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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY _Extracts from the Morning Papers,Dec.lo, 1825. THE TIMES.] -. The city authorities most to be respected, ap pear, from the accounts of yesterday, to have a conviction that:so much of the recent alarms as *ere caused by an apparent scarcity of gold and silver, may be securely laid aside, gold having linen below the Mint price—a proof,"undoubt- Idly, that there is no lack of the precious metals its: this country. But if there had 'been such a itart;'Whyshould any apprehension have arisen? Could skill, or industry, or their joint produce— manufactured property--=-be at once annihilated ? If not, then the means of bringing back gold, to whatever amount of it might be called for by the public convenience, were still in our possession; and,the gold would have flowed in upon Great Brain as quickly and as naturally as it had ebbed away from her. But, for the famous " alarms," the" agitations," the " forebodings" of disaster, which have been•harped upon for so many weeks, we feel them not, and have never. felt them. We knew the public credit was se cure that individual credit, where it reposed on solid property, was intangible ; that no man had reason to be-intimidated, but the adventurer who Thad ':previously dared too inuch4 that let the storm rage as it might, when the clouds should disperse, and the horizon resume its customary. brightness, all the great landmarks of the national wealth and prosperity would'be seen to occupy their , • stations undisturbed, and 'Commerce and . confidence to - pursue their march, no Longer op pressed by those unsound incumbrances which the fury of the crisis had detached and utterly dissipated. This- was our view; from:the first, of the late embarrassments., In..,the city. We de clared. that the distress complained of in certain quarters was no disease whatever, but the synlp tom of a past disease, which " was working its own cure," and ought not _therefore to be tam pered with. In truth, the whole turmoil is no thing more than a re-action, . the-falling to the earth of a balloon, after it has exhausted the power which buoyed it. Who is it, then, that, accuses The Times of having propagated unjustifiable fears for public - credit ? No man, ,we boldly affirm, who rightly understands his own interest, provided he be one whose inte rest it is, that property managed with prudence should be kept secure from the incursions of Avild speculation and .extravagance—that a system should be checked which places for a time the mercantile desperado on a level-with the man of pubstauce and honour, and that public confidence should be limited to the resources on - which alone it can be legitimately founded, or by which, so far as is in human discrimination, it ought to be calculated and measured. There is no truth more thoroughly unanswerable than that the fictitious credit by which the rash speculator struts his -short ,hour upon the stage of enterprize, must, .when it can proceed no further, fall 'upon the means of those who have indulged him with it. -There is little doubt that credit, unscrupulously given,,has; at no distant period, been perverted to wild. and unsuccessful objects. The cotton speculations were urged onwards by it—joint .stock companies without number were encou raged, and even generated by the facility with which money was raised on paper of small in trinsic worth. The Pound-note Bill of the coun try banks helped to spread the rage for gambling to the remotest corners of the island. If not these .circumstances, what, let us ask, is it that has produced -the failure of so many banks,. and the embarrassment of so many traders ? The fact cannot be denied—the distress did take place— the bankruptcies in the west and north of Eng land were notorious before the London press be gan any reasonings upon the subject—the gold was 'exported, and we wish the export had con tinued long enough to effect a fall of prices ; but vehat stupidity or malice is it to charge the pro duction of :an alarm upon thbse who have never .ceased to assert that the mitigation of the evil was to be obtained only by retracing the steps which had iu reality. produced it ! A few weeks hence it may lw seen who was right. It is hardly necessary to - say, that for the opinions of our city correspondeot's we hold ourselves in no degree answerable ; they communicate merely what transpires in the city, and their fads we have found. to be invariably true. If their doctrines or:feelings were occasionally to catch the conta 'glen the' hour, ,it has its use also, that the - world should see .how the commercial body of the metropolis are affected-from day to day; but neither the world nor ourselves are called upon to sympathize with. these diurnal impressions. • [MORNING 'HERALD.] In the improvements which have.already taken ~place in the Metropolis, as well as those which are promised, there is en evident want of one - grand - comprehensive design, on which the whole should proceed. Instead of one set of projec tors forming a new street here, and another with - their crescent or. arcade,, intersecting or running close beside - it, it would be' much better, both in point of taste and utility, as well as of econo- My, if Parliament, or competent persons on the part of Government, were to suggest and de .iipe the main points to be attended to, to which joint-stock projectors and- individuals should 'be called upon to conform. And we think it would not be a misapplication of public money were the Commissioners of Crown Lands, or the Lords of the Treasury, empowered to buy up decayed houses, or the sites of those destroyed by fire or otherwise, in the lines of any new streets or pro jected improvements. We will illustrate this by the instance of the Strand. Nothing of the kind, we can imagine, would be more desirable than tbc:Widening of this great thoroughfare from Char ing-cross to Saint Paul's ; but this is an object of such magnitude and expellee as could. duly be accomplished by degrees, and would probably • bein - 06 end brought about with more facility • and' economy, 'it — there :were the poker and the funds provided to purchase and set back decayed houses as opportunities offered, instead of their being rebuilt, as is every year now the case, upon the old inconvenient sites ; perpetuat- ing the narrowness of the street, or at all events, rendering the future widening of it more remote, expensive, and unavailable. The object of course should be to render the whole of the Strand as wide as it is at Somerset-house. On the subject of the defined and comprehensive plan to which we have alluded, we would suggest that Mr. Nash, for instance, who seems of all men best qualified for the task—should present to Go vernment such a plan as he may deem advisable for the general improvement of the Metropolis ; and that such plan, when well considered and digested, not merely by a tastekss Cotnmittee of Taste, but by the public at large (who pos sess in general more good sense, as well as taste, than half the would-be connoisseurs), should be adopted as the basis for all subsequent proceedings, and that individuals or asso ciations should be compelled to conform to, such a plan whenever their proposed un dertakings came in contact with it. We trust too, that any such plan would comprise not only mere lines of streets, but that a compre hensive provision 'would be made in it for the health, the recreation, and most obvious wants of the inhabitants ; and, among the rest, that there would be ample spaces left for markets for the standing of public vehicles, and so forth ; and that public pumps and fountains would be placed in convenient situations throughout the town. — It is a real grievance, in the present dense state of our population, to see with how little judgment many of the new buildings are going on ; and how inconsiderately some of the few present open spaces, such as the Museum and Gray's Inn Gardens, are covering with buildings. The Regent's Park, we fear, is ,fast becoming, with its filthy extremity at Portland Town, any thing but what it might be expected to be ; and in - the other Parks encroach ments are for ever going on, which are calculated very much to curtail, if not entirely to preclude, the share of health and recreation which they have hitherto afforded. Our object in these re marks, we trust , cannot be misunderstood. We admire and applaud the spirit of improvement which is afloat. All we wish is, that it may be directed to proper ends, through desirable chan nels, and not be lost, or capital thrown away, for want of defined and intelligible plans, such as we have pointed out. [MORNING POST.I By the Act of 6th, George IV.