The Sun. — London, England, 1827-12-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. If journalism be what the French authorities would represent it,—the grand curse of civilization, and enemy of social order in their country,—it is a matter of curiosity, at least, that M. Villele should so often find occasion to employ as an especial in strument for his own purposes, this unwholesome power of which lie so bitterly complains. It is to be suspected, indeed, that M. de Villele would not en courage such violent attacks upon the nature of " journalism," if lie could only prescribe to it the exact direction which suited him; because there are some of the French journals which his Excellency forbears to visit with marks of his hostility or dis pleasure, while the Constitutionnel and J 021121411 des Debats, for instance, are picked out as examples of this new species of enormity. The " journalism" of the Moniteur and Gazette de France is resorted to by the same ingenious Minister, as the organ through which their own profession arid privileges are held up to alternate fear and scorn. Journalism, it appears, in the eyes of M. de Villele, ought to re semble Irish reciprocity, and free speaking is (what King James thought scratching) " too great a luxury for subjects." There is in the Moniteur of Tues day last an amusing specimen of the real importance attached by the French Minister to this tutelary power, which, since he could not silence, he has never ceased loudly to reprobate. An article, in defatigably laboured, occupies two columns of that official newspaper, and seems designed for a supplementary manoeuvre to those which, in the hands of the prefects and other agents, were so sig nally unsuccessful at the late elections, by wheedling a majority after threats and corrupt overtures had failed. The aim of this composing draught is, to exhibit to the French nation peace abroad, and pros perity at home ; as, in the first place, no longer sub ject to any reasonable chance of disturbance; and, in the second, as resulting exclusively from the pro vidential wisdom of M. de Villele. As in former cases, this display of Ministerial journalism begins with the East of Europe, and finishes with the West,insisting that the battle of Navarin has settled the business of one extremity of the continent, and that the return of Don Miguel to Lisbon has gua ranteed the repose as well as the independence of the Peninsula. But there are one or two assevera tions which we may remark upon briefly. It is said that the " relations between the Porte and the Allied Ministers have been replaced upon their an cient footing," and that the Divan is engaged in discussing with them the means of terminating as well the misfortunes of Greece, as the embarrass ments which the war with that country has entailed upon Turkey herself since the year 1821. If this be fact, and if on Monday evening last it was known at Paris to be the fact, it is lamentable that some portion of the cheering light has not yet been suf fered to escape through official channels equally open to the British Government, for the relief of that profound uneasiness to which all classes of Bnglishmen heve been exposed, from their total ig norance of the progress of the negotiation', and of the re-establishment of the " ancient footing be tween the Porte and the Allied Ministers. On this point we may be pardoned for considering the re serve of our own Government as an authority less to he distrusted than the apparent frankness of the Moniteur, though instructed by M. de Villele. Next we are told, that the success of the allied di plomacy (which is a second time taken for granted) restores a barrier (the Turkish frontier we suppose) which concession alone could have preserved, and prevents those " extreme determinations" (of Rus sia?) " which " resistance" (on the part of Turkey) " would have rendered unavoidable." We rejoice to hear all this, arid only venture to ask two ques tions, viz. Has the Porte yielded ? and has Russia indeed pledged herself to forbear ? The Moniteur proceeds with the assurance that " This was pre cisely what it had predicted—that the' conservatory spirit' protects Europe, and that no part of that existing order over which it watches with so much 'igilance, will it suffer to be disturbed." This is all extremely comfortable, and creditable also to the prophetic faculties of the Moniteur,—as well as quite consistent with the abstraction of Greece from the ancient sway of Turkey.— Then follows a great deal of edifying self-gra tulation, with regard to Prince Miguel, and Por tugal and Spain. Here, too, all was foreseen and provided for; that is to say, the Moniteur, which about two months ago insisted with such eagerness on the fact that Don Pedro had relinquished all right and interest in Portugal, of which Don Miguel, in dependent of his brother, was thenceforth legitimate 'Sovereign, foresaw, the whole time, that Pedro wosild still assert and exercise the power of limiting, while he delegated the subaltern commission of his own " Lieutenant" to the younger Prince, and that the latter, though rightful Sovereign of the kingdom, would with alacrity accept it ! After hinting to England that she must now withdraw her troops, promising that the King of France will do the same, and libelling the Royal Ferdinand by an assertion, for which lie would little thank the Moniteur, that ?Miguel's return to maintain the free institutions of Portugal is looked upon by the Spanish Govern ment as a sufficient guarantee for its own safety, the =tick closes with a flourish upon the state of France —of the press and of the parties in the Chambers; for which latter it is pretty evident that the whole dissertation was written. .Looking at the position of M. de Villele, we sift justified in construing whatever doctrines he circulates, not with reference to their intrinsic truth or falsehood, but to their cor respondence with his personal emergencies at the moment. This article, therefore, is just no more than a " puff preliminary" to the meeting of the Chambers —or a programme of the approaching en-1 tertaininent wherewith their senses are to be occu pied and amused.