The Sun. — London, England, 1827-04-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, It is probable that in the course of this day the final arrangement of the Ministry may take place, though we are well sanctioned in saying that the business is not yet settled. Lord Lans down arrived in town as was expected, and had a long interview with Mr. Canning yesterday ; the result of which has been that his Lordship strongly urges his friends to join the Ministry. The disinterestedness of his Lordship who gives, and of those who accept, the advice, is evinced by the fact that there are now not many places to bestow as rewards for the accession. It must be an accession, therefore, of principle ; and it is in ciple only that we can calculate upon the gain of any thing. For example—it was under stood that a determination•existed in a very high quarter, that three Members orihe Irish Admi nistration should be anti-Catholic. The Arch bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and another Bishop, most earnestly diffused among their brethren an assurance to that effect. The determination, however, if in embryo, or if formed, has been annulled ; and the decision is, that the Irish Administration - shill be emancipa tionist. It is, no doubt, particularly desirable that the Home Secretary, with whom that Ad. ministration corresponds, should be emancipa tionist also. Another object, which must be considered as gained, is the dissolution of that old sedentary Administration which had so long brooded over the State, and sucked up its vital energies and pecuniary resourcez. That there should be a tendency in some of its parts to re• unite, was to ke expected ; and that necessity might dictate such a junction in case all the Whigs resolutely kept aloof, was to be appre hended. Indeed, we may boldly ask whether Mr. Canning does not stand prepared, in case Lord Lansdown reject his overtures, to fill up the vacant office of Secretary of State in less than an hour ?-21mes. The Tory interest is driving two games at this *moment ; one, the direct overthrow of Mr. Can ning, for which end every base trick that could be imagined has been played off within the lasi ten days—the second, his direct annihilation, by the defeat of the favourite and roost important measures of his policy. The standing object of animosity, Catholic emancipation, being now, anti perhaps for a few weeks to come, in abey ance, the Tories turn to the Corn Bill as the most convenient ground of an early resistance tc Me. Canning after the new Minis.ry shall hay, le!en formed. They are, indeed. more assiduous than ever in circulating pamphlets and prepariq conspiracies against the Bill about to be brought into Parliament under the auspices of Mr. Can ning, for ate :dying the fluctuations, and mode rating the excesses of price in the corn market. One pamphlet of some pretension haFl been sent to us, which styles itself " Thoughts on th; Pol;cy of the proposed Alteration of the Corn Laws." Unfortunately there may, as it appears to us. be an argument framed against any law for making bread sensibly cheaper to the people of England, than it has been, without much affecting the proposed act of Mr. Canning—so imperfect, or rather insi,eniicant, are the provisions of his lira za he has explained them) for accompli , hing the; much-desi:ed purpose. If the Ministeriei idolatry of the landed interest had been less, blind and absolute than we have found it, there might have been a protecting duty of Bs. or 10s. operating at all times until wheat should reach 605., and than ceasing altogether. Silt the ac tual proposition of Mr. Canning, by which the consumer is forced to pay 60s. per quarter for British wheat, or a tax of 20s. for liberty to pur chase the same quantum of subsistence abroad, leaves but a poor prospect for the people gene rally, however loud may be the murmuring of the landlords. The defect in the conduct of the subject throughout this pamphlet, is like that, of most others on the same side of thi s great question—that the author seems to have no eyes, or ears, or bowels for any body's interests but his own. It is only incidentally, or by paren thesis, , that a thought about the good of the rest of the community escapes him ; but it is not in a mere parenthesis, qr at hazard, that he COTI - and identifies the farmer with the landed proprietor, and expends in lamentations for the tenant that pity which can never be applicable to him, but from his own improvidence in suffer ing the cupidity of his landlord to saddle him with too high a rent. In a composition which presents us for the hundredth time with all the arguinents for " supporting the landed inte rest," and with no other arguments but old once, we should only waste time and patience by enu merating many, or quoting much. Taking, as the author does, the agricultural interest for his centre, he assaults - ns, amongst other modes of at tack, with a dilemma: "Either,"- says he, " fo reign Corn will be imported, or it will not : if not, the law will be worse than useless, for it will but operate as a discouragement to improvements in agriculture,; if it be imported, the consequence must be a depression below the average prices of the last six or eight years," &c. A dilemma is an ugly weapon, which sometimes cuts the hand that uses it. For instance ' we reply to this Honourabl e G en - tleman—Either foreign corn will be imported or will not : if not, it cannot hurt the farmer; if yes, it must benefit the consumer. An argument also much in favour with the author, is the loss entailed upon the farmer by this new law, in years when the crop is deficient—because he cannot, unless supported by a monopoly, sell his corn at a price, increased in the same ratio in which the amount of his grain falls short: So it appears that the perfection of all law making on this subject would he a provision that the people tilted(' starve; for want of bread enough to eat—rather than that the