The Sun. — London, England, 1825-12-08 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY lracts from the Morning Papers, Dec. 8, 1825. [THE TIMES.] The state of the Honey-market at present re quires a few additional remarks. it is thought, Ire know, that the observations which we have already made upon the perplexities of certain bankers and others connected with the diffusion of paper, have tended to increase the evil, and are therefore injurious to the public. To use the language of logicians, " we deny the conse quence." Truth is never injurious ; and the truths which we have proclaimed, or evinced by Teasoning, are above all things most beneficial at the present crisis. Are not these bankers well aware, that the state to which they had brought things, by their over issues and their too ready supplies from scanty capitals, was a state most grievously oppressive and injurious to the nation, as well as destructive of its character and morals? This not the present condition of the paper-and credit-market of which the country complains, but the past, from which it now looks for eman cipation ; anti such is the thoughtlessness of mankind, that if the difficulties now existing - were smothered up, and the accommodation-paper men suffered to huddle 'up their affairs as well as they could, without being obliged to put their Teal funds to the test, their escape, and not their danger, would be pleaded as a precedent to regu late their future conduct. They would say hereafter, " Oh ! we can venture now, as we 44 did antecedently to the close of the year 1825. " We were the ' pilots that weathered the storm' " then, and why not again ?" Let those who without adequate capital have been dealing ex• tibitantly in accommodation paper bear it con stantly impressed on their minds, that the op pre,lsed and degraded state into which they had brought the country antecedently to this crash, —, as the thing to be complained of ; not the pre sent result, which we, fin' the last two years, haze been constantly predicting. Neither will ake men of real property be afraid of the gathered .er gathering storm. They know they must emerge with honour ; and surely we serve THEIR cause, and, siist our countrymen of every rank, by laying open the real state of affairs, and instill ing general caution. Some surprise is expressed that. the public funds have not sunk lower on so p:essing• an occasion. Why, this is at once a proof that public Credit is not affected to the !rime degree as that of individuals : and, to go Q;►e step farther in reasoning, the cause of this tenacity of. the funds we believe to be the deter. urination of Government to lend no aid in diffi cr.:hies which have not been of its creating. Mere 'Speculators must fight their way through with their ow•n -resources : we are only anxious to gcard the incautious from being duped. But z.ow let us ,suppose—and we know that aspira lions have been breathed in that cadence—the government were to issue an order of Council enabling the Bank to refuse cash-payments, what would be the consequence? Why, that the Bank must issue more paper—one and two pound -notes particularly ; the Funds might probably rise in nominal value, and sink below fifty in real security ; three sove reigns, if they could be had, would buy a five poind note, whereas the guinea was only worth 235. in paper when the House of Commons deter r:rned that a one pound note and a shilling was equal to it. During the last suspension of sash payments, also, the Continent was shut, and we were obliged to work for ourselves, and to use our own manufactures : but now the exchanges would be felt,—they would be against us in a tremendous ratio. We could not afford to buy abroad the raw material for any of our manu factures ; from abroad, therefore, it would he sent us in a manufactured state ; and the workshops of our artificers would be shut up, with no navy or army, as in time of war, to employ hands. The Government has therefore determined wisely, to keep itself un mingled, so far as it can, with the present p&- piexities of paper ' credit. They govern for the state, and not for individuals. The reduction of a higher rate of interest than that allowed by law, has been talked of as likely to draw relief to hollow coffers. But it is not the duty of a well-ordered State to place its subjects between the temptation of exorbitant gain, and the risk of ruin. Security under an easy and equitable state of interest is its object. [MORNING HERALD.] The trial of the Constitutionnel was one of those experiments which a G overnment avaricious of power, but not intrepid in ambition, makes upon the liberty of the Press, as the outwork al all other liberty. In every age and nation the first labour of tyranny has been the suppression of public opinion. A bold and vigorous despot, like Caesar and Napoleon, strikes at once at the root ofpopular freedom, and his authoritative ge ,uius gives an air of grandeur to the criminal en terprize. 