The Sun. — London, England, 1827-08-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Duke of 'Wellington is again in hi sus tural place—at the head of the British Army.— On Friday last we announced that Ministers had determined on offering his Grace the aßpoint ment, and that if it had not been &litany ten dered to him, the proposal wool& probably, not be long delayed. Within twelve hours of that day's publication, Lotd Auglesea was intrusted with a communication to the Duke from his Majesty, naming his Grace Comm a nd er -h i -Chi e f of the Army ; and we have reason to believe that the letter in which his Grace l'ibtified his willing acquiescence in his Majesty's pleasure, was couched in terms peculiarly agreeable to the King. The Noble Duke's acceptance of the office of Commander-in-Chief„ and without a plate in the Cabinet, cannot, we should appre hend, fail of being agreeable to all parties; and, what is of no less consequence, it is agreeable to the Constitution, which places—and justly places —a distinction between the deliberative and exe cutive powers, upon the principle that the ann should not usurp the place of the head. Not withstanding the announcement in the Court Circular of Friday night, we learn that Mr. Her ries has not yet received the seals of office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, though he was on that day sworn in as a member of the Privy Council. For our own parts, we should wish that the present delay in his promotion may be shortly terminated. With respect to the nomi nation of Lord Palmerston to that financial office, surely nothing so ridiculous can have been thought of.— Times. • If the vices inherent in the present Administra tion of our bankruptcy laws had not been pret ty strongly dwelt upon and exposed in an elaborate report to Parliament, the proceedings of almost every day at Guildhall would have stamped the general complaints of the mercantile world on the subject with the authority of truth and justice. It is certainly a severe visitation upon the country, though not by any means an in frequent one, when a system, bad in itself, has " the luck" to be badly administered ; and of the two, we are certain that there is a more reason able hope of seeing good rules of action substi tuted for worse by the Legislature, than a multi tude of incompetent or unworthy agents suc ceeded by men of integrity and talent, for the application of such improved principles, let the choice of the public functionaries rest where it may. So long as the Lord Chancellor for the time being has the power of nominating a rabble of commissioners of bankrupts, for instance, where each individual is lost in a crowd, and where that fractional part of the general mass of negligence, ignorance, rapacity, or insolence, which can be charged upon any one commis sioner, scarcely becomes of sufficient importance to be brought, or to bring him, distinctly and personally before the public, there is such a constant temptation to disregard of duty, and so little restraining or controlling power, that the bankrupt law may be improved and polished to all eternity, Without ensuring a fair or diligent administration of justice between creditor and debtor. The class of individuals on whom this branch of the Lord Chancellor's patronage usually alights, is, from the nature of things, one whence little or no benefit can be ex pected for the mercantile commuity. A bar 7 rester in practice will not condescend to waste his valuable time at Guildhall, and so cut himself off from the hourly chances of pro fessional employment which an exclusive at tendance on the courts of law or equity would offer him. The choice, then, of the Lord Chancellor, even if fairly exercised, falls for the most part on men who have no business as bar risters, or no prospect of it, and therefore, gene rally speaking, who are the most idle or incapable members of the profession. If the bankrupt law were in other respects ever so unexceptionable, what sort of industry, or discernment, or satisfac tion to the commercial world, could be looked for froin such an order of judges, and, therefore, what degree of usefulness from the law itself? The frame and composition of the bankruptcy tri bunals must evidently undergo an important change ; there must be fewer judges—they must be kept more constantly at work, and will be more conspicuously, from the smallness oftheir numbers, before the public. There may then be some efficient control over the proceedings of bank ruptcy ; and if the judges be regularly paid from some other fund than the estates of the unfortu nate debtors, or snore wretched creditors, between whom they are sworn to adjudicate, it is possible that the time of the community, as well as the assets under litigation, may find their way in some more decent proportion, and in more rea sonable time, to the hands of those who only have a right to them. A letter from a corre spondent, who signs himself " A Creditor," and who describes one occurrence by which he was himself a sufferer, illustrative of the conscientious and disinterested practices which prevail among commissioners of bankrupts, will come home to a large body of our city readers as not altogether without example.—lbid. - - Mr. Herries did not receive from his Majesty " the Seals of the office of Chan cellor of the Exchequer," as was stated in the Court Circular, and we are assured that his appointment to that office is not in contempla tion. It is not yet fixed who shall be Chan cellor of the Exchequer ; but we believe it is in tended that that office shall be filled by Mr. Charles Grant. Mr. Huskisson will, we be lieve, receive the Colonies. None of the ap pointments, however, will be gazetted till the re turn of Mr. Huskisson. We before stated that none of the Outs would come into office ; an d t h e a ppointment of the Duke of Wellington to the office of Commander-in-Chief does not con tradict our statement, for the appointment is ex clusively military, and neither he himself, nor any of his friends, enters the Cabinet. Mr. Her ries is now at Calais, and it is understood that the state of his health would not admit o f hi s acceptance of offica.