—" If any per son shall after the Ist day of August, 1825, enter into any garden, orchard, or nursery ground, or into any hot-house, green-house, or conservatory, and shall take or carry away any trees, plants, shrubs, or roots, or any fruit, or vegetable pro ductions, although such trees, plants, shrubs, roots or vegetable productions respectively, had not by having been severed from the ground or soil in which the same were growing, or such fruit had not by having been severed from the tree or trees, or , plant or plants on which the same were growing, become personal property before such person entered as Afore.: said, but. were respectively so severed by such person, at the time of his. or her so taking or car rying away the said articles, or any of them, re"- spectively, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be punished as guilty of feloniously stealing the same, &c. We extracted thus much from the above salutary Act of Parliament in order to put all the young gentlemen of our public schools, as well as those under private tuition, on their guard against the 'ancient and enterprising pastime of robbing orchards, since paying ►he reckoning, as it was once pleasantly called, will not now sa tisfy the account ; but imprisonment as a felon is the certain consequence of conviction, and the punishment may be even extended to transportation. We at the same time beg leave to submit, that when this Act passed into a law, one most important point escaped the vigilance of ,the Legislature, viz. 44 forfeiture of estate," &c. A. boy under age may, in numerous instances, stand, not only en. tilled to, but absolutely seised, as it is termed in the language of the law, of the most valuable property in the kingdom, and if convicted under this Act of robbing an orchard of a hat-full of :apples, he not only suffers imprisonment, or what ever punishment may be adjudicated, but he incurs a forfeiture of all his estate and posses sions, as having committed a felony. This, we apprehend, is not the intent and meaning of the Act, though, in the present shape, we do not see how it can be construed otherwise. We point out this serious consequence of an otherwise wholesome statue, in the hope that the subject may fall under the notice of some lion. Member, through whose exertions the evil may be reme died by a suitable amendment of the Act. at, the next Session of Parliament. rilityrisu PRESS.) The Paris Papers of Wednesday, with the Etoile of the day following, arrived yesterday. They are filled chiefly with political commenta ries on the late judgements of the Royal Court with respect to the Constitutionnel and the Courier Francais. Each Journal treats the question according to the i•iews and interests of its party. The Etoile proclaims the acquittal of these Papers the triumph of impious and revolu tionary doctrines. The Journals belonging to the Opposition severally regard it, in proportion as they incline to Liberal or Royalist opinions, as an event in the highest degree important and auspicious to the public liberties, and pregnant with danger to the Ministry. The news from Greece is only of interest as it seems to throw a doubt on the reported arrival of the Turco- Egyptian expedition at Navarino. The ad vices from Spain represent every day more clearly the multiplying embarrassments of the Spanish Governors in the possessions yet retained by the mother country in the New World. Unless the Cabinet of Madrid be very prompt in their mea sures, it is quite certain that they will not long have a colony to trouble them, on the other side of the Atlantic. We had intended to develope in our Paper of to-day the combined causes to which the tem porary—for they are but temporary—embarrass ments of the money market are to be traced ; but the ititerference of other topics obliges us to post pone it till our next. We shall demonstrate most clearly, that the distress which has pressed so se verely on commercial capital originated in causes which have no connexion whatever either with Bank of England discounts—the issue of small notes by the country bank/ T an excess of paper circulation—the extent of public credit—or any other of those causes to which the Times has ascribed it, and ascribed it for the purpose of spreading throughout the kingdom that impres sion as to the in - security of bankers, and the hazard of Bank paper, which has produced so much evil, and excited so much indignation.— , (Ibid.) [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] Letters were received yesterday from Zante, dated the 9th ult. 