The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Faction is an evil counsellor, nor has the experi ence of the last two years been the period of history the least abounding in illustrations of that important truth. The class of English politicians with whom foreign Powers have been most familiar during the last 60 or 70 years, have been invariably of the Tory junta. Whatever notions of British character or policy have entered the minds of foreign Govern ments during the last half century, have originatet; in Tory sources, and have been transmitted through Tory channels. With Courts, and more especially despotic ones, no intell;gence upon any subject, above all a political subject, is thought worth listen ing to, if it hear not the stamp of" office." Power makes men exclusive. It renders them in their own eyes omniscient. They stir not beyond their owri official circles for facts or opinions upon the spirit of nations, or on the posture of public affairs. The French Government under Polignac, in its childish arrogance, knew as little of France as it did of the Antipodes, because it made no inquiries into the state of public feeling, or the hopes, the objects, or resolutions of the people, beyond the gates of the Place Carrousel, or the counting-houses of its own agents, or the Bourse. Foreign Powers for the most part took their own ideas of the condition of Paris and of the provinces, from the notes or con fidential whispers of those ignorant and unnational Ministers; and were most of them, in consequence, so unprepared for the three days of July, as to treat with angry incredulity the successive reports which, during its progress, were sent to them from various quarters of the rapid and disastrous growth of what at first seemed a tumult, into an irresistible revolu tion, and the final downfall of that Sovereignty which but 60 hours earlier had appealed supreme in France. English Toryism has been so long the holler of office in this kingdom, and the almost exclusive medium of communication with the States of Europe on international affairs, that the Tory party—the ruling coterie anti the source and vehicle of political information have been identified in the minds of Foreign Courts : nor has the actual transfer of official power to those who, from being always in opposition to the ser vants of the British Court, have been not unna turally suspected by absolute Monarchs and their :Ministers of a strong bias towards the principles of popular Government, and, by consequence, a deep hatred against those of military despotism, ever yet been seriously and steadily looked at by them under its proper colours. No ; they have stared at it as a strange and fleeting meteor, —they have dreamed about it as a misshapen but passing chimera, —they have shrunk from the hideous, "theunreal mockery" of a British Government which was not Tory, which they expected would every moment vanish before their blustering fright. That it should constitute the stable, enduring, directing power of Great Britain, and should continue to act in close union with, and reliance on, public opinion, as contradistinguished from that of the English oligarchy, is what these foreign despots can neither swallow nor comprehend ; accord ingly they act towards parties here as if their ancient allies were still the British Government. Their Ambassadors have no common feeling with the reforming Ministers, and but a sort of cold and compulsive intercourse ; their sympathies are with the Tory chiefs; from them they derive their infor mation upon the state of England; to them do they convey the wishes, and, to a certain extent, the designs of their respective masters ; and upon the hints of English spirit and temper furnished to their Courts in return, do the Holy Alliance deem it not unwise to act. Then, what is the information so transmitted respecting the sentiment that prevails in England, and the working of our ameliorated institutions ? It is a heap of libels upon the re formed Parliament, and on the people of England. Yes, the Tories began the fight against reform, by anticipating all manner of mischief as the result of it ; and now that the battle has gone against them, they seek to real'ze their own predictions—or to throw upon them some varnish of credibility-- by affirming of reform that it is actually as bad as they had foretold, or worse; that there is, as the Duke of Wellington asserted at the outset, an impossibility of carrying on the King's Government -.lith an enlarged constituency and a reformed Par liament ; that there is no sense of national dignity or honour left in the electors or their representa tives ; and that Russia and her retainers may insult and outrage, and trample on this great nation e.s she likes ; for that neither Parliament nor people will suffer the King of England to avenge indignity or to repel aggression ; that peace on any terms will be insistee on ; that no duty or principle of selC defence will be admitted ; but that Mr. Joseph Hume and the low Radicals will strike the flag of England throughout the world, and let foreign tyrants ride rough-shod over us with impunity. Sock, we have good authority for stating, have been the slanderous representations of this country, volunteered to hostile Governments by Englishmen whose patriotism survives not their possession of power. Russia has believed them, and has ac cordingly bullied to the top of her bent. She has been assured by the Tories that the Reformed Government and Parliament of England will on no provocation risk a war, whatever the conduct of the Autocrat and his minions may be. Hence, and hence only, the insolence of Russia. We believe that there is a paltry faction of Destructives, who care for nothing but the ballot, universal suffrage, the overthrow of all our constitutional establish ments and national habits, and the introduction of a wild and helmless democracy. If the Autocrat take his notions of the English character from such re spectable models, he will be as near the truth as when he resorts to Tory guidance. But we hope, and have some reason for suspecting,that Nicholas has been at least partly undeceived : Bonaparte's penetra tion was always at fault when he attempted to spe culate upon Epglisb modes of action : he knew as much of Great Britain as he dill of the Georgium Sidus. Nicholas has profited about equally by his studies; but he is at last beginning to suspect, that though M. Matuzewic may know something of the .lulu. e of England, both at Almack's and Melton, be is eot very accurately informed as to the opinions of l eee great body of the people.