of 30 years' growth, and tif considerable size, varying from three to twelve inches diameter, were valued at 451. to sell ; but as an ornament to the estate, they were described as being invaluable. The Jury, after a short deliberation, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 804 On Saturday afternoon an Inquest was held at the Elephant and Castle, Pancras-road, before Mr. Stirling, on the body of a poor woman, named Ann Goldstock alias Coldstoek, about fifty years of age, who had for some time been a patient in Warburton's Lunatic Asylum. The Inquest was promoted by several gentle men, who were dissatisfied with the treatment the deceased had received in the Asylum. After the Jury had been sworn, Mr. Dillon, the parish surgeon, addressed the Coroner and Jury. He said, that as the medical attendant to the parish, he considered it his duty to visit the lunatics in the White House, at Bethnal Green. On the 14th July he went there, accompanied by Dr. Siamond, and then the deceased was brought to them for examination ; she appeared in such a state of disease, and there appeared such a want of proper medical attendance and care of her health and constitution, that, when her death took place, he deemed it proper to submit the case to the Coroner and Jury. Dr. Sigmond, of Dover-street, Piccadilly, said, on the 14th of July, I accompanied Mr. Dillon, by his request, to visit the patient, in the lunatic establishment called the White House, in Bethnal Green ; I had previously visited the Asylum, for the purpose of more particularly in quiring into the case of a man, and who, in con sequence of that visit, was liberated ; I found the deceased in a state of great emaciation and debility ; she was not able to walk without the support of the table ; in fact, it was mere crawl ing ; the complaint that she made was, that her bowels had been acted upon twenty or thirty times in the course of the day, and she was pre vented sleeping at night by the noise made by the other lunatics. The question was put to her whether she had any medical treatment ? She said that she had nothing done for her. Mr. Dillon, in answer to some questions put by the Jury, said, when a pauper is sent into the Asylum, notice is not given to him, as the parish medical attendant, but the establishment repre sent that they provide for the pauper lunatics, and they send in the amount of their charges for their maintenance. In the last bill there was a charge made for medicine, as well as for support. Mr. Henry Beeston, of 12, Old Broad -street, City, Medical Student, had attended at the White House since May last, on behalf of Mr. Dunstan, who had been prevented attending, in consequence of the illness and decease of his wife. About the 15th June the deceased was intro duced to him as a patient, and about a week after she was attacked with diarrhoea. She died on Monday last of, I think, simple diarrhoea. She was so severely attacked with the complaint, and bec_une in such an emaciated state, that we found it impossible to rally her. The deceased made no complaint of ill-treatment, or want of atten tion. ii never discovered any inflammation. Mr. Dillon—Was this woman put into any of the straw rooms ?—Witness. I don't know that there arc any straw rooms. I never saw any. Mr. Dillon—Was she put into either of the small crib; ? Witness—No, certainly not.