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

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Duke of Rutland had on Saturday an interview with the King at Windsor, and it is said, that he was authorized by certain Peers, richer in boroughs than in brains, to lay before his Majesty, their very respectful determination, not to support Mr. Canning, should his Ma jesty, in the exercise of his prerogative, make that gentleman his Prime Minister. This is a strange encroachment on the functions of the Crown, by those who would declaim most vehe mently against a declaration of the unfitness of Lord Bathurst to be Prime Minister by the Great Council of the nation. It is a step yet more hostile to the people than to the Crown. Although Mr. Canning only is named, it is certain that measures as well as men are contem plated by these high Tories : they would in no long time, if successful at first, demand a high pri ce o f corn to fill their pockets, and the use of the sword in Ireland, to gratify their bigotry. Famine and civil war would come in the train of their triumph. Mr. Canning, in the course of his political life, has committed many faults, but at the present moment his cause is identified with that of his country—with that of civilization—with all that is high and ennobling among men. Let but Mr. Canning keep his character up to the mark of his genius, and he cannot fail in being either one of the greatest Ministers, or the most popular ex- Minister, ever known in England. Really, too, these are not times when such a man as Lord Bathurst can carry on the Government to the satisfaction of any one. He will be subject to continual minorities in the House of Commons, and the King will be em barrassed by perpetual defections. In short, if George IV. should yield to the most bigotted, most ignorant, most selfish, most factious, and most short sighted of all English parties, it may not impro bably happen that the end of his reign may be as disastrous as the commencement of his Regency was glorious and successful.-71mes. Sir Thomas Lethbridge gave notice last night of a motion for Friday next, with the object of which, to say the truth, we are not disposed to quarrel, though, from the fear of a collision, it may probably be objected to, and indeed has been already treated with affected ridicule, by both parties. It is briefly to request his Ma jesty to form an Administration of one opinion on the present important question or questions which agitate the empire. Can any thing be more rational or just than such a request ? In deed, if an Administration composed of mem bers supporting an opposite system of policy upon the most vital question, had not existed in this country, such an absurdity would have been thought impossible in practice ; and in that case, indeed, it might have been deemed ridicu lous in Sir T. Lethbridge or any other member to address the Crown to do that, which it could not, in the exercise of the most ordinary discre tion, fail of doing. But we have seen the mis chiefs resulting from a divided Government. We have seen an Administration, the leading mem bers of which have, from its very first composi tion„ been undermining and back-biting each other worse than a gang of Gipsies. And what has been the consequence ? We do not say that an important political question has miscarried, because some may think that an advantage, though we are of a different opinion ; but every inconvenience and suffering borne by the people, though the foundation of - them was deeply laid iu the necessary exertions and needless extra vagainies of the last war, has been attribut ed by one part of the Administration, their hirelings, and agents, to the novel policy which the other - has adopted to extricate us from our difficulties ; so that, in fact, the political machine has been unable to move. Unlike Hudibras's horse, though spurred on one side, the other has remained restive and sulky. We, there fore, maintain Sir Thomas Lethbridge's motion to be a rational and proper one. We would beg leave also to point out the difference between Sir Thos. Lethbridge's proceeding and that attributed to the Duke of Rutland, in the paragraph before this.— The Hon. Baronet would approach the King in a legitimate and constitutional manner, in an address from the House. But in what way is he approach ed by the Duke ? In a manner as dark and insi dious as is that borough interest upon which his Grace relies for controuling the irresponsible free will of his Sovereign, on the only occasion on which it can be exercised—ia the formation of a Ministry. Whom does the Duke represent ? the Peers, of whom he is one ? They have not de puted him. No : he represents the owners of boroughs ; the hucksters of the rights of English men; and in that character he informs the King, that his Majesty must not attempt to marshal a Mi nistry in a manner of which his Grace, and those for whom he acts, disapprove. The Duke of Rut land is, therefore, really "Mayor of the Palace ;" and the British monarchy is arrived at the same state of decrepitude, which that of France had reached under the second race, when the Capets, who had previously enjoyed regal power, openly assumed the regal dignity. We have long known and felt how fatally this borough interest touched the nation, but hitherto, with aristocratic courtesy, it has af fected to truckle to the King; we are not sorry-that it assumes a bolder deportment : its real power will he the sooner put to the test.