The Sun. — London, England, 1827-07-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The effect of the Treaty for composing the affairs of Greece, which we alone published yes terday morning, it will be perceived by our city article, was of a pleasing kind in that region of commercial enterprise. The eastern end of the Mediterranean is not, indeed, the seat of much commerce, but we have no doubt that its capa bilities will now be enlarged ; and we must say of the Treaty, that it is calculated to dispel those apprehensions which existed respecting the de signs of Russia. The fifth article says, that 4 , the contracting Powers will not seek in these arrangements any augmentation of territory, any exclusive influence, any commercial advantage for their subjects, which the subjects of any other cation may not equally obtain." Jf Russia shall be found to have ultimately multiplied her pacific relations by the operation of this treaty, we shall rejoice at such a result ; commerce will only thereby have marked out another high road between her dominions and England. We ought, perhaps, to have said a word or two on those articles of the Treaty which are called secret, and which we published with the rest. — It is common, in treaties of this nature, where Powers mediate upon the principle of chastising the refractory, and siding with the obedient, to pass certain secret articles to this effect ; in con formity with which usage the condition or con tingent articles of this treaty have, indeed, been called secret ; but it was the intention of the 'con tracting Powers that these should be made public with the rest, and for this obvious and useful reason,—that they were yet more pacific and friendly than the articles of the original treaty ; and their concealment could only have excited needless apprehensions in the Turks that they were of a different tenour. For what do the se cret and contingent articles say—that if Turkey refuses submission, her capital shall be battered ? ; but that Consuls—men of a peaceful cha racter—shall be placed in the Greek cities.— That her fleets shall be burnt ? No ; but that all collision shall be prevented between the con tending parties. The secret articles would, there fore, have been given to the Turks along with the rest, whether we had published them or not. —Times. The proceedings of the constituted authoii ties at Jamaica present but an unsatisfactory aspect. It appears that the House of Assembly had passed a resolution in May last, to this omi nous effect,—that " the allowances to the British troops should be stopped in June (now past), unless the grievance complained of by the imposi tion of duties without the consent of the (Ja maican) Legislature were fully redressed before that day." An act or resolution of a Legisla tive body must be carried into effect by certain officers. Those with whom it rested to execute the order of the House of Assembly are styled Commissioners of Accounts ; these met on the 18th of slay, and a deliberation, or rather a dis cussion, of no very philosophic character, took place on the propriety of yielding or refusing obedience to the resolution above recited. But these Commissioners of Accounts are Members of the House of Assembly, by whom the resolu tion above recited was passed; and how Mr. Hyslop, the Commissioner of Accounts, could possibly refuse compliance with the peremptory' order to stop payment which he had rkeived' fr.— Mr 4O-4:4 4he House of Assembly ; we cannot imagine. We recollect that Oliver Cromwell said of John tilburn, the, puritan, that if there were no other people in the; _ _ world to quarrel with, John wont ; qi;rrel igilburne, and Lilburne with John. There however, no such internal-aiseedd in` the body of Mr. Hyslop, Commissioner of AceOunts, . anal Member of the Jamaica Parliament, nor in the bodies of the other persons possessing both those offices. The Board comes to no resolution ; whereby it follows, that in this, as in other cases, it obeys the Legislature ; upon iihieltreettlr,ithe troops whose allowance is stopped *ill be in no very placid mood. Oliver's inference from Lil hurne s captious temper was, that it was best to le him alone. We do not precisely recommend this course to the Government at home: we hope however, it will consider the pretensions of these malcontents with the kindest feelings, and grant them whatever may be granted, with promptitude ; or refuse with firmness. We do not know, for our own parts, that it would be a great national calamity if the whole of the West India Islands were formed into a federative republic. We could then trade with them to the degree we wished, and no further. But can they proteCt their foreign independence against America, or their domestic tranquillity against their own black population ?-Ibid. - - - We learn from a letter, which our readers will find in another column, that the conjecture hazarded in our remarks on the proceedings of the Synod of Ulster, in The Chronicle of Tues day—that the two individuals who refused to take the test prescribed by the vote of the Sy 120t1 would turn out to be connected with rich congregations, able and inclined to indemnify them for any sacrifice to which their honesty might expose thembas not proved correct. We are sorry to find that, should the vote of the Synod be followed up by an expulsion of the two members in question, one of them at least would be exposed to very great difficulties. So far from wondering that only two out of 35 or 40 men should avow their real opinions, at She hazard of depriving themselves of the means of subsistence, we are only astonished that there should be found two possessed of t i ttis degree of honesty. Human nature is the same in Eng land that it is every where else, but the habits of Englishmen, and