—As much care was taken of her as other patients. Mr. Wright, one of the Surgeons of the Parish Infirmary, said that the deceased was sent to the White House, Bethnal-green, on the 13th June last. Upon the body being opened, it appeared that the deceased had died from a chronic inflammation of the bowels. In answer to a question put by a Juror, the witness said, that the state of the deceased's mind would have produced debility, and inflammation might have ensued in consequence. Mr. Dillon, Ivho resides in Fitzroy -street, was then examined. He corroborated Mr. Sig mond's statement. He complained that the de ceased had not received proper attention when in the Asylum, and that she had been placed among the noisy lunatics, and deprived of rest. A conversation here took place between the Jury and Mr. Dillon, and the former observed, that it was a mere farce to sand Mr. Dillon to inspect the state and condition of the pauper lunatics, unless he was also authorised to make such alterations as he might deem proper. Mr. Scadding, one of the Directors of the Poor, said that the Parish Officers were anxious to do every thing that laid in their power for the comfort of the pauper lunatics. Dr. Roots, of Guildford-street, was then ex amined : he said, that on the 3d August he visit ed the deceased in the Lunatic Asylum, by di rection of the Parish Board. He found her in a very comfortable bed, and she appeared to have been supplied with proper medicines to stop a diarrhoea, under which she laboured. Inflamma tion was the cause of her death. A long conversation again took place between the Jury and the medical men, the former con tending that the person deputed by the parish to report to them the condition of the pauper lunatics ought to be invested with greater power. Ultimately a verdict was returned— ,, That the deceased died by the visitation of God." CHOKEDAR.--The inhabitants of Bengal usually sleep with their doors and windows open. A chokedar (or watchman) is employed by every respectable family. This man frequently belongs to a gang of robbers, and is considered on that very account as a much better protection than an honest person. He walks round the house and grounds, and calls the hour until he thinks the family are asleep. He then fixes his spear in a conspicuous situation, and goes to sleep himself, without any further trouble or anxiety. —The robbers recognize his weapon, and never injure their comrade by attacking the house.— London Weekly Review. Robert Webster was on Tuesday last executed in front of the county gaol at Fisherton Anger. It will be recollected that he was convicted at the last Wilts Assizes of stealing a quantity of plate; and notwithstanding a most humane appeal to the Learned Judge who tried him, by his late master, his Lordship felt himself justified in hold inn- out no hopes of mercy. Ever since he re ceived his sentence, his conduct has been truly penitent. While the sad preparations for death were proceeding, he seemed the only one un moved. He ascended the scaffold about 10 minutes past 12 o'clock. He remained there 32 minutes, 25 of which he was engaged in most fervent prayer. He was genteelly dressed, and throughout behaved in a manner that marked him above the common course of persons in his station in life. It was supposed, from the length of time that he was engaged in prayer, that he was continuing his devotions in expectation of a reprieve. After having earnestly recommended his soul to God, he, with the utmost composure, placed himself as directed ; he dropt his prayer book (which h e re p ea t e dly p u t t o Lis lips while in prayer), and in a moment all his bodily and mental sufferings terminated.—Southampton Herald. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY.—FRIDAY, Auo. 24. I Baird, J., Manchester—Dog, Manchester Bedbisry, J., Bradford—White Lion, Bath I Bryce, I). Liverpool—Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool .. Harrop, C. and S., Dobcross, Sadclleworth—White Bear, , i Manchester ,_ ..... l i Harvey, J., Penryn—Oliver's hotel, Bodmin 9 Horley, C., Melton Mowbray—Star, Manchester '9 Jones, G., Bridgnorth—White's, Manchester II Jones, L., Oswestry—Town-clerk's Oswestry I Jones, J., Blackrod, Lancashire—Eagle and Child, Wigan .. Marindin, S., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham Morgan, J., Bottisham Lode, near Cambridge—Bird-bolt, . i Cambridge 0 Moseley, NV., Blanchester—Spread Eagle, Manchester Mott, W. Brighton—Old Ship, Brighton lll Murray, J., Whitehaven—lsell hall, Cumberland Nicholls, G., Warminster—White Lion, B a th lf 9 Welsh, J., Manchester—Star, Manchester Whittenbury, J., Manchester—White's, Manchester le Wood and Jackson, Broughton—Office of Messrs. Halstead, ' Manchester le Wynn and Co., Baghillt—White's. Manchester LONDON MARKETS. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK • te From Whence. ev ~. . 4 ''' '., P 1 4 ' K _ ........, Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Selig , Boston - Cowes Colchester 22 100 26 46 68 yHarwich Leigh 174 142 60% '' ..4 Maldon 441 5 227 Hastings ...... Ipswich • 60 40 230 25 30 30 2i , _,,, Kent 290 17 200 29 12 563 F''' Liverpool Lynn — 996 Newport — 44 Stockton — 10 Woodbridge 4OO -. — 1 1 " 4 Yarmouth Banff — 168 -•"' Berwick — 180 .." Dundee Inverness l5 -. — ...* _.....: 1553 72 2162 2072 47 1031 546' IRISII. Limerick — -.- 749 —..-. FOREIGN. . Arrhuis - Archangel Bremen — 627 22 ..." Dantzic l4O 1430 6 0 Elsfleth — 52 650 Emden — 50 Hamburgh — ... Harlingen — .550 --" Koningsberg Licbau Memel Newstadt 450 ... Petersburgh I'illau lf,o 1520 —...- Riga - Rotterdam — 1187 --- Wismar — 559 -*** ---1 Total ... 2243 2990 2162 36652 69 11041 55 11 AGGREGATE QUANTITY OF OTI ER KINDS OF PULSE. Rye, 460—Tares, 11—Linseed, 797 I—Rapeseed, 102--Brank, 0"" Mustard, o—Hemp, o—Seeds, 0. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metrodolis is 9%c1, for the Ilb. Loaf. There are others who sell from d. to 2%d belO e that price. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—Aug. 18. 80s. Od. to 115 s. Od. Clover -90 s. Od. to 1435. uo ; 404. Od. to 46i. Od. PIiICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)—Aug. 19. 31 . IBs. to t o 12s. Kent 1'0cket5.......—..........—...—.... 3/. 12s. 4/. Os. to Sussex Ditto —........ 3/. ss. 3!. Its. to Essex Ditto... Farnham Ditto, vine Seeonets= 0/. Os. 41. 4s to , ....... 3/. 3s. 3/. 15s. to .—....—........ 2!. 16s. 3/. 3 8 . t o 31. Os. 3/. 10 s . to Old Duty laid at £105,000. —... 3/ . lOoss.. 41. 10.;. 41. 18e. 41. 4s. 61. 6s. 51. 5 4 . 41. 2 6 . 31. 10s. 31. 16s. Kent Bags_.. Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto. PRICE OF POTATOES.—Aug. 19. New Ware 3/, Is. to 31. 14s. per ton. PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. Butts-50 to Tanned Horse Hi Ditto—tiO to 661 b.— Sp• inishpitto Dressing Fine Coach Hides Crop Hides, :35 to 401 b. to 501 b. Ditt0...,...,, 131 16 16 IS 141 15 17 191 IS4 201 d. to 1512 Per dozen. Calf Skins.- SU to 401 b. IS 2 ,„ 5 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 24 Ky. Ditto -70 to SOlb. 21 i 6"„ Small Seals, areeni and 18 IY_ RAW HIDES. Per Stone. • s. d. to s. d. 4 Best Heifers& Steers 2 If/ 3 4 ortinar Pe y r Stone. s 2. deo s i d• Middllngs Downs SHEEP SKINS. Os. Od. to Os. Od. I J. 4d. to 40. Sd' Shearlings.—....—, Os. Od. to Os. 14d. COAL MARS Burden . 345. 6d. Eighton Main 29 6 34 0 xillingworth 36 0 Liddell's 31 ts Old Walker w 35 5 Ord's Redhugh 29 6 Percy East . 30 6 Pontop Simpson---,.. 31 0 1 Shipcote— ~,.,.,w , .32 0 Wylam 33 9 WallsEndßewicke&Co. 38 6 Ditto Bell Hobson & Co. 35 6 Ditto ('err and Co. 35 Ditto Hilda 34 9 Ditto Northumberland 34 3 Ships at market, 451,4—5 h :ET.—A_lg. 19. Walls End Newmarch... •r. Ditto Russell's - • TanfieLl Trader ;32 4„'„ Lamb small , 17 a. ain T l HL'E n iag v an ! :e k eMudy e l n l T C S ° p a l Lu in: 3031;2 g g6 Stone Coal Small & Co. 40 O. Stobart's 3 1 Walls End 3. Ditto Larnbton - 39 .; Ditto 1,.0ns .31 `' Ditto ,„ 28 n s' Ditto Stewart's " 39 ips sold, 24—Unsold, IRISH MA' DUBLIN MARKET NO ,RKETS )TE—Fai From DAT, Aug. To 38 0 12 0 0 20 0 21 0 15 0 594 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone' 27 1,681 Bete —...... 