—Morning Chronicle. It gives us very great pleasure to announce, that his Grace the Duke of Wellington has once more accepted the Commander-in-Chiefship o f the Army. We hope that this is merely a pre lude to the coming in again to office of Mr. Peel, who retired for no good reason that we could ever find out. He certainly much pleased the country by the manner in which he performed the duties of the office that he filled ; and we think that if the King were again to call him to his Councils, and appoint him to some office, that a great portion of the people of England would be pleased—we know that the Protestants The case, however, might •be different with respect to the Catholics, the Irish Catho lics especially. In consequence of the death of Mr. Cannin g , it would appear that the King, by the amalg amat i on of parties, will have what may be called a strong Administration, at least so far as the probable op - position of a strong party is con cerned. We s h ou ld, h owever, be very 69rry if there should be no opposition, for opposition is good for the United Kingdoni.--=Morning Herald. Sir James Graham, in his evidence before the Committee on Criminal Commitments and Con victions, of which he was Chairman, states some interesting particulars with respect to the condi- , Lion of the people of Cumberland " What isiho geheral 'rate of wages given to an agri cultural laboUrer in your neighbourhood ?—The custom is thiVehal in the county of Cumberland, of refusing any payment of wages out of the poor-rates; the consequence is, that the rate of wages paid by the employer to the la bourer is higher in Cumberland than in almost any other agricultural county; a ploughman there receives at least 12s. a week, in many cases with a cottage or rooms rent free ; and in no cases a field labourer receive less than Is. 6d. a day, if he be a good workman. " Is it not the custom for the labourer to receive assist ance out of the Poor-rates for the support of his family, When his family is large?—lt is not. Mr. Sturges Bourne's Act has been carried almost universally into exe cution ; select vestries assemble regularly, according to the provisions of that Act; neither rent nor wages are paid out of the Poor-rates. The fund is most economically ad ministered. Except in special cases relief is refused; and the Poor-rates, notwithstanding the increase of manufac turing poverty, have diminished even in the manufacturing districts since 1819." To shew the connection between poverty and crime, we have only to contrast Cumberland with some of the agricultural counties of the South of England. We noticed the statement of the Rev. Dr. Hunt, that crime in Bedford shire had increased tenfold, or 900 per cent., between 1801 and 1827. But commencing with 1817, the total commitments stand thus— 1817, 175 ; 1818, 251 ; 1819, 253 ; 1820, 241 ; 1821, 289: 1822, 347 ; 1823, 419 ; 1824, 358 ; 1825, 333 ; 1826, 348 ; 1827, 417. Cumberland, on the other hand, had 89 commitments in I'Bl7, and 54 in 1826. The number for the seven years, from 1817 to 1823, was 403 ; and if we take seven years, commenc ing with 1820 and ending with 1826, the num ber is still lower, 384. The abase of the Poor Laws in the South has led to an excessive poverty, by producing every where a redundant population. A false step once made in this re spect can hardly ever be retraced. When the population has been once suffered to become re dundant in any district, the first effect of refusing to pay part of the wages out of the rates would be to increase the wages of the single men, and to diminish the wages of men with families, and the sufferings of the latter for some time would be very great. On the other hand, in a county like Cumberland, which has never departed from the natural mode of paying wages, the population will not become redundant, and, consequently, it will be no difficult matter to avoid the evil Trom which the South has suffered. We have often remarked that the Poor Laws, though they have been made the instrument for degrading the labourers of the South, only did so becaus' they were abused—and that we were satisfied they were, upon the whole, the means of raising the condition of the English labourers higher than it would otherwise have been, by furnishing men of property with a powerful inducement to prevent any undue iperease of the laliouring population. We have an example of the way they work in Cumberland, stated by Sir James Graham "Has the population increased in the agricultural pa rishes ?—I have myself taken very strong mears to prevent it; for it so happens that my whole estate came out of lease in the year 1822, after the currency of a lease of fourteen years; and by consolidation of farms, and the destruction of cottages, I have diminished upon my own property the population of the extent of from three to four hundred souls. " On how many acres ?—On about 30,000. " What was the whole extent of population ?—lt was under 4,000 before I reduced it. What became of those three or four hundred?—The greater part of thembeing small tenants, were enabled to find farms on the estates of other proprietors, who pursued the opposite course of subdividing their estates for the purpose of obtaining higher nominal rents; others have become day-labourers; and as day-labourers, I have reason to know that they are more thriving than they were on my estate, as small farmers, subject to a high rent, which their want of capital seldom enabled them to pay; two or three of these families went to America. " Have you any out of work ?—None entirely out of work ; some only partially employed ; but since the dis persion of the large mass of population, the supply of labour has not much exceeded the demand : for whenever I removed a family I pulled dawn the house, and the pa rochial jealousy respecting settlements is an ample check on the influx of strangers." . . . . That the population has been kept down by similar means in many parts of England it would be no difficult matter to show. Sir James ob serves, that the law of settlement is an ample check on strangers. It is here that the Scotch Poor Laws are defective, for they form no check on strangers. The consequence is, that while Cumberland can exclude the Irish, the Scotch counties cannot ; and thus, while the rate of wages does not fall in the former, in the latter the influx of Irish will infallibly pauperize and degrade the native population. We have advo cated Poor Laws in Ireland because we can con ceive no means of controuling the tendency of the lower orders to multiply beyond the means of employment, except by taxing property, and thus giving the rich an interest to keep down their numbers.