The Sun. — London, England, 1827-06-23 00:00:00

joft.NALsl --- ~ The incessant increase ofsilie half-pay estal lishment, in both branches of the public servic has long been a subject of anxiety to the ,riatis —of anxiety not unmixed with wonder to .tho' e who have yet to be initiated in the ways acid means through which patronage is wrested fropi the Minister, and applied to the, selfish ends bf his parliamentary and other supporters. We go . not 'admit ' the reasonableness of instituting ;:t comparison between the amount of halfspay in 1792 and in 1827; with a view to attach cei- sure to the Government in the exact proportiein in which the latter period exhibits an exces above the former. A war more than double the diiration.of that which had preceded the peace Of 1783, and infinitely more extensive in the scale of operation, has called for naval as well as Mi litary' establishments, unexampled in their mag nitude since the year 1792. The dismissal of officers after .the,cessation of hostilities in 1815, entailed, we are quite ready to acknowledge, an unprecedented burden in the shape of half-pay npon the country. It is not, therefore, the ex cess of half-pay at present over its amount in 1792 that surprises, and, we may justly add, cif: fends the people of England ; but it is Ale al most incredible fact that, as compared with the dead weight fund of ten' years ago, there can be traced no sensible diminution of a tax, which, be ing on the face of, it a_ mere mass of annuities, payable to men, a great number of whom were much advanced 'in life, and a majority of theM suffering under broken constitutions, ought, ac cording to the nature of things, under a system of management founded on common prudence to have experienced a considerable yearly falling off: . and,' after so long a period as 12 years from its commencement, to have been reduced by at least one-third. It is not necessary, nor would it be candid to affirm, that the half-pay fund, more especially of the army, could be reasoned upon with as . much precision as an equal amount of annuities payable to individuals in civil life, none of whom are liable to changes growing out of their continued partnership with a profession in which their active services have been only sus pended, but may at any period be resumed. A sertsin interchange of members between the whole and half-pay establishments of the British ( service must, it is evident, be allowed for to a considerable, and what is worse, to an undefined .extent ; but it is the business. of a wise and up right administration of both establishments, to take care that the conditions which govern the interchange - shall be framed with a view to as strict and close frugality as may be consistent with the effective character of the- service into which they are thus incorporated. By some of the practices which Owed their introduction to the late Duke of York, and which we are ready to confess were contemplated by his Royal High sess as extremely advantageous to the army, a large proportion of young lives have been sub stittste,d for old ones throughout the entire half pay list. Old half-pay officers were permitted to sell the;r annuity at the price of the full pay it ;and were, in this rank with whichtheY held manner, enabled to realize for their families the price of their full-pay :°filinissiym• , The pur chahers were invariably office."-' holding the full pay rank next to that of the venderl —as ) f°,l*in stance, put in stance, a full-pay Captain was the '"e l , • where he who, sold was . a half-pay, Lieutenant- Colonel, and so on to the Ensign downwards. The consequence of this was, in the half-pay, a disadvantage to the public, .by the dropping of an older life, and the introduCtion Of a yOunger one—in the full-pay, the promotion of one officer of each rank for every such sale of half-pay, and the admission of a youth from civil life to the en signey so left vacant. That the above practice may have been carried somewhat farther than the necessities of the service, for a supply of.; young .officemrequired,,is possible, though we are not pre peredto insist. upon it; but it seems _manifest that this is altogether. a separate branch of impolicy, if it be, one, from that which filled up v acancies with out purchase, by officers on whole pay down to the rank of Lieutenant, and then the junior vacancy of all, viz. that of Ensign, by the gratuitous gift of a commission to a person who had never served be fore. It is through the latter practice, principally, that the Half-pay Army List has retained its enor mous bulk, or even gone on augmenting, rather than reducing, by the frequent retirement of officers from full pay without exchange, the vacant Ensigncy thence occasioned being filled up•by.strangers to the service. On this point, we are apt to believe, the military administration will be found more vul nerable tbari on any other. The yoUng men who obtain their .ensigncies by purchase, are, we suspect, sufficiently numerous to keep up the youthful blood and spirit of the army. None but the children of old officerri ought to be presented with gratuitous ensigncies in the time of peace. The .expence of the Navy half-pay was discussed on* Thursday: even ing in the House of Commons. Sir George Cock burn maintaine d the principle of introducing young officers to the service to no further extent than that it should be done " occasionally ;" and as this means nt.,thing, we shall not contend with the gallant Admi ral ot aon a question where the quantumto la —the only matter worth disputingis leftaltogether unex .plained."Out it is very clear to the whole world, that if the proir otions in the. army have been, for the most part, w ell merited and honest, those in the n avy h ave , ,/ n :ing Lord Melville's administra tion, b een pretty crenet:allY of an opposite and more reprehensible character. •-• We know that there are mid midshipmen—brave, experiencell distinguished mid , s hllmien—who have passed for lieurs: nants more than twenty years, and whose hearts haver i/een c c a on io s n e- : quently broken by disc ointment and morn.. these are, or rather p m T p •e h re, the . men who Ought..to have been promoted. , e are lieutenants, equally meritorious in their still l.higher rank, who have been thrown aside upon half pay, while children, who were born after the formersedtheir examination, h av e had the loaves and fishes—thecommands