smallest portion of his rent should be paid to the landlord I The fact is, that this chance of an. occasional short crop ought to form part of. those . calculatioee, 'according to which the amount of rent should be adjusted and lightened in -favour of the farmer, instead of being employed in the nature ota,humblw, to persuad e him that the law, and not his landlord, is to blame-- if he, the tenant, must either starve himself or the Mr. Estcourt's new Licensing Bill is at length in circulation, and presents, az far as we have been able, from a cursory view, to judge of it, as abortive a specimen of legislation as we ever witnessed. In fact, with very little exception, it proposes to renew and to perpetuate all the er rors of the old system. It makes no attempt to break down the great and crying evil which exists in th e a b o mi na bl e monopoly enjoyed by brewers over public-houses. It leaves the much abused powers of the Magistrates not only unchecked, but enlarged, while it places the property of a large and respectable class of the community, the licensed victuallers, more than ever at the mercy of low informers, and places them under restric tions even more g a lli ng an d oppress i ve t h an eve r. \ .L 1 it be believed, that by y this Bill, it is pro posed t o s h ut up every inn, coffeehouse, and aleh ouse i n t h e kingdom at ten o'clock, unless, forsooth, t wo Magistrate s a the licenc e there uc is the time of grant i ngvohsaafseav l t. ng to extend the period ! Happily, clau se w hi ch exempts th e U n i vers i t i es from i ts operation ; so th a t the Honourable Legislator's own constituent s (who do not, we believe, either young or old, keep inch priMitive hours) will, at least, not be sub ject to its visitations. Had the author of this measure proposed to give to the Magistrates acting in everydistrict the power of making such general regulations as to hours as to them should seem meet, such a proposition would not have been so objectionable ; but to leave the wise acres who rule over one side of a street to fix en o'clock for shutting up houses, while those who manage the brewer's jobs on the other side, fix eleven, opens a door to partiality and injustice, which past experience tells us is by no means pro blematical. We had hoped, when Mr. Peel took this matter in hand, that we should have witnessed some improvement in a system which probably is in its practice more corrupt and defective than any other. Surely, it cannot be true, as we have heard it stated, that he found the power of the brewers too great even for him to grapple with; and that find ing himself unequal to the task of improvement, he handed over the odious one of continuing so great an eril to his colleague. Be this as it may, we still hope, that even at this eleventh hour, some per son will be found to take up the subject; and that after years of complaint and of acknowledged abuse, nothing so futile as Mr. Estcourt's Bill will be al lowed to pass into a law--a Bill so crude and un digested that it actually repeals (by mere inad vertence, we suppose), all the existing laws against drunkenness; and in what is ludicrously called the glossary clause (in which the unintelligibility of technical. terms is attempted to be made intelligible) grevely enacts that the word beer" shall be taken to mean " eider !"—Morning Herald. That portion of the Press which is under Whig influence expresses a more than decent anxiety that the leaders of the party should take office. We say a more than decent anxiety, be , cause it is unconnected even with the semblance of political principle. The portion of the Press to which we allude does not hesitate to declare that, even if the leaders of the Whigs eannot ap prove of the principles on which the Administra tion of Mr. Canning is to be formed, yet they ought not to weaken it by refusing to accept of place Who would have supposed, some years ago, that the ascetic virtue of the Whigs would ever have hem so mollified a-, to allow the organ of their sentiments to tell the world that they considered place of more consequence than prin iple—or in other words, that they would rather Jive up their principles to obtain a share of the ‘iinisterial " loaves and fishes," than resign the loaves and fishes," to preserve their principle ? Some one tells a pleasant,story of a person going about once in the day time, with a lantern in his ?land to look for an honest man—and now that papers which claimed, in a peculiar manner, :he title of " patriot," had admitted that the ,:moluments of office ought to have a greater :!harm for Whigs than a regard to consistency of harm:ter,- we can easily believe that a man might go :p and down a long time with the lantern before- he , sould discover an honest Whig. If Mr. Canning's Ad ministration be opposed to the doctrines of the Whigs —as it must be on Parliamentary Reform, and not -with them on the question of the Roman Catholic Claims—how can they take office under it without bandoning all claim to the confidence of their ad mirers for the future? It is natural enough for Mr. Canning to seek a coalition with the Whigs on such erma as would give him,at•the moment he obtained Heir s siistance, a triumph • over their principles. its sarcastic Philippics on them at various times were lever so successful in exposing them to public ridicule a triumph of this nature aroaW,4o. would. ds soli: h Whigism.