The Sun. — London, England, 1827-12-06 00:00:00

he was m os t honourably - received by his brethren the Jews; and, without - saying tt word what was come about, and lay began to in pect narrowly into th, , manner of living of the Pore, the Cardinals, the other Prelates, and of the whole Court ; and, from what he himself perceived, being a person quick of sight, and, as he was inforined 'I3Y other€, he finds that,' from, the highest to the lowest, they were given to all sorts of lewdness, without the least shame in7emorse ; so that the only way:to obtain any thing considerable was to apply to - and --. He observed, also, that they were gene rally arunkards and gluttons ; and, like brutes, 'iv - re solicitous for their belies than any thing 'else.' Inquiring furthen, he found them all such lovers of money, that they would not only buy and sell man's blooll in general, but even the blood of Christians, and sacred things of what kind 'soever, whether benefices or pertaining to the altar ; and they drove as great a trade of this as there is in selling cloth and other commodities at Parii ;. that to:palpable simony they had given the plausible name of procuration, and debau.; Aeries they called supporting the body ; as if God had. been unacqoainted with th e ir w i c k e d intentions, and, like men, was to be imposed on by' the Haines of things. These and other things which I shall pass over, gave great'offence to the Jew. who was it sober and modest person ; and now, thinking he had seen enOugh, ha returns home." Tine story goeson to state the interview between the Jew, ortltis return, and - his flierl, and, to the aairprise of the latter, the ,determination to be a convert, for the following reasons :—"' From what It can perceive, your pastor, and consequently the rest, strive, with th e i r w h o l e might and skill, to -overthrow the Christian Religion, and to drive • it from off the face .of the earth, even where they ought to be its chief .succour and support. But as Ido not see this come to pass, which they so 'es.rriestly aim at ; on the contrary, that your religion' gains strength and becomes every day more glorious; I plainly perceive the spirit ot'tod to be the protection of it,' as the mostietrue •and 'holy of all others. For which • meson, though I continued obstinate to your exhortations, nor would suffer myself to'be con verted by them, now I declare to you that T will no longer defer being made a ChrLitian. Let us ev then to the Church, and do you take care that I he baptised, according to the manner of your holy faith." Mr. Sheil may apply, if he pleases, this. story. It 'is not improbable that 4theis may reason like the Jew ; and so far from deeming the 'reduction of the wealth of the Esta blishment " within the dimensions of Chris tianity", necessary to the welfare of the Second Reformation,' may consider the existence of an. establishment, in a condition .so utterly at vaL riance with 'these dimensions, an argument in fa-. your of: the goodness of Protestantism, which can taffolal •to inake_those men -.the instruments foe.conversion,.whose own lives are a praCtical Tefutation of every doctrine they teach.—Moin- ink . Chronicle. Withont hazarding any opinion upon the question which 'has_ arisen between the Irish Chancellor Nlaster of the Rolls, upon the' pretensions el the latter to appoint a separate 'Secretary for the Rolls" Court, (the duty in that and in the Chancellor's Court havine, been here tofore discharged by a single officer, nominated by. the Oiancellor), we may be permitted to re mark the . infinite 'advantage with which, so far as the a.ffairhas-eome_under public cognizance, 'the Chancellor appears: The well-known Mr. Sauriu ha been, put-forward as the athocate of the Master of the t.olls. 'He gave notice to -t4te Chancellor, some days ago, that two peti-. t , ons in the m:•tter, had been committed to him, 'cc , be laid before his Lordship, and having been _ ,direeted. to choose his own time for the discus-, then, named last Saturday; when, accordingly, ,he did present the petitions ; but, although pressed to state his arguments in support of the claim l' , erein prefwed, the Chancellor declaring . himself fully prepared for the consideration of the question, he declined so to do. Thu's all thia," dreadful ~ note of preparation" ended in nothing: In: the course of the very few words. _whieht, he did say, however, Mr. :Saurin con . trived to jtitro . three one of - those hacknied corn mon=placcs *so frequent in the mouths of that, , faction of which that 'gentleman has -been at all times so violent a partisan. His observation ,that !‘ it was extremely_ desirable that it -i,liould :i npt go forth to the . pnblic that any um pleasiMt,feelings subsisted between the two Courts, _dud' more , particularly in the present times, I...lien : t.lierq was generally prevailing a wish Nd an .endeavour to - bring into- contempt those in high station." To, this. remark,the Chancellor replicd'. in tile following - manly and dignified _tefins—" 'That lie who acted uprightly, whose conduct .was ' Open to investigation, and whose • inoti•."-es were freely. and 'openly laid before the public, and ,who felt a consciOuSness of having acted -rightly to the.best of his judgment, had inithing to fear - from any.man or class of men W such - as Mr. Sarnia alluded to."- We say that e ca - not enter into the legal question at issue, but language. of .this sort• demands applause, 'being such as cannot fail to be gratifying to all wh o desire that justice and reason should assume the: sway which clamour and party spirit have been too long allowed to exercise.