The Sun. — London, England, 1827-12-04 00:00:00

cessfully desired, viz 4. the evacuation e'that country by the French. troops, is actually ih operation. The large garrison of Bar&lona was to commence its march for the Pyrenees on the /sth Or 16th nit., and'the distal's* to the fron tier might be traversed by infantry, within the period of four or five days. The great import ance of this movement, Which is far more of a political than a military nature, has perhaps been overshadowed, though it ought not to have been so in the public mind, by the transactions of the east of Europe,—:transactions, politically as well as locedly more remote from Great Britain and . her interests. 'France, it is conjectured, will be well enough pleased to , free her h an d s i n f u t ure of such a l oa d of embarassment as hien entail ed upon her by the unwise and odious aggression of her Government upon the Spanish people ; and if the latter •do not speedily act for. theiw selves, and not merely restore their own liberties, but secure them, then are the predictions of every man suppoped to be conversant with th e . temper of the Spani ar d s , goo d f or nothing, and, indeed, the lessons of, experience upon nations even more than proverbially vain.. —lbid. The news from Constantinople, derived through the French and German Papers received yester day, is of considerable interest. Through the • former we receive a document deserving great attention. It 'is a declaration by the Admirals of the combined fleet at Navarin (dated on the 24th of October,' four days after the battle), de claring in effect that they will controul the pirati cal practices of the Greeks as severely as they have, repressed the warlike ' machinations Of the Turks. ,‘ Your Provisional Government," says this declaration to the Greeks, "'seems to be lievelhat the commanders of the allied squadrons are not agreed on the measures proper to be taken in order to terminate this system of illegal pillage: It deceives itself, for we now unani mously declare, that we. will not suffer you, un der any vain pretext, to attempt to extend the theatre of war—that is to say, the circle of your piracies." We can hardly conceive any thing more proper than such a declaration at such a time : indeed, we could quote the whole of it with pleasure. We only hope and trust :that it will be acted on with as much energy as it has been issued with candour and frank ness ; and not only that piracy will be suppressed, . but 'that the Greeks and Turks will be prevented from carrying on the • work of reciprocal extermination ; and then, if the present Ottoman Emperor be, as there is reason to suppose, a man of unusual knowledge 'and talents'for one born in his station, that he 'will be prevailed on to receive his war-worn sub jects under a better and more paternal Govern ment than any they have been able to project for themselves. But otherwise, if he and his 'counsellors breathe nothing but vengeance, that the objects of that vengeance will somehow or other, though it be difficult at present to specify the method, be placed by Christian power and policy beyond its reach. We are engaged in no crusade against the 'Crescent. So we said at the first. We are simply 'embarked in the 'cause, of huManity, and the cause .of huma nity is not served by the . massacre of Mahometans any more than of Christians.— The news through the German papers is not less interesting. The- Sultan received, as was to be expected, the' news of the battle:of Navarin with the utmost indignation ; but then we should tell his Highness, that he ought to have been able to put an end to the war against the Greeks at an earlier period, and without forcing the friends of humanity to interfere, through the common sympathies of nature. It is expected, " among other measures, that a general arming of the whole empire be ordered." Let the empire arm, we sol; to preserve itselLfrom 'dismemberment. We :know, from inanyi instances,• more par ticularly .in :Switzerland,, how •efficacious a pO. pular rising:is to repel invasion, and how inefficacious tow ar ds foreign aggrandizement or aggression. England has no view,--France has no view,—Russia, we trust, has no vie*, to territorial acquisition. We only want to protect a miserable race from extermination, and to restore them to those rights to Which, in the present enlightened state of the world, it is clear that all.its inhabitants are entitled. In the mean time, we cannot conceal that the news which we ourselves•received last night, up to the 10th ultimo, without altering our opinion of the importance of conciliatory conduct, impairs, to a certain degree, our hopes of. its prevalence or adoption in the councils of the States interested. The embargo, as we stated, was laid on in the port of COnstantinople ; and on that day it was strongly believed that the negociations should he broken off. Nearer home, also, it has been re- rorted, we know not on what authority, that the ,mhassadors had left Pera. Leave they would, course, if the negociations were broken o ff ; and should they prove to haVe left on the ac- Count just specified, the steps menaced were — first; a blockade of Constantinople ; next, pecu niary aid to the Greeks ; and, last, though not least, the occupation of the three principalities of Servia, Moldavia, and Walachia. These very projected measures—the second not convenient (unless it proceed from individuals) the last open to many objections on the score of expediency, —make us fervently hope that the Sultan will adopt prudent measures, and not force us to ex tre ities.---Ibid. We fear we Call no longer hold out hopes of the possibility Of peace being preserved with Tmkey. Positive information was received yes terday that the Porte has refosed'all further ne gotiation or even intercourse with the Anibassa• dors of the Allies, and has also refused the Me diation of 'Austria. An appeal has been. made to all good Mussulmen, to avenge the insult which has been conamitted. Great apprehensions are 'entertained for_ the durability of the,'Allianco u hil er the present very critical circurristauccs,.on which some of those did not caleulate'NVho en tered into the treaty more With a view to gain time with Russia, than to come to a rupture With'Turkey, w hi c h would have the eff ec t o f de livering over the . latter Power to the f ormer . The affair of Navarin has, however,. committed our Government. But, if we were to say that the result has been one . cif satisfaction, or that it has not given rise to very Unpleasant forebodings, we should only be misleading our 'readers.