—Tiows. ,By the repeal of the combination laws in this coun!.rlrl. every class of workmen have a right to meet and td deliberate on the terms on which they shall continue their work or desist f rom t heir em ployment, provided they offer no violence to those who refuse to join their association, and neither oc casion nor threaten obstruction to the operations of their masters. This implies, of course, only a very li mited power—and a power which has hitherto either been found ineffectual, or has been ill employed. I t ma y sometimes, indeed, prevent a sudden fall of wages ; but so long as the labour-market is over stocked, and a keen competition for employm e nt it exists in the country, cannot effect a rise. It is not consistent either with logical reasoning, or with common experience, that profits should long con tinue inordinately high i n an y one branch of business, or in any one particular district, so as to allow the masters the faculty of increasing wages from their own private income, without encroaching on their capital, or augmenting the price of their manufac tured goods. In the former case, their capital must be gradually exhausted, or would be suddenly with drawn to some other employment ; and thus the means of supporting labour would be taken away altogether from the refractory workmen, who would be entirely destitute, instead of receiving reasonable re muneration. In the latter case (that is to say, in the case of a rise of price), two consequences must necessarily follow—namely, that the consump tion would be diminished, and that the employ ment of labour would be decreased in a similar proportion. There is no way of escape from this dilemma. The price of a manufactured article can not be enhanced without diminishing its consumption, and consequently subtracting as much from the work man in diminished employment, as he would gain in the shape of increased remuneration for his shorter labou But this consequence of an in. creased price is still more alarming, if it could be effected by combinations, when we consider the peculiar situation of this country in relation to the amount of the products of its manufacturing labour consumed abroad. As two-thirds of our cotton manufactures and a great proportion of some other staples of our industry are prepared for the foreign market, an increase of price, like that which must he created by any considerable rise of wages, would be sufficient to drive us altogether from the field of foreign competition, and to shut up a large propor tion of our factories. The extent of the calamity end ruin which this result would entail upon us cannot be contemplated without alarm and horror. We may therefore say that the plan lately pro posed for limiting the time of adult labour to eight imurs a day in our factories, or, in other words, the contrivance for raising its remuneration in the proportion of from eight to twelve is either dream of benevolent insanity, or a scheme for destroying out manufacturing prosperity, and creating a wide-spread scene of want and misery in nir great manufacturing districts. It is evident that we have arrived at a new era in the annals of the working classes. We lately found combinations for raising wages in Germany, in France, and in Belgium. We still find Trades' Unions spreading and strengthening—embracing new professions, and acting with new concert in England. Even happy, agricultural, and democratic North America (the paradise of our Utilitarian philosophers) is not free from them, as we have lately seen in the journals of the United States. Nor do we feel any alarm at , this general desire for an improved condition, or this general, though ill-directed, scrutiny by the laborious classes into the grounds on which their welfare depends. These combinations keep in the minds of the people a high idea of comfort as the reward of industry. They never can destroy the fortunes of capitalists, or dispense with the em ployment of capital, without attacking the means of heir own existence; and in proportion as they ad vance in knowledge and instruction, their unreason able caprices and senseless strikes will diminish or disappear. It should be the object of a wise Go vernment for this purpose to spread among them the means of education. As there is no mystery in the principles on which the rate of wages depends, or in the methods of bettering the condition of the working classes through the exercise of their own faculties, instruction on these points should be added to the other branches of elementary learning. ff this knowledge had been generally diffused, the Derby turn-out would probably not have taken place; the artisans of that town would have lent a deaf ear to the harangues of interested agitators, and we should never have met with such infl imma tory nonsense as we read in the report of a meeting of Trades' Unions at Theobald's-road, inserted in an Evening Paper of Wednesday.—Times. From the speech of .Mr. Williams at the Court of Common Council, on the 12th of December last, we were prepared for making striking exposures in the course of the Corporation inquiry, and strong opposition on the part of many who have the cre dit of being very great patriots. In the speech in question Mr. Williams stated that" he found by the accounts cf last year that the office of Lord Mayor, with its appendages, costs the citizens upwards of 19,0001. independent of 2,6991. for alienation of officers of the Lord Mayor's household; and there were besides many other good things, the value of which he could not get at, such as a toll upon oranges and other foreign fruit imported into the port of London." This statement having been re• ceived with clamour, Mr. Williams added, that he expected that giving publicity to this waste of the public money would be unwelcome to those around him, he had, therefore, come prepared. There are many men that, as long as liberality is confined to abstract propositions, are most liberal, who yet are as unwilling to enforce a rigid expenditure of public money as the most determined Tories. Of this the House of Commons, before the passing of the Reform Bill, afforded not a few examples. It would be strange if the expenditure of hundreds of thousands every year in the City of London did riot, in like manner, produce its effects on many very li beral Councilmen in all that regards general princi ples. The public must not allow themselves to be carried away in matters of this kind by names. Sir Matthew Hale is reported, as an apoloey for his marriage, to have said, that no man was wise below his girdle. It may with equal justice be said, that, in money matter, no man is to be trusted with being his own auditor. It will be found, if we mistake no, before this Corporation Inquiry is over, many members