The Sun. — London, England, 1827-08-13 00:00:00

VIDE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The acts of Government, when a Ministry is in complete operation, are the acts of the Mi nisters : that is, they are responsible for them, — they advise their adoption, and direct their exe cution. But the act of supplying a deficient Ministry, or calling a new one into existence, is the King's act, and is one of the highest prero gatives of Royalty. Now if, on the unfortunate demise of Mr. Canning, there was one thing more desirable than another, it was that his suc cessor should be nominated as speedily as possi ble ; and this duty his Majesty has performed with. despatch suitable to the occasion. He Las not been wanting to the wishes of the people, and the exigencies of the state : for Lord Gode rich, already fleshed in the business of finance by being Chancellor of the Exchequer, is to be First Lord of the Treasury ; and it is hardly, therefore, necessary - to speak now of the other arrangements : they will be readily understood, and will be settled with that promptitude of which his Majesty has given the example. The melancholy ceremonial of Mr. Canning's inter ment is to take place on Thursday, and the Ministerial appointments will probably be inser ted in the ordinary Gazette of the day following. The tranquil indifference to personal considera tions—the mild acquiescence in whatever may appear to be beneficial to the country,—displayed by Lord Lansdowne, will at once endear him to Sovereign and people. The Whigs arc rapa-' cious, are they ?-----greedy of office ?—obtrusive of their claims ? and anxious for promotion ? Then, at least in these respects, Lord Lans downr.; is not a Whig. Perhaps he is a Tory ! They have the merit of self-denial! They seek not their own advancement ! To whichever party Lord Lansdowne belongs, we only wish his friends would study his example. We hardly know whether we ought to regret the absence of Mr. Huskisson. To witness sufferings which he could net alleviate—to watch a depar ture which he could not retard—are painful duties to friendship. It will be some consola tion to him to learn,—as lie may learn from other, though probably not better authority than ours,—that the conduct of the late Premier was marked by Christian resignation and pious hope, when.his mind was not distracted by delirium, produced by pain ; he foresaw his approaching dissolution, and foresaw it without dread. There was no childish clinging to life : he sometimes expressed the keenest anxiety for the success of his plans of liberal policy, and wished for the continuance of his colleagues in office as most likely to produce that result. But Mr. Huskis son, though absent from the anguish of his friend, will be present to the wants of his coun try. His return to England may be speedily expected. In one respect the duty of his Ma jesty, in filling up the Ministry so soon, would be facilitated ; for though a clamour is made, or rather attempted to be made, against the present men, we really do not know whom it could be proposed to substitute in their places, under the appellation of a Tory Administration, Could Lord Westmoreland form an Administration ? or Lord Bathurst ? or Mr. Peel ? Or could all these three be made to constitute a Ministry ? And as to the Duke of Wellington, we presume his situation is always open to him ; nor can we conceive why he should not accept it as readily whilst Lord Goderich is First Lord of the Trea sury, as if Mr. Peel were in that situation. But really to us it appears that the Tories are extinct, or that so many of them as are capable of hold ing place with utility to their country, are mem bers of the present Administration. if not, let them give us a programme of the Ministry they would form; for we really—and we say the thing seriously—could not, if we were adherents to that faction, make up a Ministry out of it.— Times. On whatever side, or in relation to whatever affairs, domestic or foreign, we view the subject, the promptitude with which the King has exe cuted one urgent but most melancholy duty, oc casioned by Mr. Canning's untimely death, con fers on his Majesty a fresh claim to the respect and gratitude of the nation. To choose imme diately a successor to the admired statesman, whom his Majesty and his people have lost, was an exercise of the prerogative only second in im portance to that of choosing wisely. There never was a period in history, when the minds of all men, at home and abroad, were likely to be more agitated by hopes and solicitudes, re specting the composition of the future Cabinet of England ; because there never has existed a crisis at which British subjects, Europe, and the world, had a deeper stake in the policy to be pursued by the King's Government. The mere distraction of men's feelings, which a long sus pense on this question must give rise to, would be in itself, at such a juncture, a serious moral evil, which the quick determination of his Ma jesty has considerately and humanely averted. The doubts and misgivings of commercial men with regard to the views on which an unknown Cabinet might govern the manufacturing, mari time, and trading interests of the kingdom , whe n such opposite principles are afloat, would, if long continued, have produced a grievous paralysis of credit and enterprise, a positive loss of profit, and bar to the accumulation of capital ; all which have been saved by the early announcement of his Majesty's pleasure, that Lord Goderich, the political friend and partner of Mr. Canning, should form the Administration according to his own sense of the materials which were accessible to him, and of those which the exigency re quired. Another imminent dan g er has been re moved, or has been diminish e d of much of its importance, by the watchful and timely declara tion of his Majesty's wishes. Every one who has observed the workings of the Holy Alliance policy in the South of Europe, must be aware that new attempts are preparing, by the em ployment of open force, or by the artful per version of authorities alleged to be founded on the letter of the law itself, to overthrow the Portuguese Constitution, and wholly to dissolve the connection between Portugal and