— Morning Chronicle. As if the miseries .and horrors of our inhu man system of arrest for debt were not of them selvessufficiently appalling and disgraceful, every fle,,ans,seein justified and resorted to to aggravate t hem., Among others, it seems, that the Cor poration of London has hitherto b een i n th e habit 'of actually selling the Office of Secondary, or Under. Sheriff, to the highest bidder, who of course , 1 014 -.forward to indemnify himself by what he can squeez e out of and fleece from those whose ruin nin e "sO. times in ten, already accom plished.'barefaced and hardened has this system ti eco o f -. 41 4 this body of would-be reformers, who are f6t-. ever dinning in our cars their dislike to eartiption and abuse of every kind, luietly _suffer themselves to be petitioned for a continuance of this scandalous . and illegal traffic. A Mr. Pears on , who it seems was for merly a member of the Com Mon Council him- Self, has petitioned, and afterwards addressed this body upon the . subject, and, in doing so, has thrown More light upon it than suited the taste of those who looked forward to a continuance of the same practice, as. a source for recruiting "the dilapidated finances of the Corporation—dilapi dated, too, in no small degree by what the pa rodist of Lord Byron called " The Love of the Turtle!' We do not wish to yield to or contribute to vulgar clamour when we say this ; and, whenever Mr. Hunt, in his new ca pacity of a City Auditor, lets the world know how much of its finances are actually expended in eating and drinking, should the sum turn out to be insignificant, we will readily retract our present opinion, that it is by no means so. Ar guing, then, from this impression, we would ask can the annals of hard-heartedness furnish any thing more thoroughly base and degrading, than to see a body of men actually feasting upon the greatest of commercial misfortunes—insolvency; and they themselves persOns taken from that very rank in society, to which the very same calamity most frequently applies ? But though there may be no other instance where the office of Under. Sheriff has been openly sold, the City of London is far from being the only place m the kingdom where iniquitous' charges are permitted to be made by persons who get hold of that office. • The truth is . , that a man has only to be come unfortunate, either by his own neglect or by unavoidable circumstances, to be rendered doubly so " by operation of law," and there can be no doubt but that numberless persons every day, who, by a little indulgence and forbearance on the part of those who have demands upon them, would in the end pay every body in full, now live to see themselves reduced to premature beggary, and, their creditors' money gone, to feed attorneys, secondaries, bailiffs, and the hundred other hangers-on, who, like the eagles, are sure to assemble wherever the body is -to be found. The City of London has now, however, an op portunity of ridding itself of this scandal; and we shall anxiously watch what the result will be. Next to seeing arrest for for debt, and all the charges on insolvency, done away, we are most desirous that the latter should be so reduced, as to be no longer a source of robbery both of debtor and creditor. We wish Mr. Hume, or some, other patriotic and intelligent Member of Parliament, would take up this matter, and get an inquiry instituted into all the charges con nected with insolvency; which we should not at all wonder were to turn out to be little, if any thing, less than ten shillings in the pound upon all the debts sued or distrained for in the king dom.—Morning Herald. There . appears no longer to exist a doubt that the Court of Constantinople has adopted the pro visional step of laying an embargo upon all the property of English, Russian, and French-sub ject§ in its dominions, in order to secure what degree of compensation it . can for the destruction of its fleet and the massacre of its people, in the port of Navarin ; or that it is' determined to in sist upon the compensation for that outrage being rendered complete, as a preliminary to any fur ther negociation with the Powers, whose arbi trary and insolent pretensions it has thought pro per to withstand. That this was the actual pos ture of affairs, at the date of the litest intelli gence from Constantinople, is distinctly admitted by the most confidential organs of the British Government ; whose tone of confidence and exultation upon the general subject of the Treaty of Intervention has un,lergone a remarkable change in consequence or the unexpected firm ness of the Po r te, and of the alarming results with which the silly, and base, and treacherous "con duct of their pfitrbns now appears even to them to be pregnant. The Ministry, to judge by the altered tone of their supporters, is in a most deplorable state of consternation and embarrassment. And in what other state indeed can they be, when they reflect that the nation is on the eve of a war,' the success of which, with - reference . to its ostensible object, notwithstanding all the boasting we have been condemned to hear, is extremely doubtful, and the collateral eff'ects of which, should its Ostensi ble object even be attained, are likely to be still more injurious to the interests of England; than if that object should entirely fail? .They must be conscious that the war into which England is apparently on the point of being forced, will be one on which victory and defeat are equally to be deplored—one from which no accession of national glory or po\ver can possibly accrue one which has sprung out of their folly, and baseness, and injustice, and which can produce to the injured nation of which they are the op probrium and the curse, no other consequences than misfortune and disgrace. This war, if war it is to be, will illustrate in a most forcible man ner the predominant qualities of Administra tion.—lts - i»zbecility—for the results of the war must of necessity be to aggrandize a Power already too strong, and with respect to which every Statesman knows • that Eng, land has the justest grounds of jealousy and apprehension ; and to enfeeble or annihi late another Power, already too weak, and by its position, one of the natural guarantees of important British interests, and one of the na . tural outworks of some of the most valuable pos sessions of the British Crown.