The Sun. — London, England, 1827-01-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The complexion of the facts relative to Portugal in the Times of Saturday, was of an encouraging nature, so far as concerned the military operations between the Consti tutionalists and the rebels. Every day the combatant had been receding from the Portuguese capital, and ap proaching the frontier of Spain. Nor is it a circumstance unworthy of remark, that this continued pressure upon the insurgents was produced without the slightest co operation from the British troops, though, perhaps, assist ed in some degree by the moral influence of their known arrival upon the general feelings of the nation. With re gard to the cool reception of the English forces, and the apparent absence of all testimony in favour of the Consti tution, on the part of the inhabitants of Lisbon, it ought to be recollected, that the mere mob of a city which has hitherto been the seat of a despotic Government, cannot ;have habituated themselves, like the labouring classes of nglishmen, to act in large bodies, or to express their :Inclinations on public questions and events, with that hearty and fearless openness which characterizes the people of a free community. Under arbitrary Govern ments, any and every display of collective feeling by the publicis systematically suppressed. The multitude is pro hibited from declaring a bias, favourable or unfavour able; upon political measures; because, if once suffered to deliberate- upon what opinions they ought to form, it is impossible to ascertain what will be the course of their aeguments or their actions. A political constitution, of which no fruits have yet been tasted by the mass of the people, cannot be supposedto have taken a strong hold of their affections. If the English come to support this new Government, there can be no sound reason for expecting that the friends of a system, whose benefits, though secure, must be Comparatively distant, and therefore not well *fitted to catch the eager applauses of an untaught race of men, should be received on the instant with demonstrations of popular attachment, especially when those friends ap i,tear in the guise of armed strangers, naturally the objects of ;:ealousy-and distrust. The highest, and indeed all the - instructed orders of Portuguese subjects, are decidedly ad vocates for the Constitution. The Grandees and Bishops, to whom-a wide portion of dignity as well as power has been:iniured in their qUality of Peers and Legislators for the realm—these important bodies are committed to Don Pedro, and . must sail with his. Regency or perish. It, is, however, but fair to state that the Constitution is defective in its provisiOns relating to an other class„ of Portuguese, inferior to the former in rank end-importance, though still well worthy of conciliation. The Grandees and Bishops have been embraced within the most - flattering- action-of the Constitution; but the provincial ilobility never were • thought proper subjects for the - ceesses of the Court, and by some oversight, or inju- Siieibus adherence to ancient prejudice, they have not been courted by Don Pedro in this instance, by any extension of constitutional prerogatives or honours. This class, there fore, who form in some respects, the " country gentle men" tif Portugal, have repaid, by discontent, the indif ference which has been shown to them ; and it is from among their number, that several chiefs have been found to excite and lead the insurgents. We are not, without reason to hope that the error which has been made by the exclusion of the country nobility from a power suitable to their rank and pretensions, will yet be corrected and with out Much delay, so as to,bring them under the operation Of a - similar zeal, in support of the Government, to that Which-has distinguished the Upper Chamber at Lisbon.— When once declared on behalf of the Government, there is no danger -of their sentiments being perverted ; the safe part then be to go on. 'As for an amnesty to the rebel leader 4, We trust that no such proofs of weak ness; or treachery will be, exhibited by the advisers of the PrincesS Regent.. It can 'only serve to encourage the in surgents, to disgrace the Government, and to. ruin the cause. The chiefs ought to be, as we have urged already, prescribed, and if seized upon, executed without hesita tioni, but- their miserable followers forgiven. We cannot believe, what is nevertheless strongly affirmed in respect able private letters, that it was Marshal Beresford who in person advised the amnesty, because his old friends and old connexions being, as was indeed natural, among the Ultras or Tories of Portugal, his Lordship was anxious to save their lives from the executioner. If this be so, then has Lord Beresford begun his system of interference by awactwhich shows him .to be badly calculated for the office of Commander-in-Chief, and still worse qualified to combine with that important trust the other which he has been seeking, it seems, of a sort of War Minister also. For the question of expence to be incurred by the military operations, in which our British troops are about to be engaged, we believe it may be taken for granted, that the rations and subsistence of our countrymen will be pro vided by the ally whom they have been called upon to succour.—Times. " The number of friars in Lisbon arid its immediate vi cinity is about 6000, of all sorts, nations, and orders."