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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Bxtraces from the Morning Papers,Dec.2l, 1825. [MORNINB ➢OST.] it is with heartfelt satisfaction that we are en abled to congratulate the public upon the revival of confidence in all directions ; and from the brig it prospect that now presents itself, we may venture to state, that the panic so ficti tiously produced will be dissipated with no less rapidity than it arose. Whilst the exertions of the Bank on the present trying occasion have teen beyond all praise, we have the happiness to know that its resources are fully commensurate with its liberality. At a late hour last night we received by Ex press the Etoile of Monday. If its authority, as the demi-official organ of the French Government, c;.o decide the question of succession to the Rus sian Throne, that question is now settled, for it announces that Constantine the First is the pre sent Emperor. It represents him, of course, as plunged in the deepest affliction, and states, that as he has no children by his first marriage, and those by his second would not be entitled to in herit the Crown, their mother being a subject, the Grand Duke Nicholas is rightly called Pre sumptive Heir, since, if he lives, he must succeed Constantine. Being unable or unwilling to re veal the circumstances of Alexander's death, it then gratuitously supposes that it may have been occasioned by the ascent of the humours from a disorder in one of his legs, with which, it sud. denly discovers, he had been long afilicted. It will be seen by an article from Berlin, that the panic which lately prevailed here, has now reached that capital, and that there was a run for Silver, which with paper, forms the great bulk of the currency.—(lbid.) [THE TIMES.] We yesterday touched on the death of the Emperor Alexander, as that event might fairly be presumed, from such particulars as yet have reached us, to affect the feelings of his subjects, and eventually the peace of his immense domi nions. It seems, however, to be anticipated by the best Russian authorities in this country, that Constantine will succeed to the empire without any resistance. But if the death of Alexander was an event to be deplored by the greet majo rity of his own people, by Europe generally, we may suppose that it will be looked at with very different emotions. As the author, and master, and mover of the Holy Alliance, the late Empe ror eras a declared foe to the political rights of all civilised nations, to the cause of freedom over the whole earth, and to the improvement and happiness of man as a member of society.—. The jealousy with which this pupil of the re formist La Harpe watched, through his Mi nisters in the remotest spots of Europe, the first buildings of independent spirit and manly feeling in matters of Government, that he might nip and crush them, is notorious every where. lie it was who stimulated his crouching Allies to preach up the far-famed monarchical principle, which rendered the caprice of any tyrant, the most atrocious or contemptible that ever vexed mankind, the sole ruling power over them. He it was who, in pursuance of this doc trine, forced Austria to the invasion (in our minds it has ever been the wanton and iniquitous invasion) of Naples. It was Alexander who, according to Villele's confession, placed Louis XVIII. between two necessities—that of perpe trating a crime against the Spanish nation, which will one day he avenged, but never forgotten ; or of entailing an equal misery upon France by the march of a Russian army from the Niemen to the Pyrenees. In every quarter of Europe be yond the bounds of Russia herself, the policy of Alexander was the embarrassment and scourge of his neighbours. It has required the most painful struggles for four long years on the part of England, Austria, and Prus sia to prevent Alexander from marching down from the Danube, and extinguishing at once the Turkish despotism and the infant hopes of inde pendauce for the Greeks. France, too, however willing on some occasions to interfere with other states, would probably have interposed for less hateful purposes than those prescribed to her by the Russian Satraps at Paris and the Spanish capital, had the incubus of Alexander's personal - vigilance and ascendancy borne upon her with a less constant and overpowering pressure. Cir cumstances well known in the history of the last fourteen years may have induced the late and present Sovereign of France to yield a more entire obedience to Alexander, than to any of those deatined to be his successors : the political morals, therefore, of the French House of Bourbon, if they have any, are about to undergo a severer test hereafter, in proportion as their free agency will, by the death of Alexander, be less under coercion than before. .....lowallM.l.. [NEW TIMES.] Much speculation is on foot as to the probable consequences of the death of the Emperor Alex ander. In order to comprehend the question of the Succession, it is proper to advert to the state of the Imperial Family. The late Emperor of Russia has left three brothers and two sisters.