The Sun. — London, England, 1827-10-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF I'HR PUBLIC JOURN'ALS. There has been put into our hands the Pros- • pectus of what we must call a wonderful Canal, by which • first-rpte-men-of-war are to be led, " nothing loth," by resolute little steam-boats, from the King'-s_yard at Deptford, and Cherry garden-stairs, opposite the London-dock, in a right fine to Portsmouth ! There will, .when this canal shall be completed, be 'no danger of being detained two months in the Downs. "The " cause of humanity (as •is justly rtiMarked in the, Prosrectus) will be essentially promoted," by enabling us to get at tiro French and knock their brains out in a tea engagement, when their ships' crews and'ours might have otherwise been carousing happily in their respective ports. We do•not, however, know that we arc opposed to this.plan, or that it is i m practicable; what we' fear is this—that England will be so cut op and interseqed by canals, that at last she will have no terra firma remaining: she will become a nominal island, as the awn by which she counts her wealth (the pound sterling) is a nominal sum of money having no real existence : thus, in the same manner as her gold is converted into paper, her land w ill be transformed to water.. This will he an udd state of existence for . u 3 whenever we arrive at it.-1---Tinzes. During the Duke of Wellington's visit to the North, a curious circumstance occurred, which evinces the distinction which was drawn between the high respect justly shown io his Grace on account of his professional merits, and the ap probatioa, which it was endeavoured to elicit in favour of those opinions of which his Grace, in eommoa with many others of less note, may he thought the representative. At one of the din ners, at which the Bishop of Durham was pre sent, that Prelate was requested to give the health of Lord Bathurst, then present ; to which his Locdship immediately and decidedly ob jected, alleging that such a toast would impart to the meeting a political character, and that the honours paid to the Duke were paid to him only as a ,e-re 4. warrior.—/bid. A gentleman intimately acquainted with the state of trade and manufactures in .this country, who has recently visited Germany, France, Swit zerland, and Italy,. as far as Naples, his commu nicated to us several observations which he bad occasion to make in the course of his tour. In no couiltry did he .find the lower orders so miserable and degraded as in England.. A cir cumstance stated by him will serve to illustrate this i—The price of weaving silk, for instance, is nearly the same per yard in England and in the various countries through which he passed. At Sienna,-in TuSeany, the price of provisions is so low that it, is selected as a residence by several English clergymen and other gentlemen from this country, on account of its cheapness. As near as tte could calculate, provisions might. be there two-fifths of the price in England. But then the severity of our climate renders many objects indispensable to our existence with which the Italian can dispense. But the silk-weaver of Sienna has exactly the same sum for weaving his yard which the weaver of Manchester or Glasgow has. It is true, While the latter weaves fiVe yards oh an average, the Italian only weaves two ; but this is because he does net .love to undergo the extraordinary exertion, the long confinement, and the depiving himself of - a variety of enjoyments. Though the average labour of an Italian weaver may in general be oily two-fifths of that of • an English weaver, he found, in an establishment set on foot by the Government at Naples, a -female who wove seven yards of silk a day, which is considerably above the average of the day's work of an 'Englishman. A circumstance which he related respecting Tarras, in the South of France s the seat of the tine muslin manufac tory, will serve to illustrate the mischiefs of restriction. For- this manufacture the English fine yarns are indispensible ; and the Govern ment, aware of this, allows .the Manufacturer to leep any quantit,'y Of fine English yarn. But not withstanding this permission, every difficulty was thrown it; the way of conveying to the town that I;'.l.rn which was so indispensible, and which Government allows theinanufacturer to keep, o ;; that • the price of the article was thereby greatly enhanced. In one branch of our maim • factures there is an incontestible superiority, that of hardwares. Wherever goods were exposed at the fairs or markets throughout Germany, for instance, he ford. the finer carpenters' tools, and sigiilar articles, uniformly English. Where me chanism and division of _labour were of impor tance, the English had always the advantage ; but from the low state of 'taste and ingenuity of the mass,of the population in this country, we were unable to do many things which were com mon en the Continent. Wherever mathemati cal precision was concerned, and the Englishman could be employed like a piece of mechanism, • we had a superiority. It was his opinion, that . . our Silk IVlanufacture had derived great benefit from the opening of the trade. Our manufactu rers were enabled to avail themselves thereby of the _superior taste of our neighbours , and the ' moment anything likely to take appeared abroad, it was imitated here in abundance for our own • market, The complaint, for instance, which • he hard from an extensive manufacturer of the iilflictilty of dealing with Englishmen, on ac count of their bad faith, will serve to illustrate what we have 'been stating. It is customary with manufacturers to exhibit their patterns to . the dealers, in order to obtain orders for the favourable season,..and the manufactur er i n - question had been in London in time with his patterns, and received a variety of orders • , but unfortunately, allowed the patterns to be a short time out of his sight, when they were copied, and