The Sun. — London, England, 1827-04-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THR PUBLIC JOURNALS. While the ministerial negotiation is pending, ministerial places are still filling up. ` Mr. Scar lett is appointed Attorney-General, stepping in this case over Sir N. Tindal—an unusual, but not unprecedented proceeding : and only un usual, because divided or broken Administrations are so. Mr. Canning's offer of the Attorney- Generalship to Mr. Scarlett is attributed to the force of early recollections, as well as the eminent professional skill of the gentleman promoted: there may, perhaps, also exist the further desire of conciliating the Whigs, by thus volunteering the advancement of one of their party. Mr. Scarlett has likewise this prospective or contin gent advantage from the nature of the office of which he has accepted—that should an Admi nistration be formed, in the present shaking and confusion of parties, of which he may not make one, he can, if he be not already satiated with professional fame and emolument, recur to the practice of the bar. The situation of Sir J. Copley, now Lord Lyndh urs t, an d Ch ance ll or, would be different; it is not in his power rerccare gradum."—The Hon. W. Lamb, the son of Lord Melbourne, is mentioned as the Irish Secretary ; and it shows a singular degree of scrupulosity on the part of Lord Lansdown, that his Lordship is said to be contented with the appointment, if it were likely to be perma nent ; but the situation of Mr. Lamb's father rendering it not improbable that the son may soon be called to the House of Peers, it is doubt ful whether he would be succeeded in the Secre taryship by one of a similar opinion on the Irish question. Having, then, presented our readers with a real and a rumoured appointment in the course of one day, we think that we have done much, consi dering the rate at which the Mi..istry is filled up. We shall probably attempt no more in this day's kitunal. The Duke of Devonshire paid a visit to Ins Majesty yesterday; and Lord Dudley first transacted business at the office of the Foreign Se cretary. The rumours, at an hour subsequent to that at which the preceding was written, were— that the Duke of Devonshire declined office except in conjunction with the Marquis of Lansdown, with whom the negotiations were still open. Mr. Scar lett's acceptance of office is entirely with the appro bation of the Whigs.—Times. The clear and intelligent letters of our Lis bon Correspondent may, in general, be safely consulted by all who seek to form their opinions respecting the state of affairs in the Peninsula, on an accurate representation of facts. We can not, however, refrain from pointing out an error in the reasonings of our Correspondent, who seems to conceive that the Emperor Don Pedro exceeds his authority by the appointment of Dr. Abrantes, General Rego, and other Portuguese subjects, to offices within the kingdom, on the ground that by a former compact with his father, the exercise of power in both Brazil and Portu gal could not be enjoyed by the same individual Monarch. Now, it is explained by Don Pedro himself, that his resignation of the Crown of Portugal was, at the moment of signing the Charter, prospective only, not simultaneous with that act—and not an absolute, but a contingent resignation—contingent on the performance of a certain act by Don Miguel, viz.—his formal espousal of the infant Queen, to which a visit on the part of his Royal Highness to Brazil, where the Princess resides with the Emperor, must be an essential preliminary. Until Don Miguel completes this act, and thereby guaran tees in a solemn manner his adhesion to the Act of Settlement through which the Crown descends to his wife directly from her father, Don Pedro feels, and not unreasonably, that the regal power has not departed from. himself, _and that it is only delegated to the Princess Regent, to be exercised " in the name and on the behalf" of the hereditary King of Portugal. If it be said that the act of separation is, on this . principle, rendered a nullity, the- answer is, either that Don Pedro has not yet made his - option between Portugal and Brazil, or that, having made it in a certain form, and surrounded it by certain securities, to be exacted from persons who might otherwise disturb the peace and welfare of the realm, he only waits the accomplishment of those defined securities, and , the perfectiomeg of those constitu tional forms, before he transfers the powers of so vereignty to bands, by which they might be admi nistered without endangering the State itself. The nominations to office which have now been promul gated by the Emperor, will bring with them a test of the present condition of the kingdom. If they are not obeyed, nor the authority which issues them acknowledged, it is plain that a spirit has found its way into the councils of the Regent, which must be put down by force, if no other means be acces sible, and which will probably induce Don Pedro to chow himself ere long at Lisbon. In the mean time we are informed that Spanish letters have been received within this day or two from Cadiz, which assert in terms sufficiently positive, the approach of a hostile attack by Ferdinand on the Portuguese frontier. We are unwilling to put faith in such sinister augeries, but at least they are worthy of notice.—ibid. The new Ministerial arrangements proceed but very slowly, if they can even be said to proceed at all. The whole, we were told, would ap pear in Friday's Gazette ; and failing that, that at all events in Tuesday night's Gazette public expectation would be set at rest ; but lo ! when Tuesday's Gazette appears, not a single appoint ment is announced, unless the e l eva ti on o f Si r _ . John Copley to the Peerage may be virtually so considered. We are justified then in concluding, that up to that time at least, not a single ap pointment, except that of the Duke of Clarence, had taken place. But though nothing has been done, sufficient seems to have been undone.