— Big brothers are the Grand Dukes Constantine, Nicholas, and Michael ; his sisters, Mary, Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, and Anne, Princess of Orange. Constantine, as we have already stated, was born in 1779. II is grandmother, the Em press Catherine, caused him to be so named with reference to her views on Constantinople, and in his youth she caused a medal to be struck with the inscription, " Constantine, King of the Greeks," He was of an impetuous disposition, and early she wed a disposition forarms. Ile served under S.O warrow in the campaign of 1799 against France, and meant to have joined the Austrian army under the Archduke Charles in 1800, but the defeat of the Russians in Switzerland occa sioned his return to St. Petershurgh. In 1802 he paid a visit to Vienna, where the Emperor of Austria gave him the honorary command of a Hussar Regiment. In 1805 he took the com mand of a Russian corps, destined to act against France, and took part at the head of his regi ment of Guards in the unfortunate battle of Austerlitz. He followed his brother, the Em peror, in the campaigns of 1812, 1813, and 1814, and entered with him the city of Paris, but did not accompany him to London. lie first went to Russia, and then to the Congress of Vienna After ttie second deposition of Buonaparte, Con stantine was made Viceroy of Poland. This Prince has not been very fortunate in his matri monial connections. ne was married at the early age of 17 to the Princess Julia of Saxe- Coburg, from whom he was divorced in April, 1820, for the purpose of marrying the Princess of Lowicz; but this Lady not being of Royal ex traction, a decree was issued by the Emperor Alexander, with assent of the Senate, assigning the succession of the Throne to the Archduke Nicholas. The latter, vi ho is the third son of the Emperor Paul, is 17 years younger than Constantine. lie has never been engaged in the pursuit of arms, but has travelled over many parts of Europe, and in particular has visited England, through which he made a tour of care ful inspection, with his brother Michael. Ni cholas married, in 1817, the Princess Charlotte Wilhelmina of Prussia, by whom he has a son and two daughters. Constantine has had no issue by either marriage. [THE PUBLIC LEnotn.] The more we reflect upon the time, the cir cumstances, and probable effects of the death of the Emperor Alexander, the more we are pene trated with the importance of this sudden and unexpected event. That he died by about half a dozen years too late for his own glory, and by as many too soon for that of the vast Empire which he had governed with such singular good fortune, is a truth which cannot be disputed.— Had he fallen under the walls of Paris, when his victories armies, for the first time, advanced to its gates, or still better had he expired a few days after having signed the capitulation by which that City was surrendered to the Allies— he would have left a splendid, though not an un blemished reputation.Thehistorian,too,would pro bably have lightly passed over the invasion of Fin land, and that still darker passage in his life, the interview at Erfurt, for the purpose of dwelling upon the conspicuous share he had in overturning the superb, but insufferable dominion, which Buonaparte had erected upon the prostrate minds and bodies of the people of the Continent. He had, however, long before that memorable period survived all the liberal pledges which the begin ning of his reign had furnished : but still history would have extenuated his political apostacy, in consequence of the numerous proofs of the mag nanimity he gave at that eventful juncture.