The Sun. — London, England, 1827-03-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP Tie PUttLIC JOURNALS. The proceedings in the House of Commons on Tuesday last derived some importance from the subject which served as their foundation, and 'from the expression of in dividual sentiment which it called forth. In all other re spects the time of Parliament was as completely wasted, as the hopes of all those credulous people were deceived who had flattered themselves that the great bulk of Chan cery business would ever, or could ever, be corrected, tin der the sanction and with the consent of him, whose inor dinate love of money is gratified by their Continuance, and to whose inveterate prejudices and narrow spirit their over throw would administer a fatal shock. The Master of the Rolls concluded an elaborate and not uninteresting epeech, by a motion for leave to bring in a Bill "to alter and amend the practice of the Court of Chancery." But, from the specimen of projected reform in that abomi nable Court, which was contained in the famous 188 propositions, it is obvious enough that any meastreo founded on their partial adoption, would be in a great degree frivolous and useless. Of the whole list of names on the Chancery Commission, there were just two and no more, from whom any benefit might have been expected. Pr. Lushington and Mr. R. Smith were well disposed, we doubt not, to make a thorough investigation !lateen the crannies in this indescribable Court, where extortion and iniquity have sought their favourite shelter; but what could two votes accomplish against eight or ten antagonists, more or' less influenced, every one of them, by habit, hope,-or fear, or obstinacy, to let old evils ;squire more and more of that authority which grows out of long and undisturbed prescription. The motion of the Master of the Rolls, who made as much of his materials as any man liv ing could have done, went is fact to little or nothing. We rlo not mean to contend altogether, that the terms of the - motion ought to have been for leave " to alter" the Lord Chancellor himself, instead of "the practice' of his Cour t —satisfied though we be, that the latter object can never be fully achieved without the former; but this we may aver, that of the great and striking mischiefs, not one is yet" touched : and one is but menaced with alteration at some future period. The grand evil foretold by Sir S. Romilly, when the Vice-Chancellor's Court was first erected, exists at this moment in terrible force—we mean the aggravation of delay and oppression superadded to the old pre-existing miseries of Lord Eldon's Court, which has arisen from the conversion of that Court into one of appeal from the de cisions of the Vice-Chancellor. Why should not the ap peals from the Rolls Court and from the Vice-Chan cellor's be at once to the House of Peers ? What is obtained by the reference of their decrees to the Lord Chancellos, but an endless etring of litigious tautolo hes, delays of hearin g s ! , d e l a y s o f j u d gment , carry i ng ome of papers, to be forgotten if read, end redemanded and retransported, and sometimes increased by new cart loads of papers, to be again forgotten ? The appellate jurisdiction of the Lord Chancellor from the decrees of Judges who are not a whit less competent than himself, constitutes a branch of ruinous suspense and extortion, which, so fee es concerns the Vice-Chancellor's Court, has sprung red of that measure of professed relief to the public. Here, then, is a point, and one of high importance, left uneouched by the Report of the twelve Commissioners, and 'oy the motion of the Master of the Rolls. The quadruple or quintuple duties of the learned Lord at the head of the (miscalled) equity jurisdiction, are equally unnoticed in the bill which he has introduced, or, at least, in the speech which prefaced it. Lord Eldon has still his origi nal Chancery jurisdiction—his appellate jurisdiction—his bankrupt " Sovereignty," as Master Stratford so loyally terms it—his Speakership of the House of Lords—his appeal " Sovereignty" in the House of Lords, and his own decisions as Lord Chancellor—then again his Cabinet and Courtly " Sovereignty." Mr. Brougham indeed saddles his Lordship with a million and a half of other Sovereign ties—to which we shall not now advert—remarking merely that neither the report of the Commissioners, nor the speech of Sir John Copley, has brought them under the view of Parliament. But there is a feature of the Chancery practice having no connexion with the person or character of the Judge, which has been treated by the Master of the Rolls with the same reverence as he has manifested every where towards his learned superior in office. We allude to the perverse, ineffectual, and oppressive system of seeking facts through written interrogatories, instead of through viva voce evidence in open Court. Until this mon strous anomaly in English practice shall be superseded, and the natural and almost indigenous method of establish ing truth by oral testimony shall be admitted in our Equity Courts, the most expensive of all modes of delay and op pression will still remain to disgrace the country, and tor ment it. Nor do we believe that while such an abase shall be tolerated, any very sensible alleviation can be af forded of the miseries in general attendant on a Chancery Among our extracti from the French Papers will be round an account of the reversal by the Royal Court of