the circumstances in which they are placed, are in a great measure peculiar to them. The law perpetuates immense masses of property in a number of families, in whom all power is centered ; and these families, through that property, have a monopoly of all offices of splendour and dignity in Chur c h a nd State. The body possessed of this overwhelming in fluence is not, however, like many of the old Aristocracies of the Continent, closed against fresh entrants ; but is open at all times to wealth. Hence, in England, independently of the desir e which must exist every where of property, as a means of commanding the necessaries and en joyments of life—as wealth in England leads to all power and influence, temporal and spiritual, and the career is open to all—an immense st i mu l us is here superadded to the natural desire. if ever Mammon reigned in a country, it is in England. Every thing is measured by money, and the idea of consideration not derived f rom money, or the means of making it, is unintel ligible. In a provincial town, he who keep s ; a coach will not associate with the person who; can afford to keep only his gig ; the latter looks down on the individual who only keeps a riding horse ; and the person who can keep neither coach, gig, nor horse, must not aspire to associate with any of them. All the virtues, andl ,all the amiable qualities that ever centered in one TiTuld fail tg ensure respect in Lug land to straitened circumstances. The moment the black coat becomes rusty, or any other of the well-known systems become apparent, friends are seized with blindness in the streets, and the un fortunate is cut—this is a word which could be translated into no European language. Another circumstance has great influence in fostering ava ricious feelings in the people of this country. The enormous taxation to which we are subject has imposed on the great mass of the people enormous exertions, as the only condition on which they can at all exist. A man, therefore, in England, is stimulated to the acquisition of wealth, not only as the only means of enjoying consideration, but to secure himself from the ne cessity of making those almost superhuman exer tions to which we have alluded. The morality of the people of this country has of course taken its complexion from these circumstances. There is no man who will not admit, as a general pro position, that no interested considerations should induce any one to profess an opinion that he does not really believe. .But when sincerity is followed by poverty and contempt, the abandon ment of friends, the derision of the multitude, it requires a stout heart to adhere to principle at such an expence. Very few men possess that strength of mind which enables them to remain indifferent to the manner in which they are viewed by others. The sympathy of others is necessary to most men. When, therefore, a pre ference of sincerity to interest would be fol lowed by neglect and derision, it is expect. ing too much from frail mortals that they should hazard the consequences. The Jansenists pub lished an account of those Frenchmen who, in the last century, abandoned their livings, and em braced povery and exile rather than renounce their opinions respecting the propositions con demned by the Bull Unigenitus. In the first half of the eighteenth century, the Record con tains an account of about a thousand Martyrs, among whom were 25 Bishops, and nearly 700 Abbots and other Dignitaries. "It is highly glorious to our age (says the preface), to have been the witness of the faith and the courage of a considerable number of persons, of every con dition, and sex, and age, who preferred to suffer all sorts of injustice, and the most of them the loss of their liberty, and even their life, rather than betray their conscience and renounce the truth." What would be thought of a Bishop in England, who on any other principle than that of political calculation (as in the case of the Nonjuring Jacobites at the Revolution), aban doned his living on account of opinion, or who should avow any opinion calculated to endanger his retaining his office ? Would not a smile of derision overspread the countenance of every man of the world, whenever his name happened to be mentioned ? When the immediate prede cessor of the present King of Prussia subjected all Theological Candidates to a test of what they disapproved, they refused compliance, renounced their pursuits, and the faculties of law and me dicine were inundated with uncomplying Di. vines. What do we learn in this country ? that the students , r the Belfast Association conceal their opinions to have livings. But really the sacrifice of the French Clergy and German Stu dents was by no means so great as a correspond jag sacrifice would have been in this country. Poverty does not deprive a respectable man of 4:onsideratioß in either of the two countries. Even in the "comparatively luxurious capital of :eips One or a dozen servants, or whether he ,odges in a garret or in a hotel. Contempt does act accompany poverty, and wealth does not . procure that grovelling worship which is always paid to its possessors in England. During the Pearly part of the Revolution, it is stated in the Repoli of a Commissaire of the Government of the day, that she people of Britanny fed the ejected clergy is the woods and caverns in which they were concealed, and behaved towards them with the most affectionate regard. It is one thing to be supplied by the sympathy of a people, and another to become an object of derision. We are far from contending that the insincerity of England is in itself proper. We earnestly wish the morality of the nation were of a more elevated character. The object of our observa tions is merely to account for the prevalence of the insincerity and