— From that moment to the hour of his demise, the particulars of his active life assumed, in succession, a darker hue ; and, to see it in its true colouring, it would be necessary to enter the state prisons of Spain, Italy, and Prussia, whose dreary walls have ever since re-echoed to the groans of the best and most enlighted citizens of the three countries. In the latter years of his reign, he sheaved himself the bitter, inde fatigable and uncompromising enemy of human liberty ; and the practical effects of this enmity were fully commensurate with its intensity. But another of irs effects, which will now rapidly de velope itself, is the universal hatred of oppres sion, which it has diffused throughout the civi lized world. After having survived all that was specious in the character of his policy, he lived just long enough to create an inexpressible ab horrence of legitimate despotism ; and, as he was its.main stay, who does not admire that in scrutable wisdom, which has cut him off at the height of his mental and physical activity, and spared his fellow labourers, who cannot be com pared to him for the extent of his power, or energy of mind or body ? The result will be, to a moral certainty, the eventual overthrow of the system of which he was the main stay; and the crash will he harmless or otherwise, ac cording to the degree of resistance that the other Members of the Holy Alliance may offer to the just wishes of their subjects. [BRITISH PRESS.) The Mode of Monday, which reached our office last night, adds nothing to the information we had already received concerning the sudden death of the Emperor Alexander. A conjecture is hazarded that a disorder in one of his legs may have proved mortal. This suggestion seems only to shew how utterly unexpected his decease was, and how extremely difficult it is to guess what can have carried him off in the full vigour of life and health. The Etoile apparently treats with ccintempt the announcement of the Prussian ca lendar respecting the Grand Duke Nicholas, and attempts to explain how the mistake must have originated. The children of Constantine by his present wife, the Countess Gradzinska, who was a Russian subject, are excluded from the succession by a decree of the late Emperor, by which it was declared to be a fun damental law of the empire that no Prince should hereafter ascend the throne of the Czars, unless his mother was of an imperial or royal family. It is supposed, therefore, that as the Grand Duke Nicholas must succeed Constantine, it was " very natural " he should at once be styled Heir Presumptive. This explanation, however, is any thing but satisfactory. The question is, why was the name of Constantine wholly omitted in the calendar ? He certainly, unless for some reason of State set aside and barred from his birthright, was the heir presump tive to the throne ; Nicholas at any rate could only be heir presumptive to his brother Constan tine. The next advises from Russia will be exceedingly interesting. At present there is ma nifestly a dark cloud of mystery hanging over the relations in which the members of the Impe rial Family stood towards each other. [MORNING HERALD.] It gives us much pleasure that the panic, so far as regards London, appears for the present to have subsided. We should hope that this will have a good effect on the country, and that it will put a stop to the run on the country bankers. From the following, which appeared in a Mini sterial Paper of yesterday, it would appear that what we have supposed as to the Bank not being sufficiently prepared for the storm which has lately raged, and which has not yet subsided, was too true. Our opinion is, that ten mil lions of sovereigns is not a sufficient supply of gold, to compete, in cases of alarm, with a bank note circulation of forty millions. To compete with such a circulation as the latter, we should think that there ought to be at least a gold coinage to the amount of from 20 to 30 millions. But even if we had no debt or taxation, and had so much as 23 or 30 millions of sovereigns, a ba lance of trade that should cause exchanges to be against us, would occasion the gold to be ex ported ; in which case we might be deprived, for a time, of a gold medium. Therefore, while we have such an immense commerce, paper medium is absolutely necessary ; and in case of such a panic as we have lately witnessed, we should be better for having a paper medium of one and two pound notes. If the information he correct that we give from a Ministerial Paper, it appears that either gold must be coined much faster than at present, or the Bank must refuse paying sove reigns. Here follows the article to which we have alluded : " Many country banks, both of great credit and resources, will be put, we are afraid, to much inconvenience, not from any want of inclination on the part of the Bank of England to sup ply their necessities, but from want of power. Sovereigns are in the act of being coined, and the Bank are making notes as quick as it is possible; but it is not practicable, in this man ner, fully to satisfy the demand from the country which is daily experienced. Under these circumstances, it ought not to be injurious to the credit of any establishment should it not prove at once able to meet every demand tr,:on it. We are assured, upon