—lbid. Lord Lorton has been labouring in his voca tion Dot as a composer of party or religious dif ferences, but as an instigator of the Irish Go vernment the hunting down of Catholic indis we dare say a turbulent and cretions. A priest) pugnacious member of the Catholic Church, had, it appears, employed some inflammatory, or at least incautious and quotionable language, in a speech representing the grievous consequences entailed upon men of his own communion, by the late vote of the House of Commons, and the dark prospects deducible from it, as affect ing the public welfare and security. This eccle siastic, we can imagine, like many others now in Ireland, possesses, and abuses, an influ ence much greater than that which is exercised by the priesthood in ordinary times, from taking advantage of the popular susceptibility at this mo ment, and flattering instead of restraining it. He talked at some public meeting, of England and other countries having appealed to arms where their rights were concerned, and drew the pa rallel, it is very probable, a little closer to the case of Ireland than prudence or temper would allow. We have no doubt that, from what the Irish Government has attempted against Mr. Spiel, there is quite sufficient alacrity at the Castle to set on foot a prosecution a g ainst any orator -who may furnish grounds fora bill of indictment or an ex-officio writ. But it does not become a n Irish Nobleman, who is in no wise called upon by the Ministers for his counsels, nor re sponsible for any of their acts, to push the torch or tomahawk into the gripe of the Lord Lieute iiant, and goad him into an active partnership in the mutual animosities, and fierce retaliations, of factious men on either side of the question. Lord Lorton has thought proper to declare (accord ing to a letter in the newspapers, which, of course, may be forged for aught we can tell) that' it “ Government shall choose to bring this per son (t Priest) to trial for treasonable la ngua g e , s ufficient "14 eri ce will be brought forward to proye the cnarge.'' We are ready to believe, that rOt m erely Lord i-ortou int' the Orangeparty—but any L o rd, Qr Lyrd' s J 1410,11 b *Qt any party, ma be ,At no loss for " sufficient evidence," if necessary, to hang every member of an adverse l e ague or faction. But that is not the point. These are questions of policy, not of legal possibility ; and we, who have certainly no predilection for the Catholic religion or its members, do conceive, as we are sure must the King's law-officers in Ireland, that the crown of martydom is the only emblem of supreme power over the Irish people which does not, owing to the continu ance of the penal code, adorn the brows of the Catholic priesthood at this instant. To prosecute a priest for a verbal t r ansgression, committed under the ex asperation of disappointed hopes, and amidst the excitement of public discussion, would, indeed, be a master-stroke of policy, well worthy the Common Council of Dublin! Lord Lorton is, we verily be lieve, an honest man, an unaffected bigot, a true hearted incendiary, who would humbly return thanks to God for having enabled him to hang 1,000 of his fellow-creatures to-morrow--provided only that they were " bloody Papists." We should like better to deal with knaves, who are less destructive animals than honest fanatics.—Mid. We agree with Mr. Peel that we have out lived the time when a Police could be dispensed with, and that peace and order can only be pre served by the establishment of a well-paid and efficient Police. A great deal of the prejudice against a Police in this country has arisen from that name having been given on the Continent to bodies of men not ancillary to the law, but who trample on all law ; and instead of protect ing peaceably-disposed citizens from violence, are themselves their great oppressors. The great evil in most countries on the Continent is, that the functions of the Police are not circum scribed within due limits, and that individuals are unnecessarily impeded in their business and pleasures by men who ought to act only when the protection of person and property demands their interference. We say most countries on the Continent, because in the Prussian domi nions all the vexations respecting passports, &c. which are so harrassing in France, are unknown. The native or stranger has only to show a passport on entering the Prussian territories, and he may then go wherever he pleases without further hin drance. But, in order to avoid encroachments on liberty by a Police, it is not necessary to expose persons and property to a state of insecurity. That state of things is not surely liberty, in which a man cannot lay his head on his pillow in security from the burglar, or leave his house without apprehension of robbers. However, opinion has undergone a great change in this country, of late years, on this subject. But as our Police as yet is (from defects inherent in the system, such as the want of unity and co-operation, and the mode in which the officers are paid), it has still contributed greatly to our secu rity, and there are few men whose avocations call them to repair by night to the neighbourhood of the metropolis, who will not acknowledge that the sight of a patrole is exceedingly gratifying.—Morn- ing Chronicle. Sir Thomas Lethbridge has given notice of a motion for Friday next, that the House do ad dress his Majesty, praying, that in appointing a new Administration, he would be graciously pleased to take into consideration the evils which arise to the Empire from the want of an uni formity of opinion in the Cabinet upon a ques tion of the most vital importance. Well done, Sir Thomas ! But how happms it that the want of this uniformity has first begun to be perceived now in the Anti-Catholic ranks ? Under Lord Liverpool's Administration there was an equal want of uniformity of opinion in the Cabinet.— : But, then, in reality, the Cabinet, as to all but voting on the Catholic question, was really Anti- Catholic ; for isas not the Church patronage, both that at the disposal of the Chancellor and and that at the disposal of the Premier, bestowed only on 140 Popery - - Would. the Bishop of Chester have ever received the Mitre had he re tained his early opinions? We do not mean this of fensively to his Lordship, nor will he take it offen sively; for it would be imposing a very hard condi tion on Churchmen, to say that their opinions ought not, as a matter of course, to regulate themselves by the patronage. But of this by the bye. Is Sir Thomas thus early in the field from a suspicion that, under the same name of want of uniformity of opi nion, the real character of the Cabinet is about to undergo a material change ?