—lbid. It is doubly gratifying for us to announce that the Duke of Wellington has resumed the im portant post of Commander-in-Chief of the Army, as his acceptance of his Majesty's gra cious offer restores to the country the valuable services of the man best calculated for filling such a situation, and puts an end to the parties into which the political world has lately divided. The Opposition, of which his Grace would have been the chief pillar and strength if it had held toge ther long enough to become a regular body, is annihilated by his withdrawal. Its Members cannot consistently act against him whom they lately followed as their Leader, and the only course which it now remains for them to pursue, is to imitate the example which his Grace has given, should the services of any of them be still deemed of any utility to the State. It is under stood that, in returning to the command of the army, the Noble Duke does not re-enter the Ca binet. In the propriety of this arrangement we most cordially agree. The command of the army is enough for any one individual, however indefatigable and intelligent, and the Duke, of all men, is least disposed to make it, or any other duty which he undertakes, a sinecure. But were it not so, it would still be of importance to keep it apart from politics. There is, indeed, little fear, that with his Grace it would suffer much from such a con nection, but the example is not a good one. One of the principal late Royal causes which enabled his Highness the Duke of York to plan and to proceed with his numerous improve ments in the army may unquestionably be found in his high rank, to which he was indelAed for permanence in office sufficient to look for ward to distant contingencies, and to provide for them with the prospect that his provi sions would prove effectual. But another, and, perhaps, a still more effectual cause is to be found, in his absolute independence of all parties, and the moral weight which that inde pendence, and the impartiality that was the result of it, gave to his recommendations. What the Duke of York owed to the splendour of his rank—we mean his continuance in office amidst all the changes of party—the Duke of Wel lington may naturally expect, from the splendour of his exploits, which, in his, as in the case of his predecessor, forbids all competition: and his remaining unconnected with the Cabinet, will give to his plans all the weight which independ ence, not only above imputation, but above sus picion, is calculated to impart. Once more, then, we very sincerely and cordially congratulate the public on an event, for which we have never ceased to wish.—Nctu Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.-- William Robert Capp, a complete dandy, was put to the bar, charged with having stolen table spoons in taverns in the city. The prisoner walked into Baker's Coffee-house, and called for a glass of sherry. He contrived to get possession of a silver table-spoon which lay on one of the tables; but the waiter missed it, and candidly told him that he must be the thief. The prisoner laid this spoon upon the table, and in order to avoid suspicion of being an illiberal thief, laid another alongside of it. The second spoon proved to be the property of the landlord of the George and Vulture Tavern, with whose name it was marked. A duplicate of a spoon was found in his pocket. He had attempted to intimidate the officer who took him into custody, and the waiter, by stating that he was intimate with the Lord Mayor and Mr. Hobler ; and he requested, upon being brought up, to he examined privately. The request was rejected, and the acquaintance was denied. The prisoner, upon being asked what he had to say, declared that no charge could be substantiated against him. He was re manded for a second examination. GUILDHALL.—As soon as the list of prisoners had been disposed of on Saturday, a solicitor rose, and stated that he appeared there on the behalf of a party who was charged by the inquest of Cripplegate with using a false balance in his shop. He bad been waiting above an hour beyond the time fixed in the summons, and as the gentle men of the inquest did not appear to support their charge, he claimed to be dismissed. He had no doubt they ab stained from coming, because they were aware their com plaint must fall to the ground. Mr. Alderman CROWDER.—I recollect something of the case. NVho is your client? Where does he live? Solicitor ..-James Briggs : he lives in Grub-street. Alderman CROWDEIt (raising his voice.)-oh, James Briggs, a baker, in Grub-street. There was a string fastened under the bread-scale, which was acted upon as a jigger-- some contrivance by which light bread would be made to appear heavy. Solicitor—There was a bit of string fastened to the scale, but I do not know how it was used; for aught I know it wes for the benefit of the publie. Mr. Alderman Caowuxu—Do you believe it was used for the good of the public. Solicitor (somewhat abashed) —ln the situation I am standing, I am sure you will not press me to answer you. Mr. Alderman CROWDER.----NO; but as you assumed it was for the good of the people, I thought you might be able to throw some light upon the subject. Solicitor—l have heard the description given of the scales when the summons was applied for, and 1 have looked through all the Acts of Parliament upon the subject from the time of Henry VII. to the present period, and I can assure you there ' is no law which declares what my client has done to be an offence. It might be punished as a cheat at common law,. Mr. Alderman Cuownrit—l believe you Fe right. I must dismiss the complaint, but I hope the publicity that will be given to what has passed will not he without ad vantage ; and I also hope the defendant will become sensi ble how unfeeling and shameful it was to practise such de ception upon the very poor class of persons that were in the habit of approaching his counter. Veir slender means, obtained with extreme difficulty and exceeding hard labour, should least of all have been subjected to diminution by such practices. Solicitor—l hope he will benefit by your admonition, Sir. A person behind the solicitor now whispered in his ear, and he immediately applied to have the scales retunied to him. Mr. Alderman Cuownta—Oh ! is this the worthy cha racter I have been speaking of ?