— Mr. Canning's aspirants for office seem, as it were, to run the gauntlet of the state ; and a Noble Lord or Right Hon. Gentleman, is no sooner named to one than he is as speedily dis placed and nominated to another. But Mr. Plun kett's destination, or rather no destination, seems the most extraordinary of all. To the astonishment of every body, the Learned Gentleman was to have been snatched away from his surveillanc e ofthe Ca tholic Association in Dublin, to preside over the Rolls Court in England. But after a little con sideration and pulse-feeling, this idea is aban doned, and we are now told that Mr. Plunkett i 3 to be made a Peer, but to hold no office:L. This announcement, though made through the same demi-official channel as the rest, we can haruly credit. To raise a man from the office of Attorney General to the Peerage, without any other apparent object than to obtain an elo quent debater in the House of Lords, would be a step entirely without precedent, as well as without any thing like sufficient reason. Besides, how is Mr. Plunkett's solitary elevation consis tent with the supposed neutrality of the new Ca binet upon the Catholic Question ? Or how is it that Mr. Plunkett can consent to be singled out alone for office, while the 'Whigs, to whose ranks, notwithstanding his Attorney-Generalship, he is generally supposed to belong, are excleded, or at least, in abeyance ? Whether the Whigs come into office or not, Mr. Canning will have succeeded in dividing them, and thus in some degree neutralising their future opposition. One advantage at least, will result to the public from a negociation with them, even should it fail—viz. that we are sure to learn from them the whole history, both public and private, of the intrigues into which they have been admitted. The Whigs, like some of the weaker sex, are such notorious tatlers, that there never was such a thing known as their keeping a secret for eight-and-forty hours. This is proved even now by their over-eagerness in announcing their own eleva tion before it has taken place, and when, in fact, perhaps it never may. But only let the negociation fail, as it perhaps will, and Mr. Ridgway's counter will swarm with Whig pamphlets. Each 'Whizling Lord and Gentleman who can brandish a grey goose quill will give us his edition of the matter; and we shall have a short account of a short ne gociation" from one; " a vindication of Whig con sistency" from another; and, at all events, a . little world of matter of fact, en.; eloped in a much larger world of verbiage.—Morning Herald. Up to a late hour last night, nothing farther had been done in the negociation. We are happy, however, to be able to state, that the arrange ment with Lord Lansdown and the Duke of Devonshire is not at all broken off. The Noble Marquis was expected in town last night.— We have elsewhere alluded to the appointment of Mr. Scarlett, as Attorney-General, which was known yesterday forenoon. We are enabled to state, that he accepted of this appointment with the entire approbation of the leaders of his party; and of none mere, we understand, than Mr. Brougham. It is said that Mr. Calcraft also has accepted office under similar circumstances. We trust that by to-morrow we shall be enabled to communicate the result which nine-tenths-- aye, nineteenth-twentieths—of the public so eagerly desire. There is only wanting the union between Mr. Canning and the Marquis of Lans down to complete the satisfaction felt by the country at the political extinction of the men who have so long pressed as an incubus on the Government. We are sure that should the ne gociation ultimately fail, the party understood to he chiefly the cause of the failure will suffer greatly in public estimation. The satisfaction expressed at the appointment of Mr. Scarlett serves to prove the keen satisfaction with which the public receives every approximation to a closer intimacy between the individuals of parties, di vided from each other only by name and by old recollections, and now identified for all practical purposes. The public do not, and will not, un •derstand the division into parties of men united in principle, and opposed only as to the mode of proceeding to give effect to one of their principles. Still less will they understand how Statesmen, who admit that they cannot, by remaining in opposition, advance the cause which they have most at heart, should, by refusing to take place, weaken thereby the men whose views are in accordance with their own, and infuse courage into the party whose return to power would unquestionably be one of the greatest calamities to which the country was ever subject. If the leaders of the Whigs do not take a decided course on this occasion, individual Members will un questionably follow the example set by Mr. Scarlet and Mr. Calcraft, which has given so much satisfac, tion.-21forning Chronicle. The announcement yesterday of the appoint ment of Mr. Scarlett to the office of Attorney- General; for which the public had been for some days prepared, gave very general satisfaction.