of the Common Council have very powerful motives for keeping each other in countenance. Fortunately, there are men in the city who have not mixed themselves up with the jobbing, and who will not suffer them selves to he put aside in their endeavours to expose it. Mr. Williams said, on the occasion in question, that " he did not impute to the Lord Mayor, or to any of his predecessors, the cause of this extrava gance, he imputed it to that Court which had the undoubted power to control and diminish the ex penditure. The Lord Mayor was placed in a posi tion similar to that of the Idol God of the Babylo nians, who hail the credit of consuming, a great quantity of meat and wine; but it turned out that the good things were devoured by the priests. His Lordship could boast of auxiliaries in this corporation equal to those priests, arid who devoured the im mense sums of money of which he complained, but which the Court never would allow if they did not themselves participate in consuming it. He wished to see the Lord Mayor relieved from a sort of obligation to keep the Mansion-house open as an eating-house for the Corporation, which lowered the character and dignity of his office; and to accomplish this he would not cease to use his best efforts; but what he most of all concerned himself about was, reliev ing his fellow-citizens from the unnecessary burdens occasioned by this extravagant waste of money, for all comes out of taxes levied from the citizens." Out of taxes levied from the citizens, if we under stand by citizens not the small fraction of the me tropolis who return the Common Councilmen, but two millions of people who are subject to the taxa tion of the Corporation of London. For it is to be borne in mind that they not only tax the 1,700,000 inhabitants of the metropolis, but a great part of Kent and Essex, and besides the counties of Sus sex and Middlesex, the counties of Hertford and several others receiving goods from the port of London, through the various canals, &c., are tri butary to them. The check on the expenditure of 400,0001. a-year, is a body returned by some 8,000 or 9,000 freemen, and for the distribution of the franchise a majority of the Common Council are re turned by a very small number of freemen. Thus, for instance, Wards with between 80 arid 90 free men, return their dozen of Common Councilmen. But this statement of Mr. Williams was stoutly de nied at the time. But he coolly waited till the cla mour e as over, and observed, that ")te held in his hands the account-book, and to that he would stick. Ile could prove from that book—and he would read the items if they wished—that this Corporation le vied upon the citizens in indirect taxes to the amount of 06,0001., and in direct taxes, exceeding 100,0001. last year. And the Corporation had besides a revenue from land, houses, and other sources, of more than 55,0001 Could they deny this, and at the same time look at that book They received 10,5001. last year from a tax upon corn, and 37,0001. from a tax upon coals, two of the most indispensable necessaries of life." This was the way to meet his opponents. But they had not a word to say. It is much easier to talk in general terms of exaggeration and complain of the abuses of the press. No doubt they are sanctioned by Acts of Parliament in levying som e o f t h ese duties. But the Legislature only gave them the duties because their other funds were insufficient. Before burdening the community so heavily, it might be well to inquire whether the heavy expenditure (of which the Mansion-house is but one department) could be diminished. INIr. Williams stated that the Lord Mayor cost three times more than the President of the United States; he cost more than our three Secretaiies of State, although 'he Home Secretary was at the head of all th e Magistracy of England. " Much," said Mr. W., H` has been said about the corruption of the corpo ration of Liverpool, whose revenue nearly equalled that of the city. The expenditure upon its Mayor, which appears by the recent investigation before the King's Commissioners, did not exceed 4,0001. per I I annum. They are great economists, compared with this corporation ; and exhibit to our own pure, im maculate concern, an example worthy of imitation." The Mansion-house is, as we have already observed, -l!) , one of many branches of extravagant expendi ture. On that. occasion Mr. W. observed, if he were allowed to go to other subjects of expenditure, he could prove equal if not more flagrant extrava gance and expenditure of the public money. He has now the opportunity of going into these branches, and we trust he will keep his word, and show that there has been in these branches a flagrant ex travagance in the expenditure cf the public money. The public are interested—deeply in terested, in this inquiry. All sorts of &- I vices will be had recourse to, to withdraw the public attention from this subject. It is an old trick to create a diversion when an attack presses. What is wanted is not testimonies of Common Councilmen to the virtues of each other ; but figures. The patronage and direct profits shared by those who have the management and control of a revenue equal to that of many a great kingdom, may well account for the bitterness which has al ready been shown. We are prepared for more of it. As was well observed by the Chief Commis sioner, few things are better worth fighting for than a good dinner ; and the Common Councilmen will fight for their dinners. The soreness displayed has been productive of this good, that it will serve the more to draw attention to the proceedings. We under take to watch them, having long been anxious for such an opportunity; for though we were not suffi ciently acquainted with the details, we knew enough to satisfy us that the Corporation of London re quires a thorough purgation.—Morning Chronicle. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 16. KING OF SPAIN V. MENDIZABEL. The ATTORNEY GENERAL said that in this case (with which the public is already familiar) he had to move on the part of the plaintiff that the demurrer filed by the defendant, Mr. Mendizabel, might be taken off the file. Mr. PErys was heard against the rn , ltion. Mr. WAKEFIELD was about to be heard on the same side, when llis LORDSHIP postponed the hearing of his argument :o to morrow (this day). COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 16. THE KING V. TILE JUSTICES OF NORFOLK. This was a ruse calling on the Magistrates of the county of Norfolk to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, commanding them to hear an appeal against an order for the removal of a pauper. Sir JAMES SCARLETT appeared on behalf of the Ma gistrates, and stated the facts. Mr. FOLLETT, in support of his motion for a mandamus, sail the practice of the Court of Sessions before this rule was to give notice of the trial of an appeal within a reasonable time. The party was bound by the Act of Parliament to Ore at least eight days' notice, but in this case the appellants had given fourteen. The mandamus absolute. TILE KING V. THE JUDGE OF THE MAYOR'S COURT IN THE CITY OF oXFORD. This was a rule for a mandamus commanding the Judge of the Mayor's Court of Oxford to proceed to judgment upon a cause which had been removed from his jurisdiction contrary to law. Mr. KELLY showed cause against the rule, and contended there was no irregularity in the proceeding. Rule absolute. