The Sun. — London, England, 1827-08-11 00:00:00

TITE SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. To the statement contained in our last num ber, that Lord Goderich was sent for by his Majesty on Thursday, we have only now to add the intelligence, that the Lord Chancellor was, in like manner, called to Windsor yesterday, and that after his Lordship's return a Cabinet Coun cil was held. These, we believe, are all the external evidences of what is passing in the in terior : they are evidences of the intention that the present Government should go on ; in truth, they are proofs that it is going on. The pre cise arrangements, like the terms of a pending negociation, are kept secret, till the whole shall be concluded : one thing, however, may be po sitively stated—the Government, in its spirit, will remain unaltered. It is worth the while to consider the different temper with which the Whigs and the Tories (if we may se designate parties, neither of which now completely answer to the original name) bear the loss of place. The Whigs have been shut out of office,—almost en tirely,—for years without number ! and though it cannot be denied but that they sometimes, during this their exclusion from power, mur mured against the giver of power—" the good man of the house,"—yet in general their lan guage, as a body, has been constitutional, and their deportment respectful. It was but last .F.aster that Mr. Canning was placed upon the giddy eminence of power, and infused something more of liberality and intelligence into the Coun cils of Government than they had possessed be fore ; and in this short time, during which hope has hardly fled, it would be impossible to enume rate all the bitter sarcasms and malignant abuse that have been heaped upon his Majesty by the Tories—by that faction on which all the bounties of Royalty have been poured in copious showers so far back as the memory of living man ex tendeth,—by that faction which may be almost said to have sat upon the throne by the King's side. They have started papers, weekly and daily, on purpose to abuse his Majesty, his friends, and the society by which he is sur rounded. Sir William Knighton, and a lady whose conversation and manners are thought to be particularly agreeable to the King, are the subjects of the vilest slander. Now " Fairly and softly, gentlemen and noblemen Tories out of p!ace, we should say ; " though the grati tude a Courtiers be a sense of favours to come, yet it ought not to be wholly so. Think a little of what you have had, as well as of that which you expected to have; and, for mere decency's sake, revere the ,giver. Pass over his friends, if you think you have anglit against them ; for though it may be only unconstitutional and dis respectful in those who have never shared the Royal bounties to reflect upon the dispenser, in you, the sponges, it is ingratitude and baseness." We might add, also, to the preceding exhortation, that the present Administration is not a Whig Administration, lest the term should shock ears un used to such a combination of words. Lord Goderich is not a Whig ! The Chancellor is not a Whig ! Lord Lansdowne is a man upon whose shoulders Lord Liverpool would have again and again placed the burden of Govern ment. If they and their friends be men whose minds are expanded svith the expansive genius and intelligence of the age, we should wish to know whether the religious and politicel bigots, who have chosen to make way and open a place for them, have power to cramp and confine that genius and intelligence ; and if not, whether it be not wise to select or retain men, who, in some degree assimilating themseive,s to the spirit of the times, may guide it into proper courses, and control its excesses.—Times. T RH Mi N tiTßy.—..ll is generally understood that Lord Goderich has res:Tived his Majesty's commands to effect such an arrangement of the Ministry as may for the moment su, - .Tly , the chasm occasioned by the decease of Mr. CO .- ring. This at least is the prevalent report ; and although we do not pledge ourselves for its ac curacy, we feel bound to say, that the Ministe rial movements, so far as they have been visible so the world, coincide with, and thus in some degree sanction it. The statement of course implies that Lord Goderich is to be the Premier. Lord Goderich is unquestionably a man of very .csonsiderable talent, besides which he possesses in rather an eminent degree those moral quali ties which tend perhaps more powerfully than mere talent, to &cilitate the objects of an Admi nistration. He is conoilietory in his deport ment ; his manners present a happy union of courtesy and frankness ; he is in short a very clever and a very amiable man ; and as a fitates man he has had the advantage of being trained in a most excellent school. We roust, however, confess that we have never discovered in him any indications of that strength of mind and firm ness of purpose which are the most essential quali fications for the head of a Cabinet, composed of materials so discordant as the present. His very Virtues are such as to incapacitate him for the arduous duty which it is said be is about to undertake. Instead of being a check upon tho projects of the Whigs and Radicals, who compose or surround the Cabinet, there is too much reason to fear, from the confiding ge nerosity of his nature, that he will become little more than a tool and A dupe in their hands.