—Tisnes. It is remarked by one of the most celebrated phi losophers of modern times, that " the more civilized men are, the more they are actors : they assume the semblance of inclination, respect for others, modesty, disintereeteelness, without thereby deceiving an y one ; as drere is a general understanding among them that it is not sincerely meant." As it there fore denotes the want of civilization to speak the truth, it must be highly gratifying to reflecting per sons in this country to find that, tried by this test, we are very highly civilized indeed. No nation of Europe will, in the present day, venture for a moment to contest our claims. We have been led ro make these observations from a wish to set our Irish brethrors right, with respect to some objections they are constantly making to the established order of things among us. The Dublin. Evening Post of Tuesday last, f o r instance, wonders that all the fry of, poor Clergymen of the Establishment and the Sectaries should shut their eyes to the gross and glaring abuses in that establishment, and employ all their zeal and industry in blackening the poor Ca tholics. But in a civilized age men do not speak what is true, isut what is expedient; and it is expe dient for very few persons in this country to say any thing against the Establishment. In a rude age there are martyrs for what is conceived to be the truth. But in a civilized age men do not run their heads against posts. The most beautiful feature in modern times is that admiration and power are always found together, and that the loss of power always ensures the loss of reputation. The Churches of England and Ireland are far more full of rank abuses than the churches of any other Country. But they are powerful. They are iden tified with the aristocracy of this country, who keenly resent any hostility to them. These churches contain Numberless enemies within their own bo soms, the poor drudges who have been fools enough to enter a profession in which they are doomed to "in on .the wages of journeymen carpenters. But these men are taught by common prudence to con ceal their sentiments with regard to the abuses from which they and ca to h aliffeeet a u strong ch hatred only the abuses in the means of their aequirin asown. th e o T n h y e g t :read in t r hei P r EvenizT P y u hltu-o=t says to the abettors of the se wed reformation , o lh uwould save yourselves ion, t h e consequence . vv Y h, must inevitably flow from the existing state of things, a Bishop must no longer be allowed to consider his diocese as a patri , mony for his sons and daughters, his nephews and nieces, or his first and second cousins, male and female." Alas ! alas ! This sort of reformation re minds us of the Greek Calends ! Why do men wish to possess Bishoprics ? For religion's sake ? Yes, for that religion which enables them to provide for themselves, their sons and daughters, their nephews and nieces. Religion, as Lord Plunkett observed, is only respected in our times as a means of making money. The Dublin Evening Post may, therefore, preach against the. Bishop of Dromore giving 1,5001. a year, the best living in his diocese, to his son, a young parson, and against the Chapter 0 . 11 Dromore being induced to present him for the va cant Archdeaconry to the Lord Lieutenant—against the diocese of Derry being peopled with Kno.res— and against the liberality of Bishop Elrington to his own family. A reformation in these matters is very different from the second reformation.—Morn big Chronicle. A statement of a .Meeting of the late Ministers Appeared in a Morning Paper of yesterday, which latter was said to have taken place at the house of the Earl of Eldon, in Hamilton-place, on Thursday. This statement we believe to be incorrect, for we understand the persons whose names were mention ed were Pearly all absent from London at the time, particularly Mr. Peel, who left town last Tuesday, for Maresfield, in Sussex, the seat of Sir John Shelley.—Morning Herald. There have been few periods, probably, when a firm and vigorous Government was more called for than at the present; yet the present crisis is one when the Administration is unfortunately almost without a head, and when the rest of the Members are employed in struggling who shall be the head for the future. Nothing probably is so formidable a foe to political energy as political intrigue; and when jealousy, distrust, indecision, and want of self-con itidence, reign where one great object should alone ;prevail, the bark of the State is not very likely to sail as it should do through intricate shallows and ,breakers, while those at the helm are at their own look-out instead of her's. In saying this, we feel it ,necessary again to repeat that we do so with no view of promoting the objects of any one particular party, or thwarting those of another. Our party is that :of the country ; and if that object be but faith fully, fearlessly, viprously, and unitedly pursued by the Administration upon sound principles, to that Administration, be it composed of who it may, we , Are ready to give our full ',and disinterested support. Even were we actuated by mere selfish views, we Mould say that the patronage of the public is of ten times greater value to a public Journal than any party ; and one great advantage of that patronage is, that it leaves those who enjoy it to the free exer cise of their own judgment on great public ques tions, which those who have to dovetail their opi nions to the changeable views and circumstances of party never can enjoy. Carrying cur recollection back, and that of our readers, to a period of some fifteen months ago, nothing at that time was more 'obviously the policy of this country than to be at peace with all the world. At that period such ob jects were apparently not more obvious than feasible. A mania, however, seized the Government—first, as regarded Portugal, and then as regarded Greece— and from a fair prospect of peace, the country finds herself by degrees plunged in foreign war, without any truly British object ; and from which she is suf fering, and must suffer, an aggravation of those burdens from which, under a contrary policy, she had a fair prospect of experiencing some alleviation. From the Portuguese dilemma she stands a chance o f beimg extricated by the chapter of accidents, rather than by the wisdom of Ministers. How the other crusade may end, no one can as yet prognosti cate; but, be the result of one or both as favourable as the most sanguine among us can predicate, in a financial point of view, and as far as the ge neral interests of the country are concerned, we see at least nothing but an increase of ex pence, without any adequate return or remuneration. Unavoidable misfortunes are what no reasonable man will, either in public or private life, repine at; but when they are, as they appear to us to be, the re sult of want of judgment, either the community, or the individuals which are to be affected, have a'right to exclaim against those who judge no better than to involve them in, unn e cessary consequence.. Vibram we contend is, that this country has no legitimate cause of war at this moment with any country, and chat she ought not to have a soldier or a sailor em ployed on any coast or territory but her own ; and this being, as we believe it is, a very general feel ing throughout the country, we cannot wonder that any Administration which has adopted so opposite a course should shrink from the responsibility of its own measures, and, now that Parliament is about to assemble, virtually exclaim, " How can we face a country to which we have done so much wrong ?" It is never too late, however, to repair errors ; and surely it would be a more manly course in those who have committed the errors to repair them themselves, than to ran away in a fright as the hour of investi gation approaches. At any rate it is most essential that the Government should not be occupied in per sonal details and minor cabals at a moment so im portant as the present ; and we trust, therefore, that, whatever may be the ultimate result of the pre sent unsettled state of the Ministry, those who'com- Tose it will, as long as they hold office, look to the one great object of the public interest and safety, un distracted by objects which must ever attend a di vided and unsettled state of things.