The Sun. — London, England, 1827-11-26 00:00:00

SPRIT OP TU PUBLIC jOURNALS. .4, highly interesting detail of some important operations between the Russian and Persian troops on the Araxes, will be found in a letter trom the seat of war, dated September 7. It appears from this statement, that we had not, on a former occasion, much erred in our judgment of the difficulties encountered by the invading army, or of the *slow and doubtful nature of their successes. Nevertheless, whatever, partial advantage rimight, fromtime to time, be obtained by troops so "constituted and commanded as those of Persia, it would be silly to expect from them a steady and victorious resistance to such an army as that of Russia, on an extended scale of movement, or in close and deliberate attack. The half disciplined, ill provided, and loosely directed soldiers of Abbas -Mirza, besides being unequal to a pitched battle in the open field, must be quite as little qualified to form regular sieges, or under very trying circumstances; to repel them. We accordingly are by no means surprised to learn, that Abbas Mirza did not succeed in capturing the fortified convent of Etchmiadzine, the neighbourhood of which, it will be recollected, was the Scene of a gallant action and defeat of a Russian Corps ; or that Hassan Khan was compelled, after a severe at tack, to surrender the fortress of Erivan, ill adapted, from its defective 'works, to sustain a siege conducted by European science, though doubtless important from its position, and from the extreme . rarity of 'posts even so far defensible, svithin the Persian territor - , The real strength, 1, however, of that kingdom is not in the discipline of its troops, but.in the extent and desolation Lts provinces. Abbas ifir.ra, if he knows hi:, game, will limit the efforts of his desultory but active troops to a system of menacing anti tor rather than of adventurous and deci sive, wag fare: He ought to leave the Russian forces idthout a loaf of bread, or a pound of meat, or a truss of horse provender, but what they bring from within their own frontier; and as there are no strong places in the country, and nest to none where capital and Civilization is ac cumulated, the Russian commander will find at last that he can neither alarm -his enemy for 'ir removable riches, nor secure an inch of the ground that he has gained, but by covering it with armed soldiers. Our correspondent alludes to certain overtures of negociation, rendered aborthe by the 'extravnarg demands of Rnssia upon the Persian Governttienf. Persia was re quired, it seems, to cede, not merely Erivan, but the. whole course of the Araxes eastward, together with the two provinces of Mogaun and Talish on the west shore of the Caspjan, thereby interposing betwen that coast. and the Persian capital ; .and, finally, the Russian General in sisted on 700;000 tomauns to defray the ex .. penses of the , war. It is well that such A, cata logue of requisitions was made at a period when they could be refused without immediate ill con sequences ; and it is not unlucky that Russia has displayed so soon a spirit of hardy.and undis guised extortion, that if the King of Persia has any friend on whom to rest for counsel or for succour, that friend may 'be able to see 'in time the nature of the danger to be averted.—Times. .Mr. O'Connell at the Catholic Association o Wedrsesday, stated, as a Lawyer, that the Law against &is-letting had placed large classes entirely out of the protection of the law ; that as no person who held a lease for a shorter term than ninety-nine years, could, if he snb-let without the consent of his Landlord, recover by distress, all those . who in towns let off part of their house, or kept lodgings, were completely' at . the'mercy of their tenants or lodgers. It would be Odd, ~ndeed, if Parliament were to pass a law, not drawn up in a bungling manner. Mr. O'Connell continues to raise his voice against the depopu ',sting system, which he, oddly enough, connects with the Maithusian doctrines. - If Mr. O'Con nell will go back to the good old Catholic times, he will find the Landholders and Churchmen deeply imbued with the 2,lalthusian doctrines, Sbr our Kings were obliged to resist their at tempts to get rid of the human beings on their lands for the sake of sheep. The principle of sacrificine . the people of a country for money is diabolical', and when Mr. O'Connell raises his voice against it, he will find universal sympathy. How far the Duke . of Leinster may be the worst landlord in Ireland, and whether his operations deserve the character given of them, are points on which we will not enter ; but the system of d e tn.' ding a wretched population without pro viding for them, deserves all the reprobation that can be expressed against it. The political economy that would steel the heart against the first principles of justice s namely, the right of the people to exist, and which would slaughter them with .as little concern as so many sheep or hullockS, for the sake of a little additional nett profit, is a bad political economy. Political eco nomy cannot be-taken by itself. Whoever would shake the principles of justice for a supposed eco nomical advantage, would cut up economy by the roots", because it is on the inviolability of die principles- of justice and equity, that society possesses the Security which favours Production and accumulation. It is, therefore, taking a very narrow view of things indeed to set at nought the grand principle of the saluspopill. for the sake of an immediate increase of nett pro its. But Mr. O'Connell, not content with de... trouncing,_ a system at variance with every prin ciple of, justice ; not content with denouncing she . cold-blooded proscription of masses of hu man beings—will persist in determining a ques tion of science, perfectly distinct, and- -on very .odd grounds. A. people cannot, ,according to s i i m , be too numerous or increase too fast—and why ? Because the theory is opposed