— Another, and in our view an insuperable objec tion to him is, that, like his immediate predeces sor, he entertains upon the most important ques tion of domestic policy, opinions diametrically opposed to those of the Sovereign, and of an im mense majority of the nation. Looking at the rank held respectively by the Marquis of Lans downe and Lord Goderich, in the estimation of the two opposite parties to which they are sup. posed to belong, it cannot be doubted that the submission of the former to hold offic e under . the latter, would be a very exemplary exhibition of humility. Whether this humility ought more properly to be ascribed to magnanimity or to cunning, will be seen hereafter. Our estim a t e Lord Goderich's political character naturally e xcises suspicion upon this bead, which our past e xpersoce of the Whigs is but little calculated to allay . With regard to the probable new ar rangements, the reports of last night were—that Lord Goderich accepting the office of First Lord of the Treasury, would be succeeded in the Co lonial Secretaryship by Lord Holland ; that Mr. Sturges Bourne or Mr. Herries would fill the _important Office of Chancellor of the Exche quer ; and that no alteration would for the pre sent take place in any of the other principal Offices of State. These reports we mention merely as they reached us, without of course vouching for their accuracy in any the slightest degrees--m- orn i ng Post. The sel e • twin by his Majesty of Lord Gode issh, to :p r °l. ,, se the arrangements which have been necessary by the death of Mr. Canning, has given - gfeat and general satisfaction. The sentiments of that amiable and- enlightened Nobleman are well know n ; and we have, in his constan t advocacy of libe ra l an d enlightened views, and his clinging to the Administration formed by Mr. Canning, an assurance that the ' existing system of Administration will be conti nued, and that no attempt will be made to de stroy the unity of system, by introducing into the Cabinet men of illiberal principles.—Morn ing Chronicle. Mr. Baron Vaughan, in charging the Jury at the Stafford Assizes, in the case Caddy v. Bar low, observed, that " great allowances were to be made for Magistrates, as they performed the very arduous and important duties without any fee or reward. He had no doubt Mr. Broughton acted under the impression produced by Mr. Barlow' s statement.' Of the faults with which the people of this country are chargeable, that of any thing like reluctance to make allowance for any nonsense that may be palmed off on them, is certainly not one. Mr. Baron M'Clelland, in his charge to the Grand Jury of Monaghan, ob served, that " he hoped that the charges on their calendar would not be attendedwith such results as those on the calendar of Dundalk, where not less than halfthe prisoners were discharged by proclama tion ; the evidence against them, on examina tion, having been found defective—so radically defective, as not to support the indictments on which they had been committed ; and thus the gaol had been crowded, and those u; fortunate wretches incarcerated, without the slightest good result." Mr. Baron M'Clelland added, that " a county prison might well be compared to a pest-house, from which no one could be supposed to come without bearing on his person the contagion in which he had been a sharer ;" and he strenuously recommended to Magistrates, to investigate strictly the several cases that came before them, and not to allow them selves to be so hurried away by the warmth of the feelings of parties, as frequently to take a common misdemeanour for a capi tal felony. Not make allowance ! The people of this country are so stupidly apathetic, that we hardly know what they would not make allow ance for. If out of a population of twelve mil lions of souls, two persons happen in the course of a year to be bit by mad dogs, the unbitten seem every where to vie with the bitten in furor, and the very sight of a dog fills man, woman, and c ith dismay. But they can hear such a stat t as this of Mr. Baron M'Clelland, of Justices of Peace filling the prisons with thou sands of persons in the year, against whom there is not a shadow of evidence, • with the most listless unconcern. In one of the divisions of the Empire, supposing the proportion of persons committed without evidence to be on an average less than that at Dundalk—say one-third instead of one-half—we should have above five thousand innocent persons ruined, or in fected with the pest, as Mr. Baron M'Clelland phrases it, in one year. So far from being un willing to make allowance for Justices of Peace, they have no idea that it is possible there can be a state of things in which prisons are not crowd ed with persons committed by them without evi dence. They cannot conceive the possibility of a Magistracy acquainted with the first principles • of jurisprudence, and sifting evidence previous to committing their fellow-creatures to a prison. They suppose stupidity and wrong-headednese and ignorance, are qualities inseparably connect ed with the Magistracy. The prisons must be filled, and Englishmen are supremely happy in having the glorious distinction (a distinction confined exclusively to themselves) of having them filled for nothing. They have as much prison room as all the rest of Europe besides, including the spacious edi fi ces of the Inquisition ; they are taxed smartly for these prisons and their inmates, but then they pay nothing for the Magistrates, whose ingenious plan of committing without evidence secures an abundant supply of inmates to these edifices. Mr. Baron Vaughan accounted for the proceeding of the Magistrate ; he had acted under the impression of the statement of one of the parties—that is, he acted partially. We T .:riember a worthy Magistrate who used to hear only one ;:nirty ; for he did not wish to be confused by a seconc: Statement, when he under stood the case so well after the first. It was every thing to have the first word with him. Mr. Baron Vaughan would seem to think, that it is a fair excuse for a Magistrate that the statement of one of the parties rendered him deaf to that of the other. The Magistrate would seem to have deemed it a matter of much greater moment to protect his own carpet than the accused; for on his cross-exa mination he stated, that in this instance the ac cused were left in the passage when the evidence against them was taken, as " he does not like to have dirty people come into his room." A gift horse must not be looked in the mouth. Let us be thankful that we have magistrates who, though they are paid nothing for filling our pri sons, generously allow prisoners standing room in the passages ,of their house. No man surely would be so unreasonable as to demand more than this indulgence. That she magistrate, merely to allow the accused to hear the evidence of his accuser, should sacrifice his carpet ! A distin auished foreigner now in London, observed some time ago, that the English were slaves to their carpets. If carpets are preferable to a man's own li surely he is warranted in preferring his ca be rp r e t tso the liberty of another.