hypocrisy in all matters of opinion, by showing that they are the result of circumstances with which human frailty can hardly ever hope successfully to cope. The circumstan ces to which we have alluded are but two power ful in disposing men to worship wealth. But as if they were not sufficiently powerful, all manner of tests have been devised to familiarize men with equivocation. The attempt to obtain uni formity of opinion on points susceptible of dis pute, is in itself immoral, for uniformity in all such cases is an impossibility, and the profession of it an evidence of insincerity. The arguments of the Protestants against the Catholics on this subject are incontrovertible, and it is only to be regretted that they should forget them in the divisions among themselves. "It is obvious (says a celebrated Protestant Divine, in a con troversial work against the Catholics), it is ob vious that the interpretation of articles of belief will always be different in the heads of different men, and that all the Popes and Councils of the world would he insufficient to determine every thing; and to cause every thing to enter into the heads of men in the same way. Each Church may attempt to have its written confes sion. But it gains nothing thereby but the verbal uniformity of the public formulae, and by no means the unity of the ideas in the heads of men. Variety of views in religion is something natural, unavoidable, and attended with no danger for truth. It is thence unjust in us to accuse each other of heresy on that account, and to endeavour to extort uniformity of belief through forcible means. It is this force which alone makes religious opinions dangerous, as it perpetuates errors, generates fanaticism and hatred, and prevents the natural development of the human mind."—Morning Chronicle. Those whose province it is to record the ac tions and intended movements of those who do not appear to know their own minds, and whose plans are so unsettled as to change from day to day, have, it must be admitted, an awkward task to perform ; and in announcing that to-day, which they are compelled to contradict to morrow, must appear to throw discredit on their own sources of information, or, in the eyes of some, as the mere inventors of what they an nounce. The chopping and changing, the ar rangements, abandoned as soon as projected, of the present Ministry, are, however, precisely of this description ; and however, one-half of the reports with which the public have been inun dated may, in the end, have the appearance of fabrications, we believe that not only nearly every one of them have been true at the time, but that the Press has not given currency to one half the schemes and expedients which have been projected during the last six months of intrigue and indecision. We may, we believe, now an nounce - confidently that Lord Lansdown's ap pointment to the Home Department is actually made out and determined upon ; and that Lord Anglesea is as certainly, at this moment, des tined to take the Government of Ireland in No vember. This latter appointment, however, is said to rest upon a contingency as to the acces sion of the Duke of Gordon to the views of the Ministry. Great efforts, and every kind of in ducement are making, we understand, to obtain this. Not only would the Duke's personal cha racter be a great addition to Mr. Canning's ranks, but his influence North of the Tweed would, it is thought, go far to counterbalance that of Lord Melville, the Duke of Montrose, and other. Scotch Lairds, who have gone into exile from the Court. The peculiar and novel difficulty of Mr. Canning's situation, however, appears to be this, that though invested with the nominal Headship of the Government, he has so many Viceroys over him, that much of the power and influence of office is entirely out of his reach. The patronage of the Army and the Navy are retained by the two first personages in the realm, and that of the Church and Law by the respec tive heads of those two Learned Professions. With these limits of influence cut off from the head of the Administration, of course less deference will be paid to one who wields a comparatively barren sceptre, than to his predecessors, who enjoyed the full in fluence of power and place. Those who know the inexhaustible appetite which belongs to the Parliamentary and other hangers-on of a Ministry will easily see the truth and force of this ; and that if Mr. Canning has less to give to the younger sons of Lords and Gentlemen than his predecessors, so much the less can he rely upon their support ; the quid pro quo being more or less the governing rule of action amongst the highest, as well as the lowest—among the most apparently virtuous, as well as the most really profligate of mankind. This being the case, the new Minister's friends whisper pretty audibly that he vv!i have no alternative but to throw himself upon the people ; that is, by courting popularity, circumvent and defeat the opposition of the great parties opposed to him. 'With this view, we are told, every practicable curtailment of expense is to be resorted to, and a further cutting-down of the scanty salaries of clerks, messengers, and tide-waiters, had recourse to. Economy—we mean a real economy, is w hat every honest and disinterested man must admire, and feel to be the duty of every Government ; though, as far as meeting our financial situation goes, it can amount, at best, we should imagine, but as to a drop in the ocean. But a petty economy and a lavish expenditure must be futile, while practised together ; and to cut down a few labourers in the dock-yards, while his new Whig friends are thrusting themselves into comparative sinecures of large value, is what the good sense of mankind will easily see through, and not be gulled with. We have no objection to see Mr. Canning or any Minister throw himself upon the people, in its true Constitutional sense. Popular opinion, in a popular Government, must always be entitled to the highest influence ; but popular delusion is not quite so easily practised as it was an age, or only half an age ago ; and we doubt exceedingly whether the peopl - have lie: Se.:l. already such a ready convertibility of principle among some of those who now lay claim to their confidence, as may lead them to withhold it from them, should they even present tbermelves 4.4.