—/bid. • B'ir Richard Birdie is 'a very clear-headed and - honourable. Magistrate, strictly attentive to his laborious duties, 'and most impartial in the dis ' charge of them ; but he is, we speak with re verence, somewhat given to gossiping about newspapers. On Tuesday he and Mr. Halls, his . colleague, had. a long gossip about a charge . made in a Morni ng C ontemporary aga i nst some officer whom it deseribed . as connected with the restoration of the Warwick Bank notes, -and still more. recently in the compromise between :Grimaldi and Company and the thieves who plundered their shop. We have no doubt our contemporary, - and all of us would be most happy to take advantage of one part of the wor- . • thy Knight's recommendation, to insert uothing in our columns. but the truth, and we should Aeel infinitely obliged could he iurnish us with a a•,frtat by which .we should be able. to distinguish '• that lady from a knave called falsehood, who very . frequently visits us, dressed up in the same ha • biliments. The other part of the advice we should rather demur to, 'namely, that by which we are called on to carry any part of our mtelli t.kenee -to the pile& office' for its guidance. Our e duty is to record facts,; it belongs to others to • act oa them. It would be a fearfiil addi - t a our already overwhelming labours were we - calted on, in regard to every repoit that •inay by p,oss ibility involve the credit of Mr. A. ctr 15 Mr, B. at Bow-street, to pay that office a visit, convenient as it lies to ours. There can be no 'doubt, whatevei be the precise facts of the two cases ' of compromise out of which Sir Richard's observations a ttaches 'somewhere. arose, that great blame It obvious that the W a rwick Bankert, as mielLas is Messrs. Grimaldi and Co. h a ve plac e d th emselves) should criminal proceedings be commenced against them, in a , very awkward predicament:. It may be extremely satisfactory for • them to compound felony—to give up twenty-five per cent rather than suffer a total loss; but the practice is pregnant with the utmost danger to the community and must be repressed. If prosecutions for felony are to be compromised whenever it is for the private interest of individuals that they should be so, our Judges may doff their wigs and our Juries go to play. In a daring burglary to an immense amount, where the person robbed states to the Police Officer that the thief has proposed an extrajudicial settlement, he -is told, " by all' means come into his terms, for we can do nothing for you." n this be permitted, or rather, we should say, if it be authorised; we see nothing to check the thief of a sovereign from offering to the plundered party an equity of re demption on payment of five shillings any more than the thief of 6,000. What is thought ad visable by the Police in one case;"will hardly be , called improper in the other. We think there might even .be an improvement on the present Mode of doing business, which calfs for 'a great deal of unnecessary, and, it may be, dangerous trust, in parties who do not ordinarily bear to each other a great deal of affection.• The thief, for instance, in the case of Grimaldi, might, by a little mancetivring, have been done out of his fifteen hundred sovereigns, on the one hand, or, having received them, he might have contrived to retain the " swag" on the other. We should, therefore, propose, that the Police Officers who can do nothing to assist the plundered party in recovering his property, should help a little to se cure him in the attempt to recover it by his own endeavours. Let the watches, or notes, or whatever the stuff consists of, be handed over to the Magistrate, and a regular invoice be drawn out, and compared with the account of loss furnished by the robbee, and, if found correct, let the salvage money agreed on by the latter be paid into the same' hands, and accounted for to the robber in regular course. This would, it is very obvious, save a vast deal of trouble ; and as it would lead in time to dispensing with the whole gang of foot patrol and horse patrol, head officers, 'and subordinates, we are by no means sure that the tax to be incurred for the restoration would be greater than what is now levied for the preservation of our goods, with this advantage, that by the new plan the resto ratioriWould be certain, while, according to the old one, the preservation is, of all things, the . most uncertain-L-it being a ruled case, that a warehouse or a shop may be broken into and emptied within five yards of a watchman, and the worthy guardian all the while as innocently un conscious of what is going on as the owners are.—Netu Times. The following is the estimate of the expence of making a Ship Ca,ial frbm Galway to Dub lin. In round numbers we call it five millions ; but as Canal projectors, like builders and law yers generally, call their estimates about one-half of what their bills' amount to when, delivered in, we should call the probable expellee of this Ca nal ten millions, the interest on which, at per cent., would be half a million a-year. But even then it would eventually answer, the purpose of the proprietors, though not till a hundred years hence, when Galway might become a second 'Li verpool, and the country between Galway and. Dublin had become improved in any thing like a portion tb ti• e country between Liverpool and London. The question now is as to the raising of the five or ten millions; it would be a very large sum for Ireland, in the way of subscription,, or even in the way of Shareholders, and espe cially as people of the present day look for interest at least, and know that such undertakings as Waterloo-bridge and the Caledonian Canal have not paid the - interest, or a dividend at all and that in both concerns the real expense exceeded the estimated expence in a three or four-fold proportion. Besides, the people of late have been so taken in with schemes of various de. scriptions, that they are -afraid to put down their names to hew ones, however laudable they may be in appearance or reality. We are afraid that this Canal will be something like the (.'anal Mr. .Curdy, or, more properly speaking, of Messrs. Cockburn the bankers—end in nothing but speeches. That, in the long run, such a Canal would benefit Ireland there cannot be any doubt ; Galway would, in time, become a second Liverpool, though to the detriment probably, of Liverpool ; and the country from Galway to Dublin would be benefitted in the highest degree. Indeed nothing would benefit Ire land more than such a Canal. We fear, however, that the means will be wanting, ex cept Parliament should come forward with the money ; but in such case the Parliament would have to borrow the money, and the United- Kingdom would have to be taxed additionally to pay the interest ; and at present the loan. system is out of fashion. The only people now who like loans are those who profit by them ; also increase of taxation is not at present in fashion. The people wish to be relieved from much of the present taxation. They would not like a Minister to come forward with a proposition for*five prten millions, and in consequence ask for additional taxes. to the =mint of 250,0001. or 500,0001. a-v , ear. And yet, such borrowing and taxation for a scheme like this would be more rational, and of greater benefit, than the plan for borrow ing and taxing, in order to enable the poorer order of society to emigrate to Canada, Src.