— So says our Lisbon Correspondent ; and it is a fact which speaks volumes upon the present occasion. To the popu lation of Lisbon, which does not much exceed 200,000, it appears there are 6,000 ecclesiastics, while in London, which contains nearly a million and a half, there are not probably more than 500. Now, if the priesthood were of Ilse in proportion to their numbers, one would naturally infer that the people of Lisbon would be the most moral and religious of the two. Without assuming too much for our own capital, however, li - re may safely assert that such is not the case, but that the 500 ecclesiastics of London do more real duty, and produce more real effect upon their congregations, and upon the population at large, than twelve times that number produce upon one seventh of the number in the Portuguese metropolis.— ' But it is not the mere absence of good effect which is to be deplored in an overgrown Catholic priesthood, but the absolute mischief which they do, which is most to be la mented. If mere indolence and vice were all that these people were remarkable for, much as such a state of things must shock every minsi imbued with true religious feeling, yet the evil, great as it would thus be, would know its bounds ; but when we find these people the emissaries of every thing but religion—that tinder the cowl and the rosary, they are, in fact the indefatigable enemies of civil liberty wherever they go—who can won derthat a nation cursed with such a tribe of incendiaries should be plunged in civil discord, and opposed, as far at least as the influence of those persons extends, to every amelioration of their civil institutions ? We do not mean, by these observations, to visit upon the Catholic priest hood, either in Portugal or elsewhere, all the errors and the vices which beset religion; but this we would say, that it is the nature of the Roman Catholic Church, and more especially of its monastic establishments, to train men up in a life of. indolence and intrigue, alike opposed to the true - spirit and utility of the Gospel, and to the hap piness and welfare of society in its civil institutions. In oar own establishment, there is no part of it so useless RS that which is the remnant of its Roman Catholic ori gin ; and in o ur supposed estimate of the 500 clergy of the British m etropolis, meraries, the members weexelude altogether, as supernu of two establishments which are open to that observation. But it is not with their re ligious functions that we would interfere. It is with their intriguing political spirit that we would wage war; and we fairly own, that we entirely despair of seeing any thing in or any like free institutions established in Portugal , be other c ountry which has the misfort une ofg priest-ridden, • and whose religion is made the cloakof selfishness and slavery.—Morning Herald, We cannot ask for a stronger corroboration of the re marks we made a few days since on the absurdity and in utility of allowing a multitude of Counsel to address the Court day after day upon the same case, than what occurred at the very same moment in the case which gave rise to our remarks. here we have an instance of a number of Learned Gentlemen exerting all their ingenuity in ha ranguing the Court from day to day ; but, in fact, like a barrel-organ, constantly repeating the same succession of tunes ; when the Judge, who has patiently listened to their endless, tedious repetitions, very calmly suggests the most obvious point in the case, but which had not oc curred to any one of them. Yet these prodigies of learn ing had been paid, we dare say, at the rate among the m , of fifty guineas an hour, for omitting the most obvious and important feature of the case ; and excluding, by their endless verbosity, a multitude of other suitors from being attended to.—lbid. We have had an opportunity of perusing two Madrid letters Of the 16th inst.—one addressed to a Political Cor respondent in Paris, and the other to a Mercantile House in the City deeply interested in Spanish affairs—the in formation in which we consider particularly striking, on account of the coincidence in their views. They both convey an assurance that the Government of King Ferdi nand is perfectly satisfied and free from all alarm, his Mi nisters having strong grounds for believing that the British Cabinet will co-operate in a plan intended to introduce certain modifications into the Constitution of Portugal, such as may be sufficient to satisfy the wishes of the Por tuguese Royalists, allay the apprehensions of Spain, and also reconcile the other Powers of Europe to the new or der of things established since the death of John VI. One of the letters adds, that the assurances so given, or rather the confident expectation entertained by the Government of King Ferdinand, that such will be the result of the pre sent disagreements mid pending negociations, have mate rially tended to retard the movements of the various corps ordered to the Portuguese frontiers; although the efforts of the Monks and Friars, who have issued forth from their Convents, to prepare the public mind in the provinces, and preach that the Holy Catholic Church is in danger, from a threatened attack of Heretics, in aid of the enlistments going on, are by no means diminished. A letter of the 24th, from Paris, also states, speaking on the affairs of Spain, that, after long and urgent negocia tions between the British Envoy and the Spanish Govern .meat, the only point the former has been able to succeed in, or, in other words, the only concession King Ferdi nand has been induced to make, has been the publication of the Circular of the War Minister, addressed to the Captain-Generals commanding provinces; a concession agreed upon in exchange for solemn pledges given