--A...••••• de••••••••••••..n."--.....Moog • lierald. A case occurred at the Mansion-house yPs:- terday, which seems, very unucce 3:a117. to excited a vast deal of sympathy tha i:react o the Lord Mayor and Alderman Lucas,, who tried it, and in the course of which, if we may credit a somewhat extended account. which ap. , peared in an Evening Paper of yestetrday, these two Magistrates indulged in more remarks upon the law which they were called on to administer, than were altogether suitable to the impartiality of the Bench. The case was this. A person, respectable enough perhaps, who is a mate of a Hamburgh vessel, was charged with smuggling 6ilb. of cigars. The penalty is 1001., or five years' service in one of his Majesty's ships or war, and either may be inflicted on the convic tion of one or more Justices of the Peace. The Treasury, well aware that to leave to Justices of the Peace in certain districts the power of modi fying the fine or the time of service, might lead to unpleasant imputations, have reserved that power in their own hands. We need n ot say that they have used it with much considera tion and tenderness. This part of the law has, however, struck the City Magistrates as wonderfully severe, and as trenching over much On the prerogative of mercy, which forms so amiable a trait in the character of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. The pri soner's defence seems also to have produced an astonishing effect. According to his account he had bought the cigars for his own private use, and was carrying them ashore, imagining, as he pretended, that he was committing no breach of any existing law. Now, who was the man that pled thu s ? The mate of a Hamburgh trader , where it i s n otorious to all who h a ve inquired into the subject, that a system of petty smuggling is carried on , from the Captain to the cabin-boy , with undevi a ti ng r eg ul a rity. He was, m or eover, a Guernsey man, a na ti ve o f an i s l an d w here smuggling is the only commerce , w h ere t h ere is not a man, woman, Or child, in the principal town that is not, directly or indirectly, engaged in it—where the very kennels smell of Hollands• n For such a man, trained to the evasion of them, b custom-house birth and bi laws spractice,toutterly ire be ignorant And ignorant of how does his story tell. He brought ashore for small quan tityhis u o s f e during, l,4o o cigars, an n f a allowancew eek, th e o f only 200 a-day ! We certainly are not disposed to find fault with any recommendation the Lord Mayor or Alderricn may see fit to forward on behalf of any offender, whatever be his degree of guilt ; but we think they might just as well spare the laws of the country from censures, which may bring them into disrepute, but cannot mend them.—New Times. The g e n era l a pp ea r a nce of the crops i n thi s neighbourh oo d i s i m p rove d, if possible, since o ur last. We have heard a complaint of the dolphin having attacked the peas, but we hope and think it is only a partial evil. The weather, though it has been warm, has been, we should say, parti cularly favourable to the growth of turnips, and we see several pieces of Swedes already hoed, and growing luxuriantly. The white rounds are just coming up, and we have seen several pieces out of the way of the fly. The clovers are shoot ing again as well as we ever saw them, and nothing can be finer than the weather has been for the last week for the wheat, which may be said to be in full bloom, and at which time the weather certainly has a great effect on it.— Brighton Gazette. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday the Churchwardens of the parish of St. Olave, Hart-street, were summoned before the LORD MAYOR by a pauper, who complained that they had refused to give him clothes to cover him. If the present appearance of the unfortunate man were to be con sidered a criterion of the liberality of the parish, the poor must certainly have some cause to complain. His lower garments were moat wofully dilapidated. The Loan MAYOR asked whether the Churchwardens were present to answer the complaint ?—A female voice immediately cried out, " I attend for the Churchwardens." The Loan MAYOR—This poor old man says that he is in great want of something to cover him. Why is he not supplied?—The lady then stepped forward, said—" My Lord, he only wanted a pair of breeches, and I looked him out a pair and gave them to him. lam sure (casting her eyes at his inexpressibles) I don't know why he has not the breeches on."--(A laugh.) The Loan MAYOR (to the pauper).—Why you have been already supplied with what you say you want. Why have you not put them on ? Pauper—Because I couldn't, your Lordship. Them breeches as the lady gave me wasn't half big enough.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR, (smiling.)--That, certainly, is a bad fault, you might as well have had none at all. Pauper —I couldn't pull them up at all, my Lord, so I was obliged to go without.—(Loud laughter.) The LORD MAYOR..--I am sorry, Madam, that you have been so unsuccessful in your attempt to fit the poor man. Lady.