'But meatier tyranny ever adopts a po licy is contemptible in its means as it is guilty in its object. It is timorous, malignant, and evasive. It does not so me!, attempt to overawe a nation, : as to dishearten, exhaust, or ruin the advocates of public right by a train of petty persecutions. Ambitious ruler's of old, who obtained an ascen dancy in free States, corrupted the assemblies of the people, or contrived false accusations against . the ablest and most discerning champions of their rights. In modern times the Press has more TioVrer and influence in collecting the sentiments of a nation, and bringing opinion to.bear upon the cduduct and policy of rulers, than the popular assemblies had in the ancient republics. It. natural, therefore, that Governments which aim at arbitrary power, should desire in the 'first: in stance to get rid of the inconvenient vigilance oi l "a' free Press. It is as natural they 4hould do so, as thata General advancing'under the darkness of the night to take a camp or town by surprise, should first make it a point to cut off the sentinels --he kill do so, if he can, without noi se , if no t, ; h e : "will do so at .all events., With similar caution a vi- , cious Government first , endeavourS to corrupt the Press, to take off its opposition,,sileutly, it cannot seduce, it proceeds to persecute. It was stated some time ago, that the French Ministry or their agents had speculated on purchasing the copyrights of some of the newspapers whose op position they dreaded. Whatever may have been the result in some instances, the Constitu tionnel preserved its independence, and was marked out as deserving to taste some of the bitter consequences of its impolitic severity of principle. This Journal has been particularly lactive in pointint out and denouncing the pro ceedings of the emissaries of Rome, whose ob ject it is to reduce France to the state of ignor rance and mental servitude in which her popu lation was generally sunk before the Revolution. The enmity of a class of men whose malice is said to be implacable was consequently excited, and the friends of arbitrary power made common cause with the priesthood. The process of the law was called into operation against the Con. stitutionnel, on the pretext that it was attacking religion and morality.--flow ? By exposing the impostures—commenting on the mercenary fac tions—and turning into merited ridicule the grotesque legends which artful or fanatical men were substituting for the pure and simple mora lity of the Gospel of Christ. 'When the Tar tuffe, on its first appearance, put all the clergy of France in a fermata, it was ob served that if Moliere had attacked God himself, the impiel might have been over looked ; but, having exposed the hypocrisy of the priests, his crime never could be forgiven. In the same way, if the Journal which has been just now prosecuted on the charge of defaming religion, had critised with severity the precepts of our Saviour instead of. the legends of the Monks, if it had turned the Bible into ridicule, and left untouched the commentaries of the Jesuits," we should not now have heard of its being dragged before the tribunal of the laws to answer for its 44 crimes against religion." There is, however, a large portion of the French people who know that religion is more severely injured by the fraudulent piety of hypocrites, and the absurd fictions of the dealers in " holy" reliques, " pious" tracts, and such saintly merchandize, than by all the shafts of argument or jest that were ever shot from the quiver of infidelity, even when the giant arm of Voltaire drew the bow. The writers who clear away from religion the absurdities with which