—lbid. Reports of changes resulting from the death of Mr. Canning have been already numerous, and of course contradictory. In the species of , interregaum which such an event creates, every one assumes the Fight a re-modelling the Ad ministration according to his own fancy, and each quidnunc plays at Ministers, as children play at soldiers. The Stock Ex.change gentry have been, as usual, most wise ; that is to say, in that wisdom which knows nothing, and in vents every thing. They have had already three Prime Ministers, spick and span new, of their own creation, viz. the Duke of Portland, Lord Lansdowne, and Lord Goderich ; and would, with as much facility, we have no doubt, make a dozen more, if by so doing they could put an eighth per cent, into their own pockets by thus influencin g the Funds. Lord Goderich and Mr. Sturges Bourne having been sent for to Windsor—the West-end politicians soon divided Mr. Canning's offices between these two per sonages, srleaving only a C o l o nial Secretary to be found. All these conjectures, however, are evi dently premature. The Whigs, however, it is generally asserted, look rather dull. Whig Scrip has evidently fallen in the market. Lord Lansdowne's interview with the King was, .. they admit, short, and therefore formal ; and the sending for Lord Goderich so immediately, looks as if he was commisioned to be the nego ciator for the return to office of some, at least, of the old Administration. Mr. Sturges Bourne's visit is conjectured to have been one rather of compliment on the part of his Majesty towards that Right Hon. Gentleman as the personal friend pf Mr. Canning, and his executor and guardian of his children. In the mean time, the Lord - Chancellor has adjourned the Court for two days—and, strange to say, a crowd of people as sembled round his carriage, at Lincoln s-Inn Hall, professing to take a farewell look at his Lordship, as the shortest possessor of the Great Seal on record. Of Lord Lyndhurst's retire ment, let who will be at the head of the Mini try, we should not, however, augur the smallest probability. It is well known that he was chalked out as the successor to Lord Eldon a twelve month or more ago, and his Lordship has also another strong and fortunate circumstance on his side, which is this—that no party has among them a single soul in any way qualified to suc ceed him, such is the desperate paucity of any thing like judicial talent at the Chancery Bar. A day or two will probably solve the difficulty. The probability, we should imagine, is, that Mr. Peel, Lord Eldon, and the Duke of Wellington, will return to office ; and the - Whigs, we dare say, rather than lose the footing which they have obtained in the Government, will gulp a few more of their principles to save their places. Should Lord Eldon return, it would, of course, not be to the Chancellorship, but probably to the Presidentship of the Council, the charge of the Privy Seal, or some office of comparatively little labour. But all, as we have already said, is as yet mere conjecture; and in throwing out these remarks, we are only blending the guesses of others with our own.—Morning Herald. We stated yesterday, the elements out of which a future Cabinet was to be formed, an nouncing, as the first and most probable arrange ment, the Cabinet, as at present constituted, with Lord Goderich at its head. We believe we may now so far announce the shape which the Ministry is to assume, as to state that what we then gave as the most likely (which was all that was determinately known until yesterday after noon, notwithstanding the bolder assertion of one of our morning contemporaries), will actually take place. Lord Goderich will be the First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. The of fices thus left vacant are, the Colonial Secretary ship and the Chancellorship of the Exchequer. On whom they will devolve, we do not profess to know ; and we have no inclination to substitute guessing for facts. Lord Goderich will be a po pular Minister. He is a frank, honest, sincere, straight-forward English Gentleman, of a clear head and a sound heart. His eloquence is, in its prominent features, analogous to his character —plain, simple, and convincing. In some re spects he has the advantage of his great departed friend. He is not the maker of his own for tunes. It was humourously and justly observed by Napoleon, that he could have maintained himself on the Loire after Waterloo, if he had been his own grandson. Mr. Canning's posi tion, in like manner, would have been much less assailed, if not more secure, had his grandfather and father been Ministers before him. The best friends of the late Premier need not have been offended nor surprised at the opposition that arose out of the circumstance of his being a new man. Cicero was taunted when Consul, as in quilinus civis. Lord Goderich's noble birth will save him the opposition on such grounds, whether public or private, and other opposition his extreme courtesy is well fitted to disarm. It was said, by the late Mr. Whitbread, on the death of the late Mr. Perceval, that he never carried his anger against any Member out of the House, but his anger against Mr. Perceval he could never carry to the door ; and he must be singularly given to nurse his wrath, who can carry his anger against Lord Goderich that length.