Great Britain, partly for the sake of perpetuat ing despotism in Spain, partly that the entire Peninsula may be engrossed by the same family power which, since the year 1823, has fitted a heavy and disgraceful yoke to the necks of the unfortunate Spaniards. The Paris nevv,spapers, as may be seen from our journal of Saturday, are commanded to hold, upon the subject of Por tugal, a language which no man can mistake. — If King Pedro should presume to set his foot on th e soil on which he was born, he is to be at tacked and dethroned, under pretence that his CharteT and his sister's Regency,, instead of the outrages -offered to both, have caused the anarchy" which is said to reign in Portugal. Certainly England has no right nor power to drag Pedro to Europe against his own consent ; and if that Sovereign . should think fit to leave bOth his (*Otter's futtiie kingdom, and the Constitution which lie has bestowed upon it, an unresisting prey to the ambition of the house of Bourton; there is no where a power which could, even' by physical means, prevent his incurring such a. catastrophe, so far as his own separate interests and those of his child would be in volved in it. How far such a transfer might be tamely submitted to by other sovereigns is a somewhat different question ; but, with these threats held out from the quarter which we have alluded to, and with the additional weight im parted to them by circumstances which gradually unfold themselves in a more distant quarter of Europe, it is clear that nothing affecting the suc cessful course of our foreign policy could be of more obvious importance than a prompt avowal by the Sovereign of Great Britain that his Ad ministration should be placed in hands the most deeply pledged to follow up those measures whereby Mr. Canning had already announced the sense this country was justified in entertaining of the duiies of foreign Governments towards her and her Allies. We are now assured of a Ca binet which will do justice to Mr. Canning's me mory, by treating with congenial spirit and firm ness this trying question, of which Portugal is at once the subject and the scene ; but in the issue of which are comprehended the national dignity and honour of England, and the hope of a resurrection to light and liberty for the most degraded portions of Europe. To the fact that we eannot, physically speaking, compel Don Pedro to return to Portugal, may be added the acknow ledgment that Don Miguel's threatened journey thither is a movement not much easier to frustrate than the former one would be to enforce. But when the natural tendency of Don Miguel's unre strained accession to the Portuguese Govern ment, or of his usurpation of it is considered, it will be seen that for Great Britain to neglect such precautions and guarantees as are within her reach, for averting the too manifest consequences of such a revolution, would be nothing less than a voluntary sacrifice of every interest which be longs to the maintenance of Portugal as a state independent of the House of Bourbon, and an indirect abandonment of all that British policy which for more than a century has been striving to emancipate Spain itself from the incorpora tion of its Court with that of the Tuileries. The question is obviously well enough understood at Paris, although, with the usual dexterity, not more than half of it has been disclosed. Our neighbour journalists see very clearly that there is no security for preserving any part of the Pe ninsula a Bourbon province, but in the spreading to Portugal the contagion of that system of des potism which, centering at Madrid, is protected from Paris ; and therefore limit themselves to recommending that the counter-pestilence, the plague-spot of constitutional liberty, which is just visible at Lisbon, and which England encou rages, shall be blotted out, lest, under the courtly appellation of " anarchy," it should cross the frontier, and inoculate 12,000,000 of Spaniards. For realizing such a project, there is no method more plausible than to uGe Don Miguel as its engine. Brought up as that young Prince has been, it is more his misfortune than his crime, that he should be well disposed to execute the office, cast upon him. And this is the danger against which England has to guard—by diplo macy, rather, we trust, than by a recourse to arms. If other European governments consent to become guarantees with Great Britain of the Crown of Portugal to the young Princess, and against any overthrow by Miguel of the Charter emanating from his brother, an outrage contra vening such a guarantee would establish an in stantaneous right of interference on the part of the British Government. This, however, is but one of many means through which such a secu rity as is essential alike to the interests of the Spanish Nation and of our Portuguese Ally might be attained to. The present Ministers are not to be told with what facility the Constitu- tional spirit of Spain might be rendered avail able to the protection of Portugal from the me naces of the House of Bourbon.—lbid. The nomination of Lord Goderich to form the Ministerial arrangements consequent upon the death of Mr. Canning appears to give very general satisfaction ; not only from the confi dence reposed in the straightforward integrity of the Noble Lord's own character, but from the extinguisher it puts upon all prospects of Whig ascendancy. It is singular enough, to be sure, that this duty should devolve upon one who has himself a known disinclination to office, and that he should have to deal with colleagues, three of whom at least (Lords Harrowby and Dudley, and Mr. Sturges Bourne), if not a fourth (Lord Bexley), entertain the same feel ing. In this respect the patriotism of the Whigs far exceeds that of their rivals ; for who ever heard of a Whig who wished either to decline or retire from office, or who would not readily serve his country and himself at the peril of any incon sistency ? Their magnanimous self-devotion forms in this respect a striking contrast with the • timidity, the diffidence, or the indolence, which ever it may be, of some at least of the Tories. What Lord Goderich's arrangements will be, or whether they have as yet mare any material pro gress towards