to him by the Cabinet of the Thuilleries, that the British Government will exert all its influence and use all its good offices with the Emperor of Brazil, to introduce certain modifications into the Constitution of Portugal, so as to render it more palateable, and less dangerous to his Catholic Majesty. The same letter adds, that it is the boast of persons belonging to the Foreign Depart ment in Madrid, that the British Envoy has acknow ledged the impossibility of England's sustaining the prin ciples so inconsiderately avowed by Mr. Canning; from which they conclude that, instead of Ferdinand being obliged to resort to the locus pcnitenticr, it is the Foreign Minister of England who has had to fall on his knees.. Such, we can assure our readers, is the purport of three political letters, from persons well versed in the di plomatic movements of the day, and we find - in them a striking coincidence with the sentiments of a Madrid letter in the jlaroniteur, in reference to the Spanish circu lar of the 13th of January. That letter makes use of the following ominous words, " It is thought from this docu ment that our Cabinet now acts in perfect accordance with France and Great Britain, not for the interests of the Constitutional Regime against the Absolutists, but in order to effect a pacification, in consequence of which the Portuguese Constitution itself will be much modified, and perhaps even abolished, as being manifestly at variance with the feelings of the nation." If the Circular of the Madrid War Office, made known on the 13th, is the only satisfaction the united efforts of England and France have hitherto been able to wrest from the obdurate Ferdinand, this document, or its appearance in public rather, is ren dered more curious, by the fact, that the alleged defeat of the Portuguese rebels on the 9th must, at the time, have been known at Madrid, as a Courier from the spot where the battle is understood to have taken place would easily have reached the Spanish capital in two days and a half. If this singular. paper has been deemed satisfac tory to the Cabinets of London and Paris, and removed all the apprehensions excited by the hostile preparations of Ferdinand, or even if the reinstatement of the Marquess de Casa Flores in Lisbon has for the present been deemed sufficient atonement for the armament and aggression of the Portuguese Rebels, we are very much deceived if either, added to the influence and united efforts of the English and French Governments, will have sufficient wei g ht over the mind of the Emperor of Brazil to alter, modify, or suspend the Constitution of Portugal; nor can we ever be induced to think that the Lusitanian Cortes would become parties to such a request. The paper, how ever—which the organ of the French Government tells us is now to be considered as the Manifesto of Spain, although, in its origin, it was no more than a set of instructions, officially communicated by the:Minister at the head of the War Department to his subalterns in the provinces, and even of their date we have no positive information—has, from the particular motive for which it was put forth, ac quired such an enhanced degree of importance, since it first reached us, that we cannot resist the temptation of ,passing a closer opinion upon it. In this memorable State Paper, we confess that we are unable to discover any other than the character peculiar to all the documents issuing from the Government of King Ferdinand. After a pompous introduction, in many instances foreign to the object of the orders intended to be given, and by no means usual from a supe rior to an inferior, a confused series of proposed measures follow, which no military ?r political man in the world could possibly understand. The grossest pedantry is con spicuous in every line, and frequently an order is given for an administrative measure in 'the style of a diplo matic note ; whilst the military commands resemble a Pope's Bull, or a Firman of the Grand Seignior.— Hence it is that, in Spain, seldom is there an order, or a decree, issued, which does not require numerous ex planations, before it can be carried into execution, and these! explanations again call for other eclaircissments so that there is scarcely a measure ordained, however tri vial i n it s nature , w hi c h d oes no t t a ke a year before it is properly understood and fit to be executed and obeyed. How those, therefore, who have now their eyes on the movements of the Spanish Cabinet, and are entitled to explanati ons on the subj ec t o f h ost il e preparat i ons w hi c h hereafter may possibly endanger the tranquillity of Europe, can be satisfied with the paper alluded to, it is impossible for us to understand. The style seems peculiarly studied, as well as guarded, so as to give room for all kinds of interpretations. Hence it leaves a door open afterwards to give satisfaction to any fo reign power that may demand it, such as may suit the con venience or temper of the Spanish Monarch ; whilst at the same time it flatters the several domestic parties, by consoling the peaceable with protestations of meekness, and threatening the obstinate with the scourge of war. Yet, after all, no positive conclusion can be drawn from it. If the B r iti s h G overnment a t this juncture obtains over the King of Spain such an imposing ascendancy as will make him desist from interfering with Portugal, Ferdinand will then act with moderation, and boast that his conduct is guided by the public declarations he has put forth ; yet of these same declarations will lie avail himself, if the ex cessive confidence of the British, as