the consequence was, that he was forestalled in the market. The apprehension among the silk manufacturers on the Continent every where was; that - our silk manufacturers . .would ruin them. - Smuggling constantly at taming - to greater and greater perfection every 'where ; and the conviction is no w becomin g general on the Continent, that the only way to . prevent it is to lower duties and remove restric tions. Nay, this view of things begins even to be taken at Vienna, the last asylum for invete rate prejudices. The Boaid at Vienna, to which the consideration 'of commercial subjects be longs, proposed lately the lowering the duty on exports. The Ministry sent back the project for re - consideration, and a further discussion was to take place. At Naples the Revenue 'is farmed out, and the army is placed at the disp9 - skim of the contractor with the G.overnment to enforce thecollection ; but though heavy addi tional duties were imposed on a variety of com modities, particularly colonial, they experienced • no rise, from which our informant inferred that the supply 'was - obtained through . smudli4 Ae had every reason to believe, that all the efforts add one per cent. : to the cost of smuggling ; and if the 'Preventative Service, as at present ma paged, cannot prevent smuggling, nothing can.-. In France, no importance whatever was attached to these attempts of Mir Gosfernment. The question commonly asked there was—which way do you Wish to receive your goods ? and iirrangs&- . ments were made accordingly, as a inatt6- of course. All the Governments of the continent e ncourage as much as possible the violation of the R e venue Paws isf their neighbours. Thus, for instance, the different States of Italy are at present anxi- bus to foster the paper manufacture, Mid the exportation of rags is every where prohibited. Tuscany is separated from the Rotrian ,States by mountains, and the sinugglilig of rags into tus eany is managed by Means of asses, which are trained to proceed solitarily over the mountains, and to assemble at a given spot ; where they are unloaded and dismissed. So much for commer cial matters. Our informant has several times visited France, and he stated what we own gave us great pleasure, namely, that the attempts of the Government to fanatiorse the people had pro duced a completely contrary effect,—that the public mind, on the contrary, is every where im proving rapidly—that in several large towns of the south of France , he found the processions composed principally of priests, who had a few feeble old men and females in their train, the people eyeing the whole with indifference or de rision, and the • peasantry occasionally slightly. moving their hats. Every where in travelling he found only liberal papers. In vain the:keeper of an hotel or coffee-house was asked for the Quoti dienne and Gazette de France. The answer was, we have no demand for these papers. So much fbr the unseasonable exertions of the Go vemment to force a return to a state of things at variance with the spirit of the age. Our own Ultras may see from the complete failure of the French, that it is always wisest in a Government to sail with the stream.. Thus, in England we have more fanaticism and practical intolerance, without any efforts on the part of Government to promote them, than is to be found in all the rest of Europe. If the Government were to in terfere, perhaps the spirit of opposition might inspire some of our sects with charity.—Morns ing Chronicle. Among all the miserable objects that appeal to the -pitying heart and helping hand of charity, in this vast metropolis, where so many objects of compassion are to be found, there are none whose claims are greater than those wretched fe males' that infest our streets, not from choice, but necessity—whose misfortunes have given them Over to vice, and whose vices debar them from returning to society. We cannot say to these most unhappy of all beings, when their poverty and destitution are represented to us, as wt may do to other claimants on our bounty," Let then work," for who will employ them? Nor can it be expected of individuals to undertake the task of reforming those whose conduct has, not un justly, rendered them unfit for. communication with the decencies of a family, and whose intro duction there, even were .there no other objec tion, is so open to evil interpretation, that it. could hardly be looked on as advisable. It is to Societies, therefore, 'that these miserable crea tures must naturally look for support during that trial of their better resolves, which is necessary ere they can-expect to be trusted by individuals, and it is by Societies alone that the salutary re straints necessary for subduing long-established habits and confirming new-implanted ones, can be exercised with effect. Of these institutions, which do high honour to this great city, " The Guardian Society" has been, on more than one occasion, pressed upon our attention. It has now. been fifteen years in existence. It was instituted for the sole purpose of affording temporary asylum to unhappy females, who have been removed from the streets by the operation of law, or who have .been awakened by con science to a sense of their guilt.. Of the latter (I,l‘scription we doubt not there are thousands; sonic the victim of headlong passions, some of the villainy of the other'sek, and many of theM poor girls from the country, who have lost their places, and are cast on the town from sheer want. On the greater proportion of these no hope ever opens, and they live on in vice and misery, loathing their condition, yet utterly incapable of quitting it. The Guardian Society has been enabled, out of 1,015, which, up to this year, it lhas succoured, to save from this, the most de plorable of all destinies, at least 522, who have been comfortably placed in service, .or restored to their friends. This is perhaps as large a pro portion as could have been expected, consider ing the materials on which the Society has to operate. Their funds are at present exhausted —as, indeed, they ought to be—for the funds of such an Institution are not collected for the purpose of hoarding, but we trust that the fact needs only to be announced to call forth the con tributions of the public. Of all the ways it which charity can be bestowed, perhaps non 4 goes to relieve such 'uttermost distress.