Bourges of a sentence of the Tribunal of Sancerre, by which a shopkeeper of that place, who had had the mis fortune in shooting at a partridge, to hit a statue of the Virgin Mary, which some pious individual had stuck up, was, under the law of sacrilege, sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 600 francs. It seems the Sieur Gobin is a respectable shopkeeper, and he produced nu merous certificates from his townsmen, including the _Mayor, of his irreproachable conduct; and the Curd cer tified that hn had never shewu himself an enemy of reli gion. If, however, the Sieur Gobin's orthodoxy had been more equivocal, this affront to the Virgin, however unin tentional, might have cost him dear. Though his good character have borne him harmless, it will be well for him in future to keep as good a 100k -out for Virgin Mary as for partridges. To shoot a man by accident is a slight matter; but only think of the horrid crime of hitting a piece of carved wood or stone, which so me enthu siast chooses to christen after the Virgin! There is no restraint, we suppose, on the exercise of this power of pious Catholics of creating holy objects protected by the dreadful penalties of the Law of Sacrilege. The Judges of the Royal Court of Bourges have given great offence to the Protestants by declaring that the Catholic Religion is the only true Religion. In this country our Judges favour us occasionally with their opinions on many subjects, which they are not more called on to give, than the French Judges were to declare their opinion with re spect to the truth of the Catholic Religion. If the sen tence is good in other respects, it is hardly fair to quarrel with a portion of edifying matter which the Judge chooses to give jaw the bargain. Many very original opinions have, in this country, been propounded from the Bench; it may truly be said, that both Divinity and Political Eco nomy are highly indebted to the venerable Judges for their volunteer contributions. We shall always remember the demonstration of the infinite benefit this country de rived from her National Debt, and the ingenious theory of Price, sported the other day by a Lord Chief Justice, who has since been so powerfully backed by Mr. Cob bet% It would never do to confine Judges to the appli cation of the law to the cases before them. We leave it to Mr. O'Connell to reconcile this case under the Law of Sacrilege in France, with his lofty descriptions of the liberality of the French Government in religious matters. —Morning Chronicle. A Lisbon letter, of a high political character, asserts, that it was not the intention of the Government to allow the Constitutional troops to pursue the rebels far into Tras-os-Montes, but to confine their operations, for the present, to the guarding of the other provinces, and secur ing the safety of the frontiers. The grounds of this policy are thus described. It is now very well ascertained, that the Militia Regiments and peasants who joined the Apos tolical cat:_:e, had either been influenced by the solicitations and weight of the Silveira family, or deceived by the specious arguments used to convince them that Don Pedro was not the legitimate successor to the Crown. They were further assured that Spain was arming in th e i r sup port, and as long as money w as plentiful, and the hopes of success prevailed, matters went on briskly. Successiv e defeats, and the appearance of a British auxiliary force I have, however, undeceived many; and it is besides thought that it will be difficult for the rebels to continue aszembled kir any great length of time in So poor and barren a pro Vince as the upper part of Tras-os-Montes. There is, however, another trial of political opinions which the Government seems inclined to rig! e. it must have been noticed, that the liicus of the present rebel lion, is in thet part of the country usually denominated the IVine District, round Villa Real, Lamego, &c. where the Silveiras have their estates. The incomes of the wine-growers entirely depend 6,e thB gaie of their' crops, and for the vine arils a critical season of the year has now cel'. - aaenced. The vines begin to bud out, and mutt be pruned, as the grounds must be cleared. This work is usually performed by Gallicians, who now flock into Portugal, just as the Irish facts inte England in hay and harvest time, Tile farmers are obliged to obtain advances on their crops from the Oporto merchants, otherwise they cannot pursue their field labours. The marked district produces 60 or 70,000 pipes et: wine annually, valued, on an average, itt about til pounds per pipe, and one half of this sum they receive at this season. This i 3 also the time for the Wine Fair, intended for the sale of the last autumn crops, so that it is an interesting moment for those who have been led on by the bribes and misrepresentations of their ambitious leaders. If they do not resume the labours of the field, they are ruined the en- suingeyear; The Government, therefo re , f ee l di s p ose d to see what effect self-interest will have on the deluded pea santry, although it may be expected that the arrival at Lis bon of Count da Taipa and General Claudino from the army, must have a considerable influence over the future decisions of the Cabinet. The latter, in his character of Deputy in the Cortes for the provinee of Tras-os-Montes, has already given his opinion on the danger in which the kingdom is placed, and the remedy to be adopted. He