— But we are afraid this Galway Canal will end in words only—at least for the present. Here is the estimate For 182 British Miles of Excavation and Em bankment, at 561. ss. per perch, or 18,0001 per mile £2,376,000 For 72 Locke, Lock-houses, Gates, and Ma chinery, sinking Foundations, &e., at 13,0001. each For 200 Bridges, averaging 1,8001. each For 'Aqueducts and Tunnels, Regulators, Back drains, &c., say For Extra Sinking in the different Summits, and for Puddle Lining in various place• FM. Tide Basins at each extremity of the Canal, and far improvements in New Harbour For Pavement for protecting the Embankment against the Sea For purchase of Water, construction of Reser voirs, Supply Courses, &c For purchase of Land and Houses, and for sundry damages, &c For Dams, Steam Engines, Pumps, keeping out Water, &c For Contingencies, including allowances for Casualties, Superintendence, &c. 20 per cent. 936,000 360,000 70,000 120,000 240,000 20,000 150,000 200,000 100,000 914,400 Morning Herald. Total £5,486,400 Ministers are said to be in woful dudgeon with Mr. Under Secretary Rice, for having given his fiat during the absence of his principal, to the appearance in the Gaz e tt e of the honours award ed to Sir Edward Codrington for his conduct at Navarin. By this act they are considered to be irrevocably pledged to the policy of the mea sure, which, if it were not otherwise, is thus made their own. But the measure undoubtedly is their own—or rather, perhaps, that of their predecessor (Mr. Canning), and to endeavour to throw the blame, if any, upon the' CommandCr, who has acted, in a trying situation, with equal judgment, bravery, and skill, is what, we trust, no British Ministers will attempt to do. The whole question will turn upon the Admiral's in structions, who, it it be remembered, was not left to judge for himself alone : but had both the French and Russian Cornmaikkis to consult and act with, and who, as far as the public, either here or in France, •know, appear to have fully coincided with him. No ; the error or the merit, be it which it may, has, as far as Great Britain is concerned, been at home; and we would seriously caution both Ministers and their adhe- . rents how they attempt to transfer from their own shoulders to those of the Admiral the re sponsibility and policy of a measure entirely their own. In all expeditions, but more especially in distant ones, there must of necessity be a wide discretion confided to the Commander, who, without it, if he be diffident and afraid to act, is represented as tarnishing the honour of his flag, or who, if he act promptly and boldly upon cir cumstances which could not be exactly foreseen, is to be abandoned as having exceeded his in-, structions. This latter alternative is what the country will not sanction. It will be in vain, therefore, to attempt to abandon or throw the blame upon Admiral 'Codrington, or to quibble in any way upon the honours assigned to him and his brave companions'—honours which (lay ' ing the policy of the measure .quite out of the question) they have so nobly earned, and so richly deserve.—lbid. The manner in which the affairs of the British Empire, have been conducted, in their connexion with those of Russia and Turkey, has brought on a crisis which is so perfectly conclusive as to the incapacity of the Administration, that we might almost' hold ourselves dispensed from the duty of pointing out to the . bontempt and repro bation of the community any of its minor exhi bitionsoffolly. We cannot, however, refrain from noticing the ridiculous and contemptible light in which the British. Government is placed by its professional partizans and advocates upon the occasion of the return of the Prince Don Mi guel to Portugal, in the character of Regent of that Kingdom, when they describe the measures it has taken, •or is about to take, in order to secure the existing Constitution, and thus to strengthen and perpetuate the influence of Great Britain in the Portuguese Councils. One of these measures, and one which the Mi nisterial Journals extol as the very perfection of political wisdom and foresight, has been it seems to prevail upon the Government of France to banish from Paris, during the abode of the Por tuguese Prince in that capital, all such subjects of the Crown of Portugal as have distinguished themselves by their -hostility to the Charter ; with a view, as it would seem, to guard the too sus ceptible mind of the Prince from the contagion of despotic principles. It is thus that Liberalism and those who profess it—the former in all its fine consistency and harmonious proportions -J—' the latter in all their - distinctive 'candour and generosity of nature, are to be displayed to the mind of the young Prince—interdicting all communication between him and certain individuals who are to be his subjects, and by a new cordon sanitaire, as ive suppose it is to be called, hemining in his august person. It is wise; no doubt, to do all this—it is wise, .no doubt,. to afford the' Regent of Portugal the opportunity. of reading in the favoured Journals of the English Ministry the warmest commendations of its wisdom. If after these generous and delicate attentions, the cause and the Profs,ssors of Liberalism do not attain to a high place in the estimation of the Royal Infant, he must 'of all Infants be the most unreasonable and incorripiblt?. The IVla rplots of the Ministerial Press give all the world to understand however—Don Miguel himself of course included—that their Patrons do not expect much positive good to arise from the sojourn of the illustrious Per sonage in France. If he can be kept out o f harm's way while he remains there, it is as much it seems as they dare expect. .)it is in sailing up . the Tli:unes from the Nore .to Greenwich—it is in beholding tLe oroud towers and majestic terraces of Windsor---it is in en joying the Princely hospitality of British tables:--, the combined comfort and grandeur of British. mansions—in seeing the rich magnificence of our -shops, and the exhaustless stores in *our ware house—that the full light of Liberalism is to. burst upon his mind. Our_ gracious Monarch is also, we are told, to contribute largely to this. sudden illumination : he is to be the successful Mentor to this new 'Telemachus ; whom in ten days he is to ship off for his destined dominions, imbued with all the sentiments proper to a Con stitutional Monarch, - and rich in all the qualities and endowments that render a' Sovereign the source of a nation's happiness, and the object of. its , grateful and univeral love. This is • merely ridiculous, and we have done with it.