—lbid. It was stated in a Paper of yesterday, that the present distracted state of the Ministry had caused a " conclave, consisting of Lord Eldon, Lord Melville. Lord Westmorland, and Mr. Peel, to be held at Lord Eldon's house on Thursday last." This as sertion, which could have been put forth only in the hope that it might be suffered to pass unnoticed from the noble and distinguished persons mentioned deeming it unworthy of contradiction, we are enabled most positively and unequivocally to state, is utterly void of foundation. Those eminent States men have by the mathier of their retiring from Office, shown their disinterestedness too clearly to be in common fairness suspected of the conduct so basely insinuated by the Prime Ministerial Organ. But to put the matter beyond even the cavil of their malignant oppouewts, it is only necessary for us to state the well known fact, that Lord Melville is in Scotland, the Earl of Westmorland is in Suffolk, and Mr. Peel in Sussex ; and that not one of them has been in London for some time past.—Morning Post. To those who consider the kind of materials of which the present Administration is composed, it can excite no surprise that his Majesty, on receiving the resignation of Lord Goderich, should have re sorted to any course whatever in preference to that of appointing any one of the Colleagues of that Noble Lord as his successor. The course actually pursued, taken as evidence of the estimation in which the existing Cabinet is held, is most pregnant and unequivocal. It presents them as a body—to the view of the nation such as we have often described them, but now illustrated by testimony much more 'valuable and conclusive than ours—as a body— feeble, incompetent, unworthy of trust. If means had been studiously sought to convince the nation of the absolute nothingness of the present Adminis tration, none more effectual could have been devised than the attempt to allure Lord Harrowby from the shade of a voluntary retirement for the purpose of placing him at its head. We mean no dispa ragement to Lord Harrowby, who is without doubt a very worthy and respectable man ; but all the world must recollect that he was one of the most unimportant Members of the late Administration, and must deduce the inference which is unavoidable from the fact of his being deemed alone worthy to fill the most important sta tion in the present. We may venture to say that the present is the first Administ rat i on ever k nown in England, of which an individual who, during a long official life, had given no more striking proofs of ta lent and capacity than Lord Harrowby has given, would have been-deemed a suitable head. But so, it is. The effect of an Administration, formed by a coalition from which the most able and honourable men of all parties think it due to their own charac ters to keep aloof, is to reduce the Sovereign of England to the humiliating necessity of seeking out and soliciting a person like Lord Harrowby to be come his pr►me Minister, and to subject our gracious Monarch even to the additional mortification of having sought out and solicited such a person in vain. It is no reproach surely to Lord Harrowby to say, that the Ministry which can concede to him the unques tioned pre-eminence, is an incompetent Ministry, if the concession has arisen from any notion of his su periority; while, on the other hand, it is evident, if without any such notion of superiority the King of England has been permitted or advised to seek him out, and solicit his services, for the sake merely of allaying or preventing jealousies or animosities among his actual servants, that the existing Mini stry is a dishonest and dishonourable one. Let them adopt whichever of these alternatives they prefer. Whether Lord Harrowby considered the offer to himself of the chief place in the Ministry as a proof of the incapacity of its present Members, or as a proof only of their mutual jealousy and ran cour, lie has in either case done wisely to reject the proffered elevation. He knew that a Ministry which upon either supposition required his assist ance, could not be a Ministry in England for any considerable period ; that a provisional Premier oc cupies a post which is neither safe, dignified, nor easy ; and that the instrument of intrigue is very likely to prove in the end its dupe and its victim. The refusal of Lord Harrowby to place himself in this situation, of which the dignity would in his person have been a farce, and the responsibility a fraud, would in all probability have dissolved the Administration, had not Lord Goderich been pre vailed on to remain nominally in office for a few weeks longer, and thus to afford it certain pre carious chances of prolonging its ricketty and fe verisl► existence. How long Lord Goderich may consent to lend himself to the present Administra tion, or rather how long the affairs of the nation can be carried on by an Administration which is under the necessity of borrowing for itself a temporary head, remains to be seen. That the Administration will venture, in its present state, to meet Parlia ment, is certainly not very probable. If it should I however do so, we can have no doubt that it will speedily learn under the severe instruction of the Legislature, that the English nation deserves, and that the interests and Constitution of England re quire a body of Ministers, capable at least in some degree of understanding and trusting each other, and of which the most considerable members do not retain office as a matter merely of temporary ac commodation. The discussion in Parliament must be unusually feeble if they stiffer a fugacious Mi nister to linger in his flight, or a conflicting Mi nistry long to postpone its dissolution.