ambitious, venal, or igno rant members of the priesthood overlay it, re move the principal materials on which sceptics build their creed, and vindicate the purity of truth from the defilement of debasing inventions. What gave point and keenness to the wit and sar casm of" the philosophers" before the Revolution? What made the works of Diderot and d'Alembert more acceptable than the breviaries of the esta blished faith ? the legends, the superstitious rites, the worldly vanities that composed a sy stem which assumed the name, but abjured the essence of the revelation of Christ. If the Gal lican Church should be placed under the domi neering influence of monks and missionaries, and be made again the sanctuary of zealots and the promoter of a persecuting ignorance, infidelity will increase—new materials will be afforded to the sarcastic disciples of Voltaire. Who is then the .enemy of. religion ? Not the writer who h onestly exposes the frauds that disgrace it; and the acquittal of the Constitutionnel proves that there is a spirit among the people of France which is as desirous to enlist reason in the ser vice of religion, as it is jealous of the encroach ing ambition of Rome: [MORNING POST.] We , received last night, by Express, French Papers to the 6th inst. and the Etoile of Tuesday. The Courier Francais has been acquitted in nearly the same terms, and with the same recom mendation to be more cautious in future as the Constitutionnel. The only result of this prosecu tion, undertaken to further the restoration of the Jesuits in France, has therefere been to produce a solemn declaration from the highest Court of Magistracy in the country, that it was proper " to combat the introduction and establish ment of an Association 'unauthorised by law, and to expose the dangers and excesses of a doctrine which menaces at once the independence of the Monarchy, the sovereignty of the King, and the public liberties guaranteed by the Constitutional Charter." A more complete de feat it is impossible for any Administration to sustain. Not only has it missed the object which it had in view, but it has established, confirmed, and consecrated the reverse. The Constitutionnel does not abuse its triumph. instead of raising a cry of wild and intemperate exultation, it ex presses itself with nobleness and generosity.— " The Arret of the Royal Court," it says, " im poses,obligations upon us which are become sa cred, and which we shall obey with religious scrupulosity. We shall be at once faithful to the respect which we owe to its sovereign decision, and to the profound gratitude with which it has filled our hearts. France will see in this Arret more than the acquittal of a Journal. She will find. in it a second guarantee of •her imperishable li berties, sanctioned by royal oaths, and now so lemnly recognized and proclaimed in the sanc tuary where justicels dispensed to the country hi the name of the King."—The foreign intelli gence in these papers is not without interest. The King of Spain had issued a Decree for regulating the finances of his kingdom, the operation of which was to commence on the first of next January. It is a cumbrous ,piece of machinery, but ill calculated to Affect, the object in view. Accounts from -.Madrid state, that the Palace of the Escu rial was on lire. The particulars of the con flagration were not distinctly known in the capi tal at the time of the departure of the Courier ; bltt great fears were entertained of its total le st tion, together with the valuable collection ofAitaings and other works of art contained within its walls. The Palace and Monastery of the Escurial was built by Pbl;ip I Lin the strange form of a gridiron, the instrument of the martyr dom of St. Lawrence, upon whose anniversary the Spaniards gained the victory of St. Quentin. The Convent is 740leet, by 580, and the Palace forms the'handle of the imaginary gridiron. The paintings are excellent and numerous ; and the vault containing the royal tombs is grand and impressive. [TUE PUBLIC LEDGER.] We have received the Paris Papers of Monday, with the Etoile of Tuesday. The Rentes con tinue to improve, with a decided tendency to a further rise ; and it must be allowed, that every other interest in that country presents an aspect equally favourable. This arises from the influ ence which sound public opinion