to the ordinances of the Deity. The process is vey conwriient ; he makes ordinances for the Deity. and then the views which to suit his own views , differ from his own are opposed to the ordinances sf the Deity. But would it not be a better was to take the ordinances of the Deity from the laws according to which the universe is regulated shah from the ipse dixit of Mr. O'Connell Now, all history and experience teaches us that the power to multiply in man is limited by the means of subsistence ; that the means of sub sistence in any given country have their limit, mid c onsequently that when the population at tains that limit, it cannot be further increased. Nature herself knows none of the refinements 01 morality. Those whom Montesquieu calls the founders of the English Constitution, if we take the Salic Laws and the earlier Capitularies as an evidence of their habits, lived pretty much a We as is passed in a dog-kennel, for even under Pepin the praetice,of sons cohabiting with their mothers, with the mother and sisters at the same time, and with all kinds of relations, is described in these laws as.commo n . -the universe and the laws is The physical laws of ,morality and religion fi nite distinct, an it will not do to take the ormer from the latter. The. Catholics, when it fsuits them, avail themselves of the nalthusian doctrines freely enough. Thus in a work by a Baron de Storck, a converted Catholic, which lately made a great sensation on the Continent, the wrker, who had 'a dispensation from the Pope for conc,eal hisconversiondustifies the celibacyofthe priest hood on the principles of Malthus. ‘.‘ In several countries (he says) marriage is impeded or even prohibited, not only among those employed by the Government, but - even to young Men of the labouring- classes, if they have not a capital of two or three hundred florins. It is my opinion that the abolition of the law of Celibacy of the Priests, particularly in our times, would be very imprudent, because . our Clergy is at present so stripped, distressed, and narrowed in their cir cumstances, that it would be absurd to exact'of a man, embarrassed how to provide •a livelihood for himself, to maintain out of it a wife and 'fa- milt'." What great advantage then would the ,State gain by 'this ? The English writer, Malthus, has published an excellent work on the conditions and consequences of an increase of population ; he proves .that it should. absolutely be in proportion with the means of subsistence ; And that in general a great population does not, in itself, form the happiness of the country, as the economists fancied. When all those great per sonages, Bucer Zuingle, (Ecolampadius, &c. took wives, the satirical Erasmus said, " This is the way they mortify themselves ! The Refor mation seems to have no other object but to transform monks and nuns into bridegrooms and brides and this grand tragedy will end like a comedy, where every body is married in the last act." But if the Church find it convenient to set aside the ordinances of God in the case of Priests, will Mr. O'Connell say that the recom mendation of celibacy, for prudential reasons, in other cases, is " against the doctrine of Redemp tion," is ,‘ as false as it is atrocious." Let him remember, that if there are ordinances, there are no exceptions in them fbr Priests; and that if the doctrine of the Redemption makes it impe perative that the business of begetting . children should never be relaxed, every able-bodied priest should perform his part of the duty.--=Morning Chronicle. The new Act, allowing . common bail to . be filed in actions for the recovery of debts under 201. having come into operation, has already produced a sensible diminution in the number of commitments. It is stated that the number of persons rendered to the Fleet Prison during the first week of the present Term, compared with the first week of the last Term, is but as 57 to 111, or scarcely more than one-half. So far this Bill has been effective in preventing a great deal of human misery, which would have resulted from immuring a great many persons in priSon for small debts, and thereby depriving them of the means of that employment which might enable them to pay such debts —or, at least, to earn a subsistence for themselves and families. This enactment will also have another very salutary operation—and one which, we think, if possible, of still more advantage to society—and that is the repression of the vicious system of credit, which induces persons.of small means to exceed their incomes, and too often brings them to a prison or the work-house. 'lt has been too much the. practice of shopkeepers and tradespeople to tempt the working classes, and others of moderate income, by facility of credit, to indulge in expences, which, if they had to pay at the instant, 'they would have avoided ; but thus being enticed into debt, and involved in embarrassment, the power of arrest has been resorted to for the purpose of terrifying them into payment. Though it frequently hap pened that the shopkeeper or tradesman lost the whole of the. sum.for which he had so easily given credit, yet so blind are men sometimes to their own interest, that the Act for preventing arrests for debt under '2Ol. was. opposed last Session by petitions from.persons in retail busi ness ; and Mr. Cam Hobliouse, in compliance with the instructions of his constituents, made same spetsshes, which, notwithstanding the " li beral principles" of Westminster,. showed that a mistaken sense of self-interest was much stronger than any patriotic solicitude* for the " liberty of the subject." We are convinced, however, that the shopkeepers. and tradesmen of Westminster will eventually find that they will be gainers instead of losers by this law ;. for it was not the persons who gave the credit so pro fusely that *ere benefited by the power of arrest ing debtors . for small sums; but the Sheriff's officers and attorneys, who had fees upon the process of arrest, and