— The professional eminence of Mr. Scarlett, the extent of his business, and the skill and judg ment which he displays in his mode of conduct ing a cause, pointed him out as the most fit per son for the distinction which he has received. Sir N. Tindal has at once paid a high compli ment to Mr. Scarlett's merits, and given a proof of his own good sense and modesty, by waiving all claim to the appointment. Sir John Copley having been gazetted as Chancellor, and Mr. Scarlett named to the Attorney-Generalship, there remains now of the Law Appointments but the office of Master of the Rolls to be disposed of. It is understood that Mr. Scarlett's appoint ment has no connexion with the negociations be tween Mr. Canning and Lord Lansdown. The appointment, however, being, as it is, highly ac ceptable to the public and the profession, must strengthen Mr. Canning's Administration.—lbid. Mr. Scarlett has accepted the appointment of Attorney-General, and Sir N. Tindal has con sented to retain his situation as Solicitor- General. The conduct of the latter is highly creditable to him, in thus waiving pretensions, the rig-id assertion of which might have created some embarrassment. We understand that both the political and legal friends of the Learned Gentlemen, have unequivocally expressed their approbation of the frank and conciliatory course he has pursued. I n most cases, to have allowed of the nomination of an Attorney-General, pass ing by the Solicitor-General, would have been an implied admission of inferiority : but, in this instance, the long-standing of Mr. Scarlett at the bar (who practised as a Counsel when Sir Nicholas Tindal was in his cradle almost), and ,the high station he professionally occupies, re move all scruples on that head. The accession of Mr. Scarlett, on the other hand, as well as the acquiescence of Sir Nicholas Tindal in his appointment, may he regarded as a most satis factory indication of the manner in which Mr. Canning's Government is likely to be supported. We believe, indeed, we may say, that on no former occasion was there ever manifested so general and entire an abandonment of personal motives and considerations on all sides, in the efforts that have been made, and are still making, to strengthen the Administration. Mr. Canning, throughout the arduous and delicate task imposed upon him, has exhibited a signal instance of this public and disinterested feeling ; and his own generous and liberal conduct has been met by a corresponding spirit in other quarters.—New Times. A Morning Paper of yesterday indulged in a - very rational hypothesis, founded upon the ap pointment of Lord Dudley to the office of Fo reign Secretary, and the intimatio n that this ap pointment would probably be , only a t emporary arrangement. " And now, shrewdly ob serves our contemporary, " what, if, after •all, Mr. Canning should not mean to retain the chief place for himself ! It he has merely acted like a gallant officer on board a ship, who assists the C omman d er -i n -Chi e f t o ge t r id o f a piratical crew, by whom the management of the vessel had been usurped, and then retires to Ins previous station ! What, in that case, will be said of him ? We have heard that Lord Dudley, a per son who, we believe, for the good of his country, ought to be forced into situations in which he must exercise his powerful talents, talks of only retaining the Foreign Seals till Mr. Canning, having formed the Ministry, can resume them ; and that Mr. Cannin g means to give up the first place in the Treasury to one of the Whigswe probably need not mention whom !" There is every reason, public and personal, why Mr. Can ning should wish, if the arrangement be found practicable, to resume the Seals of the Foreign office. His admitted competency, beyond that of any man living, for the discharge of the ar duous duties attached to the office—th e series of great and important . musure2, of which his hand has traced the outline, and which his mind must fill up—his own knowledge of his own plans, and of the means by which those, yet in complete, may be best accomplished; as well as those necessary to secure stability for what is already done—his thorough acquaintance with the views and principles of foreign Cabinets, adverse or friendly to the foreign policy of this country, as directed by himself—all constitute powerful motives to induce him to resume the station he has relinquished. The country would hail with unmix3d satisfaction such an arrangement; : th: Right Honourable Gen tleman himself would feel that, in making it he was securing for the country, in their fullest extent, the benefit of his services as a Minister. But where is the necessity, or ex pediency, of sacrificing to this object, the high dignity of the office in which the confidence of his Majesty has placed him ? On the contrary. would not the union of the two functions of Prime Mini ster and Foreign Secretary, give to the latter a sim plicity and singleness of action eminently beneficial? In the separate exercise of their duties, he would have to impress upon another his views, as the head of the Government; but in their conjoint exercise, his task would simply be to carry into execution, himself, his own plans. Besides, the most effective Government must always be, that where each de partment is directed by an individual best qualified for the discharge of its duties. Now, without nam ing persons, we will take upon ourselves to affirm, that there are more than two or three among the public men now living, equally competent to the management of our finances as Chancellor of the Exchequer; but we should be sorely puzzled, if we were put to it, to specify the individual who could supersede Mr. Canning as Foreign Secretary, an d leave the country no cause to regret the change.— INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, APRIL 2.5, :3IRORTANT CAUTION TO ASSIGNEES Or INSOLVENTS' ESTATES. Mr. HEATH made an application to the Court, by way of motion, relative to the following circum stances :—The Learned Gentleman said, that in De cember, 1823, an insolvent was discharged, when Mr. Thomas Ewbank was appointed assignee, in which capacity he had received 7354 Ils. 2d., which he had neglected to appropriate in the manner pre scribed by Act of Parliament, namely, to divide it among the creditor , . Some time since, the Court issued a peremptory order for the money to be paid into the hands of the provisional assignee, which was not complied with, and a warrant was then issued against Mr. Ewbank, upon contempt; but, on his going before Mr. Justice Holrovc!, the warrant being deemed informal, the Learned Judge discharged him. He Heath) therefore, now appeared before the Court de 110VO, to move for a rule to be served upon Mr. Ewbank, calling upon him to pay into the hands of Mr. H. Dance, the provisional assignee of the Court, the sum of 7351. 11s. 2d.; and, in default thereof, for him to chew cause why a warrant should not be issued against him for contempt. The mo tion was founded on the 46th section of the 53d George 111. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER—Take a rule to spew cause. It is proper to remark, that assignees are bound to make a return to the Court every three months, whether they possess any assets or not. Any assig nees r. - :.thhohling money after an order of Court to pay it in, or declaring a dividend, are liable to be proceeded against and imprisoned for contempt, and pay a heavy per centage upon the assets, &c. withheld. PORTUGUESE CONSTITUTION. The sentiments of the people with. regard to the Constitution, I mean those who pay the least attention to the subject, are various. A con siderable number are favourable to it, though they do not evince much enthusiasm in the cause. On the evening of the young Queen's birth-day the Constitutional Hymn was sung at the Opera amidst considerable applause, but the scene no more resembled that which was so often repeated at Naples both in Parliament and at the theatres, during the short Constitutional reign, than the demeanour of a Turk resembles that of a French man. I formed a comparison between the Neapolitans and Portuguese in this instance, be cause there is a great resemblance between the two people. They are both noisy in the ex treme—a trifle will often excite them to the ut most pitch of joy or madness, and they speak without intermission. (It is certainly a singular coincidence, and one worth mentioning, that while I write this, and a Portuguese gentleman is in the next room speaking with all the noise and volubility of his countrymen, the servant, who is likewise a Portuguese, should come in and say, with great naivete, and in broken English— " 0 Portuguez never stops.") No doubt the conduct of Spain, the well known sentiments of several European Courts, and the dread of pu nishment, perhaps, front Don Miguel may ac count in some measure for the coldness of the people in the Constitutional cause ; but all these are not sufficient. The Neapolitans had an equally powerful host of enemies, and certainly much more declared,—yet their enthusiasm knew no bounds. I must say, and Ido it without the least partial feeling to one side or the other, that the stability of the Charter is a very doubtful problem. There are many of the same opinion —not only those who are opposed to it, but those who are bound to defend it, or whose official situation must make them anxious that it should succeed. It has few determined friends, and has many enemies. Some dislike it because it is not sufficiently liberal ; others because they prefer a republic ; and another party because they prefer the good old system under which the Brazils were discovered and Camoens wrote the Lusiad. "With these differences ofopinion, and the little support which it receives from any consider able part of the people, it must be admitted, that had riot England interfered, it would soon have none to " the tomb of all the Capulets," or have been " thrown aside like an old almanack out of date." On the other hand, had Spain remained perfectly neutral, and had there not prevailed an opinion that France was secretly determined to oppose it and bring back Don Miguel, the con sequences of whose ire none could foretell, many believe that it would have been agreed to here without the least opposition, and thou g h it never would have much influence in altering the man ners, or bettering the condition of the great body of the people, they still think that in some re spects it would have been beneficial. I can hear of none who expect much good from it, of many who think that Spain valued its probable effects far too high, and that England and France (for these States are regarded as the principals) would deserve the curse of mankind if they should go to war, tear one another to pieces, and put the whole world in commotion for the petty squab bles of a small, insignificant, and enervated na tion, who feels- no lively interest in the cause, and who would only be roused from their lethargy by the powerful effects of the flame which they had kindled. The more one sees of the people, and judges of the sentiments which animate them, the more he is disposed to reprobate the conduct of those who would endanger the peace of Eu rope for their sake. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—James Augustus Gleeson, the lawYees clerki: was 'again placed at the bar upon a charge of assault, . - yesterday, but he no longer exhi bited the merry:contented countenance which seemed so natural to him two days before. " What, here again ?" said Sir P. LAURIE. Gleeson—l am, indeed,'Sir. lam charged with assaulting a - young woman, who lodges in the house; but I assure you it is nothing but a conspiracy to send me to a prison, while my wife sells off all the property. It was stated by two or three persons, that he had been behaving in the most outrageous manner, and had been beating his wife, Sir PETER.