—lts despicable . . basenCs.s—for the war,. will have been entered upon unjustly with a weaker Power, which had undeniable claims upon the protection of Eng land, from the evident and almost the admitted Motive of avoiding a just war with another Power, only because it is . thought to be the stronger ; a war besides, which the latter would Never have dared to provoke, and which nothing but the coward spirit of the British Administra tion could have led it to anticipate.---Of its treachery and ilfjustice—,for during the, .five years in which Turkey has been making vigorous and exhausting efforts to reduce her rebel sub jects to obedience, she never ceased to receive assurances of the persevering neutrality Of Eng land, till the' humiliating moment when English integrity and spirit,ifthe present Ministers ever pos sessed the least portion ofeither, succumbed to the insolent and menacing demonstrations of Russia. only remaining hope of p eace • still che rished by the English Administration, and its organs •of the Press, depends, according to the explicit confession of the l a tt er , . u p on ' the successful mediation of Austria between the Ottoman Court and the three Powers— parties to the Treaty of Intervention. Su far as England is concerned, the inediatorial office thrust upon Austria would no doubt be a very easy one ; but by the T reaty o f Intervention the cause o f England is identified with that of Rus sia, who will not be so easily pacified, we glishmo2 T o all but En ima gine, as it is by war only can be advanced. whose that her real objects dread of the consequence to their most irnivrtwit , r ~ interests may naturally overpower their percep tion of the ridiculous, the present position of the English Government ; in respect to the affairs of the East, must, be • the subject of derision. Eager but the other day to become a party to a Hectoring treaty of compulsory mediation be tween Turkey and Greece, the English Govern ment is now equally so li c itous t o avail itself of the mediation of Austria between Turkey and itself. There is nothing consonant with the character of the English nation in the conduct pursued and the feelings manifested by its GO vernment. Nor is it possible that the British people should entertain any other feeling than that of contempt for an Administration which can so well play the Hector one hour, and when threatened with resistance, so easily dwindle into the coward of the next.—Morning Post. Should the rumoured demand by the Ottoman Porte, of compensation for the destruction of the 'fleet at Navarin, prove correct—or rather, following the authority of an Evening Paper, should the intimation conveyed to the Austrian Internuncio be converted into a direct requisition —there would be a large set : off on the part of Great Britain, in the depredations committed by the Greeks upon' the English commerce in the Mediterranean ; for either the offending GreekS were subjects of the Porte, or they were not , if they Were, the Porte must answer for their conduct; if they had ceased to be' so, the modified, indepen ence which formed the basis of the Treaty of London must be considered as a measure obtaining that for the Sultan which his own efforts were unable to effect. The principle of the Law of Nations which gives States the power of in flicting punishment on pirates, to whatsoever nation they may belong, must obviously receive . a different mode of application when the piracies committed have their origin in a civil war between' revolted .provinces and the paramount State. The piracy . is, in the case before us, an accident, but it is so mixed with the very essence of the war, that;tranquillity must be ab solutelyrestored, or the evil cannot be removed. The evil of piracy in such a great commercial thoroughfare as the Mediterranean was so intole rable, and the inability of the Turkish Govern ment to produce 'maritime security was so ob vious, that a direct acknowledgement of the in dependence of maritime, Greece and 'the islands would have been a legitimate proceeding on the part of Great Britain, on the sole condition of the cessation of piracy. That independence once acknowledged, the question of prefe rable alliance with the former paramount, or the new State, would have arisen, to be deter mined by the actual interests of Great Britain in relation to its Mediterranean commerce. If, .therefore, the logical dictum, Omne majus in se continet minus, be applicable to the question of interference between the Ottoman Porte and the insurgent Greek Provinces, it must follow, that having a most extended right of self-redress, the . greatest limitation cOnsis- . tent with effecting - . the object has been applied to the exercise of that right. The let ter of .the, Admirals of the. Allied Fleets, ad dressed to the Legislative Body of the Greek Government, proves that, had Ibrahim Pacha adhered to the suspension of hostilities, the Sul tan would have been in a less difficult position as to his future proceedings than at present.. The longer he . hesitates or resists, the more coin plete and grievous must be his ultimate submis sion - Times. Sinee writing the above we have learned that letters were received yesterday, by a house of the highest respectability in the City, stating that all negociations with the Allies had been broken off by. the Porte, and that the mediation of Aus tria had been peremptorily refused. The above information, however, comes. to - us unaccompa tiled typaaiy date, which (Amnia - stance, though it does not affect our opinion of the channel through which -it reached us, throws a certain degree, of doubt over the news itself. ' Alt-we can state is, that the letters from which we - quote Were the latest received List night in MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY.-TFIURaIIaY, Dec. 6. Benwiek, M., Ncwcastle.on-Tyne—Turk's Hpad, - New castle , lO Bull, L., Chaseley—keathers, Lcdbury II Carpenter, W., Clifton Castle and Ball, Bath ' 12 Clitherow, IL, Horneastle—Bull,-Horneastle 3 yre, E., Shcffield—Comnaercial inn, Sheffield l'l . Graham, J., Liverpool—Angel, Liverp00l Jones, R., Led'uttry—Feathers, Ledbury ll Melen, IL, Petshore—Mr. Workman, Evesham 5 Phipps, G., Moreton in March, Gloucestershire—White Hart, Evesham 5 Vaughan, J., Yazor—New inn, Hereford ................ INSOLVENTS_ APPLYIN Petitions tp be heard at Portm Dec. 6, at / Archer, P., Stapleton • Bulmer, E., Somers'-town Formby, .A., Limehouse Jefferies, J., Chelsea Kemp, J., Newington Long, R. Lambeth Phillips, R., Walworth COUNTRY.—At the Court-h, at Ten . _ _ Cooper, 8., Stockport Cooper, J., Preston Edward A, A., 'ShOtswiek StockportGreen, J., Stockport Hawkes, S., Chester Jones, 'l'., Babbington Jones, W., Kinnerton At Shrewsbury, Allin, M., Shrewsbury Clec, J., Bitterley • .1 G TO RE DISCHARGED, cal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, fine o'clock. Robertson, 'J., Berwick-st. Rouse, J., Dover.street , , Seholefielti, 8., Alcitnonbury W., Paddington '.l.'urner, J. Aylesbury • IWinter, R., Tunstall IWorsey, E., Birmingham ouse, at Chester, December 6, o'clock. • • Leche, J„ 'Liverpool J.,:Chcster Pearson, Cheadle Penny, A., Hattersley Read, W., Chester Rushton, T., Prestbury Venal)les, P., Congleton Dec. 6, at Ten. Lloyd, IV., Newton Wilding, R., Shrewsbury IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT.-Mr. JAMES Watsox, of Dundee, who is noticed in the:Esliuburgh Phi losophical Journal as the inventor of an ingenious cOntriv anee for enabling him to play the violin and violoncello at the same time, has made an important. improvement in his apparatus, by. joining two violins together. The vio lins are bound with their breasts to each other, at such a distance . as to bring their bridges nearly in contact. Each violin has four strings, and the bridges are so cut and a c_ comModated to each other, that theeight strings, by resting upon them, are brought into the proper curve over the finger-board of the lower violin, in the rest of which there are eight pins for receiving them.--The tuning is perform ed exactly as in the single violin, only that there are two Gets of strings to regulate, each corresponding two being tuned, in unison. The power of the instrument arises from the circumstance of the one set of strings resting on the one bridge, and the other on the other, by which means the, bow, when passing over them, brings out the full effect of two dinburgh Advertiser. As audacious a robbery as any we have recently heard of was perpetrated en Sunday morning in the shop of Mr. G. TAYLOR, a linen-draper, residing a t N o. 13, High-street, Deptford, within a few yards of the watch man's box. About half-past three o'clock, a person passing observed a -taxed cart, in which there were four men (having the appearance of cads), drawn up in front, of Mr. TAYLOR'S shop -door. Not, however, suspecting that they had any- unlawful design in contemplation, this person proceeded on about his business, and the instant his back was turned, the burglars , who must have been expert hands, went to work. They forced the lower panel out of the shop-door with great dexterity, and without even occasion ing the slightest motion :of an alarm-bell, which w as fas tened on the inside, an d which, if much violence had been used, must certainly have rang, and roused Mr TAYLOR, who was sleeping in a room over head. One of the party then entered the shop through the aperture, and having drawn back the bolts, and got rid of the other fastenings, threw the door open for the more free ingress of his com panions. The villains then commenced their work of they selected th e most valua bl e part of Mr; TAT on plund e r; , s stock, and without muc h l oss o f t i me , trans f erre d More than 150/. Worth of ladies' cloths, Irish linens, bom bazins, stuffs, =Wins, -and calicoes, from the shop to their cart, and then drove off with their booty, without even tieculin it necessary to dole the door after them. Mr. Rogers, of the firm of Rogers arid Co., chymists, Cheapside, attended to deliver to the Sitting Alderman 315., the balance of various subscriptions which he had been entrusted by the public to apply for the benefit of a black man, who called himself the son of the King of Congo, and who, overcome by despair and distress, had attempted to purchase poison at Mr. Rogers's shop. Mr. Rogers stated, that the man was taken into the service of a gentle man, in consequence of the statement respecting him in the newspapers; but he soon grossly misbehaved himself towards the females in the family, and was discharged ; and he (Mr. Rogers) had lost sight of the man now for some months. Sir PETER LAURIE advised Air. Rogers to pay the money into the subscription for the • Spanish Refugees. BOW-STREET.—Sarah Smith, a middle-aged decent looking woman, was charged by the son of Mr. Foulkes, linen-draper, and haberdasher, of Little itussel i l-street, Covent-garden, with purloining a roll containing several yards of ribarnh • Mr. Foulkes, junior, stated that the prisoner was in the habit of buying small articles at his father's shop, but, until lately, she was never suspected of dishonest practices. =Several articles, however, having been missed off the counter, suspicion fell upon the prisoner, whose repeated visits to the shop for trifling purchases, and often without buying anything, led to the belief that she must be time thief. Accordingly, when the prisoner came into the shop :on Saturday night, between nine and ten o'clock, and asked for a yard of riband, the witness determined to watch her motions, and while looking for the descrtption of article she wanted, he perceived her purloin a roll contain- . ing several yards of riband. Parish, one of the patrol attached to Bow-street, took, the prisoner i n t o cus t o dy on th e . c h arge s t a t e d by th e la s t witness, and found the roll in her possession. While con veying her to the watch-house, the prisoner took 13s. from her pocket, and offered to snake that sum a pound if the witness would let her go. ",What !" rejoined the Magistrate, "a Bow-street officer reject a bribe! Wonders will never cease. But did you really refuse the gold?"—" Certainly, Sir," replied the officer, " it would have been very.wrong in me to have. taken it." " I see how it is," said Air. limas ; " you are but, young in the business; as you grow older you will learn better."