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 16. CLEARY V. CIMMING. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the keeper of a boarding-house in Alfred-place, Bedford-square, to recover a sum of 3/. 31. from the defendant, a lady of the name of Cumming, for board and lodging. Aliss Cumming came to lodge i❑ the house of the plaintiff, when,being annoyed by grievances which are too often met in domiciles of that description, she wished to leave the house. What she most complained of, were the musical talents of the plaintiff's niece, a Miss Fox : who kept continually practising on a piano forte, which, it appeared, had not the most remote claim to harmony ; also the want of clean sheets, ice. ; and her dog Fido was prevented from indulging in his rambles in the yard, from the apprehension of poison. Under such annoyances she gave the plaintiff notice of quitting the house, and ten dered the sum then due, 6/. 10s., which w:s refu,e , l, and a❑ additional week demanded for the board of the defendant and her maid.—Verdict for the defendant. PREROGATIVE COURT, JAN. 16. STAMP V. MARTIN. This was a suit for trying the validity of a codicil alleged to have been executed by the deceased in the cause. The will of the deceased gave the bulk of his property, about nine thousand pounds, to strangers in blood, hut a legacy was given to a relative of four hundred pounds. By the codicil an alteration was made in the residue, a larger sum being left to the relative, who was a p:,or and illiterate man, and the rest given to the executors named in the paper. The codicil was opposed on the ground of the insanity of the deceased at the time it was executed, he having been previously found a lunatic by a comcnission lunacy. Conspiracy and fraud were also imputed to the parties by whom the codicil was arranged. The pro ceedings have been going on for some time, many witnesses examined, and graat expenses incurred. Sir J. I\lm -wt.', after baying heard Dr. Lushington briefly i❑ support of giving costs against the supporter of the codicil, said be had never, he thought, had before him a more gross case of conspit acy, fraud, and insanity. Unfortunately the Court could not reach the parti,s by whom the codicil was obtained, and the poor relative had been put forward to bear the whole brunt of the suit. The codicil having been prepared and executed after a commission of lunacy had sat and decided upon the case, the Court was bound to condemn the relative in full costs of the suit; but it recommended the residuary legatees to make provision for him, he not being aware of the fraud that bad been practised. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Thomas Hornsow, a strange-looking fellow, one side Of whose face represented the tragic, while the other represented the comic Muse, was brought before the Lotus Mavos . under the following circumstances : A constable who is well known for his activity in affording protection to drunken and distressed people in the streets, stated that on the preceding night he saw the defendant in a fit on the pavement, and immediately car ried him, with the assistance of others, to the station • house. For some time the man lay convulsed ; but in about a quarter of an hour he suddenly started up, and turning to his benefactor, " fetched him such a no mistake lick in the eye" that both fire and smoke appeared to issue from it. The LORD MAYOR—And you merely took care of him ? Constable—Nothing, except ask him whether we should send for a doctor. " No," says he, " I won't have no doctor." So after he lays a bit longer up he jumps, and leis fly at me for nothing at all.—(A laugh.) I had just given him a little hartshorn when he lay on his back in the station-house. ..... The LORD MAYOR—Why didn't you throw a pail of water over him ? That's the way to cure fits. Con stable—No, my Lord, I ti.rew no water over him ; I only put my foot under his head for a pillow while he was in the fit, and then I felt him strike. The Louß MAYOR—Was he in I;quor ? Constable-- I should think not, from the way he pitched into me for nothing at all.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—WeII, prisoner, what have you to say about this ungrateful return for the kindness of this officer in taking care of you? Prisoner (turning the se rious side of his face to the Lord Mayor)—Please you, wy Lord, I was going along, and I slips off the flsgs, and I thought I cracked my head ; but I knowed no more of it till I finds myself in the watchus, upon the ground, and this here gentleman a standing over me. so, say I, it must be him as vopped me, and so, I suppose, I returned the blow, for though I'm poor, blest if I wouldn't vop any man as vopped me. (The prisoner then turned his face full front, and nobody could resist the expression.) Constable—Nobody attempted to injure the man. The LORD MAYOR.—.I am convinced of that. Prisouer••.What, nobody! If nobody meant to do the nn }:arm, why did you sing out for a doctor?— (Laughter.) Tell me that. I was quiet, and didn't want for to give no man offence, and Why should you do me harm Constable—l think he must have been shamming the fit, my Lord. The LORD MAvoa—Upon my word so do I, or what could have made him answer your question in the middle of one ?—(A laueh.) But I should be glad to know what he has been doing to earn his bread ? Prisoner—Begging, please your Lordship, these last six months. I want to get home to Newcastle, and I've got no shoes. I hope your Lordship will order me some. The LORD AIAYOR—NO, shoes are not part of the fashionable dress for beggars. You'd turn them into gin. I'll send you to the Compter, and make the doctor see you, and I dare say, to cure your fits, he'll order your feet to be blistered.—(Great laughter.) The prisoner then began to work the word side of his countenance, and begged to be discharged ; but the Lord Mayor was not to be persuaded by his complicated attractions, and sent him to prison. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Lovz AND JEALOUSY.-illtzry Ann Russell, a girl having but very slight pretensions to beauty, was yesterday placed at the bar before E. J. CONANT, Esq., charged with creating a disturbance at the house of Mrs. Gibbs, a tobacconist, the corner of Castle and Great Newport Streets. The defendant occupies apartments at No. 56, Poland street, where she has the pleasure of entertaining, in every sense of the word, a Mr. Evans, who carries on business in the vicinity of Lincoln's Inn-fields. " The course of true love never did run smooth," and so it appeared in the present instance. After an intimacy of some months the lady suspected the fidelity of her chere anti, nor were those suspicions doomed to be wasted on the desert air. How the lady came to the knowledge there is no opportu nity of ascertaining, but certes she did come to some ac quaintance with the circumstance of Mr. Evans smoking his segar at Mrs. Gibbs's. " Trifles light as air are to the jealous cenfirmation strong as proof of Holy Writ," and acting on this maxim the !Ay bent her steps towards Mrs. Gibbs's on Wednesday evening. She entered the shop ; the serenity of the scene was undisturbed by the presence of those wights who might wish to indulge in the flavour of an Havannah. She opened the parlour door, and judge of her surprise when she found " all that she held most deir" reclining on a soft, and Mrs. Gibbs enjoying a tete a-tete with him. Aliss Russell could no longer restrain her feelings or her abuse, but poured it forth on the tobac conist without mercy. The police were called in, and the lady was consigned to the apartments of St. Anne's watchhouse. The lady when called upon promised not to again offend, and was discharged. Two OF A TRADE, &c.—Reuben Marston, an itinerant vender of vegetables, charged Isaac Jones, a one armed green-grocer with having given him a good " licking" last Toeslay. The complainant said the defendant kept a stall for the sale of fruit and vegetables in the New-road, and as he did not, to his fancy, " carve the gentlefolk with the weriy best particles," lie thought a little " hopposition" might do no harm, and accordingly he established a rival stall exactly facing the defendant. The defendant, who en joyed the favour and protection of one of the beadles, be sought the aid of this important parish functionary, who, exerting his interest in the defendant's behoof, whispered the overseer, who spoke to the churchwarden, who laid the matter before the Board, and the result was that he received a peremptory order to carry his stall to some other quarter. Feeling rather sore at this success on the part of his rival, he thought he was entitled, whe❑ he saw him, to make a little remonstrance, but his complaint was cut short by the defendant " pitching" into him with his one arm, and giving him a sound thrashing. " Ax your Vorship's pardon," said the defendant, " but its all werry false vot he's been a saying agin my character. None of this here vouldn't never have took place hadn't lie committed the first depredation, by ketching me by the coat collar and chucking me about the road like a pair of hold boots. Its all spite in him, because the constitutional authorities of my parish has allowed me the privilege of standing in the gutter for the last 15 years to sell my weggetables, and lie has tried all as ever he knowd to get the same advantage, but he warn't a no more use nor nothink. As to the licking, vy vot could setch a poor cripple like me do agin a man as is not both his arms, and it aint more nor three months ago afore I'd the pleasure of breaking my arm, and wos hobligated to go into the hospital to get it dislocated " The 'Magi,trates recommended both parties to retire and setee ete matter. In a few minutes the complainant re. turned into the office, and said the defendant had given him satisfizetion, upon which the warrant was dismissed. MARY LEB ONE. Yesterday Thomas Anderson, and Mary Johnson, alias Smith, alias Eady, were placed at the bar, before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. HostaNs, charged with steal ing two pieces of silk handkerchiefs from the shop of Mr. Christian, silk-mercer and hosier, Wigmore-street, Caven dish-square. The prisoners were ordered to be brought up again on Tu..sday. The male prisoner is about thirty years of age, five feet eight inches high, very thin, light brown hair, sharp eyes, long nose, and no whiskers; dressed in drab trousers, a black body coat, a brown great coat, and a black hat, with a very small brim, curled close up at the sides. The female is about five feet five inches high, dark eyebrows and eyes, and snubbed nose ; wears a black velvet bonnet and veil, a dark brown silk dress, Adelaide boots, and a blue cloak. She was charged at this Office, with another woman who gave her name Ann Maria Martin, about eighteen months ago, with stealinz a roll of silk from the shop of Mr. Reid at Hampstead, but the case not being clearly proved they were discharged. Q UEEN.S Q UAR E. COMMON INFORMERS v. WM.COBBETT, ESQ., M.P.- - William (Jobbat, Esq., the Hon. Member for Old ham, was summoned to this office by Digby, one of Byers's men, before Mr. BURRELL, under the Act of Parliament of the Ist and 2d of William IV., c. 2, s. 59 and 60, for not having his name and address painted upon one of his carts in white letters upon a black ground, or in black letters upon a white ground, whereby he had in curred a penalty of any sum not exceeding 5/. Mr. Cobbett's name and address, it appeared, were painted in white letters upon a green ground. The case was adjourned from last week in cons, (pence of Mr. Cobbett's non-attendance to the summons. A clerk of Mr. Cobbett's attended on the previous occasion, and made an objection that the summons had been deli vered in B-lt-court, Fleet-street, instead of his place of residence, Ache, near Guildford. On this ground the case was adjourned, and Digby undertook to send a summons to A-he. This would have occasioned an additional ex pense of about 365., and before the party retired the clerk undertook that Mr. Cobbett would attend the next week. When the case was called on for the second hearing a person attended for Mr. Cobbett, who said his name was Faithful, of the King's-road, Bedford-row. Mr. BURRELL asked if Mr. Cobbett was in attend ance ? Mr. Faithful said that he was not, but that he attend,d fur him, and complained that the summons had not been served at the proper place. Digby—lt was understood by every person in the office that the second summons would not be issued, as the clerk said that lie would attend to day. 111 r•. Faithful—Do you think that Mr. Cobbett will come forty miles to attend this summons, which has not been served upon him in a regular manner ? Mr. BURRELL (to Digby)—You had better take another summons. Digby—l have no objection. I will take out another summons. Mr. Faithful—Mr. Cobbett cannot attend. Dighy—Then, if he don't attend to the second sum mons, I'll get a warrant for him, and make bins attend. The parties then retired for some time, and on their re-entering the office Mr. Faithful said that he was instructed to plead guilty to the charge; he could not d e ny it. The fact was, the cart had been sent to have the name properly painted, and the informer had seen it before Mr. Cobbett. After some further discussion Mr. BurtitELL mitigated the penalty from 51. to 20s. and costs, which were imme diately paid. UNION-HALL. CHARGE OF FORGERY.