—/bid. The arrivals from the Continent yesterday were few in number, but not without interest or import ance. A note is said to have been drawn up, under the eyes of the Emperor Nicholas, and transmitted to the Foreign Ministers at the Russian court, as suring their respective Sovereigns that he has no desire of aggrandizing his territory at the expence of any of his neighbours, but that he is determined to prosecute the plan agreed upon with his Allies for the pacification of the East ; and if the Porte should continue to refuse reasonable conditions, he will have recourse to effectual means to attain the proposed object. What those means would be is explained in an article from Berlin, which states, that notwithstanding the advanced season of the year, the Russian army would not only cross the Pruth and occupy the Principalities, but would penetrate as far as possible into the in terior of Turkey itself, in order to take the Mussul men by surprise before they could be ready to meet and repel invasion. In all former wars between Russia and the Porte, the forces of the former have been delayed months and years by the fortresses on the Danube, the system of warfare at that time re quiring that regular sieges should be carried on, and every thing in the shape of a fortification reduced, before an army should venture to proceed. But since the campaign in France, when the Allies left all the strong places behind them, without investing, and sometimes without even observing them, a new ,naathod .has - - - been adopted. Armies dash forward, secure that if they attain their object—the occupa tion of the capital, and peace is not immediately dictated—all the fortresses in the rear must submit whenever it may be thought proper to attack them. A few corps of observation may he left en echelons to maintain a free passage, and protect the line of communications with the Pruth, but nothing more is required on the part of the Russians in the way of precaution, and they may rapidly march forward with such a mass of force, as to render it impossible to prevent their arrival before the walls of Constan tinople. Letters from Odessa state, that before adopting this decisive course the Emperor of Russia has given fair warning of his intention to the Sultan, having caused a message to be transmitted to the Divan, in which he declared that if certain conditions were not fulfilled, General Wittgenstein, the very Commander who led the Russians to the barriers of Paris, would invade Turkey Proper with an army of one hundred and twenty thousand, and would not stop till he reached the walls of the Seraglio.-- Meanwhile, every preparation had been made for communcing hostilities, and the pontoons necessary for crossing the Danube had been sent from Odessa, under convoy of three frigates. The annihilation of the Turkish Navy having left the navigation of the Black Sea entirely free, the Russians would be able to follow the movements of their army along the coast with a fleet of little more than transports, and to supply it all the way with provisions, so as to pre vent the necessity of a single day's delay in its march to Constantinople. It is affirmed, that the preliminaries of peace have been signed between Russia and Persia, so that the undivided force of the former may be at liberty to act against her present enemy, whose strength is evidently unequal to the conflict.—New Times. A BOUNCER.—A few days ago a Canadian woman, at Chambly, while making an omelet for some persons who were to breakfast with her, opened an egg for the purpose, and, to her surprise, found it contained a live snake, about two inches in length, and resembling, in al most every particular, the common grass snake, with the exception of the head being unusually large and flat. When liberated, it crawled about in the frying-pan with much avidity. Several of the neighbours were witnesses of the fact. The hen that laid the egg was immediately killed, and a number of soft eggs were taken out of her, each of which, on being broken, was found to contain a snake, in size and perfection proportioned to those of the egg containing it.—Leeds Intelligences. • MISERIES OF A CHANCERY SUIT.-.A very respectable man, whose name we are not dispos e d to men tion, was brought into one of the watch-houses a few nights since, in a state of extreme exhaustion and wretched ness, and having lingered for, a short time, he breathed his last. From some memorandums found in tie pocket, his name was ascertained, and it was discovered, on inquiry, that his family MS most respectable, and that a property which lie claimed as a right, was in controversy fir some years in the Court of Chancery. An application was afterwards made in the proper quarter by his sister, who presented a miserable picture of penury and distress, for means to bury him, and the receiver in the cause was directed to dedicate a sum of ten pounds to that pur pose. He, however, not being in funds from the estate, declined paying the sum required; but humanely ad vaneed five pounds f or th e expenses o f hi s inte rmen t. Th e matter would, in all probability, have remained a secret, were it not that a charg e was brought by the sister, who as.esrted that a portion of this money bad been converted by the watchmen to their own use, in consequence of which an investigation took place, and the parties were completely exculpated. The misery of this poor creature's appearance defies description, yet, notwithstanding, her mode of expression, she evinced education and gentility. The suit to which we allude has been - carrying on for some years, in the course of which period one of the parties, as we have stated, expired through mere want, in a common u s: c l i t , ho es ut . 4 4 watch-house, and the Wretched survivor remains an inani retleterofhouu.r—..citSty:4 I, 37; n a . l_ ,N to eig s s u . s z ta c i7 t , cr o . r a roof to POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—In pursuance of the determination expressed by Mr. Thomas on Thursday, that active officer brought to this office yesterday morning, five men in the dress of cads, whom he charged with being in Bow-street at. a quarter before twelve o'clock on Thursday night, just at the closing of the theatres, running about and calling the coaches from the stand in Charles-street, obstructing the thoroughfare, and aligning the passengers. The prisoners gave their names David Ennis, Thomas Rose, Wm. Cowdry, Thos. Green, and John Thomson. Sir R. BIRNIE asked if any of the prisoners wore badges.