—" I have beer. some time in the service, your Worship," said Parish. "Impossible," said M.r. HALLS, " It is really hardly to be credited, that a member of such a corrupt system of police as Bow-street. is represented to be, should reject a sovereign." ' The officer, who did not appear to comprehend the exact drift of the Worthy Magistrate's observations, seemed puzzled to account for them. Without meaning, however, to 'detract .from his merit, it may be as well to observe, that he could not, in this instance, have accepted the proffered bribe without being immediately detected. The prisoner did not attempt to deny the charge, and she was 'committed accordingly. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —Edward Moore, a fine youth of about 18, late groom to the Hon. Mr. Stan - • ley, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, was yester day fully committed for trial on a charge of stealing two new suit* of livery. and a great coat, furnished him for the year's.service. He had entered Mr. Stanley's service about a month back, but being connected with had characters, he had notice of discharge at the end of .a-rnontb,-wherthe immediately absconded with the articles in question. .11e was traced to a common brothel in Woodstock-street, Bond-street, where he resided with a set of prostitutes, and there the suits of livery were found. The coat he con fessed he had sold to a Jew for 20s. A decent•looking man, named O'Reilly, was charged with disturbing the.congregation at St. Ann's Church, Soho, last Sunday morning, during divine service, by calling out in a loud voice to a person in a pew opposite to him, ic I say, you Sir, with the spectacles, why don't you look at the parson, and not lie looking at me ?" As he appeared to be labouring under insanity, and as the parish clerk did not wish on that account,to press the case, he was diScharged with an admonition. Mr. Roe, the Magistrate, was occupied fin• about three hours with a frivolous charge of felony, preferred , brthiee pupils of Mr. Carpue, the surgeon, of Dean-street, Soho, against three of their fellow pupils, for stealing a case of in struments, a brush, and an umbrella. The parties werein the habit of visiting each other ; and although the articles were certainly taken, and were pledged. by one of the de fendants, the whole seemed to be no more than a frolic: the duplicate had been given up. Mr. ROE dismissed the charge of felony, no suspicion of which, he said, attached to the youths ; but as a punishment of their folly, he ordered them to pay the ss. for which they'had pledged the articles, and fined the youth by whom they were pledged 205..,, under the act against illegal pawning. Mr. Carpue, at , this moment, entered the office, and hearing the issue of the affair, expressed his thanks to the Magistrate. Ballard, the officer, now stated that Mr. Carpue had abused him very grossly, and had threatened to kick him down stairs and break his neck, when he went to his lee ture=room to apprehend the accused. Mr. ROE observed -that such a' threat against an officer was an indictable offence, but he presumed Mr. Carpue meant nothing by it. _ _ _ Mr. Carpue said he did mean it, and proceeded to ad dress the Magistrate in such a manner that the latter declared that however he might be disposed to pass over such an insult from a low ignorant person, he should deal diffe rently with Mr. Carpue, And • he directed evidence to be taken, with a view of holding Mr. Carpue to bail. Many of Mr. Carpue's friends and pupils now urged him to retract his words, and apologise ; he however re fused for a long time. Towards six o'clock he relented, and agreed to male an ample apology in terms dictated by the Magistrate. MAWYLEIIONE-OFFICE.-111r. Joseph Metcalfe, of Oxford-street, stationer, was charged by NEI% William Robert Gardiner, of Carmarthen -street, Fitzroy-square, artist,. with having unlawfully and fraudulently obtained of him the sum of 125., hig property. The parties retired into the constables' room, and there m r . Metcalfe returned the 12s. to Mr. Gardiner, and paid the costs. Thomas 111i!grove Sheppard was charged with enter ing the house of William. henry Fellowes, Esq., M.P., No. Ili,• Lower Berkeley-street, •on Saturday night, -with a felonious intent. . . The prisoner was committed for trial. He kept a green grocer's shop in Lisson-street, Marylebone, and has been tried before for Oony. Ann .Bristow, a girl of the town, was charged on sus picion with stealing a gold watch, Chain, and seals, a gold eye-glasi, a snuff-box, scent-box, and handkerchief, belong ing to Mr. James Ward, of Grove-end-road. The property has not been found, and the prisoner is detained. QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday a gentleman most fashionably dressed Was placed at the bar, before G. W. Manutorr, Esq.'charged with having altered a draught upon a banker, and obtained the sum of 1501. The gentleman gave his name and address, which in the present stage of proceedings, it might. nut be proper to mention. The circumstances were rather singular, and excited considerable interest. A number of fashionable gentlemen of a certain description, well known at the west end of the town, were in the office. Mr. Ford, a respectable solicitor of Greet George-street, Westminster, attended for the prosecution, sad Mr. Isaacs, for the defence. William Ford, Esq. of No. 45, Curzon-street, Mayfair, on the 20th of Nov. last, had occasion to write two draughts upon his banker, Sir Claude Scott and Co ? , one for 1501., and the other for 1001. While writing the draught for 1501. the pen was so bad that he did not finish it, and turned the sheet of paper on which he was writing, and having got the pen mended, here -wrote it on the other side, but not on the back part of the original writing. He then cut off the two draughts, one for 1601. and the other for 100 L, and gave them to the respective parties (to a Mr. Dyke). The draught which was on the other side of the sheet he forgot to destroy, and left it on the table. The word] " Pay the bearer one hundred and fifty pounds" were written at full, and his name signed at the bottom. The letter WM in the comer, AO attached A.o it were the Plumber' I . iuid 5? Mr. MARRIOTT—I could perceive that from the first.: Pray, Mr. Ford, was the prisoner present at the time ? Mr. Ford—He was. Mr. MARRIOTT—Did you know him ?, knew his name and person. Thomas Pace, an officer of the establishment, state(., that on Saturday night Mr. Ford called upon him, and in formed him of the circumstances : he apprehended the pri soner between 10 and 11 o'clock on the same night, in King-street, St. James's. A long conversation now ensued between the solicitors, about allowing the prisoner to go at large. Mr. Manniorr said he could not think of any thing of the kind, and inquired of Mr. Ford whether he was certain he could produce his witnesses.