— But there is one project attribUted to the British Ministry by their organs of , the Press, for the preservation of the Portuguese Charter, which mean as is our opinion of their understandings we can hardly bring ourselves to believe they se riously contemplate. The project is sail, to be, to bring about a Treaty to which all the great European Powers are to be parties, guaranteeing the permanency of that Charter. This is a scheme which, when-divested of its shallow pre tensions, seems to be devised for no other pur pose than to draw Portugal into the vortex of French and Spanish policy ; and the acquies cence of England in it would be tantamount to an express abandonment of her claims to any pe ' etiliar influence in the Councils of that co --Morning Post. The inhabitants of Lincoln are framing a pe tition to Parliament 'against the compulsory measures by which it is attempted to enforce the indiscriminate use of stamp receipts. It is alleged that the impost is incompa tible with common transactions of liminess, and that n at e i v t e is impossible to avoid the daily, and on market days hourly, liabilities to the penalties ; and it is asserte d t h at the experience of the loss of the colonies of America, which ensued from an attempt to fetter the trade of that count: y by the celebrated Stamp Act, proves how decidedly gall ing these petty and 'vexatious restrictions must be to the minds and interests of a well disposed and industrious peo ple.—Boston Gazette. FAT AL EFFECTS OF EXTRAORDINARY Joy—ln the year 1'797, when a stagnation took place, owing to the war with France, a young man in Dunferm line, a flax-dresser, entered his Majesty's navy at Bo'ness. Upon his arrival at Spithead, he happened to be put on board the ship of Admiral CocimAtiv., a brave and generous commaaer. The Admiral, from some cause or other, took a liking to the young man, and exalted him step by step, till at last be was promoted to be prize-master of the fleet. In this situation he accumulated 60,0001. This sum was transmitted to Edinburgh, and deposited in the Royal Bank of Scotland. At the same time the flax-dresser wrote to his i s fr, formerand employer, in Dunfermline, to desire his father to near purchase estate' to the amount of the above sum, and as place as possible. The old man was sent nativ e hastily acquainted with the affluent o toi i ans t o) cir cumstances of his son. The effect was fatal. The sudden tide of joy rushed with such impetuosity upon him, that he stood motionless : his eyes expanded, his nostrils dilated, his mouth W ide o pen like the picture of horror. At last he fell, insensible , on th e fl oor; - never spoke more, and ex pired in the cour s e of a few dAya.....Ziverpoo/ Albion. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—The stewards of the United British Society, meeting sat the Peacock, .in Whitecross-street, attended befure Sir PETER LAURIE and Mr. Alderman .4.ISLET, to show cause why they had refused to pay the usual allowance per week to a member named Brooks. A sick member is, to receive 1/. Is. per week for the first half year, and 10s. 6d. per week thereafter; and, if he declares himself well, and before he has been " free from the stock" one year, declares himself to be ill again, he is not to receive the full allowance, hut merely the half-pay, 10e. 6(1. Brooks had declared himself off the sick-list in 1826, afttr receiving the 26 weekly guineas. In 1827 he declared on again ; but the stewards finding he had been off - the box only 49 weeks, tendered him the 10s. 6d. .per week. Brooks learning that he was mistaken in his reckoning, and that he was not entitled to the guinea, re fused the half-guinea, and by so refusing, considet!ed self eligible to - the full allowance, after the expiry of the 'Whole year, inasmuch as he was, in fact, free of the stock. _ . Brooks had declared on the club again a fortnight ago, and claimed that the sick allowance shotild be fixed at 11. Is. The stewards now insisted that the declaration of illness in 1827 ought to be taken into account, although Brooks derived no benefit from it. That he did. not dertie benefit was his own act, and for the almost fraudulent purpose of taking a larger sum out of the society's funds. The sub scription was 365. per annum, and Brooks had been a mem ber 18 years, during which he had drawn 1501. There were about 60 members in the society, whose contribution money produced about 1101. 'a year, while the out-goings in the last two years, taken together, amounted to 1,2001. The Recorder had refused to • listen to an application for amending the scale of benefits. When one steward called on Brooks, upon receiving his declaration of sickness, be was told the poor man was as bad as he could be to be alive. The same evening the other steward called with the half guinea, and found Mr. Brooks serving as usual in his shop, and was heartily abused by him. The MacrsptArEs decided that there was nothing in the articles tcr prevent Mr. Brooks from taking advantage of the society by declaring on and off as best suited his pur pose: He was therefore now entitled to the guinea per week. If the' steward hid left the half-guinea instead of taking it back again, another decision might Inve been given. BOW-STREET.