—Beid. We have this day the satisfaction of being ihle to announce the gratifying intelligence, with respect to the negociatioji between Mr. Canning and the Marquis of" LansdOwn and feiends, that all the difficulties are now removed. The Duke of Devonshire has consented to ac cept the office of Lard Chamberlain—without, however, a seat in the Cabinet—which his Grace Jeclines from a feeling of delicacy, as it has not hitherto been attached to th . at office. The other irguments will, it is confidently expected, be . completed in the course of this ,day, perhaps in time for the Gazette, but if not, they will cer tainly be Gazetted to-morrow. The Marquis of Lansdown, as will be seen from the. Court Cir cular, had a long interview with Mr. Canning yesterday, at which the parties came to the un derstanding that will give such satisfaction to the nation, and which we, from misunderstanding the terms of our Correspondent, prematurely anticipated on Tuesday last. It has been determined on that a Common Hall shall be instantly called to express the satisfaction of the City on the completion of a union, so eagerly desired by all men who have the good of the nation at heart, and therefore rejoice above measure at the final overthrow of the base faction, who would maintain their ascendancy by fostering every bad passion, and repressing every generous endeavour. The example thus set, will, we have no doubt, be instantly followed throughout the country.—Morning Chronicle. " All those whom we have most honoured for their patriotic integrity and long, tried expe rience in public affairs, as Statesmen?!. (so corn-. mences a pamphlet against Mr. Canning, under the title of The Grand Vizier Unmasked), are loud in , their complaints against the public press." By some unaccountable accident, all the Papers throughout the empire, with one or two exceptions, are delighted at our riddance from these gentry. " Not a Paper (says the pamphlet above alluded to) does aught but re-echo the praises of him, whose creature it has become, and the base adulation of those who bow the knee to Baal, is only equalled by their abuse of the high-minded and disinterested Statesmen who refuse to sanction a faith which they disbelieve, and to burn incense upon an altar which they abominate." Newspapers are sometimes accused of subserviency to the pre vailing opinions of the d a y ; b ut t h ey are se ld om accused of running counter to these opinions.— If a Paper, therefore, does aught but re• echo the praises of him whose creature it has become, this, we should think, is rather a presumption, that the merits of the seceders do not appear exactly in the same light to themselves and to the people of England. Of all the Editors o f Newspapers thus accused of bowing the knee to the Grand Vizier, we question if there be one who knows Mr. Canning farther than by sight; or has exchanged with him even the commonest civility.— The secret of the preference of Newspapers of Mr. Canning to such men as Earls Bathurst or West morland, might be easly discovered by any men but themselves. Why have the Newspapers never spoken contemptuously of Mr. Peel ? To suppose that the fate of the Protestant religion is in any way bound up with the Duke of Wellington's being again forced to receive 20,0001. or 30,0001. a-year more than he does now, •is to think very highly of his Grace, or very poorly of the Protestant religion.— Ibid. The arrival of Lord Cochran , : in Greece, which now appears to be placed beyond all doubt, will probably give a new turn to the struggle in which that country has now been en gaged for nearly six years. Alternately victors and vanquished—the Greeks have, in both situ ations, supported the glory, of their illustrious :name, and vindicated the noblest cause for which man ever bled. Fortune, more than once, seemed ready to desert them altogether ; and their cause seemed desperate to all, but them • ) selves. Whilst it was generally thought that . they could only escape by a miracle from the dangers by which they were beset, the word submission never issued from their own lips ; and at every stage of their tremendous struggle, they have evidently been animated by the high and fixed resolution to perish with their whole race, sooner than enter into any compromise with their former tyrants. Such a people may be exterminated, but cannot be subdued ; and it is our deliberate opinion, that the universal dis play of sympathy, which has been elicited in their favour, has been more than justified by their unbending resistance. Upon the whole, this sympathy has been rather below than above their merits; and circumstances only of more immediate interest, such as have recently arisen nearer home, could have withdrawn, even for a moment, our attention from their cause. Knowing, however, that there is a time for all things, and that sympathy out of season is sterile in its effects, we see nothing to regret, or to reproach ourselves with, in having of late over looked the affairs of Greece. Events are now likely to happen, which will again attract the public mind to a consideration of her concerns; and perhaps our gallant countryman has before now struck one of those decisive blows, which somc::ne:l the Le of a war, and attach for tune irrevocably to the side of one of the con tending parties. The characteristic arrogance of the Turks, heightened as it is by their recent successes, is sure to furnish an occasion, if it has not been already afforded, which a man of his Lordship's consummate skill and presence of mind will know how to avail himself of to the fullest extent. As soon as he appeared amongst the Greeks, we are told that they were trans ported beyond themselves ; that all their former confidence was revived, and all their feuds sunk in the unbounded joy inspired by his arrival. We easily credit this statement, on account of the blaze of fame which preceded his Lordship, and the hopes .that had been cherished, till they absolutely sickened in the long-deferred expectation of his arrival. He came at last, when they abso lutely began to despair of ever seeing him ; and it is easy to imagine the transports into —hich his presence must have thrown them. We can also readily figure to ourselves the healing influence confidently ascribed to his Lordship, in reconciling the Chiefs of the dif ferent factions, and whose feuds had hitherto proved more fatal to the Greeks than the sword of the enemy. Lord Cochrane, it must be observed made his first appearance amongst that people under