—Mr. Thomas—No, Sir, not one of them. Sir R. BIRNIE—Then they have no business to go near the theatres at all. The prisoners were all committed to the Douse of Cor rection for seven days, under the Vagrant Act. Rowbottom, the proprietor of the notorious " Finish" in James-street, Covent-garden, whose conviction in the sum of 201. for selling wine without a license was Roticed in our report of Tuesday last, appeared again upon an in • formation laid under a clause in the Police Act, regulating the hours at which coffee-shops shell be closed at night and opened in tke morning. The information charged the defendant with having his house open for the reception of company on the morning of Tuesday flu: 18th inst. before six o'clock. Pace, a patrol, on Tuesday morning, at a quarter before three o'clock, went to Rowbottom's house, in company with Herring and Biker. It was closed, but some per sons came up and knocked at the door, and on being ad mitted, witness and his companions entered also. Eigh teen men and five women were in the lower room. Some of the men were decently dressed, but the women were all common prostitutes. Sir R. BIRNIE asked if any of the persons had the ap pearance of market-people ?—Pace replied, not one. He soon after went up stairs to the first floor front, where he saw seven men and five women. The men were all re spectable in their appearance, but the women were com mon strumpets. While waiting for about a quarter of an hour, seven men and three women were admitted. Sir R. BI RNIE—Why that was quick work : then there were more than 30 persons altogether ? Pace—There were more than 40, your Worship. Herring and Baker corroborated the above evidence. A person named Butler, formerly in the employment of Mr. Harmer, submitted on behalf of the defendant that there was no proof to fix the proprietorship upon his client. Sir R. BIRNIE (to Herring)—What name is over the door? Herring—The name of Rowbottom, your Worship. The Solicitor for the defendant expressed a hope that no fresh conviction should take place at present. Sir R. BIRNIE—It is my determination to send a double force every night to different disorderly houses in the pa rish, not only to see what hours they keep, and by whom they are frequented, but men shall be stationed outsick to see if any persona shall pass in. In the mean time, the defendant is fined in the mitigated penalty of 5/. . The defendant paid the penalty without further litigation. William Watts, a footman in the service of William Mitchell, Esq. of 53, Harley-street, charged John Clarke, driver of the hackney-coach No. 186, with opening the door of his master's carriage with intent to steal something from it. The prisoner, in his defence, said, that he got off his own coach-box a few moments just to have a little drop of drink with a friend, and was quite innocent of any wrong intention. He was not the proprietor of the coach, but his master would speak to his character. The master accordingly stepped forward, but appeared to stumble in Isis evidence, the effect of which was not in favour of the prisoner. Alderson, an officer, came forward and said that both master and man were well-known thieves. Sir RICHARD RIRNIE.--What ! and do the Commis sioners of Hackney-coaches grant numbers to such men as these? It is most iniquitous that the public shouid be robbed by such fellows, and that they should have the means of carrying on th e i r d e predations. The prisoner wa4 committed for 14 days to the House of Correction. QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday, John Morris, John Harris, and Samuel Gordon, the latter two parish con stables of St. Margaret's, Westminster, appeared to sum monses issued against them, before W. A. A. Wifirx, and G. W. MARRIOTT, Esqrs., charged by Sergeant Wm. Do naldson, of the Coldstream Guards, with unlawfully ex torting from him the sum of 2/. 21. Sergeant Donaldson stated, that on the 18th of November last, the defendant Morris was brought to him by Corporal , Ankin, when Morris informed him that he had been in cope pang with a girl of the town who had robbed him of his watch, and he understood that a man named Lockwood, in the same regiment, was intimate with the girl, and the watch might be recovered; he brought Lockwood to him, when Morris agreed, if he could get back his property, he would pay all expences. A few days after Lockwood informed him that the watch was in pledge for 2/:, and Morris agreed to give 2/. 2s. for the watch, which lie received from Lockwood, and gave a receipt for the watch, to which arrangement he appeared satisfied.— In about a week afterwards Harris and Gordon called upon witness, and accused him of being accessory to a robbery, and a receiver of stolen goods. Witness died it, when Gordon said, " It is the fact, and I,*nst you." Harris said lie w as an officer belonging TV queen, n tLars, and - Gordon was i brother officer. It was then remarked that it was very dangerous compounding felony. Witness denied being con cerned in such a scandalous transaction, and inquired where the author of the calumny was to he found. Harris would not tell, but would take him to where Morris was to be found. They then went to Pimlico, and stopped at a public-house, when Harris went and brought Morris. They all persisted that the watch had never been pledged as represented, but in his possession, and demanded the name of the pawnbroker. He not being able to tell them, Harris said be should be justified in taking him into cus tody. Witness then requested a few days might be allow ed, when it was probable he might find out the pawn broker's name, but they would not consent to this without the deposit of 2/. 2e. which was to be returned on his giving them that information. To this agreement he con sented, and they went back to his rooms in the King's mews, with the exception of Gordon, who went away, and there paid the money, 2/. 2s. for which Harris gave him a receipt. Witness, on inquiry, found that the watch had been pledged at No. 183, Shadwell-street, and called at Queen-square for Harris, but found that he was no officer belonging to that establishment, and lived at No. 15, Dean-street. On calling upon him at his house, and giving him the required information, he refused to return the money, and said, "if he slid not like the coat he had got on, he would get him a worse, and he might think him self very well off to say no more about it." Witness then went to Morris, who expressed' extreme surprise, and refu sed to return the money. Here the receipt for the money was handed to the Ma gistrate. Dee. EL.—Received the sum of two pounds two shillings from Serjeant Donaldson. JOHN HARRIS. N.B. And there shall be no further proceedings. JOHN MORRIS. In answer to some question by the Magistrates , Donald son understood that Lockwood got the watch through another girl from the thief. Morris, in his defence, admitted losing his watch as described, and two girls were apprehended for it, who were brought before the Magistrate and discharged. Having got some information that a girl who was intimate with Lock wood had the watch, he made the application to the Serjeant. He received his watch from the Serjeant, and not from Lockwood. Harris made a long statement, and Gordon stated lie was not there when the money was paid. Mr. WIIITE said this was a very fit case for an investi gation before another tribunal. It could never be suffered that parish constables should extort money in such a man uer.