uttered his sentiments in a firm and manly tone. He in veighed against half measures, and loudly asserted that this was not a moment for moderation. No doubt he has submitted to the Government the privations of an army which has had the glory of saving the country from ruin. The soldiers are actually without shoes, and six months' pay due to them, whilst, at the same time, the Peers were enjoying luxuries and very comfortably inventing pleas to prevent the Bank from advancing money for the exigencies of the war. We smile at the paltry and spe cious stratagems resorted to in this country to defend the conduct of some of the Members of the Portuguese Honse of Peers. It is not here they are to be judged : this must be judged by their countrymen. Even in Oporto, Chaves had his partisans prepared; aye, and he has them in Lisbon too. We have many details in our possession which convince us of this fact; yet these people ought to be unmasked. Some will, no doubt, show the cloven foot, when the measures of retaliation against the Rebel Leaders, demanded by the army and the country, are dis cussed. Why is not a price already set on the heads of Chaves, Canellas, Varsea, and the other Viscounts and Barons, who have plunged their country into civil wars? Why are their estates not confiscated? Do the Portu guese Legislators wait for decrees of proscription to arrive from Rio de Janeiro ? If their Constitution is a benefit, they must place it beyond danger, and this cannot be done unless they rid themselves of both secret and avowed traitors. They must be patriots, in the true sense of the word, otherwise they cannot continue to be Constitu tionalists. (EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED OPORTO, FEB. 13.) " You will be informed by the official despatches of the Gene rals commanding in this province of Minho, that the Rebels have been beaten on all points, and pursued with an activity scarcely ever before witnessed. The officers and men employed against them have done their duty, and merit the gratitude of their coun try. The Rebels, in the several actions they have had to fight, have lost at least one thousand men, besides cannon, baggage, arms, &c. ; and the moral effect has even been of still more consequence. God knows whether they will now desist from their enterprise. It is nevertheless astonishing to see the number of Militia Colonels, and others having controul over the people, who are implicated in the Rebel cause, which must inevitably create great confusion. How they have been deluded, it is impossible to tell; but the Curates and Abbots have uniformly been active agents of the Apostolicals. To-day we have received news of the arrival of the first brigade of British at Coimbra, where it halts, possibly to wait orders whether to proceed direct to this place or advance on Laniego, where the Rebels still persist in their plans. not being yet disheartened,probably owing to the support they yet expect to receive from Spain. Although we have not been visited by the enemy, trade has received a material injury, owing to the general stagnation and want of confidence which have prevailed. Great sums of money due here will be lost, or the payment re tarded, as the wine districts are in a state of calamity worse than during the invasion of the French."—lbid. It is rather inconsistent that Lotteries should have been suppressed by Act of Parliament, as a species of gam bling injurious to the public morals, while the practice of stock-jobbing is allowed to continue. The latter is a more fertile source of fraud and immorality than lotteries, con trolled as they were by the State, could ever possibly be. The comparatively small sums which were staked in the lottery, could not, in the worst issue, be productive of any thing like the extensive mishief which is the conse quence of the desperate speculations on the Stock Ex change. The periodical scenes of triumph and ruin which occur there—the transitions from splendour to misery— from affluence and pride, to wretchedness and despair, could not happen in any place but where the most vicious spirit of gambling exercised its deadly infatuation. Why does public justice pursue other gamblers into their secret places, as enemies to society, whom it is a duty to hunt down, while stock-jobbers are permitted to defraud the public and each other in the face of day ? Besides, Eng land never knew any thing of those pests to society— bubble-swindlers, before the invention of stock-jobbing. It is that system of corrupt traffic in stock which gave rise to the South Sea Scheme, and generated all the periodi cal bubble calamities which have since rivalled it in mis chief and infamy—stock-jobbing brought on the French people a great deal of misery of the Revolution. It cre ated in that country, as it does in this, a race of wild and profligate speculators, who induced individuals and the Government to attempt to retrieve their affairs, oy plan of extravagant cupidity, which ended in sitter and dis graceful rum. In England, however, one generation of bubble-swindlers after another may be swept away—the race will be continually renewed, as long as stock-jobbing is unrepressed by law. This is the root of the evil, and as long as the root has a place in the soil, though the bran ches of this moral upas may be ever so often lopped, the poisonous influence will be reproduced. 