has for some time exercised on the measures of the Govern ' ment ; and if the nation has of late wonderfully improved, in point of public feeling, the Govern ment has the good sense not to see itself in direct collision with the just wishes of the great majority of the French people. By yielding, with a good grace, to the controul of circumstances, instead of employing un constitutional and highly immoral means of counteraction, the Government has esta blished a strong claim to confidence ; and it has absolutely taken root in the affections of the people, in proportion as the latter advance in the knowledge and love of sound principles. In the preceding reign, on account of its l'ilacheavelian character, every thing in the State was unhinged, and the King and his People viewed one another with equal distrust. An alarming crisis was evi dently approaching, when Fate cut it short; and the present reign was ushered in under appear ances so very different to those under which the former had closed, that opposition immediately , laid aside its virulent character, for one bet ter adapted to the purposes of improvement without violence. From that time to this, there has been no departure from the professions with which the King commenced his reign, and there has been no abatement also of the confidence which his first declarations excited in the public mind. The reason of this is, that the Monarch really means well towards his People, and has the good taste to prefer being the Ruler of a con tented and thriving People, rather than have re course to underhand and dishonest means of ex tending his authority at the expellee of every na tional interest. His reign, too, has been marked by an uninterrupted course of public prosperity —by profound tranquillity at home, and increased consideration abroad. A dispassionate view of the actual state of things in that country will show at once that there is not the slightest exaggeration in our description ; and let the Government but continue to act as it has hitherto done, and it will be able to act independently of foreign controul, and even to give the law where it has been in the habit of receiving it ; whilst it will consolidate its authority at home, i❑ the exact ratio of its efforts to promote the good of the nation. The acquittal of The Constitutionnel was scarcely made known, when another triumph of the same kind was proclaimed in that of The Courier Francais ; and this double acquittal speaks so eloquently as to the spirit ❑ow pervad ing ail classes of the French nation, that to en large upon it would be only to weaken the effect. It speaks, however, to the admirers, and particu larly to the supporters, of arbitrary power, in a language that they will not understand ; and whoever still fears the ultimate triumph of des potism over liberty would be frightened by his own shadow. [MORNING CHRONCLE.] A, contemporary considers the case which oc curred at the Lancaster Assizes (given in our Paper of Tuesday),, as an instance of the mis placed tenderness of the Law. It is, we think, rather an instance of the accommodating loose. ness of the Law, and the tenderness of the Mi nisters of it. The tenderness in this case was, in fact, excited by the severity of the Law, and the absurd quirks of the Law were made use of to defeat its rigour. The Law hangs for for gery ; the Judge and Jury were averse to hang the prisoner for forgery ; a Claw was found, or fancied, and they gladly 'availed themselves of it, to save the prisoner's life. Had the Law been milder, we are very certain that the humane Judge would never have made out, by means of a. magnifying glass, that an r in the indictment, was a tick in the forgery. It is thus, indeed, that justice is every day evaded, in consequence of the severity of punishments ; and that, the law when too harsh is cobwebbed in its own quibbles. Notorious delinquents escape any correction, because the punishment allotted to their offences is abhorred by humanity. The quirks of the law, which would otherwise be de tested, are regarded with a sort of • favour by many, as they serve on occasion to baffle its fury : they are like the foibles of a savage tyrant, which, though contemptible in themselves, seem gracious when they are brought into play to stay the excesses of his more deadly vices. The whole system