far more favourable circumstances than any foreigner that ever went before him. Besides his name, he brought them a powerful reinforeem , f.it ; whilst all his predecessors had their reputations alone to re commend them ; and in this respect -none of them could compete with his Lordship. There is a great difference between coming alone, and coming with a powerful reinforcement; and consequently, we have no difficulty in crediting the account which is even in the French Papers, of the great. authority w . oich he exercised the moment he arrived. That he - did not allow the enthusiasm he inspired to cool, and that he did not weaken the first impression, by con suming the time which should be devoted to action, in public visits, or unmeaning ceremonies, will also be easily believed. As every thing was prepared as it should be, to receive such a man, no one will feel any astonishment at being told that this gallant Officer almost immediately p_ be ut to seaLwith, all the - resstFtsirbiett -art - T..47Mis had been long before get ting ready in expectation of his arrival. The best and largest ships in their service had been selected for this purpose : and as many - of tbanciarryzfrom eighteen to twenty-four guns, and are admit-lay manned, it may be supposed what a formidable force twenty or thirty of them will compose when joined to the large frigate built at New York, and to the steam-boats constructed in this country, when they are directed by one of the first - Naval Officers of the age against the proverbially unmanageable navy of the Turks. • ,Whenever he falls in with the latter, their, defeat is .almest certain; and a naval victory of any consequence would probably daeide the ensuing campai , ),ll, by land as well as by ;ea,' n, favour 'of the Greeks. It wOuld,' in all pi - Obability decide the fate of this obstinate and sanguinary con test, as the Egyptians, unless they preserve a su periority at sea, from which they derive most of their resource; cannot remain in the Morea. That province, it is well known, is unable to supply the wants of an invader long; and should Ibrahim Pacha obstinately persevere in maintaining his ground, after his intercourse with Egypt had been cut off, he would be either starved at last into a surrender, or forced to cut his way by land through an exasperated topic, animated,and at the same time united toa man, by the example of their naval forces. The destruction of this bitterest enemy of the Greeks would change the whole aspect of the war; and we have hitherto taken a false estimate of the energies of Lord Coch rane's mind, if he does not, before many months elapse, reduce the wily and ferocious Egyptian to the predicament we have just mentioned.—Morn ing Post. D L I N.—Another appointment is announced —Mr. Plunkett succeeds Sir John Copley as Master of the Rolls in England, and gets a Bri tish Peerage. It is understood that this arrange ment is made for the purpose of affording to the new Administration the advantage of Mr. Plun kett's splendid talents in the House of Lords, and that. tLa Right Hon. Gcntleman accepts the Rolls as a step to the Chancellorship of Ireland, the natural and proper reward of his services to his Sovereign and his country. We rejoice at Mr. Plunkett's elevation, but we confess we should deeply lament to see it obtained at the price of his permanent absence from Ireland. This has been the scene of his labours, and this is his proper sphere of action. During his Attor ney-Generalship he has done much towards the introduction of an impartial administration of the laws ; but it is as Lord Chancellor that he could carry into full operation those sound prin ciples which he has sought to inculcate. It is a source of consolation to us, theref ore , t o fi n d that his appointment to the Irish Chancellorship is only postponed, not relinquished. Neither can we be insensible to the compliment paid to this country, as well as to the transcendant abili ties of the individual, in placing an Irishman in one of the highest judicial situations in the sister :,land. The Master of the Rolls ranks before eleven of the law Judges of England.—Free nzan's Journal. THE LONDON MAlL.—Another change has taken place in the arrangement proposed for our London Mail, and which, we believe, may be consider e d fi na l . Th e d ec i s i on was given at a meeting of the Mail Contractors with the Sur veyor-General from the Post Office, held at Don caster on Tuesday last. Instead leaving here at half-past ten at "night, as was formerly de termined, our direct Mail to London is to leave this place at seven, or half-past seven in the morning, proceeding direct to Carlisle, thence to London direct, and also a branch Mail from Carlisle direct to Manchester and Liverpool. The direct London Mail comes by and returns by Doncaster, Leeds, and Ripon, and both in coming North and going" South, is to run at the rate of ten miles per hour through out the journey. At this rate we are to Lave it here at half-past four P.M. This change is fixed to commence on thesth ofMay.—Glasgow Herald. POMg:INTELLIONCE. • GUILDHALL.