'We are glad to see that the Chief Civic Magistrate has the spirit and public virtue to speak of this system as it deserves. In a case of assault arising out of an illegal bargain on the Stock Exchange, which came before him the other day, he ex pressed sentiments simi lar to those which we have more than once avowed on this su b j ect, and which we now re- I ba tb d in a k s P these eat stoc k He portedr o e bbi n g t t r o a h i s a a v e e t i 0 s aid, d a , r e"equally Certainly, as gambling-house transactions, and am sorry there is not_ a law pas se d ma ki ng th e offence of stock-jobbing a misde meanour liable to be visited with a heavy punishment." — These sentiments are worthy the Chief Magistrate of that great commercial City which was, before stock-jobbing was thought of, as remarkable for its solid wealth, as for the honourable character of its merchants, and was no less the strength than the ornament of the empire. The late Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Venables, did himself great credit by the discountenance which he gave to joint-stock frauds, as did also Mr. Alderman Waithman, when he filled the same high office. We wish we could compliment all the members of the Civic Magistracy on a similar line of con duct; but unhappily some of them gave encouragement to the delusions which swindlers practised on the public by their own pernicious example. What we say of stock jobbers is not meant, of course, to have any reference to those members of the Stock Exchange who are content to discharge the duties of brokers, and receive their lawful commission, without engaging in dishonest and gambling speculations. While there continues to be such a property as stock, there must be brokers to purchase and transfer it. Such persons confining themselves to the discharge of their commissions, are not to be confounded with stock-jobbers, any more than the character of a regular merchant is to be mixed up with that of a bubble-swindler.—Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—Ann Fox, formerly a . : resident at Birming ham, but who new keeps a snuff-shop in Iggh Holborn, was yes terday charged with a felony. Mrs. Butler, of 21, St. Martin's-lane, said the prisoner occupied a poor i hot se k'r a considerable, time, but eventually ab sconded, leaving an arrear of rent o uPit-:aftl.d cf Rl, unpaid. She had been absent three days before the furniture was examined, and then a pair of pillow-cases, a sheet, a table-cloth, and a decanter were missed. Mr. BUTLER, the attorney (late clerk to Mr. (farmer), on the pat t of the prisoner, cross-examined the prosecutrix, Mrs. Butler, and she stated, that e e had charged the prisoner's servant with stealing the sheet. She had seen the four times since she missed the property before she preferred the charge of tdoily. She called on her for her rent; the prisoner offered her a table-cloth to make good her loss, but she refused to accept it unless the rent Was paid, believing it was a manceuVre to do away with the charge of felony. Mr. BUTLER, for the 'prisoner, said, that his client's servant had, unknown to her, pawned some of the property of the pro secutrix; but this charge of felony had been trumped up for the purpose of compelling his client to pak the six pounds, demanded for rent. There being no proof of the prisoner's having taken or pawned the property, Mr. Alderman ANSLEY said, that the prosecutrix must recover her rent by due course of law, and discharged the prisoner. HATTON-GARDEN.--STEArxxc DEAD Bonirs.—Yesterday four men, named Smith, Sheering,Davis, and Petitt, were charged with attempting to steal dead bodies, in the Church-yard of St. James, Clerkenwell. The prisoners, on Monday night, accosted Jones, a watchman who was stationed near the Church-yard in question, and offered him a sum of money, if he would permit them to take up the bodies of two children, rgcently interred. He appeared to concur with their proposition, but he privately com municated the object they had proposed to the Superintendent of the Watch, who stationed a number of watchmen near the Church-yard on Tuesday night, and captured all the prisoners in the act of opening one of the graves. Mr. Rogers, the Magistrate, committed the prisoners for three months to prison. MARYLEBONE.—An elderly female, named Charlotte Skinner, was charged before Mr. Ravvrmison with having vio lently assaulted Miss Matilda Collins, a young female of considerable personal attractions. The complainant stated, that she rented two rooms of Mrs. Skinner, who kept a house in Conway-street, Fitz roy-square, for which she paid 104/. a year, but lately she had received the most barbarous treatment from the defendant and her son. On Thur&day evening the son invited her to accompany him to the Masquerade at the Opera-House, and because she re fused, the defendant seized her by the throat and threw her down on the sofa, and held her so tight, that if a gentleman had not entered the room and rescued her, she certainly must have been strangled ; the son had also ill-treated her on several occasions. The Magistrate.asked the son what situation he h e ld ? an d' the son, a slim young man, genteelly dressed, stood forward and said, he was a dancer in the Ballet at the Opera. He denied having struck the complainant, and said, that on his return from the Opera on the evening in question, he found Miss Collins in a state of in toxication, and among other extravagancies, she said she was the " unfortunate heiress of Napoleon Buonaparte," and taking up a