goes in a circle. The laws are suffered to remain loose and uncertain, because the Legislature is rash and unskilled ; the fault of the one on the side of severity, is to be neutralized by' the fault of the other on the side of uncertainty. The Legislature let loose their monsters on the cul- , prit, under the full assurance that the Judges can throw about them meshes of quirk and quibble, which can at any moment render them powerless and innoxious to the criminal. The misfortune is, however, that though the administrators of the law can altogether paralyse, they cannot temper its violence ; and there is consequently no medium between avoiding a cruel punishment and suffering a criminal, encouraged by his escape, to return, uncorrected, to plague the community. What is mercy to the one is thus cruelty to the many. But do the many regret to see a rogue, guilty of forgery, escape death, by means of an immaterial'error in the forms of law No ; they rather rejoice at it, because punish ments are with us more odious than crimes: But this would not be the public feeling, if :punish ments were more moderate; in that case honest men would feel injured if they saw knaves escaping jus tice by quirks of law. The use that is now made of the most insignificant informalities would be viewed as 'an itvolerable abuse if punishments could be considered=-we will not say with appro bation, but—without abhorrence. Let, therefore, etery'manwho has an interest in perpetuating the absurdities of the law, uphold the severity of the law, let him argue that its looseness is good, as it affords a convenient opening for escape from undue rigour; and that rigour on the other hand is harmless, as there is always some way of eluding it when the prisoner is an object of com passion ; and let him, above all things, when a Judge and Jury, from their reluctance to give effect to the severity of the law, have availed themselves of a trifling flaw in forms, never fail to describe it as the lenity of the law. [NEW TIMES.] While one Journalist lavishes his abuse on Banks and Bankers, another throws out imputa tions on the whole body of booksellers. " The Bank of England," said a writer about a week ago, " has refused for the last three weeks to discount any bookseller's bill." This broad asser tion startled us at the time. We could hardly be lieve that it was altogether unfounded,and yet we were tolerably certain that it could not be correct. We have therefore taken some time to inquire particularly into the statement ; and we find, as we had anticipated, that it is wholly untrue. It is only necessary to look at the advertisements in every day's Newspaper throughout the year to see that the book trade is in any thing but a state of depression. It is only necessary to con sult the financial accounts of each succeeding quarter to see that the consumption of paper is as great as at any period. The paragraph to which we advert had two pernicious effects.— It tended to exaggerate the general alarm, which had been in a great measure created by similar articles ; and it threw an unjust discredit over a whole branch, and a very important one, of the trade of the country. As the paragraphs against " eminent London Bakers" must, if cre dited, create a want of confidence among Pro vincial Bankers in their London correspondents ; so a-paragraph against the London Book Trade must distress and terrify the country Book sellers with reference to the houses %ith which they deal in the Metropolis. It is quite dis graceful in the directors .of the public press to insert articles calculated to produce such ex tensive mischief. It is like the madman, who tosses about firebrands, and says, " Am I not in sport ?" however, as it has fallen to our lot to give an authoritative contradiction to several other mis-statements calculated to injure public credit, and as our assertions in those cases have not been questioned, we trust we shall obtain full credit, when we repeat that the paragraph above alluded to against the book trade is totally destitute of foundation. [BRITISH PRESS.) The Paris Papers of Monday have arrived. As we naturally anticipated, the Courier Francais has been acquitted. The terms of the judgment are similar to those pronounced by the Court in the case of the Constitutionnel, Public atten tion still appears to he directed to these important prosecutions. The Journals of the Royalist Op position affectio regard the result as a ministerial defeat, but we observe that this does not seem to be the view. of the Liberal papers themselves. They talk less of the Ministry than of ,the Jesuits by whom no doubt the prosectitionS. were instigated. The French Funds, it will be- seen, have risen considerably. The Five per Cents. - closed on Monday at 96f. 75c., and the Three per Cents 651. 