--Nero Times. It is evident that it is not the real intention o Russia to make Greece an independent State, but to transfer her dependency from the Turkish yoke to her own. By that means the Autocrat of the North will possess what the Muscovite Cabinet have long been endeavouring to obtain---,a naval station in the Mediterranean. The ambition of making Russia a great maritime power occupied the mind and great part of the reign of Peter the Great. The anecdote of his having worked in a dock-yard in Holland, as a ship-builder, in his early life, shows how strongly he was impressed with the conviction that the further aggrandize ment of the vast empire of the Czars was chiefly to be effected by the creation of a navy. But it is in vain to build ships without having able and expert sailors to man them ; and Peter, although he devoted a great deal of time and laborious at tention to the training of seamen, never had an adequate supply to give his fleet efficiency and re putation. But if the Government of Greece should now be placed in the hands of a creature of Russia, this obstacle to the maritime greatness of Russia will no longer exist. The Greek Ar chipelago affords one of the best nurseries for sea men in the world. Indeed, the Turks could never have manned a fleet of war since they first hoisted the crescent on the walls of Constantinople if it had not been for their occupation of the Constantinople, and the islands, from whence they drew their supplies of seamen. It was by means of those seamen that their navy was ever able to make any head against the Russian fleet, which, in adequate as it is to cope with the maritime power of some other countries, would have swept the Mahommedans off the Black Sea long ago, lif it were not for the resources which Turkey was able to command from her Greek possessions. It is no wonder, therefore, that Russia has long looked with a covetous eye to the Greek terri tory—and if she neglected the present opportu ,wn dominions, we night give her credit for less ambition . or more'. indolence than she bas.eVer displayed from the blittle of Pultowa to the occupation of Paris. such an accession to her power, she can, whenever she pleases, with Very little Comparative difficulty, tale p'aSce'Sslo'n or tonstantinoplc, and, ekthidinfr her arms eastward, shake the, throne of our Asiatic empire.—Morning Herald. The Dissenters are industriously circulating throughout the country a kind of Declaration, or Manifesto s in which they proclaim their deter urination to employ every effort to procure, the repeal of the Corptoratioti aria Test Acts. This paper Is drawn 'up with great clearness and abi lity, and furnishes a very faithful histoiy of the circumstances and motives which originally , led to the passing of those celebrated Acts. They were not intended at first. to narrow the civil pri alleges of Protestant Dissenters, nor did they in effect so operate, till the Act of Unicorn - thy waS passed some years afterwards, toge ther with the growth of many rigid and .scrUpn - . lous notions -among the Dissenters themselves, Suppressed ina great degree the practice of occa sional conformity. This is one,. and perhaps it is the strongest of the arguments urged in favour of their repeal. The Acts in question, it is Said, so far as they affect the interests of Protes tant Dissenters, overstep the objects they had . originally in view. There arc other argu ments Which we may take a future opportunity to exa mine, founded upon the uniform, admitted, and undeniable good conduct of the Protestant Dissenters as a body ; upon the apparent incon sistency of placing that body in England in a less favourable Situation than their dis senting brethren in Scotland and in Ireland; and upon the general principles which are ad verse to all laws of exclusion and disability.—ln Confining ourselves for the present to that argu ment which is drawn from the original intention of these Acts, we must remark that a law may overstep the immediate - purpose for which it was enacted, in two ways ; it may do so by producing unforeseen evils ; but it may equally do so by producing benefits distinct from, and greater than those which the Legislature had in view. The question -between the Dissenters and the Legislature must therefore be—in which of these two ways have the Corporation and Test Ac ts overstepped their original purpose ? For we suppose it will scarcely be contended that it is - the duty of Government to throw away, in 1828, an advantage, merely because that advantage was not foreseen by the Parliament of 1661 or 1672. So long as the Dissenters stood in the •same relation to the Church and State as they did at the time of passing these Acts, the Acts did not affect them. Bert when that relation was changed, when a stricter ,discipline was enforced in the National Church, and the Dissenters had become more inflexible in their peculiarities—when, in other words, a greater estrangement had taken place for the present, and a greater probability was presented. of hostility between them for the fu ture ; then it was that the dormant powers of those Acts sprung out actively, and the Acts were shown to be applicable to a wider range of circumstances than had been contemplated at the period of their enactment, and to form a sub stantial bulwark Against dangers which had not then been foreseen. This peculiarity, if it be one, in the history and character of the Acts in question, does not certainly appear to us to afford a topic which can be urged with much