shovel, swore that she would kill any man who approached her. Mrs. Skinner said, she heard the complainant quarrelling with her son on the stairs, but denied having committed any assault herself. The son admitted having slapped Miss Collins's face. Mr. RAwuNsoN said he should dismiss the case altogether, and the sooner the parties made their way out of the office the better ; and a woman of Mrs. Skinner's years ought to be ashamed of keeping a,brothel. The parties then retired, without attempt ing to prolong the dispute. UNION-HALL--Two young men, named Russell and Pretty, were charged with committing a fraud upon the Proprietors of the Coburg Theatre. Russell is a messenger at the Theatre, and Pretty is the son of a musical instrument maker. Mr. Davidge, the manager, stated, that a considerable number of blank cheques and orders had been stolen from the Theatre, and his name had been forged to them, and the parties presenting them had obtained admission into the house. One of the persons who presented a forged order, after the discovery of the practice, was stopped, and he admitted that he bought it of the prisoner Pretty. Pretty, upon receiving a promise that he would not be prosecuted, admitted that he obtained the orders from Russell, who had access to the place where the blank orders were deposited. He, however, re fused to say who was the person who had forged his (Mr. Da vidge's) name. The prisoners were remanded. WILLIAM BROWN, THE SAILOR. A ROMANCE OP REAL LIFE. (From the Liverpool Chrnnicle.) On Thursday last, as the Commerce steam-packet, be longing to the City of Dublin Company, was on the point of starting from George's Pier-head, Batchelor, the police constable on duty, called out to the commander of the Tea sel to hold on for a few minutes, and instantly went on board with two of his assistants, and after a few minutes' search, they returned on shore with one of the passengers in custody, who was dressed in sailor's clothes, and passed by the name of William Brown. The cause of this person's apprehension, was a report which had been communicated to the constable, that a female in a disguise, the description of which corresponded with this person's attire, had taken a passage for Dublin, by the Commerce. The dress had been so minutely found d eeper e p at er the disguise time o o f f i de scribed, that it was so impossible to mistake the p erson , noottowxiitchastitoann, in ding w t h h i e oh ad th d e pitiaonrtoy teasf ast i ll making the capture. When safely lodged in Bridetvell and about to undergo a personal examination by Mrs. Clayton, the wife of the keeper, finding detection inevitable, the prisoner confessed the fact of her sex and of her disguise. In the evening, when perfectly sobered, she stated her name to be Selina Augusta Hamilton. Inquiries, which had been made in the interim, led to the discovery of the house in which she had been lodging by the Old Dock, and one of the constables was engaged, in the course of the evening, in conversation with the landlady for the purpose of tracing her history, when a respectably dressed man entered the room, to whom the landlady pointed and said, " Here's the very gentleman as can tell you all about her." The gentleman in question proved to be the master of the brig Laura, of New York, lying in Princes Dock, whose name we have been told is Duffey. From the account given by this person, who, we be lieve, was the cause of her detention, as well as from her own statement, the following particulars of this extraordi nary being have been collected :- - tier father is said to be a. merchant in London, and owner, wholly or in part, of several vessels, one of which was stated to be now lying in George's Dock. He was said, as we understood it, to have a counting•house at Topham's (query Topping's ?) wharf, and a dwelling house at Shadwell. From his house, it appears that she absconded, about three years ago, to follow a young man with whom she had fa'llcn in love. He was the mate of a vessel in the North American trade ; and hearing that he had sailed for St. John's, New Brunswick, she came down to Liverpool, and took her passage in a vessel hound to that place. This part of her story is confirmed by several persons in this town, who recollect having seen her at that period, when they describe her to have been a young lady of fashionable appearance, elegantly dressed, and lady-like in her deportment. On her ar rival at St. John's, she found that the vessel to which her lover belonged had gone to Quebec; thither she therefore followed him, and there she learned that he had been drowned in the passage u p the river St. Lawrence. Her determination was immediately taken to become a sailor for his sake, and, doffing her woman's gear, of which she found means to dispose, and submitting the luxuriant tresses of her flaxen hair to the sheers, in the attire be fitting a youth of the station which she assumed, she en . 