—(Loud laughter.) The whisperer'alface became immediately suffused with a deep blush. " He is a young man, and lam sure this will be a warning to him," said the solicitor. Mr. Briggs haying recovered 'himself o maid Le 'boa mepy enemies in the Ward, and he bad been entrapped. The string found tied to the scale was a necessary appen dage to secure it to a ring. The Alderman replied, that the scales were in the pos session of the inquest, and the application must be made to them. The baker and his solicitor had not retired from the hall above ten minutes, when the inquest entered with the Vestry-clerk, Mr. Earnshaw, at their head. TLey ex pressed their regret that the matter had been disposed of in their absence, and said, their delay arose from their so licitor being detained in a very particular engagement. They were asked what they should do with the scales. They were told, that the defendant's own solicitor ad mitted he was open' to an indictment at common law, and that if they should determine upon taking that course, they must produce the scales in Court in evidence. They ought not, therefore, to restore them to the baker hastily and without deliberation. _ _ Mr. Earnshaw said, the inquest had had a lesson upon that subject. They once indicted a man for using false measures, and were foiled, because they had not the mea sures to, produce, having destroyed them at the time they were seized. The inquest then retired. When the discovery was first slightly mentioned, it was nderstood that the weight upon being placed in the weight-scale, effected, through the concealed machinery, an uniform reduction of its own power, to the extent of one-fourth part. When the present summons was granted on Thursday last, the operation was, however, explained differently. The string under the scale passed through a hole in the counter, and was simply acted upon by the foot when necessary. Thus, if a 41b. weight had been pnt in one scale and a penny loaf in the other, the latter would have sunk as if containing the heavier body, upon the baker placing his foot on the end of the string under his counter. BOW-STREET.---Mr. Leslie, a respectable linen draper, in Oxendon-street, Haymarket, was, on Saturday, brought before Mr. MlNsitem, on an assault-warrant, at the instance of his wife, a young woman about 25 years of age. The case was partly heard on Wednesday evening, when the Magistrate remarked that the charge of assault did not appear to be of a very serious nature, and Mrs. L. then charged her husband with having discontinued her allowance of 1-is. a-week ; and Mr. Leslie, on the other hand, undertook to prove that his wife had been unfaith ful to his bed, and, therefore, she could have no legal claim upo❑ him. The case was therefore poatpcned until Saturday, to examine witnesses. Mr. Harmer appeared for Mr. Leslie, and another soli citor attended for Mrs. Leslie. Mr. Harmer said, that if it was proved that Mrs. L. was living in adultery, her husband could not be compel led to pay her more than the usual allowance, and be pro ceeded to call the followingwitnesses:— --- Mrs. Joanna Christie, of No. 5, St. Alban's-place, Pall mall, stated that a Mr. Cutler lodged in her house about a twelvemonth ago, and during that time Airs. Leslie was in the habit of calling upon him, and she was th en k nown by the name of Morris ; she informed witness that M r . Cut ler was her first cousin, and that his mother had requested her to keep a strict watch on him, as she (M rs. Cutler ) lived in the country; but Mrs. Leslie never slept at his lodging, nor was she aware that she visited him for any improper purpose. A Mrs. Fairweather stated, that Mrs. Leslie lodged with her seven months, and during that time Mr. Cutler was in the habit of -visiting her as late as twelve o'clo c k at n i g h t, and as early as seven in the morning ; and on ono occas i on , when Mr. Fairweather entered Mrs. Leslie's apartment, he found Mr. Cutler extended on the bed; but he only slept there one night, and Mrs. Leslie slept at her sister's, in the Haymarket. The last time she saw Mr. Cutler with Mrs. Leslie was in July last; she was not aware that he had lived with her since that period. A Mr. Hillier said, he had seen Mr. Cutler come out of Mrs. Leslie's lodgings at a quarter before five o'clock in the morning. Mr. MlNsituLr. expressed a wish to see Mr. Cutler, if he was in the office ; and a tall young man stepped forward and announced himself as that gentleman, and stated, that the object of his appearing there that day was to justify his ownCiaracter. Mr. MtbisnuLL—l think as much has been proved against Mrs. Leslie as will justify her husband in discon tinuing the handsome allowance of fourteen shillings a week. Mrs. Leslie's solicitor asked if it was intended to charge Mrs. Leslie criminally? Mr. Harmer —It has been already proved that Mr. Cutler frequently visited her. 14.0. Lepliep with tear, in her eyes, declared that shy was innocent of the criminal conduct imputed to her ; and there was a female in the office who had slept with her for the last three years. Her husband had been under 400/. bail for assaulting herd and some time since she would have prosecuted two men, whom he had employed to ill-treat her, had not her principal witness died before the trial could come on. With respect to the present charge, of assault, a young woman had given her credit for , a week's board and lodging, and when she accompanied the young woman to bar. beslie's house, for the purpose of being paid, he turned her out of doors ; but she would go home, if he would receive her, and endure his ill-treat ment, rather than live apart; she formed an acquaint ance with Mr. Cutler, froni being employed, a short time ago, to make some waistcoats for him, And he had always conducted himself with propriety towards her. Mr. Harmer'—Mr. Leslie's object is to obtain a di vorce ; but, if she returns home, he will be debarred from procuring one. Mr. llitNstrum.