—lbid. The poor Catholics of Ireland have certainly every temporal motive to take the benefit of the Second Reformation. The Protestants allow their own churches to fall into ruin, and do their neighbours, the Catholics, the favour to make them rebuild them. Not content with this, they set fire to the Catholic chapels, in order that the Catholics may have more work on their hands. Such are the blessings of a Pro testant Government, and a Protestant Consti tution ! We cannot now enter on the discussion opened by Sir J. Newport, further than to call at tention to the unblushing declaration made by Mr. Goulburn (who, by the bye, is a sort of Saint), that the demands on the Parochial Clergy of Ireland were already too heavy, and of Sir William Plunkett, that "in truth the Pa rochial Clergy were but ill-endowed, and could not afford to pay the first fruits at their full value." 0 religion, how much filthiness dost thou serve as a cloak for ! But we wish now to point attention par ticularly to the declaration made last night by Mr. Brownlow with respect to the case in the County of Armagh, to which allusion was made in an ex tract from the Dublin Evening Post, in the Chro nicle of yesterday, that the twenty-four, or twenty five persons tried at the Armagh Assizes, for setting fire to an altar, in the midst of whom was Colonel Verner, were acquitted, contrary to evidence.—lbid. After the numerous buildings which have been raised, and are still erecting, in and about the more salubrious parts of the Metropolis, we much doubt whether persons of opulence will be found to live in first-rate houses on the south side of St. James's Park. It is true that the contiguity to the new Palaces, as well as to both Houses of Parliament, and the Government Offices, will be great recommendations. But most people have wives and children, the former of whom exercise, as they have an undoubted right to do, some voice in the choice of the resi dence which they and the latter, principally, make valuable ; and the Malaria of the lower parts of Westminster being proverbial, and the neighbourhood of Tothill Fields, &c., being, in spiteMutter's attempts to r eform it al- most loath M some, we much doubt whether , any improved drainage will be sufficient to draw people of rank and good taste from the better air of Mary-le-bone and Hyde Park. The die, however, we hear, is cast, and the Committee of Taste—who, by the bye, appear to derive their title from the classical fountains of " lucus a non lucendo"—are at work, we understand, in lay. , ing out the plan of a terrace on the south side of the Park, to correspond with that which is intended to occupy the rear of Pall-mall. Part of the plan, we hear, is to continue Great George street through the centre of Bird Cage Walk to Pimlico ; while, as a set-off against the en croachment which this appropriation of so much of the Park will occasion, the canal is to be contracted into a beautiful, serpentine, meandering stream, and the part inclosed,and now fed by cows, is to be thrown open, and laid into parterres,walks, and beds of roses, for the King and his Nobles to vier.v,andhis subjects to enjoy. The scheme,we have 11Q doubt, WAS extremely pretty upon paper,imiid may be seen, we understand, by those who have the entree of the 'Woods and Forests. But to us it ap pears that those gentlemen are undertaking too much at once; and it does seem extraordinary that they who either have not the time or the money to finish Westminster Hall, and thereby rescue the finest building in the kingdom from its present state of deformity and inconvenience, can, nevertheless, find both the one and the other to set about a variety of new plans, such as the one to which we have been alluding. There is something exceedingly puerile, not to say tastel ess , i n b eg i nn i ng ever y thing, and completing nothing. But we are no enemies to im provement, or to the embellishment of the metro polis. Our principal reason for adverting to the subject is to renew our protest, so often made, against further encroachments upon the Parks, and the other few open spaces which exist in this over grown metropolis. Real taste, or at least good sense, would, we should imagine, point out this as too obvious to require the continual efforts of the press to maintain. We can imagine a mere builder wish ing to see every spot of ground covered with stones or bricks; but, even to the eye, the real beauties of architecture are lost, when huddled together in un distinguishable heaps ; while to the general health of the inhabitants of a vast city like this, air and exer eise, and ventilation, may be said to combine, next to their habitations, the one thing needful.-11forn ing, Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. —Sarah Vinton, a very smart young female, was brought before Sir Joint PERKING, Bart., yes terday, charged with obtaining, under false pretences, goods of the value of upwards of 4/. from Mr. Morris, the linen-draper, at the south end of Fleet market. Mr. Morris stated that she came into his shop on the previous afternoon, and selected a silk shawl, which she asked to be permitted to show to her mamma, who lived close by, at No. 2, in the Crescent, Bridge-street. Mr. Morris offered to send his shopman with her, carrying an assortment; but she declined having them taken, because her mamma was in a hurry to go out ; if, however, Mr. Morris, would allow her to carry it over herself, she would leave her umbrella and muff until she returned. He con sented, but watched her until she entered the gate of the house she had mentioned, which she appeared to go into. In about ten minutes she returned, with the information that her aunt (not her mamma, as she had before stated) highly approved of the shawl, and also of a pattern of black sarcenet that had been sent with it, and she desired to have _l3 yards of the latter article, mentioning at the same time that her cousin, who was then absent from home, would probably come and purchase another dress off the same piece. She took possession of her muff and umbrella, and also of the 12 yards of sarcenet, and requested a bill for the articles should be sent over in ten minutes, together with some satin and Italian net. Mr. Morris now directed one of his shopmen to follow her, even into the house, under pretence of inquiring whether the satin was to be stiff or soft. The prisoner went up to the door of the house as before, and