—My Lord, when he told me that one pair of breeches did not answer him, I sent him another, and still he was not satisfied. Pauper—No, my Lord ; the last breeches the lady gave me was littler nor the t'other ; I couldn't heave my legs into them by no means.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR thought that it would be better to hand over the poor man to be fitted by some experienced person of his own sex, and desired that he should be ac commodated at once with breeches of a proper size. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday a chiropodist, practising in the neighbourhood of Golden-square, was brought to this office at the suit of a young lady, who holds the situation of governess in a family of re spectability. Neither of the parties were very young nor very hand some; the lady might have seen some thirty winters, or thereabOut, and looked very cold and indifferent; and the gentleman seemed to have been passed by about double the number of summers, for he was fat and rosy, and looked very warm and tender. For more than an hour the un happy defendant sat in front of the Magistrate's table, waiting for the fair complainant to appear, and at every opportunity addressing his Worship thus—" I wish your Worship would have the goodness to let me go; this is only a love affair, and I'm in the professional line !" At length, however, the lady arrived, accompanied by an elderly gentleman, and one of Mr. Harmer's clerks. The defendant looked unutterable things at the lady; hut she remained unmoved. The lawyer then stated the cause of complaint which his client had against the defendant ; and from his statement, we understood that the defendant had conceived a violent passion for the complainant, from having had to cut the lady's corns one unlucky day ; and that, not meeting with a return of his passion, he, one day, in a fit of despair, snatched up the complainant, as she was walking along the street ; and tucking her under his arm, attempted to carry her off, but luckily he did not succeed. The complainant, therefore, fearing he would make another attempt, and per haps be more successful, wished that he should give security never to attempt the like again. It did not appear hew the lady escaped from the arms of her inamorato ; whether by kicking, or from an ina bility in the defendant to carry her further; the latter sup position seems the more likely, when all the circumstances are considered, and that the attempted abduction took place on one of the late very hot days. The defendant was very anxious to be heard in explana tion, but, Mr. Bxcxrrr, a county Magistrate, before whom the case was heard, would not permit him to reply, observing, that as the complainant swore that she went in bodily fear of him (the defendant), he (Mr. 13xcxx , rx) bad nothing more to do than order him to give bail for his good beha- viour. The defendant said he entertained the greatest imagine- He regard lady, as she well knew, and it was therefore creel tier to say that she feared he would do her harm. Ile began to say something about " ingrati • tude," and having " entertained her four days and nights," but the Magiat-ata cut his camplaiuings short, by ordering the gaoler to laa Lan up until he should give bail ; and th e Icve-s,ek, corn-cutter, having cast one sup plicating look at tha insensible and hard-hearted damsel, a-ve-t sighing to his Sir Heger Orcaley next appeared, to answer 'the com plaint of Abraham Lock, a waterman. Abraham s'ate' s T'aat Sir Roger and a party were rowed by himself and seven other watermen, on a certain day named, in an Admiralty barge, to Greenwich and back again. The watermen charged half-a-guinea each for the day's labour, and he (Abraham) was deputed by them to wait upon Sir Roger and obtain payment. He accordingly waited upon Sir Roger yesterday, but Sir Roger refused to pay him, and when be (Abraham) refused to leave the leatnewithant payment, Sir Roger struck him on the back ct" the held, and Iced bim down stairs. i n tutsver to '-ibis complaint, Sir Roger Greeley stated that the whole affair ad arisen out of a mistake. The fact , *-as, the co mplainant nail no claims upon him, for lie had hired a boat of another man, and that man not being in the way when lie (Sir Roger) and his party went to Whitehall-stairs at the appointed time, the defendant had taken advantage of his absence to say that his boat was engaged for his (Sir Roger's) party. The conse quence was, that the next day he had the owners of both boats applying for payment. He was told by one of the men belonging to the complainant's boat, who applied the first day, that the boat belonged to the Admiralty, and that it had b ee n ordered to be got ready for him. Now, he had never any thing to do with the Admiralty, and, as the man could give him no particular information, he was to make inquiries and come again the next day. The com plainant, however, came himself instead, and told him a lon g rigmarole story about the barge, which it was not Possible to understand, and he refused to pay him. Mr. BEcxearr asked the complainant by virtue of whose authority he made use of an Admiralty barge ? The complainant replied, that a Waterman who had the care of the barge employed him and the other watermen to row it. Mr. BECKETT told him he had done very wrong to use the barge ; and desired him to go about his business. His Worship then advised Sir Roger to lay a statement of the circumstances before the Admiralty, and Sir Roger promised that he would do so. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a mechanic named Fuller was brought up to this office in custody, charged with having violently assaulted his wife. This was a case arising out of the profligacy detected in a wife subsequent to her marriage. The complainant, who held an infant in he r arms, exhibited marks of very severe and unmanly Punishment. Her head, which was bound round with a handkerchief, was very much cut, and both her eyes were blackened and much swollen. She described that her life, since her marriage with the defendant, was one scene of the most complete misery and unhappiness. They bad not been married more than three months, when his conduct and manner towards her underwent a total change for the "tie. He was at first good, kind, and affectionate ; but no sooner had the short period she stated elapsed, than he became one of the most brutal of his sex. When his work was over of an evening, on coming house, if there was the slightest thing amiss, he would fly into a rage, break and dash to pieces every thing that came in his way, and ulti mately any y vent his rage upon her, by striking her in the face, o Part of the body, it mattered not to him, with his clenched fists. r. SwAßly.—What have you to say to this charg e of ill-treatment brought by your wife ? Defendant—You r Worship, she has brought it all on her own head. She has told you, that in three months after our marriage, from being kind and affectionate, I became much altered. No doubt I did ; and when I tell your Worship the cause, you will not be u, fry. Somasu r Worship , _have no wish to hear an exposure of surprised. ABET—Nothing could justify your beating he r in the manner now s o visible to every one. Defendant — Btshe has cuckolded me, and— i‘your f ami ly concerns. Defendant—Your Wors hi p , she had a child by her master three months after I had mar ried her; was not that a pretty present for me? But I could have looked over that even, had she not taken to liquor. lViriand pawned all my clothes to have her favourite SWABILY—StiII, all that should not justify you in her ; that is not the way to reform her. If yen can'tlive iknng, happily together, separate—that is the best advice I can give you ; at the same time you must find bail to keep the peace towards your wife. The defendant had no bail in attendance, and was then t a k e n away in the custody of the gaoler. A young man, being lately examined by a Minister prior to confirmation, was asked, ~ Who is the mediator between Almighty God and his people ?" After a pause, and scratching his head, he replied, ~ the Archbishop of Canter bury !"—Brighton Gazette. AN 'EGYPTIAN GIRL. " In this vast hall, which was surrounded by a double range of columns, and lay open over head to the stars of heaven, I saw a group of young maidens, moving in a sort of measured step between walk and dance, round a small shrine, upon which stood one of those sacred birds, that, on account of the variegated colour of their wings, are dedicated to the moon. The vestibule was dimly lighted, there being but one lamp of naphtha on each side of the great pillars that encircled it. But, having taken my station beside one of those pillars, I had a distinct view of the young dancers, as in succession they passed me. " Their long, graceful drapery was as white as snow ; and each wore loosely beneath the rounded bosom, a dark blue zone, or bandelet studded, like the skies at midnight, with little silver stars. Through their dark locks was wreathed the white lily of the Nile—that flower being accounted as welcome to the moon as the goNen blossoms of the bean-flower are to the sun. As they passed under the lamp, a gleam of light flashed from their bosoms, which I could perceive was the reflection of a small mirror, that, in the manner of the women of the East, each wore beneath her left shoulder. " There was no music to regulate their qts-ps, but, as they gracefully went round the bird in the shrine, some by the beat of the castanet, some by the shrill ring of the sistrum—which they held uplifted in the attitude of their own divine Isis—harmoniously timed the cadence of their feet ; while others, at every step, shook a small chain of silver, whose sound, mingling with those of the castanets and sistrums, pro duced a wild, but not an unpleasing harmony. " They seemed all lovely ; but there was one whose face the light had not reached, so down cast she held it—who attracted, and, at length, rivetted all my attention. I knew not why, but there was a something in tho§e half-seen features —a charm in the very shadow, that hung over their imagined beauty—which took me more than all the out-shining loveliness of her compa nions. So enchained was my fancy by this coy mystery, that her alone, of all the group, could I either see or think of—her alone I watched, as, with the same downcast brow, she glided round the altar, gently and aerially, as if her presence, like that of a spirit, was something to be felt, not seen. " Suddenly, while I gazed, the loud crash of a thousand cymbals was heard—the massy gates of the Temple flew open, as if by magic, and a flood of radiance, from the illuminated aisle came mingling ; while, at the same the sounds were borne t fii n o l g lset e a nd t httehr ,a e sa w ipf l e i t o ah l le e olvifegsi rich unl harmony with the radiance. " It was then, by that light which shone full upon the young maiden's features, as, starting at the blaze, she raised her eyes to the portal, and as suddenly let fall their lids again. It was then I beheld, what even my own ardent imagination, in its vivid dreams of beauty, had never pictured. Not Psyche herself, when pausing on the thres hold of heaven, while its first glories fell on her dazzled lids, could have looked more beautiful, or blushed with a more innocent shame. Often as I had felt the power of looks, none had ever entered into my soul so far. It was a new feel ing—a new sense—coming as suddenly as that radiance into ; othe a na, had that vi vestibule, and, at once, filling my whole b lin gered anothe r moment before my eyes, I should wholly have forgotten who I was, and where, and thrown myself, in prostrate adoration, at her feet.