'they particularly mention that the Turco-Egyptian Expedition had not made its appearance up to that period on the Coasts of the Morea. We therefore hope that the statement given by our City Correspondent, on Thursday, rests upon loose information, which we desire the more earnestly as it was calculated to inspire the friends of the Greek cause with great, and, we trust, unnecessary alarm. As to the cause itself, it is not upon the good_ or bad report of foreign Journalists that it depends for its ultimate success, but upon the attachment of the Greeks themselves to their religion and national independence, which, we are persuaded as we are of our exist ence, will finally triumph over every obstacle. As long as the great body of the Nation is true to its interests, as is notoriously the case with the Greeks, the jealousy and feuds of their Leaders may retard, but cannot prevent, their final success. The vices of their Chiefs are, in all probability, greatly exaggerated ; and we only say that if half of what has been published on this subject were true, Greece, instead of now struggling for her independence, would have long since return ed under her former yoke. What Greek Leader has betrayed his trust, or what Greek walled town has voluntarily opened its gates to the ene my—or what portion of the population have been tempted. by the promises of the Invader to re main quietly at their firesides at 11-I , i approach We confidently say—none ; and we, therefore assert, with equal confidence, that a people„ who, from the highest to the lowest, have preserved an inviolable attachment to their principles, and have preferred, in every instance, to encounter every privation, rather than submit, can never be reduced again to their former horrible state of dependence, and which, we hope in God,.they have cast off for ever. [NEW TIMES.] The English Money Market was in an agitated state in the course of yesterday ; Consols fluctuated between 83i and 84, at which latter quotation only one transaction took place, and they immediately receded to 833, about which price they remained during the latter part of the day, and at the close of the Market they were reported 8313. The French Funds had declined near 1 per cent, on Wednesday, the price of Three per Cents. being reported 64f. 40c. ex:dividend ; notwithstand ing which, and the reports of commercial failuret, Consols have assumed a much firmer appearance. This has, IT) a great mea sure, been attributed to two or three very larre purchases towards the afternoon, which caused them to advance to the quotations before mentioned, - below which all the efforts of the speculators for a fall were not able to force them. Exchequer Bills (old) were at a very low discount, being at one period re ported at 225., but' closed at 20 dis., the advertised Bills about par. Money was extremely scarce, and in some instances as much as 14 per cent. per annum was paid for the loan of it until Tuesday next. The chief attraction in the Foreign Market was Columbian Bonds from 611 to 62 3 , and Mexican Bonds 63i to 64i ; Brazil Strip - , 14 dis. ; Danisli Bonds receded one per cent. being 60i (3 per Cents.); Greek Bonds, 18 ; Prussian Bonds, 961 ; Russian, 88l ; Spanish, 14i ; French Rentes, 5 per Cent. 97f. • Exchange, 25f. 15c. The business, however, was trifling in the Market, when compared with what took place in Con sols. In the morning very few sales were made in the different Shares, but after one o'clock a considerable number of qUota tions were reported ; the prices varied but little from those of Thursday, but the transactions were more diffused than of late. Real del Monte were at 50 pm. ; Tlalpuxahua advanced from 30 to 40 pm.: Anglo• Mexican, 7i pm., with but little doing in theni ; Bolivar, 14 pm. ; Pasco-Peruvian, 1 pm.; Potosi; - 2i dis. ; United Mexican, 6 pm, ; New ditto, 'a pm. ; Alliance Fire, 21 pm. ; Ditto Marine, pm. ; Australian, 12 pm. ; British Rock Salt, 2 pm. ; British and Irish Silk, 1 dis. ; Ge- General Steam Navigation, die. ; Vigo Bay, 140 premium. All the Exchanges were considerably better. [MORNING CIIRONICLE.J An ingenious French writer, in order to over come the prejudices of his countrymen against merchants, who were supposed to be intent only on the acquisition of wealth, and not very scru pulous as to the means by which it was acquired, affirmed that " There was no shorter or surer way of succeeding in commerce, than a high re putation, and that this reputation could only be acquired by a probity, proof against every trial, , and exempt from the slightest suspicion. In fact, the very soul of commerce is good faith. It is good faith which gives confidence, which lays the foundation of credit, 'which leads to preference ; in a word, which forms the tie of fraternity, so necessary among correspondents.— It may be affirmed, then, that no one can ever succeed itl commerce without being a very re spectable man." This, we own, was the idea of merchants which we ourselves entertained : and it is the idea which used to be entertained more particularly of the English merchants. Have we been cherishing a delusion? Is there no foundation for the opinion ? Must we cease to believe in the possibility of honour and honesty in persons em barked in mercantile pursuits? Must we rank in the same class the gambler, the stock-jobber, the trader, and the swindler ?