—Where is the wife ? Really this man must not go unchecked. The wife, a little wonr,n, apparently double the age of her husband, soon appeared, and was asked by Sir PETER why she did not attend to make her complaint on the previous occasion. Wife.—He begged so very hard for mercy, and promised so faithfully to leave me and go into the country, that I believed I should never be troubled with him again. But he came home— Husband.—l hope you will not allow her to take an oath. She does not believe in God ! Ido assure you she is an atheist, your 'Worship. " Oh, dear me, Sir !" said the wife, addressing herself to the Alderman, " that is out of the ques tion. I can't keep a comb in my head," added she, producing a lock of her hair, and the pieces of a comb, folded carefully in paper. " This was done with a poker last Saturday, and he smashed another a day or two before. I—" Husband.—She is speaking falsely. I declare to you she has no faith in the book she has her hand upon. Sir PETER—You acknowledged the other day you were courting her for two years. You must have learnt her principles, and why did you marry her? A portly old dame, a neighbour, stepped forward to vindicate the wife's religious opinions, alleging, that while she was Miss Thomond she went regu larly to church on Sundays, and that she believed the husband's accusation was quite unfounded. Sir PETER—Let me hear the present complaint against him. Emma Batten, a girl about 16 years old, imme diately stepped into the witness box, and stated that on the previous evening, while she was scraping her shoes at the door,. Gleeson struck her in the face with his clenched fist, without any provocation, and sent her reeling into the next house. She had not said a word to him, and all he said was " Go along, -- you." The girl's father and mother were present, and the Alderman being satisfied they were well-dis posed holiest people, said he should order the pri soner to find bail for this assault, and he then re verted to the case of the wife. Mrs. Francis Innel Gleeson was then sworn to the assault upon her on Saturday last. She said she kept a small haberdasher's shop in Shoemaker-row, Blackfriars ; but his " goings on " had broken up her business, and finding the landlord had put in a distress for three quarters' rent, her husband became outrageous at being disappointed in selling off her property for his own benefit, and began smashing some panes of glass. He was continually drunk, and had not earned a " dolt" since their wedding day.. The Husband—That is because she sent me to the Compter one night, and caused me to lose my place. I shall be heard, I hope, presently. " Certainly," replied the Alderman, " you shall have your turn." Wife—He has not exerted himself to find em ployment. Sir PETER—How came you not to discover his had qualities during your long previous acquaintance? Wife—Oh ! Sir, there is such a difference be tween being in company for an hour or two of an evening, and for whole days together.—(Laughter.) " That's very true," replied the Alderman : " I suppose he married you for your property. You had a little money, perhaps." Wife—No, Sir; but I had a settled trade, and a good home. Some neighbours came forward to corroborate Mrs. Gleeson's statement, whom the prisoner charg ed with being gin,drinking companions of his wife. Sir Peter did not think it necessary to examine them, but ordered the prisoner to find bail to answer for the assault on his wife, who was crying bitterly, and seemed really apprehensive of fatal violence if the prisoner should obtain liberation. • The third charge of assault was preferred by the wife of the constable, who had taken him into cus tody. She said he had twice kicked her husband severely, where he ought not to have kicked him, and called on her husband to show the marks of the muddy shoes upon his apron. The constable cried hush, and cast a very angry look at his wife to enforce silence. She, however, repeated her complaint in a louder and more indig nant tone, which he " pished" and scowled in vain to repress. This charge, however, came to nothing, a more serious one being immediately broached—namely, that the prisoner had embezzled 11. while in the ser vice of Mr. Dodd, of the Bank-buildings, solicitor. Mr. Dodd stated that the prisoner had received the money from a fellow clerk, and had never accounted for it. " That is but a debt," said the prisoner, very con fidently. The Alderman, however, thought it was a charge that might send him out of the country, and he re manded the prisoner for further examination on Saturday. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—George Car rots, a soldier, belonging to the Coldstream Regi ment of Foot Guards, was committed for trial from this office yesterday, on a charge of assaulting, with great violence, a young girl,named Mary Anne Soper, about 1.1 years of age, with intent to commit a rape. The poor girl had been examined by Mr. Brooks, the surgeon, who found that the prisoner had barely escaped completing an offence that would have risked his life. 'Arr. Grogan, a wine-merchant, residing in Prince's street, Hanover-square, appeared to answer one of those friendly informations that are now going the rounds of the police-offices, charging persons with purchasing game from poulterers. Mr. Grogan, it seems, is one of the customers of a Mr. Wallace, a poulterer in the neighbourhood, who was kind enough to sell him a hare in March last, and was still kinder now to prefer tins information against him for 1)T -chasing it. Mr. Grogan pleaded " guilty," and paid the usual penalty of .5/. UNION-HALL.