the allies of Portugal, or the realized promise of future aid from others, should encourage him sufficiently to avail himself of a pretext that " Castilian pride has been humbled." This particu lar phrase, and others which h ave a str i ct ana l ogy w i t h those used in his Councils by the martial Archbishop of views b y t h the e Toledo, indicate the deep impression made on th e m i n d o f the -Spanish Monarch and his Ministers,instigations are of the Apostolicals. With their certainly in a perfect state of uniformity ; and if his mea sures are not already so prompt and decided as his wishes are, it is because the political and finan c i a l s i tuat i on i n which he -is placed compels him to make use o f subter fuges, trusting in the end that they will prove equall y sure. i Nothing, we again repeat, ! determined by the re peated assurance that he " will adopt measures to pre vent the contagion." These measures may eventually tend to consequences the most invidious and alarming. ; Ferdinand allows that he gave an asylum to certain "Por i tuguese emigrants," whose conduct he thus seeks to palli ate, whilst at the same time he mentions " the sedition of the 115 men, belonging to his own 4th regiment of cavalry, as the first signal of the criminal attempts excited by the innovation in Portugal." Further on, although he main tains a most profound silence on the subject of the strong accusation directed against him, on all hands, for having protected and abetted the Portuguese rebels, whom he honours with the title of " emigrants," he does not fail to proceed e d th e expe diti ons in name the place from whence tended against Tarifa, Almeira, and Guadamar, as if Portugal had any connection with them, or as if the British Government, against whom the insinuation is directed, had contributed to enterprizcs, weak and mad in themselves, and, at the same time, so disguised, that the Govern ment of no free port could ever have prevented them. In a compliment which he afterwards addresses to the British Nation, he mixes up the fashionable ideas of legi timacy with a kind of malicious irony, no doubt to leave room for a supposition that he is acting, on this occasion, against it. He calls to mind the military glories of his people ; he invokes Castilian pride and fidelity, as well as the honour of the Monarchy; and then points out his own arrogant determination of putting himself at the head of his armies, should it he requisite. Nevertheless, he does not forget to announce the extraordinary sacrifices his people will have to make, again boasting his overawing legitimacy, with an affected application. Nothing, after a careful perusal, can we find pacific in the whole document, nor in it do we notice a single line, or a solitary word, that induces a belief that it is the cordial intention of the Spanish Monarch sincerely to acknowledge the Govern ment of Portugal, or disarm the rebels by whom it is at tacked, in case they return to his territory. If the Portu guese Government is mentioned or alluded to, it is treated only as the offspring of rebellious usurpation. What, then, have we to counterbalance the insinuations and declarations which we have above noticed ? Certainly nothing more than the protestations of a faithless Monarch, avowing that his intentions are to preserve peace—to maintain him self neutral in the domestic dissensions of Portugal—at tend to his own internal and external security—protect his frontiers, &c. Let us for a moment suppose, that between these protestations of peace and warlike vaunts, as above described, there was an equilibrium perfectly established, which certainly is very far from being our opinion, what, we should like to know, is the natural conclusion to be drawn ? We should answer, that after this me morable State Paper, pompously styled Manifesto by the organ of the French Government, has met the eye of Europe, England still remains in the same doubt and per plexity as before, neither having Ferdinand as an ally on whom she can rely, nor as an enemy against whom she can proceed to fight. In this case; therefore, we have again to go back and take into account the consideration due to the character of Ferdinand and his advisers, in order to be in a situation to deduce what would be the imme diate consequences of this singular exposition, in case a British force was not now landed on the banks of the Tagus. This event, however, has not thwarted although it may have delayed, the main object, dear to the hearts of all the Apostolicals. The Spanish armies are now paus ing, arid do not venture to advance, yet in them we see no other than enemies, armed with intrigues and conspiracies; disguised whilst they consider themselves comparatively weak, although prepared to act openly, whenever 'they shall be sufficiently strong. At all events, whatever may be the attitude they assume, they are the enemies of Por tugal, and consequently ours ; nor can we see in what way the Emperor of Brazils, to whom the present liberties of his native land are mainly due, can alter or derange the most magnificent structure that was ever raised by a Monarch.