50c. The unfortunate King of Spain, in ad dition to all the other troubles by which his evil genius has suerounded him, was, it appears, me naced with the destruction of the most splendid of his palaces by fire. The convent of the Escurial was in flames, •and there was little hope of saving the Palace from sharing its fate.— A Royal Decree has been issued for the regu lation of the finances of the kingdom. No mere fiscal arrangements can replenish the treasury of an impoverished nation like Spain ; but there is nothing in this decree in any respect calculated to forward the 'objects of its contrivers. M. Zea has been ordered to depart in great haste on his mission, or rather exile, to Saxony. A great degree of agitation and depression is still manifest in the Stock Markets. In the course of yesterday considerable business was transacted in Consols, which fluctuated between 84.2 to 84 sellers, during the early part of the morning; and the concluding quotations were 83f, 84. The prices varied very little from Tuesday in the Foreign Market, in which there is still considerable langour. Colombian Bonds were 62; Mexican Six per Cents. 64 ; Greek Bonds, 17 19 ; and Spanish ditto, Isf. The Sugar Market does not improve. In the absence of a public sale, the price of Coffee nominally conti nued steady.—(fild.) THE LORD MAYOR'S COURT. in the books, except under the head of the National Stone Cote` pansy. There is no mention of names. Mr. BOLLAND th e n ea ll e d M r . A. K. Hutchinson, solicitor to the National Stone Company. books Mr. Hutchinson st a t e d th a t the notice to produce the caw,' had not been se r ve d u p on hi m un til he appeareu ea u pon the [Here the summonin g officer said, it had been served upon garnishees on the preceding day.] Mr. BoL LAND—You can tell who the Directors are. Ito Mr. HOLLAND—Is Mr. Robert Johnson one ?—i 3 1 ) P„t o f the Court whether I a m b oun d t o ma ke any commu n ic a rol agen a id that nature. I h ave b een employed as a confiden tial I am sure the C our t w ill not insist upon my RayiDg all that may be construed into a breach of"onfidence. - - te lling The RECORDER—You do not betray confiden ce by ose cl who tae tthhee nameDi rect n o f rs th a e r u e. o — m l p a an m y, only anxious no. to be OPP t capable of bet ra yi ng con fid ence .ou Mr. Law—l opp ose thi s sort o f e xamination.. , Tea inth is the Director s . at the Air. Bo LLAND—Th e Directo a r n s d ) ha7ep hala‘ e c'erdi°ththeitnngo:eYu banker's, and are trustees for toe COMFRRY., . ' ers olls The RECORDER—UnIess we have the n a mes of the P' se. —I ;.lis ce who constitute the company, we cannot Face,. -, ti the gar' It is impossible that the money placed at the house en w t. og r nishees, in the nam e of th e com p a ny, can be considered L perty f the directors(to. s° ll Mr. o BOL LAND the witness.)—ls Mr. Bober. -.1 °hn . ogre director ?—He is one of the Committee of Management; are no directors. • bee t the M sider myself bound to keep all communications Made' C r ; nitNivtt(eteo theof ll wi Management dare thn.t issayn3o/tocuolninfiodwenntoillthi i?n.,ol,othii; Committee to me a secret. d ti. ,Onf i ' Mr. BOLLAND —There is great mag ogic in that wor d , 0 tho oe dential." It ought to b e known to the w h o l e world o tasi ) directors, or Committee of Management, or whateve r t be. are. . h it the The RECORDER—Mr. Holland, do you meanrot' the parties whose names are on the record form the len ° h • e . Company ? , ~1' trt - it 15 Mr. BOLLAND—Certainly not ; but I conten.- .t . 1 , jot:- not necessary to have the names of the whole Cot t r i .