—SOon after Sir RICHARD BIRNIE took his seat upon the bench yesterday morning, he said he had received a communication from the Editor of The Times the night previous, relative to the restoration of the Warwick notes; upon 'which he was determined to act, and for which he felt himself obliged to the editor. it • William Nichols, a young man who appears is a regular frequenter of the flash houses nithwhich theneighbourhocd of this office abounds, appeared to prefer a charge of assault against a man named Lambert, who keeps a coffee-shop in Bow-street, . open the greater part of the night for thieves, black legs, prostitutes, and blackguards of every description. The complainant on Tuesday morning, about half-past three o'clock, went to the defendant's house, and on pro ceeding up stairs to ' the saloon," was accosted by the defendant, who told him that he wished to speak with him in the next room. The complainant refused, because be knew that a number of persons were assemblA there who were engaged with dice and cards. The defendant then asked him for os., which he said he owed for a bottle of wine. This the complainant denied, and offered to bet a sovereign that Lambert was wrong. He drew a sovereign from his pocket for that purpose, and put it down upon the table. He had no sooner done so, than he was sur rounded by the defendant and three or four persons, in cluding one of the . waiters, who was now present. The de fendant . struck him three times, and the sovereign disap peared. A woman who was present endeavoured to pre vent Lambert from striking him (the complainant), but he told her he would fling her down stairs and break her breast bone if she attempted to interfere, and he ordered her out of the room. The complainant concluded by stating, that he was severely beaten by the defendant and his party, and was robbed' of 255. in the scuffle. Mr. Hit:t.sj—What time did this happen? —Between three and four o'clock in the morning. Mr. HALLS—And your house was open for company at that hour ?—Lambert—lt was, your Worship. Mr. HALM—Have you a wine-license ?---Lambert— No, Sir. ) —Lambert Mr. Haus—l now tell you, Sir, that your room shall be visited by our patrols, if you continue to keep open at such hours, and you and your company shall be taken to the watch-house. The complainant arain asserted that Lambert wanted the price of a hot;;Ie of wine from him, which another per son lost on Sunday morning. Mr. Hr.i.i.s•told the complainant that be ought to lay an information against the defendant for selling wine with-, out a licence. As to the assault, he advi:cd him to go down to the Sessions at once, and prefer an indictment. The complainant said he should follow.the idagistrate's advice, and he left the office for that purpose. HATTON-G ARDEN.— William Smith, Esq., No. 9, Conway-street, Fitzroy-square, was charged by Robert SoutlUili, a watchman on the Harrison estate, Gray's-inn lane, with having violently assaulted him, on the night of Tuesday last, in the exerciso of his duty. Hutt, watchlumse-keeper, observed to the Magi .tmte, that Southall pictured to him the Ghost of Hamlet, when he . entered the watehbonse covered with lime, and having his cutlass drawn in his hand. • Mr. Smith denietl having committed any assault._ _ Mr. ROGERS, however, - thought proper to hold him to bail,' and John - Saunders, Esq., No. 2, Compton-street, atyl.Richard Frankham, Nc. 12, Wilson-street, Gray's-inn 7 lane, came forward, and entered into recognizances for his appearance at the Seisions. MARYLEBONE.—One • of the Bow-street patrols very late on Tuesday night, stopped a tradesman in Pad dington-strect, Cavendish-square, with a basket, which at the time he suspected to have been stolen, and on exami ning it at the watch-house, it was found to contain a bare, with a seal on the head, bearing the initials of W. H., some celery, beet-root, and several kinds of herbs, the pos session of which the tailor, (for such was his trade) ac counted for, when brought before the Magistrate,'by saying he had been to spend the evening with the butler of R. Wilmot Horton, Esq. M.P., of Richmond-terrace, Whitehall, who had had these things sent him from the country, and had made him a present of them. I don't wish to make any unjust insinuations, said Mr. RAWLINSON ; but you are certain they were the butler's own property, and not his master's, are you ?-0 yes, indeed they were, cried the tailor. _ . The patrol said that the tailor told him,, when he was stopped, that he bad taken six bottles of brandy to Mr. Nor ton's house, and that, as there was company there, he stayed to supper, which made him late in returning home. He was much the worse for what he bid drank. Mr. RAW LINSON wished to know for whose use the brandy was meant. ThC.tailor said it had been purchased by the butler, for Mr. Horton's use, and was left for him to take to the house. Mr. RAWLINSOI4 much doubted if Mr. Horton had not a better mode of purchasing his liquors. lie rather thought it was for the company below stairs; he would, however, send for the butler, and have the matter better explained before he parted with the charge. Shortly before three the butler waited on the Magistrate, and on the question being put to him to state fairly who the contents of the basket really, belonged to, he said that they had been sent'to himself, from the country, and he, from friendship, gave them to the man; whom he hid known for many years. Oh, that's it,• is it? observed the Magistrate. And is it your custom to have company to supper with you when ever your master is entertaining his friends ? My master dined out yesterday, said the butler ; but I don't know that he would have allowed of my friend's be ing there if he had known it. Your friend, as you term him,. said Mr: RAwuNsow, says that your master had company at home yesterday, and that was the reason of his remaining so late. Now, let me ask you who was the brandy for? The butler replied, for myself.' My friend got six bottles of brandy from a smuggler, and when he brought them I gave him the things I had froth the country. Mr. RawniNsosn—Well, I think it is very right that Mr. Horton should be made acquainted with these goings on, and I shall certainly take care that he does know it. I shall now discharge the man, but the officer did right in detaining him, as it has brought to light a very suspicious circumstance: MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —Yesterday a young man, named Richard Hart, a servant in the employment of Mr. Mitchel, the