—Morning Chronicle. The proceeding which at present attracts so much at tention under the name of the Wellesley Cause, has been, by some of our contemporaries, transferred as it were, from the high Court in which it is pending, to the juris diction of the daily and weekly Press. We do not follow their example, partly because it is highly indecorous, as well as illegal, to comment upon the merits of questions concerning private rights, while they are awaiting the de cision of a competent tribunal, and partly, because the nature of the facts, and the circumstances of the persons involved in this particular proceeding are such, that we cannot help regarding it as a misfortune that the eyes of the whole kingdom have been turned to what has been as asserted, proved, or declared, in its progress. As the investigation involved merely family transactions, we see no good reason why it should not have been con ducted by the Counsel, Solicitors, and parties, in pre sence of the Judge alone, without inviting the attention and curiosity of the public to what is much more likely to taint than to improve. Wellesley is a name which ought to stand high in the minds of all Englishmen, and whatever tends to tarnish it, must be matter of general regret. But though we are not silly enough to imitate some of our contemporaries in deciding a question, which it belongs only to the Chancellor, or the House of Lords to determine, yet there are some general speculations, which this proceeding has called forth, that require animad version. The Morning Chronicle, true to its old habit of detecting, in every thing that occurs, new proof that justice is worse administered England than any where else, is delighted with the harvest of criticism which the Wellesley cause affords to it. The first and great disco very which it has made is, that the jurisdiction, by virtue of which the Chancellor interferes between a father and a child who is a ward of the Court, is too monstrous to be endured, and that it must lie the subject of immediate in quiry in Parliament. Whence comes this sudden flash of wisdom? The jurisdiction is of remote origin; no Fer complained of it; in no instance has it been abused; in the present case it has not yet b een exerted ; and if it shall hereafter be exerted , al l m ust allow that the exer cise of it has not been rash or precipitate. The notion of our cotemporary seems to be, that there ought to be no limit to the power of the father over the child : we are not of that opinion. We can can conceive many cases, in which it is highly necessary that the authority of the father should be controlled by judicial discretion. They who think otherwise surely forget that the legal power of the father far exceeds any which nature confers on him ; for his legal power is absolute and exclusive. The natural tie be tween the mother and the child, is at least- as strong as that between the child and thefather; yet the law recognises no parental authority in the mother. Cases are constantly occurring, in which, in consequence of the misconduct of the mother, her intercourse with her children is restricted ; and instances are still more frequent in which mothers submit voluntarily to restrictions in order to avoid the exposure which would attend an appli cation to the Court. We confess we see no good reason why either the natural or technical authority of the father should be sacred from judicial interference, any more than the natural authority of the mother. The interposition of the Chancellor in those delicate cases is merely a branch of that general jurisdiction which . the Court exercises for the protection of the persons and property of infant wards ; a jurisdiction which, though it goes on silently and without noise, is administered with vast benefit to the country, and affords security to thousands of families, whose infant members would otherwise be exposed to great risk of ruin. The ignorant men who raise a clamour against the Court of Chancery, would be sur prised, if they co u ld b e ma d e awar e of the go o d w hi c h i t works, merely as a sure means of preserving and admi nistering the fortunes of infants, and directing the appli cation of funds fur their maintenance. Yet this is a Th e Morning Ch ron i c l e i s branch of its busin ess , w hi c h a ttracts little attentio n , an d which, because it m a k es no figure in the newspapers; th e public overlook altog e th er . hi g hly indignant wi t h t h e Ch a ncellor's jurisdi ct i on , be cause the question now before that Judge is heard upon affidavits : and our contemporary prefers the examina tion of witnesses. We do not mean at present to in quire, whether affidavits are, or are not, in all classes of matters, a bad species of evidence. It is enough for us to say, that it is foolish to make them a topic of im peachment against our equity tribunals. In this respect Courts of Law and Courts of Equity are on the same footing. In certain descriptions of business both proceed upon affidavits; in others, affidavits will be received by neither, and the testimony of witnesses, open to cross examination, is alone admitted. how absurd, then, it is, to make the common practice of all our tribunals a matter of exclusive blame against the Court of Chancery : nay, this very practice has been, in some instances, introduced into the Court of Chancery, by the express provisions of statutes, when the general law of the Court would have required a form of proceeding in which affidavits would not have been inadrnissible.—New Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATTON-GARDEN.—A lad 16 years of age, named Wm. Richardson, was brought up under a warrant, for indecently as saulting. Eliza Miller, a young woman about twenty-two, and of particularly interesting appearance, who stated, that she lived in the service of the defendant's father, at• No. 27, Coppice R0w...- For some weeks past she had been annoyed by his continued im portunities, which at last broke out into acts of violence, particu larly on the evening of Thursday, when she was obliged, in the temporary absence of her master, who Was at one of his ware houses in the city, to lock herself up for two hours. Her only apparent remedy was the course she had adopted, and which had been sanctioned by his father.