--A youth named Judson was brought up to this office charged on suspicion with having committed divers burglaries and robberies . in the county of Surrey. Brewer, a constable, stated, that several houses have been recently broken into about Camberwell and Brixton by a gang who have long infested the outskirts of the town. The prisoner, who has been suspected as one, hitherto eluded the vigilance of those who have been looking after him until the morning of the execution of the unhappy men for coining, at Horsemonger-lane gaol. On that morn ing, the constable above-named, being present, ob served the prisoner very busily engaged in trying the pockets of many of the spectators who were at tracted thither to view the dying moments of the two malefactors. Brewer immediately took, him into custody, and in his possession found some India pocket-haakerchiefs, which it was evident he had taken from the pockets of the surrounding multitude during the bustle and confusion incident to so awful a scene. The magistrate, on remanding the prisoner for further examination, observed, that he had scarcely ever met with an instance of greater depravity than that exhibited by the prisoner, who, notwithstanding his having been aware that the officers were in quest of him, respecting some houses that he was strongly , suspected of having broken into and robbed, ap peered under the very-gallows that-he was one day very likely to expiate his life upon for his offences, actually in the very act of picking pockets. Several licensed victuallers have been recently summoned before the magistrates of this office and fined, some for keeping their houses open later than the laW prescribes, and others for serving during the hours of divine service on the Sabbath. In conse quence of the above restrictions, which are rigidly enforced in this district, the landlord of a respectable public-house in Rotherhithe attended at the office, and stated that his house was situated close to the river side, near where there was a ferry, which plied every day in the week. The watermen, and very frequently the passengers, called at his house during the time of service on Sundays, in order to get re freshment, and very often to obtain change. Some times on Sundays the former were in the habit of getting wet to the skin, and unless they livd some house of accommodation near the spot where;hey laboured, their situation would be most uncomforta ble indeed. The men working at the Thames Tun nel also complained of the injustice, as they termed it, of having the doors shut against a class of men who stood in so much need of refreshment during their labour. The object of his (the landlord's) ap plication, was to ascertain whether he should be running a risk of endangering his licence by admit ting those persons on the occasions above mentioned. The Magistrate, in reply, observed, that he was not empowered to give permission to the applicant to admit those persons whom he had named into his house during service. " If," said the magistrate, " your house should be complained against when the officers next went round, and that you should be summoned, I have no doubt the facts you have stated would operate in your favour, and tend to have the sum mons dismissed. At the same time," added the ma gistrate, " you will recollect that you have not my permission." ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-THE KING'S DON MIGUEL. Could it be supposed that a Prince, who, i n , the face of Europe, was prov e d t o h ave conspire d against his father, and was banished for heading the revolt, was entitled to the protection of 1 1 character against the publication of the truth. Like that of the rest of his family, his education has been extremely neglected. His habits con' sequently led him, and his opportunities enabled him, to form his associates rather from the mos t profligate of the nobility, or the most mischiee ous of the lower classes, than from those who would judiciously have directed his mind, or modelled his manners as became a prince. BY such associates, the natural impetuosity of hi s temper, and the overbearing obstinacy a nd self will of his character, were rather praised and en couraged than censured or repressed. His tastes and pursuits were suitably low, and his sports often wanton or cruel. His father was latterly terrified at his presence, and it was not safe for any person about Court to refuse compliance with his most capricious wishes. His favourite amusements were bull-fighting, horse-racing, a nd " playing at soldiers." His skill and intrepidity in the former of these exercises would have done him honour, if any superiority in an occupation so incompatible with his rank csuld have been considered as honourable. In pursuing this sport he as often betrayed the feelings which it was calculated to engender, as the boldness which habitual familiarity with its dangers was fitted to inspire. On one occasion, it is related that he ordered a favourite domestic to enter the ring and to contend with a bull. The man , entirely unaccustomed to such a formidable pastime, and terrified at the dangers t o w hich his inexperience would expose him, wished to decline the contest, and prayed, on his knees, that he might be released from the fulfilment of the command. The Prince was inexorable, de' claring the natural alarms of his attendant the re' sult of cowardice, and the poor puppet of his cruel caprice, in attempting to execute his