good autl:ority, that the Bank last night could not furnish, in exchange for large notes, fifteen thousand pounds, either in one, five, or ten pound notes, and that they requested, as a favour, they might not be asked for sovereigns." [MORNING CHRONICLE.] It was anticipated that the intelligence an nounced on Monday, of the death, of the Em. peror of Russia, would have operated unfavour ably on the Money Market yesterday, and busi ness opened with rather an unpromising aspect. Consols for Account were first done at 791, and afterwards at 794. In the course of a short time, however, some of the leading capitalists made great purchases, and there was an imme diate advance to 80, and from thence to 804. There was a subsequent fall to 80, but as the day advanced things became more steady, and at one time this Stock rose to 804, and left off at 80k. The probable consequences of the state of things in Russia was of course merely a sub ject for speculation ; but the impression on the public mind was rather favourable than other wise, of which the best evidence was, that Russian Stock advanced fully four per cent. Every other description of stock also improved. Bank Stock opened at 202, and rose to 203 ; 3 per cent. reduced opened at 76 and rose to 78.; 32 per cent. opened at 83 and rose to 84 ; 3? per cent. reduced opened at 814 and rose to 85 ; Long Annuities advanced a quarter ; but the most prominent proof of the abundance of money was the advance of the large Exchequer Bills, which at an early hour were done as low as 100 s. discount, but finally left off at only 355. The 5001. Bills opened at 655. discount, and rose to 25, and the smaller Bills opened at 151. and rose to 5 shillings. All things looked well, and there was a cheerfulness observable in every direction, which leads to the hope that the late alarm has completely subsided. In the course of the morning Mr. Kennedy, from the India House, announced on the Stock Exchange, that the Company had determined to raise the interest on their Bonds from Three to Four per Cent., to take place from the 19th inst. This in timation had some weight, and the Bonds rose from 85 discount to 55. The accounts from the Country are very favourable, and in the City all was life and energy. The house of Williams and Co. is expected to resume business in a very short time, and the partners feel a conscious pride at the honourable manner in which they will be found to pass through the severe ordeal to which they have been exposed. In the Bank of England, there was no appearance of .bustle, and the demand for cash appears to have subsided to the ordinary course of transac tions. Oue hundred and fifty thousand sove reigns were paid in, in the course of the morn ing, by a great capitalist, which had been re ceived from the Continent, aed further large arrivals are expected. A most respectable meet ing was yesterday held at Chelmsford, at which Lord Petre, T. Bramston, Esq. J. J. Tuffnell, Esq. and a numerous list of the Magistracy and respectable inhabitants of the county were pre sent, at which a declaration was adopted, ex pressive of the utmost confidence in the stability of the firm of Sparrow, Hanbury and Co., bankers in that town. NEW CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.—The new Ca tholic Association met as usual on Saturday last. Mr. O'CoNNELL withdrew a notice he had given of a motion to thank the Electors of Trinity Col lege, which it seemed he had given iu ignorance of the very facts on which the motion was to be founded. After some talk about education, the sum of 301. was " allocated " from the funds of the Association " towards building a school in the parish of Churchtown, county Cork." In the course of a new debate Oft education, Mr. O'Connell expressed his determination, should Mr. O'Reilly, at the next meeting of the Asso ciation, not bring forward his motion for the ap pointment of two persons in each parish for the collection of the Rent, to take up the matter himself. This announcement was received with loud applause, and the meeting was then ad journed for three weeks. The Court of Cassation of France has rejected the appeal of a woman condemned to death for having set fire to her own house to defraud an in surance office. A Paris Paper, which mentions the circumstance, states, that this decision set tles the law on the point. It thus appears that the important question was hitherto undecided. The latest account of General Fo Y'S subscrip tion states it; to amount to 20,0001. sterling. SMITHFIELD CLUE CATTLE SHEVY. On Monday this exhibition attracted a very great and respectable crowd of spectators, particularly the imple ments and other things (of which we gave the