completion, we are wholly unin formed ; except that the Duke of Wellington's return to the command of the Army appears pretty certain—so certain indeed, that there are those who declare that his Grace's appointment will be announced in to-morrow night's Gazette. We believe too, we may assert with some confi dence, that Lord Eldon will not resume office under any circumstances. That Noble Lord, though possessing the vigour of a green old age in a remarkable degree, determines to retire from the fatigues and turmoil of politics, adopt ' ing the solve senescentem of the poet, and re collecting that the latter part of a wise man's life is best devoted to retirement and reflection. The chief difficulty in the pending arrange ,' ments is said to exist in obtaining a compe t tent Chancellor of the Exchequer. If the busi- ness of a Finance Minister be, as it of late years apparently has been, to mystify and render ob scure the whole of the public accounts, Lord Goderich might find it difficult to hit upon a conjuror qualified for the task ; but recollecting, as the country does with gratitude, that he him self was the first to break down the system of mystification, and to introduce common sense and common arithmetic into the public accounts, he has only to look around for some one with a mind and inclination resembling his own, to find an adequate Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Peel, if he would give up his mind and his time to it, is the person of all others best qualified to take this office, and with it what is called the lead in the House of Commons. If this cannot be, and if the Catholic Question is still to de prive the country of the services of some of its most valuable and enlightened Statesmen, then there are still Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Grant, and Mr. Herries, any one of whom, we suspect, would be able to fulfil the duties of this office to the satisfaction of the country. One thing we, at any rate, hope, which is that we shall have a permanent, - not a temporary Government.— - - Nothing can be more unfortunate for the country, both in its foreign and domestic relations, than the chief offices of the State continually changing hands, as they have lately done, leaving the Go vernment itself as a kind of state weathercock, liable to be turned about and shifted by every breeze. The times are - much too critical, espe cially as regards our foreign concerns, for instabi lity like this. No congrn in private life which is continually changing tither master or servants is ever well conducted ; and. we know of no safer test whereby to manage empires, than by approximating their management as near as may be to the good sense and right feeling of private life. Had this principle prevailed heretofore, neither debts nor wars would have existed to the extent they have, nor would many other evils have grown upon nations, under which we every where see them labouring.—Morning Herald. We can state that the arrangements rendered necessary by the death of Mr. Canning, are proceeding in the most satisfactory manner. The President of the Council, the Earl of Harrowby retires. It is known that his Lordship has long been desirous of withdrawing from office ; and the loss of his daughter, Lady Ebrington, has affected this amiable Nobleman so much, that he feels the tranquillity of a private life necessary to his health. He will, however, give his most cordial support to the Administration. We do not feel ourselves at liberty to state what we have heard respecting the progress of the arrange ments. We can mention, however, that it is probable Lord Holland will take office. One piece of intelligence we can communicate, how ever, which will give the greatest satisfaction throughout the country ; and that is, that no one of the Outs will form part of the Administration. Our readers, on seeing in the Court Circular that Mr. Peel left town on Saturday for Mans field, might be disposed to infer that, before the, Right Hon. Gentleman took such a step, he had a pretty good assurance that it was not intended to put his wisdom and e xperience in requisition at this time. Another individual, a Nobleman, who particularly distinguished himself during last Session by the becoming manner in which he con ducted his opposition to the Government (we al lude to , the Marquis of Londonderry), posted up to town, in the persuasion, no doubt, that it would be . impossible at this time to dispense with the services of a Statesman of his commanding talents ; but to the surprise of the Noble Marquis (though we dare to say of no one else), neither his talents nor his promptitude have been duly appreciated. An attempt' will be made to navi gate the State vessel without his aid. The best understanding prevails between Lord Goderich and the rest of his colleagues, with respect to the measures in progress for completing the Ad ministration. We never, indeed, anticipated any other result ; for we were certain that his Ma jesty had the-peace and prosperity of the country too much at.heart, to think of withdrawing his confidence from men whose measures had given so much satisfaction to the nation, and who had so well entitled themselves to its approbation.— The intelligenee of the satisfactory manner in which affairs are proceeding, and more especially of the certainty of the exclusion of all the outs, will every where diffuse the most heartfelt joy. We cannot close these few observations without point ing out to the execration which it merits the fol lowing passage, which appeared in an Evening Paper. of Friday last : " If Mr. Canning died a Christian, it is due to his me mory—due to those who surrounded his death-bed—due to the everlasting welfare of thousands, we fear we might say millions, of the vulgar, in all ranks, whose religious feelings are too much influenced by the fashion set by great and popular persons, to state that he died in a saving faith. " If, on the other hand (and we tremble to put the hy pothesis upon paper), the unfortunategentleman died with out religion, it is important that it should be known. If an Atheist he died, an Atheist he must have lived, for no man apostatises in the hour of death ; and here, as in the cases of Mr. Fox, Mr. Whitbread, Sir Samuel Romihly,' and hundreds of others, we should have a key to that la titudinarian liberality, which would postpone the spiritual interests of mankind to political convenience, and brand with the imputation of bigotry all who conscientiously maintain the religion of their conviction." To comment on observations conceived in such a spirit, would be an insult to our readers. Far gone in depravity of heart must that man be to-whom this rancorous appeal to the worst pas sions of our nature can give satisfaction. Mr. Whitbread is understood to have been a very re ligious man, and gave evidence of his zeal for the diffusion of religion, by the share he took in promoting Bible Meetings ; and therefore, with respect to him, the accusation is peculiarly ill judged.