success in favour .of their repeal. The conduct of the Protestant Dissenters has however been that of good, loyal, and peaceable subjects; the estrangement between them and the Church of England has never been exhibited in the dan gerous form of political hostility, nor has the suit able reward of conduct SG - meritorious been with held from them. Substantially and practically the Corporation arid Test Acts,' so far as they would otherwise have operated to the exclusion of Dis senters from office, have been reduced to a dead letter. For a 'period of eighty years, the Legisla ture has never omitted to pass an. annual Act of indemnity, exonerating those of their body who had been admitted to - office from all the pains and .penalties to whicti their non-compliance with the provisions of thOse Acts would have exposed them. These annual Acts of Indemnity, passed. continually for eighty years, have produced, as indeed they could net fail to produce, the same effects in regard to habit and practice as if the Corporation and Test Acts themselves had been repealed at the commencement of that period. Then why, it is said, not repeal those Acts, since in habit and practice the same results are obtained as would have followed from their re : - peal ? We answer, because the State retains in its hands, by means of the .present system, a power of very high value, eminently conducive . to the peace of the community, and essential . even to the welfare and happiness of all conscien tious Dissenters. So long as the Dissenters are indebted for the privileges they now enjoy to an annual Act, .which any single branch of the Le gislature may withhold, it is evident that it will not be their policy, that it will not be their con scientious duty, to excite suspicion or to provoke hostility, ,by attempting in any way the over throw of our Ecclesiastical establishment. They have now a legitimate motive to refrain from any such attempt, because they know that it' would be hopeless and desperate, and would be more over a signal for withholding the annual Indem nity. Bill upon which their existing immunities ready antagonists , and may therefore be well ek= cused if they do not brave the conflict. By. a repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, their position and their duties would be totally changed—changed altogether for the worse, as it respects the State, and as it respects even them selves. Prudence would no longer require, and conscience therefore would no longer permit them to abstain from all attempts to overthrow Episcopacy, and to ab olish T y thes. Friendl y to cannot e be, r if they are can they .be these consdentiou sD institution neutral any longer than motiv e s of pruden ce, than despair of success , t han the stron g probabi isse they nte rs ; neither h lity of loss to the interests of the Dissenting Churches generally, prohibit, any show of active hostility. It may be construed, therefore, rather into a commendation than a reproach of the Dis senters as a body; when we conclude by the ex pression of our opinion, that it is expedient for the welfare of the State generally, and no less for their welfare as a distinct part of it, that their present conscientious inducements to peace and neutrality towards institutions which they avowedly disapprove, should be continued. — Morning Post. A lady of quality a few days since asked a physician of eminence here (Brighton), if she might not pursue the Calisthenic. exercises with every prospect of eventual advantage? and to which the M.D. with a smile replied, " If your Ladyship would now and then conde scend to assist your servants in shaking the beds, all the ad vantages you would seek would be much more speedily and easily acquired."—Sussex Advertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, °cr.' 2S TAaEUTT AtiD ANOTHER. v. SAAVYERS. This was an aCticin to reedy& t,1.52i., the balance of an account. The defence was; the set-off of a bill of exchange for 2,0001. in favour of the defendant, drawn upon the plaintiffs, by Messrs. Mercer and Co., of Calcutta, and alleged by the defendant to have been accepted by the plaintiff. The Jury found a verdict for the defendant. BUZZARD AND &IWO, ASSIGNEES, .AGAINST CArEL. This was an action of troves, brought by the assignees of William Robinson Jones,. and Robert Jones] whaiiii;;Lrs, to recover two barges . , " the Spring" and " Autumn," which had been seized upon as a distress for rent by the defendant, who was the landlord of the bankrupts. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that this action was brought to bring before the, Court. a Case tried in the Common Pleas, the judgment of which Co i nt the plaintiffs were desirous of having revised. Messrs. Jones were the tenants ore wharf la South wark; they became bankrupt in August, 1825; and' after their bankruptcy, the two barges were by col lusion placed in such a situation as to give the de fendant an opportunity to lay kohl of them. They were, with many others, attached to the shore by a rope, and as they were floating in the Thames, oppo site the wharf, the defendant, as landlord, distrained upon them for rent. He would. not say, nor with he instructed to insist, that there was sufficient evidence to prove that the bankrupts and the defendant were in collusion. It would be a question whether the act of a bankrupt, in placing property in such a situ ation as to allow a landlord to seize upon it, ,was a fraudulent act; but the great point in the cause was whether the barges were in such a situation that the landlord could legally distrain them. • After the de cision of the Judge of , the Common Pleas, before , whom another action had been tried, and who held that the barge being tied to the wharf, was sub stantially on the premises, he the Attorney-General would not hazard an opinion upon the subject; but as counsel for the plaintiffs, he was to contend that the tying a barge to the shore did not