—Let him bring his action, for Criminal Conversation ; but, until the divorce is obtained, he must support her. Mr. Leslie said, he would not allow her more than the common parish allowance : for he had been supporting an idle vagabond who lived by her prostitution. Mr. MINSIIULL observed that he could make no order respecting the allowance Mrs. Leslie ought to receive; but, as a private individual, he thought ten shillings a week quite sufficient; and this sum Mr. Leslie, after some demur, agreed to allow his wife ; and, the parties then retired, Mr. Cutler and Mrs. Leslie going one way, and Mr. Leslie and his friends another. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, Arc. 18.-The demand for British Plan tation Sugar continues limited ; the sales this week amount to 500 hhds. only, at a reduction on the good scale quali ties of 6d. to le. per cwt., and of East India Sugar only 100 bags of good white Bengal have been sold at 765. 6d. per cwt. duty paid. For 57 chests middling white Per nambuco Sugar 41s. per cwt. has been paid for exporta tion. 'West India Molasses are steady, and the stock is very small. The Coffee market is dull; of 200 tierces and barrels Jamaica and Demerara Coffee (mostly ordinary and unclean) offered by auction on Thursday, scarcely one-fourth found buyers, although the owners seemed willing to submit to a reduction of 2s. to Be. per cwt. for the ordinary qualities. In Cocoa, Ginger, and Pimento, nothing done worthy of notice, and in Rum the sales are limited, but the prices are steady. We have experienced some revival of the demand for Cotton this week, but without any improvement in the prices; the sales amount to 14,770 bags, of which 4,000 bags Bowed and Mobile have been taken on speculation, principally in the lower descriptions, at sid. to 6d. per lb. ; 5540 Bowed, sd. to 6P., sid. to tid. chiefly at 6d. to 64d. for inferior to middling fair; 2,020 Orleans, at 6p. to Bd. chiefly at 6d. to 6d. for middling fair to good ; 4,450 Mobile and Alabama, at 54d. to 6d. prin cipally at 6d. to 6P. ; 590 Sea Island 1 - OP. to 15d. 16d. to 19d. ; 300 Stained Ditto at sd. to 10d. ; 310 Per nambuco at 90. to 94d. ; 500 Maranham at SP. to BP. ; 190 Bahia at 7d. to Bd. ; 480 Egyptian at 7d. to Bkd. ; 380 Demerara at 74d. to 9d. ; 10 Surat at sd. The arrivals are 26,498 bags. The demand for Tobacco remains.nearly suspended, and the sales have been limited. Imported into Liverpool, from the 11th to the 17th August 1827, inclusive-By 2 vessels from Jamaica, 1 Bnbice, 1 St. Vincent, 7 New York, 4 Charleston, 3 Savannah, 3 Philadelphia, 1 Boston, 1 Baltimore, 1 Virginia, 7 New Orleans, 3 Mobile, 1 Maranham, 2 Pernambuco, 1 Africa, 1 Guayaquil and Gibraltar, 1 Sicily, 1 Smyrna, 1 Zante, 1 Leghorn, 2 Dantzic, 3 Rostock, 1 Pillau, 1 Uleaborg, 5 St. Petersburgh, and 1 Ireland. _ _ _ Brazil Sugar, 30 cases; Jamaica ditto, 748 hhds. 30 tierces, 2 brls. ; Berbice ditto, 35 hhds. 9 tees. 8 brls. ; Molasses, 479 casks; Coffee, 129 tees. 28 brls. ; Pimento, 10 bags; Rum, 546 puncheons, 85 hhds. ; Tobacco, 559 hhds. ; African Rice, 730 bags; West India Cotton, 233 bales ; New Orleans and Mobile ditto, 9,175 bales ; Rest United States, 13,764 bales ; Brazil ditto, 3,506 bales ; American Flour, 900 brls. ; Foreign Wheat, 5,851 qrs. ; Turpentine, 2,818 bris. ; Baltic Tar, 750 brla. 20 half barrels; Canada Ashes, 417 brie. ; Bees' Wax, 50 casks; Logwood, 110 tons ; Fustic, 75 tons ; Nicaragua Wood, 129 tons ; Camwood, 44 tons ; Cream of Tartar, 2 casks ; Argol 95 cases, 97 boxes, 5 casks ; Argol Dust, 6 casks ; Quercitron Bark, 167 hhds. 18 brls. ; Madder Roots, 225 bales ; Valania, 125 tons; Olive Oil, 49 casks; Brimstone, 150 tons ; Palm Oil, 55 casks ; Tallow, 2,673 casks ; Currants, 90 butts, 9 carroteels ; African Cow and Ox Hides, 1,324; West India ditto, 80; Brazil ditto, 2,304 ; New York ditto, 207. • The only transaction in rough Turpentine this week is a parcel of 600 brls. warehoused at 1 le. 9d., the quality about two-thirds soft ; the import this week is 2818 brie. -American Tar continues very scarce, and sales of Thick are effected at 18s. 6d. to 20s. per brl. ; a cargo of Stock holm has been sold in parcels at 15s. 9d. and 500 brls. Archangel at 14s. 9d. per brl. from the quay.-The sales of resin during last week being to the extent of about 5,000 brls., the manufacturers have now advanced their price to 6s. 6d., and but little can be bought for immediate delivery at this price. There has been an improved demand for Ashes this week ; the sales amount to about 400 brls. Montreal Pot, of which one half were new, at 275. 6d. to 285., and remainder last year's brand, at 265. to 275., with 40 bal. Montreal Pearls last nat.'s, at 275. to 28s. per cwt. In States Ashes the sales are 200 brls. New York Pot, brand 1826, at 265. 9d. and 180 brls. New York and Boston Pot, part stained, at 245. 9d. to 275. per cwt., the advance on both descriptions being 6d. to 9d. per cwt. There continues a steady demand for Dyewoods. The fresh import of Fustic is freely disposed of from the quay ; 120 tons Cuba have been sold at 12/. 2s. 6d. to 12/. 10s. and 50 tons Jamaica, at 9/. to 91. ss. per ton. In Log wood the sales are 40 ems Campeachy, at 81. to 8/. ss. ; Jamaica remains steady at 6/. 10s. to 6/. 15s. per ton.- Little has been done in Nicaragua Wood; 10 tons small, at 8/. and a little solid at 15/. 10s. is the only business re ported. Barwood is more inquired for, and 20 tons of Galloon sold at 6/. 6i. ; holders now demand 71. per ton. A fresh import of 200 casks fine Philadelphia Quercitron Bark will be offered by auction on Friday next : this article has become very scarce here ; about 40 casks very inferior were, to-day, sold at 12s. per cwt.: 50 tons Dutch Oak Bark, of good quality, sold at 6/. 10s. to 6/. 12s. 6d. per ton. Rough Brimstone is very dull of sale ; two cargoes have been offered by auction, but only 4/. 15s. being bid, they were withdrawn. Shumac is lower ; 260 bags good Sicily have been sold at 10s. 6d. to 10s. 9d., and 130 bags Verona at 6s. 94. to 7s. 6d. per cwt. ; Malaga may also be bought at 13s. per cwt.-A sale of 50 bales good fair E. I. Safflower has been effected at 61. 