—Good God ! what an idea of serving religion must the writer of the passage have had ! No, thank Heaven, the bigotry and fanaticism of the people of England have not yet attained a height, which will allow them to delight in such an outrage to decency !—Morning Chronicle. It is finally arranged that Mr. Canning's fu neral will take place on Thursday next, in West minster Abbey. It is to be strictly private. The relatives of Mr. Canning, all the Cabinet Minis ters, the Secretaries and Medical Attendants of the deceased Minister, have alone been invited to attend, and to go in procession to the Abbey. Several friends, however, having expressed their wish to pay this last tribute of respect to Mr. Canning's memory, they have been requested to meet the procession at the Abbey, and will wait its arrival in the Jerusalem Chamber, where they will be admitted through the Dean's House by tickets, which will be delivered on application to Mr. Jarvis, the undertaker. The offers of carriages to attend the funeral have been declined ; and the carriages of those who are invited to Downing-street will alone be permitted. to attend. —New Times. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DI A RY.—TuEsDA v .._„ Commissioners, 13 Badnall, It., Leek, Stafford - shire lO Brown, S., Old-street Buck, G., Regent-street l2 Carman, D., Lothbury lO Collens, F., Pall-mall Davis, W., Lower Brooke street Fearnley, W., Crutched friars Fox, G., Blackheath lO Freeman, J., Bristol lO Ellman, W., Lambeth lO Grain, G., Cambridge lO Hurt, G., King-st., Cheap side Mott, W., Brighton AucsisT I the Court o. 3asinghall.street.) M , Knight, T., West India 1 Docks Mitchell, J., Crescent, Mi- nories . , 1! Owen, S., Deptford Phillips and Gray, Platt- .. terrace Rehden, C., Red Cross-st, 11 Smith, A., Mark-lane ii Strutton, W., Commercial- road lO Turner, R., London-road 10 Wardale, F., Allhallows lane ll Waugh, I'., Turnwheel lane, Cannon-street COUNTRY DlARY.—WEnsasnav, Auo. 15. Brooke, R., Waleot—White Hart, Bath 1 Chadwick, J., Sinallbridge, near Rochdale—White Lion, Halifax 4 Coupland, T., Kingston, Jamaica—Clarendon-buildings, Li verpool • Dailey and Co., Nottingham—Punchbowl, Nottingham lO Gardiner, W., Chalford—Fleece, Rodborough II Goodrich, R., Cheltenham—George, Stroud lO Hodges, 8., Bristol—Mr. Smith, Brlptol Holroyde, A., Sowerby, Halifax-Office of Messrs. Alex ander, Halifax Lee, J., Leicester—White Hart, Leicester 5 Pilbrow, T. Exeter—New London, Exeter ll I Roberts, J., Holbeck—Court-house, Leeds ll Schorfield, J., Southowrip Halifax—Office of Messrs. Alex ander, Halifax INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, AUGUST Id, AT NINe. 3. W., Chatham Diamond, T., Brenchley St. John-street Edwards, J., Castle-st., White jun., Holborn chapel Bridge Gabbitas, M., Chigwell East, S., Water-lane, Thames. Thornhill, R., Tottenham.court B B u a Barnard, rn tte e gi a w: E. street rorto POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Saturday a street-keeper was complained against by a poor. starved-lookino• ' Irish fruit woman, who, in tears, said that the o ffi cer had knocked about her basket, and tumbled her . fruit into the street. The street-keeper said that he had been ordered to rid the streets of the fruitwomen ; and that the gentlemen of the ward would accuse him of neglect of duty if he did not take every means to obey the order. The LORD Mayon, expressed his contempt of that sort of disposition Which fixed upon the poorest objects for the in fliction of punishment as an example. He adised the street-keeper to exercise impartiality, and insinuated that there were good reasons for passing by those who were making more money than the wretched woman, who, if Hot allowed to exercise her calling, must perish, as she was not admissible into the workhouse. Every one in the justice-room was gratified at the warm humanity of this lecture. GUILDHALL.—Messrs. Cawthortie and Twigge, tea dealers, No. ] . St. Andrew's-hill, appeared on Saturday, before Mr. Alderman KEY, to answer the complaint of a decent looking poor woman, about 35 years old, one Lucy Langton, for unlawfully keeping a dog accustomed to bite, whereby she was bitten on the 9th instant. The dog, a mixture of the mastiff and terrier, was brought into Court, loaded with a heavy chain. Mrs. Langton stated, that as she was passing down St. Andrew's hill, in the evening, the animal set upon her, and seized her, not by the leg, but by the upper part of the thigh. She was soon released from him some how or other, but she was severely bitten, had paid ls. 6d. for a lotion to wash the place, and now the defendants wished to avoid making her any recompense beyond paying the surgeon. The gentleman who appeared with the dog replied, that the animal was formerly kept muzzled, but the neighbours had so repeatedly taken off and kept the muzzles, that the practice was discontinued. But still the dog was usually secured with a chain, and had not been unchained a mo ment from a truck he had been dragging, when tkis mis fortune occurred. He had seen Mr. Cox, the surgeon, who had attended to the case, and had been informed by him that the visible injury was a mere scratch. " A scratch r repeated Lucy Langton, in a tone of sur prise. She evidently had not anticipated such an asser tion, and therefore not being otherwise prepared to prove the extent of the injury, she, in an instant, began to gather up her garments from the bottom, bending and raising