—He was ordered to find bail. LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Rums are in good demand, and about 300 punch,. have been sold to the trade and speculators : Common Leetverds 3 0. P. at 2a. 6d. ; Jamaica, of tine flavour, 16 to 18 0. P. at 3e. 6d., and 25 0. P. at 4s. rr gallon. The Cotton market has been steady throughout the week ; the business has been chiefly in the American descriptions, for which our last quotations have been obtained. A small lot of Pernambuco has been taken for export. The total sales for the week amount to about 10,600 bags, consisting of 7080 Bowed bid. to 7d. ; 560 Orleans 7isl. to Bid. ; 290 Mobile and Ala bama 614 to 7 d. ; 250 Sea Island 114 d. to 1214. ; 30 Stained ditto at 71d. ; 290 Pernambuco at 10d. to 101 d. ; 320 Marna ham at 9d. to 9id. ; 480 Bahia at 81d. to 9 1 (1. ; 70 Para at Bd. ; 10 Barbadoes at 71d. ; 60 Demerara at 91d. ; 50 Carthagena at ;20 Cu mana at 7id. ; 830 Egyptain nd. N S id; 270 Surat at 5, 1 1t0 6 d. ; 50 Bengal at Sid. 950 Sea Island an 4 150 Stained ditto are declared for auction on the 2d of February. The arrivals are 2383 bags. 'We have again experienced a good demand for Tobacco, both from the trade and for Ireland.—The stocks of good Hides being much reduced, but little business has been done ; the sales this week consist of 1350 dry salted Brazil Cow and Ox at (Sid. W 7d., and 210 wet salted West India at s&d. per lb. Imported into Liverpool, from 20th to 26th Jan. inclusive, by 9 vessels from Charleston, 1 Leghorn, 2 Sicily, 1 Africa, 2 Smyrna, I Malta, and 1 Dantzic. Tar, American, 360 brls. ; Lime Juice, 7 punchs. ; Olive Oil. 26 casks ; P a l m ditto, 115 casks ; Madder Roots, 341 bales; Cotton, United States, 2,093; Malta, 290 bales; Rice, East India, 41.0 bags ; Wheat, Poreign, 650 qrs. ; Currants, 139 butts 34 car. ; Argol, 13 casktra 'Valonia, 110 tone ; Shumac, 2,360 bags ; Barwood, 10 tonal d Camwood, 31 tons ; Fustic, 4 tons ; Brimstone, 73 tons; Yelkw Berries, 20 bales. The very limited import of Turpentine which has of late been received and is still expected, with the increased demand for the manufactured article, bawd occasioned on the part of the trade a greater desire to secure an additional supply at present rates ; early in the week some considerable parcels of old import were sold at 12s. to 12s. 6(1., since which about 3,000 barrels nos' have been eold at 12s. 9d. to 13s. 3d. ; the total sales are 10,880 barrels, of which about 6,000 barrels are taken by the trade, and the remainder on speculation; holders of fine parcels now decline selling under 14,. to 14s. 6d.--In Tar no sales have been made this week. Rosin has been in brisk demand Rt 6s. 6d., the manufacturers now. decline selling under 7s. to 7s. 3d. per cwt. The use of this article for making gas now appear' likely to become general, it being found much cheaper than oil. The transactions in Ashes continue very limited, the total sales of the week scarcely exceed 100 barrels Montreal Pot at 265. (id. to 275. and 20 barrels Pearl at 275. 6d. with 50 barrels second ditto at 225. 3d. ; 160 barrel.' States' Pearl (brand 1625 and 1826) have been sold at 275. 6d. to 28s. per cwt. A feiv casks Philadelphia Bark have brought 12s. 9d. to 13s. In Dyewoods the business is not extensive: 20 tons Campeachy Logwood at 8/. 155. to 9/. ; 70 tons Jamaica from the quay at 6/. 17s. 6d. ; of Fustic 5 tons Cuba 10/. be. and 5 tons Spanish at 6/, 10s. per ton, with 54 tons solid Nicaragua Wood at 191. per ton in bond, and 16 tons Sapan Wood at 20/. 10s. in bond, are the only ' sales reported. A speculative demand for Rough Brimstone peared early in the week, and 300 tons were sold at 6/. 10s. pet toil ; yesterday 50 tons were offered by auction, and Si. 12s. 6d° was the highest bidding, the parcel is held for 6/. per ton front the quay. The inquiry for Madder Roots has subsided, a fine parcel of Turkey was offered yesterday by auction, and bought in, 40s. being demanded. New Sicily Shumate of fine quality rs inquired for, about 2,000 bags have been sold at 11s. and a small parcel of Trieste at 9s. ; Verona is held for Bs. 6d. per ewt. Gael Valonia meets a steady demand at 181. to 181. 100. per ton. 'There has been more inquiry for Saltpetre, and about 850 bags sold at 255. to 265. per cwt. A few casks Lime Juice have been taken at 18d. per gallon.-Nothing done in Indigo. The only business in Flax seed, is a small parcel of American old at 38s. and t we nty hogsheads new for sowing at 625. per hogshead, but the latter price could not be realised in quantity. Olive Oil continues in good request at rather improving prices. 22 tuns Gallipoli have brought 44/., and about 10 tuns Sicily 381. 10s. to 40/. per tun. Seed Oils are in limited request. Fib Oils are steady, and about 40 tuns Newfoundland Cod sold this week.-Pulm Oil is steady at 26/. 10s. to 27/. per tun, and about 50 tuna sold at these prices.-Oil of Turpentine is stead,' at 58/. to 60/. per tun.-The transactions in Hides have been prin cipally confined to dry salted Brazil, of which about 1400 have been sold at 63-d. to '7d. per lb., with 210 West India salted at Sid. per lb.-In Horse Hides nothing done -The sales of Rice are unimportant, about 60 tierces Carolina at 21s. 3d. to 235., and ISO bags East India at 20s. per cwt.-The sales of Hemp are trifling, hut prices remain steady.