landlord of the Crown public-house, in Broad-street, Golden-square, was brought before H. M. DYER, Esq. the 11f ag i s t ra t e , c harged with robbing his mas ter's house, and attempting to set it on fire. , It appeared.hy the evidence of Mitchel and others, that the prisoner carne. into Mr. Mitchel's service about six weeks ago, and that on Tuesday morning last, about six o'clock, he took 4 candle up stairs under the pretence of cleaning himself, bid not making his appearance for a 'con siderable time, be was 'inquired after, when it was found that be had absconded, carrying with him the contents of a chest of drawers from Mr. Mitchel'S bed-room, consisting of a sillt-d res 4 , nine under garments, stockings, stays, pet ticoats, eer B 4e., belonging to ;qrs. Mitchel , together with y table-cloths, towels, an d other ar tic les of proper t y; several 1 and on searching farther, it;Avas discovered that the candle which was given •,to the prisoner he had placed under the centre of Mr. Mitchel's bed, whetc it was consumed to a snuff, but fortunately without tatitsig,,any effect on the bed. The prisoner acknowledged his guilt, and being corn mitted.the witnesses were bound over to pro.,..ccute. WINTER ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUIT, HERTFORD, DEc. 5. (Before Mr. Baron VAUG HAN : ) Shipto4 Smith was indicted for a highway robbery on George Mardell, on, the 7th'of September last, at Knebworth. • The:Jury found the prisoner ‘.‘ Guilty"—Death. The Learned JUDGE told the prisoner that his life would be spared, but that the residue of it must be passed in another country. IVnt. Lake' and James Potts were indicted forbeing out armed, for the purpose of killing game, in the night of the 20th of October last, at Pirton. They were found guilty, and sentenced each to 12 months' imprisonment and hard labour. John Turner was convicted, under circumstances, which frond their nature it is impossible to detail, of violating the person of Elizabeth French, alias Tur ner, a girl of only 12 years old, and the daughter of his own wife by a former marriage. • Sentence of death was passed upon him, without the slightest hope of any mercy being extended to him. William Maddock, a boy of 16, was indicted for assaulting Mary Rudd, a girl of 12 years of age, and the daughter of a respectable farmer, on the 9th of November last, at Caddingtou, with intent to vio late her person. The ProseCutrix, an interesting and beautiful girl, of the most artless manners, on the day in question, was returning with her two younger sisters from a day-school which they attended at Dunstable, and in crossing a field not far from her father's house, was overtaken by the prisoner. Ho passed them, and advanced a short distance, when he stopped; and upon their getting up to bim in their way home, he suddenly laid hold of her; threw her on the ground, threw himself upon her, and proceeded to take the most unwarrantable liberties. [Here the prosecutrix stated acts of the prisoner, which left no doubt of his having. the intent imputed to him by the indictment, but which, from motives of delicacy, we abstain from detailing.] Part of this. story was corroborated by one of the younger sisters, a fasci, nating child of nine years old, who ran away when the prisoner threw the prosecutrix down, and who, from a short distance, witnessed part of his confict towards her. Mr.. PATTESON addressed the Jury for the priso ner, who WE.3 found Guilty,, and sentenced, after a feeling and suitable admonition by the learned Judge, to two years' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. ,(Before Mr. Justice PARK.) James Kindell was arraigned upon the Coroner's inquisition, for feloniously killing and slaying John 01liffe, on the 11th September, at Wigginton. The prisoner was indicted for the same offence, but the Grand Jury ignored the bill. The prisoner was acquitted. Contrary to expectation, the business terminated on Tuesday evening between six and seven o'clock. COMMERCIAL SALES.—DEc. 5. PRIINES.—Sixty quarter barrels of Prunes, lying at Cox's Quay, p'roduc'ed 425. per cwt.; twenty quarter barrels of ditto, lying at the London Dock, North Quay, produceil42s. IMPERIAL FRENCII PLUMS.—Three hundred . car= Loons of imperial French Pltirns,in cases, per Eleanor, produced 61. 15s. to 61. 16s. per cwt.; four hundred; and twenty boxes ditto, produced 51. ss. per cwt. ; one hundredboxes ditto;in cases, per Mediterranean, 61. 16s. to .5/. 18s. per cwt..; nine hundred and sixty cartoons of ditto, at 32, Botolph-lane, 71. 2s. to 1 l/. 10s. per cwt. ; six hundred quarter chests ditto, 41. to 4/. 2s. per cwt.,' one hundred chests ditto, per Isis, at the North Quay, Landon Docks, 2/. 12S. to 2/. 13s. per - eivt. Apricots, A at P I s t loCuOtThS Quay, e p n e t r y E o i n iz e ab b et o hx,es.porfodudr produced 445. per cwt. ; ' six barrels- nr-ditto;per Patience, 38s. AISI. 07.io S i T h N S vi itt r y 4 o .. l p lC io e d h l e ic s e t d s 0 5 f O o l s d . per cwt. Sultana * , 4.rt at B per cwt. GRAPES.—Thirty jars of -Grapes, per' Sea Lark; produced 10s. per jar ; two hundred glazed jars of 'ditto; 14 , 5. per jar. ALMONDS.—Ten bales of Faro soft shell Almonds, per Argo, produced 68s. per cwt.; ten bales of French Alinonds, per Mediterranean, • 60s._ per _cwt. _ . RAlSlNS.—Eighthitndred boxes Muscatel Raisins, in bunches, per Caroline, produced 5/. ISs. per cwt.; 100 boxes ditto, per Sea Lark, 6i. Is. and 61. 6s. per cwt.; 360 ditto, per Lin/is , , Cl. per cwt.; 500 boxes ditto, per President Matson, 51. 12s. and 5/. 15s. per cwt.; 500 boxes ditto, per Ann, withdrawn 95 boxes ditto, in papers, 71:95. per cwt. ; 100 boxes. of bloom Raisins, 41. 16s. per cwt.; 800 oozes of ditto, at Botolph-lane, 51. 10s. per cwt.; 75. boxes RaiSins, part damaged, 4/. 1 Is. and .5/. 15s. per cwt. Fits.—Three baskets of new Comadra Figs, small tapnets, produced 50s. per basket ; 450 of new Faro Figs produced 425. per basket. COCHINEAL.---Fifty-one bags of Cochineal pro duced-11s. ad., 12s. 4d., and 13s. per lb. THE MINSTER YARD.