—We must confess that the language which is used almost universally of late, when merchants are spoken of, would nearly lead one to suspect that the honour of merchants was an illusion.—" The honour of a British merchant (says a writer in the new Number of The IVestminster Re view) has been proverbial ; but can we calmly and justly look back to the history of a few years, in our commerce, and say that it is what it has been esteemed ? The 4 Sabbath less' pursuit of wealth (to use Bacon's ex pression) is the present disease of Britain : it is honour, virtue, distinction, or it is the substitute for them all, for all the virtues, even for acquire ments and intellect. This is the dangerous am bition which Britain has to fear." That frauds, of the most disgraceful nature, -have been prac tised of late years, by men holding a high rank as merchants in the City of. London, is beyond a doubt. Every day discloses the ma. nceuvres of some confederacy of " British mer chants"—respectable British merchants, as the phrase is,—to delude and plhnder the un wary and unsuspecting. One day we see a re- ; spectable British merchant with cool effrontery circulating through a daily Paper a flourishing account of the revenues of a Foreign State, though an official account of the revenues of the very same. State, of a very different complexion, had been published not+ a twelvemonth before, with out the- least explanation respecting the cause of the difference in the result. Another day we find another British merchant, with equally high claims to respectability, playing the me diator between the British public and a worthy foreigner of his acquaintance, who, in order to tempt John Bull the more easily to loosen his purse-strings, comes forward with a statement of the revenue of the country for which, nolens' volens, he wished to borrow a sum—only - about three times larger than ever was raised in the country in question, the said respectable British merchant having of course no suspicion that his friend, the worthy foreigner, was stating that which he knew to be as " false as hell."— We see one set of respectable British mer chants selling shares of mines in the moon ; others, again, kindly taking upon themselves the management of the concerns of a joint-stock company, and, to prove their skill in manage ment, commencing by making themselves the medium of transfer of property to themselves and. their brother shareholders, transferring by the way one hundred and fifty pei' cent of the price into their own pockets. This is the sort of trade in which respectable British mer chants have been engaged. for a year or two back ; these are the examines held up for the imitation of this moral and religious nation. We say nothing of the daily exposures of frauds said to be common to whole trades, such as that at Guildhall some time ago, when a jewel ler asked the Sitting Alderman whether it was Rot usual in his trade to pass off baser metal for gold, whether a man could sell genuine articles and keep himkelf out of the Gazette ?—we say •nothing of the adulterations by wholesale and re tail every day forced on the public attention.' LAW INTELLIGENC E. COURT OF CHANCERY, Dec. 9. WILLIAMS V. GOODCHILD. This was a question of great importance, which respected the tithes of the parish of Hondon, and came before the Court on a motion for a new trial. The LORD CHANCELLOR read the notes of the Learned Judge, before whom the case was tried in the Court of Com mon Pleas. Having done so, Mr. HonNE addressed the Court, but had not concluded when his Lordship rose. A difficulty with regard to this case proceeding to-morrow, was interposed, by reason of. the absence of the common law counsel, who it was stated would be engaged in the Special Jury causes in the city. The LORD CHANCELLOR desired the gentlemen at the bar to settle the point among themselves. if it suited their conve nience to bring it on, be should be ready to hear them. His Lordship intimated, that with respect to the petition of Mary Fowler, which had occupied such a length of time, be was clearly of opinion that the petition must be dismissed, and he would give his reasons to-morrow morning. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DEC. 9. SIR JOHN 31`GREGOR V. THE EAST INDIA CORPANY. This was a bill of discovery filed by Sir John M‘Gregor heir and representative of the late Sir John APGregor Murray, against the East India Company,.,their Chairman, and Secretary, under the following circumstances. The late Sir J. ill. Murray had, it appeared; been of considerable set... vice to the Company in the year 1782, and his assistance; enabling them to effect the overthrow of the native Princes who had combined against the European Government in India, had been recognised and acknowledged in the, fullest terms by Sir John lU'Pherson. Under these circumstances Sir John Mur ray hid applied to the East India Company for compensation and remuneration for his services ; but unfortunately, before a final adjustment had taken place, Sir J. M. Murray died., The present plaintiff. as heir at law, had commenced an action against the defendants in the Court below, but. found himself unable to proceed without those dOcuments 'which, it was the object of the present bill of discovery to procure. In the Court below the defendants had severally pleaded the,ge, neral issue and the Statute of Limitations ; but in the pleas which they 4ad put in in Chancery they only-averred that they had pleaded' the general issue. The VICE-CILANCELLO it was of opinion thut the defendants ought also to have averred that the statute of limitations had been pleaded by them in the Court below, and ordered that the present pleas should be taken off the file, and the regnisite amendment made. COMMITTAL FOR CONTEMPT.-LORD V. LORD. In this case, Mi. WHIT x Ansi , ' moved that the defendant should be committed to the custody of the Marshal of the Fleet Irris - cin, for contempt of Court, in having refused to pay 15l costs, which had been awarded against him. The defendant, who had been brought into Court upon a Habeas Corpus, complained bitterly of the treatment which he had experienced from the opposite party ; and was proceeding iu . a strain of invective against the Attorney and Counsel in the cause, when The Vicg CHANCELLOR said, that if the defendant bad any just . ground of complaint, the Court would afford him redress, provided the application was made in a proper manner. At present he must stand committed for contempt. The defendant, who is an elderly respectable-looking gentle man, was then removed in the custody of the proper.officer. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 9. POCOKE V. •310012 E. This was an action of trespass and assault. The case for the plaintiff' was conducted by Mr. Brougham and Mr. Abrahams, Mr. Scarlett appeared for the defendant. From the evidence for the plaintiff; it appeared that he and the defendant were relations and were joint occupants of a house in the City-road. Some family disputes having arisen, the plaintiff resolved to quit the house, and he accordingly brought a man to take away some articles of furniture, sent for a constable, and charged the plaintiff with having created a riot. The plaintiff voluntarily accompanied the constable to Worship-street Police-office, where the Magistrate dismissed the charge. Mr. SCARLETT, for the defendant, contended that this action could not be sustained, inasmuch as the plaintiff had not been compelled to accompany the constable to the police-office, had voluntarily done so. However, if his Lordship should . be of opinion that, in point of law,. this action could be main tained, he was satisfied the Jury would be of opinion that the smallest damages would satisfy the justice of the case. The .LonD CHIEF JUSTICE, in summing up, told the Jury that he was of opinion that a trespass, however slight it might be considered by the Jury, had been committed, be cause it could not be presumed that if the plaintiff had not voluntarily accompanied the constable, violence would not have been used. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff — Damages, One Farthing. SLANDEIL-WIIITTINGTON V. GLADWIN. This action was brought by the plaintiff, who keeps the Angel, at Edmonton, against a smith in the same neighbour hood, to recover damages for slanderous words. It appeared that the parties had been playing cards, and some ,dispute arose about scoring at cribbage. The defendant, pretending to joke, 'strOck the plaintiff's hat, and pressed his lingers hard against the plaintiff's breast. The plaintiff removed to another part of the room, and was followed by the defendant who re peated this annoyance. The words which were the subject of action were then used. The defendant said, " You are no. thing hut a pauper on the,parish-,you have been so for years." The plaintiff stated in answer, " I do not know why you should say thatL , l- pay my rent." The defendant replied, "You are a pauper—You will be a bankrupt in less than 12 months." An offer was afterwards made by the plaintiff to settle the matter if the defendant would make an apology at his house and pay the costs. - The offer was refused. The Jury found a verdict