place it in such a situation as to give the landlord a right to distrain. It was a question of very great importance, for the rider Thames, and many other rivers in the kingdom, abounded with wharfs, and it would be a new security to landlords if they had the power of distraining all vessels attached by a rope to those wharfs. The lease shewed the abut tals of the premises demised, and the barges were not within those abuttals. The object of the plain tiffs was to raise the question in order to obtain the opinion of the Court above. A landlord had a right to distrain any mait's property that was upon the premises. A whole row of barges and vessels might be attached by a rope to the wharf, and thus the landlord would virtually have the power ofextend ing his distress to the middle of the river, but lie (the Attorney-General) conceived that the things distrained must be on the premises actually demised. A mere easement was no occupation of the land, nor would the ,fixing of goods to the boundary of de mised premises give the landlord a right to dis train on those goods. Suppose a man were to fasten his horse's bridle to a hook on the outside of a house, could the landlord distrain that horse for rent ? Certainly not. If he could, lie (the Attor ney-General) feared that his friend, Mr. Marryatt, who was much used to riding, might, on some occa sion, upon the 'account of his unhappy bridle, have to return .home without his horse. Lord TENTERPEN—Does he ride and tie ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that a part was sometimes taken for the whole, and if he failed, it would' be because the rope would be considered as the whole barge. The commission of bankrupt against Messrs. Jones, and several acts of bankruptcy, were proved —the acts were.in August and September, 1825. Mr. Nelson, deputy water-bailiff, was Well ac quainted with the wharf, Davis's wharf. The piles attached to the wharf were called guard-piles--they were to, guard the wharf from being damaged by the barges.. Those kind of piles were very general. If the piles were not used, any barge would moor to them; they have . rings in them for the purpose of mooring. Witness would moor his craft to them, if they were unoccupied, without asking leave. Cross-examined by Mr. GuttNLv.—lf the whar finger wanted them for his own craft, then he would POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LIED. LONDON AIARKETS. remove. • Mr. MARRYAT said, there was a total absence of any evidence of contrivance and collusion. As to the .case put• about the horse, the highway was neither a part, of the property demised, nor could it be demised ; but the landlord had an interest in the space between high and low water-mark ; and by the lease his tenants had an exclusive right to it, and therefore it was not like the case of a horse tied to the way-side. If it were merely an appendage to,the wharf, and not included in the demise, his friend who had the lease could show it to be so. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL here called for the lease, and, the premises were read : they were," MI that wharf, ground, and prernes next the River Thames, abutting north on the Thames, and were from east to west sixty-six feet, and from north to south twenty-eight feet five inches." Mr. MARRYAT called Samuel Brown—Witness was one of the bargemen Of the bankrupts. Twenty, years ago, they used to .moor their barges opposite , their wharf, and they then, claimed all, between high and low water7mark as their own ground. They also frequently raked the mud till they came to the gravel bottom, to make space fitter for the barges. Henry Scolell, w hat-finger, considered the space opposite his own wharf, between high and low water mark, to be exclusively for • his own benefit, and would not allow strange vessels to moor there without his permission. Mr. MARRYAT observed, that they bad called the water-bailiff, as if the City had a right to the soil.. Lord TENTERDEN said, the City of London were certainly not the owners of the soil. The Jury found the special verdict accordingly. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCT. 23. • James Wilson, a hackney coachman, was indicted for assaulting a Mr. Wake and a Mr. North. The defendant was found Guilty on both indict ments, and sentenced to be imprisoned for three months in the House of Correction. 'lliomas Wright, a seale-maker, residing in Hat 7 field-street, Gowell-street, was indicted for assault ing a Mrs. Mordecai, who stated, that because she sat on the steps .in front, of the defendant's house, he thought proper to go up stairs, and throw a pail of dirty water out of a window upon her, whereby she was drenched to the skin. The defence was, that this woman kept a bous , o of a certain description, and that she and - her young ladies were in the habit of exhibiting themselves in front of the defendant's house, for the purpose of procuring customers. The prOsecutrix denied keeping any ladies in her house, except hero n daughters, of whom she had nineteen. The defendant was found Guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of 40s. to the King. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON•DIARY.—TuunenaY, OCT. 25.—,(At the Court b Commissioners, Basinghall-street.) AvesAW., Watton lO Trevett, It., Finsbury-place 1 Boys, T., Ludgate-hlill li Brierey, G., Manchester Dicks, J., Tottenham-court Eagle, W., Iligh-st. South road lO wsrk • 1 , Morris, G. jun., Oxford. Haines and Fairman, Wat street Linsey, T., Kensingto 1, COUNTRY DIARY.--FRIDAY, Om P. Adcock, H., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingha m Bellamy, 8., Shipstowon-Stour—George inn, Shipstowon stoui: ............ 