particulars on Monday,) in the carriage lofts, which latter were often, for con siderable periods together, wedged quite full of company. At three o'clock the Club assembled at the Freemasons' Tavern, Sir JOHN S. SEHRIGHT in the Chair, and much of the routine business of the year was transacted previous to the dinner, soon after five o'clock, when 149 persons sat down to excellent dinners, but in two rooms instead of the hall, which it seemed the gene ral opinion that the Stewards of the Club ought to have provided. After dinner the first toasts were—" The King," and " The Royal Family," when the Chairman commenced the public ad judication of the premiums, agreeably to the Judge's award, the particulars of which were fully stated in our paper of Monday, and need not be here repeated. On the several successful candi dates, or the bailiff's of the noble competitors, coming up front their seats to the front of the Chair to receive the Treasurer's drafts for the several premiums, the Chairman, Sir J. Sebright, made to each approbriate and commendatory remarks, many of them in that happy vein of pleasantry for which he is un rivalled as a Chairman ; and after each address he proposed the winner of the premium as a toast, viz. " The Marquess of Exeter," " Mr. Charles Stokes," " Joseph Bull," " George Payne," " William Flowers," " George Tibbets," " William Adams," and " William Smith," which completed the cattle premiums. Sir John gave the health of the Judges thereof, " Messrs. Attenbrow, Robinson, and Slater," with three times three ; and proceeded to make some very appropriate remarks on the advantages to tenant-farmers, that their landlords should themselves occupy farms, and so practically ascertain that there are great goings-out, as compared with the returns, even on the best lands ; illustrative of Sir John's favourite and standing toast—" Live, and let live," After some high and justly merited compliments to Viscount Althorpe, his health was drank with corresponding marks of respect by the corn pany.__The Sheep and Pig Premiums were then publicly ad judged, and their orders for payment delivered to the parties, or their representatives, who came up in succession, and were I appropriately addressed and complimented, and the following healths drank, viz, " Mr. Humphrey Tuckwell," " Mr. Jos. Faulkner," " Mr. John Noon," for the Marquess of Exeter " Sir Thomas Dyke," " Mr. Stephen Grantham," " Mr. Thory Chapman," and " Mr. John Hodgson." Sir JOHN then gave—" The Health of the Sheep and Pig Judges, viz. Messrs. Ellis, Warrnington, and Wetherell," which was drank with three times three, followed by some able and just remarks by Sir John, on the arduous duties of, and the great obligations the Club lies under, to its .fudges, " Wm. Honywood, Esq. M.P." was next given, and drank with three times three, for which he returned thanks. A dessert of apples and pears of a great variety of sorts was now introduced, as a present front Mr. Leonard Phillipps. After some neat and appropriate remarks from the Chair, on the great advantages of these meetings, while by bringing into social contact the farmers of so many districts, enlarged their views and extended their knowledge, which met very warm applause, Mr. Honywood rose and proposed, " Sir John Se bright," which was drank with three times three, and tumul tuous applause. Sir John thanked the company, and gave 'The Duke of Bedford," three times three; and " Stewards ;'' Sir John then, after remarking on the pleasure with which he saw so many young faces, amongst the candi dates and company, laudably treading in the footsteps of their fathers, concluded with " Prosperity to the Smithfield Club," and then retired. JOHN SiAItTT.N CFIIPPS, Esq., was thereupon called to the Chair • he gave " Edward J. Curteis," the Member for Sussex ; who thereupon rose and delivered a speech, which made a strong impression on the Company, but of which, our room will permit but the briefest outline; nothing, he said, was now wanted in the way of alteration in the Corn Laws, ex cept better guarding the averages from the machinations of speculators ; yet it appeared too certain to him, that their es sential alteration would be seriously attempted in the coming Sessions, in the Commons at least ; he adverted to the inroads made on the Farmer's protection, by the Canada Corn Bill, the " Grinding" Bill, and the Warehouse Releasement hill, and which yet awaited them in the new and larger bushel measure. The Board of Trade, instead of a Board of Agriculture, ori ginated and decided on the measures vitally affecting agricul turists, who had no corresponding shields, to those which the Corporations, the Chamber of Commerce, &c., affinded to the traders; and, petitioning generally against innovations, was the only resource left to the Farming Interest.