justifying and opposing bail, &c. which frequently swalled up more money than the unfortunate creditor could obtain by putting the machinery of law in motion. All the fault which we find - with the present Act is, that it is far too circumscribed in its opera tion by the sum' under which arrest becomes il leggal, being fixed at so low an amount as 201. We should have much preferred that it had been fixed at the sum which the s kttorney,General s in an excellent speech which he made on the sub ject, suggested—namely, 1001. We say we would have preferred this sum to the other, con fident as we are that very extensive benefit to creditors as well as debtors would have been the consequence of- it, by restraining .the profuse credit of the former, and making it more ne cessary for the latter to live within their means; but, indeed, if our principles were to be carried into effect, the arrest for debt on mesne process would be done away. altogether ; and we cannot see the advantage of it, even Under process of execution. We Jolt since called the public at tention to the practice, as cruel, absurd, and' un christian. We would have imprisonment re served for criminals, and think it unjust and un reasonable that debtors should be treated in the same way as malefactors. If a man his property, whether landed or personal, let. it be attached, to answer his debts; and, if he has none, of what use is it to throw his body into prison, and deprive him of the means of acquiring any—un ' less it be to gratify vindictive feeling, which the laws of a civilised country ought never to encourage ? We are not without hope that the Legislature will, in course of tune, enlarge its views upon this stibjeSt, and abolish the Law of Arrest on Civil Process altogether.—Morning Herald. • At this awful moment, when the future wel fare of England, by the profligate and absurd m ismanagement of her Administration, has been made to depend upon the yet unknown decision of the Ottoman Porte, upon the question whe ther it shall resist or submit to the arbitrary man dates and the unjust aggression of other Powers ; we think it right to retrac e the arguments and to review the principles upon which throughout the proceedings that have led to the present melan choly posture of affairs, the conduct of the British Government has appeared to us to merit unqualified reprobation. So long as the dispute related only to the liberation of, Greece, and no other interests were involved in it than those of Turkey on the one hand, and of Greece on tht , other, we did not disguise our wishes ; they were sincere and ardent for the triumph of the latter• But, no sooner was the Treaty of the 6th of July concluded, than we perceived that the character of the dispute was entirely changed ; that it no longer tended to the results, theore tical or practical, which we in common with the .rest of mankind had contemplated with sa tisfaction ; that the principal parties engaged in it before had in fact ceased to be so. We now felt our wishes for the liberation of Greece, su perseded by our deeper' regard for the interest, and particularly for that highest interest of all, the character of England ; and we felt also that the liberation of Greece, was put entirely out of the question, that • unfortunate country being destined, not by the terms, but by the _obvious import of the Treaty, to a foreign master—des tined to be the unhappy subject of a fierce, per haps protracted struggle between the Powers of Russia and of Turkey, and eventually to fall under the tyranny of a Czar, at -the moment she should be rescued- from the oppreSsions of a Sultan. From the first we reprobated the treaty, as injurious to the interests and a foul stain upon the character -of England, as repugnant to the • first and clearest principles of, international as a pre cedent most dangerous in its tendency to the se entity of nations, and to the tranquillity of the world. To these opinions, however the present crisis may terminate, we steadfastly adhere. There is no doctrine more strongly enforced by all the writers of authority upon,the law of na tions, or more explicitly and uniformly .recog nized in the public acts, of all c ivilized- States, than that which forbids - the interference of any Sovereign or Sovereigns in the disputes which may arise between any other Sovereign and his subjects. This is the general law. That there . may be cases of exception, is admitted ; but the monstrous_and revolting ,nature of the instances adduced by the most celebrated jurisconsults to illustrate the exception; plainly • shew that in their. judgment no general law can be more in • flexible. Grotius cites the case of Busiris, King of Egypt, who is said to . have been in the habit of sacrificing to Jupiter all the foreigners who entered his dominions,--of Phalaris, the ty rant of Sicily, who was so celebrated for cruelty that he is said to have eaten his-own son—and of Diorned, of Thrace, of whom it is re corded, that he nourished his horses with human flesh. We contend that the case of Turkey and Greece cannot be considered' by the other Eu ropean States as an exception to the general law, without invalidating that law altogether. Turkey has possessed the dominion over Greece for fourcenturies,with the universal acquiescence of the European Powers.. Its rule, we know, has been a harsh one, but not more harsh than that of Russia over her own subjects. The for bearance of four centuries is conclusive evidence surely against the interference of the present year, unless it can be shown that the practices and character of the Turkish Government, in relation to its Greek subjects, had recently as sumed some new feature of oppression or atrocity, so as to goad the latter into revolt. In this case it might have been pretended, with some show of reason, that the general law of nations was inapplicable to the new cir cumstances which had arisen. But the, very re verse of this is the fact. It is notorious and