-Yesterday John TVinkfield, a man carrying on extensive business as a cement and plaster of Paris manufacturer in the Grove, Guildford street, Southwark was brought before Mr. WEnawoon, charged on suspicion with forging a bill of exchange for 1221. 1 Is., with intent to cheat and defraud George Davies As other cases of a similar description are likely to be brought against the , ccused he was remanded. h is estimated that 1,500 persons have been destroyed in this Country, during the past three years, by the bursting of steam-boilers. Since July, 1832, 67 steam-boats have been lost or abandoned on the western water.—American Advertiser. BIRD'S NEST.—Aiesv days since, the nest of a robin redbreast was found in the immediate vicinity of Whitby, containing severid eggs on which the hen was sitting. Would it seem that nature, as well as art, can sometimes make mistakes ? York Courant. EAST INDIA SIIIPPTNG. The Lady Faversham, from Bombay, off Dover, sailed 24th Sept. ; C ape, 20 t h N ov. ; S t. H e l ena, 2d D ec. ARRIVALS AT BOMBAY. —The Huddersfield, from Li. verpool, and Resource, from 13ussorah, 2d Sept. ; the Boyne, from London, 4th ; the Waverly, from Mocha, i, for 10th ; the Good S uccess, f rom Ch i na, 16t h ; t h e H . C . — p brig Nautilus, from S urat , 19t h . DE T U 1 R t E h the h In S Te Lordtre Castlereagh,d Sumdaney, for C a l cutta ; the Spence, for Port Glasgow, 2 8 Calcutta,th Sept., ' 6 l : t h " ; and the General Hewitt, for Quilon and C o l om b o, 19 t h ; t h e Two Sisters, for Singapore, 31st Aug. ARRIVALS AT THE CA PE. —The Lady Fa vers h am , from Bombay, 13th Nov. ; the Fenella, from the Mauritius, 14th ; the Madras, from the Lizard, 9th ; the Cape Bre ton, from the Mauritius, 10th ; the Lionier, from Brede River, 11th ; the Aurora, from Rio, 12th. Dr.raicrurtza.—The Conch, for Algoa Bay, 11th Nov. ; the Andromeda, Er Portsmouth, 12th ; the Fame, for Van Diemen's Lind, 13th ; the Andrew M'Kean, for the Mauritius, and Wellington, for Madras, 14th. ARRIVALS AT ST. HELENA.—TIIC Partridge, from whaling, 26th Nov. ; the Andromeda, front Batavia and the Cape, 27th, and sailed I st Dec., for Portsmouth ; the Waddington, from the Mauritius, 28th, and sailed 29th, for London ; the Arab, from Calcutta, Ist Dec., and sailed 2d, for London ; the Theodosia, from the Mauri tins, Ist, and sailed 2d, for London ; the John Taylor, front Bombay, 2d. The Arab reports that the brig Endora was totally lost on Black Pagoda, to the southward of Point Palmeras, about the beginning of August ; the Industry was also lost about the same time, on the Long Sand. The Margaret, John, had put back to Calcutta leaky, and was going into dock, after being away three weeks. The ship Hercules had put back three times, and was lying at Diamond Harbour, for a new windlass and an anchor. The brig Theodosia, from the Mauritius, reports that the greater part of the cargo and stores of the Czeiar had been saved by his Majesty's ship Talbot. The York had put into the Mauritius in distress, for repairs, having been on her beam-ends, and was landing her cargo, in a very damaged state. The Samuel Brown was also landing her cargo, damaged. COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOL- VENT DEBTORS. flie Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Pri soners, hereinafter named (the same having been filed in the Court) are appointed to be heard at the Court house, in Portugal•street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on TUES DAY, the 21st of January, 1834, at Nine o'clock in the Forenoon. B'anchenay, Louis, wine merchant, Ferdinand Place, Hampstead Road. Christmas, James, tailor, Whitechapel Road. Cooper, Joseph, hackneyman, Sydney Street, Goswell Road. De Nicholas, Lorenz:), mercantile clerk, Brunswick Place, City Road. Dismon, Jeremiah, assistant, Summerford Street, White chapel Rta I. Furness, Charles, warehouseman to a packer, Blue Stile, Greenwich. Glasspool, William, plumber and glazier, High Street, Peckham. Hodges, John George, short-hand writer and lodging house keeper, Nursery Place, Well Street, Hackney. Joll, Henry, surveyor, Clarendon Place, Vassal Road, Brixton. Shackleford, Frederick, linen draper, Woburn Terrace, Albany Road. Tottem, George, clerk to an attorney, Anne Street, Waterloo Road. Wallis, Timothy, upholsterer, Blandford Mews, Portman Square. Oo WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22.—Same Hour and Place. Baylis, Thomas, baker, Old Brompton. Berenburg, John, tobacconist, Blomfield Street, London Wail. Baseden, William Griggs, tailor, Adam's Place, High Street, Southwark. Cranbrook, William, broker, Manor Place South, King's Road, Chelsea. Darling, Ralph, officer in his Majesty's Customs, Bengal Terrace, Blackwall. Gilkey, Matthew, watchmaker, Church S:reet, Hackney. King., Charles, dealer, Princes Street, Camden Town, Walworth. Lawrence, Charlotte, farmer, Ickenham, near Uxbridge. Mann, James, general shopkeeper, Brixton Hill. Posford, James, baker, Sidney Street, comers Town. Rayner, John, pianoforte maker, South l\lews, Manches ter Square. Wybrow, John, chair maker, Lo qtr Marsh, Lambeth. THE NAPOLEON MATCH.—After a cessa tion of two evenings, this match was resumed on ➢londay evening, and was continued on Tuesday evening with un abated interest among tho- , e fashionabie circl,s who take delight in the excitement of such event , . On the latter evening especially the room was thronged. The English party, after a good deal of fluctuation very natural where so large a sum is at stake, and when the chances are so numerous, are still ahead 8,4001. ; and, in fact, it is now admitted that the per centage on the play to which the table is entitled, gives them such an advantage and such a counterbalance to any run of ill luck that may take place, that their position is likely to continue favourable to the end of the chapter, unless counteracted by some extraor dinary misfortune. THE RATIINIINES REPEAL MEETING ALARMING OCCURRENCE.