—[This speech was much applauded, particularly its conclusion.]—Mr. Cripps then, in allusion to the present derangements of the currency, described the same as a panic, which has, or will pass quickly away. and little affect the farmers. A doctrine which was ably and argumentatively combatted by Mr. WELLS, of Huntingdonshire, who contended, that the issue of the present currency crisis must be, a great alteration in the quantity of the circulating medium, either calculated to ruin the farmers by low prices, or else grind the poor and middle classes by high ones.—(A great deal of unmanly hiss ing, in a certain part of the room, much interrupted Mr. Wells ; but, on his health being drank, he received a very flattering testimony of the approbation of the company gene rally ; and the cry of " Let the hissers answer Mr. Wells;" was very general.) Mr. MivvnwELl. asserted, that the panic was wholly past; that he was no croaker, or disciple of Cobbett. Cripps's health being drank, lie thanked the company, and gave, " Breeding in all its branches." " Richard Astley, E.g., the Father of the Club"—three times three—" The absent .Members"—" The unsuccessful Candidates." ADJOURNED MEETING OF THE CLUB.-At one o'clock yesterday, a Meeting took place. for winding up the annual business of the Club; George Inskip, Esq., in the chair. The London Company were again agreed with for their Yard for the Show, next December. The same number and amount of Pre miums and condition! were agreed on as last year, except that short wooled sheep are to be allowed to cat cake or corn, but not long wooled ones. The following Gentlemen were elected Members, viz.:—The lion. Washington Shirley, Charles Bar nett, Esq., Thomas Edgington, Esq., R. Fleming, Esq., Isaac Hailes. Esq., William Hall, Esq., Robert Moyse, Esq., Rich ard Snell, Esq., Benj. Shaddon, E -q., George Tibbets, Esq., and Thomas Whitmarsh, Esq. COURSE OF EXCHANGL, Dec. 90. Arostettlarr l9 11 F. C. Ditto. at Sight Rottenlain Antwerp l9 le Hainhurgh 3B 1 t 4 Us, Altona Par is,3 Day's sight Ditto ilottrde.tux, ditto Kerlin 7 0 Fiankfort on the Main Petetsburgli . 91 Vienna lO 92 Trieste \lad rid Cadiz Rllhoa 36 Effective Barcelona .'criile Gibraltar Leghorn Gef,~ H Malta Nlcillio Lisituri Oporto Ilio Janeiro Bahist . 50 Buerioi Ayres Ihiblito ... 9i Cork 't Clp Unit. BULLION. Portugal Gol4l,in Coin 1.0 0 0 per Its Foreign Gold, in Bars 3 17 f; N e w Doubloons .. New Doilari 0 U 0 Silver StAndard in Bxrs. 0 5 Of Scitrous ACCIDENT—On Sunday, about ten o'clock, as - WATTRHOUSE, Esq. stage coach proprietor, was driving along the road to St. Alban's, accompanied by his brother, in a one-horse chaise, he drew up to let a flock of sheep pass, and as part of the flock went under the chaise, it is conjectured that they drove against the near wheel, which was incautiously left without the washer, and sent it half off the arm of the axletree. On the gentlemen proceeding, the wheel came entirely off, and Mr. Water house, of Lad-lane, was precipitated between the wheel and the axletree ; the latter going over his leg, broke it, and his ancle was dislocated by the fall. The unfortunate gentle man was immediately taken up, and conveyed to the house of Mr. Miller, hair-dresser; and Mr. Dunn, surgeon, of Hol loway, seat for, who soon arrived, and cutting off the boot bound up the leg, and afterwards accompanied him home in a hackney-coach, where Mr. W. still remains under the medical Gentleman's care. The horse started off, and continued his course for some distance, to the imminentdanger of the Gentle man in the chaise, who expected every moment to be dashed to the ground : he, however, continued his seat, till the progress of the animal was impeded by the axletree dragging on the ground, when he threw himself out, and fortunately received no other damage than a few slight bruises in the fall.• The horse was finally stopped, but not till he had broken the chaise to pieces. LAW INTELLIGENCE- COURT OF CHANCERY, Dec, 20. LADY ANSON V. BRITISH MINING COMPANY - . Mr. PEPYS and Mrs. BICKERSTETH were heard in c °ll ' tinuation of the argument of yesterday, in support of the m ? - , tion tbr injunctio n an d account as to t h e wor ki ng o f cer"l l, mines which th e plaintiff claims to hold s h ar es, some in P r ' , . nership and others as security. Mr. HEALD, for the defendants, rested for the present uP° ll the insufficiency of the proce e di ngs , t h ere b e i ng only thr ee persons eut of the whole company before the Court. The LORD CH A N CELLOR o b serve d , t h at Lady Anl4/1:44 claim might admit o f