1 ......... : .... ; ... .... ;: Ems, G., York—Bay-horse, York ll Haas, A., Manchester—White's, Manchester 2 Haxbey and:Co., Barnsley—Public office, Barnsley rasheller, C. and .J., Huntingdon—Fountain inn, Han- O tiagdon J Selvray, H., Leigh upon Mendip, Somerset—Red Lion,New 10 Sarum Toole, J., Loughbrough—Whitell,Maosim tov ,+•'•• 2 MANSION-HOUSE. —Yesterday a collector of poidtry was charged by a countrymad with having stolen a blind 1 pony from him on the 15th of December, 1826. The dgetidaet said, that he purchased the pony about six months ago, of a person whotn he `did not know, at Romford fair, and had driven hlni ever since front' different parts of the country with quantities of poultry, to Leaden hall-market. The clerk of a salesman stated, that the defendant con stantly, every Tuesday and ' Saturday, brought fowls to market, and was a most honest and industrious man. Complainant—Ay, ay; but he had my blind pony, though. The defendant—l'll bring witnesses to prove that I paid money fir ite pony in the fair. The LORI) MAYOR Was eatisfied with the defendant's promise to appear again before him With witnesses. A difficulty arose here. The complainant submitted to the Lord Mayor, that as the pony was his own, and he had sworn to that fact, be had a right to drive him home. The. defendant, on the other hand, was willing to swear that be had honestly purchased the pony ; and he submitted that if he were not allowed to drive home his old acquaintance, he could not convey to town any of the witnesses whawere present when be made the purchase. Neither of these ar guments weighed teith the Lord Mayor, who refused to sanction either party in laying hands upon the poney. Theparties, therefore, had a run for it ; but, strange to say, when they got to the gate of the Mansion-house, neither pony nor cart was to be seen. BOW-STREET. —Marcus Unlade and Bartholomew Uniacke, otherwise George Hamilton, were yesterday, placed at the bar, charged by Mr. Maude, solicitor to the Treasury, with having conspired to obtain by fraud the half-pay of their deceased father, Bartholomew Uniacke, formerly a lieutenant in the Bth Garrison Battalion. Previous to the death of Lieut. Uniacke, who was re presented to be a man advanced in years, and very infirm to the time of his decease, the two prisoners and their father, another, and sister, lodged at the home of a man named Keeling, Bride-street, Dublin. The two pri soners were known to this man as Mark and Bat. They were the persons wile took the lodgings, in the name of their father, Lieut. Uniacke, and he never heard the younger called by the name of Hamilton. The family re sided with this witness from December, 1824, to the March following, on the 25th of which month Lieutenant Uniacke died. The father was unable to sign any docu ment for some time previous to his decease. The witness was shoWn a letter written by the elder prisoner, and also an affidavit with the name ,of the deceased Lieutenant Uniacke attached to it. . He identified the hand writing of the letter, and said that the signature of the affidavit ap peared also to he written by the elder prisoner, but he could not positively undertake to swear to that fact. In consequence of a communication received in Dublin, this witness said he accompanied peace officer M‘Carthy to Clonmel, to whom he pointed out the prisoners, who were both attached to the police stationed in that town. Matthew Singleton, the officer of police under whom the prisoners had saved in Clonmel, deposed to that fact. —On examining the letter and document shown to the last witness, and on comparing them together, this witness had no doubt but that the letter and signature were both in the handwriting of the elder brother. It further appeared, by the evidence of Mr. John Somers, chief clerk in the out letter-office, Dublin, 'that from 1823, to June, 1826, the prisoners were in the habit of calling for letters from the War Office, in London, addressed to their father. After the latter period, a little girl, who represented herself to be sister to the prisoners, used to call for the letters. Mr. Maule deposed to the fact of several warrants of attorney having been made out on affidavits hearing the Signature of Lieutenant Uniacke, on which five quarters' pay, amounting to 1261. 'were obtained by the prisoners, on the fraudulent representation that their father was still living. The prisoners being asked if they wished to say any thing, the younger still persisted .that his name was Ha. milton. The elder requested time to produce documentary evidence from Ireland ; and he also wished, he said, to obtain the assistance of some professional man. The prisoners were accordingly remolded for three weeks. MARYLEBONE.— George Bradford, under-butler to Mrs. Vaughan, of No. 1, Lower Berkeley-street, Portthan square, was charged by Henry Allen, one of the footman, with an assault. . . After hearing the case, Mr. BAWLINSON, addressing himself to a Mr. Clark, who attended the examination at Mrs. Vaughan's request, said, he did not know how to ad minister justice more equally than to dismiss the-charge, for both :parties had committed an assault. He hoped Mr. Clark would let Mrs. Vaughan know what kind of servants she had, and recommend her, if she valued the reputation of her house and the comfort of her family, to turn both of them out of doors. Mr. Clark would convey the advice to Mrs. Vaughan, and had no doubt she would apt upon it. HATTON-GARDEN.