the knee, so as to exhibit most conspicuously the wounded place. Exclamations of " Oh, good gra cious ! oh lawk ! Don't, don't ! No, no !" forthwith re sounded on all sides from a crowd ofspectators of each sex, who, having heard where the bite was, did not conceive it would be possible to exhibit it without most dreadfully shocking their modesty. " I would rather not see : I believe your statement," said Mr. Alderman KEY, with eagerness; and some persons averted their eyes when it became evident that Lucy was firmly bent upon refuting, in the most incontestable man ner, the defendant's assertion regarding the nature of the injury. " Here, gentlemen, here," She cried with warmth, " is here nothing but a scratch ?" at the same time baring and exhibiting to the public gaze for some moments, by a very cautious management of her drapery, only a delicately clean plump limb. There was a deep discolouration over about two inches square ; such an appearance as succeeds a severe pinch. After such evidence of the fact, the gentleman was forced to allow the wound was more serious than he had stated, and, at the recommendation of the Alderman, retired and gave her as a compensation-20s. MARYLEBGNE.—On Saturday a man who called himself William Jones, and an elderly gentleman, were brought to this office from the watch-house. Jones charged the gentleman with having on the preceding even ing, in Hyde-park, made proposals to him of a nature not to be described ; and the gentleman charged Jones with extorting money. It appeared upon the investigation of the case, that there is reason to suspect Jones of being in the habit of extorting money by charges of this kind. About twelve months ago, he brought a charge at the Marloorough-street office, but did . not appear when the trial of the case came on at the Sessions. The name under which he now brought that charge was not Jones, but Tomes. According to the account he now gave of himself, he had been three months out of employment. He had obtained 3s. 6d. from the gentleman he now accused. From information received respecting the character of Jones, the Magistrates thought proper to commit him to the New Prison, Clerkenwell, as a disorderly person, and ordered him to be brought up for further examination on Tuesday. The other party gave bail to appear again at the office on Tuesday, or at the Sessions, if required. UNION- HALL.—SUPPRESSION OF PECKHAM FA IR.— The scene of riot and debauchery during Peckham Fair, which has long been matter of complaint by the respect able inhabitants of the neighbourhood, is now about to he suppressed for ever. The spot of ground which the fair used to be formerly held upon now forms a branch of the Surrey Canal, since which period the booths, stalls, whir ligigs, roundabouts, &c., have been placed in the main streets of Peckham, to the great annoyance of the towns people and the resident gentry. Iu consequence of the in tolerable nuisance complained of, a summons was issued against the Lords of the Manor of Peckham, wider the 3d of Geo. IV. cap. 55., by the resident Magistrates, calling upon them to show their right or title to hold such fair. A Petty Sessions assembled for the purpose, and Mr. Dodd, the Solicitor of the Lords of the Manor, attended, and having :relinquished the right of holding such Ihir, the Magistrates proceeded and adjudged Peckham Fair to be unlawful. Owing to the above decision, on Saturday Mr. Sergeant SCRUM; and J. LETT, Esq., Magistrates of the county, at tended at this office, when the former gentleman having apprized Mr. HONE (the sitting Magistrate) of the sup. pression of the above fair, proceeded to state that the neces sary notices were then in the course of publication, and would be forwarded all over the kingdom, and distributed previous to the time at which Peckham Fair was formerly held, for the purpose of acquainting the show-people, as well as the public, that the fair in question would no longer be permitted to be held. Mr. Sergeant ScarvEN observed, that he had also to request, on the behalf of him self and the other county Magistrates, that the usual num ber of police-officers from the establishment, for whose as sistance application would be also made to the Secretary of State, might be permitted to attend to preserve the peace at Camberwell Fair during the three days—namely, the 18th, 19th, and 20th of this month--on which it was held ; and that an additional force might be sent on the Morning of the day previous to the holding of Peckhani Fair, to take into custody any person erecting, or attempt ing to erect, any booth, standing, tents, or exhibition, or in any way offending, by endeavouring to renew a fair which was declared to be unlawful. Mr. Sergeant SCRIVEN then proceeded to detail the outrages and robberies which, were constantly committed during Peckham Fair, and the state of agitation and confusion which existed the three days. and nights of its celebration. With respect to Camberwell Fair, it was to be held as usual, and measures had been adopted which would completely prevent those scenes of riot and disorder which were so prevalent at Peckham. Mr. HONE having expressed much pleasure on hearing a fair calculated to do so much mischief was suppressed, observed, that every attention should be paid to the ap plication of the Worthy Magistrates, and a sufficient force sent from this office to preserve the peace during Cam berwell Fair, as well as to quell any attempts made to re new that of Peckham. WORSHIP-STREET.—On Saturday, a man named John Morgan., residing at No. 2., Bear-alley, Flect-ms.rket, was brought before the Magistrate, charged under the fol lowing circumstances : It appeared that on Friday night, a young woman named Anne Garraway, who cohabited with the prisoner, had been detected by Knight and Broad, pawnbrokers, in Shoreditch, in offering a gold chain and seal for pawn. On that occasion she stated that she got them from a man in the street, who desired her to ask 31. upon them, and at the same time he gave her a sovereign, which was found upon her, but the story not being credited, she was locked up. In the mean time, Brown and Groves, two officers, repaired to her lodgings, and found John Morgan, and after searching the room, found a guard chain. The pawn broker's clerk stated the value of the chain and seal to be worth 10 guineas, which the woman offered in pawn, and it was also ascertained, that she had on the same evening, offered a plated spoon in pawn at Mr. Cotton's. The officers on inquiry, found that Mt. Hanson, a jeweller in Holborn, had been on Friday, about twelve o'clock, robbed of a silver watch, gold chain, seal and spoon ; and that he had a man in his employment brought to Bow-street, on suspicion of the offence, but who was discharged for want of evidence. The prisoner was remanded until (this day) Monday. HINDOO COMPLIMENT.