—New Times. We imagined that the virulent abuse with which Mr. Canning was assailed when living would have been abandoned, if not from better motives, at least from a feeling of decency, when death had taken him away from the tur moil of politics as well as the other troubles of the world. We did at least expect that so long as the mouldering remains continued uninterred, a pause to the ribald invectives of his enemies would be allowed. We were willing to believe that they would permit the funeral pomp to pan by ; that they would wait until dust had been restored to dust, and until the grave had swal lowed his dead, ere they renewed their attacks. This brief truce, we thought, they would grant to the 'wounded feelings of his numerous friends —to the sorrowing hearts of his relations—to the tears of his children—and to the bowed down and broken spirit of his desolate widow. Such were our anticipations : how they have been answered, let the following extract tell : " If Mr. Canning died a Christian, it is due to his me mory—due to those who surrounded his death-bed--due to the everlasting welfare of thousands ' we fear we might say millions, of the vulgar, in all ranks, whose religious feelings are too much influenced by the fashion set by great and popular persons, to state that he died in a saving faith. " If, on the other hand (and we tremble to put the hy pothesis upon paper), the unfortunate gentleman died with out religion, it is important that it should be known. If an Atheist he died, an Atheist he irinst have lived, for no man apostatises in the. hour of death ; and here, as in the cases of Mr. Fox, Mr. Whitbread, Sir Samuel Romil]y, and hundreds of others, we should have a key to that la titudinarian liberality, which would postpone the spiritual interests of mankind to political convenience, and brand with the imputation of bigotry all who conscientiously maintain the religion of their conviction." The above is from an Evening Paper of yes terday ; and on what, it will be naturally asked, are the doubts in the first, and the a lternative in the second paragraph founded ? On the fact that in the gossiping accounts which have for the last five days reached town from Chiswick-- not one of .which is accurate in all its points, and the greater part of which are accurate in none—that in these accounts, furnished not by persons connected with the late Premier's family, nor even, in many cases, by persons connected with the Newspapers, there appears no mention of the religious exercises of Mr. Canning ! Our readers know, and the writer of the para graphs, which we have quoted, knew well, that so little conscious was Mr. Canning of his real state, but a n ho ur or two be fore henever he intosu:wkoke,that n that ot lethargy from which only did he not imagine he was dying, but he did not even think he . was in the slightest danger. —Yet with this—one of the few authen ticated facts relating to his last moments— staring the writer in the face, he, with a. cant of sensibility most ineffably disgusting, trembling, forsooth ! puts upon paper an hypothesis, ac cording to which Mr. Canning lived and died an Atheist ! ! The atrocity of the charge with which the quotation concludes, is only to be equalled by the unparalleled impudence and folly of the demand with which it commences. The wife or the children of Mr. Canning, while the body of their only earthly hope is yet above ~ ground, are to come forward with a certificate of his being a Christian, in answer to the call of an anonymous scribbler, and for what purpose P— r For the everlasting salvation"-- 7 -we tremble in earnest, when we see these solemn words used for purposes so infamous—" of millions of the vulgar, in all ranks, whose religious feel , ings are too much influenced by the fashion set by the great." So this orthodox and pious writer would have us believe, that the religious feelings of millions Ain. fellow subjects in Great Britain, are wholly derived, not from the' gift of God and the teaching of his Spirit, but 1 1 from the same source from which they borrow the cut of their doublets ; and that, on feelings so derived, and not as the Bible teaches, on the merits of a Saviour, depends their eternal salva tion. Such is the blasphemous trash uttered by one who sets himself in judgment on the creed of one of the greatest and most amiable men in modern times. That such a writer should treat the memory of others with the same impartiality of abuse, as he does that of the late Premier, is not to be wondered at. We think, however, before he set down the late Mr. Whit bread as an Atheist, he might as well have recollected that that gentleman was rather more than ordinarily strict in attending on religious duties, and some of his most bril liant speeches were made at Bible Society meetings. Was it from that honest, undeviat ing, systematic, contempt for truth and fact, of which he has given so many specimens that he remembered to forget that marked feature in Mr. Whitbread's character, or was it from sheer ignorance ? We have said that the extract with which we have polluted our columns, is taken from an Evening Paper. In justice to our con temporaries we must name the miscreant journal —obscure though it be—and hastening to a speedy dissolution. The cold-blooded calumny appears in a Paper which has lately crawled into existence, called the Standard, a Paper which has plucked the wreath from the brows of Cob bett and Carlile, by the brutality of its invective, and the loathsome character of its scurrility.— Cobbett contents himself with expressing his joy at the death of Mr. Canning ; and he would do the same if his own father were hung in chains upon Wimbledon Common ; but his new-born competitor strikes at his victim in the g rave Bid. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Mary Mudie, cook at the York Coffee-house, near the Royal Exchange, was charg ed, in conjunction with a man named Joshua Redding, with having robbed the house of several articles at dif ferent times. The circumstances under which the various robberies were effected are of more frequent occurrence than is gene rally imagined. Redding was introduced to the servants as the husband of Mary Mudie, and he constantly visited her there, without having excited any suspicion of the actual nature of his acquaintance with her. The head waiter, however, found that property for which he was ac• countable was disappearing. Bottles of spirits, wine glasses, Ece. Bcc., were missed. At last three silver spoons vanished. It was then time to look about. The male prisoner, who was frequently backwards and forwards, was followed, and in his lodgings were found three bottles, con taining spirits, three wine-glasses, some segars, and other property. The bottles had the marks of the proprietor upon them, and it was believed that all the articles were stolen from the Coffee-house. It also appeared that Redding had a wife and three children, in the greatest distress, and that he merely visited the female prisoner for the purpose of committing depredations in the house. Mary Mudie, upon being first put to the bar, &bated. It was stated that proof could be brought forward to show that the male prisoner had possessed himself of the key of the bar, and applied to a locksmith for a counterpart of it, and that he declined leaving it for any length of time, in the fear that it would be missed.—The prisoners were remanded for a few days. . _ _ An elderly gentleman, who said that he was a collecting clerk in a house of respectability in the city, charged a young woman of the town with haying, with the assistance of another female, robbed him of ten sovereigns. The com plainant, with a smile, told the Lord Mayor that he was rather tipsy when he met the prisoner and her com panion, who led him from place to place, and were ♦ery sweet upon him, until he missed his purse. Ono of the ladies then fled, but he secured the other, and gave her to a watchman. The Lour, MA You. thought that it would be useless to send the prisoner to the Old Bailey upon the mere words of a drunken man, and told the prosecutor that nothing less than robbery could be expected tinder the cir cumstances. Prosecutor—But, my Lord, I hope you think that I hare done my duty in bringing her forward. I might have been robbed of a much larger sum. The LORD MAYOR—Oh, I think it quite patriotic in ycu to come forward and submit to such an exposure.— (A laugh. ) The old gentleman then retired, and the prisoner was sent to Bridewell for a month. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday, Eliza Elliott, a decent looking woman, was brought befOre Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, for final examination on a charge of robbing her master, Mr. Neele, an engraver, in the Strand, in whose service she had been for a few weeks only. -It appeared in evidence, that soon after she had been domiciled in the prosecutor's house, various trifling things were missed, but no notice was taken, and no suspicion excited against the prisoner until a Si. note disappeared, a few days since, under circumstances which left little room to doubt as to the thief. It was then remembered that a valuable brooch had been missed from the house of a friend immediately after the prisoner, who had been there upon an errand, had left it. A constable was in consequence called in, and the prisoner's box being searched, several of the missing things were found in it. Upon inquiry it was dis covered that the prisoner had purchased some articles of dress at a shop in Greek-street, Sobo, for which she paid with the Si. note ; and the brooch was found at a pawn broker's shop in Drury-lane, where the prisoner had sold it for five shillings. The prisoner seemed a good deal affected, and declined saying any thing in her defence. The prosecutor's wife bore testimony to the prisoner's excellent qualities as a servant, and this departure from the path of honesty is attributed to an unfortunate connectio❑ she had formed with a private soldier. She was committed for trial. UNION-HALL. —Yesterday Shepherd, the driver of a cabriolet, No. 21, was summoned before the sitting Magis trate, J. T. Honx, Esq., charged with demanding more than his fare, and also with making use of abusive language to a gentleman named Hunt, residing in Great Surrey street, Blackfriars-road. The complainant stated, that on Wednesday last he hired the cabriolet in question on the coach-stand opposite Bow Church, in Cheapside, and was driven over Blackfriars bridge, to the corner of Upper Ground-street, at the foot of the bridge, where he alighted, and tendered the defendant Bd., the distance being within the mile. The defendant said his fare was a shilling. Mr. Hunt, however, con vinced that he had tendered the legal fare, refused to give any more, offering his card, and observing, that the driver bad his remedy at this office if he considered he bad not received his due. The defendant, instead of accepting either card or money, immediately seised Mr. Hunt by the collar, and calling him a shabby fellow, said, " If I can't get it out of you by fair means, I'll shake it out of you." He then proceeded to shove Mr. Hunt about, pointing him out to several people, who had by this time 'collected on the spot, as a fellow who went about bilking coachmen of their fares. The complainant having endured this kind of treat ment for some time, at length gave the fellow a shilling, glad to escape out of the midst of a rabble who, influenced by the defendant, called out after him, and hooted as he walked away. Mr. Hunt added, that he never experienced more gross conduct in his life, even from that class of per sons, as Ire di4 prent occasion from the defendant, who, if it shonld cost 11 . 44. mr. Hunt) 207.,:he was deter mined on punishing, as an example to hackney-coachmen and cabriolet drivers. Mr. HONE-.