—Mr. Ford said he did not know where they lived, with the exception of Mr. Reed ; but lie had no doubt but they would come forward.—The prisoner was then remanded. '—Mr. Furcl— Sarah Peppiatt, who has been in custody for several weeks for passing a forged 51. note at Mr. Emery's, .the landlord ..of the Duke of York, in the Vauxhall-road, was. brought up fur final examination. The prisoner cohabited for about three weeks with Nathaniel Peppiatt, who was committed from this office for passing a forged 5/. 'note. - Mr. WHITE addressed the prisoner in the most feeling terms, and said the charge. would not be pressed against . her, and ordered her to be delivered to her friends, who wero in attendance, they undertaking that she should bei forthcoming, if required. . After she left the office, it was with some difficulty that the unfortunate girl could he persuaded to go home with her friends, so infatuated was she to return to her wretched associates. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a Mr. Laurence Keen was brought up from the Surrey watch-housei where he had been confined during the night, on a chatgisof attempt ing to defraud the driver of the hackney-coach, No. 475, of his fare. He was bespattered with mud from top to toe. Mr. CHAMBERS ordered him to pay the fare and ex penses, amounting in the whole to 138. ; in default of which he should be committed to Kingston House of Cor rection for 14 days. Richard' Welch was committed to the House of Correc tion for one month for the following offence :—H e was i n the habit of stationing himself in the Kent-road, and allur ing countrymen and boys to play with him 4 a game called "the thimble rig," who were invariably cheated. On searching him, a number of flash notes wer•s found, which were committed to the flames. It was stated that he gained from 101. to 12/. a-day by this "rig." • A most wanton and cruel act was perpe trated on Wednesday by two lads named HAWKER and JONES, who seeing a donkey near the Market-house, Chi chester, introduced some q uieksilvr, nutshells, &c. into its ear. The sufferings of the animal were excruciating.__ They were sentenced under Mr. MARTIN'S Act to pay a fine of 'soa. each, in default of which the latter was 'sent to prison for six iveeks.—Hants Chronicle. It is singular that 'Dr. BLOMFIELD, the Bishop of Chester, was not sparing of his censures even on his Royal Highness the late Duke of YORK. He took oc casion to write to his Royal Highness, in no very measured terms, remonstrating with him. for proceeding to the country in his travelling carriage on Sunday. The reply of his Royal Highness was very dignified and becoming; and this apostolical and inconsiderate interference, improper in every sense, as applied to a Prince who devoted the other days of the week to severe official labours, produced an effect the direct reverse of that which was contemplated. --Morning Paper. At the house of a labouring man in the parish of Egg Buckland in this county, there are now lying, in a common-sized bed, two mothers, two sons, one daughter, one grandmother, one grandson, brother and sister, uncle and nephew, all of whom (eleven) are comprehended in four persons. ' The following explanation will make it ap• pear clear:—The daughter, being married, resided in the house 9f her parents with her husband, and she and her mother were brought to bed, each of a son, just at the same period, a few days since, and in consequence of the accommodation in the cottage being contracted, the lying in-women (the mother and daughter, with their off spring) were placed in one bed ; and these four persons constitute the characters above mentioned.•--Plymouth Herald. The number of thefts which have been com mitted in Elgin during the preceding six weeks, are, we believe, unprecedented in .this place during the same period of time ; and we are aware of several other depre dations of a similar nature, which have also lately taken place, tliough not generally knoWn. In order to prevent as far as possible the progress of theft, robbery, and other similar crimes, we would respectfully suggest to those in authority the re-establishment of a night police in Elgin during the winter months. Two active and honest indi viduals would be sufficient to patrol the streets, and we should think that those occupying premises fronting the High-street, would cheerfully contribute their iota to de fray the comparatively trifling expences which such a mea sure would necessarily incur. —E/gin Courier., AN IMPORTANT LEGAL POINT SETTLED. —At a meeting of county Magistrates at a Shire-hall of a town in Suffolk, last week, a most important legal ques tion connected with the Game Laws, was for ever set at rest. The 'discussion arose on the hearing of a charge against two young men under the sth of Amoc, for beating a hedge-row with dogs, and throwing a stick at the phea sants as they rose from the hedge, with intent to destroy, or, in common legal parlance to do them some grievous bodily harm. The evidence proved the beating of the hedge, and their throwing a stick at a pheasant. The de fence made was, that they were hunting for rabbits, having leave (which was proved) from the landlord for that pur pose. The Magistrates, however, of whom seven were pre sent, after mature and grave deliberation, were unani mously of opinion, that a stick , was not an engine—as described in the Act, and dismissed the culprits with a suit able admonition. A fine looking boy, 15 years of age, was charged by his father with attempting to put an end to his own existence, by means of poison. From the investiga tion, it appeared the boy had received, for a long time back, the most abusive treatnient, from his father, who had not only been in the habit of striking him most unmerci fully, but had frequently turned him out during the night, and he had been forced, for three or four nights last week, to sleep in a coal cellar adjoining the house. This treat ment had acted upon the boy's spirit (naturally proud, as appeared from the evidence of some of the neighbours) to such an extent, that he conceived the idea of destroying himself, and had procured poison for that purpose,"but was, prevented by detection, • from carrying his purpose into effect. The father said that the boy had exposed himself to correction by bad conduct. A number of the neighbours gave evidence as to the fact of 'his having been cruelly used acted under the influence ' ofliawife, who was step-mother t o th e boy. The Court straugbl reProbatta,the ocouluo the,parent, and recom-1 by his father , who , it was alleged, i neuded a cepa:l;4oom Glasgow Chronicle of SAturday, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.