—Moore's Epicurean. Wheat. Barley. f Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. a. to s. s. to s. s. to a. Blandford 52 60 38 44 30 36 54 60 58 63 35 42 36 42 47 a 57 38 21 47 Chard 56 76 38 44 24 32 45 48 Huntingdon. , 24 33 44 40 Louth 59 62 38 40 26 30 52 56 58 62 39 44 26 36 52 60 Newark Norwich Nottingham 58 65 40 47 28 32 54 59 Peterborough 58 60 30 34 Plymouth Sherborne 55 32 38 30 33 56 64 Uppiugharn 56 60 34 4e 20 36 44 60 Wisbech 52 60 24 31 50 59 York LEEDS CORN MARKET. July 10. DMRKET b JuIyIO. We had a good d E sup S CORN supply yofvyhet and au, but middling o f other Grain ; fine fresh Wheat was sold on nearly the same term; as last week, but other descriptions a shade lower. In Oats afl" Shelling there was little doing, and no material alteration in the. value of either. Beans were Is. to 2s. per quarter cheaper. BO little Rapeseed offered, and prices unaltered. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding 36s. to 38s. „,74 Beans Oats, Potatoe ---Mealing, Foreign 14d. to 15d....English 16d. to 160. per $.: Shelling 34a. to 364 per lon Rapeseed, English, 201. to IX. Foreign, —l. to —/. per les" MANCHESTER SMITHFIELD.-July 11. At per lb. sinking the offal. 1,715 Sheep —.... sd. to 61d. l 16 Calves--- 50. to 7d 245 Cattle -- 4 7 1 110 Pigs .----- t 5 2,964 Lambs —.....—. at sjd. to 6d. MANCHESTER POTATOE MARKET.—JuIy 7. A Potatoes, Ss. 6d., —B., —s., and 10s. Od. per load of 12 score an 121bs. ; New ditto, 14s. ed., 158., and 164. per ditto; Turnip!' Od., Or. Od. and Os. Od. per load of 16 pecks ; Onions, small, IN per lb. MANCHESTER YAR/ No. d. d. Throstle Twist. 20..11/ to 12j 30 —l3 14 1 MARK: 19 Mule Cop . Mule cu P Twid i 30..11i 12j I Weft . for warp 40 14 15 30 17 19 80 —2O 21 70 —24 N iWeft from 80 M2S 31 waste r.—July 10. '3O 11 to 1 1 40 12 1 ,1 50.-- 16 b 0 111 70 20i 7 " 80 11 6 100 --., 30 gi .120 —, 34 ," ' 10-- 8 14 .41 , 4.1W0 9 18 .-- 10 24 -- 10 11 HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, JULY 11.—The accounts from our Plan' tation this week are decidedly worse ; the lice have mncb increased, and the honey is very prevalent; the blight b 0 attacked the fresh shoot ; in the yards most affected WI - plant is assuming a very sickly appearance. Thi,is OA ' general report—but there are exceptions ; there are some ' yards in the parishes of Leigh and Suckley which we al e told have a very favourable appearance. Our duty is lower' Prices do not move ; the average on Saturday was 61. 6* to 61. 15s.—In the Borough yesterday, the duty o f t he Kingdom advanced to 5 6,0001. and prices gave way a little , in consequence of favourable accounts from Mid Kent. BIRTH. On the 24 ult., at Smyrna, the lady of J. King Fiche' Esq., of a eon. —, MARRIED._ On the 12th inst., at St. Luke's, Middlesex, by the Be' John Howard Rice, LL.D. Alfred Bridger, Esq. of Kiur street, to Mary, eldest daughter of John Capron, Esq., 0; Finsbury-square. On the 10th inst., at Salcombe Church, by the Ref' George Cornish, John Medley, Esq., of Budleigh Salter ton, to Christiana, third daughter of John Bacon, Esq" of Sidcliff, Sidmouth, Devon. On the 12th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, David Taylor, Esq., M.D., of Wotton-under-edge, Gloucestel' shire, to Miss C. L. Hodges, of Koppel-street, Russell , square. CARNIVAL BALL AT LISBON. The ball at the Portuguese Rooms is the grand attraction, for which all minor entertain ments are deserted. Those who are not sub scribers, or who c annot procure invitations, con tent themselves with throwing squibs and crackers at the singers, and at each other, at the opera—. with the happy number who hold tickets all is bustle and preparation. I w as told the fete was to be a combination of masquerade, fancy ball, and dress ball. I was anxious that the first should preponderate, as I was desirous to com pare Southern wit and hilarity with our broad doings at the Opera House and Argyll Rooms, where Mr. Wright 'and Mr. Ebers assemble the world, as they say, under the direction of six Noblemen. From the result, however, I have to learn that London is a very superior place for a masquerade to Lisbon, and that the ladies here are too sensible of the impression which the reality of their beauty makes, to awaken it by any ill-suited and extravagant fancy costume. The rooms were filled at an early hour ; every one agreed that such a crowd had not been seen since the days the late King honoured th em with his presence. All the lower benches were illuminated at eight o'clock by the brilliant eyes of two or three hundred illustrious damsels, and the still more piercing and expressive eyes of a few Spanish maidens. Their mamas were , seated on an upper tier. As the mourning still continued, every one was dressed in black, with , the exception of a few English ladies, whose tasteful white dresses relieved the general sombre character of the costume. All the Ambassadors, with the exception of him of Madrid, were pre sent ; and in short nothing wanted to complete the triumph of the Directors of the Assembly, who generally find that the Foreign Rooms, as the English are called, excel them in the number and the character of the company. There were no fancy dresses unless that of a Spanish girl— who realised all that Lord Byron tells of the might and majesty of loveliness—might be so termed. One young lady was masqued, but she made not the least attempt to support a charac ter. Unhappily we had none of our Hussars, Lancers, or Guardsmen present, to sustain the fame which the former ball had bestowed on them. Their places were taken by the officers of his Majesty's navy who were, as they deserved, to win all the honours of the night. I protest the Portuguese ladies have quite enough to do to withstand the