-Tallow has been rather more enquired for, and some sales effected at better prices. Our market for produce generally has been rather more ani mating than we have experienced it since the commencement of the year, without any material alteration. in prices. The cony pany's sale of Indigo, in London, goes off briskly, supporting the advance realised at the commencement; in the meantime the article is partly neglected here. But time importers have adver tised the whole of their stocks for Friday, 16th February, - and we expect a good demand when the eale in London is finally closed -For Saltpetre there has been a fair demand, and about 800 hag , have been taken at 255. 6d. a 265. 6d., being a trifling advance and the holders are very firm at our highest quotations.-Nothing done in Safflower.-At a public sale of Shell Lac, Turmeric, Onto Arabic, and Munjeet yesterday, only a few lots of Shell Lac told at irregular prices. The operations in Plantation Sugar have again been on a small scale, and the sale only ernounte to 400 hogsheads at steady prices. In East India there have been about 300 bags good white dis posed of at 775.-Nothing done in foreign.-The transactions in Molasses are confined to 100 puncheons Demerara, off the quaYo at 275. 6(1.-At the sale of Coffee brought forward, only a fell casks found buyers, and by private contract some small parcels have been taken by the growers at former rates.-No sales in Cocoa, Ginger, Pepper, or Pimento.-In Rice 30 casks Carolina at 21s. 3d. a 225. 9d., in bond, and a few casks screened at 375. 6d. a 385., duty paid ; 180 bags East India, at 20s. in bond. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST MEEK. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31. Elsworth, J., Bowling, Bradford—Office of Messrs. Alexander, Halifax-6 Gilbert and Taylor, Bristol—Commercial Rooms, Bristol—l Hodgson, T., Pendleton, Lancashire—White's Hotel, Man-. Chester-10 Horlock and Co., Bath—White Lion, Bath-11 Holt, M. and R., Hulme—Blackfriars inn, Manchester-10 Knight and Wilkinson, Great Horton, Yorkshire—Court-house, Leeds—l 1 Lawrence, S., • Cheltenham—Commercial rooms, Bristol-1 1 Miller, J., Liverpool—Royal Hotel, Birmingham-11 Morison, W., Liverpool—Mr. Maudsley, Liverpool-2 Priestley, G., Leeds—Court-house, Leeds-1 1 Robson, J., Chorlton-row—Star r Manchester-9 Westall, J., Rochdale—White's, Manchester-10 rErutuAlts- 1. C x, E., Ledbary—Feathers, Ledbury-1 1 Dunn, W., Louth—King's Head, Louth-1 I E sworth, J., Bowling, Bradford—Office of Messrs. Alexander, ' Halifax-11 Ewart, F., Neweastle-upon- Tyne—Crown and Thistle, New castle-11 Harvey, W., Launceston—White Hart, Launceston—l 0 Johnson, P., Runcorn—Golden Lion, Liverpool-1 Penny, J., Lytnington, Hants—Greyhound inn, Blandford Forum-6 Robert , , J., liolbeck—Court-house, Leeds-12 Wright and Leedhans, Manchester—White's, Manchester-11 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED. Petition• to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fieldt, JAN. 31, AT NINE. Chide, H., Deptford, coal-meter Higgs, C., Westhain, baker Hodgson, D., Colchester, victualler Kearney, C., Newington, ehopman Lacy, K., Spitalfields, clerk Layburn, J., Chelsea, hackneyman Milne, J., Strand, agent Moodie, M., Chelsea, widow Nutt, J., Sutton, Somersetshii e, farmer Owen, R., Kennington, carpenter Penn, W., Salisbury, butcher Sayers, C., Worthing, victualler Thurtell, T., Kensington, victualler Yarnold, 8., Palgrave, Suffolk, lieut. R. M. FEB. I, AT TEN. Avery, J., Fulham, butcher Cherrington, E., Rathbone-place; cabinet-maker Culmer, G., Sidmontb, officer of the Preventive Service Griffiths, T., Pancras, carpenter Gwyn, E., Pimlico, , urveyor Hastier, E , Poplar, shopkeeper button, G., Westminster, cabinet maker Lock, T., Upton, Berks, victualler Neate, C., Devizes, smith Plaistow, .1., Liverpool, cooper Puddefoot, 8., Lisaon-green, paper-stainer Smith, J., Portland Town, shoemaker Underwood, W., Nailswortb, Gloucestershire, millwright Williams, W., Deptford, boat-builder Williams, L., Bethnal Green, clerk IMPROVEMENTS OF LONDON.—Otte of the most important plans for the improvement of our capital has just been finally sanctioned.—A minute has passed the Treasury Board, authorising the erection of a Terrace from Storey's Gate, up the Bird Cage Walk, along the whole of the south ride of the Park, to Pimlico. This will be in unison with the Terrace on the op posite side, from Spring Gardens westward ; and thus, with the King's New Palace at one end, and the Norse Guards and other architectural public buildings at the other, form St. James's Park into o ne grand square. In the centre the canal is to be re duced, and diverted into picturesque windings, instead of its pre sent formal and uninteresting shape. The marshy ground is to be drained and disposed into parterres, shrubberies, and other or vying in size and at tr actions with the Gar namental designs.—Thus we shall at la st have a delightful pro menade in London, dens of the Thuilleries or Luxembourg.—Literary Gazette. Robertson,practicrmhai s d . in o g f i l n at s e pr p in re g- - ~... NIGHT much in West Lothian. On the night between the 19th and 20th December , Thomas G-Th field, in the parish of Dalmeny, was, under the provisions of the statute 57th Geo. 111. cap. 90, seized by the Earl of Hopetoun's gamekeepers, as being found armed with a gun, and shooting in a plantation on the estate of Duddingeton , situated in the parish of Abercorn ; and on the night between the 10th and 11th „ailed very P oAcrilN Ja nuary current, John Russell, residing at Westfield Wool Mill. in the parish of Torphichen, was seized by the gamekeepers of Wm. Doune Gillon, Esq. of Wallhouse, armed with a gun in like manner, on the estate of Wallhouse. Warrants of commitment were forthwith issued by the Justices of the Peace against both delinquents, a n d relative precogn i t i ons were forwarded to the Crown Counsel.