--Edward .Denton, a drover, wearing tlie'badge NO: '793, was brought before Sir P. LAURIE yesterday, charged with acting as a drover in Smithfield- Market that morning without wearing his badge, and with wanton cruelty to au ox. The complainant, Mr. John Cramp, a butcher, in White chapel, stated, that the animal which the prisoner had wan- tonly struck with his stick, was merely passing him, and did not belong to the drove•in his charge. " The blow was struck from the pure love of cruelty, . . then," remarked the ALDERMAN ; " he enjoyed theinflict ing of torture," The complainant said, that was precisely the fact. Wanton cruelty was never practised so generally as at the present day in Smithfield. Sir PETER . LAURIE said Mr. Cramp's conduct was most creditable to him, and he would fine the prisoner 20s. for the cruelty, and 20s. more for not wearing a badge. The prisoner . was committed for one month in default. representing 15, but the pen ivas so bad that he did nit finish the oto make it £l5O. Last Saturday be receive his banker's book, and found that two checks for 150/. had been paid, and he immediately called upon Mr. R ee d, w hi, conducted the house. Mr. MARazorT—Wlsat house do you allude to ? J thought this was at your own house in Curzon-street, May fair. Mr. Ford—No, Sir, at No. 5, King-street, St.James'sl. Mr. Ford resumed, and was about to state the converSa, tion which took place between him and Mr. Reed, when Ire was interrupted by Mr. MARRIOTT, who said that was not evidence. Mr. Ford then said, that in consequence of the conver• sation he had with Mr. Reed, he went to his solicitor, and informed him of the circumstances, when he had the pri soner apprehended. Mr. MARRIOTT inquired whether there were any wit nesses? Mr. Ford said there were a number of persons in the room at the time of the transaction, and he had no doubt he could bring them forward. Mr. MARRIOTT inquired what were the names of the per,. sons? Mr. Ford said he would bring forward Mr. John Reed and Mr. Charles Stevens, who could prove that they saw the defendant take up the draught. • _ _ _ Mr. Isaacs, for the prisoner, hoped the worthy Magis trate would not detain the prisoner on the evidence he had heard : perhaps the very persons named might be the per sons who had taken the draught. Mr. Ma.naiorr had specifically put the questions to Mi. Ford, who said he would bring foliward witnesses if time were given him. Mr: Isaacs would put some questions to Mr. Ford, Witt Iris Worship's permission. Mr. MAuntorr—'Certainly. Mr. Isaacs—Where did this trausaction occur ? Ford—At No. 5, King-street, St. James's. Mr. liaaes—On what consideration was it you drew these draughti ? • Mr. Mans xorr--Really this does not b ea r on th e case. Mr. Isaacs--I wish to' show your Worship that this took place at a public gaming -table, and to put you in pos session of the facts. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metro&lig 41b. Loaf . There are others who sell from % ,1 . that price. WH I TECH ARIEL HAY (k MARKET--Pe T c ' t 725. Od to 100 A. Od. J•lover ' 9 0 s • - 3ch. Od. to 3 15.,, PIECES OF HOPS (per Cwt.) —DeC 3 ' Kent Pockets';, ' 4/. O. 4/. Sussex Ditto F. 1 9 s. 4/. Essex Ditt-o' 31. 16g. Farnham Ditto, Fine.,,,,., Ol. Os. Seconds —......... 01. Os. Ios. 71.1-- L, , 61, to 41. 4 '' " 1,1 : 31 .. 1 9.!'!n ° 41' Kent Bags — Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto- --- N. Ba. 4 ' It £llO,OOO. P a Rape Oil, brown Linseed Oil i f . .........._HPRIC :3 I . O o r . ...,,,,_ 01L ...._........,,5 • uctinc d ..,.., o lio Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand .•••-••••• Rape Cake, per t0n,,,,,,,,.,..,.,, PRICE OF POTATOES.—Dtc. R erion 31. 10s. to 4/. Os. 1 9 ,„, - 2 l. 2l. los. to IL m• jitt i ---31. 13s. to 1 1 . 0 '• dill. 21. 10s. to 3 1 . 3 ' s ' • ticotcli Reds Marsh Chase Oxnablei and Shaws • rer at t les.." i l But t5....„,—.50 to: 61b... 'Ali 22,1 Tanned Hors; .:,,,,, Per lb. Ditto.--60 to 661 b.., 221 23i Spanish Diti 7 0 . -y PRICES to d O . F LEATHER. in. . il ' ' Dressing Hides-- 1:31 17 per doi to ob. 0 Fine Coach Hides —l7 19 Calf Skies..' %f to 102 fl D Cr i ° tro l l....—.. ide' ' 3 4 5 5, t t ° 0 ' sol l°4 b. 1 1 tif 1 181 D Di ii tt t rl ---"'r7 9 t : 6 11 9 r 3 " . 19 Ditto ~.... - '.,....... 18,1 204 Small SealA, Or - to' RAW lIIDES. s." -4 Rest ll P cif r a S rs t l 6 S e iqers . 3 6. tQ 5 3 . d.ci fi 11116'4' 2 8 3 0 Mai ket Calf•—••,, Downs, SFIEEP SKINS. o i . pi t oe~ /s. 6d. tots, 2d. to 3s. rI ET.—Dec. - • , a fcbl'll Walls Eutl Newt/ Ditto I-lender ! r Dit to N o rthuint , Ditto 6 Ditto Russel- I ' 6 Lambton small 0 „.„., Wylarn - large sl' li `; . „4 Culm Christie ~ „,:i t 6 IThrtley Derbyshire 4 Lambtott's Russell's Leltoo.--- - -7 . Walls Did nl e „ Wt• t it. Russell's I - let` - th is olti, [)s sold, 2631--'-- COAL MAR Burdon _ liebburn Main 37 -0 Killingworth :37, 6 Onl's Itedhtigli 32 6 P6rey 32 6 Pontop Simpson—. 32 5 Shipeote 31 6 Tantield Moor 33 6 35.3 Willington 39 0 Wylam 34 0 Walls }:t;d Bell and Co. 38 0 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 37 0 Ditto Bewieke and Co.— 30 .3 Ditto Carr and Co.,— 3.5 0 Ships at maitet, 413 —Shil .RKETS. so, .7E—FILWAV , I ' l°' To r , 11 2 11,::7788:0 2 76 33 254 OlOC N l : ana: l ttt i mis. o4t ei t ,:it , H p:: barrel 20 stone l ii r°m o 924 Bcie l5 sto n e . 10 0 I:3 10 1111461) stone ttt t oo o onnn n eee e r;7 3 ott 0 : 400 23 ,:r Sold to Bakers only. 6,483 Cwt. Flour 12 0 ? , _, 2 Average price of Wheat and Flour ZlSs• t° l d. i)j. Receipts of Flour, 10,9811 o .rnFirsts, from 1 1 . T • o j. Q B3i ne e tr s t o e f rn Lo D af o :41b. 1 ::: 8 2 1 ;!1 c Sez 3ithdoivdi llalf-quartern, 218 ' " tat E l g or, 4 1. as• cl " 1.50-4 e 1 OVO O V O O 0 /0 ) 15 0- - , l° 0 • " 0 -. 4 .. 0 . 