un deniable, that the Turkish Government, so far from having become worse, has become better ; that under the sway of the reigning Sultan, its policy has become more enlightened, and its temper, consequently, milder .than under that of any of his predecessors .; that it promised to the rest of Europe, and threatened in the rapacious eye of Russia, to assume the character of energy and wisdom Within its proper boundarjes, which would have promoted the happiness of all subjects, and might have rendered it ere long invulnerable to external attack. It is certainly a most suspicious circumstance that the treaty for the violation of Turkey, should have's° quickly followed the dissolution of the Janissaries—of a body to whose existence the past excesses, and the past weakness too of the Turkish Government are mainly to be ascribed. Humanity and policy concurred—the policy ofevery Power, except Rus sia, required that the .Government of Turkey should not be deprived of the opportunity to fol low up the important step it had already taken to redeem its character and to consolidate its strength. The injustice of the Treaty of Inter vention is conclusively established, by reference to the principles which have actuated the con duct of all the Powers who are parties to it Bur ring a period of four centuries. But when .we reflect upon the more recent conduct of two of those Powers, England and France, dUring . the five years that the struggle between the Ottoman Government and its Greek subjects has been-con tinued, the charges of gross folly and inconsis tency must he superadded to that of injustice. The claim of the Greeks upon England and France to sympathy and aid on the grounds of religion and humanity, were at least as strong at the commencement of this struggle as they are at the present moment. We maintain that they were stronger. Their cause then bore its highest aspect. Their Chiefs had not shown themselves as they have since done, without an exception, insensible to the feelings of patriotism and re gardful Qnly of'the petty projects of personal am bition or of a low and contemptible avarice. Piracy had not then assumed the dimensions of a national crime. By an earlier interference, Turkey moreover would have been spared the exhaustion of a protracted conflict, and the-mor tification of being deprived of the fruits of final success w hen the moment of gathering them was evidently near. But darmg these five years of fierce and doubtful conflict, England has pro fessed and maintained so rigorous a neutrality, that her own Greek subjects of the lonian Isles have been coerced with much difficulty and with much, 'we do not say with improper severity, into the suppression of their natural sympathies in favoiir of their struggling and suf fering countrymen. France also has professed neutrality, and if her practise has deviated from her professions, it h a s been exclusively in favour of Trk e y The Pacha of Egypt, the tributary of the Porte, and the most effective of its Com manders, has been permitted to fit out vessels of war in French ports, and French Military Of ficers have been not only allowed but encouraged to enter into his service. The policy of Russia, unjust as it is, has at least the merit of being in telligible and That consistent. It is the policy of am bition. of England and France is equally unjust towards Turkey ; but it has the addi tional faults of being base, truckling, disinge nuous towards Russia, unutterably degrading to the characters, and directly hostile even to the real interests of the two great nations whose Go vernments have adopted it. Morning post. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 24. CHAMBERS' COMUISSION.-EX-PARTE DI SEGNI& ilottNE stated the petition of Signoidi Begnis, on whose behalf a former application had been mad( to the Court respecting the Opera-house.. The pe• titioner claimed to be a creditor of Chambers' estat( for 1;700i., for salary due to hiritself and his wife to performers at the King's Theatre ; and by reason of the interest, which this claim gave him - in the affairs of the theatre, he now applied that the assignee , Might be restrained from taking upon themselves the management for the ensuing season, which the were about to 410. The petitioner had made at• offer to rent the theatre at 8,0001. per annum, and Mr. Ayrton, who had managed the orchestra for se veral years, had also made a proposition. The as signees had thought fit to reject , both these offers, although it was obvious that the talent and expe rience of the persons who made them were much more likely to -direct the theatre prosperously than the assignees, who could know nothing about the matter. The principal assignees, who were on a sudden to become the managers of the first theatre in .the metropolis, were men who, however respectable, were disqualified by their previous habits from knowing any thing about such matters. One of them, Mr. Mayhew, was an attorney,---probably he was a very proper attorney, —but it did not follow that he knew any thing about conducting a theatrr like the Italian Opera-house. Another was,a Mr. Bernasconi, a 'plasterer, and he could not be suspected of understanding operas ; at , least there was no palpable or obvious connexion between plastering houses and superintending the King's Theatre. Another gentleman was stated to be an undertaker, and for• his • services, towards the end of the season, indeed there might be some occa sion, unless the inevitable -result of the assignees' mad project • sheuldbe averted by ,the interference of his Lordship. The dissolution of the whole affair was almost certain, and in that ease the gentleman last alluded to would be the only .one of the impre sarj whose name would answer his calling. That each of these gentlemen might not be diverted by the cares of the opera from the valuable pursuits by which they severally benefitted mankind at.present, —that Mr. Bernasconi might plaster,—that Mr. Mayhew might