— The Scotsman. FATAL EFFECTS OF ADMINISTERING GIN AS ♦ Minter/mm.-0n Sunday last, Wra. Drabble, of Edgeley, hav ing three of his children much afflicted with the worms, gave to each of them, as medicine, nearly half a noggin of gin, and put them to bed. The two younger fell asleep and remained so till 12 o'clock at noon, when, on a person going into the room to see how they were, found them in dreadful convulsions, and notwith standing medical aid was instantly procured, they remained in that state until death released them from their sufferings ; the elder aged eight years, died on Sunday evening, and the younger, aged six years, on Monday morning. The particulars of this melan-. choly affair having been communicated to the Coroner, he consi dered an inquest to he unnecessary, as no blame could be attached to the afflicted part nts. The medicine administered to the eldest girl had the desired ell-cwt.—Stockport Advertiser. FEAT EXTRAORDINARY. —A farmer, named Ro land of Stoke Kiln, near Taunton, On Wednesday last, at an inn in that town, undertook for a wager of five shillings to eat an or dinary s i ze d glass rummer. This extraordinary task he actually performed in about 20 minutes, to the astonishment of those pre sent. In the course of this performance, the difficulties of the feat were sufficiently attested by the copious effusion of blood which flowed from his mouth. The stem of the glass occasioned some delay in the c ompletion of this singular experiment on the dental powers of the animal system. The.performer resolutely offered to go through a similar process by devouring a quart jug, of earth enware, which was then before him ! but the landlord of the inn, becoming reasonably alarmed for all his crockery, secured it from the threatened destruction.—Roland is still living, and states that the only effects he had suffered from his undertaking are those which he might have apprehended from an excessive dose of Epsom salts.—Bath Herald._ DEATII OF MR. AULD, THE HARLEQUIN.- This hero in pantomime has suddenly closed his earthly career, under circumstances must distressin g t o hi s f am ily and friends, and which has excited great sympathy, and cast a gloom, even in some degree of suspension, over the theatrical performances in this city. By some unfortunate accident, about half-past four o'clock on Monday afternoon, Mr. Auld was precipitated from the top to the bottom of the stone steps (fourteen in number) leading from the street to the pit and the interior of the Theatre. Imme diately on the accident being discovered, medical assistance was sent for. Messrs. Tucker, De la Garde, and Herries promptly attended ; but the injury he had received ants beyond the reach of all human skill. Poor Auld lingered till Tuesday afternoon, when life became extinct at two o'clock.—Exeter Flying Post. BIRTH. On the 27th inst., the lady of George Owen, Esq., of the Se cretary's Office, East India House, of a son. MARRIED. On the 23d inst., at Chichester, Malcolm Laing, Esq., eldest son of James Laing, Esq., of Jamaica, to Laura, third daughter of the late Thomas Strickland, Esq., of Kendal. ♦Wheat. Per Quarter. Andover-. Carlisle. Hexkun Morpeth Newcastle --- Romsey Sunderland- Winchtmter Per Bushel. Binningham- Coventry --.. Neweastle (Staff:) Northallerton - Peurith Stafford Warwick ~.. Worcester, Per 8011. Barnardcastle Darlington Durham Stanhope ,--. Stockton L. to A. 5} 62 43 60 45 52 48 f:9 54 59 54 53 d. P. d. 74 80 70 74 90 04 68 80 00 79 80 90 70 78 73 78 I 1 A 16 0 130 16 0 10 0 13 0 13 (1 13 9 120 13 6 13 0 15 0 Wolslngham Parley. Oats. Beans. F. to L. 34 37 25 41 36 39 35 40 35 .38 9. to $. 30 32 32 38 24 29 24 38 23 32 i. to g 4 8 54 35 s. d. s. d. 59 66 5 2 5 6 66 70 50 53 00 52 70 73 50 60 53 6 6 a. d. s. d.I 40 5a 52 56 50 551 30 32 46 00 16 60 50 56 46 k3i R. d. s. d. 80 88 66 84 90 96 66 70 00 -00 66 80 6 8 B'o 80 90 11 0 140 10 6 11 0 9(1 100 00 100 70 90 1 70 HP 8G 86 70 00 70 00 80 90 - 0 15 12 fi 14 10 0 12 00 0 00 0 00 0 a. to ..• / L- -- 44 49 50 54 .... .. a. d. Fd• 00 0° 00 0° 00 0 0 00 0° 00 00 00 0° 80 06 100120 0 13Q no 1 2 u 100 11 0 oo 0 0 on 00 00 0 00 00 00 108 l SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN MARKET.—Jan, 20. We had a small supply of Wheat in this day's market, prices nearly the same as last, average about 3d. per boll up. Barley, Oats, and Pease, have risen a little .. .on the top price, whil e Beans are a shade downwards. Wheat. Barley. Oats. p e , a . e. First Second Third There were 583 bolls of Wheat in market, whereof Mos c dd 2 „, 25 at IL Ps.-20 at 11. Si. 6d.-122 at 11. 88.-155 at I/. is. 6d.-10 41 at 11. 6e. M.--54 , at U. 64 . -17 at 11 . 6d.--3 at 1/. Average, it is. 4d.-36 Unsold -14 Grey. Beans. 28s Ed 26s Od 24s Od ; follows :--• ) at 11.7x.-.' ss. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. --Jan. 25. The quantity of Wheat at this day's market was but and sold readily at last week's uricea. Wheat. Barley. Oats. - Pease. Beans. First Second Third middling, DIED. On the 25th inst., Frances, wife of Frederick Pollock, Esq., of Bedford-row. On the 21st inst., at Hampton-common, Sarah, the wife of Martin Morrison, E•q., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. On the 25th inst., Anne Lydia, wife of Mr. Thomas Hobson , Grafton -street, Fitzroy-square. Printed and Pubtihed by AI. YOUNG, at the Butt-OrricS) No: n 2, EiTakwn. Pease•