—The levelling of the West end and part of the South side of the Cathedral, so as to allow the restoration of the , steps at the grand entrance, and to show the basement of the fahric,is proceed ing with much rapidity. When completed, this will form a very great improvement, as it will add considerably to the effect produced by an external view of that magnificent pile. The Minster will be protected from nuisance by a neat iron palisadoing, which we understand has been ready for placing round for some years past. A part of these pali sades were put down on Saturday last. One thing more will be wanting to complete this :inprovernent—the re moval of the unsightly Will Office, whirl now app ears an incongruous appendage to the finest building in Euro p e.— York. Courant. pervert ing the intellect and in biassing th e j ud g ment, been mor e Seldom has the influence of fa ction, in markedly displayed than in the conduct of the opposition writers in refer6nce to the' battle of Navarin. Brilliant as that'exploit was in a military point of view, a n d im Tortant as its consequences are likely to be to the mule of humanity as well as of freedom, the persons to whom g t l h o e i i y r of en th d o ea ß vo ti l t ir is st a o t ta s, rn a i n sh d , to we have alluded have, dining the last f or t n i g h t, b een un • c b e r as ea i t n li g , i the n by their baleful persuade the country, by their gloomy prognostications, that the vic tory of Navarin, instead of pa v i ng the way . for the inde pendence .of Greece, • there_is reason to fear, be the " direful spring of woes unnumbered;" not only to Eng land, but to Europe at large. The leader of these " pro phets 'of plagues," who, since their patrons deserted the service ,of the King, have foreboded nothing but ill to the State, is a journalist who, on more occasions than one, has . made himself ridiculous by his marvellous and sudden' 'changes of opinion respecting men and things, and who ought to confine himself to the task of catering for the fashionable circles of the metropolis, leaving politics, both foreign and domestic, to writers who understand these. things better than the person in question. In the efforts which this journal has made to decry the battle fought not merely for the salvation of Greece, but in the cause of humanity, inconsistency is not more conspicuous than faction. For, laughably enough, the same paper was, not five months ago, the warmest Pilhellenist in England, and Was loud in its denunciation against the Christian monarchs, for not binding themselves together in a holy league to put a stop to the effusion of Christian blood by the barbarians, .and to prevent the Greeks from being exterminated .from the face of their classic soil, by the proceedings of IBRAHIM. PacitA and his Turkish and Egyptian myrmidons ! It has now, however, discovered, that the' Turk, instead' of tieing a semi-barbarian, is a mild and placable creatsre ; that the 'Greeks instead of being a brave and high-minded race, are Cowardly and corrupt ; and that the war which has so long raged in Greece, instead of being one of extermination, is merely a civil war, waged by the Porte against its rebel lious subjects, and in which no third power can interfere without violating the law of nations ! Positions like these I are to outrageous, too extravagant to deceive the people of England,- or to induce them, for a single moment, to with draw their confidence from his present Majesty's. Govern ! w ent.,.—Liverpool Albion, Dee. 3. THE. MARKET g. R ET.-=-Dol. 5. Walls End Newraareb. Ditto Northumberlan d Ditto Pearetti Ditto Riddell's. Ditto Russell's . Ditto Walker Clark and Co. Trader , Felton Moor small .•• Cannel (per Cohn Hay.---- Culm Christie- , Hartley -••••••••• go Inverkeithin•%Spli nt 41 0 , 34 • k'awcett Neshant 4 1 Walls Did ,0 Walls End Larnbton.,-; 0 Ditto Lyons---*,..-•••••• ; 0 Ditto Stewart's 0 p it s t s i o s : s c e l, l7 B__ Hett l "1:4s:1: F4105;1: -•N'trf;slC'' COAL 111 Alt Adair's Stis. Otl. Burdon 35 9 . Dean's Primrose -- 34 6 0;,„ 35 0 Killingworth 37 3 Liddell's 33 0 Old Walker 36 6 Pclaw - 85 0 , Percy 32 6 Tantield :3 - 6 35 0 38 6 Wylam :4 9 WallsEndliewicke&Co. 39 3 Ditto Brown's 36 9 Ditto Burraten 37 3 Ditto Clarke and Co. 36 .0 Ditto Carr and 35 6 Ditto Hilda Ditto I lotspur---.... 3'3 ,0 Ships at market, G6112-Sh I- 3Q'' sr; Trader..it r Sinall 33, COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DUII ifiC TH tu 6' 2 .-- 414 Wheat, • BaFigy ()acs. Per Quarter. Abingdon .. Andover- Birmingham-- 13ridport ---,- Cirencester Faringrion— Guildford - Henley —,-- Hereford ------ Maidenhead Newbury---- Oakingbarn Reading • Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury Uxbridge. --- Waritage Warminster -- Windsor., \Vote est s. to s. 51 66 56 61. 48 62 52 56 49 60 48 51 41 6.4 50 61 66 60 68 40 66 • 56 60, 50 68 48 60 52 56 56 • 60 54 60 66 '74' 55 '7O 47 61 51 61 62 64 CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. s. (1, to s. d. Wheat 6 0 8 0 Barley Oats ......, 5,6 6 0 Beans ..... s. to s. 35 42 34 30 30 31 32 39 49 36 36 33 36 45 32 43 46 50 38 42 28 32 30 40 28 35 29 32 37 40 36 40 40 42 30 31 33 45 32 37 29 34 s. to s• 3 5 42 30 2 ,272 , 3:1 4 ; _ 20 a" 24 36 . 1 • :26 30 32 3* •42 s 3 SS . 32 40 24 3 ' 32 40 MA RXET,--Dec. to Fez lb. r, 0 0 0 6 Beet ..... Mutton .. . ............... Veal ............... r•• Pease :5O - SOlPork ..... . ................ Hay 41 . 10s. to 5/. per to , LEWES MARKET.—IIee. 4- 1 . i 3 0 °,., White Wheat (per quarter) £2 19 ot u t ?, Id 'fi n lied ditto Ji arley ats, New 1 1 0 - Pease ' • 22 0 110 ,00' , Oil Cake, New l3 0 Ai PO t 6 80 Lamb .................... _.---- ,-,----„,,, 4. r i f , LIVERPOOL CORN. EXCHANGE. -- ' - ', ,ore ', Having fewbuyers at this day's market, anti 1 tra° week's 'currency ; dal ,i - users samples offering, we experienced rather a . ht P in Wheats. .PriMe parcels of ,Irish Barley hr °l) .o 1 0 ~ ' 4 70Ib. cheaper, and there was no improvem ent I v d e ,„ e 03 , uf value of Foreign. the' srecndary qualities were ii t,- There were very few ..'., i ea "" f -d. to ld. per 451 b. Oatmeal was Sold 6a. sale ; still last Tuesday's rates could not be '''''''- l' e " to 15 ' 240 Th. cheaper. In ale price of Flour no variati°,l';iir. 4 . s- , . I ow. , c d. • Is. (1. S. U. ',.,* S$ q 9 1 • Wheat, English, per 70 1 b. ~...............-,. 8, 0 a 9 0 6ai I! —, Irish (red) . .------, 7. 0 a 7 3 ,;" II) 3 fi ! Ditto, (white).- 0 0 a 0 0: „" 0 a . Scotch • --........--, ,, ----..i 7 6 a 9 0 Y, 03 ' 0 Canada (free)-----1 8 0 a 8 3 ~ 0 a t , 0 Foreign (free) ..