—WheII a Hindoo domestic receives a favour from his master, he 'has a curious way of expressing his gratitude. Present leim with a new turban, or befriend him in distress, and he exclaims with peculiar em- Theis, My Lord, you are, my ;father and motker I—London Weekly Review. ~~. ~, _ Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to 8. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. Andover...—....— 54 59 34 40 30 34 Carlisle 69 72 37 41 28 37 62 70 42 47 35 43 Morpeth--- 56 62 38 40 30 35 52 51 Newcastle 56 67 26 38 26 38 50 52 Roms 7 48 56 32 34 22 27 50 55 Sheffield 61 67 36 46 2 6 36 60 64 Winchester 63 ^ Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Birmingham. ... 66 74 50 56 39 46 70 78 Coventry 74 80 42 5 0 46 52 74 80 Newcastle (Staff.) 10 0 10 2' 7 0 72 50 56 90 10 0 Northallerton 79 86 00 00 43 46 70 76 Penrithx•.....`oo BB 00 54 48 00 00 00 Stafford 94 00 70 7 6 00 00 96 100 Warwick 70 79 40 50 49 56 70 80 Worcester 78 80 60 63 40 50 78 84 Per 8011. Barnardcastle........ 13 6 17 0 0 0 11 0 7 0 10 0— 0 0 0 Darlington 13 0 16 6 0 0 0 0 6 0 9010 0 13 6 Durham. . 150 17 0 106 00 79 106 100 126 Stanhope 12 6 13 9 00 10 0 ,0 00 00 00 Stockton... . 146 159 00 00 76 86 00 00 Wolsingham..,..;lso lB 011 0 00 96 10 6 00 00 CORNWALL MARKETS. Tauao.—Wheat (average) 255. Od.—Barley, 14s.—Oats, 12s. 9d. HeLwron--Wheat, 265. Od.--Barley, 17s. Od. ST. AusTntt—Wheat, 245. to 29s.—Barley, 15s. to 17s.—Oats, 15s. to 16s. BODMIN—Wheat (average) 265. Od.—Barley, 15s.—Oats, 16s. Od. LsuNcEsTow—Wheat (average) 255. Od.--Barley,:l3s. 6d.—Oats, 10s. Od.—Beef, 60.—Mutton, 6d. Lisanuto—Wheat, 24a. 9d. to 251.—Barley, 15a. 3d.—Oats, —s. to —s. Od. Sr. Comma—Wheat, 275. to 28g.-Barley, 12s. to 131:—Beef, and Mutton, 6d. to 7d.—Veal and Laanb, Od to Od. SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN MARKET.-Aug. 10. Only 9 quarters of Barley in market, and 8 sold ; ave rage up 2s. sd. A good supply of Oats, top 4s. up, average. about Is. down ; it was a parcel of old Oats which brought the top price. The Wheat market was well sup plied, sales rather dull; top , 1 s. ' up, but the average is 9d. down No Pease sold. A small Bean-market, and prices I down. ' Barley. Oats. POASe. 1 Beans. ,—s Od 46s Od 408 - 00 423 00 ---4 °d 48s 0 —4 Od 19 ...at ...... 595.:0d. 14 ...at .55 4 .0 d. 60 . ........... 58 .0 11 ofr6Whgddeat i n l m s a ss r °4 ket, 447 4 we d ereof Were sold. 4 ............ 57 0 10 52 0 21 ...... ...... 56 0 14 Unsold.-7 Grey. 21. 18s. sd. 11-12ths per quarter. Wheat. First eas Od I Second 5BB od Third There were 258 qrs. _5 ...at ls. Od. $9 62 0 21 40 60 0 Average, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL AUG. 11.—The demand for British Planta tion Sugar has been dull this. week, except for low brown, which descriptiOn is scarce.; the sales are consequently limited to 200 hogsheads at a reduction of 6d. to Is. per cwt. on the middling grocery description ; 200 bags of good white Bengal Sugar, have been sold at 765. to 765. 6d. per cwt. ; about 60 chests Brazil Sugar, offered by auction yester day, were all withdrawn, the orders to purchase being limited at tao low prices. West India Molasses are scarce, and a• small parcel of very good Demerara has been sold at ;its. per cwt. The Coffee market is steady : the business done is confined to about 100 tierces Jamaica, for home use, at former rates.—A small lot of Trinidad Cocoa has been sold . at 425, per cwt. ; and of Pimento, of good quality, at Sid. per lb.—Ginger remains dull.—Rum remains with out alteration. The demand for Cotton has - continued moderate through out the whole of the past week, but the prices generally remain without alteration. The sales amount to 11,100 bags, consisting of 2,900 Bowed, at 6d. to 70., chiefly at 6id. to 6d. for middling to good fair; 2,040 'Orleans, at sd. to Bd., chiefly at 6p. to 6d. for fair to good ; 1,720 Alabama and Mobile, at sid. to 6P. ; QBO Sea Island, at 10P. to 2s. ; 50 Stained ditto, at 7d. to 811 ; 460 Pernambuco, at 90. to 91d. ; 480 Maranham, at Bd. to sp. ; 170 Bahia, at Bp. to Bid. ; 2,060 Egyp tian, at 6p. to sia., chiefly at 6p. to '7ld. ; 50 Barba does, at 6d. to 7d. ; 10 Bourbon, at Bp. ; 480 Surat, at 4*d. to 54d. The arrivals are 7,885 bags. Imported into Liverpool, from the 4th to the 10th August, inclusive—By 1 vessel from the Cape of Good Hope, 1 Africa, 2 New York, 1 Charleston, 4 Savannah, 2 New Orleans, 1 Montreal, 1 Quebec, 1 Nassau, 1 Sicily, 1 Bilboa, 4 St. Petersburgb, 1 Cronstadt, 1 Dantzic, 2 Archangel, 2 Rotterdam, l Marseilles, 1 Rouen, and 1 Bordeaux : Coffee, 69 tees. '77 brls., 128 bags; Pimento, 3 bags; Brandy, 50 pipes ; Geneva, 14 hhds. ; Tobacco, 17 cases; American firour, 386 brls. ; Foreign ditto, SO brls. ; Canada Wheat, 526 brls., 2,215 qrs. ; Foreign ditto 1,388 qrs. West India Cotton, 114 bales; New Orleans and Mobile ditto, 1,539 bales; Rest United States ditto 6,232 bales; Tallow, 3,074 casks; American Tar, 1,500 brls. ; Baltic ditto, 1,570 brls. ; Montreal Ashes, 587 brls. ; Logwood, "6 tons ; Fustic, 94 tons ; Batwood, 15 tons ; Argol, 18 casks ; Lac Dye, 2 casks ; Cream of Tartar, 2 casks; Indigo, 5 serons , Cochineal, 12 serous; French Madders, 73 casks; Dutch ditto, 159 casks ; -Senegal Gum, 27 casks; Olive Oil, 84 casks; Palm Oil, 1,097 casks; Brimstone, 125 tons; Wool, 306 bales. The imports of rough Turpentine continue much lighter than was anticipated; the sales are only 410 barrels from the quay, and 200 barrels from warehouse, both of good fair quality, at 1 ls. 9d. per cwt. A small parcel of American Tar has brought 17s. 6d. per barrel from the quay; this description is much wanted; a cargo of 1,100 barrels Archangel, offered on Thursday by auction, was part sold at 15s. per barrel, the remainder has since been disposed of at a trifle under this price ; nothing has been done in Stockholm Tar this week, as none remains in the importers' hands. Some extensive inquiries have appeared for Rosin, and several parcels sold. The sales of Pot Ashes do not exceed 160 barrels, in cluding 109 barrels branded Quebec, just landed, which brought, by auction, 265. 