4 gaged herself as a cook and steward to the master of a vessel boUnd for London, with whom she remained up wards of twelve months. While the vessel lay in the Thames, she met her father one day in the street, and touched her hat to him as she passed, but so completely was she altered as to defy recognition. The next vessel she joined was that which brought her, some weeks. back, to the port of Liverpool. In that vessel she served upwards of twelve months, and would still have con— tinned in her, but that the Master, , ti-ipecting her secret, at length succeeded in extorting from her an deknowledg merit of the truth, and afterwards wished her to re main with him, upon terms to which she would not submit. Her assumption of the habits of a sailor, it seems, has by no means been limited to the " jacket and trousers Ftne," hint the grog and " the backee," and " the pretty girls is boot," have all contributed their share towards the cOtripletic3 of the metamor phosis. Of the grog there was abundant evidence in her condition at the time of her being apprehended i of the tobacco, a token appeared in a well-filled box in her jacket pocket ; and for the girls she has unquestionably been humming them -;:ith a few adventures a la Paddingtoni. To one young woman sae p'erform'ed the honours of a re gular courtship, underwent the threefold publication of the banns of marriage, and was only prevented from undergo ing the ceremony itself by a timely discovery of the arish officers that the bride elect was in a condition very shortly to beceine a mother, when the creature was upon the point of detiarin'g Out heroine to be the father of her ex pected offspring; And than; says the latter, " you know I could not go any farther," and therefore the connexion ended. Since her arrival in Liverpool the has bam boozled more than one of the frail portion of its female in habitants, by affecting a serious attachment ; and one night, partaking too deeply of the potations to which she invited ' one . of the beauties of Bridge -street, whom she had treated " to the play," she was robbed by her of the greater part of her earnings by her last voyage. The discovery of her sex on that Occasion secured impunity to the plunderer, who afterwards bud it about; and, to escape from the disagreeable consequences which the adventure had en tailed upon her, she determined to go to Ireland in hopes of being able there to embark in one of the first vessels for British America, that being the trade to which she has attached herself in memory of her covet William Brown, whose name she had assumed. She ha: stated since she has been in custody, that she will have 1 . ;. fortune of 4,0001. at her own disposal when she comes of age---she is now 'not quite 19—and that she intends to lay it oat in the purchase and equipment of a vessel, of which she expects by that time to have qualified herself to take the command. She is in person of the ordinary stature of women, but rather stoutly made, and inclining to enhon , point; of fair complexion, with light hair and grey eyes, round face, features by no means handsome, though not unpleasing for a boy. Her hair is cropped close behind, with curls over the temples in the style of a sailor boy, and her dress is in every respect that of an ordinary person of that description, excepting only a greater appearance of personal cleanliness than they usually exhibit. On Friday she was brought up for examination at the Town-hall, before Mr. Alderman Peter Bourne, to whom a brief outline of her history had been sketched, the Mr. Duffey, of the brig Laura, before named, appearing to state the grounds of her detention, in which, we must say, that for some reason or other, he cut as foolish a figure as any man could desire to do. We understand that he had some conversation with the prisoner subsequently to her apprehension. Before the lady made her appearance Mr. Duffey stated to the Magistrate, that he had become acquainted with the prisoner from seeing her several times in her walks near her father's residence, but that he had no acquaintance with her father, whom, however, he knew to be a man of con siderable property, as described above. The prisoner, on being questioned by the Magistrate, said she knew that gentleman (Mr. Duffey) very well, having often seen him at her father's house. The Magistrate reproved Mr. Duffey for having denied his acquaintance with the woman's father; to which he answered that he did not thing it necessary to acknow ledge it. . _ _ The girl declined telling the magistrate her father's name or residence. She said, in a tone in which firmness of pur pose, and a somewhat approaching to modest reserve, were curiously blended, that she did not see any necessity for mentioning those things; that she was a sailor now, and such she wished to remain ; that she had always done her duty in that station with propriety ; that no one could charge her with any offence; and that therefore she was at a loss to know why she was detained. The Magistrate then asked Mr. Duffey if he had anything to say against her; to which he replied, that he wished her to be given into his charge, that he might restore her to her father. A look of something like surprise was the only comment of the girl upon this application; and the answer was that he had no authority to give her into his charge, Ho, how ever, advised the girl to give up her present mode of life, and return to her father. She said she had made her own choice of her present mode of life, and she did not know why any one should wish to make her leave it. She repeated that she did not understand why she should have been brought there, as she was not roaming about in that disguise, in a disorderly manner, for the sake of either pleasure or mischief, but to do her duty as a sailor, which was quite another thing. The Magistrate said he had no authority to prevent her from following her inclination, nor to detain her. She was therefore diseharged. As soon as the last words were pronounced, the soi-disant William Brown left the room, and was immediately fol lowed by Mr. Duffey, when they both took their course towards the Prince's Dock together. THE WAKEFIELD CASE. MANCHICSTER, • Fsa 26.