unrea sonable orders, was tossed on the horns o f the furious animal, and killed on the Spot. The scene of these sports was a place surrounded with a wall, of no great height, which eages sportsmen of the lower orders sometimes attempt" ed to scale on the outside, in order to catch $t glimpse of the glorious amusements of their bet' ters. On those occasions it seemed a gratifica tion second only in intensity to that of the inter nal combat, to use his sword against the hands and fingers of the spectators who tried to peep over the enclosure. I shall only add to these in stances of wanton malignity connected with his bull-fighting exploits, an act of despotism, which would have become the late Emperor Paul in the height of his insanity, and which was made the subject of complaint to the British Ambassador. The Portuguese Royal Family have hitherto in' sisted on people alighting from their horses, or carriages, when they pass them, and on pedestri ans taking off" their hats and getting on their knees. An Englishman, about four years agog who had newly arrived at Lisbon, did .not know of this practice, and had nearly fallen a victim to his ignorance.. The Prince, with some of his Aides-de-camp, riding furiouslY down one of the streets of the new part o f the town, saw this Englishman with his hat on, and levelled a blow at his head with his drawn sabre, from which he escaped only b), stooping suddenly behind one of the pillars which border the foot way. Our countryman represented to Sir E. Thornton the brutality of the attack, b u t, of course, in such a case, could obtain no redress. OSTRICH Mr. Brookes, the celebrated anatomist, gave a lecture yesterday evening at the house of the Zoological Society, in Bruton-street, on the body of the Ostrich, which his Majesty has presented to the Society. The Lecture was attended by Lord Auckland, Lord Stanley, Dr. Birkbeck, and several other Noblemen and Gentlemen dis tinguished for their devotion to the interests of science. The ostrich, which was a female, and had been presented to his Majesty about two years ago by Colonel Denham, was kept at Windsor, and died about three weeks ego of obesity, a disease which very frequently shortens the lives of wild animals of every species, when attempts are made to domesticate them. Mr. Brookes commenced by observing, that when he retired from the practice of anatomy, he did not expect to appear again before the public ; but, as the Noble Directors of the Society had honoured him by considering that his services might be of some use in forwarding that most interesting science—zoology, he had only to re mark that he felt great pride' in adding his mite of information to the mass with which the Society was furnished from other sources. The period had arrived when the science of natural history bid fair to reach a height in this country which would enable us to rival the establishment founded for its promotion abroad. The founder of the study of zoology in England was the great John Hunter ; and he was followed by indivi duals well known to the scientific world, in Edinburgh, Gottingen, and Amsterdam. In the latter city the science of zoology was pursued with great success by Professor Campar, who, when he was in London, invited him (Mr. B.) and a professional friend to breakfast, and treated them with bones; consisting of the teeth of rats, mice, and deer, served up in dishes made out of the rock of Gibraltar. The fact was, that the Professor had shortly before explored this celebrated rock in search of bones, for the purposes of Comparative Anatomy. The Learned Lecturer then entered into a very minute account of the various peculiarities of the ostrich, and described with great clear ness, the organs by which this extraordinary bird was enabled to travel with such excessive speed. This peculiarity he ascribed to the power of the muscles, which passed from the pelvis to the foot, and enabled the ostrich to stand in a ver- tical position, and not like other birds resem bling it, on the toes ; for proof of the relation between muscular power and extraordinary swift ness, Mr. Brookes mentioned that the Chief Professor of the Veterinary College, had inform ed him, that upon dissecting the body of the celebrated racer, Eclipse, one of the fleetest horses ever seen in this kingdom, it was found that he possessed muscles of unparalleled size.— The Lecturer here produced an anatomical plate of Eclipse, for the purpose of displaying his ,th ex traordinary m uscu l ar power, an d o b served , at if lie had not told his hearers that it represented a race-horse, from the size of the muscles they might conclude that he was sheaving them the plate of a cart-horse. After relating many other scientific facts, the Learned Gentleman conclu ded a most interesting lecture, which appeared to have afforded very general satisfaction to a numerous and highly respectable auditory. PERUVIAN M INING COMPANY.--A meet ing of th e Sh are h o ld ers was held yesterday at th e City of London Tav ern , for the purpose of con finning certain Resolutions passed at the last meeting for reducing the nominal amount of ea pital from 1,000,0001. to 400,0001. and for altering the number of Directors from twelve to eight, which were agreed to unanimously. REDHEIFER OUTDONE. -- (From a New York Paper of March 24.)