two d e fi n i t i ons—t h at o f partners hip an that of mortgagee. If that claim were to be pursued under pe . latter character, th e reme d y wou ld b e by foreclosure and s alt; if the first, th e n th ere must b e sa l e w i th d i sso l ut i on of pat'' nership. But how was he to decide for either with only WI: of the defendant s , out of a great number who were interesteu before this Court ? His Lordship rose early, having to attend the Connel l ' t° receire the Recorder's report. VICE-CH A NCE LLOR'S COURT, DEC. 20. MORTON V. WALLIS, AND C°' . he d e e e f e e i n y cl g n t on Wallis tyro specialty ri n a In this case th e i n j unct i on was grante d f or res t ra ining, from payin g, bonds givenan dthe y e Jlr. r w defendants ailis , of whom th e fi rs t d e f en d ant i s a d m i n i stratr i x. tiecestsr°6l, COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 20. After the trial of a s p ec i a l j ury case , respect i ng the 11°n-3:' ceptance of certain wor k s i n iron, the details of which We re .en tirely unintere s ti ng , t h e L ORD C HIEF J USTICE a nnounc d s that he was obli ge d t o go to anot h er p l ace i n t h ree qu arters ,_`!,: an hour, and con sequent l y coo k! ta k e no cause lik e ly to last r ri yond that tim e . S ome t i me h av i ng b een spent i n endeal°,,s, to find a c ause w hi c h cou ld b e sa f e l y ta k en, w i t h ou t ,01 "" the Court rose about 12 o'clock. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Drc.2°• LlBEL.—uttowsE V. MAY, ATTORNEY', fpn asnt. This was an action to recover damages from the ile — d the for several libels published by him, to the great injurY,," plaintiff'stea character. This was one of the many legal Pr . j il ibi• ings which have arisen from the squabbles among thein tants of Bethnal-green parish. It appeared that the pla i f t tr ica this action was the defendant in a former action for lib'," t in the Court of King's Bench, in which the present de fers it2s was plaintiff: On that occasion the then plaintiff obta'n e „ o . verdict with 100/. damages, for which, and the costs, tir „r sent plaintiff' is now in prison. The libels charged in 11 % e r re sent action were in the shape of songs. Several witnesid bat examined to bring home the publication to the defendant ;,iol their evidence w a s ( as i s usua l on most occas i ons o f par° Tbe quarrels) uninteresting, except to the parties in that parish. case had gone half through, when A hif Mr. Sergeant V AUGHAN , f or d e f en d ant, expreafe"'„ ts et client's willingn ess to comp l y w i t h an o ffe r ma d e i n the ° Ca be of the cause by pl a intiff' s C ounse l , t h at t h e act i on should the withdrawn, the pl a intiff' b e di sc h arge d f rom custo dy, 411 , disputes ended on b o th s id es , b y eac h party pay i ng their costs. al ,l The Lotto CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that the off er oat great credit to the plaintiff; and h e was glad to set that it accepted with the same good feeling by defendant. s uit A juror was then withdrawn by consent, and thus tu t terminated. The trial seemed to excite some interest among the P ioners of Bethnal-green, with a large body of "0111,1111de female, the court was crowded. LIBEL.—PICKERSOILL V. TIIWAITES. f.ind• The plaintiff is a vendor of certain specifics, and the ( 1 .,,e".g.1 ant the editor and joint-proprietor of the Morning i' e 'jeti Newspaper. The action was brought to recover comPe r t s ill in damages for a libel inserted in that Paper on the 26th last. Mr. Serjeant TADDY (with whom was Mr. Hute - lhat stated the case. He began by expressing his regef t t hi9 matters of libel had been so frequently discussed 'ne this Court. But still h e h ope d t h at in t h e di s cussion 0 ' lie question, sonic good would be derived to the public' se ful admitted that th e p u bli c press was a great and 'l o de engine when well-directed, and very properly W 3 ,l hert ieg, the guardian of our lib ert i es, an d w i t h t h o se "`" c ot, our happine s s. B ut w h en directed against private civirsr too its mischievous e ff ects cou ld not b e too much reprobated neyinot severely punished. Th e p l a i nt iff was a ven d or o f D' rs on, medicine, livin g i n a s h op i n t h e S tran d , w h en ano ther Pe.' t he named Canham, caused an advertisement to be inserted inro Morning Herald of the 28th of March lest. (Here the l' e3 0 ;0 Sergeant read the libel, and it purported to be an rival upon the pretensions of the plaintiff. The rivals t h e e was Canham, but he has lately died.) The pretensions °icor,. plaintiff were called impostures, and his medicine a deadly ht , pound, and his conduct dark and dangerous. No 'and in duty to