then turned back, and passed up little Bridge street, into Pilgrim-street, Ludgate-hill, where she was stopped by the shopman, and compelled to return to Mr. Morris's shop. She at first, with an air of consequence, asked the shopman low he dared to insult and interrupt her ? Neither the prisoner, her aunt, nor her " Mamma," were known at the house in the Crescent. When ques tioned what had become of the shawl ? she pulled it out of her pocket. A respectable-looking individual asked the Alderman if he might say a word in extenuation of the prisoner's con duct ; he was her uncle. SirJouN—lf yoU cannot rebut the evidence, I can bear nothing from you. Uncle—Will you permit us to speak to the prosecutor ? It is her first offence, her connexions are most respectable, and— Sir Jouw—No, Sir, that is a most impudent remark ; if this prosecution is suffered to fall, I will cause you and Mr. Morris to be indicted for compounding of felony. I should disgrace this chair, if I could suffer such a flagrant offence to be passed over. She has been guilty of little less than shop-lifting, and she conducts herself with all the craft and self-possession of an adept. She obtains first valuable shawl, and then ahe has the firmness to go a se cond time, and, by her specious manner and appearance, obtain a silk dress. This is a character from whom it is my duty to protect the shopkeepers of London. Mr. Morris explained. that he had never been disposed to lista. to 0000t...... 6 0.- The Alderman committed the prisoner (who made no defence) for the misdemeauour. BURIED ALIVE.—As Daniel Dell, an as sistant grave digger at Watford, Herts, was digging a grave in the church-yard on Saturday last, about half-put six in the evening, for the interment of Ephraim Taylor, the earth fell in and buried him alive, the earth being about two feet above his head, and the body doubled up. No person was present ; but having been seen about a quarter of an hour before it was discovered that the grave had fallen in, it was examined, and the body found as stated quite dead. Dell was to have been married in a few days. The following amusing story, which was re lated to me by some respectable farmers of the Tarka, who were present on the occasion, would make a good figure in The Lion's History of the Man.' A party of boors went out to hunt a lion which had carried off several cattle from the neighbourhood. They discovered him in a thicket, or jungle, such as abound in that part of the colony, and sent in a numerous pack of fierce hounds to drive him out. The lion kept his den and his temper for a long time—only striking down the dogs with his mighty paw, or snapping off a head or leg occasionally, when the brawling rabble came within his reach. But the hunters, continuing in the mean while to pepper the bush at random with slugs and bullets, at length wounded him slightly. Then rose the royal beast in wrath—and with a dreadful roar burst forth upon his foes. Regardless of a shower of balls, he bound ed forward, and in an instant turned the chase upon them. All took to their horse or their heels—it was devil take the hindmost!' One huge fellow, of greater size than ala crity, whom we shall call Hugo Zwaar-van-heupen (or Hercules Heavy-stern), not having time to mount his horse, was left in the rear, and speedily run down by the ram pant Leeuw. Hugo fell—not as Lochiel, ' with his back to the field, and his face to the foe,'—but the reverse way; and he had the prudence to lie flat and quiet as a log. The victorious Leeuw snuffed at him, scratched him with his paw, and then magnanimously b e striding him, sat quietly down upon his body. His routed companions, col lecting in a band, took courage at length to face about ; and, seeing the posture of affairs, imagined their comrade was killed, and began to concert measures for revenging him. After a short pause, however, the lion resigned of his own accord his seat of triumph, relieved his panting captive, and retreated towards the mountains. The party, on coming up, found their friend shaking his ears, un harmed from the war—except what he had suffered from a very ungentlemanly piece of conduct in the lion.— Thompson's South Africa. LAMPS WITHOUT WICKS.—Some time ago we noticed these lamps, which depend upon a principle discovered by Mr. Blackadder, namely, that oil, if made to ascend through a capillary glass tube, burns without the aid of cotton, flax, or any other combustible substance.— We have little doubt that this invention will by and by supersede most of the lamps at present in use, and give to oil lights advantages which belong at present ex clusively to those of gas. We need scarcely state, that in a fountain lamp, it is the wick only which makes the light unequal, and renders trimming necessary. A lamp without a wick, therefore, means a lamp which never waxes dim, but burns as long as the oil lasts, with a flame of the same size and brightness. This advantage we have seen realized. One of the new lamps in our possession was lighted on Monday night, about nine o'clock, and burned night and day, without intermission tat eight o'clock on Wednesday night—a period of 47 hours. It never was touched during all this time, except that about six hours before it went out, the glass shade was lifted up, and a small crust which had gathered at the top of the tube and seemed to produce a flickering motion in the flame, was broken off with the point of a pin. The operation was performed in a second, and cost no trouble. The lamp is now constructed on the hydraulic principle of the bird's fountain, and has received the name of the Buc cleuch Lamp. The flame is from half an inch to an inch in height, remarkably clear and steady, and so far as we have observed, entirely free of smoke. It has only two disadvantages, which we have no doubt will be removed by future improvements. First, it does not admit of being freely carried about in the hand, a defect which is com mon to some other lamps, and not of very great impor tance. Secondly, the flame is too small for reading or writing by. But were four or si x of these small flames placed in a line, or eight or ten in a circle, so that they would blend one with another, like the jets of a gas Argand burner, the lamp would be almost perfect, and would afford an admirable light for dining-rooms, writing-cliaxn -. b en , &c. A friend of ours, who is curious in these matters, thinks that the perpetual lamp in the Tabernacle, and that which is said to have been used in ancient.cemie- Wks, prillCipieguriSCOF?ian• A LION HUNT. We mustered by day-light ; and as we were anx ious, for th• sake of the novelty, to have some of the Tambookies to accompany us, we promised to kill them plenty of bucks,, and were not long in per suading thirty of them to follow us. In a short time we observed them leading out of the cattle kraal two milk-white oxen, with their horns bound round with thongs, which, to all appearance, one might fancy were intended for sacrifice, but on closer inspection we found they were their pack oxen, prepared to carry home such game as we might kill for them.