—The case was not clear against Gordon, and lie was discharged; but Harris and Morris must find bail, them selves in 1001. each, and two sureties in 50/. eaeh. Harris—Your Worship, I never received the 21. 2a. Mr. WHITE—Why here is your receipt for the m oney, in your own hand writing. Application was now made to reduce the bail, but it was refused. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Mrs. Seffert, the lady who applied to Mr. CONANT on Wednesday evening for a warrant against her husband, came to the Office Yager day, accompanied by her mother and several friends, for the purpose of having the warrant against Mr. Seffert dis charged.—Sir GEo. FAERANT indulged the 'lady with a private interview, and it was understood that her principal w hen he e ff ecte d inn io j t u iv u e vi i n n g w fr i o tl u i l dr t a h N e vi r n o g of th o e f tcilirearsyetabllveass; that Mr. Seffert, his escape, sustained considerable personal injuries, and she was, therefore, desirous of having the warrant against him cancelled.—Th e Magistrate's c onsent being obtained to this arrangement, the affair terminated. MARYLEI3ONE —A gentleman, named Wall, re siding at 49, Cirencester-place, solicited the Magistrate's advice under the following somewhat romantic circum stances:— Mr. Wall, who was accompanied to the Office by a fine little boy, stated that he formerly kept a boarding-school at Streatham, and he disposed of the concern with all the pupils, including the child, four mo nths ago, to a Mr. ilotVeroft. On Thursday the child was returned upon Ms hands, in a most singular' way. He was found in the pas sage of his house, with his bundle of clothes, and he said he had been left there by one of the ushers. The child's fa ther lived at Calcutta, and six months ago he was placed under his care, at the rate of fifty guineas a year for board and education. He imagined that Mr. Rowcroft had dis covered the child to be illegitimate, and fearing that he should not be paid, bad returned him. Mr. RavninsoN said, he understood the meaning of selling the good-will of a school, but he never before heard of selling boys like a flock of sheep. He inquired whether a list of them had been given. Mr. Wall said the little boy, whose name was Robert Evans, had been enumerated in a list that he had prepared. The child's father possessed an income of 7001. a year, and if he (Mr. Wall) had the means, he would provide for him, for he had no doubt that the money which was to be paid, would be duly remitted at the expiration of twelve months. A Mr. Gatfield, an attorney at Maidstone, was the father's agent, but that gentleman, with the unfortu nate youth's other friends, had refused assistance, and he had no alternative but to place the child in the workhouse. Mr. RAWLINSON considered that the parish ought not to receive such a burthen. The little fellow, who is only six years of age, said that Mr. Dobson and Mr. Curling brought him to town. Mr. Dobson waited at the corner of the street whilst Mr. Cur. ling rushed him and his bundle into the house. Mr. Rawurtsort said, the conduct of the parties had been cruel in the extreme, and desired Mr. Wall to take him back to Streatham, and tell Mr. Rowcreft, that if he did not receive him, measures would be taken to compel him, and in the mean time, to treat him with peculiar kindness. LAMBETH -STREET.—Matthew Wharton, jun., Esq. district surveyor, v. John Snelling, pork butcher, No. 157, Whitechapel-road. This was an information against the defendant, charging him with having built, or caused to be built, a certain addition to a building of the second rate or class of building, " to-wit, a shop front and window, the stall-board of which projects two feet instead of 10 inches, and the cornice or covering thereof projects two feet six inches instead of 18 inches from the upright of the building, contrary to the act, &c, called the Building Act." Plea, not guilty, and thereupon issue was joined.-- Mr. Wharton conducted the information, and the defence was stated by Mr. Dean, also a surveyor. Mr. Wharton re lied upon the 49th section of the Act, which enacts that no bow-window or other projection shall, after the passing of the act, be built with or added to any building of the first, second, third, or fourth rate, or class of build ing, next to any public street, square, court, or way, so as to extend beyond the general line of the fronts of the houses in such public street, square, court, or way, of which such bow-window or other pro jection is made, except such window to any shop or shops on the ground-floor story of any such building, the stall board of which window shall not, in any street or way 30 feet wide or more, project above ten inches, nor in any street or way less than 30 feet wide above five inches from the upright line of the building, in such street or way respectively." For the defence it teas submitted that the shop-front and window in question did not fall within the meaning of the clause so relied upon, that what the defendant had done was merely a rebuilding of that which had existed before, and upon the same foundation, and formed part of the freehold of the defendant's lessor ; and the 52d section of the same Act, especially excepted buildings or erections such as the defendant's, from the opera tion of the Act, by enacting, " that no bow-win dow or other projection, made or built before the 24th day of June, 1774, shall be at any time thereafter re built, except such projections as are in and by this Act allowed, unless such bow-window or other projection was built at the same time the house or building to which the same belongs was built : or unless such bow-window or other projection be within the original line of the street, square, place, court, or way, in which the same is erected." Evidence of that fact being given, the Magistrates recom mended Mr. Wharton to withdraw the information, inti mating at the same time, that as there did not appear to be any ill feeling between the parties, and that Mr. Whar ton had done no more than his duty in bringing the matter before them, he ought not to bear any part of the expences ; and Mr. Dean, for the defendant, agreeing in the recom mendation, and at the same time complimenting Mr. Wharton for his gentlemanly conduct in the business, the defendant paid the feu, and the business terminated. CANADA COMPANY. A Quarterly General Court of the Proprietors of the Canada Company