---This is a very aggravated case. What have you to say in your defence ? The defendant endeavoured to palliate his conduct by stating, that at the time he demanded the shilling from the complainant, he told him that if it was more than the fare, he bad his remedy by summoning him (the driver) at a police-office. He also called his master, who certainly spoke favourably of his former character. The Magistrate, however, under all the circumstances, inflicted a penalty of 40s. and costs on the defendant. A Mrs. Bowdell and her daughter were brought up, charged under the Wilful Damage Act, with having cut u p, and destroyed a rope mat, belonging to Mrs. Lumley, their next door neighbour. This case exhibited in a re markable degree the sway a fortune-teller possessed over a superstitious mind, The complainant briefly stated the circumstances. She said that a few evenings ago being absent from home, on her return she found the hall door-mat cut up in a thousand pieces. Ou subsequent inquiries, she ascertained to her satisfaction that the damage was committed by the de fendants. Mr. HONE—Where are your witnesses ? Let them bs called. Complainant—l have no witnesses in attendance ;I am on my oath, and I hope that will be sufficient to convict those two persons. She here produced the remains of the mat, tied up in a sloth, and, looking earnestly at the de fendants, said, " You know you have destroyed my goods." Mr. Howe—My good woman, we must have evidence to prove the case against the persons you have given into custody. Defendant—Your worship, she consulted a fortune-teller about her mat, and the fellow told her that I and my daughter were the persons who spoiled it, and that has in duced her to make the charge against us. Mr. Hostiz—How do you know that fact ? Has she told you that she has been with a fortune-teller on the subject ? Defendant replied, that the complainant had admitted to a female, then in attendance, that the moment she dis covered her mat had been cut, she proceeded to the fortune teller, who attributed the offence to have been committed by her and her daughter. This person was accordingly called, and in reply to the Magistrate's questions, she said, that in a conversation she had with the complainant, after the mat was destroyed, she stated that she had been with the " cunning man," who, on being made acquainted with what had happened, drew the likenesses of Mrs. Bowden and her daughter to the life, adding, that they were the persons who did the damage. The complainant, on being questioned relative to her having been with a fortune-teller about the business, did not deny the fact, and still asserted that she was persuaded the defendants had acted in the manner she described. The Magistrate, having discharged the defendants, ex pressed a particular desire to know the residence of the " cunning man," who, he observed, would be a most ex cellent subject for the tread-wheel. Mrs. Lumley, who was the only person present who could give the information required, flaunted out of the office, saying, she had no idea of making other people wiser than herself. PROVIDENT LIFE INSURANCE COM• PANY. The third Septennial Meeting of the Members of this institution was held yesterday, at the Office of the Company, Regent-street. At one o'clock Sir GEORGE DUCKETT, Bart., was called to the Chair, and after a few prefatory observations, requested the attention of the Members to the Report of the Board of Directors, which would be read to them. Mr. BARBER BEAUMONT, jun., read the Report, which exhibited the flourishing state of the Corn pany's affairs, but which, from its length, we are obliged to omit. _ The reading of the Report was followed by ex pressions of unmixed approbation by the Members. Mr. BEAUMONT then rose, and stated, that the sum total of the Company's expences, during the last twenty-one years, including payments on 590 lives that had dropped, amounted to nearly half a million; that the balance in hand was considerably above half a million, in addition to the original capital and its accumulations, and that after valuing their ex isting policies, there remained of surplus profits in hand the sum of 215,7731., the one half of which was to be divided, the other to be reserved as an accumu lating fund. Mr. Beaumont explained, that by the peculiar rules of the office, only about one-fourteenth part of the half to be divided fell to the share holders, the rest being divided among the insured, and that from the probable increase of the surplus profits during the next seven'years, the part allotted to the shareholders would not be above one twenty fifth part of the whole; but that this comparatively small portion of the profits assigned to the share holders, by contributing most essentially to the ex tension of their business, had in reality, and from that cause, doubled the value of their shares. Mr. Beaumont then went on, at great length, to state the advantages of the plan of the Provident Com pany as compared with other companies, and con cluded a long and able speech, amidst loud and uni versal applause. The CHAIRMAN then rose, and after compliment ing Mr. Beaumont upon his very able, luminous, well-digested, and satisfactory address, put the question that the Report be agreed to, which was carried unanimously. A MEMBER asked, had the accounts referred to in the Report been audited by auditors unconnected with the Company ? . . The CHAIRKAN said, the Annual Reports had been duly audited, which the Directors thought ren dered the examination of the aggregate accounts unnecessary. The MEMBER said, he had not the least doubt that the accounts were quite correct; still it would have been satisfactory had the members had the au thority of auditors on the subject. The making out of the accounts had probably been left to the clerk, over whom some eontroul or inspection might be exercised with advantage. The CHAIRMAN asked, did the gentleman recom mend that the affairs of the Company should be submitted for examination to persons unconnected with it ? The MEMBER replied that that might not be de sirable, and repeated his former observations. Mr. BRAND:torn' said, the objection had been ob viated by the annual inspection of the accounts by auditors' All the accounts had been checked and