-This meeting was held on Sunday in the large room of the School-house at Rath mines, recently erected by the contributions of the parishioners, for the accommodatio❑ of the childre❑ of the poor in that district. Precautions had been previously taken to support the rafters of the apartment by placing planks perpendicularly under them. The pressure of the crowd, however, became so great while Mr. O'Connell was speaking, that these planks were broken across, which being observed by Mr. Denis Redmond, that gentleman, with much courage and discretion, made his way through the throng to Mr. O'Connell, to whom he intimated the alarming state of matters. Mr. O'Connell with that self command which be possesses in so eminent a degree, stated to the assemblage that he had just received a communica tion which rendered it necessary to conclude the proceed ings in the open space adjoining the school-house, and he enjoined them to proceed thither quietly and without pressing upon each other—probably from not hieing made aware of the cause of removal this sug gestion failed to effect its purpose. Mr. O'Connell, thereupon, rightly judging of the coolness of the people, and his own power of controlling the " movement," boldly mentioned that the building being considered unsafe it became necessary to withdraw from it, adding that he relied upon the steadiness and good sense of the people to do so one by one, and he should be the last to quit the room. In obedience to his directions the persons nearest the door began to depirt in single files and retired in so gradual a manner th it three-quarters of an hour elapsed before O'Connell's turn, as the " last man,' arrived for leaving the building. A singular exe7rtplifica tion this of the presence of mind which pervaded the multitude, and a new proof of the popular power of O'Connell in really trying circumstances.—Dublin Morn ing Register. DEAR BREAD, Olt DESTRUCTION OF IRA DE ASSOCIATIONS.—The Societies for the " Pro tection of Agriculture," which in our opinion would be more justly named as above, appear to be spreading ; and of this we may be sure, that if they fail to spread, it will not be for want of zealous exertions on the part of the I mdlords. A meeting was held on Thursday week at Epworth, in Lincolnshire, purporting to be " a meeting of landowners and farmers," to form " an association fur the protection of their mutual interests." After resolving that the repeal of the corn laws would be ruinous to them, they agreed to form a society " for securing the just protection afforded by the corn laws, and for supporting the interests of agriculture." A similar meeting was held on the 3d instant, at Hatfield, when a parish association was formed. It was resolved " That this meeting views with alarm the continued clamour raised in the manufac turing districts for a free trade in corn—and feels con vinced, that any repeal or lessening of the duties on the importation of foreign corn, would be ruinous to the agricultural population." They therefore deter , mined to " withstand the heedless clamour of a party whose avowed object is to deprive a griculture of its only protection." We know not, of course, what proportion the farmers bore to the landowners in these meetings, nor how far these resolutions may be depended upon as expressing the public o pinion of those agricul• fund districts ; but the very fact that the landlords are able so to humbug any of their tenants as to induce them to sanction resolutions such as these, proves in the strongest manner the necessi t y bar anti-corn l aw societies. We hope that ere long t hese last mentio ned associations will adopt the plan which was found to b, so useful to the anti-slavery cause, o f employing able an d e l oquent men to traverse the country and deliver lectures on the sub ject. This, we have no doubt, would be the surest and the speediest way of opening the eyes of the farmers to A sense of their true interests._-Shelfield independent. FOREIGN WHEAT. The highest quotation of white wheat of the first quality at Hamburg is 100 rixdollars current per last, which answers to 1/. 12s. 3d. the English quarter of eight bushels imperial measure ; and the highest price of red wheat of the first quality at the same place is 85 rixdollsro current per last, which answers to 11. 7s. sd. the English quarter of eight bushels imperial measure ; and therefore the mean price at Hamburg of white and red wheat toge' ther is 11. 9s. 10d. the quarter. The highest quotation of white wheat in Mark-lane is Si. the quarter, and the highest quotation of red wheat is 2/. 14s. the quarter, and there fore the mean price of white and red wheat together is 2/, 170. the quarter. It appears, then, that wheat is 91 per cent. dearer in London than at Hamburg, and that with the sum of 2/. 17s. a man may buy 15 bushels of wheat at llamburg, whereas with the same sum lie can only buy eight bushels in London. The quotation of Zealand white wheat of the first qua lity at Amsterdam is 190 florins per last, which answer , to 11. 10s. 4d. the quarter of eight bushels imperial measure; and the mean price of wheat in Mark-lane being 21. 17s. the quarter, it follows that wheat is 88 per cent• dearer in London than at Amsterdam, and that with the sum of 21. 17s. a man may buy 15 bushels of wheat at Amsterdam, whereas with the same sum he can buy only eight bushels in London. The highest quotation of red wheat of the first quality at Antwerp is 81 florins current per hectolitre, which answers to 11. 14s. 4d. the quarter of eight bushels imperial measure; and the highest price of red wheat in Mark-lane being 21. 14s. the quarter, it fellows that wheat is 574 per cent. dearer in London than at Antwerp, and that with the sum of 2/. 14s. a man may buy 12i bushels of wheat at Antwerp, whereas with the same sum he can only buy eight bushels in London. The red wheat of Antwerp is of very superior quality. The highest quotation of red wheat of the first quality at Stettin is 34 dollars current per Ivispel, of 24 schetiels, which answer , to 1/. 3s. 2,1. the quarter of eight bush.' imperial measure; and the highest price of red wheat '5. Mark-lane being 2/. 14s. the quarter, it follows that wheat is 133 per cent. dearer in London that at Stettin, and that with the sum of 21. 14s. a man may buy 18i bushels of wheat at Stettin, whereas with the same sum he can only buy eight bushels in London. The red wheat of Stettin is of very superior quality. The present duty on the importation of foreign wheat into England is 1/. 