— We made a singular appearance as we cantered along. Each Tambookie had a half-starved dog; some of the best runners would keep close to us, but on occasionally looking back, the plain seemed covered with horsemen—whites and Hottentots, blacks and dogs. Our party was formed ipto two divisions. Mr. S., Mr. R., and ourselves, were to cross the plain about the centre. Diederick was our leader. The other party were to skirt the base of the mountain, about which grew a few tall mimosas, and to keep in an even line with us, about half a mile distant. The mountains seemed to meet just before us, but as we approached we saw a pretty wide opeping through which we passed, when another valley or plain of similar character, but of much greater extent, was presented to our view. Sere all animated nature seemed collected, and to reign unmolested ! The signal was, however, soon given, that man, the destroyer, was approaching, and all the various ani mals, with snorts and bounds, began to collect in bodies, gnoos,harte-beests,quaggas, spring bucks, and roe bucks. The gnoo is the animal so well described by Barrow, the existence of which was but a very few years ago disputed. They run sluggishly at first, but at once they spring out, whisk their long tails, about, and with their heads to the ground, defy their pursuers. Their dusky colour and bushy heads give them a strange appearance. Mr. S. had chased some of these animals in the direction of the mimosas, trenching on the ground which our comrades were to take; he was getting closer to his object, and was about to dismount a second time, when his eyes glanced on the long wished for game—an enormous lion I He was walk ing majestically slow—but when Mr. S. gave the tally-ho to us, he couched, and seemed inclined to wait, but soon afterwards cantered off to the mimosas. In a few seconds we were all up, at least our di vision. The first object was to prevent him from climbing the mountain, we therefore rode through the mimosas, about three hundred yards from where he had entered, and got between him and the heights. Diederik Mulier and Mr. S., with their servants and led horses, then rode round the little grove, whilst we were stationed where we first en tered. The grove was hardly five hundred yards in length, and twenty in breadth, consequently we could by this arrangement command the whole of it. True to our engagement, as well as heartily wish ing their assistance, we waited for the other party. The other part of our division having rode round the grove, came up opposite to us, but at a distance, and as we saw them dismount, we did the same. Our situation was not very enviable ; we had but one large gun, but Mr. Rennie, who carried it, was per fectly collected. We were talking to each other in a whisper, when Mr. Rennie very coolly said, " Listen, the gentleman is grumbling." The sound was so very like distant thunder, that we doubted it, but at the same moment I caught a glimpse of the lion walking away not a hundred and fifty yards from us, and he must have been previously still nearer to us than we had calculated. I gave the alarm, which was echoed to our friend, who in an instant mounted and rode up to the lOwer end, calling upon us to ad vance. We were moving down to gain a position on a little height, when a gun was fired, followed by four more. This convinced us our other division had joined. We thought there would have been an end to our sport before it had well begun ; but on the contrary, the shots were fired not only to prevent him, leav ing the copse, but to prove their guns, for a miss fire is frequently of consequen ce . The last shot had the effect of turning him, and we now had a full view of him returning to the centre, whisking his tail about, and treading among the smaller bushes as if they had been grass, reminding us most forcibly of the paintings we had seen of this majestic animal. We had hardly began to tie . our horses, when the Hottentots stationed on the hill cried out that the lion was running off at the lower end, where he had attempted to escape before. We were on horseback in a second, but the lion had got a-head ; we had him, however, in full view, as there was nothing to intercept it. Off he scampered. The Tambookies, who had just come up and mixed amongst us, could scarcely clear themselves of our horses; and their dogs howling and barking—we hallooing—the lion still in view, making for a small copse, about a mile distant—and the number and variety of the antelopes on our left, scouring off in different directions, formed one of the most ani mating spectacles the annals of sporting could pro duce. Diederik and Mr. S. being on very spirited horses, were the foremost, and we wondered to see them pass on in a direction different from the copse 'where we had seen the lion take covert. Christian gave us the signal to dismount, wh en we were , as we ll as could be judged, about two hundred yards from the copse. He desired us to be quick in tying the horses, which was done as fast as each came up. And now the die was cast, there was no retreating. We were on lower ground than the lion, with not a bush around us. Diederik and Mr. S. had now turned their horses, for, as we afterwards learned, they had been run off with in consequence of their bridles having broken. The plan was, to advance in a body, leaving