examined by three clerks, the entire of whose time had been occupied by it for nine months. It was quite clear, therefore, that no individual, no set of auditors, could go over those accounts in the same manner; but every thing necessary to insure their correctness had been put in practice, and he hoped he might be permitted to say with success. He had himself laid down the plans by which the calcu lations were worked; but it was impossible for him to see that each of 4,000 accounts bad been accurately worked according to those plans. He had, however,oc casionally submittednumbers of those accounts to the test of a rigid examination, and, having found them uniformly correct, thought he was justified in pre suming all were so. (Applause.) Moreover, the clerks reciprocally checked each other. Under these circumstances, therefore, he thought the meeting would agree with him in recognizing the accounts as perfectly accurate and satisfactory. The Proprietor who started the objection, again disclaimed any intention to impute incorrectness, and repeated his former observation respecting the accounts, which it had been admitted were left to the clerks to make out. An annual audit was of less importance than the audit of the septennial ac counts. An incorrectness in the former might be adjusted before the next annual meeting, while an inaccuracy in a septennial account must, if detected, remain over for seven years, before it could be rec tified. Mr. BEAUMONT thought, the tests to which the labours of the clerks were subjected, sufficiently guaranteed their accuracy, particularly when it should be recollected, that the respective employments of those persons depended solely upon their correctness. Here the conversation dropped. A recommendation o f th e B oar d, that to the three clerks employed, gr a t u iti es o f tool., 501., and 251. respectively, should be paid, was then proposed and agreed to. After which, Earl FERRARS rose, and said, he had been for many years a Member of the Company, during the entire of which time, he had witnessed the extreme zeal, the unwearied activity, and the distinguished talent and ability, displayed by their Acting Director in the management of the affairs of the Company, and to which was, in a great degree, to be ascribed that high state of prosperity to which they had at tained,--(Applause.)—He should, therefore, pro pose, that the best thanks of the Meeting be given to J. T. Barber Beaumoet,Esq., for hi s ac ti ve , y e t steady and prudent administration of the affairs of the Company. Sir JOHN HARRINGTON seconded the motion, which passed unanimously. Mr. BEAUM ONT, in returni ng t h an k s , d we lt upon the claims which the Cheirmais had upon the grati tude of the Company, not merely for his presiding there that day, but for his exertions as one a their Trustees. To the support of that worthy Baronet (Sir George Duckett) with the able and constant co-operation of the Noble Earl (Ferrara), rather than to any ability of his own, should be attributed the praise which the members had been pleased to bestow on his exertions, iu the service of the Corn pany.—(Applause.)—Mr. Beaumont concluded, by moving the best thanks of the meeting to the Chair man, Sir G. Duckett. Earl FERRARs put the question, which was una nimously agreed to. The meeting then broke up, the members appa rently highly satisfied with the remarkable degree of prosperity that had attended an undertaking, com menced with means which, in the late period of spe culations in Joint Stock Companies, would have been deemed paltry, and totally inadequate to the proposed object. LONDON MARKETS. (From the New London Price Current of yeeteiday.) Rum, BEA rrov, ►rrnLtmans.—There has been a greater - disposition this week to do business in Leeward Island Rum, and all the parcels of under-proof Rums of fering about 2s. 2d. have been bought up, and for parcels very little above proofs 2s. Sd. has been paid. The trade appear very unwilling to submit to the high prices of fine Jamaica Rum . ; but where sales have been effected, the late currency has been supported ; the purchase. are quite inconsiderable. In the interme diate strengths we are not aware of any transactions.— Brandies have been rather more inquired after, aed for new of the beet brands Ss. 6d. has been paid for parcels off the quay, for housed Ss. 7d., and for old Ss. 9d. a Ss. 10d. —Geneva has realised 2s. Sd. MOM-The accounts from the Hop districts continue very favourable ; the fine weather is bringing the Hops into burr very freely. The price of Hops here are entirely nominal. hintoo.—There is no alteration in Indigo. SALTPETRY.—At a late hour considerable purchases were reported at 23e. Ous.—The Oil Market is little varied.—Spermaceti and Rape Oils have been in demand at higher prices. Sewn, &c.—The near approach of the Indian Sale renders the quotations nominal. Further considerable de clarations of Spices have reached us, but at too late an hour for insertion.—Pimento sells freely front 10d. to 101 d. ; one parcel has realised 11d.—The Compapy's Saltpetre is taxed at 201.—Black Pepper at sid. TOBACCO.-The sales of Tobacco for the week ending last night are confined to parcels of low Virginia for export at lid. a 3d. Paoviszoxs.—Small parcels of 20 and SO casks Irish Beef and Pork continue to be taken off at our quotations ; the sales are chiefly of the latter.—ln Foreign Provisions no sales are reported ; Bacon is still in some request.— We give the latest quotations of Butters where actual sales have taken place. Hutu., FLAX, and TALLow.—The accounts from St. Petersburgh are to the 24th alt. Exchanges 104 d. ; Tallow 99 rubles sellers; 78,000 casks shipped off. The demand for Tallow, notwithstanding the arrivals and the expected supplies, has rather improved, and the prices are a shade higher ; considerable sales are reported at 365. and 365. 3d. In Hemp or Flax there is little alteration. This afternoon the market was heavy and rather lower. SlLrs.