16 stone 9 10 16 stone 17 2,068 0at5.,..,.......,,,.,,,.,, 14 stone 10 23,748 Cwt. Flour 9 stone' 7 811 Oatmeal 11 stone' 10 Sold to Bakers only, Cwt. )10ur.,,.,.,. Average price of r. 31 10 b 00 0., 15 0 — lO 117 21,660 14 0 Wilpt and Flour 4 Firsts, '" Sec Thirds, f PRICE OF BREAD. 3Z.... 834 d, I Half-qua 24 0 Receipts of Flour, 6, Sales of Do. 23, 17 lii',l Quartern Loaf, 4Th. is. 4d. per sack. on 20s. Od. to 241. v u „, Ira 14s. Od. to 19s. u"' )m Od. to 121. v"" I, 21b. Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, per cwt. per barrel per barrel per barrel t ......, 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. Ist. 2d. s. d. as. d. s. d. as.d. s. d. a s. d. s. d. as. d. s. d.as.ce Cork -.......... 27 0- 00130- 0 0 12 6-- 00 17 0-20 16 0.-1 ,, Limerick 24 4- 0016 0- 00164-00 18 6- 0 0 0 0- 0 „ n" Waterford 25 0- 0 0 00- 0 0 12 0- 0 0 14 0-18 0 0 0.- 0 .;.; Clonmel _26 8- 0 0 12 0- 0011 8- 0 0 0 0- 0 0 17 6..... OL' Belfast ......... 31 3- 0 0 20 0- 0 0 19 0-- 0 0 14 6-.22 0 0 0.- 0 g Derry -- 00- 0 0 14 8-- 0 0 11 1-12 9 0 0- 0 0 0 0-. 0 , Carlow.-- 27 0- 0 0 0 0-- 0 0 15 0- 0 0 16 0-- 0 0 0 0...- 0 , i, Tralee— 00- 0 0 Oir- 0 0 00- 0 0 00- 0 0 00 o _, Beef, Mutton, Pork, Butter. 1 ,7 per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2d. 3d. 40.0 -- -- d. a d. d. a d. s. d. a s. d. S. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 1 . ~ , u 0 Cork - 0 082 078 074 0 2 OIP 0 Limerick- 4 -5 4- 4 00- 0 084 078072 0 66 0 da o Waterford j_3 6i 4i - s i o o— o 084 081 0- 0- 0 --" 0 Clonmel - 4 51 31 -5i32 0- 0 085 0-0 - 0 - IY--', 0 Belfast —1 -sjo -0 00 - 00830790 59 0 49 0 --"* 0 Derry .. 6 -0 6 -0 00 - 00-0 - 0 - 0 --- 0 ---. Carlow.— q-7 di - 7 23 0- 0 088 084 0 74 064 0 0 --- n 'hake ..-.. 0 -0 .0 -0 00- 0084 6 - 0 -•• 0-- 0 --* " SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oats Aberdeen —.... Berwick—. Coldstream EUpar 28 29 Dumfries 7 G 7 9 Dundee.,--- 29 30 Inverness— 29 32 Kelso 42 45 Kirkaldy— 28 30 Perth 27 30 At Dumfries the pill stream, Kelso, and Whe; prices arc per boll, excel 23 27 27 29 26 29 23 25 50 60 27 28 30 32 27 30 25 31 27 '2O ce is given at at Aber )t Oatmeal . - 38 4! 4'7 59 . Berwick, Co* ivarter. The ober per sack of 280110:, Beans. I Oatmeal_: 20 24 1 - - 22 2.5 - - 22 23 1 37 39 40 50 = --- - 24 26 25 26 32 38 2a 24 38 40 28 30 32 24 27 24 26 1 per bushel deen, per q I, which is There is a coachman on the Oxford and Bath mail, named Dan. Sellers, who has driven for 35 yeal from Oxford to Cirencester every morning, and returned W Oxford every evening, a daily journey of 74 miles. 1 0 has altogether travelled 942,760 miles. The yearly journeY exceeds the circumference of the globe; and therefore Sel lers is now performing, in distance, more than the 25t12 circuit of the earth. BIRTHS. On the 16th instant, at Templemore, Ireland, the lady of Major Ferguson, 34th Regiment, of a daughter. On the 18th instant, at Sion Hill, Bath, th e l a dy of Lieutenant-Colonel Steevens (late of the 20th Regiment), of a son. _ _ Ou the Bth instant, at Brussels, the lady of the Rev. E. Jenkins, of a daughter. On the 17th instant, at West Lake, Notts, the lady el the Rev. Charles Oxenden, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 16th instant, at Teddenham Church, county of Gloucester, Charles Edward Bernard, Esq. second son of Dr. Bernard, of Clifton, to Eliza Charlotte, eldest daughter of John George Donne, Esq. DIED. On the 18th instant, at Ham Common, Eliza, wife of Robert Gage Rookwood, Esq., of Coldham Hall, count! of Suffolk. On the 18th instant, at York House, Bath, in the 6114 year of his age, James Buller, Esq. of Downes, in the county of Devon. On the 19th instant, Harriet Ellen, third daughter of Mr. John Dickens, aged 9 years. Plumb and Palmitin= by M. 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