2a. 6d. per cwt., and there is more inquiry for this article.-Valonia is offering lower, with.a very limited demand-Madder Roots are still inquired for, and 50 bales Turkey sold at 375. 9d., with a parcel of Strasburgh Madders at 535. per cwt.-In Indigo little done this week.-Of the very small stock of Saltpetre here 265 bags have been sold at 255. to 28s. per cwt.-Eight casks very inferior American Bees' Wax sold at 91. 15s. per cwt. ; for good parcels 101.55. to 101. 10s. demanded. More inquiry has appeared for Olive Oil, and 12 tons Gallipoli sold at 40/. to 41/., principally at the former price; also 25 tons Malaga at about 35/. 10s. per ton.- In Seed Oils no alteration.-Seal Oil has been in good request, and about 200 tons disposed of at 22/. 105. to 23/. for pale, and 21/. for straw coloured ; holders now ask an advance for pale.-Some small parcels of Cod have been sold at 23/. per ton.-Palm Oil remains steady at 26/. 10s. per ton.-In Oil of Turpentine little doing.-The sales of Carolina Rice are trifling, 30 casks very ordinary have been sold at 15s. to 16s. ; the Husk Rice, cleaned in this town, meets a steady sale at 375. per cwt. duty paid, being of very superior quality. -The only transactions in Hides are 200 dry salted Brazil Ox and Cow at sp., and 4,400 Russian Kips at sp. per lb.-In Hemp but little business doing.-The import of Tallow already received here from the Baltic, is 5,192 casks ; there is a fair de mand for the article at 38s. to 38s. 6d. for Yellow Candle from the quay. WORDSWORTIL—In the summer of 1826, I had the pleasure, when at the Lakes, to be introduced to this gentleman; our party had walked from Arnbleside to Rydal Mount to see him and the waterfalls, and though it poured with rain the poet was so kind as to accompany us to the latter. To those who have never seen him, it may be interesting to learn that in person he is tall and slender, his hair light, long, and strait, and I thought becoming grey, but he is an elderly man ; his countenance is very expressive, although in its expressions so varying tha':. I could not rightly determine whether sadness, great gaiety of disposition, or the mild plenitude of benevolence, was the characteristic of his heart. The poet and his lady are idolized by their neighbours, rich and poor. I had some conversation with Mrs. Wordswoi th, and found in 1-,,r primitive simplicity and unadulterated benevolence. Her husband, herself, and their beautiful cottage ornee, strongly reminded me o f some o f C o wp e r's happy portraitures of patriarchal goodness, simple tastes, and elegant sylvan re tirement. I heard Mr. 'Wordsworth conversing with one of our party upon the notoriety of public and literary cha racters. " Notoriety," said he, " is, after all, an intolerable annoyance; we cannot even change our coats, but we shall see it, perhaps, in the newspapers next day.".../Yeas Zits. rary Gazette. HARMONY AND DISCORD. The Methodist Society in Leeds is at present I in a very agitated state, in consequence of a reso lution which has been come to by the Conference to allow the introduction of an organ into the new chapel lately erected here, called Brunswick Chapel. The circumstances are briefly these : Some months ago, a number of individuals waited upon the seat-holders in this chapel, re questing that they would sign a petition for an organ, to be erected by voluntary subscription, which petition was very generally signed. Shortly afterwards a meeting of the trustees of the chapel was called, by whom it was agreed, by a majority of one, to unite in the application. Soon after the measure was brought before the leaders' meeting, :who refused, by a majority of about sixty to four voices, to join in the application ; the local preachers also met, and came to a simi lar resolution, which was confirmed by the tra velling preachers of the district. When the time for holding the Conference arrived, the petition for permission to erect the organ was presented to that body ; and, after appointing a committee to inquire into the circumstances, the request of the petitioners was complied with. On the ar rival of this information at Leeds, the stewards, leaders, and local preachers despatched a deputa tion to Manchester, to appeal against the decision, but it was ultimately confirmed. Since the ter mination of the Conference, another meeting of the local preachers has been held in Leeds, at which it has been resolved to oppose the erection of the organ by every means in their power; and last night a meeting of the local preachers and leaders was held to determine in what way the opposition might be rendered most effectual, but we have not heard the result. To account for all this agitation, it is said (we know not on what authority) that the organ is only preliminary to the introduction of the liturgy of the Established Church, which a high authority in the Conference has declared it is the duty of the preachers to in troduce into all the circuits, and that the neglect of this duty is an offence connived at by the so ciety. There is also a feeling that the Con ference wishes to rule with absolute sway, and to reduce the stewards, leaders, and local preachers to mere nonentities, as far as the govermnent of the Methodist body is concerned. How far these strong inferences are borne out by the premises, we do not pretend to determine, our sole object being to state with impartiality facts that have excited a. great deal of interest in a large and important Community.—Leeds Mercury. PORTER BREWING. The following comparative statement of the Beer brewed in London in the years 1760 and 1827, bl the ten prin cipal brewers, may be acceptable to those interested in the subject YEARS ENDING MIDSUMMER. 1760. Barrels. I Messrs. Calvert and Barrels. Lady Paraons 34,098 Thrale 30,740 Huck 0 8,615 Harman 23,017 Meux 10,019 Seward 74,734 Whitbread 63,408 Truman 60,140 S;r William Calvert 52,785 Gifford 48,410 Total number of barrels 425,959. JULY 5, 1827. TEAR ENDING Barrels. Barclay, Perkins, S.: Barrels. Calvert and Co 100,339 Henry Meux and Co. Taylor and Co 64,688 Hoare and Co 64,003 Elliott and Co. Co . 