—There is rather more doing in Silks at our quotations. East India Silks at the late India House prices. COTTON.-The sales of Cotton for the week ending last night inclusive, consist of 1500 bags at former prices. The letters from Manchester and the manufacturing districts are more favourable to-day : the purchasers of goods are extensive, and generally at an advance of 2 id. to 3d. per cent. An advance of 3d. per piece in weavers' wages had been acceded to at Blackburn, Burnley, Colne, and the adjacent districts : that is Sd. on the previous wages of 2s. per piece. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—Aug. 9. HAy................ 80,. Od. to 1150. Od. f ('lover ...........100s. Od. to 147 e. Od. Straw-----. Ms. Od. to 455. Od. PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)-Aug. 10. Kent Pockets 3l. 196. 4/. 06. to 41. 106. Sussex Ditto ........... 3l. ss. 31. 12.6. to 41. 186. Essex Ditto - 31. 10s. N. 18s. to 4/. 46. Farnham Ditto, Fine , Ol. Os. 51. Iss. to 61 . 68. Seconds .-........ 01. 03. 41. 46 to 51. ss. Kent Rags- - 31. 3s. 31. 15e. to 41. 2.5. Sussex Ditto ....-. IL les. 31. 31. to Si. 10s. Xesex Ditto __ _ 3/ Os. 3/. lGs. to 31. 16s. Old Duty laid at £95,000. PRICE OF PO'rAl OES.—Aug. 10. New Ware Ol. 6s. to 01. Es. per cwt. Middlings 01. 4s. to 4s. 6d. ditto. PRIUS OF LEATHER. Per lb. Eta d. 8utt5.,...-50 to 661 b..... to 661 b..... Dressing Bides In 16 Fine Coach Hides - 16 18 Crop Hides, 35 to 4.431 b. 144 15 Ditto 45 to 501 b. 17 194 Ditto lBl. 40 Per lb. 41. to d. Tanned Horse Hides— 12 15 Spanish Ditt? .........,..." lb 20 Per dozen. Calf Skins.,,, 36 to 40Ib. 18 ZS Ditto --so to 701 b. 24 26 Ditto -- 70 to SOlb. 21 2s Small Seals, areenland 18 18 _ RAW HIDE - Pei etunc. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d• Best Heifers &Stcors 210 3 4 Ordinary 2 0 2 S Middlings 2 fl 2 8 Market Calf * . 7 0 each. SHEEP SKINS. Od. to N. Od. I dd. to 2.. Od. to 00. Od. Down... ' PRICE OF TALLOW, SO, TOwn Tallow ............—..... 42a. Od. Yellow Russia 325. Od. White — _ 3$V 6d Soap Ditto 384 Od Melted 5tuff.,...........—......... 345. Od. Ditto Rough 21s. Od. , AP, &e. per 1121b.,-Aug 10. Yellow Soap------ 78e. Od. Mottled 820 Od- Wbita B6e. Od- Graves 20e. Od- Good Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT. per stone of 81b.—Aug. l Price by Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Meters) 31d. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows : Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Os. Od. j Mo alds, per dozes► Se. &t COAL MAR! Adair's Beaumont 30 Eigh ton Main 29 9 Ellison Main 3O 6 Heaton 36 0 HolywelL. 33 0 Killingworth 34 3 liddell's 31 0 Pelaw Tanfleld Moor 32 6 Townley... 31 0 Willington Wylam 39 0 Walls End Brown's- 33 9 Ships at market, 4234-Sb KET.—Aag. 10. Walls End Newmarch...., 355. 6d. Ditto Burraten Si 3 Ditto Cramlington.-......., 30 0 Ditto lt iddell's 35 6 Lambton small I'7 6 Hartley Porde' 35 6 Walls End Old Etherley 31 S Lien Main Russell's Lyon's ;It 6 Walls End 38 U Ditto Dunbton 33 Ditto Stewart's 33 0 Russell's lietton'sW, E. 37 0 lips sold, 29 }6—.Unsold, 13. BIRTHS. On the Bth instant, at Hayne, Devon, the lady of C. A. Harris, Esq., of a daughter. On the 9th inst., Aim Von der Heyde, of Lower Thames-street, of a son. MARRIED. On Thursday last, the 9th inst., at Thorpe, near Nor wich, by the Rev. Edward Belman, Rector of Helming ham, in Suffolk, Captain Thomas Blakeston, R.N. fourth. son of the late Sir Matthew Blakeston, of Sandy Brook, ;Jo the county of Derby, Bart., to Harriot, fourth daughter ot Lieut.-Colonel Harvey, of Thorpe. On Wednesday last, at Oswestry, by the Rey, James Donne, D.D., John Gray, Esq., of Heartsheoh.park, Flintshire, to Sarah, eldest daughter of the late John Mathews, Esq., of Plas-Bostock, and co-heiress of Thomas Mathews, Esq. of Eyarth, Denbighshire. On the Bth inst, at St. Luke's Middlesex, Mr. T., Piper, of Eastcheap, to Eliza, eldest daughter of W. Bateman, Esq.: of Bunhill-row. On ths 7th inst., Mr. Wm. Simkins Ilitehman, wine merchant, Chipping Norton, to Isabella Anne Spence, eldest daughter of Mr. Wm, Spence, of Sunderland. DIED. On the Bth inst., Sarah, relict of the late Robe.o Wefts* of Newbury, in her 70th year. . . On the 'bib inst., in Jeffreys -square, after el long and li nger i ng illness, in the 69th year of his age, Wm. May, r, q ., Consul-General of his Majesty the. King of tba therlands in Great Britain. On the 7th inst., at Islington, aged 79, Mr. Richard Loweock. On the sth inst., John Vaillant, Esq., of Montague street, Russell-square, and the Middle Temple, aged 63. On the 7th inst., Mrs. E. Hancox, of Great Ormond. street. On the sth hp*, at Brornpton, aged 82, Capt. Richard Russell Kempe, of the Bengal Horse Artillery, second souk of the late Mr. Sergeant Kempe, of the Deanery, South. Mailing, Sussex. On the Cith inst., at Brandon, by his pistol accidentally going otr, whilst shooting at a rabbit, James, the son of the late Lieutenant James Dillon, R.N., in the 22d year of his age. On the 7th inst., Mr. Ledgard, of the Globe Inn, in Manningham, near Bradford; he suddenly dropped down as he was washing himself, and expired. He had been unwell some time previously, but not so as to excite any serious alarm. On the 7th inst., at the residence of her father, the Rev. W. A. Armstrong, of Pengelly Lodge, and Hertford, Avarilla Aphra, the lamented wife of Artemidorus Crom well Russell, Esq., of Rumderoft in the same county. At the Castlehill, Edinburgh, on the 2d instant, Johns M'Donald (father of Donald M'Donald, pipemaker to the, Highland Society of London), aged 107 years. This venerable old man was able to walk about till within a f e w weeks of his death, and retained pos se ssionof_all hi s facul ties, almost unimpaired, to the hour of hia dissolution. Ors Sunday he was followed to the grave by an immense num ber of friends, among whom was agreat-great-graOson. PkkallCi. Ofld PUBLISMIZD by M. YOUNG, at t h e SyN r orrice, Q. 112, Strand. 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