•! r tioned. . , iyitlio u. The RECORDER—Then the case cannot s tanC l -, i s of 50 the names of the whole Company, the attachn te° ' e avail. of tb Mr. BOL LAND—The defendants here are gent le/ 1' til' icil committee appointed and trusted with the money, ° they have an ndeniable comand. ~ e gia Mr. Law— -The public now see the consequen ce w 6 n in speculations of this with. cool: The RECORDER—Why had the plaintiff to do iel` r sae" piny of this description ? He cannot attach money uncle circumstances, went fill the Mr. BoLLAND—Is it meant, that if we w-- -t to ol. - h o p w e i rT s s e lo' without es a E e O money, we must put the Christian and siirnarnee of 0 0 , I , t n D , E ic lt t —lt shareholders upon the record? They may consist ter' ~t 4 OO ti „ , e d. You ca n't ' st lln • t h If yoi, will tiel , ' „ r ig ill i 't o b ra e ti l o i l e i l . l des of the kind, you must take the inconveniences *4. the more uncert ain chances. .gh tto te' Mr. BOLLAND still urged that bit client had a 11 ei t cover from the h a nds of th e garn i s h ees . tl't'n The RECOIMEiI—:IIe question is, whose i s the its res It is not the money of the defendants ev identlY• v i n gP t number of persons are interested, and without, list lis t 0 4 ' names of all of them on the record, the attachment til to the ground. The Jury immediately found for the garnishees. NATIONAL STONE-WAY COMPANY. FAREF.R V. FRY. This was an action against Messrs. Fry and Chapman, the bankers, as garnishees to the directors of the National Stone way Company, for a sum of money due to the plaintiff: The decision upon the case, as was observed by a counsel, will fur nish an additional ground for warning the public, if they still want any warning, against venturing into partnerships with companies of the kind. Mr. BOLLAND stated, that the defendants were a number of gentlemen who had proposed a company, called the National Stone-way Company. Like other companies, he believed it no longer continued to exist. Although it was formed for the im provement of various places, it had no foundation on which de pendence could be placed. It had in short no locus standi.— ( Here a gentleman assured Mr. Rolland that it was at work.) — He regretted that he had done injustice to the Company, but the fact of its operations not being checked, was a proof that its debts ought to be paid. The directors had, he could prove, now retraining in the hands of the garnishees, with whom they, as well as the directors of several other companies, banked, the sum of 5561. He could prove this circumstance, which he thought the only thing necessary. Richard Collins, clerk to Messrs. Fry and Chapman,-stated that the sum of 556 i. was in•the hands of the firm. Mr. I.Aw (for the garnishees.)—ln whose name is it extered in the books ? Is it in the name of the directors ?—%Vitnee.s. I cannot say it is. Mr. BOL LAND—It is in themame of the direCtors of the Na tional Stone-way Company. • The RECORDER—But who are the Directors of the Na tional Stone-way Company ? I cannot'allow the property of a great number ofpersons to be considered the property of a body of Directors. Mr. LAW—PI - mince the books, to show us that the money 1 1 ' has been paid in as the property of the Directors. • Mr. BoLLAND—We have given notice to produce the 1? " s 4 !looks. Print(l and Publish d for; the •Paaß Mr. LAW—I no nothing of the Directors. There is no entry cE, No. 112, Strand , b y J. ki• L'",.itsi: .e; lt.t.. Henry a in e V s i : 11 a , land-place, DI E D. str evo At Si' On the GO: inst., at rtnaduke 1. 01§e in Great RYder- On the 15th t:lt. at his rekidettee-at Chelsea, in los uf the '45a(t.):11;‘,4y-ae.a,irl a . nigi.4;,7lc yv , of Pimlico. . • LDq., eldest . • :i•ifi re ri e : On 'the Gtivinst:', lady of FdTi7ard f o ot S° Clifton ; and on the previous nigfit, the% LONDON SESSION'S• Sheriffs, sat at Guildhall' for the purpose e° .. fr c..: s o : : : : ap : c P o r- ,.., ' . torda y the LO RD OR, d . erme e n s , and MAY culine,fagp.ilrtt.diihonreintiepshl:aer.tr parish in l oise , hit i lt n pil ee d olic i tr.ii n sa; sisso J tsn.e : s r owis o jfii.n r it s alleiv ; yniuelt a i:hc f o t hofi e: which the Court sat to t es t e ' I ex ' THE REV. DII. OWEI n I u t s E peals, none of which possessed any particular int b. STREET, T. THU. CHURCHWARDENS OF Tilt v eda to , o t th i s was an appeal by tho Rev. Dr. Henry Butts Osvelhcharcli wardens of the said parish, for an assessment on a Certain tion of his tithes. He founded th' • appeal on the ter' n ! t " do rate or assessment in v notice sent to the churchwardens this he objeCted, fi r st, t he the the rate of assessment was not allo ; wed ; and secondlY; t hat t o' perty assessed, whether houses, warehouses, cellars, 0.604 ot Hart-street, lAl)' sta- it6t°' real hereditaments; in fact, there was no proPer t Y tifng,, i t all, or whether it was assessed at the rate of 2d. or . „ 4 :;1 1 - p l ort t'.; the pound, he could not tell. The law way quite c' e T - y'ali 4 b . ' case, and he had no doubt that the Court would see the , of his objections. „A th t 04 7 Mr.