—WiIIiam Tyrell, a stout young fellow, was brought before Sir PETER LAURIE yes terday, charged with defrauding various booking office-keepers, by obtaining money for carriage and porterage upon sham parcels directed to vinegar' near London, and alleged . to have been brought out of the country by the coaches. Mr. French, the keeper of the Rose Inn, Smith field, stated on the 18th of April, a man brought a parcel directed to Mr. Whitehead, of St. Alban's, and presented the usual ticket from the Angel Inn, St. Clement's, with a demand for 2s. 4.d. porterage and carriage. The complainant booking parcels for St. Alban's, pail the sum without hesitation. He could not recollect who brought the parcel, but it was returned from St. Alban's with a note, that no such pr-son could be found. Complainant took it to the Angel Inn, where the book-keeper, on hearing his story, smiled in his face, and said, " You are done, there are people on the town tricking the short stage carriers with these sham parcels." Sir PETER—It was no smiling matter to you, however. What did the parcel contain ? Complainant—l asked the book-keeper to open it, and he told me he knew there was nothing but brown paper in it, and so it proved. Sir PETER—And you had paid more for the parcel than the brown paper was worth ? Complainant-4 should think so. Yesterday the prisoner brought a parcel directed in the same way, " per coach from London," and to the same party. A large figure "7" was marked upon it with a writing brush, us if the parcel had been the seventh upon the way-bill of the coach, but the porter's ticket was now made out as from the Bolt-in-Tun, Fleet -street, for 2s. 4d. Witness sent for a constable, and the prisoner professed to feel some shyness to returning to the Bolt-in-Tun, because he had added a 2d. to, the porterage. He was assured no harm should come to him on that account, and was led to the inn, where the book keeper disclaimed all knowledge of the parcel, the porterage ticket, or the prisoner, and the parcel being opened, was found to contain, as before, only brown paper. Sir PETER LAURIE—How long, prisoner, have you pursued this mode of raising the wind ?—Pri soner—l am but three weeks out of St. George's Hospital, where I was confined some time ; I was formerly in the coach line. Sir PETER—Where did you get this parcel from ? Prisoner—l made it. Sir PETER—This frank admission renders it un necessary to look for further. evidence; but in the case which affects the prisoner, he did not obtain the money, and I can only commit him for 'attempting to do so. Two instances, however, in which the prisoner had succeeded in getting too sums of 2s. 2d. upon fictitious parcels, were immediately adduced. Mr. Bills, the landlord of the Blue Posts, Hot, born, said, the prisoner brought a parcel, as from the Angel Inn, directed to " Mr. Simmonds, at Mt. Fauntleroy's, Hamp.iteati.l' This was on Tuesday week ; he paid the prisoner 2s: 2d., and he sat an hour and a half 'in the bar drinking ale. In the afternoon he brought a second - parcel directed to Mr. Sheen, Kentish-town," and being paid his demand, 2s. 2d., he threw doWn the halfpence, and said he always spent the odd two-pence in gin. No such person as Mr. Simmonds could be found; but the other parcel bore a genuine direction, and was taken in. Both of them contained only brown paper. Sir PETER—WheTe did you get the blank printed tickets from, prisoner ? Prisoner—From the porter. Sir PETER—The porter must have supposed you wanted them for an improper purpose ? A voice behind--I . must contradict that. Sir PETER—The porter is here, I perceive. Come Sirs'...,. ... The Porter admonished the prisoner'iliThi vaneed—mind what you say, or, you will get me into 'trouble—and the ,priioner first denied that he had said 'he obtained the blanks from the porter, but after wards explained that he did not mean this porter, but it was some other. The Porter said similar parcels had been passed off on the poulterer at the end of Fleet-market, and the landlords of the Kings and Keys, Fleet-street ; the Swan, Snow-hill ; sand the Chequers, at Char .ing-eross. The form of ticket used by 'the prisoner had been discontinued at the -coach-office for eighteen months. The prisoner rooms committed on the case of the parcel directCd to Mr. Simmonds. MARYLEBONE.-=Yesterday Mr. R. Blower of Piccadilly, was charged by James Barton, a Pad dington stage coach proprietor, with having threat ened to kill him. Mr. Barton stated, that as he was driving his coach on Monday afternoon past the defendant's house at Maida-hill, he threw a stone, weighing 61b. against his horses, which set them to kicking, and they broke the harness to pieces. He then got upon the coach, threatened to throw the complainant off, and said, " - you, I'll be the death of you if I am hung for it," which so alarmed Mr. Barton that he jumped down, ran away, and subsequently ob tained a warrant for the defendant's apprehension. " My . life is not safe nor my wife's neither," said Mr. B.zton to the Magistrate, " although she is his own sister." Mr. Blower did not deny the charge, but said if Mr. Griffiths would defer the case till another day, he would show ' by respectable evidence, that he had received from Mr. Barton sufficient provocation to, justify what he had done. Mr. GRIFFITHS replied, " No provocation can jus tify an assault," and held him to bail. B W- STREET.—BANK PROSECUTION.—Yes terday Samuel Paptan was charged with uttering a forged .51. note, purporting to be a Bank of England note. It appeared that the prisoner, on Wednesday last, purchased eight fowls of a man named Michael Hayes, who keeps a stall at the top of the Hay market. The prisoner gave him the .51. note in question, to pay for the poultry, and Hayes gave him four sovereigns in exchange. The prisoner went away' with the fowls, and Hayes went into the shop of 'Cir. Jackson, a hosier in Piccadilly, and there learned that the note was a forged one. He pursued the prisoner, and took him in Regent-street. Herring, a Conductor of Patrol, deposed that the prisoner told him he had receired the note in pay ment for a horse, which he had sold on the 17th instant, at Barnett Fair, for a Mr. Smith, who re sides in St. Paul's Church-yard. He asked the pri soner to go with him to the said Mr. Smith, but he refused, stating as a reason that Mr. Smith was not in town. He (Herring) had since been to the pri soner's residence, No. 6, Jenning's-buildings, Ken sington, and he discovered that the prisoner had ut tered a had sovereign to a cheesemonger, a short time before; but upon the cheesemonger discover ing it was counterfeit coin, the prisoner immediately paid him 20s. in silver, and received the bad sove- I reign again. The prisoner told the cheesemonger, " that if the sovereign WISS bad, he could not help it, for