6d. per cwt. the remainder, new Montreal at 275. 6d., and a few old and stained at 255. per cwt. ; about 120 barrels Montreal Pearl, last year's brand, have sold at 265. 6d. to 27s u per cwt. In States' Ashes nothing done.-There has been a fair demand for Dyewoods ; the sales of Logwood are about 40 tons Cam peachy atBl. 2s. 6d. to 81.55. and 50 tons Jamaica at 61.55. to 6/. 15s. per ton. In Nicaragua Wood the transactions have been extensive, consisting of 220 tons solid at 14/. for middling, and 15/. to 15/. 10s. for good, with 120 tons smaller at '7l. 10s. to 8/. per ton. Fustic is again advanc ing; 30 tons Jamaica have been sold at 9/. 10s. to 10/. and 20 tons ordinary Cuba at 11/. 101. per ton. A fur ther import of about 50 tons Camwood has occasioned this article again to recede in price, and 30 tons, good quality, have been sold at 131. from the quay, with 8 tons ordinary at 12/. per ton. A few tons Gabon Barwood have been sold at 6/. 6s. per ton. Fine Quercitron Bark continues very scarce; 50 hhds. inferior have been sold at I Is. to 13s. per cwt. Oak Bark for tanners' use is less inquired for ; 100 tons are reported as sold. Madder Roots are in good request, and about 300 bales Turkey sold at 365. to 376., with a few bales French at 365. per cwt. A small sale of Munjeet has been effected at 255. per cwt. duty paid. In Indigo there has been little business done this week, a few serous Caraccas only are reported at 6s. 9d. to 7s. per lb. For Valonia there is rather more inquiry, and about 70 tons Turkey sold at 161. to 16/. 10s. per ton.- Shuinac is dull, the sales only 60 bags Sicily at 10s. 6d. to_l Is. and 140 Verona at 7s. to Is. 6d. per cwt. ; a fresh import of Malaga will be offered on Monday, by auction. The stock of Saltpetre here is very light, the sales 110 bags, at 255. to 275. per cwt.-Old American Flaxseed meets a readysale for crushing at 3Ss. per hogshead. Some little business has been doing in Gallipoli Oil, at _ _ 401. to 411. per ton, and for Malaga — S6/. per ton. Seed Oils are in limited request. In Fish Oils the business is confined to Seal ; some small , sales have been effected at 221. to 221. 10s. for Pale, and 201. 10s. to 211. for straw coloured, from the quay. In Cod Oil nothing doing. • Palm Oil is steady at 26/. 10s. per tun. Some parcels of Caro lina Rice have again been offered by auction, but very little business has been done. Of East India the sales are 200 bags, at 16s. 6d. per cwt. The only transactions reported in Hides are, 850 Russian dry Ox and Cow at 814., and 1,600 Russian Kips at 9d. per lb. Hemp remains dull of sail.--Three cargoes of Petersburgh Yellow Candle . Tallow are reported this week; the prmcipal part sold to arrive ; 395. is obtained for small parcels from the quay. Archangel Mats have declined to Bs. 9d. per dozen. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. DALKEI ----- The quantity of brain at this day's and the buyers not being disposed to every thing sold heavily. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...... 64s Od 36a Od 32s Od Second... 60a Od 32a Od 30s: Od Thilid .... 56s Od 2gs Od 24% Od ?X.—Aug. 9 market is enlarge tin Pease. 50s Od 453 Od 40s Od but small, leir stock, Beans. sos Od 48s Od 40s Od 1%11N11 , T0 INTELLIGENCE. - Tons. - Cwt. Quantity of Coppe? Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday 2,84 0 1 0 A v erage Produce _. A 0 25` i r a ntity of fine Copper . 4 lO Amount of See, 14,7/. 15s._ 0d...-'Average Mtandard, 1131: 1 6;0d. ____ _ MitTHOLOGICAI FOUNTAIN.--Juno, the patronioddess of marriage,- was annually trans formed into a pure unspotted virgin, by bathing i n a certain spring in die country of Argos. Did the Mythologists allude in this fable to a common fact, _known to all-observers of nature, or was something more. than+ meets the eye in; tended ?—London Weekly Review. :TH CORN MARK. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 11.—The naval officers, and all persons anywise connected with the naval service of the country, have viewed with intense interest the professional visits of the Lord High Admiral to the outports and arsenals of the kingdom ; and from what they have seen and heard of the sentiments of his Royal Highness, they, with the kingd6m at large, appear highly gratified that the office of Lord High Admiral has been revived in his person._ They indulge, we know, in sanguine expectations, .that, front his Royal Highness's rank and profes sional accomplishments for the office, he will effect a thorough reform in the system which had too long ' prevailed, by which political connexion, high birth, and the influence of party, formed almost the only road to promotion ; that, as his Royal Highness will not, as they conceive, be.obliged to bend and stoop to political connexions, and being above their affec tions or their enmities, he will become the friend and patron of the friendless and unpatronized meritorious officer. Should his Royal Highness be able to pursue a steady and uniform career in his path, he may be sure to be accompanied with the warm wishes and approbation of the country. Wednesday morning the Russian squadron, which left Cronstadt on the 22d,0f June, arrived at Spit head, consisting of the following ships :—Azoff, 80, Admiral Siniavin, Capt. Lazaroff, Captain of the Fleet, Plata; Vladimir, 74, Vice Admiral Lutochin, Captain Green ; St. Andrew, 74, Rear Admiral Count Hayden, Captain Newtall; Hargood, 74, Captain Avenoff; Czar Constantine, 78, Captain Bootakoff; Ezekiel, 74, Captain Swirkin ; Alex ander Newsky, 74, Captain Bogdanowich ; Sisoy, 74, Captain Donazoff; Emanuel, 64, Captain Koo litchkin ; Helena, 46, Captain Epantchen (1) ; Mereirrius, 46, Captain Kishkir; Prevornie, 48, Captain