diet for the plaintiff—Damages, 101. COCKNEY .SPORTING-PALIVIERV. SPARKES. This was an action to recoverdama g es 'for an assault and false imprisonment. Mr. GURNEY stated that the plaintiff was an operative coachmaker. The defendant keeps the Chalk-farm Tea-Gar dens. In July last the plaintiff and some companionshad been , to see a balloon ascend; on their return, they were walking over a path near the 'defendant's tea-gardens; where 111 r. Tv The Groves and others were assembled at a shooting.glate - ' f sportsmen were amusing themselves with shooting a numbe.r.o,l sparrows. The boys were pursuing wounded' sparrows fell from the guns of these expert marksmen. The plainaltr stopped a few minutes, when a sparrow fell on the path ~e" n , him. Two boys ran to take it, but could not get ove r a lleuge The plaintiff said he would get it for them, and was mounti3 the hedge for that purpose, when the defendant came 1 1 1 3 vi a gun, called him a scoundrel, and pushed the muz zle of the gun against his side. A scuffle ensued. and a constab le con : ing up, the plaintiff was carried to the h a rdens, where he .r. e . mained a short time in custody, and was suffered to go awaYc: This was the assault, and the Jury would no doubt give 't o mages to prevent, in future, any man from using a gun un similar circumstances. 111 r. Gurney called witnesse s to Prove his case. • ce 111 r. S&A,RLETT, for the defendant said he should convit the Jury that Mr. Sparkes had done nothing the law won' forbid. Persons who had lately shewn their exploits in 1 4° 1 1 1 the more humble classes, namely sparrow sportsmen. shooting had excited a spirit for the same sort of amusement shooting matches had drawn such immense crowds to ChaP' Farm and the neighbourhood of that tavern, that M r. Sparkes was compelled to keep .a constable constantly waiting to prevent a breach of the peace. Mr. Sparkes iOu n d the plaintiff -committing a trespass on his hedge, and worse him off. The defendant not only refused to go but seize, his gun. The constable came up seeing the violence 0 .ti the plaintiff, who committed the first assault. When the pi tiff was taken to the gardens Mr.- Sparkes let him go• should prove the case, and the plaintiff would be entitled to 3 -verdict. .After several witnesses had proved the statement of . Scarlett, the, Jury found their verdict for the defendant upt the charge of false imprisonment,' and for the plaintiff on i°` charge of assault, with 40s. damages. Sparro., CONSISTORY COURT, DEC. 9. sT. In the case of the SIineIIIONESS v. thelliAltaurs of „, MEATH; the reading of the voluminous allegations w,as sumed, and continued to a late hour.—[As we have lurdee-eni Fiven a detailed statement of. the nature of this case, n ovNT It unnecessary to enter into any particulars herei—Tb et ighen appointed Thursday as the first day of the extra sitting%eartl. the arguments of Counsel in this important case will b e an The th remainin business disposed of. T case of the g EARL of PORTSMOUH'S sr roltS' against MARY ANN HANSON, styling herself Lady mouth, stands over to the next Term. The following details of the opening Of 01"..- Foy's body have beefs published by'one of the faculty 50 , e , heart was found twice as voluminous as in the natura longer soft and gorged with coagulated bloolt, which it had an ts of r ises strength to put in circulation. The large. artery, vin' c o f the from the base of that organ to carry the blood to all Pal ts a a a ted, body, and which is called the .aorta, was extremely u lcers thickened, and covered in the interior with nu merous but b u t over an extent of eight inches.- The lungs were soon" a the viscera of the abdomen were swelled with blood, an o ci , f t he real state of inflammation. Thus the hypertroP h i l i gn b a t e is heart, which might have confined itself to causing conveniences, that a regimen and repose would h ave re u tiS o compatible with a long life, was converted into a n ane, o p. with chronical inflammation of the oat to. In this there,.'.,, to other feature of resemblance with Mirabeau, who, accorul"frtbe the report of Cabanis, likewise sunk under a (iise lis h % ° cSte l heart, augmented by the fatigue of the tribune and t' and anxieties inseparable front business." Yesterday a man i — n a slate of derfingellijglt; applied at Union-Hall Office for the assistance of "le.Targo most active members of the establishment, to recover from quantity of property, which he alleged had been stolenioseph him by a fellow lodger. He stated that his name Was pro . Baker, that be resided at No. 9, in the Maze, an d that t he pro' perty stolen consisted of 999 pounds in notes, rg , 199 soverybis wife, who was on a visit in the West Indies ; six gold watches, various silk shawls,' &c. the proPer t Y w alla watchmaker at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and that Si r or ertY Smith was Commodore to the fleet that brought the Pr ,„ to London. Air. HALL adviseil him to go home, Ve.i e tYt ertion should be used towards the restoration of his Pr° c P c ; r , ot his fAthe r s idof on 'which he reared evidently well pleased with the 5 " his applieation. I- if _ ALARMING FIRE.