our horses with the Hottentots, who were to keep their backs towards the lion, fear ing they should become unruly at the sight of him. All these preparations occupied but a few seconds, and were not completed—when we heard him growl, and imagined he was making off again; but no—as if to retrieve his character froth suspicion of coward ice from former flight, he had made up his mind in turn to attack us. To the growl succeeded a roar, and in the same instant we saw him bearing down upon us, his eye-balls glistening with rage. We were unprepared; his motion was so rapid, no one could take aim, and he furiously darted at one of our horses, whilst we were at their heads, without a possibility of preventing it. The poor horse sprung forward, and, with the force of the ac tion, wheeled all the horses round with him. The lion likewise wheeled, but immediately couched at less than ten yards from us. Our left flank thus became exposed, and on it fortunately stood C. Muller and Mr. Rennie. ' What an anxious moment ! For a few seconds we saw the mon ster at this little distance, resolving, as it were, on whom he should first spring. Never did I long so ardently to hear the report of a g un . We looked at them aiming, and then at the lion. It was abso lutely necessary to give a mortal blow, or the con sequences might be fatal to some one of the party. A second seemed a minute. At length Christian fired ; the under jaw of the lion dropped--blood gushed from his mouth, and he turned round with a view to escape. Mr. Rennie then shot him through the s pine—and h e f e ll. At this moment he looked gr an d beyond expres sioani.ice.Tulrineinagte spring at us , but his hind fore feet—his mouth bleeding,, his eyes flashing ven ge towards us, he rose upon hi s legs denied him assistance ; be dragged ' them a little a e ga mp in ted space, when. Stephanus put a final period to his existence, by shooting him through the brain. He was a. noble .animal — measuring nearly twelve feet ' from the nose to the tip of the tail. Thus ended a scene which I have in vain endea voured to describe, and which I never can forget,— - • ScenC4 in South Africa, IMPORTED. Same pe- This lied last year. year. I FX PORTED. Bags, &c. Bags, &c. 3:)0 5,609 760 6,175 (Previous. ly th is Bags, &c. Bags, &c.. Liverpool 142,414 102,867 London Glasgow 13,415 4,031 1 Total exported in 1827 12,984. COTTON WOOL—GLASGOW. The sales during the week amounted to 1099 hales. 145 Sea Islands l2id. a 15d. 5 Ditto Stained '7d. a Od. 641 Bowed* 22 Orleans ' 7 l 4d. a 9d. 174 Egyptians 55 Demerara 7ld. a sy.d. 57 Surats Imported from Mobile 689 Do. New York Do. Demerara 205 2120 bales. A pound note of the Bank of Scotland, dated 1748, of which the following is a correct copy, was some time ago found in a book (not the Bible), in the house of an old and highly respectable family in Forfarshire. From its fresh and clean appearance, the probability is, that the Laird had put it in as a mark in the volume soon after it had been issued from the Bank. The note is in black letter Roman character, and one of the first impression thrown off by the Bank. Its value now, reckoning compound inte rest, should be about sixty pounds : Edin. 2, June 1748 No. - 71794 The Governour and Company of the Bank of Scotland con. stituted by Act of Parliament do hereby oblige themselves to pay to James Spence or the Bearer one pound sterling on demand or in the option of the Directors one pound sixpence ster. at the end of six months after the demand And option of the Directors. The Accomptant and one of the Tellers of the Bank are hereby ordered to mark and sign this note, on the back hereof, By order of the Court of Directors 120 71'794 Robert Dundas Accomptant John Spence Teller. Dundee Advertiser. Poor Gert Schepers, a vee - boor of the Cra bdoouckr,dlivshtroiscet,nwamase,out huntinsghal not in make company with a neigh more notorious. as he i s y e t aliv e , an d has, perhaps, been sufficiently punishetl, I Coming to a fountain, surro und e d, as is common, with tall reeds and rushes, Gert handed his gun to his comrade, and alighted to search for wate r . But he no sooner approached the fountain, than an enormous lion started up close at his side, and seized him by the left arm. The man, though taken by sur prise, stood stock still without struggling, aware that the least attempt to escape would ensure his in stant destruction. The animal also remained motionless, holding fast the boor's arm in his fangs, but without biting it severely, and shutting his eyes at the same time, as if he could not withstand the countenance of hie victim. As they stood in this position, Gert, collecting his pre sence of mind, began to beckon to his comrade to ad vance and shoot the lion in the forehead. This might have been easily effected, as the animal not only continued still with closed eyes, but Gert's body concealed from his notice any object advancing in front of him. But the fel low was a vile poltroon, and, in place of complying with hie friend's directions, or snaking any other attempt to save him, h e began cautiously to retreat to the top of a neigh bouring rock. Gert continued earnestly to beckon for as sistance for a long time, the lion continuing perfectly quiet ;—and the lion-hunters affirm, that if he had but persevered a little longer, the animal would have at length relaxed his hold, and left him uninjured. Such cases, at least, they maintain, have occasionally occurred. But Gert, indignant at the pusillanimity of his comrade, and losing patience with the lion, at last drew his knife (a wea pon which every .back-country colonist wears sheathed at his side), and, with the utmost force of his right arm, plung e d it into the animal's breast. The thrust was a ' deadly one, for Gert was a bold and powerful man; but it did not prove effectual in time to save his own life--for the enraged savage, striving to grapple with him, and held at arm's length by the utmost efforts of Gert's strength and desperation, so dreadfully lacerated the breast and arms of the unfortunate man with his talons, that his bare bones were laid open. The lion fell at last from loss of blood, and Gert fell along with him. The cowardly companion who had w i tnesse d thi s f ear f u l woggle f rom :the rock, now, however, took courage to advancer ard l ucceeded in carrying his mangled friend to the . neares t house, where such surgi ca l aid as the neighbours conk' give was immedi ately but vainly applied. Pooi Ger t expired on the third day after 9k . % locked jayfemp ThOPTIPTeII Ngth 4. LENT ASSIZES. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-YORK, APRIL 2. WILSON v. SMITH AND ANOTHER. Mr. Justice BAYLEY and a Special Jury were occupied, on Saturday, and the whole of this day, trying the vali dity of a will. It was an issue from the Court of Common Pleas, di rected to try whether William Flint, the testator, was of sound mind in the year 1823, when the will was made. The defendants were the relation and heirs of Flint. The plaintiff was the person in whose favour the will was made. The amount of Flint's property was about 1,8001. The present is the second trial respecting the will, and, as the number of witnesses on both sides amounts to nearly sixty, it is probable that a very large portion of the property has been already expended at law. The will being produced, and the attesting witnesses having sworn to its execution, nearly thirty other witnesses were called, the most of whom stated that at the time the will was made they considered the testator was of sound mind. A number of respectable witnesses concurred in stating that they considered Flint insane at the time he made his will. The Jury found for the defendant, which sets aside the will. SURREY SESSIONS, APRIL 3. Henry Hanford, James. Keegan, and Mary Ball, were indicted for stealing a variety of articles, to the value of 141., the property of Thomas Robinson. It appeared from the evidence, that the prosecutor is the proprietor of the Southwark Arms, in Tooley-street, and that the doors were locked and the property secure at twelve o'clock on the night of the 13th of February. On the following morning, however, the property was missed, and suspicion having arisen that the prisoners had been concealed in the house on the preceding night, they were apprehended, and a silver thimble was found on the person of Mary Ball, which was identified as the property of Mrs. Robinson, and had her initials marked on it. Various ar ticles of the stolen property wers also found concealed in a pan of white-wash, which stood in the room where the prisoners were found. Mary Ball said, she had received the thimble from a young man. The male prisoners said they bad gone to Mary Ball's lodgings to borrow a dog to kill rats, and de clared they knew nothing of the property. Ia corrobora tion of this account, they said that they bad an opportu nity of escaping after they had first been charged with the robbery, but they declined doing so, being conscious of their innocence. A young woman was called to give a character to Mary Ball, and the result of her examination was, that the Court directed her to be taken into custody, in order that she might be indicted for perjury. Mar - y Ball was acquitted, and the two male prisoners were found guilty, and sentenced to seven years trans portation. OLD BAILEY. THE ENSUIN • SUMMARY STATEMENT DESCRIP' WITH WHICH THE PRISONERS CHARGED, VIZ. Burglary Forgery 3 Highway Robbery ll Housebreaking 2 Stealing in a dwelling-house 9 Sheep Stealing 1 Manslaughter 2 Stealing and Secreting Let ters while employed in the Post-Office 2 Of the above number there ar prisoners. 'G SESSIONS. 'IVE OF THE VARIOUS OFFENCRS FOR TRIAL SEVERALLY STAND EmbQzzling 5 Stealing from the person 35 Bigamy 1 Receiving Stolen Goods 9 Uttering Counterfeit Coin 1 Selling ditto 1 Fraud 2 Larcenies 2Ol Total 3O 75 London, and 226 Middlesex STATE OF HIS MAJESTY'S GAOL OF NENVGATE;APRIL 2. Prisoners under sentence of death 26 --- ter transportation for life 56 fourteen years seven ditto 45 under sentence ter felony and misdemeanour 5 conunitted under the Bankrupt Laws 6 by the House of Commons whose judgments are respited remanded from last sessions for trial at the ensuing ditto lOl at the Admiralty ditto Total 461 Males 355 I Females lti6 COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. THE MARKETS. (From the New London Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.-The demand for Muscovades last week was very limited, the average sales did not exceed 400 hhds. each day ; the inferior soft Sugars sold 6d. to ls. per cwt. lower ; the strong and good qua lities fully supported the previous prices. There were above 5,700 bags Mauritius forced upon the Market last week, they went off quite the reverse of the West India descriptions; the low qualities were bought up freely by the exporters and refiners, and all descriptions from 565. downwards, nearly sup ported the previous rates; dry brown 545.; all the Sugars above 565. sold heavily at a reduction of ls. per cwt. The stock of Sugars and deliveries are nearly the same as on the corresponding week of last year. The demand for Muscovades this day was limited ; at a late hour the total sales were es timated at 600 casks. In the Refined Market last week, the request for low Lumps for export, con tinued so extensive, that we must quote the prices ls. higher, and the supply of goods still inadequate to the demand; the quantity of crushed taken for shipment to the Mediterranean, has also been exten sive; the fine goods for borne consumption continue neglected.-Molasses were 6d. lower. There was not the slightest alteration in the Refined Market this afternoon.-There was some interest excited last week, by the public sale of 157 chests, and 849 bags East India Sugars, the former being of an un common strong grain, similar to some Sugars two years ago,respecting which there was much difficulty in ascertaining whether or not they were clayed Sugars • the present parcel was supposed to have gone through some process; they sold 40s. a 445.; the bags were Bengal; fine white sold 365. a 375.6 d.; damp at 348. and 355. The 45 chests Brazil at public sale to-day were withdrawn. COFFEE.-The public sales last week were exten sive; above 4,000 bags Foreign were brought for ward, the whole sold at low prices but with unusual briskness; good ordinary Brazil extensively at 435. 6d. a 455. 