practice,—and that the other gentle man might bury, as they had severally been used to do, this petition prayed that the property might he sold for, the benefit of the creditors, er that it might be leased to the petitioner or some other per son to be approved of by the Court, and that in the mean time an injunction should be granted. Mr. ROSE, on the same side, argued on the im propriety of suffering this theatre to fall into the hands of the obviously incompetent • persons who had proposed to take it. In mercy to them, no less than in justice to the rest of the creditors, he sub mitted they ought to be restrained. Mr. SUGDEN appeared in behalf of the assignees, and contended that neither the petition, nor the arguments of counsel in support of it, had, made out any case for the interference which was prayed. A meeting of the creditors had been called, which was attended very numerously, and by creditors whose debts reached a very large amount, and the persons then present expressed their perfect confidence in the assignees. But if there had been no such meet _ _ ing, his - Lordship-knew,very- well that the claimants upon the Opera-house property were so numerous, and so large in amount; that they watched its inte rests with the greatest jealousy, and would not.si lently permit any thing to he done which might im pair their' security. If there had been any real ground for this application, would it be, believed that a largebody of creditors, whose debts amounted to 300,0004,—f0r that was the amount under , the commission,—would have left the protection of their interests to the single arm of Mr. di Begnis. The fact was, that although that gentleman chose to pre sent himself to •the Court as the ehanipion of whole body of cred i tors,his object was merely to accom plish a plan which had already been distantly hinted at. Mr. di Begnis wanted to be manager himself. The assignees had some objections to him. Perhaps the security he offered was not to their taste—perhaps his being an alien was an obstacle ; but, at all events th e y rejected his proposition. He then turned upon them, and had tried this very notable scheme for forcing them into his terms. He round con tended that the property of the creditors was very Well taken care of, and much better, according to the opinion of the mass ofcreditors, in the hands of the assignees, than of those persons who wishQd to supersede them. The LOIM CHANCELLOR said he had looked over all the affidavits, and did not find in theio-thatany improper motive w as imputed to the assignees, or that their conduct Lad been, in any degree, opposed to the interest of the creditors. The petition was by a single creditor, who was besides in the light of a rival candidate with the assignees for the manage ment of the theatre. Taking the whole of the cir cumstances into consideration, and particularly the time which au inquiry must,-necessarily consume, he thought, it better to dismiss the petition. Some question arose as to the costs, which the Lord Chancellor eventually ordered to bp paid out of the estate. COURT OF KING'S. BENCH, Nov. 24. THE KING V. eYkrr. Mr. Justice BAYLEY .mentioned to the Attorney- General that in ,this case, which came before the Court on Monday last, the Court had entertained a doubt whether the evidence 'given at the trial fixed the defendant as the man who had struck the light upon the beach. He had since that time seen Lord Chief Justice Best, who tried . the case ; and his LOrdship had informed him that evidence unques tionably did fix the defendant as the person who committed that act. He mentioned this case to the Attorney-General at present,. as he understood that the defendant was a very poor man, and was wait ing for the judgment of the Court here in London at considerable expence. It would, perhaps, be as well that he should be brought up here for judgment as soon as possible. The ATTORNEY,OENERAL thought that it , was ' settled that the defendant should attend to receive the judgment of the Court on Monday next. THE, KING, ON THE PROSECUTION OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE RICHARD BUTLER, EARL OF GLEN- GALL,. V.- RICHARDS. of T th h e e C A o T u T r O t R o N n EY R -G ic r ar F d :RA D L oN nl yn O i V n e the g d judgment ßichards,the defendant in this case, convicted of publishing a libel against the noble prosecutor in a Sunday news paper entitled the 4ge. The defendant, who had been brought up from the King's Bench prison by Habeas Corpus, was then placed cm the floor of the Court. Lord Chief Justice TENTERDEN read his notes of the trial of the information filed against the de fendant, from which it appeared that he was found guilty of a libel which appeared in the Age of Sun day, October 29, 1826. Mr. BROUGHAM for the defendant handed up an affidavit to which his client had been previously sworn. It was read by the officer of the Court, It stated that he had been 'convicted on the 11th of June last, upon the information filed against him by the Right Hon. the Earl of Glengall, and that he had been confined ever since within the walls of a prison. It disclaimed all malice on his part against the noble prosecutor, asserted that he was not the author of the libel mentioned in the information , and declared in the strongest terms his contrition for having been led to insert it on the authority of an anonymous correspondent, in the Age Sunday paper, of which he was then the editor. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL put in three affidavits on the part of the prosecution. Lord TENTERDEN postponed the sentence of the Court upon the defendant, until inquiry was made whether there was other case but this on which the defendant had been detained so long in custody. MAYOR OF NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME. On the motion - of Mr. CAMPBELL, a rule was granted to sh ow c ause why an information in the nature of ;rho warrant° should not be filed against J. Phillips, P.'asq., calling upon him o show cause by what authority he exercised the dlice of Mayor of Newcastle under-Lyme. His electicn was impeached on two grc ntnds : the first was, that he had not been elected a c apital burgess of that borough, conform ably to the charter granted to it in the 19th year of QueidElizlteth ; and the second, that he had not been regulaili elected Mayor, even though he was a competent capital burgess. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 24.—We continue to experi ence a fair demand for British Plantation Sugar from ,the grocers; the sales this week amount to 800 hhds., at former rates, except for the good and fine qualities of Barba4loes, the holders of which are pressing sales, and have submitted to a reduction of Is. per cwt. The stocks of-Bengal and Foreign Sugars being now very small, nothing has been done : nor have we heard of any sales made of West India Molasses.—Our Coffee Market remains without al teration ; the . business done consists of about 80 casks Jamaica, sold for the home trade, at last week's prices.—ln Cocoa, Ginger, and Pimento,' nothing done worthy of notice.—Some small parcels of Black Pepper have been . sold at 3d. to 3td.'per lb.—ln Rum there is little doing : prices remain steady. We have had a brisk demand for Cotton through out the whole of the week from the trade and spe culators : the prices of our last quotations have been fully supported in all descriptions, and, in some in stances, an advance of id. per lb.has been realised upon the middle descriptions of Boweds ; Sea Islands, also, of the lower qualities, have improved about id. per lb. upon our last quOtations. The sales (of which about 8,000 bags American have been taken on speculation) amount to 23,270 bags, consisting of 10,860 Bowed at sd. to 7d., chiefly 51d.. to si-d. 'for middling to fair quality; 1,380 Orleans, at 40. to 7d., a few at 81d.,saiefly at 6d. to 6id. for middling to good fair ; 5,480' Alabama and . Mobile, at sd. to 61d., a few at 6fd.; 1,410 Sea Island at 10d. to 16d.; 120 Stained ditto, at 7fd. to Bd.; 1,710 Pernambuco, at Bd. to 84 1 d . at 9d. to 9d. ; 450 Maranham at 7id. to Bd. ; 650 Bahia, at 74d. to Bd. • 650 Egyptian, at 7d. to lid.-50. at 9-id.; 370 Demerara, at 64d. to 9d. ; 70 West India, at 6d. to 6fd. ; 120 Surat, at aid. to 4id.—The arrivals are 11,221 bags. The public sales of Tobacco brought forward on Tuesday last were well attended, the purchases were principally on speculation and for export; 319 hhds. of Virginia. Leaf sold at 21d. to 2d.and one lot at 2k1., the quality ordinary to fair middling; also 24 hhds. Kentucky .Stemmed, good ordinary to mid dling, at nil to 4d. per lb. The trade, have since purchased rather more freely than before the sale, and there has also been more doing for the Irish Market. The demand for Rice has been almost sus pended, and we have no sales to report worthy of notice. There has been a steady demand for most descriptions of Grain since our last, and extensive sales have been made of Wheat, Oats, and Indian Corn, with a little improvement in the value of each article. Foreign Flour, in bond, sells steadily for export. _ On Tuesday 1,580 brls. Turpentine were offered by auction on the quay; the trade evinced a greater inclination to purchase, and although the quality was not fine, the principal part brought 10s. 3d., the re mainder 10s.; another parcel of 390 brls. has also brought 10s. 3d., being an advance of 3d. to 6d. per cwt.. In Tar there has been little business done, Rosin is in better request. A public sale of 200 brls. Montreal Pot Asles, now landing, took place on Tuesday ; about half were sold at 275. 9d., the remainder withrawn, but since sold at the same price; 110 brls. have also been sold at 285., and the market now appears more firm, some hoders not being disposed to sell at this price. For Pearl Ashes there hss been more inquiry, and about 300 brls. Montreal, brand 1826, sold at 28s. 6d. to 295. and 20 brls. new at 295. Gd. The sales of States Pot Ashes are, 70 brls. brand 1826, at 28s.,.and 150 brls. Stained at 255. 3d. per cwt. There ig a steady, but not tois campe extensive i d e mand_ d Lfoopvo r Dy o e d wo at odv the sales are, 25 . 15s. to 84, 00 tons Jamaica at 6/. 55., 30 tons Spanish a F n u d s t i l c 4 a t t o n G s t. i , n 2 fe 2 r i t o o r n c s i i i .o m u w g o h o N d i a c t ar l gu ol. aNld per r o t o on at 7 /. with 17 tons Gaboon Barwood at 71. 10s., and 50 tons Angola ditto at 9/. Os. per ton from the quay. Mad der Roots continue in request, and'about 230 bales French lave been sold at 425.- Holders of Turkey Roots decline selling at present rates. Madders meet a' ready'skle at the prices quoted. Good Phila delphia. 'Bark is taken in small parcels at 15s. 3d. to 15s. Gd. per cwt.; 35 tons Cork-tree Bark have brought 9/. 10s. per ton. There is no more inquiry for Sicily Shumac; the sales are. about 350 bags at 10s. 6d., and 120 bags Verona, at 7s. Gd. per cwt. Notwithstanding the recent advance on Saltpetre in the London market, this article has experienced little or no improvement here; this week 224 bags have been sold at- 255. 9d. to 28s. 6d. The stock remaining for sale is very trifling. Nothing has been done in Valonia.— Small sales of Argol are effected. Galls are in quired for, but holders ask higher prices, and no f b o u r si , n b e o s t s has b for e been crushing d i ng o n a e n . d fe L e i d n i s n e g e d ; more equan ti inquired t y h er, is very trifling. A small parcel of Egyptian has been sold at 38s. per quarter. The sale of Caracca Indigo, advertised forauction yesterday, is postponed until-the 26th instant. There is little business doing in this article. at 401.50 m e fo s r mli all Gallipoli,o of and Olive 3 v . 0 1 s l . ia t v been effected to 351, 351. for la lags. Yesterday 50 tuns Linseed Oil were offered by auction ; 5 tuns sold at 19d. per gallon, old mea sure, the remainder withdrawn. For Rape Oil the demand is very trifling. Fish Oils remain without alteration. Palm Oil is more inquired for, and about 180 tuns sold at 241. to 25/. per tun. Oil of Turpen tine steady at 501. to 51/. per tun.