tremendous assaults making this season on their hearts by so many branches of service. The most beautiful are captured by the commanders at both sides ; and even those who escape the great guns of the Majors, Captains, and Lieutenants, are certain to be picked up by the Midshipmen and Ensigns—not to speak of the marines, who have a monstrous swallow for beauty of all shapes and sizes. Talk of the Bri tish fleet in the Tagus preserving a neutrality— why, Sir, they have not left an enemy in petti coats unconquered at either side of the river— they have invaded every man's and woman's house where a daughter's black eyes held out a motive of conquest, ,and secured, I know not how, good will, free quarters, and a good name every where. About six masks appeared in the course of the night—a duller half dozen never ventured on RUMFORD MARKET—JuIy 11. s. d. to s. d. s, d. to I. d• Beef 3lO 4 8 Veal Mutton 3B 46 Pork 40 5 0 Laub 4s. 4d. to ss. 6d. Suckling Calves from 14s. toads • Quarter old Piga 9s. to l4s. each , supply tolerably good. and, trade dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK• ' business in that line. One of them had a small plain looking-glass, and a concave mirror, which increased every deformity, which he went about presenting to the company. The character might be made a great deal of, particularly in a place where every body is so well known as in Lisbon ; but he did not make a single point worth notice. Another drest as Giovanni, but heaven knows he was perfectly innocent in art and intentions Your grand-mother and grand-daughter was equally safe in his hands. A third, with a paper butterfly stuck on the end of a wire projecting from his hat, played the great booby, and pre tended to chase it. His dress was like that of Billy Lackaday, done by Liston, his dullness was his own, and done to a turn. The best character was that of an English Naval officer, battered by hard service, and soured by disap pointment. The mask itself was inimitably moulded, the lower lip projected disdainfully over the upper, and the eyes were constructed to maintain an ill-natured villainous squint for the whole evening. He had a good idea of the cha racter, and attracted considerable attention. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.—MONDAY, JULY 16.---(At the Court of Commissioners, Basinghall-street.) Charman, P., Piccadilly ... 10IGrain, G., Cambridge COUNTRY DIARY.—TUESDAY, JULY 17. Clarke, F., Great Yarmouth—Bear inn, South-town, Yar mouth Coates, W., sea. and jun., Newcastle-on-Tyne—George inn, Newcastle ll Cox, R., Nottingham--Hotel, Newark 2 Croasdill, H., Hackington—Guildhall, Canterbury Daniel, G., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham S Fenton, J. Hanley—Swan, Hanley ...... lt Penick, T., Gateekead—George, Newcastle Fernihough,.l., Frogall—Wheatsheat, Cheadle 6 Fisher, J., Birmingham—Koyal hotel, Birmingham 1 Haslam, J., Bolton—Star, Manchester * Hiller, F., Dover—Guildhall, Canterbury Jones, 8., Tewkesbury—Swan, Tewkesbury ll Kenyon, J., Blackburn—Royal hotel, Birmingham Latham, J., Liverpool—York hotel, Liverpool ...... ....." Lawton, E. jun., Darlaston, Stafrornshire—Swan inn, Bir mingham 5 Pearson, Z., Kingston-upon-Hull—Dog and Duck ina, Kingston.upon.Hull 1 Prior, W., Kemerton—Hop.pole, Tewkesbury lO Richards, G., Argoed, Bedwellty, Monmouth—Commercial rooms, Bristol I Sillitot, J., Stafford—Red Lion, Newport II Smith, S., Hastings—George, Battle ll Spencer, W., Bristol—Bush, Bristol % Strafford, D. Ripley—Angel, Alfreton lO Tilston and Jones, Mold—Black Lion, Mold INSOLVENTS APPLYIN Petitions to be heard at Pertui G TO BE DISCHARGED, al-street, Lincoln's Intl Fields, AT NINII. JULY 17, Bardoleau, R., Coombe Priory, near Shaftesbury Bowyer, D., William-street, Leo, J,. William street, Spa fields Low, W., Barnwell, near Cam bridge Minard, J., Walworth Parks, J., Plummer's-row, City road Polley, W., Camden town Short L., Clifton-street, Fins bury-square Smith, W., Islington Smith, J., Shoemaker-row, Doe tors'-commons Wallis, H., Tonbridge , Southwark Carter, J., Ely-place Christie, J., Great St. Helen's Clark, J., Kingston Dutley, J., Islington Gayton, E., Commercial-road Gibborn, N., Clement's-inn- passage Godfree, W., Radcliffe-street, Goswell.terrace Grover, J., Fenchurch-street Hazell, C., Bromley Same day, at 7G Wilson, T. endal, at Nine. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—JuIy IL At this day's market, which was rather largely supplied, and not very numerously attended by buyers, each kind of meat met with an exseeding sluggish sale, at the following prices per stone of Sibs to sink the offals:— Beef ( Is. 10d. to 4s. 10d. f Veal 4s. Od. to 51. Oct. Mutton 4 4 4 I Pork 4, 0 5 0 Lamb 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d The foregoing quotations are, Beef from 2d. to 6d., Mutton and Veal 4d., and Lamb Bd. per stone beneath those of this ds' se'nnight. In prices of Pork no alteration. A considerable num ber of Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs, left the market unsold. LEWES MARKET.—JuIy 10. Beet W....W0 4,0.1 45 4d. to ss. 4d. I Veal 4s. 4d. to ss. 0t- Mutton Mutton 4 0 5 0 ' Pork 0 0 0 0 Lamb ss. Od. to ss. 6d. Supply good, and trade rather dull. DIED. On the 12th inst., at Westbourne, Samuel Pepys Coclo' rell, Esq., in the 74th year of his age. On the Bth inst., at Ringwood, Hants, the Rev. Henri Davies, aged 72. On the 12th inst., aged 27, Harriet, the wife of Alt' George Pearce, late of Wa'worth. On the 21st ult., at the Royal Barracks, Dublin, age / 22, Francis Dobson, Esq., Cornet in the 2d D rag oo o Guards, only son of the late Rev. Robert Dobson. ,' On the 28th ult., William Tate , Esq., of Quee o row, Pentonville, in the SOth year of his age. 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