he had taken it and others in payment for a horse which he had sold for a Mr. Smith." He (Her ring) had discovered that the prisoner was some years ago sentenced to death for horse-stealing, which sentence was commuted into seven years' transportation. The prisoner said that he was discharged after serving five years on board the Hulks, and he was not aware that the note was a bad one. Mr. HALLS ordered him to be committed for trial. Edivard Bowden, a shopman to Mr. Hollis, a grocer, residing in St. Martin's -court, was charged with felony. His master, having reason to suspect the prisoner's honesty, got a friend, named Arm strong,to mark three half-crowns, and three shillings, and to come to his shop, and purchase tea and sugar with the money, when no one but the prisoner was in the shop. soon after the purchase was made, a constable was called in: and on the prisoner being searched, two of the marked shillings were found on his person.—He was committed. A man, named Williams, was charged with com mitting a burglary in the house of Mr. Trimmer, of "UM 1 ~.. .. ~ `? s. ' Strandseai-the-Green, Chiswick, on the night of the 17th of April. The prisoner. - was stopped on his way to London, near Hammersmith, with part of the ' stolen property in his possession, a few hours after the robbery was committed.—He was fully com mitted for trial. , Wm. Roberts, a tea-dealer, was charged by Skin ner, an Inspector of hawkers' licenses, with hawking tea without a license. Skinner swore that he fol lowed the defendant to four different houses, at all which he asked, " do you want any tea ?" Mr. HARMER attended for the defendant, and called a witness from each house, who contradicted Skinner; but one of the witnesses admitted that the defendant left a quarter of a pound of tea. Mr. HALLS convicted the defendant ; who, under the advice of his Solicitor, enteredinto recognizances to prosecute an appeal at the ensuing Sessions, against the conviction. Mr. Harmer threatened to prosecute Skinner for perjury. HATTON-GARDEN.—Sian/ey de Courcey Ire land and Mrs. Mary Good were brought yesterday before Mr. Sergeant SELLO:q, for re-examination. The examination was private, as on Thursday last. The prisoners were- examined separately, as before. Stanley de Courcey Ireland was in the Of- fice for about twenty minutes, and was then taken to the House of Correction, in the custody of one of the officers. Mrs. Good remained about ten minutes, after which she was remanded in like manner. The officers examined were Limbrick, Edwards, and Kirby. There were no other witnesses in attend ance. When Mrs. Good was removed to the outer office, she appeared quite cheerful, and shook hands in a familiar manner wit; the officers. Stanley de Courcey Ireland was rather depressed in his spirits. The particulars of the examination have not tran spired, but the facts are substantially the same as have been already given. Mr. Field, the Inspector of the Mint, was in attendance. From what can be collected, it is said that the case against the prisoners is very simple. The reason given for the privacy at present observed is, that there are other individuals conce; nod, for whom the officers are in pursuit, but who might escape were the particulars of the evi dence to transpire. The prisoners had no legal ad visers. It is expected that the final examination will take place in a week. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday having been ap pointed for the examination of kary Brooks, who destroyed her own infant by cutting its throat, the matron of Horsemonger-lane gaol, in the infirmary of which the unhappy woman is at present confined, attended at this office and stated, that she was so exceedingly ill at present, in consequence of the in juries she inflicted on herself subsequent to the death of the child, that she was unable to undergo the fa tigues of an examination. The Magistrate having inquired whether she now exhibited any symptoms of derangement, the matron replied, that since the first paroxysm, which took place the first day she was brought to the gaol, and which was so violent that it was found necessary to confine her in a strait-waistcoat, she has ever since been in a low and melancholy state. The Magis trate, therefore, gave directions that she should not be brought before him until the medical man who attended upon her pronounced that she was suffici ently recovered. A smart young lass, who gave her name Amelia Wright, was brought up by Vann, one of the Bow. street patrol, charged on suspicion with having stolen a watch, valued at 25 guineas, the property of a Mr. Crichton, a gentleman recently imported from the Highlands of Scotlands. The complainant was accompanied by a friend, who was spokesman on the occasion. The latter proceeded to state, that on the previous night he and his Scotch friend went to Astley's Theatre; after leaving which they met the prisoner, near Rowland HP!'s Chapel. She addressed'them first, he said, askiwr, -for -tikovnt Irefresirinent, when they treated her at a wine-vaults with some ruin, and water, from whence they consented to escort her home to her lodgings, in Windmill-street, near the Coburg Theatre. While in in the parlour witness observed the prisoner appraach his friend arid begin to fondle ' with him, and in the twinkling of an eye afterwards he perceived her turn away from him, and appear anxious to avoid him. Surprised .at such conduct, they soon afterwards left the house, and on reaching home, and not till then, the complainant missed his 25 guinea watch. The Magistrate here put several questi o n s t o the complainant, in order to discover whether he had accepted ,the invitations of other, females after having parted with thsvaccused, in his way home. He de clared that he had not, and had no doubt she was the person who deprived him of his watch. He added," I really thought she had been an actress when I first saw her, for she had. all the act ions of one. She