—An impostor by the name of Greensburg Baxter, has been for some days practising successfully upon the credulity of the multitude by the exhibition of a (nomi nally) self-moving water wheel. A number were found sufficiently credulous to be gulled into a belief that perpetual motion was discovered, and a company was forthwith formed, and the shares all taken up at once. It is stated that so great was the infatuation, that the shares actually rose from a trifle to one thousand dollars. Suspicion was excited a t a meet i ng o f t h e Di rectors on Thursday even i ng, and they determined upon inspectin g the myster i es o f t h e mac hi ne on th a t very night, i nstea d o f yester d a y morn i n g, wh en Mr. Baxter was to have exhibited it, or rather run off with his money, leaving it to exhibit it self. To the solicitations of the stock-holders he gave nothing but evasions—and they deter mined to force open the door of the building where it was exhibited, and the key to which he pretended was lost. Upon prying up the floor, a crank, pump, fly wheels, &c. were discovered, and the mystery at once solved. The rage of the curious was tremendous, and they proceeded at once to the house of the impostor, whose wife denied that he was in—the police-officers were sent for, and the cunning artist safely lodged in Bridewell. Those who thus sport with the po pular credulity ought to be severely punished— and the public ought to rest satisfied that perpe tual motion cannot exist, and that any man who pretends to have discovered it, should be consi dered as an impostor, unless he displays the whole apparatus which he thinks (certainly without cause) will produce it. AIEETISGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY..—FRIDAY, APRIL 27.—(At the (court of Commissioners, BasinghalLstreet) Attfield, J., Richmond ll Nelson and Co. Cheapside 1 7 Bowen, T., Lynn ll Oran, H., Sutton , Carbin, J., Holloway ll Pitt, H. Cuckfield Coates, .J., Bermondsey lO Sik es an d C o. , L on d on Cope, H. Barnet lO Whit e, 1 ., I sleworth R.• 1 1 Fisher, C., Rainigat. 9 Wood, J., Lombard-st. ' , • Hill, L., Fleet-street. lO Wood,- J., Marylebone lO Horner, J., Hoxton , , COUNTRY DlARY.—SATtramiy, Aran ft Bowen, T., Swansea—Bush, Swansea ... Bradshaw, W., Manchester—White's, Manchester 9 Bromhead, A., Manchester--White's, Manchester 8 Cox and Co. Kingston-upon-Hull—Dog and Duck, Kingston I Duncan and Co., Liverpool—George Liverpool Lamb, J., Liverpool—Starand Garter, Liverpool II Lord, J., Oakenrod-mills—Star, Manchester 9 Thorley and Co., Salford—White's, Manchester II Woodward, H., Sheffield—Tontine, Sheffield. • lt INSOLVENTS APPLYING To BE DISCHARGED , Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's-by-Fields' APRIL 30, AT NINLS. Barnett, J. Bilston Osborn, C., Ditton Harding, Z., Cannon -street Surfieet, J., Grimsby Newberry, W., Park -street THE MARKETS. COAL MAfl A 31s. Od. Burdon 35 , 3 Ei ET.—April 25. Walls End Newmareln 365. N l ' Ditto Peareth 33 Ditto Riddell's • 37 6 Ditto Russell's 37 Ditto'Walkur 30 0 Itu3sell'sfletton's small 10 0 reowpen Si) 6 Fordel Main 36 , 0 Hartley —_ 30 0 llnverkeithing Splint 36 0 a Walla End Elgin 36 `,`' ' Russell's High 32 ," Russell's Lyon's Main 33 1 ; Nesham Main 35 Walls End Hetton 39 Ditto Lambton 33 Ditto Lyons Ditto Stewart's 33 Russell's Hetton's W.E. 37 1 .Dighton Main 31 6 Ellison Main 32 6 Ueliburn Main 35 9 34 6 Killingivorth • 36 6 Liddell's Main 31 0 Old Walker-. ..:35 0 Ord's Reclhugh - 30 3 Pelaw Percy East.- 3O 0 Shipcote .. 31 3 Tanfield Moor 32 0 Wylam 34 9 WallsEndßewicke&Co. 313 0 D 0 itto Dittoii ttDitto JH B e r i o lmd u a , o n n - s d 3 3 365 5 Ditto Northumberland 35 3 Ships at Market, 854-V•h] ips sold, V.—Unsold, SN• LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE—ApriI 24. The import of Wheat since Tuesday last has exceeded that of several previous weeks, and the supply of Flour is also large ; but there is a considerable falling off in the arrivals of Oats, Barley, and Beans. At to-day's market the best qualities of English Wheat brought fully last week's quotations, lint the secondary descriptions, and, the general runs of Irish, were about Id. per 70lbs. cheaper, at which a moderate business was transacted. IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending April 23. 1 Wheat. Oats. Barley. Malt. 1 Beans. 1 Pease. Rye. ' Oatral. Qrs. Qrs. Qra. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Loads . 6,212 3,547 - 71 130 150 151 Flour, 0 barrels, 0,105 sacks. EXPOR'FS.—FIour, 470 barrels. BIRTHS. On the 23d inst., in 'Wellington-street, Strand, Mr s ' Horatio Parnell, of a daughter. On the 20th inst., at Boulogne, Mrs. Crowe, ° f a daughter. MARRIED. On the 25th inst., at Cheltenham, by the Rey. - I ° llll Sergeant, M.A., Thomas Ingledew, Esq., of Claph . sm" road, Surrey, to Sophia, widow of the late Colonel Little , of Kemsey, 'Worcestershire. DIED. On the 19th inst., at \Vartbain Abbey, Theodosia, dour of the late Rev. William Jones, of Broxbourn, Hertl, in her 69th year. On the 25th inst., after a long and severe illness, gar riet, wife of Mr. John Cuthbert, of Walcot-place, Lambeth. On the 24th inst., at Compton - terrace, Islington, Peter Raymond Poland, Esq., in the 67th year of his age. On the Sd inst., at Windsor, Richard Bullock, Es'll. aged 18, second son of the late Edward Bullock, Esq ., Upper Bedford-place, and formerly of Jamaica. On the 22d inst., Mary, the wife of Mr. Richard Watts, of Blackman-street, Southwark, aged 59. Ou the 22d inst., Sarah 13rooksbank, the elder daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Brookabank, of Winkvvorth's buildings, City-road. On the 24th inst., aged 88, at an obscure lodging in Hammersmith, Mrs. Mary Crunden, wife of J. Crundeti, Esq. Surveyor, Hereford -street, Park-lane. In Lancaster Castle, William Green, aged 80, who hue been confined for a debt of 1,000/. about eleven yearn and is said to hare bequeathed property to the amount 01 40,0001. ver Parx7ap and PUBLISHED by AL YOUNG, pit the SeN-Orrics, •Ne. 11E, • Strand.