341,331 Truman, Hanbury, and Co. 203,532 Whitbread and Co 191,328 Reid and Co. l/4,476 Coombe, Delafield, and Co. Total number of barrels, 1,412,594. By the above it appears that the ten houses of the pre sent date, brew nearly four times as much as the ten of 1760 ; that the lowest brewer now brews more than five times the quantity of the lowest of 1760; and that the principal brewery of the present day alone, brews between three-quarters and seven-eighths of the quantity of the en tire ten of 1760 ! Beer iu 1760 was threepence per quart—in the year following it advanced one halfpenny in price. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DlARY.—WEarrEsaAir. Ava. 22. Cleminson, J., Salford—Hayward's hotel, Manchester 9 Jones, E., Aston, near Birmingham—Royal hotel, Bir mingham 1 Muir, J., Liverpool—Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool is 12 Riley, E.. Huddersfield—Court-house, Huddersfield '' , "ll Thompson. H., Manchester—White's, Manchester ll Woolley, I. Nottingham—Punch-bowl, Nottingham ...... 11 Wagstaff, W., Mottram in Longdeudale—White's hotel, Manchester AUGUST 23. Barke, J., Stockport—White's, Manchester I Bell, I'.. Liverpool—Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool Bryce, D. Liverpool—Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool Evans and Co., Aberystivith—Gogerddian Arms inn, Abe rystwith Lacon and Dale, Liverpool—Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool 1 Morgan, J., .Bttisham Lode, near Cambridge—Bird-bolt, Cambridge Mott. W. Brighton—Old Ship, Brighton lll Parkinsbn, J., Bolingbroke—White Hart, Spilsbury ll Thompson, H., Manchester—White's, Manchester ll Whittenbury, J., Manchester—White's, Manchester lO INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, COUNTRY.—At the Guildhall, Carmarthen, August at Ten o'clock. Ilierries, H., Llandiforaur Miller, C., St. Peter's To those persons proceeding to and from India, the following extract of a letter from Captain Ray, of the Craigievar, which arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, 26th May, from Algoa, will be found interesting : --The following are the directions for a shoal eff Algoa Bay, of which I observe no account is given in Hors burgh's directions, or any other I have seen, although I have all up to the end of December, 1826 :—S. 48 deg. five or six leagues E. per compass from Lady Dunkin's monument (which stands over Fort Elizabeth), is a range of dangerous breakers, whether a reef of rocks or sand I could not ascertain; but decidedly a very dangerous shoal lies above-mentioned, and in the track of all vessels from India, or those who may be sailing to the eastward; its ex istence cannot be too soon made known. UxoniousNEss.—The fondest hero of fond romance, never so wildly loved the heroine as did the author of " Woman," his wife, who by him was most commonly designated "my angel !" A friend called on him one day to enquire how his lady and the infant were after her con finement : Maturin met him at his house door, and re plied, " my angel is better, my cherub is in Heaven." Mrs. M. being a fine singer, was one evening at a party much importuned after supper to favour the company with a song, and complied : at its conclusion,' the adoring hus band, who was seated at another table, rose, flew to her, threw himself on his knees before her, and kissing her hands, poured forth a profusion of ardent thanks, summing them 'up with this exclamation : "my angel ! .you have exceeded yourself to-night !" But if the impassioned son of Erin so adored his better half, it is asserted that he was by no means inattentive to the merits of his worse moiety. In a Number of the " New Monthly Magazine " for November, 1819, a memoir of him appeared, believed by many, who well knew the man, to be written and in serted by himself. In Dublin he has frequently been observed to stand and gaze intently upon portraits of himself hung up in the print shops and exhibited at the windows. In these likenesses the neck and shoulders were very much exposed, for he fancied himself remark ably well made in those parts, although one of his pupils told sue he was an ill-formed and insignificant looking man altogether : his preaching and his pulpit action, I have understood, were very fine. But I have wandered from my subject, and must return. The next instance that I shall notice of matrimonial adoration is in the late enthusiastic Dr. E. D. Clarke, whom I knew very well, as who did not that ever resided any Cale at Cam bridge? Ilia accomplished lady is a beautiful brunette, her name Angelica, and to the warm-hearted traveller she was indeed an angel, bright and presiding as the home-divinity of Maturin : their domestic harmony and felicity was frequently a topic of discourse in Alma Mater; the good and wise admired it, the heartless turned it into a jest. After all, is uxo r iou s n e ss to be censured ? Let thoseinterested in the query decide; lam not, but should scarcely hesitate, despite the sneers of the world, to say, No !—New Literary Gazette. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RACES T' Portsmouth Ang. 21 Burton.upon-Trent 2l Worcester 2l Sidmouth & Salcombe 21 Canterbury Taunton Burderop 23' Newport I'agnel 23 Rugeley 27 Yarmouth 2B Stourbridge Bridgwater 2B Egham 2B Aberystwith 2B Ottery Aberdeen 29 Leominster 29 Ashford 3O Warwick Pontefract Morpeth Bedford 5 Western Meeting(Ayr) 5 Lichfield Beecles ll Abingdon l2 Northampton 0 COME. Rotherham Sept. 1 0 Isle of Market l2 Doncaster ll Gloucester IF Shrewsbury Jg Martock IS Breconshire IP— 1 9 Tewkesbury SO Oswestry 24 Leicester - 25 Carlisle Walsall 26 Lincc,lii 26 Glamorganshire 26 Northern Meeting 26 Newmarket Ist October Oct. 1 Richmond. e Wrexham Dumfries Chesterfield Stafford 9 Penrith Northallerton ll Exeter Newmarket l5 Newmarket ....... S 9 TIIE RING.-FIGHTS TO COME. Aug. 21.—Barney Aaron and Frank Redman, 50/. a aide. Aug. 21.—Byrne and Avery, 501. a side (Glasgow). Aug. 28.—Ned Savage and Kirkman, 101. a side. Oct. 9.—Dick Curtis and Teasdale, 1201. to 1001. Oct. 16.—Reuben Marten and Young Gas, 1001. a side. Oct. 23.