—At - evening, a fire broke out in the lower part of the .then ittli en the House, Regent-street, which did considerable darna,g ° timely ings sustained the slightest injury. By by tDe .. , i i,i. premises. However its ravages were arrested . s,rrival of several fire engines, Leven o'clock yestercurlib' „ and 119/1e of the adjacent gnies the 015/cei were completely subdued ; but three of the engin e '' Exchange, the Palladium, and the Beacon, being frorn 4 .- f ,,11 interested in the fate of the concern, remained 00 the 5,..1ti0, night, to guard against the possibility of a renewed confiag -----...°1 .4 nine o'clock the 110.11 Q. COURSE OF EXCHANCE Dfc• - p C. A nistettlain Ditto, at Sight l2 4 linttertbin ' A f--T-1 I 1;1 1Itt0 71 1 1) 1 4' a :4k . **** , II I: 2 ; E 1 3.5 I t t 1 7 : : 37 , 6 .4 Us , ' ...... . ...... , , • 25. 3' i , t,..• Paris, 3 Day's sight Ditto . ... '.. .. ' 25 .. '..•• . 9 . 5 6,9 o I b° • ['Manic:tux, ditto Berlin .............. ;.. 7 ,9 ofoliel .......... r. 3 ex• Fratiliforton the Main ...... •••• Peet sburgh 9 6 1 Vienna ................................... I° Trieste ........ ' .......................... I°, 6 gocti r . : Mail id_ . -'-- 661 Etirc ii :, Cadiz .................................. :36i L.tf„,tn. Bilboa s6-1 ' ......... .. Barcelona Seville . . • • - - . •• • 361 Gibraltar •-•, ' Leghorn 49i ...... Gel I a 44:1-Venice, Ital. Lir. 9.7, Malta --Nap1e5.......... 4°. , op Palermo Lisboa Oporto Rio Janeiro Bahia . 50 • Barrios Ayres Dublin• ••• 91 ........ Coil; 9 1 pet eclit. (-) ef Portugal Goltl,i it Coin .............. .L.O 9 roreigtl Gold, in Bars .................... 3 .17 New Doubloons D 0 v, ............. " • 0 4 101 BULLION. NeW 1)ollara Silver Standard in Bars. -----...:..-----__ ay' COAL MARKET, DEC. 9. Tvb in, 3 , , s Beaumont, 368 6d—Heaton, 38s 9d—Hcbburn ,t s Pi _ Kenton West, 37s—aillingworth, 395, 39s 6d.--1,i(1a0:37s 9(1--ti 34s 9d-aPelaw, 398:—Tanfield Moor, 41s—TownleYivallsK.,, Wylam, 39s 6d—Walls End BewiCke and CO. 4 3 ' - , - ,,, 3/1 5 = 4. 0, Riddell's, 4ls to 41s 96—Walls End Walker, 38s 3d, 33 50 , soil, s, Hetton's small screened, .21s —Hartley , 41s—Bell--lel 0 Moor, 34s 3d—Eden Main. 38s—Vane's M a in, 35s _s____thlil 41s 6d—iliontague, 33s—Walls End Stewart' 4`)s, at market, 25.1 —Ships sold, 18—Unsold, 7ii___________---"" i° l ' l. ' BIRTH. k N rs. On the Bth inst., at York-terrace, Regent's-par , Small, of a son. „, On () n Thursday,es Wednesday, sono tl f t t e (h.; B eh t r h 7i ll tsl i ti n o l ii l s : t i ß ise , t ß r. , a s i t a l mt l' i li a ) 3t i e l i r w , : o o r s t nq b a. , sA l e y e y ::: :ftn i n d la A 51 : 110 11. 10 1 et : : : : m ß E a s a g e n o " n Of e i l l d .o s n t don , io Mary Anne, eldest daughte r ° (1)1517 ; ?IhiJon . , n 1 ad o so f . b t edrtiio(vinogr,et,oh of j o ila u fma s e ra , tibe ß aa . c iF. r o k uw s l 1 . : Br , etr a iti e oe te o a, n o t f h ( e ;r 2 e d at in ( st. a , el ni Ades i er; l lii rli ti g tee r 1 .5 0 i t taer-ys Ann Jo' of Al r ' c . o. j , A 4 ,1 p, On the Bth inst., at Newington-place, Mr. Peter ,'” " . 2 OP Ann „el-court, Throgmorton-street, solicitor A ..0.01., On the Bth inst ,in Charlotte -street, George /)."borier• o f infant son of Captain 14eorg - e Simpson, EaSt, India se rd, s ot ) On the 9th inst., in B df d e or -row, at, , aged 14 Edward, coo John Cu• ir illum Scott, Esq. after I t' On the Bthof June, p of f i l e cholera, .„ ,6 ~, at mine, m a jesv joi. hours' illness, Captai Chatles'Auber, of his , in ce t o vice, and Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-Gener/i iprociere second daughter Captain Auber had been deputed by Sir Edvis! ~,,,,,A .r, proceed to the head-quarters of the British arnlY tn, l i,y tilr, o o 3 he arrived in April, and was most kindly received his a ,I chibald Campbell. The party who ann ounce s h od, 'I ; ,. writes—" Auber was Sir bdward Barnes's riOtoe OS will not be less lamented by Sir Edward "Page t. ..., guest here of Sir A. Campbell." , - 4. tr'' • ' ' ' ' • s the _ lvort Printe o d k a ,r neLP E u , 1 1,, )1!s o h . e( 1 1 12 f , r at t r h a e na l:n b o y ry . n. Cos, at