was convened, on Thursday, a s t t r e t e h t e ; t W. vv y i o l f l a London , T t a h v e e f ab r n va tki r i e n arb, I B ien i sloe accountp C s g h a a t i e or - f. e p b a a e l e i v y t s r y i a ,3 fl o a o i r s a . p l U i e p a o t tos for the re servesls of crown lands. Of these many had been t il e te re PC h ov a m t e l of errsi Octoberti e a t e ß o e f p i o t rejected, but 40,250 acres of land had been disposed of for 19,264/. Other large sales of the Company's land had been made ; and whilst the number of ap plications for lots of the Company's lands were con tinually increasing, the prices of the separate lots had been, in some instances, augmented fourfold. The Commissioners, who had proceeded, at the joint expense of the Government and the Company, for the purpose of selecting the million of acres which the Company was to purchase from the Go vernment, had made a report highly favourable to the Company's interests, and selected a million of acres which lay to a great extent upon the coast of Lake Huron, and which included the inlets of the Lake into the two principal rivers in that province, and the only harbour which was to be found in a distance of 250 miles. The proximity of this tract to the located and settled parts of Lower Canada upon the one hand, and the great facilities which it afforded for navigation on the other side, would produce the most material advantages to the Company's interests, and there was no doubt but that piece of land (the million .of selected acres) would, before long, become the most important district in the western part of Lower Canada. An ar rangement had also been made, which was of the utmost importance to the public, and especially to emigrants. The consequence of this arrangement was, that per sons proceeding from this country to Canada would, in providing themselves with a recommendation from any of the agents of the Company here, be, on their arrival at Montreal or Quebec, furnished with way bills, in consequence of which they would be con veyed to York or any other town in Upper Canada at their own cost; but the expence of conveyance would not in any case exceed 1/. 7s. for an adult, and half that sum for a child. The h tveoer a ye d apl v e a ruo n i t ap a t g eer e othu o es f this arrangement was, that in addition to the cheap ness of the conveyance, it would enable emigrants, before they quitted thiscountry, exact expellee of their transmission to their final destination. The Report , whi c h stated a great number of other circums tanc es which showed the affairs of the CompanY to condition, was received and adopted with much applause. After a long conversation, it was agreed to print the Report, and distribute it among the share holders ; and also to include in a prospectus such parts of the Report as were interesting to emigrants and t s h ta public, , tuo , widelyL D a R a E n and possible.t oinquired, print A spectus whether it was likely that any further calls would be made, and when ? There had yet been only 101. per cent. of the capital subscribed. The CHAIRMAN said, that in his opinion it would be found necessary to make a small call upon the Shareholders soon after the middle of next year. Thanks were then voted to the Directors and the Chairman, after which the Meeting separated. The calico-weavers in the neighbourhood of Todmordeu have turned out for an advance of wages.— These distressed persons have, it is said, suffered much and long from low wages. It is to be feared, however, that, in the present state of trade, they cannot be relieved.—Leeds Intelligencer. _ _ _ The necessity of a bridge at the Portland Ferry is strongly pointed out in the following detail :—The letters from Portland, which should arrive daily at Weymouth at a quarter past eleven in the morning, and are despatched to that island five minutes afterwards, did not arrive on the 14th instant till nearly four o'clock in the afternoon, owing to the impossibility of crossing at the Ferry in safety. The letters front Portland thereby lost the opportunity of that day's conveyance by the Weymouth mail, besides the in convenience arising to the merchants and inhabitants of Portland, from so late a return of the messenger with the day's letters. The population of Portland is nearly two thousand five huntired...Dorset ChroNicle.. LONDON MARKETS. WHITECHAPEL HAI ARKE'r.—De. 20 . 725. Od. to 95 , 3. N. ICI M over 90s. Od e , to 11 Straw.. 28s. Od. to 345. a. Farnham Kent Pockets Sussex Ditto 3/ 18s 4/ 4 0 to 4/ ' . • • • Essex Ditto P i :lt it i t :E F S in O e F BOPS (per Cwt.) —Dec. 21. „, 4/. Os. 4L 10s. to 5 1 . 0/. Os. 7/. 10s. to 8 1 . -- Seconds 0/. Oi. V. Os. to IL e s , .-3 /, 12s. 41. 6s. -- sr. 3s. 81. W 3 1 . --.. 3/. 10s. 41. 4s. to 41. Kent Bag Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto.. PRICE OF OIL. .1,6 Rape Oil, brown 331. 65. Refined ..M 6' Linseed Oil 13 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 5 Rape Cake, per ton ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••,..............*...... PRICE OF POTATOES. —Dec. 21. .......... 31. 10s. to 4/. Oa. pe r tOn• -. .w,.3/, 10s. to 4/ . Os. ditto. Si. 15s. to 41. Os. (IRO' -......,... 21. 108. to 31. 3s. ditto. PRICES OF Kidneys ....- Scotch Reds ---, Marsh Champions,, - Oxnobles and Shaws Per lb. d. to d. 8utt5..........50 to 561 b..... 201 221 Ditto..--(50 to 661 b...., 221 231 Dressing Hides 13 17 Fine Coach Hides -17 19 Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 14 151 Ditto 45 to 501 b. 161 181 Ditto lB 201 LF:ATPIEIt. d tO ll Per lb. 14 Tanned Horse Hide9,2l Spanish Ditto Per dozen. 19 f e Calf Skins... 0 36 to mod; 03 Ditto ........ 50 to ana 4l p Ditto 70 to Small Seals, (Iran RAW HIDES. d,to Y s Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Stone. Best Heifers& Steers 3 0 3 6 Ordinary r Middlings , 2 6 2 9 Market • 5 : 1 00 ebb SHEEP SKINS. Is. &I. to Ps. 4d. Lam bs Os. 01 to Polled —3 s. Od. to 4s. &I Down: PRICE OF TALLOW, S Town Tallow 465. Od. Yellow Russia-- 395. Od. White 41s. Od. Soap Ditto 335.0 d. Melted 365. Od. Ditto Od. v D ec' A G P ra , Se es e.lper 119.1 b.—" lott Yellow 50ap.„„.,—.....•••••• t os. Mottled WI) Ø. 5, Good PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Blb.--• t Dec . 614 Price by Tallow (as stated by th e /Callow 2delters) PRICE OF CANDLES. Bs , ,Candles, The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as - Bs. Candles. per doz. 7c. Od. to Os. Od. I Moulds, per dozes COAL MARI ;Adair's Beaumont _ 32 6 Holywell. 32 3 Killingworth 36 0 Percy 33 6 Shipcote 34 3 Pontop Windsor ......—.. 32 0 Tanfield 35 0 34 9 Willington Wylam _ 35 0 Walls End Bell and Co. 3' 6 Ditto Bewicke and C 0..... 38 3 Ditto 35 9 Ditto Carr and 35 6 I Ships at market, 69—Ships ET.