—Henry Milburn was yesterday brought up under a warrant, before Mr. Sergeant Seeeoe, charged with violating the person of Eliza Guest, a child only tan years of age. • She went to school to the mother of the defendant, at No. 20,_Duke's-court, Cursitor-street; he, about a week ago, had taken her into the parlour of his mother's house, and having secured the door, by flattery and promises suited to her tender and childish years in order to prevent her making any alarm, proceeded to take liberties with, and commit very gross indecencies on her person. Mag " i lf tr id at y e. ou not “N o se e" rea re m plie o d r the makee li t t a l e n any said promised me 6d. if I would hold my ton g ue. " innocent, n a n l o a c r e n i s i t?,", the"for l e After some days had'elapsed, she, however, told the cir cumstance to one of her school-fellows, who immediately went to the mother, and disclosed to her what she had heard. Mrs. Guest directly took her child to Mr. Dunn, a surgeon. and had her examined, but it was the surgeon's opinion, that though violence had been offered to the child, no serious injury had been, done. The prisoner denied that any thing of the kind had ever occurred. " And what, then," said the Alagistrate, "could give rise to the prosecution ?" " Nothing," replied he, " but to extort money from me by way of compromise." , It was Mr. Sergeant SELLote's opinion, however, that he was guilty of a, misdemeanor, and accordingly bound him in securities to take his trial at the Sessions for assault. WORSHIP-STREET. —Yesterday, a little before Mr. BROUGHTON left the office, two respectable looking persons presented themselves before him, and one of them delivered a letter from Mr, Mellish, late Member of Parliament. Mr. BROUGHTON . brought them into the Magistrates' room, where it appeared the applicants were a Mr. Knight and a Mr. Boards, and that the object of their visit was to obtain a contradiction, or at least an explanation, as to a Worship-street report which appeared in the Times paper on the day before. Mr. Knight is a farmer, and brother-in-law to Mr. Boards, in whose establishment he is a partner, and had laid in a capital of 4,0001. ; the report of which he complained tended much to injure him in the estimation of his neigh.- hours and friends ; and he therefore hoped the Magistrate would assist bins in giving it a contradiction. Mr. Bataa:arrow had nothing whatever to do with the 1 reports of the public press, as his duty was to look to the decisions, and see that justice was fairly administered ; and with respect to the office, it was one for public justice, and open for any gentleman who should, decorously conduct himself; and for his part he could not interfere with so powerful an engine as the public press of England. He had hastily looked at the report complained of, and thought the circumstances fairly narrated, Mr. Boards was brother to the pawnbroker, and there was in the report the word " pest," which he thought the Magistrate never used, but with which they were upbraided in the neighbourhood. Mr. BROUGHTON was of opinion'the moat substantial contradiction of time report would be an alteration of con duct on the part of the pawnbrokers themselves, as the conduct of Knight and Boards' foreman Ur not only re prehensible but illegal. In justice to Mr. Boards, he had to say that his conduct was not only decorous hut praise. worthy, in consequence of which he (Mr. Broughton) in the evening remitted the fines imposed in the morning, and contented himself with merely compelling him to pay the poor man and his wife for their loss of time. At this moment the shoemaker and his wife entered the parlour with fresh complaints against Knight and Boards, upon the grounds that on last Saturday night, after the decision of the magistrate, the woman was detained from eight o'clock until half-past 11, for an article she wanted to redeem, and that she was then obliged to go home without it ; nor did she get the article until Monday morning ; and the second cause of complaint was, for not having their Christian names print ed on the duplitate. Mr. BuouGuroxr said, it was as illegal as it was unjust to unnecessarily detain any persona who presented them Selves to redeem their property. Mr. Knight promised an alteration should take plact. Mr. Boards -was informed the Magistrate publicly ex pressed a wish that the report should go before the public. Mr. BROUGHTON-1 have already told you that I do not interfere with newspaper reports; and do not leave this office under the impression that I directly or indirectly in terfere with either their publicity or contradiction, ay any name or sanction shall not be lent to either. The parties then left the; offico. (From the London New Price Current of Tuesday). WEST INDIA MOLliSsES.—The stock is now 3,11 1 casks, delivered last week 368 casks. The only sales are parcels of Antigira and Trinidad at 28s. BUM, BRANDY, and I-lOLLANDS.—The only sales of Leewards were small parcels under proofs at 2s. 4d., Which may be considered rather lowe. The sales of Jamaica have been considerable, 31 over at 4s. 3d., 29 and 30 over 4s, a 4s. 2d., 28 over 3s. 9tl - 3s. 10d. Brandy is rather -on the advance. I n Geneva no saleS are reported. • OILS.—The Market for Whale Oil is very heavy but no further considerable fa ll can be stated; bet the prices have given way at the out p orts ' on accouo of the excessive supplies. Sfix.—The India HouSe Sale commenced yester day , the. demand is brisk a nd extensive ; the 1)0°5 are from five to seven and a half per cent. higher than last sale. HEMP, FLAX; and TALLOW.—The latest letter' from St. Petersburgh are dated 3d inst. ExchanP 10d. 15-32. 3,400 casks bought since the preseci inc.,. post, 98 rubles. Shipped off 128,000 cask' , remaining 32,000 casks. Hemp 95 a9B rubles; The Tallow Market here declined to 365. 9d. an d 375. last week, but the request and prices have sill ° rather improved on account of the continued !srl4 6 deliveries for consumption. - SALTPIiTnE.—The demand has rather given WY' the prices are without alteration; - the stock is Os' reduced to about 8,000 tons.. T URVE NTINE.—About 400 barrels- rough Ttiv pentine have been sold about 1 ls. 6th I ni s t t Pnovistos.—The only sales of the Se°, Provisions arc, India Beef in small p arcels at S'' 55.; New Mess at 5/. 15s. a 6/. ; no Pork sold; about 50 casks Hamburgh Beef has been sold abou v 4/. 10s. In Butters and Bacon there is nothing net to report. SPICES.—There was a renewal in the demand for Nutmegs yesterday, at 3s. Bd. a 3s. 9d. By public sale last week 200 bags Gloves Mauritius ls. 3cl.'` Is. 6d. TEA.