himself, to tolerate such libels upon his character injury thus conduct, and to recover compensation for the flicted upon hits he now brought this action. Tha proprietorship of the defendant was admitted. libel The paper of the nth of March • h e allege be containing t , (in the advertisement page) was also put in and react, 4 nd licence to sell medicines. I or i " James Laver—l know the shop 466, in the Strand• w as bought medicine there sonic time ago. De Velno's syrup sold there, of which I bought sonic. un fo r- Cross-exair fined—The shop was small ; I was not so tgnate as to take Pickergill's syrup. , N tiff; Wm. Pickersgill examined—l the son of the In a 2 several citymists buy De Velno's syrup. After March our ness almost totally declined. we b e. Cross-examined—l know Berner's-street very well' gun the shop afaint November of last year; I know s for of Cambridge. My father assisted in drawing scheurr insolvent debtors before he opened this shop. .‘q f ti tn esil vertised in The Chronicle (a manuscript put into tne attack o_ hand). I cannot say that I brought this to the newsll e old My father did not manufacture the medicine ; two hundred bottles. Mr. White might have assist e u nt of father with money, but I don't know that he paid the r ent to the house. I did not hear my father say h e µl ig the Pi White. be I think n e , :10 George Bushby White was called upon his subp(en 3, did not appear. lor)sci• 31r. Serjeant SPANKIE (with whom was Mr. S. TO' 00 1 dressed the Jury fir the defendant. He lamented tbe va ost CAM of libel which cam e b e f ore t h em , but lie thought, to, coo cases, that people mi g ht b e l e ft t o t h emse lves. This vv dal " o ges test between Q uac k D octors , an d t h e sma ll es t possible aisce, would satisfy the justice of the case. Here there was n °l/1 401 - The libel complained of w as i nserte d among st the other ff tisements, and, in truth, this action was only brought ty_itori. off the D e V e h io ' s me di c i ne f or t h e p l a i nt iff. Froml e y ; A ir ing the vocation of d raw i ng sc h e d u l es , an d giving OP at iont. to insolvents, he a s sum e d th e most ana logous occ u f bliss and smoothed the passage of the ailing to the realms O lic ipe, There was no proof of th e v a l ue or comp o s ition of this I: l le_t_ t , fer and if it were not good in itself, it s ve ndor could not lo" damages for the loss of so very perilous a calling. •d e ace* The LORD CHIEF .TusT E, in recapitulating the'crile ol d observed, that newspaper proprietors were a nsvierab,.,' t hei.r. ought to be made answerable, for the insertion of libels 1 " gor , ot journals ; and perhaps they would be taught, 11 th e les atter % this day, not to insert, in the shape of advertisements, wet the of an indelicate and disgusting nature, which daily tt_l a i n inti eye of every membe r o f every f am il y . Th e paper conL eor the the libel was one in g enera l c i rcu l at i on, an d it would be s ora jury (in the absence of till proof of special damage) , to the plaintiff' reasonable compensation. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages One Shilling. BIRTH. pie At Antwerpt, on the 9th i ns t an t, t h e l a dy of John Lemme, Esq., of a daughter. MAR RIEI). Will On the 17th inst., at St. Vedast, Foster-lane Mr. vri d s r Mathie, junior, only son of William Mathie, Foster-lane, Matilda, st' street, (Deputy of the ward of Bread-street), to Is l3 t" cond daughter of Mr. John Biden, of Cheapside. , Gt A - eeld'e Adamson, daughter of j On Tuesday, the 20 t h i ns t., at t h e par i s h church 01 N i A rY d E r l e iz w a , be J t a h n ! ` .Solicitor,seabrooofk, t Elz s _ q garden. _---- p.l,ac_e, to 116,:too, On Saturday morning, at his DIED house in Great Britain's treet, o., Dublin, Mr. John Moore, the father of Thomas Moore/ the p On oet. c ol vy at er 4 _ Wednesday, the 14th in s t., a t his house, ol on terrace, Iloxton, in his 7lst y ear , M r . J o h n Garwood , for years an eminent factor on the Corn Exchange. 'Orr At Newfoundland, on th e 21 st u lt., Deputy Coa le General Thomas Forth Winter. Egl' ill ' On Monday, in Spital-square, of water on the brain, Year the eldest daughter of Robert flanbury,Esq., . of her age. he :VP" On Sunday, the Ilth inst., in the prime of life, at t-- o cca' nor-house, Tunbridge-wells, after an illness of 16 h° u : r ,, 91 1:01.9 sioned by severe spasms in the chest, Charles Den BM- ' ~ formerly Major in the 7th Hussars. , j seP" On the 19th inst., at his seat, Kevin t n in leti' , - ° _..,„ g o , _......-L. Berens, Esq., in the 81st year of his age, In the Sal Printed and Published for the Prto rRIFT 011;. at the OFFICE, No. 112, Strand, by J. B . . CARSTAIRF°