Epantchen (2); Kruzier, 46, Captai n Davi doff; Castor, 46, Captain Sitin • Diana, 46, Capt. Kashiscnoff; Constantine, 48, Captainc Chrouscoff; Grematchie (corvette), Captain Chaglokoff. _ . _ _ The Russian squadron, since their arrival, have been refitting. Yesterday noon, Prince Lieven, who arrived from London, at the George Inn, on the previous evening, went on board the Russian Admi ral's ship. His Excellency was saluted by the flag ship Victory, and garrison, when leaving the shore. He continued on board about an hour, and then re turned to the shore, under a salute from the garrison. The squadron came here with the expectation. of proceeding immediately to the Mediterranean, but yesterday orders were given for four sail of the line and four frigates only to prepare for this service, and for the others to return_ to Cronstadt. The ships going are—the Azoff, Hargeod, Ezekiel, and Alex ander Newsky, of the line; . Helena, Prevornie, Kruzier, and Constantine frigates. These ships will proceed when the wind changes. We are informed, by letters from the Tagus, dated the 28th ult., that the Experimental Squadron,mider Sir Thomas Hardy, arrived in that river on the Mb, having been ordered thither by despatches from Eng land, received when cruising off Scilly. They were waiting in the Tagus for further orderS from Enyi land. It appears by extracts from the C o l um bi ne s log, that that ship maintains her superiority in sail ing, this cruise, over all the other Ships.—Hatap shire Telegraph. The intelligence of the dangerous indisposition of Mr. Canning was received by Mr. Brougham whilst in the performance of his professional duties at York, early on Tuesday morning. The Learned Gentleman immediately communicated the news to Mr. Baron Unlock and the Gentlemen at the Bar.—Manchester Herald. . UNNATURAL WARFARE.—On Tuesday evening last a disgraceful scene was exhibited at Hoober, near Wentworth. A few colliers were regailing themselves at a public-house, when a quarrel arose between two brothers (middle aged men), of the name of Barker, which was pro secuted on both sides with such determined ferocity, that it was not without the greatest difficulty they could be separated. In the course of the conflict the younger, brother seized the nose of his antagonist with his teeth, and actually severed the cartilaginous and fleahy part thereof from his face. Surgical assistance was resorted ta, but not being near at hand, the inevitable delay, and consequent loss of blood, in connexion with other circumstances, hall rendered the case such, that fatal circumstances are appre bended.—Sheifield Courant. ESSENCE OF Booxs.—An anecdote related by Castellan deserves repetition. The library of the Indian kings was composed of so many vo lumes that a hundred camels were necessary to remove it ; one of these princes; who loved books, especially books of travels, requested one of the brahmins to extract what might be useful from.all these volumes, that the library might be rendered more portable ; he was obeyed, and novv ten camels sufficed to bear about the royal books. Another king, still finding the volumes too nu merous, commanded a brahmin to reduce them to what was strictly necessary ; the , brahmin, who understood the prince's genius, and his aver sion for reading, condensed the whole librarY into four maxims.—London Weekly Review. EDIBLE BIRD'S NESTS.—These extraordi' nary delicacies, which are frequently sold in China for their weight, in gold, are obtained from vast natural caverns on the coasts of Jaya. The nest resembles that of the common swallow, and , the substance of which it is constructed hag the appearance of isinglass. Before it has beeo contaminated by the young birds, the nest i$ perfectly white ; but afterwards it is. greatly de' teriorated, being frequently streaked with blood, or mixed with feathers. At a party given by A Chinese merchant of .Singapore, the Bird's Nest Soup was much-relished by , the Europeans pre' sent ; and perhaps, if introduced into England , it might be a dangerous rival to turtle. To pro' cure these nests is a distinct trade in the India' Archipelago ; and is particularly wild and peril' ous.—London Weekly Review. BIRTHS. On the 12th inst., at Camberwell, the lady of Mr. th P. Buckler, of Basingball-street, of twins. On the Bth inst. at Calais, the lady of G. W. Prycet Esq., of a daughter. On the Bth inst., at Watford, Herb, the lady of E. r• Whittingstall, Esq., of a son and heir. On the 9th inst., at Newton House, the seat of bet mother, the lady of Major T. P. Miles, 14th Light Dia' goons, of a son. On the 11th inst., the lady of A. F. Mieville, Esq•, M a bledon-place, of a son. MARRIED. On the 11 th inst., at ---------------- the Lea, by the Rev. 'Mr. Wiz, M.A., Mr.- J. T. Powell, 'of Islington, Frances,. second daughter of Thomas Greasley, Esq., Vest Smithfield. On tLe 9th inst. at St. John's, Isle of Thanet, Williaat Aldington Seal, Esq., of Lilytonstone, Essex; to Eliza Any, eldest daughter of Mi. Cording, of St. George's , Middlesex. On the. II th inst., at Greenwich, Joseph Thompsom to Miss Emma Docker. DIED. On the 9th inst. at Stainsford, in the county of Dorset; the Right Hon. the lady Susan O'Brien, sister of the later and aunt to the present Earl of Ilchester, in the 85th year of her age. On the 9th inst., at her housemear Maidenhead,' Mrs' Waddington, widow of the Rev. George 'Waddington, 0 1 Tux ford, Nottinghamshire. On the 11th inst 4 in the • year of his age, i'4'' George Mace, of Chislehnrst, Kent. - On the 10th inst., at Seuthampton-row, Russell-squarer London, Mr. James M'lntosh, .aged 2Q, eldest eon of Cap' tain•M' Intosh, of tiaa'sbink, Fifishire, Scotland. On' the Qd inat4 at his house'd Golditone, in Shropthifer Edward Hayward, Esq., aged 76. • On the Bth inst., at St. Germain's-terrace, Blackhead' , Mrs.• Elizabeth Boyfield, of Upper Berkeley street? Ports man-square. On the Bth inst., after an illness of two days, Lieutenants Colonel Htixley. On the 1 lth inst Brampton ? David Robinson, Esq' PM/TM and PUBLISRZD by M. 'YOUNG, at the Wi t Cloak 7 4 118 8 Strand, V T` 011 WE receive One TI Four 1-1 Forty 1 To b Deptfor Daaindei Saml will be article. 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