17s. Bd. the quarter, which is e qual to the following rates :—To a rate of 1261. ss. 2d. per cent. on the prime cost of wheat at Hamburg ; to :a rate of 124/. 3s. 6d. per cent. on the prime coat of wheat at Amsterdam ; to a rate of 1091. 141. 2d. per cent. on the prime cost of wheat at Antwerp; and to a rate of 162/. 11s. 9d. per cent. on the prime cost of wheat at Stettin. THE MARKETS. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended Jan. 10, 1834, made up from the Return 9 of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat-995. 2d.1 Oats -18 s. %L Barley 28!. 24.1 Rye I 33a. Od Pease,..,... IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS P. 4d.f Oats 193. 24./ Beans. 811 Rye --... 325. 11d I Pease. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN 335. Ild. 38s. '2AL ECEDINO. 335. 10d. 303. :id. 375. 9d. Oats 18s. :Id.l 8ean5~..... 341. Barley-- I9s. 10d. Rye 9.15. 3d.1 I Is. ()J. C4.)UNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING 'I HE VYEP;H• Wheat. Barley. Oats. , Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. s. to s• Blandford 53 27 22 40 Grigg ,40 58 36 40 15 22 30 35 Cambridge 49 49 26 16 ' 29 Chard 42 56 24 26 16 20 34 3 8 Huntingdon 58 63 24 28 16 21 26 33 Long Sutton 56 64 17 22 32 35 Louth 48 51 28 32 18 22 40 42 Lynn,. 5O 60 22 25 16 20 32 3/ Newark 57 60 29 40 16 22 37 4 0 Nottingham 45 51 30 34 19 23 35 39 Peterborough 38 48 25 29 13 21 29 36 Plymouth 50 64 30 34 20 23 Pontefract 67 43 27 43 Sleaford _ Uppingham 42 47 9.8 32 22 26 36 38 Wisbech. 149 62 20 33 14 22 30 35 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Tan. 14. WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red GE.—Tan. 14. 7s. 4.1. to 75.0 0 . 70 7 3 . Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 6 9 7 3 -- Red 5 0 6 4 Foreign . 7 6 7 10 OATS, English,ish Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 7 7 2 2 1 8 l h -- Foreign BARLEY, English,:Malting, per Imp. quarter 3'2 0 34 0 ---- Scotch and Irish, per GOlbs. ... ....... Feeding 3 2 3 6 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter '34 0 41 0 Irish, &c. l6 0 31 0 Foreign l6 0 38 0 PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 44 0 Foreign Fi.ouß, English, per 2801 b. 39 0 40 0 Irish '34 0 39 0 0 %TM EAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 2l 6 23 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. '36 0 38 0 ltve, per Imperial quarter 11 0 36 0 'IALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN fm the Week ending Jan. 13. Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. Oatmeal Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. ForeignfOrls.lrish, &c. Scks.l Loads. I 2,046 1,237 2,497 -- 1,817 1,614 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, JAN. 18. DIVIDENDS. H. T. Neighbour, sen. and jun., wine -merchants, King-street, West Smithfield at J. Berenhurg, tobacconist, Bloomfield-street, London.wall II J. Reynolds, drysalter, Bread-street-hill BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., at the residence of her father, Upper Tooting, Surrey, the lady of John Rogers, jun., Esq., of a son• On the 16th inst., Mrs. Young, of Canonbury_square, Isling ton, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., in Chatham-place, the wife of M. Saward , Esq., of a son, which survived a few hours only. On the 14th inst., Mrs. William Holborn, Grove-lane, Caro' berwell, of a daughter. On the 15th inst., at Claremont-terrace, Pentonville, the wife of Mr. George Harker, of a son. On the 9th inst., in Charlotte-square, Edinburgh, the ladY of James Farquharson, Esq., of Invercauld, of a son. On the 9th inst., in Duncan-street, Edinburgh, Mrs. Gloagy of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 15th inst., at Windsor, Mr. John Reid Jackson, of Cork.street, Burlington-gardens, to Susan, second daughter of Mr. George Cooper, of Windsor. On the 15th inst., at Hampden, Elizabeth, third daughter of the late Thomas Grace, Esq., of Prince's Risborough, Bucks, to the Rev. Henry Kelson, M.A., rector of Folkington, Susse%. On the 16th inst., at St. George's Church, Camberwell, the Rev. Ebenezer Temple, of Birdbush, Wilts, to Harriet, eldest daughter of Henry Croslo, Esq., of Camberwell.grove. On the 16th inst., at St. G e orge'!, Hanover-square, Thomas Bentley Phillips, of Beverley, solicitor, to Annie Leonora Taylor, eldest daughter of the late John Butt Taylor, Esq., of the 43d Regiment. on the Gtii inst., at the British Embassy, Paris, Arthur Freese, Esq., Madras Civil Service, to Eliza Charlotte, eldest daughter of William Gardener Burn, Esq., late Captain in the ht Dragoons, and of Byrilleigh-house, Devon. On the 1 lth inst., at St. Mary ' s Church, Paddington, \lr. Henry Thomas S wan, eldest son of Mr. Thomas Swan, of the 3d Arm Li y g to Emma Sarah, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Willi am H olebrook, of the city. DIED. On the 3d inst., in Gloucester-place, Portman-square, aged 43, Benjamin Burton, Esq., brother to the late Sir CharleA Burton, Bart., of Poßerton-hall, in the county of Carlow, Ire land. th is y li e n a g r t . "' On the loth inst., in his :112d year, whilst conversing with hie family, James Thomas, second surviving son of Mr. George Lyon, of N'assall-road, Brixton. Mr. John Dob son, l i la the tthe eo fll6oCt;hl Coleman-street, n i m n sa s t ' t :i . , sit l r i eF e e n et Henrietta i i ix e n t - t Ph a liascCe' Helen, late Mr. Hamilton Fulton of Upper Stamford-street. On the 16th inst., at Woodford, Essex, in her 70th year, F.sther, the wife of Henry Field, Esq., of Christ's Hospital, London• On the 1 6 th inst., Susannah, the wife of Mr. Joseph sta. phenson, of Mortimer -street. On the 16th inst., aged 15, Julia Amy, second daughter of Reginald Graham, Esq., of Remenham-lawn, Henley-upon 'name S. On the Ist inst., in Ann-street, Edinburgh, John Tulloch, Esq., late of the 7th Royal Veteran Battalion. At Leominster, in her 84th year, Mrs. Ann Young, sister of the late Mrs. Fox, of Grove-hill, Falmouth. On the 7th inst., at Newlyn, near Penzance, the lady of Captain Burgess, It. N., aged 80 years. Lately, at Marazion, Mr. Nicholas Anthony, aged ea On the sth inst., at Liskeard, aged 82, Mr. Richard Couch. On the 6th inst., Mr. Samuel Beldon, of Sheffield, late of Darnall, aged 68. On the Bth inst., in her 61st year, Susanna, wife of Mr. Joho Stainton, of the White Bear Inn, Doncaster. On the Bth inst., Mr. Duckitt, landlord of the Masons' Arms, Doncaster, aged 31. On the bth inst., in his 57th year, Mr. Wm. Stocks Heaton, of Doncaster, solicitor. On the t2d inst., at Woolwich, Sophia Maria , se cond daughter of Lieut enant-Colonel Harding, R.E., age d 1 year and 10 months. PRINTED AND PUBLNIIED By MURDO YOUNG, AT Tig SVN OPF36E, 11; STRAND,