—The only sales of Hides reported this week are 255 Salted Para (all faults), at 4d., and 152 Salted North Ameri can, at sd. per lb.—Little doing in Rice. Ten tierces fine Carolina have brought 215., and 120 bags East India 14s. to 15s. 6d. per cwt.—Hemp is in better request, and Petersburgh clean has ad vanced to 401. 10s. to 411., at which sales have been effected.—The sales of Tallow have been checked by holders demanding an advance, which buyers generally. have not been willing to give. About 200 casks Yellow Candle have, however, been taken at 38s. 6d. - to. 395. A most important discovery has been made in France,—it is no other than the art of discovering stolen goods by animal magnetism : witness the following anec dote, related by the owner of a lost parrot : —M. FAY, the father of LVONTINIC FAY, the little theatrical wonder, had a parrot of which he was extremely fond. One day, the cage being open, the parrot took it into its head to see the world. Whether it made its escape by the door or window is not said, but escape it did, flew to the roof of the house, and wandered—animal magnetism alone knew whither.— Happily for M. FAT, his maid-servant was a semnambule ; he put her to sleep, and then asked her questions as to what bad become of the parrot. " I see it," she replied ; " I know where it is." " Where is it ?" " Not far from hence?" "In what street ?" " I don't know." "Try and find it out." A silence of a few minutes ensued.— " Where are you ?" " I ain in the street where the parrot is, opposite to the house." " What number is it ?" " I • don't know ; there is not any number on it—they are build , ing in front." "Go up higher, and Fee what is the num ber." " Eight." "Go up higher still." " Six, 4, 2." " Yon are now at the corner of the street, is there not the name of it put up ?" " Yes, it is the Rue de Clery."— " Now go back and count the numbers." " Two, 4,6, 8, , 12." " Then the house where the parrot is is No. 10. In what part of the house is it ?" "In the back part, on the first floor, with a very stout lady." Here the dialogue ended,..--M. FAT awoke his maid, and hastened off to the Rue de Clery. He found the apartments designated, and the fat lady, who was conversing with " pretty poll." She confessed that she had only had the parrot a few days, and that she had bought it of a street porter, and given him six francs for it. 111, FAT soon proved to her that the parrot and he were old acquaintances, and she consented to return it on the repayment of six francs.--Literary Gazette. COUNTRY CORN MAMCrifTh' ' DURING LAST ilsPer Quarter. Wheat. stos. to Carlisle 62 69 24 '22 30 f,. Hexham*. 50 64 28 31 21 29 Morpggth 43 62 30 35 18 26 A 0 Penrith 59 -- 30 - 90 56 Sheffield 47 64 39• 38 22.. Winchester 44 60 26 32 22 s. d. d. Per Bushel. s.d. sd. s.d. s.d. s.d. s,, " ' Carmarthen— 6 0 66, 3 9 'a 0 1 6 2 3 ", 1 Coventry Newcastle (SU%) 8 0 8 6 5 0 5 S 3 9 4 t,., ) Northallerton —,. 6 0 70!36. 4 6 '2 6 3 u " 1 1 ' Stafford Swansea 66 6 9 3 9 411 '2 6 2 Warwick 6(1 76 39 43 36 5 Per ItolL 14,," Barnardcastle—. 11 0 16 0 8 0 9 5 0 0 —,,, Darlington 11 0 16 6 4 6 5 3 5 6 7 6 ~ Durham Wolsingham 0• 14 6 9 0 10 0 6 0 '7 3 " The size of the measure varies throughout th e coo' t SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN MARKET—Nov. 29 a Or A very full supply both of Oats and Barley in th ` i g ol ket to.day ; 117 quarters of Barley, and 201 (1 08 " d bi Oats, were E;old ; average price of Bailey 10d. , l i e r. Oats, 84. , a6eve the corresponding prices of last I *, o 8 Wheat net with i very dull demand, and it ha , a o lco trifle upon the old average; the general average '''. a ,o ,, 2s. There were 9 quarters of Pease, and 24 of sold, and the averages of both are beneath the last . or s. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. ;00 4 First 6Bs Od 34s Od 26s Sd 34e Od o Od I Second 46s Od 30s Od 24s Od 3.2 s OA 34; ej L I Third There were 384 qrs. of Wheat in market, 311 wherege.- DALKEI H COR: MARK ._NoV 18rge' The supply of Grain at this day's Wheat sold at better prices than last N Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 66s Od 32s Od 27s Od Second 6os (Id 28s Od 24s Od Third 4os Od 26s Od Ids Od xvarket week. 3s 4 P 2 e s s a s o ( O e d t . 13 ii::: : 4 3Oa (Id •J'- CORNWALL MARKETS. T H R E o L s wr o . .—ZlH w e h a e t a ( t a:ga . g u el_2l ß s.— ar r ey alle io y s ,. l od os. 3d.-00 6 6 : 0 1, Sr. AUSTFLI.—Wheat, 19s. to 24s.—Barley, 9s. to 115.- - 85. to 93. g Oi• Bonstis,—Wheat (average) 225. 6d.—Barley,_Oa f' LallsessroN—Wheat (average) 21s. Od:—Barley, 1 0 '• 75. Od.—Beef, sd.—Mutton, W.; lAsKsann—Wheat, 17s. 3,1. to 21s.—Barley , 11s. ' to 9s. 6d. 10"' F " Sr.. Counts—Wheat, 20s. to 21s.—Barley, 9s. 10 and Mutton, 4td. to Od.—Veal and Lamb, Od to Od. ~ t o 11? PENZANCE—Wheat, 195. to 21s .— Barlev, .•3• - to 7s. to fie. Od.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to sd.—Pork. Butter, lid. per lb. , - • MINING'INTELLIG'ENCE. T g ' a Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redtuth la s t Thu r sday ~" • 0 • i • , Average Produce Quantity of fine Copper 0 0' Amount of Sale, 16.5551, ss. 6d.—Average Staridard, MEETINGS OF - ORENTORS.. o f LONDON DIARY..--TuEsnar, Nov. 27.—(At the i ? Commissioners, Basinghall-street.) .... Jones, T. High-Street, Tarratt,T., - Bath. ...... Shoreditch ll Wilkinson and Co. ll ° lb Kendall, T., Paternoster, bridge row ll Wright and Morel, Marshall, J., Black Horse- fields ................... yard W°°dB . P., Robert's -b ... Negus and Mayes, Angel- Sussex ................... court COUNTRY DIA RY.—NYBDNEsnav, No*V. 2 g• It Hippon, W., Dewsbury—Wellington hotel, Rochdale.." . : o 11 March, W., Southampton—Crown, South a mpton ....•••" *.,.. Roby, R., Leamington—Rath hotel, L ea mi ng ton .......