—Dec. 21. ate,,, 64 ' Walls End Newnla• - Ditto Hilda : 1 • 7 a Ditto Hotspur.... , " — _, 56 Ditto Jestnond 96 j ", Ditto Northumber'l 7, „ 5 6 6 " Ditto Peareth Ditto Perkins, and 39 Ditto Russell'i `3 l Ditto Walker 53 Hartley 50- Milford j Russell's Lyon's 59 Walls End Iletton- ,,, r,, 59 Russell's Hetton • sold, 3234—Uasold• t;e s i COUNTRY OORN MARKETS DURING Wheat. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. ----- Ashburn 50 58 34 37 21 20 P 2 60 ei Basingstoke 48 62 27 33 19 23 48 4$ Bath 4B 60 28 32 24 32 Bridgewater 52 64 22 32 18 22 40 69 61 0 Bristol - 52 56 30 34 17 24 48 66 Chesterfield 46 56 32 38 16 30 Derby '52 56 33 35 22 1 6 5 3 56 Devizes 46 60 28 33 22 Y4yy Doncaster 46 66 29 36 16 45 Dorchester Exeter 6O 60 28 32 20 V. ,9" Gloucester 56 60 24 32 """" -35 01 Hungerford 44 60 25 31 243 60 •Ai Leicester...—w— 52 60 31 33 27 30 46 ' 4 O Mansfield 49 51 31 36 26 4 ' 7 4g B° , Romsey Shaftesbury --59 30 --48 "it Shelton Mallet .M6O 66 34 37 25 I f r ,' 42 d i: Sleaford 43 51 25 32 18 40 Taunton 52 58 28 30 18 24 44 t w e • u Yeovil 52 62 28 32 24 3 ', Per Bushel, s. d. s.d. s. d. • s.d. s. d. s• 9 * - 0 Shrewsbury 7 8 9 0 4 6 5 0 5 9 6 4 SCOTCR MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.--D e * 19 ' arS O Our market was thinly stocked with all so rts of bo to-slay. Oats, Pease, and Beans, were flat, aud a O s loWer. Wheat and Barley remain without any a" alteration from last market-day. Bog y Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. First Od 34,4 Cd 27s Od 40s Od 40$ 50s Cd 31s Od 22s Od 611 3 320 6 31 0 s Od Od 306 Third PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. 00 ° Beef, per 1b.... Os. Sd. to tk3.7d. Fresh Butter, lb.s. 10 d. to n Mutt0n.......... 0 3 0 6 Salt Ditto.** 0 9 0 o'7 0 9 Ditto, per cwt. SO 0 t i 0 Pork _ —o 4 0 6 Eggs, per doe. 1 2 11 0 , Lamb, per qr. 1 3 2 6 OatStraw‘kp'.) lo 9 11 Tallow, per lb. 0 4 244 Wheat Ditto— 8 0 9 0 Quartern Loaf 0 0 0 9 Barley Ditto .. '7 R 0 1 1 Potatoes, 141 b . 0 0 0 4 Hay, per 0 1 ' EDINBURGH MEAL h --------l IARKET..—Dec• , 8 ' ar kt 6 Qatmeal at this day's ni vat• on' the top price. Per Stone 01 14113. 11 0 1/ First Oatmeal St) i 1 0 Second ditto Barleyineal V ' 6 1 Peasemeat J,,/ .-4d, 14a.-3d, 16s.—lw We had a small supply of which sold heavily, at ls. lo Per Sack of 280th. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto 1 13 0 Barleymeal 1 8 0 Peasemeal 1 8 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 12 MARKET.—Dec. 111• it er trial, per 41b I Oats. Barley rather le heavy sale, at lower Priet46. British ... 0 0 Beans, IJer 2601 b. „ ~ I English .. ........ -",," On Scottish Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, per 1101 b l4 Cj 4 0 r Flour, per 28011) 4'l /85.40.to:1060 GLASGOW CORN No alteration in Wheat and Beans and Pease meet a very Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. British, old 3O 0t0320 new 24 0 28 0 Canada, free 29 0 31 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English 2B 0 29 0 Scottish 25 0 26 6 Irish • 23 0 25 0 R ICHARDSON.—A - gentle - m - an .n- who 1.1.14 .1 ig i t e o ll ' been at Paris, sought, while in a large con 3 P a nord ARDSONN villa at North-end, to gratify the 1"" iv ." on informing him that he had seen his "Clarissa' 12 i i ng w tb 0 the Kirin's brother's table. RICHARDSON, ob sers : sr t9 a part of the company were engaged in conversation -T or affected not to hear what had been said, but took aatoe, tage of the first general pause to address th e gen with " Sir, I think you were saying something about and then stopped, in a flutter of expectation, Sirs whi ch D ot guest m o rtified repeating." eating. ' Jo by replying__" pride in finding his " Dictionary" in L ora L ly s i o n N g— A himselfmere rie ed DALE'S dressing-room, and pointed it out t o his '4OO with thi...'assical quotation, " Quce terra nostri non n e at laboris. Yet, under correction of both those got authors, the more substantial fame is to fin S P a Ul( work, not in the closets of the great, who buy every :00 which bears a name, but in the cabins of the poor , 7 must have made some sacrifices to effect the Pl9e. BIRTHS. Dun e On the 19th inst. Mrs. William Brown, o fdaugl, On the 16th inst. in Half Moon-street, _Piccadill y, , lady of Philip Wise, Esq. of a daughter. in A b a l Alfred D O Na p les, rs', l l MARRIED. b th e . t ß e e r Avo ra .tn ce s , id b in li o n u g t z t , he of la a d ; 01M. Gutteres, Esq. of& . s y son of G t G h e e eonr 4 ge t te h . a p inst. co ro nnb a ny t t the pA,.omßritishCount E to the Lady Harries . A ri ii pf' Frances Gardiner, daughter of the Right Non. the rk .- Blessington. over On the_lsth inst. at St. George's, SouthwaY l, over lius Carter, Esq. surgeon, of Rayleigh, EsseX, r i o: it, sod eldest daughter of Mr. John Hodgson, Old Is° t " ttolinr grand-daughter to the late John Hodgson, f' fil* broke-house, Battersea. L angfor d { On the 20th inst. Thomas Stafford, Esq. of 11r ecto Cornwall, to Eliz a , d aug hter of the Rev. John S i l' of Foothill Gifford, Wilts. a Or On the 21st inst. at the New Church, St. Pslct elder John Col es , o f E a rl-street, Blackfriars, to Elizabet h ' r iot' a daught er o f the. late Mr. William Bolton, of A11 1 $ 0 5". thumberland. of I " On the 1/th inst. in Paris, Dr. William E n glish/ v ey University of Edinburgh, to the Right Honourabfiloth, Maria Gordon, of Perth Castle, Scotland, a nd 01 Audley-street, London. f At Broughty F err y, William White, Esq. agent Arbroath Banking Company in Forfar, to MO daughter of the late Mr. Charles Adam, Dundee. Appl, At St. James's Church, Westminster, Frances eldest daughter of J. C. Mitthofer, Rsq. of Upper ? f oe street, Pimlico, to Mr. John Frederick Lewis, of house Cottage, Gloucestershire. Bch On the 20th inst. William Reid, Esq. Navy PAY Ater' Somerset-house, to Miss Juliana Seagrove, second dall' of John Seagrove, Esq. of Curzon -street, May -fair. „ DIED. On the 30th September last, at Pensacola, where 10,,0+ resided four years as his Majesty's Consul, in the 45d ;tit o o ßs f firr h asc i Ali s lrel a yelv g x : a.o , nfp J dTe o ur l rrv i i n in:siu H tyrHv i ee m uqm, e uaße P rae u cr, r at v af. e n s ie , opfrb E epfil s iv q u,er . Bv s eisa e r c: H nd oef ,m on aani o .dch f t brom b e o.bsos b# ii; On the 20th inst. at Norwood, in her 20th year, 5' 4 7, 4 1, y ea rs' deep suirlei. On the 18th inst. R e b ecca , wife of George Br i t el Taylor, of Villiers -stre e t, Strand, and Vauxhall, &W I , of the late Nathaniel Cove. The ever-tabe-lamented jel to her family is severely felt. Suddenly, on the 18th inst. in the 71st year of 1i1544 4°1 Mr. Alexander Henderson, of Thistle Grove, Littleti 4 sea, formerly Veterinary Surgeon, i n Park-la„, th i l PRINTBD and PUBLISHED by M. 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