—Fresh rccognizances have been entered into for the personal appearance of Mr. William Wake field, to take his trial at the approaching Assizes. The Counsel retained are—for the prosecutor, Mr. Sergeant Cross, Mr. John Williams, and Mr. Brougham ; for the defendants, Mr. Scarlett, . Mr. Coltman, Mr. Park, Mr. Patteson, an .] f our others The season for retaining so many C ounse l f or t h e d e f ence is said to be the great number of witnesses called by Mr. Wakefield. They amount to above a hundred, without witnesses to character, of whom so many attended at the l a st A ss i zes, b e f ore the c h arge o f felony was dismissed. The witnesses subpoenaed by Mr. Wake field consist, as I am informed, of every person who observed him and his wife during the ten days that they passed together. Mr. Wilson, the respectable landlord of the Albion Hotel in this town, and three of his waiters, are called by Mr. Wakefield. They, gave an account of the meeting between Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Wakefield, totally at variance with any that has appeared in the public prints, and one which would lead to a belief that a great affection subsisted between the parties before they met at Man chester. Many persons are also subpoenaed from Del ph and Hudders field, the two first stages from Manchester, where Mr. and Mrs. E. the h lodgingsßeartwn nll will ell° cbe, G. Wakefield stopped for some time. They drank tea at the latter place, and, from their great merriment and freedom of manner,. were This interesting taken for comedians on their way to York. i c u as t e h w e will Nisibe t p ried riu l s )y c a ou S r pe t al ready taken at Lancaster, Our n ewsmongen are astonished at the as crovd t e: :o l o as bta d in ur a in b g e, t . he last Assizes, when it was next to im possiblereturn of Mr. William Wakefield, having , been led to believe that all the defendants would abscond. They say now that there is a ca i i i ta d ll it jaun is ca a te p b ec .f ted oreM th l:n a. l t yr. more in this case than people suppose ; and there is a general ex pectation that Mr. Wakefield will successfully rebut the heavy charges against him. He has not been here for some time, but is daily expected at the Albion Hotel.—Morning Paper. itG Tli S.—The witty and convivial being F in his ear l y years muc h a ddi cte d to dissipation, llLlo T h r mother S O advised him to take example by a gentle man whose constant food was herbs, and his drink water. c, Wh a t, madam," said he, "would you have me imitate a malt who eats like a beast and drinks like a fish?" THE ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.—The heroine whose romantic adoption of a seakring life we mentioned in our l o t, was married on Tuesday, we hare heard, to Duffey, the mas ter of the Laura. Having for the space of three years mourned the death of her first lover, William Brown, Miss Selina Augusta Hamilton grew tired of a single life, and took Mr. Duffey " for better or for worse." She has, since her marriage, changed the jacket and trowsers for the the gown and petticoat, and may oc casionally be seen pacing the deck of the brig Laura, which lies on the east side of the Prince's Dock. She has not, however, cast off her taste for the sea with her garments ; on the contrary, she bas been heard to declare, within the last few days, and in no very elegant phraseology, that " she'll soon doff her woman's gear, if things don't go right, and take the command herself."— (Liverpool Albion. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Beam. Pease. Per Quarter. s. to e. A. to s. a. to a. s. to a. a. to s Boston — 52 28 53 ...- Canterbury 50 00 33 40 26 .38 40 50 46 501 Grantham.. 4B 58 41 45 34 42 56 61 -- Grimsby --. 54 56 40 44 36 37 60 63 Horneastle--.... 50 54 98 42 30 40 56 60 Lincoln Maidstone 50 60 37 42 21 37 46 43 143 Spilsby 50 54 40 42 36 40 sa 60 Stamford*. 51 56 38 43 29 37 43 68 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.-.---.FRIDAY, MARCH 2.—(At the COUT'Z of Commisioners, Basinghall-street. ) Ai c.ligtr, W., Hertford, oilman-11 Attfield, Richmond, carpenter--1 I Barnet, W., 'Sheerness, draper—l I Blunt, E., Corti sill, optician-12 Bush, W., Brighton, dealer-12 Chaffey, J., Bow-street, victualler—LS Coe, J., Bath, haberdasher—ll tte Witte, G., Hackney, merchant-11 Hart, A., Lambeth, jeweller-10 Lyne, 0,, Cecil-street, tailor-11 Moore, 11., BattleAridge, buDder-10 Moye, J., Drury-lanc f oilman—.;l Moyes, J., Bouverie-street, printet.,-12 Paris, A., Long-acre, printer-10 Plaw, T., Fulham, carpenter—l P o pe, W., St. John-street, tailor-1? Shew, J., Holbor n, broker-11 COUNTRY DIARY, FRIDAY, MARCH Q. Booth, W., Blanchester—Star, Blanchester-9 Bruinwell, \V,, Natlamb Kirkby in Kendal—King's Arms, Kirkby-2 Clarke, T., Oswestry—George, Liverpool-1 Crooke, J., Burnley—George, Liverpool-1 Dentith, 11., Huntington—Albion, Chester-11 Dods, A.; Worcester—Hoprnarket inn, Worcester--12 Fairhurst, J., Prescot—Angel, Liverpool-12 Gardiner, W., Chalford—Fleece, Rodborough-6 Harrop, C., Dobcross, Yorkshire—White Bear Ina, Matichee- ter--10 Holgate and Co., Manchester—Dog, Manchester-10 Lambert, J., Chalford—George, Stroud-4. Lawrence, S., Cheltenham—Comniercial rooms, Bristol--4 Levine, H., Merthyr Tidvil—Rummer, Bristol-1 Miller, J., Liverpool—Royal Hotel, Birmingham-2 Purdie, J., sen. and jun., Norwich—Angel, Norwich-4, Pay, .1., Me of Man—Georga, Liverpool -1 Schofield, G., Farnley Tyas, Almondbury_Rose an d C„ wa, Huddersfield-6 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED. Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, T., Lambeth, lieut. R.N. MARCH 5, AT 141 YE. H G : 1 1 1 : 11 W .:r :, Lambeth, clerk Lazarus, It, Termondsey, broker Mathewson, .1., aow-street, v i c t ua ll er Morgan, E., Bond-stiseett milliner Mountain, A., Southwarx; Spinster Noakes, W., Sutton, Surrey, wine-merchant Pagan, J., Truro, tea-dealer Page, E., Haymarket, spinster Pickett, J., Oxford-street, builder Shearing, R., Old Kent-road, jobber COUNTRY.—At the Court-house, at Bath, IVlareh 3, at Ten o'clock. Broad, J., Weston, fisherman Cramp, W., Bath, riding-master Gillard, R., Bristol, cordwainer Harrison, T., Bath, surgeon Massey, R., Bath, sheriff's assistant - Nation, W., Bath, butcher Pain:its / D., Bathwick, carpenter Quick, J.; Itath, chair-m a k er • A : Hertford, M arc h 3, a t T en . Bonnett, C., Ashwell, Wilcox, Qic S.; Walcot, c oo p er Cordell, J., Waltham-cross, blacksmith Hunsdon, IL, Hertford, cordwainer M'Mullen, P., Hertford, cooper Pallett, E., Hertford, cooper 'HE MARKETS., IAL MARKET.—Feb. Adair 32 0 Burdon -33 0 Hebburn Main— 33 6 Killingworth 34 3 Liddell's Main 28 6 Ord's Redhugh 28 6 Tanfield Moor— 31 6 6 Ships at Market, s. d. WallsEndßewieke3s 8 W. E. Brown's-- 33 6 W. E. Ellison-- 34 0 W. E. Northumb. 34 0 W. E. Walker—, 35 0 Tanfield Trader • 31 0 Londonderry.smalll2 0 s. cl. Hetton's ma 11"... 16 6 C0wpen,.......31 0 Eden 32 0 Nesharn Maim...-. 32 6 Walls End Hett'qn in 3 Walls End Lyon' 3 4 0 W.E. Stobart 31N -Ships sold, 22 -Unsold, 10. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Feb.r. Our imports since last Tuesday have been considerably greater than the demand, which has been limited, owing entirely to the suspense in which we are kept respecting the parliamentary deci sion upon the Corn Laws, and to the canals having been stopped by frost. The sales which have been made during the week were few, and those at last week's prices.—The supplies of this day's market have been increased by a great many vessels having arr►ved yesterday ; the 'Change was well attended by country dealers, but purchases were made sparingly, probably from the cause above-mentioned. Wheat, and all other kinds of Grain, stand at last week's prices. The whole of the Indian Corn of fered to-day by auction went off spiritedly, at 28s. to 325. 6d. per Imperial measure. Wheat, English, per 701bs, OLD. s. d. s. d. o 0a 0 0 O 0a 0 9 O 0 a 0 u O 0 a 0 0 O 0a 0 0 O 0 a 0 0 O 0a 0 0 O Ca 0 0 4 8a 4 9 O 0 a 0 0 O 0 a 0 0 O 0 a 0 0 O 0 a 0 0 O 0 a 0 0 O 0a 9 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0a 0 0 Oa— 0 . O a— 0 Oa— 0 Oa— 0 0 a 0 0 a 0 Oa.-. 0 Veex ending Fel Ryc lOatird. Qrs. Loads. 959 103 NEW. s. d. a. d. 9 0a 9.8 8 8a 810 7 10 a. 8 , S 8 6a 0 8 3 a 8. 4 6a 5 9 6aB 8 9 4 6a 4 8 4 8a 4 7 41 0 a 45 0 5 6a 510 52 0 a 60 0 50 '0 a 52 0 40 0a 58 0' 26 0 a 27 0 0 0a 0 0 31 0 *33 0 45 0 a 47 0 43 0 a 46 0 40. o.a 41 0 36 0a 40 0 44 0 a 07. 0 5% 0 a 60 0 40 0 a 42 0 .26." Irish (red) ----Ditto (white Foreign (free) - Foreign (in bond) —Canada (free) Oats, English and Scotch Irish _ Barley, Malting, per Imp. Grinding, per 60Ibs. Beans, English, per Imp. qr. Irish - Foreign Flour, Amer., sweet, (bond), per brl sour ditto, -- English, fine, per 2801bs. - Irish, ditto Oatmeal, English, per 9.401b5. Irish.. Malt, per Imp. quarter Pease, English white, per Imp. Rye IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Wheat. k Oats. Barley. Beans. Pea se Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qra. Qrs. 5,0T3 7,517 3,965 242 --- Flour. I Fleur. Barrels Sacks. 1,06 3,611 LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET.-•Fap.l6. We have had but a short supply of good Beef and ttfutton, for which a good demand was experienced, at last wesit's prices. The inferior sort of Cattle sold at rather lower rates. Prime Beef 7d., middling or inferior 6d. to 60 ; Mutton 60. to 7d. COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS ♦ND EXPORTS. 111 PORTED. EZPORTED. Same pe. This riod last year. year. Wreviol4- ly this Year. Bags, &c. Bags, &c. Liverpool 39,630 65,430 London 3,270 6,004 Glasgow 6,17? 3,904 Total exported in 1827 7,, 'Bags, .9.rc. IBARe &e, 5,181 2,025 BIRTH. At Ink Park-crescent, the lady of Walter S. Davidson, Esq., of Inehmarlo, Kincardineshire, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 28th ult., at Christ Church, St. Marylebone, Mr. T. It Davis, of St. Joh►►'s Wood-road, to Miss Rodwell, of North Bank, Regent's Park. On the 26th ult., at Tottenham Church, by the Vicar, the Rev. George Hodgson Thompson, A.M., to Georgiana, daughter of Wm. Hobson, Esq., of Mark&ld, Stamford-hill. DIED. On the 21st ult., at Leeds, in his 74th year, John Blayds, Esq., Deputy Lieutenant for the County, Senior Member of the Corporation, and twice Mayor of that Borough. On the 25th u lt., M rs . D oug las, of Oxford-street, aft er a lin gering illness. On the 25th ult., after a protracted illness, Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of W. Frederick Brown, Esq. , of Dunstable. On the 28th tilt., 'qr. J. W. Dewbery, Conduit -street, solid tor, aged 68. Printed and Published by M. YOUNG, at the Sus-Orisgs, No. 11?, STRAND.