•• Roby, R., Leamington Priors—Bath hotel, Learn inr 11 Priors ..... . .. . ....... . ..................... . . . ................ Wheeler, H., Frome Selsvood—GeO;:ie, ........ ........... . .... Young, J: and NV.; Bristol—Commercial rpoms, Brigo 6 11)t INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCIIA! i fiaIJ'' Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's 00 NOY. 29, AT NINE: Bowman, W., Birney-hill, Nor. Goddard, J., •Exeter 3 ' thumberland Poor, C., Wirobledon , l' e Camel, J., Wandsworth Richard, T., Wst ,„ '' Couldery, S., Hoxton Halifax Cropley, J., Sutton-street, Cler- Robertson, kenwell _ Wakefield _ I, C., Moran terrace' J., Winasa' Dodds, J., Newton Forth, N., Chelsea Gross, J., Rushden, North amptonshire Kitchiner, K, Corun-qt., Rus sell-square ~ Her. Cicr.toad ~,., At., Wakerell, W., I , " fie 0,3, mondsey vo y. \\lngham, G., r` Poplar so vera b6 um, Litchfield, COUNTRY.—At the Coutt-hi at Ten o'clock. Jones, Richard, Fazeley At Laneaster, November 28, at Ten. Howard, Liverpool Povall, W.,.oswost r Y Haslam, J., Bolton - Charlton, J., Dentn,e4te r Thomson, J., Manchester Hesseltine Turner, J., Bolton Dawson, E., Studshaw WortilhAtV , W., Le , Spencer, J. Chorlton Stott, T., Manchester jltc:indeinsgsi'l,.yv?lrSttaolnforcl lanLi Dr. -RoGEZ an d Mr. SAB E of the tf°l e tat'iei ticultural Society, h ave b een appo i nt o joint se-re 0 1° ' the Royal SOciety, on the resignations of Ale"" soma. and enttrotEN,—the former to enable bini so f terruptedly to prosecute his astronomical *research"' the latter from ill health. speak f I .jtheE accountsweather appearance, . Te entered srti THIEF.—This 1 Ding ' Thursday the election of the. Lord Rector for ELECTION .OF . THE LORD :RECTOR.- 04 ... the Vt, appearance p c e o ar , e aF i n .e ., " ..7 l e t o o rT t sit y of Glasgow took place, when TitOS. CA MPBELL, F 4 i# author of the "Pleasures of Hope," who last Y ear tY th al e to N ge o t r b t e l r i , m tti t s sy nr a e r r ' ii : j le; :. chosen to this high honour, was again e l ete d of , unanimous votes .of the whole four nations. 1J On Wednesday last (say the lettors from Northumb e f 1 °/ the shop of Mr. 1 -I °,, Pw gl ''::' a sharp frost set in, and the day following a goo d ",, es iace' S d in eP o tii rn o i f il t g b: tctr -f ' snow fell. On Friday, a further fall of snow took. fi,,lr p r i h c l :antinuanc la p Of hosier, of Shoreditch, and asked to look pair of °,!": s i n o c t h h e a s t , w th i ; h, ground eve ry but at the moment when the shopinan turned ata t ow k ' rd e l ' l''' shelves for the purpose of reachlngthe kind lie a.'„ -t cc"' the t4 fellow snatched a bundle of 'black silk s trielog - „'3. O a , ining a dozen pairs, worth' about'three - • ea"' "'" OP guiu • ye a i from the shop. Th e genteel ili shopman immediately Pit rs ro ef ° and succeeded in ' taking him into custody at the e° Liverpool -street. He is a well known sho liter. tse) 1 p i , 0 1Saturday morning the town of Cher the was thrown into great cos fusion by a report th 3 it e ° I church-y ar d h a d b een ro bb e d. Up on investigation 0 , pit the graves was found to be open, and the body ,i, 0 young man, of the name of MARTIN, was taken ov a tha t trace of which had been discovered. It is supP o r ett 4 the party was disturbed, as a wrenching screw .na a ile (4 able shovel were left behind. Other graves had been o:4, but only one more body was discovered to be. m i r in g a c dt this was not at first suspected, as the earth was rei a .r. , and made up as neat as any sexton. could have finished ' i be' ROG AN, Wllo ,jeart , • Yesterday a man named an d had been tried by O'',Otei longed to the 92d Regiment, martial and found guilty of infam ous conduct, was7es on - out of the castle, and dismissed the regiment. He sr a ,pd ducted to the extremity of the esplanade, with a halter' ilio. his neck, and a label on h is back, statin g the crime f0r.L.911 the disgraceful punishm ent was inflicted.____Vdifiv"' Courant, Nov. 22. ,1%-'-'''..°' BIRTHS. tll6 On the 16 th instant, in Stephen's Green , lady of Captain Caulfield, of a daughter. Or e ' ; On the 23 d instant, in Montague - place , R ussell-s 4 Mrs. Philip Martineau, of a son. MARRIED. t r ctip ulboo, Or the 20th instant, at St. Pancras New ch - „,b the Rev. Walter Chenery , of Grision, Norfolk, ! de g °' Chenery, jun., .Esq.., of Eye, Suffolk, to Ann, v ll the late John Rose, Jun.,, Esq., of the same place. On the 2lit instant, at Great Malvern, by the lifrs, F. Cobb, A.M., Thomas Francis; third son 0 f Cobb, Esq., of Margate, to.Resellen Emma, el dest ter of the late Colonel Torre, of Snydale, Yarkshire;, On the 24th instant, at St. Pancras New CburePlosrl, Charles Long, of Judd-street, Brunswick-square, tl f 1 4ee Ann, third daughter of the late Peter Delauncy , Bond-street. DIED. On the 25th inst. John Farley, Esq. of ClaPu a mon, Surrey, in the 71st year of his age. fe On the Slat ult., at Gibraltar, aged 30, beloved II .p i spected by all who knew him, Mr. Edmond Combe , $ Boyce Combe, Esq., of Camberwell. On the 234 instant, suddenly, at his house in Chit, lane, Mr. Richard Living, aged 69, whose loss will Wit verely felt by his disconsolate family, and a num/roil§ of friends and acquaintances. 0 46$' On the 21st intant, at the interesting age of 1 9, $ O.O sioned by an accidental blow at school, Arthu r, elf les of David Lousada, Esq., of Gower-street. sfd On the 3th instant, at Laresle Bourg, Savoy, on" f..s4'! to Rome, Isabella Mary, wife of Thomas Pakenharo, eite of. the Hon. the East India Company's Civil Service, gal, and eldest daughter of Lieut.-General Wetherell' 0,10, On the 20th inst., at St. Mary's, Dover, CaptaiWe Smithett, to Jane Dalrymple, youngest (laughter of Hamilton, Dover. PRINTBD add PUBLISHXD by NI. YOUDIG, SUN-OFFicz t NQ. 112, Strand. ANDREV CHARLE T HE this that the p i duties to Na tress uri' SK/N IN The follou Liv er voachnal Conglet and Stagy arrives E Water, Coach a tleligh seY, St Staffs ford: E early ne S. A Friends for any of more u nic 4 / the ,