—There is no alteration in the market since our last. . INDIGO.--The depression in the price of indigo appears to have improved the demand, several padr cels have been sold at 6 d. advance on the 1"° House prices, and it may now be considered the g e ; neral premium. The Spanish Indigo purchased gat the last public sale, has been in some instances resol d at an advance of 44-d. per lb. i CorroN —The purchases for the week en ,l last night inclusive consist of 1,700 Surat, 4d. a 5 , 1 1 ; in bond ; 400 Bengal , 4d . a 4 i d. in ditto; ,70 Bowed, sfd. a 60., in ditto; 1 . 70 Berbice, Tr i p 7id., in ditto; 30 Egyptian, Thd., duty paid; Spanish, 5 d., ditto. TonAtici.).--Jhe contracts reported on Tues,ll last reac,hed 1,500 hhds.,. they are chiefly carg oe' refused Virginia' 1 0 s. 6 d. a 20 5.; p art to be deli l o here and part on the Continent; 350 hhd s. ly 9s. 6d., good qualities may be purchased on ll'ot as low terms. The, sales for the week ending' the night inclusive, consist of only 150 hhds., all to trade; and chiefly strips and leaf. -- - ------ - COUNTRY CORN MARICKI'S DURING THE WO;P . .. Wheat. 1 Barlay. i Oats. I JO> -------- ----I Per quarter. , ---....- -- : 0 s : , s. to s. s. to s. a. to s. 0;, ' 5 7 _, Boston.---...........,. 38 si) 26 J 36 i 6 20, 4 ,, v ,07, Grantham ..-...............- 41 58 27 34 •21 38 a' r Grimsby.....-......-- 10 50 27 30 29 95 49 63 Iromeastle...-;-.. 42 47 25 30 20 9 1 , aIF, L i ' nun --- 44 54 26 32 20 28 I:, ~ Lincoln --...........-. 45 St 28 34 22 20 ‘ ,,,W .", Maidstone ...* 48. ' 60 27 -38 19 26 3 5 6b 4- ,,, ,Spilstiy....----- 44 48 28 W 20 22 '„ 6 " Stamford..----......-.... 44 53 22 . -32 24 , 20 l'' . *---- T SCO CII AIARKETS. -- -- 1 0 01 v • Wheat. Barley. Oats.n g • __.-- ......_____:____ ..„------- . 3 0 - 4 - i Aberdeen 23 31 23 26 17 23 --- :o3 Berwick— 30 42 19 21 1 7 20 -- --.. Colcl3tream '34 45 ' 18 20 18 21 _. -- , Cu par —....... 20 31 20 21 ,-; 20 Du.idee---- 29 30 27 28 21 20 ..... , f; Elgin ..---- .28 30 2'J 31 27 no __ 4 .... . -- 30 29 29 ; 7 / 42 --0 Kelso lnverness ..--- 30 48 17 21 17 29 ._. 32 :13 .... Kirkaldy--- 128 32 28 30 23 824 86 .-- 04 Perth .--- 25 33' 21 24 15 ` ,beat at AberdCt D ' At Berwick, "thlream' KelsoLandrices are per boll, e xc " " price is given per quarter. The other P Oatmeal, which is per sack of 2801135. _____—_-.—..,...---z--,_- !OTTOi 4 imroais LIST OF r :WOOL , join 'Uri 'OATS. 131E 0 y,s. • xxror.l :, iy I , ) '''% . --- sc . 03E 4 0 1 ,, 4 0 43 , oi 64,341. Same pc. This riod last year. year. Bags, &c. Bags, &c: Bags, SEC , Liverpool ............. 684,614 4_18,619 436 London .................... 83 3 681 58,34 8 * 2,:?20 Gla4-ovi ................... 56,163 21,314) iota! exported in 1827 OLD BAILEY. ---_ ABSTRACT OF THE RESULT OF THE CODOill' MENTS TO THE LAST SESSIONS. _ A ,5,.c. Convicted.' Acquittc"' 70 64 . . 44 SS 29 .....•• 26 ...... •• 6 19 ... .. 18 ... . 12 .............. h l,Hv ti , r tr i t I soi ) : p v g_ a u s h re - nt s trcet Office Bow-etreet Marylebone Queen-square Whitechapel Thames Coroners & County Magistrates 315 63 Lord Mayor and Aldermen ..... . ................ onif Of the above cases— Mr. Justice Gazelee tried .... ......... 19 Mr. Baron Vaughan ................... 21 The Recorder ........................... 20 The Common Sergeant ............... 23741 N. B. At the abov c i e l a n S . E es:i j Ol s i t l •b l e E. of City case, and the Recorder only , two the County. ---- ----1--- 'NOTICES. LANNL___—___ COURT . of KING'S BENCH. i _ge LONDON AuJouitssa sirrlNas, BEFORE LORD TOW spEciA r, JURIES FOR TO-MORROW . Robinson V. Bead Chatfield v. Robertsoe Wheeler V. Clark Drew v. Bird Samuel v. Royal Exch. Co. Rowden v. Layton Hodgson v. Prior Ellis v. ViThitelock• _.-.-'' ----•'' BIRTHS. A e4°° On the 17th instant, at Alfred-plice, Beau'.4ifif Emily Orrok, relict of the late Lieut. Richard iter, of the Bombay Military Establishment , of a dAllugbise On the 16th inst. at the Rectory , Sm eeth, e Wyndham Knatchbull, D.D. of a son, still-born' 4. On the 19th inst. the lady of John Adams , geont-at-lavr, of a son PRINTBD and PUBLISHED by YOUN G ' 0 Stn-Orrice, NO. 11V, Strand. Has g For THE Fi ' :steo rTagone A a 13 °4, and v Vor - F r • STtit, Ina " MERI N LAME and Twelv e of C. WESTra and confined fit and vafe stant Appl y to IMp oRTANI i . of Pa 'ks, PAN r actiee P — r A %oil a ! i g Pit n alttatic 2. 0 PANT F , wners' Asais'tz il n s a rnent o f /3 wz,, °nutmeat -.411 Plat es 3, PANT E) Pi matise on O bjects as a enee, and re f nks of society 'lle Whole Planter and 13edford. 91 son. g em:t.-0-1 ,,, , of t__..- 0 .4 DIED. after I '' On the 10th inst., at St. Omer, in Fra nce 'y yi/i' / I a few days illness, Richard Edwards, Esq ., 0f60 9 Surrey, youngest son of the late Win. EdwardFt joi Halifax, and formerly Registrar of the N r ic ej ' On p.)‘, Cort at Alinorea. the 233 inst. Mr. Arthur Ry der, Rood-I°e' ~,), aged 73. P:11; On the 10th inst. at Penlanolly, in BadnorshiTe, Reid, Esq. for many years an active and highly oti'i‘e, Magistrate, and formerly Hig h Sheriff of that 0°010" On the 21st inst. at Hull , in her 88th Ye2c'pa'/,' relict of the late William Tra vis, Es q . of C o ttios , yonngest daughter of the late Edward Athasr°sl ) i I 'Virginia merchant of this City. lOn the I 4th inst. at Truro, aged 23, Frs l ll/4 1 1 daughter of Lewis Charles Daubuz, Esq. of th 3: 0 0 , 1 On the 16th inst. Joseph, son of Joseph pub 0. of Tooting, aged six years. oc el Y Le , On the 22d inst. in Newman -street, Ox f tli , the 64th year of her age, Elizabeth, widow ° , / ber / ':lr. Jane® Davidson. Iv- i I On the 21st inst. in Alhemarle-street, Mr. A ~ tij A Y Ipress, aged 50. I At the Civil Establisbment of the Hon. d g' e O4 ~ Ipany, Dinagapore, Bengal, Mr. John P. Rey0 01( 1 4,4 1 4 , eldest son Of the late Mr. George Reynaltis, of o g:c' I At Carta, Ensign J. T. Prohyn, , ! grandson of the late General Rooke, of Bigswe.. / of the etitl', e.v . i teraltire. k 1 0 ------ en,