-BoLLAND and Mr. ANDREWS contend,- -a„, izer• o tv a e s n t n l o e m g a r n o : h i V ., s w el b t a . n t e 3 N u ' esrt have h b e ee o n b j a e w ct a i o r e n sotfak.e..n_. , 1 n i t o .)!J 4-hii for'n e - ars in fact paid the very poor's rates in' queStion foreveratiiite past, and it was rather singular that he should now dil e gib' assessment when there was no new light thrown on in • ot. ject, nor had any alteration taken place in the rncicl e ; put in the parish rate-book, which they submitted cl O r der to prove that the usual method had been resortet• t t ej e til yt e s l . urination, stating a house simply, the name of' the occupier was onlY 1 filling' but if the same person occupied a warehouse also, , 01 :,.., a ong' , that where a person was only ,Ai es ri s s e e rteb &c., he was then designated as being rated fora 'l4" he house and warehouse," or cellar, as the case m i g ht be• o t is cases cited by Mr. Adolphus did not bear at all on the f irm 0 16 wo od con question, and they submitted that the Court icn. inrsptan 1 01 a o ni r a t i c v s Oe h rs b rd e a i tsdleTnsn'argotottrr t elLii e sI against tithes; :ri, t t bb ° see,. gl9 0 . , b e" assessment of the churchwardens. Mr. ADOLPH I'S, in reply, said that a sitnilar ea o l ad o/ 0 0 decided by the Court of King's Bench, where a n We s', bot had been made on the tolls of a navigable river or el f i t cot . ; which the Court set aside on the ground of the wiin t „ n eorr e „ 6 l rect specification of property. And here there was ii - , r as ; 1 ",, it d s sni P il i tro e e igot d c itn i st fi o ca r i ed s,3lt: fi iiro statement—in fact, there was no statement at nl l . " o e 0 , 0 '; 9f objection to the irregular mode of assessment on the F ito rste , the regt 4l° ,,,,, ItlPP ir r„ but they were not to assess the value of the propertY:'„'ano t " - r ) j r e a et Theet i d o . n i w p . ne, o h :bu e l utnyhindieiedsnri rlf; ac t : drakenennpdocoeut rateioliletbd:jisvele,alrcseeot objection assessed r e i tt s eic s lib:c e ytps d i o n a bouse of - d or ,- d ectign. This was the first time that 'eteYto t en l fm i a e nl p ne r eir ; t:i°lln lisgla ::sar:Prbiegell : s C t o o rr b it a T g , held tb e ° 5 r 11 ' e allowed. . olotaas:inagndcotnhseulatpedpeafolr of f oro th e e ti ß M: y i , , nv : o :o o r e l o s , Mr. ADOLPHUS then asked to be allowed the c c — t he 1? r , application, on the ground that this was the first tirp e * - tbe pert) , had been assessed. r t hong a d The COURT refused the costs, observing , that e',able,'" assessment had been irregular, yet that tithes i'r!Oe;' , that the Rev. Doctor must pay his own c osts. Appeal allowed—Costs refused. , It has been remarked by, meteoroloOts%t when much rain falls at the comingriceul,ielia of winter, it is seldom that there is a g reat snow in the same season. Primrose, 36s_I C I O ig A h 1 - I , le l:l o , , r l t l l :l( 3 l s ' , ' s T_, Adair's, 37s 6d—Burion, 33s—Beaumont, 36s u - aiji Yv lSillingworth, 39s—Ord's Redhiigh, 35s—Pelaw, 37$ 6 tip; 9 4 4 East, r 37s—Pontop Windsor, 359—Tantielti Moor 4 ~...fir a Pt i NV ylam, 39s 6d— Walls End Bewicke and Co. 409 6 ", il l Se End Green's 37s C 34 -‘ 4. 3 fi e' , )d—Walls End Hotspur, : , , I : :3t1.-- 6il 1-11)::::1/46::::::;; Riddell' • ' s, 4IS to 44s 9d—Walls End Russell s, 4 '. ' 21° 1' ~,,A ~ Al t on. 4 fk ton's —L'ane's Main, 35s—Hedw.orth Main, 3456(1---", d•"- ,•n Ln ,{'s. —lllontague, 33s—Nesliarn Main 3139 3(.1- 84 ' 3 ' 5 'o o '' ton, 44s 6d e, is End II u ton's, 7 35s—WallS End unsold, 20/ 44s 6d Ships at market, 4l—Ships sol2ll2°lfis of MIRTH. A hill , " On the ht inst., Mrs. William Scales, of Stsr s f°r 4 5:.)9. M A RRIED. 5 Or, Iters' 11 O ti:e "th inst., at Tottenham, Middlesex, Mr.idSe",t of Aldernanbury, London, solicitor , to Anne, the e ter of Josepl: Laundy, Esq., of Tottenham.