stood," said he, "in the middle of the road, floundering about, and using all kinds of strange gestures. This it was," added he, " that induced me to escort her home." The Magistrate observed, that if actresses were in the habit of " floundering about" the streets of Edinburgh and Glasgow at such hours of the night as those on which he met with the prisoner, such was not the case in town. It was rather singular, the Magistrate added, that the complainant should not have missed his watch before his arrival at home. The prisoner was remanded, until some exertions were used for the discovery of the watch. BRITISH CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION. An open meeting of the British Catholic Asso ciation was holden yesterday, at their rooms, i n Thorney-street, Bloomsbury. On the motion of Mr. Charles Butler, Mr. WHEBLE was unanimously called to the chair. The Secretary, Mr. BLOUNT, then addressiml the meeting, and said, there were only two points upon which he should trouble them with any observations. The first was the alterations which had recently taken place in the Ministry. In reference to this he should only observe, that, whatever hopes the Ca tholics may entertain horn what had occurred, he thought it would be the more prudent cour se t o ab stain from any public expression of their sentiments at the present moment. The result of th e ministe rial changes, which were nowin progress, would ma terially affect their method of proceeding, and he would, therefore, recommend that they await the t a uTi r poi i 01 . n i of come axtst hoeipointi meetings i definite eNn, which i h t ohi e and n in cfand conclusive the herieshyeortassociation,l etal bl aa e rernb theiru n t gm to e lauvtcht e i arrangement. had been the subject of so much conversation everywhere else, that he thought it would be right in them to notice it. He alluded to the pro gress of what was called the reformation in Ireland. He thought that before the Protestants called upon the Catholics to argue the question of superiority of faith, they should put the Catholics on a level with themselves, by repealing the penal code. If the re cult of these conversions, as they were called, had been a superior degree of virtue and morality in the converts, he thought that the zealots who were en gaged in this work would have had cause to congra tulate themselves on the effect which they had pro duced. But under the actual circumstances of the case, and which were notorious to the world, he re garded the whole proceeding as a political trick. The Learned Gentleman here read an extract from an English provincial paper, which stated, that the reformation was advancing into England, and gave an account or tie renunciation of the Roman Ca tholic religion by a man who resided at Preston. The newspaper concluded the account of the trans action by stating " for the gratification of the con vert's friends, that it had been determined in some way , or other to provide for him." The SECRETARY then read the minutes of pro ceedings since the last meeting, and a report of the Defence Committee, which recommended the collec tion of a subscription in the Roman Catholic chapels, to defray the expense of circulating various tracts and docunienti amongst the people of England. It was then resolved, after some discussion, in which Mr. Rosson, Sir John Burke, Mr. Blount, and Mr. IVl'Donnell took a part, to adjourn till Monday next. MANUMISSION OF SLAVES. (EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER.) « BERBICE, FEB. 16.--Never W a s erbice so excited as by the discussion of the compulsory clauses under the slave ameliorating ordinance. Last Monday, Feb. 12, the Protector, Mr. Power, appeared in Court for the negress who claimed the right to purchase herself and mulatto child. The whole colony was assembled. The lawyers were all opposed to him. Theirlearned pleader denied the claim for manumission, o n the ground that the money was acquired, no t by her honest industry, but by immoral courses, merely because she had a mulatto child. Mr. Power combated the conclusion as a false one under any circumstances, but that, in a commu nity where the institution of marriage had never been encouraged amongst the slave population, and where, amongst all classes, cohabitation was the rule, and marriage the exception, it was no thing short of that cant which slave proprietors affected to hold in such detestation, to resist a legal claim on such a discreditable assumption. The Governor, in his capacity of President of the Courts, over-ruled the untenable objection, and said it rested with th e P ro t ec t or o f Slaves to decide whether or not the slave had acquired the money by her honest earning. The Protector had examined the negress and other persons as to her having, for a length of time, been e n a bled to raise stock, &C., and purchase European goods, which sell here in the way of barter at a very high price, full 500 per cent. above the ori ginal invoice, and that she had been in the habit of selling pigs and other stock to the merchant , vessels . in the port. Besides, those persons who - ' now opposed, never until that hour, though due notice was served, made any objection to the Protector, and herefore the claim of the app'll - was not to be defeated, because the other parties denied his authority to decide o n her character, and, by -so doing, had not availed themselves of the means the law pointed out. " The interested parties refused to submit at the moment to the decision of his Excellency under the provisions of the law ; but, finding that appraisers were appointed, they, this morn- , ing, on reconsideration, officially stated to the Protector that they were mistaken, and that*they were most solicitous not to be mixed up with any contumacious opposition to the principle of the new law. The negress 'and her child have been valued at 2,000 guilders, and thus has ter minated the first claim under the long discussed right of a slave to purchase him or herself at A fair price, even without the consent of the owner." THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—ApriI 25. This day's supply , of Beasts Was still more limited than that of this th..y sconnight; that of Sheep, Lambs . , and Calves, mode rately good; each kind of meat, owing probably to the buyer!' having kept away in consequence of• the enormously high prices to which they were last week compelled to submit, experienced sluggish sale, at the fbllewing pies per stone of Bibs. to sink the offal, : • • • • - Beof 4s. Od. to sa. 2d. 1 Veal • 41. Bd.. to 61. at Mutton 4 10 .. 