—Young Dutch Sim and Bishop Sharp, 1001. a side. FOOT RACE. On Saturday morning, an excellent race took place 0 0 the Vauxhall-road, between two gentlemen of musical ce' lebrity, named Harvey and Muller, fer a wager of a ruinp and dozen. The match had excited considerable interest, as they were both considered first-rate runners. Harrel has, for a length . of time, borne off the palm of victor) , amongst his acquaintance. The distance was 150 yards, and the betting before starting was five to four on Hariey. At starting Mullee got a-head about a yard. About mid way Harvey got abreast of his opponent, and it was and person's race until within a few yards of the wina:ng-posts when Muller again took the lead, and won by about half a yard. The race was run in twelve second,. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. Andover . '56 61 Carlisle (11 12 Hexham. , 60 70 Morpeth... . 56 60 Newcastle Romsey 48 51; Sheffield 61 67 Winchester 63 Per Bushel. s.d sd. Birmingham— 6 6 7 4 Carmarthen—. 8 6 9 0 Coventry 7 4 8 0 Newcastle (Staff.) 10 0 10 2 Northallerton....... 8 3 9 0 Penrith .. 0 0 8 8 Stafford •l9 4 0 0 Swansea 8 6 0 0 Warwick 17 0 7 9 Worcester 7 8 8 0 Per 8011. Barnardcastle..... Darlington Durham Wolsingham a. to a. 34 39 37 41 39 45 39 41 29 38 32 34 36 4L a. to a. 30 36 28 .37 L'7 43 30 f.'4, 26 22 27 26 36 S. to S. ... .. "5$ 50 52 50 5 5 60 64 s. d. a. d. 50 56 56. 66 42 50 79 72 00 00 00 54 70 76 66 00 46 50 60 6 s.d.l 39 46' 26 30 16 52 SO b 6 30 34 4S 06 00 00, 36 43 56' 40 30 tr. d. a. d. 70 7g 00 00 TA 8° 90 10 0 70 7 6 00 0 0 io 0 00 0 0 70 80 78 8. 130 180 13 0 14, 6 110 160 15 0 18 0 00 110 00 00 106 00 110 00 80 100 60 96 76 90 86 106 -0 11 6 10 0 13 100 12 6 X OO 0 SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN MARKET.—Aug. 17. There was a middling supply of Oats in market, w hich sold quick ; some New Oats brought 345. ; top price Qe• down, while the average. has advanced 2s. 4d. Little done in Barley, Pease, and Beans ; top price of Barley same as last market day, average down Is. sd. A mode rate supply of Wheat, all of which sold readily at better prices than last day; top ls,, and average 2s. above last market. 'Wheat. First 64s Od Second 6os Od Third There were 221 qrs. Average, Barley. 1 ' Oats. 40s Od 40s Od 38s Od 35s Od 34s Od 98s Od of Wheat in market '', 3/. O. Od. 10-12ths p Pease. Beans : Ocl 48s us' 42s Od 468 Od od 441 0 d all qullwahr e t r er eo . f were so!: e DALKEI' The quantity of was extremely sma TH CORN /SI..4. — ATCE all kinds of Grain n 01, the day having b Barley. Oats. —s tkl 285 Od —5 Od 25c Od —5 Od 215 Od It at this day' r's market What. m vary 48s Cd 45s Cd 403 124 First Ms Od Second Third Beans. 48. 45a uu, s , 40. uu SINGULAR FUEL.—The Arabs who inhlbit, the neighbourhood of the . great cemeteries Of andfuel o i s d g i washing, n ga In m they Upper k.:gypt have a strange way .of cooking rs the tombs,Whenever descendtheiri c into y. and throwing it on their shoulders, return to their tent. Then taking a hatchet, and seizing the mummy by one leg, they hew the body into two at a blow, and afterwards cutting it into smaller pieces, make use of a leg or an arm, or a part of the trunk, as it may happen, to boil their kettle. As the ancient Egyptians always in' closed their dead in resinous substances, the mummies are easily combustible, and make a' cellent fuel.—London Weekly Review. EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE.—Hugh King' a soldier, was executed at St. Louis, on the 27th of May last, for the murder of Martin i Green. At the place of execution he delivered a neat speech, and, among other admonitory re' marks, are the following :—" I can trace moss of my overt acts of wickedness to intemperance. The influence of ardent spirits has been to destrol my reason, for the time being. I often had a faint, and sometimes no recollection, of things that had transpired when I was partially intoxicated. I have no recollection of killing Sergeant Green, nor of firing a gun that day, nor of many thing. which are said to have transpired about that time. I had been for several days most of the time under the influence of liquor.- Yet I do not plead this as my justification of my crime. From the testimony of others, I can have no doubt that shot Green, though I never harboured ill will against him. According to the laws of God and my country, I have forfeited my life."—Nete York Paper. BIRTHS. On the 15th instant, in Portland-place, the lady of Abel Smith, Esq. M.P., of a daughter. On the 18th instant, Mrs. Alban, of Great Cora' street, Brunswick-square, of a son. On the 17th instant, at Hale-Ent Walthamstow, Esse%, the lady of William Cox, Esq. of a daughter. On the 18th instant, the lady of Francis Fladgate, Eeck of a daughter. On the 19th instant, at Chatham-place, Hackney, Mfrs• John Kirk, of a son. MARRIED. On the 15th instant, at Sheffield, Samuel Smith, Esq. , third son of William Smith, Esq. M.P., to Mary, daughter of the late William Shore, Esq. of Tapton, Yorkshire. On the 18th instant, at St. Mary-le-bone New Church, Mr. Thomas Spiller, of the Legacy Department, to Miso Abbott, of Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square. On the 18th instant, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, by the Rev. R. B. Bourne, W. Scott, Esq. to Miss S. Singleton, of Great Dean's-yard, Westminster. DIED. On the 16th instant, aged 22, Mr. John Windus, late of Exeter College, Oxford, who was unfortunately drowned whilst bathing at Seaford. On the 18th instant, Jeremiah Evans, Esq., of Edwardes square, Kensington, aged 71. On the 17th instant, in Sloane-street, Mrs. Jane Green, widow of the late Thomas Green, Esq., of Little Thurrock, Essex, aged 66. On the 17th instant, very suddenly, from an attack of cholera morbus, Joha Mews, Esq., ship-builder, of Be" mondsey. On the 10th instant, in the Kent-road, after a short ill-' ness, in the 25th year of his age, Mr. Wm. Rubidge, artist. On the 17th instant, in his 68th year, Mr. Robert Watts, of Ratcliff-highway. On the 17th instant, at his house in Upper Grosvenor• street, Francis Hale Rigby, Esq. On the 31st ult., Rear-Admiral William Carthew, or Woodbridge Abbey, a Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the County of Suffolk. On the 12th inst., after a long and painful illness, 31 1 ' 1/ Emma Cooke, of Shrewsbury. On the 15th inst., Mr. Lewis Rogers, grocer, strand, aged 45. On the 13th inst., at Brighton, Mrs. D'Oyly, aged 161 widow of the late Rev. Matthias D'Oyly. RaniTRD and PVBLIBiLID by M. 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