----....--i 6 10 a 8 6 `, 0 a 0 0 Foreign (in bond),.,. = .. , t 3 0 a 3 . 0 . 0 ; a il Bailey, English, per 601bs. .....1,.....- 4 .0 a 4 V " 0 a ',. 0 0 Irish .................. - , 3 9 a 4 0 0 - a r 0 Scotch...-....—...--...... 3 10 a 4 0 0 0a . 1 - 9 Foreign --- — . 1 3 6 a 4. 0.0 0 a t , : i Beans, English, per 151 p. qr..., ..,.,... 1 0 0 a 0 0 5Et il a 5 l Oats, English, per 451 b. ' 3 1 a 3 ' 5.2 1 0 : 5 l a Irisli.--............ - ........, 31 a 3 2 ,, 11 -9' -----• Scotch ' Iµ Malt, Fine, per Imp. qr. Middling...--....... .• lo o asoo r, 0 a 0 Flour, Amer., duty paid; per bd.—.. 32 0 a 34 0 i 0 0 3 , sour - '" • 0 a 0 1, oa - 0 = Canadian---- - - 400 a 31 0 - 7, 'p a Indian Corn, white, per qr. of 4`',..ii'.';'o 0a 32 0 a " : 0 - 0 3 1 red ..-................. 3O 0-a 31 0 Pease; English white, per Imp. qr......;48 0 a 53. " ; - 7, Bye -..........-......--------..........:34' 0 a 30 Oatmeal, English, per 2401b5. -..--4 0 0 a 0 ---- Irish ----= Scotch .--......-......:-..7 - 7 0 0 a 0 13 T, a 11 0 "3° 0 a @ ‘,42 0 $_..,/1 • HULL MARKET. —Dee. 4. , l d 5 The best qualities of. Wheat with difficulty D e f el; week's prices, and the inferior have receded ls. per qu 3r ,l than we have had since harvest, Old Foreign is unaltered. The demand for Oats yetir, limited ; although prices have not receded, Yet t he j.,1 hai been very dull. We have more Barley offering tr, abatement of ls. to• ,- )s, ter. The few Bear:t e ill •per guar • • • ea'' fering met a very limited sale at late prices. Bar s • firmly. at late prices. Linseed without alteration. . 1 : 30' Wheat, Oldku . , .W.s. 345. 583. ...... New . . .... ..--. i s ~ - ' Foreign s2s. 545. 555....... In bond.... 164. IL, Oat,, Poland —s. 225. 245....... Old.. ....... .ffl.,. Small or Iced l6s. 18s. 20s. --.5. Rapeseed, in bond per last. none.. a k il 'r d ee P . Foreign 8.-.1 . 1ey, •Norf..:.•i; t;uf. ... —s. 325. 335. Line. St. \void --'" is- " 4 . ---- Foreign , .- - 4 •4 9s. 47: Beans 425. 41s. 1 65. Foreign .....•••'.. c "-•'..,,,, 40s• 11'1, Pease, White s • s Tares, foreig" ii 10' ''' ,TiCeS ra . t . e_ d , u . II :.t . 4 7, ........... MEETINGS OP CREDITOUS. COUNTRY DIA ItY.—SATURDAV. DE C ' ...... '" Bullock, E., Bath—White Hart, Bath ..... .......... ...... „. Birley; J. Bawtry—Rein-deer, Doncaster .................. Eborall, Lichfield—Talbot, Itugaey ............... ....... Giblett, R., Selwood—White Hart, ......... ....... Hine, W., Bristol—White Hart, 8ath......... . .......... Hodgkinson, G., Derby—Mitre, Portsea .............. .... ..„. Sharpe, S., Market-I) , :eping—White Hart , Spalding ....... Tucker, W., Exeter—Hall Moon, Exeter .............. —ng INSOLVENTS APPLYIN , Petitions to be heard at Poitul Dec. 10, at 1 Moss, H., Whitechape COWL. M., Liverpool ' Rowley, N., Heaton Norris Heard, Raven-street, Mile --=---- 'G TO ,BE Dlgii,i-wf-,. gal-street, Lincon-es i n n flew' Sine o'clock , Taylor, T , Heaton at e S ~ Cooper, Holborn. • Wier, s,, Windmill -street Hidden, 'l'., Chelsea cowtan, ~ Canterbury Iwren, T., Ho xton Davies, NV. wilson-street, Ili gent's Park C,, liingsgtree` :cud . Stanhaw, S.„Lisson-grove Hughes, R., Thomas-street, lackfriars Stratford, T., Ratcliffe pr i n ,use, at Warwick, Dece ra „ o'clotk. Giles, 8., Birmingham Greaves, J., Birntingto° Green, J., B Harrop, T., Birmingqes H i pkins, W., Birealln, COUNTRY.—At the Court -hi at 'fen Amess, R., Birmingham. Auyon, J., Birmingham Bartlett, H. Binningliain Burr, M., Birmingham Conk; j., Birmingham CoOper, W., Birmingham of of 1826, has since paid all the demands upon is sssarssPendpedEpial-)N,menatilid C ,ring W' borr ° The following singular mode of horse - ho leig mwriitnT:4loleriterb, caDennolEetio,nftewrhMeisetle: ing was recently adopted on the road between littAopeg and Torrington :—As three horses, with a cart, early°. f t a o st M a i s - iee D p a i - i n - , t lv e er v e e nt ie h , e w th a e y mteidßdildeefoarndi juar,ilt9e separated iron" the others, and . eonve , cd awaY' t Vhe li being taken off and placed the ) catt. l r i g ed awoke and had scratched his head, be was `suction w - tt i ; the tackle near him, and more so a t the , re d "ii e rtt o3 l, 's team, though jogging on as usual. tin s - II . e traeln . ,, , ' was to be done? He at length resolved uP °- , the '•" - t e j steps. On' his arrival home, about ten o'cio- 0 t he morning,' the deserter came pacing slowly ir ' t note ' s from the Hatherleigh-road, with this f a cetious eric a t < tened to his tail, and written with a black lead P, 9 w bic ° " Master, I have been giving a lift with sotne were required early at the fair."---Exeter Alfred BIRTO S. .11 6. This morning, at Aunrstreet, Water l oo - t oad, Mrs. Smith, of a scn. Br O uc n e, th ß e .N ls . t oinisat.daaut North Berwick, the lady of ° it' , Ile On the 2d in at Epsom, the lady of J. N. E' le Esq• of a son• l'' i i i n ls s t. t. a a t t B s :I: e l:m a :ahrini..l,liitihgee, I:dryrs.ofotili4' Levi, Esq. of a son. . 11 0° Scott, ClOnn t th o he f e a s s 4t o it n ih . -___ , John ______ • DIED. On the 4th instant, at Spring-grove, Hamp . ton, Twining, Esq. ings aed 67-- '• - On the 4th t. John Daly,'Esq. upper Thaines'l V aged 82. On the 22d October l a st , at. Montreal, Christie/001r don, late wife of Capt. Read, of the Royal Staff „,,, and daughter of Major-Gen. Gabriel Gordon, aged % l ite' Oa the 2d inst. in Clarges-street, John Dloory . o f doug Esq. aged 51. 130, Onthea4retlhayi, Esq inst. at tEtßirryi-ghbitiol;n,s!rliezya. Yorksbl beth, ol i e re in Robert p On the Ist inst. at his sea t, Busbi=ball, ~: n ior his 82(1 year , the Rev. George Marwood, Se if:l.o Residentiary of the Cathedral of Chichester, and 11 , Ampost, Hants. • • Cse . Berkelersqua rei On the sth inst. in John-stree t, Robert Winthorpe Yates, R.N. i'-ged 30 ° ' • 0 . On the 30Etshq.ulGt.:liwornaya::::::::night, jail. 9,11 , w in oo li i s E 3 l l t s: n ):ear, only son of Thomas Andrew Knig bt ' O n oDotn.eastle, Hereford. 5 1‘ 1 " ‘ the 4th inst. in Cork -street, Piccadilly, AO d, 1 0 On the 4th inst. at Devonshire-place, Edgelg Arr Mr. Chas. Vritehard. Pawns') a nd PuBLIstIED by M. YOUNG , At Svii-OrricE, No, 112, strand• 'rice 23 5. 11 011111 TO (1 kADAI 1 • The Calendar 2. 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