6 0 Pork . 4' 4 6 Lamb 6s. od.: to. 5 75. Od. „ The foregoing quotations are beef from 4d. to 6d.„ mutton *nit real Pd. to 4d., lamb, 6d.,' and irk 2d. 'per stone lower than those last quoted. A considerable number of sheep and lambs. and some.beasts left the market unsold. HAILSHAM MARKET.—ApriI 25. Beef 4s. ed. to ss. Od. 4s.' lA. to ss. ed• 5 0 5 4 •i Pork •0 0 0 0 Lamb Ss. Od. to tls. M. - Supply of Beasts limited, of small stock tolerably good ; trade with beef and lamb dull; with mutton and veal rather brisk. STEYNING MARKET,—ApriI 44.4 d. to ss. 2d. Veal ' 4s.dd. to . g o d Lamb 10 5 5 Pak 0 0 0 0 0 Lamb di. Od: to 64. 4cl. Supply limited, and trade somewhat brisk. • ARUNDEL MARKET.--April 24. 4s. &t. to ss. WI. 41. 41. So ss. Od. Mutton -- 4 8 5 6 I P0rk.,«,;..,.,.• 0 0 0 0 Lamh ss, 10d. to 6e. 64. Supply moderately good for the time of year , and trade rather brisk. CHI CHESTZIt MARKET.—ApriIiS. Beef 4s. 2d. to ss. Od. 454 4d. to 44. la Mutton 4 8 5 4 Pork 0 0 C 0 Lamb Os. Od. to' Os. Od. Supply good, and trade with both fat and lean stock quite salvo* at improved prices. . - COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEER. Wheat. I Barley. f Oats.' Balms. Per Quarter. e. to s. Lto s. s. to a. a. to s. elandford --. 50 58 60 36 40 30 38 56 I/. Brigg 55 35 '4O 34 40 47 6 ' Cambridge.. 56 36 v 51 Chard 56 76 38 •44 24 32 44 4 1 Huntingdon 50 55 35 37 45 30 47 Lduth 52 56 33 40 30 36 50 „ Lynn 5O 57 39 4 0 28 40 49 L Newark ..—. . 6l 38 50 NI 36 56 r. Norwich 52 60 30 4.0 30 33 42 Nottingham 56 59 30 41 40 43 59 pa Peterborough Plymouth 52 , 66U 0 38 40 28 32 — — Sherbornes6 32 38 30 36 56 6 Uppingham —..—. 53 58 38 41. 30 45 50 . Wisbech 50 60 -- —24 31 48 w_„ York --- LEEDS CORN MARKET, April 24. There was but a middling supply of Grain ; fine Wheats wer e 'nor:. saleable at a trifilag advance, but middling samples were much the same as last week. Barley, Oats, Shellings, and Beans. were each dull sale and rather lower. Rapeseed was entirely ne glected, and offered at 11. per last decline. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. ---,- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolkand Suffolk ----- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ---- Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe . . . . 38s. to 405.) . • t ----Meiling, Foreign 160. to 17d....English rid. to led. per :a Shelling . ... ..., ... ...... 41s. to 435. per lo _ Rapeseed, English, M. to 211 . Foreign, 221. to 231. petlt,„,° io butofetttthye the same week i 3 el scarcedtheattended, MANCHESTER CORN MA RKET.—April 21. Gar se'nnight i and the trifling business transacted in the early We can note little or no variation in the trade since. this* part 's samples several kets still prevailed, and to have made respectable sales, lower which a worthn and t h h e showu o pervadedf prices must have been accepted. QCustomary Bushel. Pease (Imp. Qr.) s. d. Ws ,: 'Change apreceding rather t° e x e a n . l nL s i wa s r e : Wheat (701 b.) s; d. toe. d. Blue, (boilers).---.. 7 6 • 0 English, New ........ 9 4 9 8 Whie.....(d0.).—....... , -- 0 ‘ I —.Rod-- 810 9 1 Beans. Irish, White..—.... 811 P 3 English ...--......-- 66 0 50 0 Red—....... 8. 7 811 Irish and Foreign ...A5 0 52 0 Canada .. 9 3 9 5 Per bag of 2001 b• . . Foreign ----. 811 9 5 Flour, Fine N0tt.i.:..45 0 47 0 Barley (601 b.) Yorks., f1ne...44 0 46 0 For grinding ----.5 4 510 Irish, fine.,..-44 0 44 0 4 7 Oats (151 b.) Seconds-4-40 0 42 u English & Scotch—. 0 0 0 0 Barrel Flour Sweet--- 0 0 Welsh 0 0 .0 0 Foreign 4 5 4'7 Per load of 2401 b. Irish, Kiln.dried .! 5 4 7 Oatmeal, Eng. &c.-- 0 42 0 ----- Undried— 4 2 45' 1ri5h..,.......-0 41 0 Per load of 6 Impl. bushel. Old(foed).— 0 34 , 0 Malt, New --....-46 0 48 0 Tares (Imp. Qr.)....... 0 0 0 0 -- Old.---- 0 0 Bran(broad)per 201 b. 1 3 1 S --- Inferior ..37 0 44 0 _-- ---- 11L - Tii`ICHESTER SM At per lb. sin 2,106 Sheep to 9d. 256 Cattle 4.k 8 • .83 Lambs d. iogi .14 • THFIELIII.—ApriI 25. sing the offal 6 Calves. 318 Pigs at Od. to PE MARELT.—ApriI 21. • 10 s. Od. per load of 12 score an Wand 14s. per load of 12 score; Dd. per load of 16 pecks ; 0141 005, 12 score. MANCHESTER POTATC Potatoes, Si. 6d., Us. Od., add 1 121bs. ; Carrots, 12s. Od., 13s. 6d. Turnips,:9s. (3d., 11a. Od. and 545. Od., 38s. and 60s. per load of MANCHESTER YAW' No. d. d. Throttle Twist, 20-12 to 12; :30 13 14 ftEkRK; 40 _ 18j 191 1 1 401 e cop TiVi tj 30 12 13 for warp —.I 40 15 50_17 ly 0 w. 20 21 i(-21 2 6 80 28 31 AluleCop. Weft Weft from wnste .... 30 -12 to T 4 r i . 60276 - 000 A__ ,..„.......= pril 322 : 4474 4. ;3661:: : , 40 12{ 1. 7 50 - lti 100 -.. 30 52 • 10-- Si 9 jo 18 10 11 24 11 _x.,.. --- BIRTH. On the 24th inst., in Euston-square, the lady of Hugh Ferguson, Esq., of Calcutta, of a MARRIED. On the 24 , th inst., at Mickleham, by the Rev. Alfre d Bannister, J. C. Cartiss, Grove-end-place, Re gent's-park, to Lucy, your daughter of Mr. Charrnaa, of Burford-bridge. DIED. On the 25th inst., at Walwortb, Mira Mary, eig hth child of Lieutenant Medley, R.N., aged 18th months. On the 25th inst., Mr. Edward Clarke, of Stanmore), Middlesex, aged 67. On the 25th inst., after a lingering and painful illne ss, ' Mary Ann, the wife of 51r. Joseph Walker, of 96, HO Holborn. PRINTED and Plismsturo by M. YOUNG, at t he Su - OPTICS, No. 112, *trawl Beef 111;t1