6d.; fine ordinary 465. a 475. 6d. ; ordinary Jamaica 435. 6d. a 455., good ordinary 455. 6d. a 465. 6d.; in British Plantation Coffee the sales were not extensive; but parcels of Jamaica, Demerara, and Berbice sold freely at about the pre vious currency; the fine ordinary Jamaica rather higher ; Ceylon Coffee good ordinary was taken in at 435. 6d.; good Cheribon at 50s. a 525. There was only one public sale of Coffee this forenoon, 1,020 bags Brazil, a shade lower ; nearly the whole sold good ordinary 455., coloury 455. 6d., fine ordinary 475.; the extreme prices were 445. a 475. 6d. A few lots nearly fine ordinary Jamaica sold at 535., which was very low ; the middling sold high 78s. to 80s., and a few lots Berbice at former rates. The market prices, to-day, are a shade lower, but there is still a very extensive demand for Coffee. SPICES.-East India Spices continue heavy, some unsifted Pepper at public sale went off at 3d., and by private contract, some light Pepper at aid. By public sale this forenoon, 100 bags Pimento good, 9i-d. a 10d. RICE.-Rice is heavy; the reduction we stated., last week in the prices does not facilitate sales, some'. Bengal has been sold at prices again a shade lower. BRAZIL WOOD.-By public sale this day, on ac-. count of the agents of Brazil Bank, 269 tons, 49/. 15s. a 50/. ; only one of two lots sold. TEA.-Boheas, in quarter and half chests, are asked for at id profit; other kinds are steady. TOBACCO.-The transactions in Tobacco since Tuesday last are confined to parcels for Ireland, of which about 2.50 hhds. are taken at 4id. a 5,1 d. OILS.-There is little variation in the prices of Oil, the demand has rather increased. Sperm has been sold a shade lower. FRUIT.—The reduction in the prices of Currants appears to have increased the demand. Some Chesme Fruit is stated to be sold at 455. which is rather lower. Generally the Fruit market may be considered heavy. COTTON.—The Cotton Market has been very heavy, and the accounts from Liverpool yesterday of a further reduction in the prices has put a still gr eater damp upon the demand. The sales for the week ending last night inclusive are quite inconsiderable. RUM, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.—The purchases of Rum continue confined to small parcels free on board for export ; proofs and under, and two and three over at 2s. sd. a 2s. 5d.; a parcel of Deme rara seven over sold at 2s. 6d. ; Jamaica Rums, of strong and fine descriptions, continue scarce, and still command the former prices. The few sales ofßrandy for export are at prices a shade lower. The scarcity of Geneva is so great that in one or two instances 26. Bd. and 2s. 9d. was last week realised. IRISH PROVISIONS.—The sales of Irish Provisions have been i n cons id era b le parcels, chiefly for ships ' u h eTquantity t f y lr o i f sh F ß or t e it i t g e n r p i is o s y t i i s l i l on i s n c la o t n e s l i; imported into this m ar k et f or exportation has excited some interest ; the p arce l s f rom Germany derable. se. are consi derable; and we have also 1000 b rls. of Beef an d 200 brls. of Pork from the U n i te d S tates, the qua lity of both good, but some d ou b ts are entertained whether they are sufficiently sa lt e d f or warm cli mates : the cut of th e P rov i s i ons is also different from the Irish, th e A mer i can in particular is in very large pieces; if the imports continue, it will mate rially alter the trade here, and the immediate effect Is the interest excited, and the consequent check to the usual purchases. HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—The accounts from St. Petersburgh last week of the advances of Tallow from 98 to 102 rubles, exchange about 10d., bad no effect on this Market, the extensive sellers came forward, and very large parcels were contracted for about 375.; since then the Market has advanced 6d. to 9d. per cwt.; the Market assumed some briskness, particularly yesterday, wh en a f ur ther impulse was given by. the extensive d e li ver i es for the home consumption 1 , 492 casks last wee k, being nearly 400 casks more than the cor res p on di n g one of last year.—Hemp was also in greater request, and the late advance of 421 . was fully su pp or t e d. —The late sales of Flax are 381 . 10s. for St. P e t e rsburgh 12 head; the holders are still sanguine respecting higher prices, and they state the c anvas wa nted by the English G overnment here is much reduced,willnmentten dto and , keeptb j e cAlliaierfikyetinup; the hands of t wo thehouses. stock FOR DILIVIRY. April and May d e li very 37 5 . to 3 75. 6 d . per cwt . ton or before Aug. 31, 36 5. 6d . to 37a. Hemp ditto 3 6 / . 15s. to per toe. Tallow, April en COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans , S. tO s. 27 28 35 35 36 44 44 30 38 23 SS/ /I 38 35 38 35 39 Per Quarter. Boston Canterbury Grantham S. to S. s. to s. S. to B. 52 40 45 56 64 60 63 55 60 58 - 60 46 50 56 60 54 64 52 6ii 56 61 59 62 52 56 53 58 54 59 54 56 52 60 Grimsby 36 40 42 46 44 46 40 42 40 43 39 43 38 42 40 43 Horneastle----- Lincoln Maidstone Stamford, BIRTH. On the 2d i ns t., a t Clapham-rise, M rs. George Wynne, of a daughter. a Simpson,, La n g l m of- MA RRIED. On the 3d inst., at All Souls' Church b in y an th -s e tr ß ee e 4 v. o D x r iord...:tr e , eldest daughter of the late Mr. Thos . Godwin, of Gutter-lane, Cheapside. On the 3d inst. , at St. Geo rge's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. Evan Nepean, Lieutenant-Colonel 11Ittedonaldt late of the 19 t h Re g iment, t o Emma, Oxford-street, Chandler, to lV iv lr iis W s G . oliwin only daughter of Geo , V arn ham, Esq., of Wilton-place. H. Samuel Vaughan, DIED. O n the 9th Febr uary, at Ridgeland Estate, Jamaica, 69 Cornwall Assi ze C ourt, and formerly one of the Represet e tatives of th e P ar i sh of St. James, in the House of Assets ' bly, a n d f or one of the Assistant Judges of ti'v many years Custos of that Parish. On the 23d ult., in Sloane-street, Chelsea, Lady Blake widow and relict of the late, and mothei, of the present! Sir Francis Blake, Bart., of Twizle Castle, Northumbee land, aged 72. _____.e. PRIXTap and'PUBLISHED- by M. YOUNG ) At fis Suli-QuAva, 1 , 19. 112, Strand. - •