0 (T , -') 1 1 0- 2 1 ° 0 0 0) ) 0 150 __. 0 U IV 0 0- - f) IMSH,MA: DUBLIN MARKET NO Cork, r -- Limerick Waterford Clonmel Belfast... Wrry Car10w.,,.,.. Tralee Wheal; per barrel ; 20 stoue. s. d. a s. d. 22:i-24 9 12.6x-23 4 20:6-21 6 250. 00 22 6-23 9 0 Q— 0.0 t.to— , 0 0 Q— 0 Barley. per barrel, 16 stone. s. d. a s.d.l 100-164, 102- 00 12 0-15 0 12 0— 0 0 120-140 'l2B 00 12 0— 0 0 . 0 0— 0 0 Oats. per barrel 14 stone. b. d. a 8. tt. 9 2-11 3 89— 00 90-103 100— 00 1 110—, 00 111-129 90-00 00— 00 ............., ..r. r .• v i., kr I. VU. . . II tit I. 1 V•••• l l gutter' . 1 oo Beef, ;Mutton,' Pork, :fa: ,', per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2 ,1 . . -- (1. , ' 1 1 .---._—. -.- , c i. 5.,. 0 6 d. a d.. tl. a d. s. d. a s. d. s. d. s. (I. '-'„ oou o p Cork --- 3 —5 -1. 6 25 0-28 OM 078 0 2 7 , 0 0 ~ Limerick„ 3—41 41 2 - 2 0-26 0182 076 0 .., , A Waterford 4 —6 . 111 6 28 0-33 6 82.0 80 0 7:406 ,`,,,; Cloninel 3 —4 31 5 00— 0078074 0 1 0 40 L',,,i B e lf ast ;_._ I —sfo —0 00— 00820 80 0 :xl 0 i " ' Derry -- 0 —0 6 —0 00 _ 00_0 _ 0 ..... 0,10 051 Carlow.— 5 —0 5 0 23 0— 00 8S 084 0::-12 .> , ... I Tralec-- 0 —0 ,0 0 00— 0084 6 0 --* 6 ' ,_,, 0 9 :5 ; d. KILKENNY MARKET, Nov. 30.—.. utter, . tc bv per cwt. ; Bacon Pigs, 28s. s9s. per ditto; 20s. to 235. per barrel; Barley, 9s. to I 4s. ; Oats, 51 , n p o e7l , b. l P lo ol O tOes p , er 2 l : l7 4 Is. 2d. per cwt. d ß. epeefran:ltollnlent;top, Abt-rdeen 8erwick.....,.... Coldstream Cupar --- Dundee SCOTCH MA AKETS. Barley. I Oats. 28 34 26 ,24 26 32 16 "23 20 23 16. 19 22 23 17 18 20" 22 18 20 18 '4 I: Elgin 24, 24 n ertiesS--- Kelso Kirkaldy-- Perth -- 5 , 19 23 24 2$ 30 '2B 31' 22 25 32 36 20 23 .15 .‘ ,19 no 32 27 33 22 . . '4l 2t ' 212 2 0 24 15 '' 18 `rear At Berwick, (oldstrt price is given per quarteA Oatmeal, which is persai Uni Ke lso r. The otl tck of 28011 and:Whc 3er prices )s. :at are per e ,„„ .---- ro i', T' LORD VVELLESLEY.—It IS rtitiioll. ,st'' his Excellency has been prevailed upon to give th e j e pW the benefit of a command night previous to hi' a 0 10 4 ture. The occasion, we are sure, would be sei ° t sy l ' by the public as a fit one for indicating the re Bll6 ieel t e :, affection which the Irish people must necessa rill m oir wards a Nobleman who, though he - h as not ac e° 'd ai lr all that was desired, laboured with such arO ur ft s :allt 4) gence in the public service, and accomplished' ..,i ' a , much substantial good.—.D u b li n M orn i n i , (t- &C.. G 0 W S ) i i ‘Qviutehena-svterrt,serf from :i i t n s l w oss h COUNSELLOR BETHEL'S WIG, "",,,, - ar .i4tec j i ,..'i —We regret to state that this distinguished -11-1 - 0 0 ' . " -, On his ' the Ile. ' ‘*.IV leaving . , 10 , „A . Court yesterday, he handed his bag, contait fg ;-' tus." Up to this hour, coat, and several equity' and crimin al ', le .tse ' '' ' ; " the young gentleman, gown, young lad, with directions to meet him at the cs, l , ° o tle sl t , gentleman," h gwh place gl oco wk the n,, iI L e la a a ril , e (1_ A ,-,: 311: at, was to proceed to Kilmainham Court-house• i l irO' h e' e f rival at the stand, th e messenger was, 4 , vOn a a feik o toas t e fs, '. •+ • or. • li been received. If offered to be pawned orer!folP quested that notice thereof will be given to Pl' 49, Mary-street, --Dublin Morning Register. 0,31' FALL OF FOYERS.—It has long b ee n fi t he 81 0 j: ter of regret that this magnificent object cO j c t and 7 10 proached except by a descent so painfully didi t T it. ' i s gerous, as to deter many persons front attemptings-00-fr benefit which would be derived, to the n u ' newt' . g$ °I of that singularly romantic cataract, from havill t .e bai and convenient access to the position which na Toe! already provided for viewing it to the utmost ad a te ceed 40/. or 45/. It has becni . :: i p a elk' has been frequently enlarged upon. that the total expence of forming such an access wo` oo try . , Lord COLCHESTER earnestly pressed . the proP;', C ; ) ,;itla P ir- D„ r i n g his late visit to this ' o f r aj, - ing this sum by private subscription, and l e ft;: r s i otien• -- ; MrrcHICLL, t h e i ns pector of Roads, as hi s co ` soe tion ° lilr. ,11fircnxr.r., we be liev e , has obtained' tbrel snot, to th o proposal of Lord COLCHESTER, whose eNatiW'e.tcti geotlq' the ,respectable proprietor of 'this far-fan ie ; - ' we. InPl'e* will be speedily followed by many public-sluri . . . men in this quarter.—lnverness Courier. rr_.•!"-.1.r" . _ , • BIRTHS. On the 6th ult. at Paris, the lady of Charles Sts Esq., of a daughter. 6 010 4 . 1/ On the let i ns tant, at Gloucester, the 1a11}'o" MaOn ddy, Esq., of a son. lad}' or tine llheev.lsjtaimneestapntu,ffatlvWardh,ipopfinagdh:griißteectory, 6e. On. the 3d instant, a lk t lA A ß l a ll , Gerard, Bart., of Garswood,. and New Hall, couio Lancaster, to 'Monica, only surviving daugh ter of Jed Thomas Strickh:nd Standish, Esq.' of Standish liVrol' yllEebDo.ne Church, Si r e the same county, and Sizergh Castle, c ounty of moreland. On the 23d Febrrary, at Bareilly, Captain J. 5°1'10,4 Assistant-Commissary General, to Eliza Johannsolcod, daughter of Brigadier Vanranen, Cominand DIED. . On the 29th ult., at Conderton, Worcesterelore,o, On the 30th ult., at the vicarage, Darke, widow of the late Thomas Darke, Esq., age d ye' Potts, third daughter of the late Samuel Potts, . 1 . '"", ensingto n, : ord.' aged 46. igeti On the 2d instant, at Blackheath, Mrs. Way, widow of the late Lewis Way, surgeon , o f Austin-;0r On the 30th ult., at Pentonville, Mr s. M. E. SPI shock, late of Demerara. Sh . ' t On the 23d ult., at Wymondhaua, Norfolk, after a lo e illness, Mr. Thomas Kemball, aged 60, for m any'r f ro respectable surgeon of that place. „A On the 29th.of June last , drowned on his Alma def Junere to Poonah, in the pr esidenc y of Bombay, AlelfAer. Edmund, second son of W. R. Hamilton, E s q. of grove, Chelsea, aged 21: to PRtaso Slid PUBLISHED by AL YOUNG, Sl/I(.O7FICX, No, 112, Strand.' Beaus. ;..—....---- I ,; '''''—.... 3 / 1 —... ; ,' ...,:, , .... / ....- ...., ~. I. le .... i c .__ " • _.— ; 4 , .. ...: —,.. , 30 ....• :;, ... .43 ;:4), era 21 )„.01 veN el' t at A L.- !..... ner b° ' Wheat. I . On the N Edith beautiful Uumes, qiulen, and A Hls voym r r i nted C A PIA Pack e t hii d T V o l um graved by pi t Print e( IPoc t GI 7o urz , , ANDEs. 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