as emoluments—lavished on them, tothe ru'urr o f the and emoluments—lavishe d ac tive service, an d to the extrav agant overloading of t h e I s agp gay list. But i t is u seless to talk in. ene . ral terms o f these g rievances. It is the amount— the proportion in relative numbers—that constitutes the real merit of the question. We are taught to believe, that, if Sir George Cockburn were brought to black and white upon the subject, he would talk with less magisterial boldness about the nature of the promotions which have taken place. A % fest she introduction of the system of purchase into the -.navy, we can see in it nothing but destruction. s o mud; more of accurate science is necessary to even the sate discharge of naval duties, as compared with those of au,:v military rank short of that of a Gevral. Officer, thai- :unless a man can buy the knowledge. of navigation wk.h his epaulettes, the mere purchas-, lug officer in the ynarine of England stands the hims elf and highest chance imaginaae of disgracing s destroying the best proteistjon of his country.— ' Thies.. It seebss fated tha t ever y thing coayascted with th e Corn question should iadergo some sin - aar adventure. The Bill for taking the •avesageS! came to a ludicrous end last night in the Lords. An amendment was proposed by Lord Farnham, that " the w or ds ' England and. Wales' be omit,' ecl, and the words ' (treat Britain and Ireland' ''. inserted instead of them." -Upon Which, the ' ~. 'question was p ut, 'first, ‘, That the words Elia s, 'land and Wales do stand part of the clause." Content; 44 I Not content, 44. . Upon which the Chairman, as bound by pi.' eee- cleat, 7 gave his casting cote against the questio. The words " England and ; Wales," therefor were excluded from the clause: The amend= thent was then put, "'That the Words Greif Britain and Ireland', be inSerted." . Content, 37 I Not , content, 43. IVlajority . against the insertion of the words, 6. —So that the effect of- these two divisions is 10 exclude every part of the United Kingdom from the clause and . thus render the Bill utterly nu gatory ; and the old law of averages will, we pre sume, still obtain.—lbid. It is almost incredible; yet the fact is so, thitt a Morning Paper and an Evening Paper afe affecting to decry Lord Lansdown aslnimical to a free press, because, say they, he wanted to have up some supposed printer of the debate in the House of Commons, in . which Mr. Canning was supposed to have + reflected on some sup posed proceedings -in the Honse of Lords. Why, in that debate (the debate of last Wed nesday), his Lordship expressly says twice, that " he did not recommend that course of proceed ing which he had mentioned,"—namely, that of calling up printers to the bar ; and when he mentioned the course it was only the way of rea soning ex absurdo, or ad absurdum, in this Manner—" If you do want.to know what has beenil said -in the other House, the only way is to call up some printer or othei of the debates."-4A laugh.) —And yet upon this 'foundation is, an attack, as we before said, levelled at his . Lordship as wishing to persecute the press. We would advise_ the Jour nalists by whom these abSurd . imputations are cast, to stick to truth: 'they .have no• idea what advan tage the character of doing so will give them, when they come to light upon any real grievance, or re prehend any positive offence.—/bid. The fiction by which both Houses of Parlia ment are supposed to know nothing of the re ports of their proceedings, involves those Houses very often in awkward practical contradictions of their own theory. The publication of the re ports being considered a breach of privilege, the fiction that Parliament has no knowledge of such publications, is adopted to save the Legislature from the alternative of either admitting the right of the Press to give such reports to the world,. or else. allowing daily breaches of privilege to go unpunished. Now-it does appear very absurd; that' Members of Parliament should frequently, as they do, allude tb what is said in those very reports,lof the existence of which they are sup posed to have no knowledge. What a striking instance of this sort of inconsistency occurred in the House of Lords the other night ! The intemperate, and perhaps unconstitutional lan guage which Mr. Canning had indulged in with reference, to that branch of the Legislature, ex cited a warm and even angry discussion among their Lordships. But how did they become acquainted with the fact that Mr. Canning had used any such language ? They could not, by the Constitution, - know what passed in the House of Commons,, except by the bringing up of Bills - -by message, or by conference between the, two Houses. Their Lordships were, therefore, under the necessity of admitting that their source of information was the public prints, which con tained reports of what had been spoken in another place--:-and thus that great vehicle of opinion, the Press, was indirectly recognised, as conveying intelligence of what passed in one House to the Members of the other. It is true, when the Earl ot - Winchelsea repelled the insi `;ons of Mr. Canning about " factious mo tile indignant terms which he did, ' Lansdowne, endeavouring:to uat. Nes, the Alarvis Tr —i-,„.,„,-, - / shelter his new co eag,...-• the storm which his indisc,,'et sally Of illownhead, sug temper had brought upon his very gested a mode of proceeding which savoin - f much of the high doctrine of privilege—perhaps td much so to come with good grace from a ci-derant Reformer, and one who has talked much of the li berty of the Press—that mode was to have the prin ter of the obnoxious words imputed to Mr. Canning brought to the bar of the House, and called upon to state the grounds on which he had proceeded. Now the Marquis of Lansdowne very well knows, that however accurate the report might be, an admission by the printer at.the bar of the House, that he had sent it forth to the world through the Press, would involve him in the consequences of a breach - of pri vilege, as the regulations of Parliament now stand. — It would be in vain for him to say that the printed words were a faithful; transcript of what fell from Mr. Canning. This would be considered no justi fication whatever, - and as all the printers of newspa pers in London were implicated in the same offence, the House must either do what would amount to . a practical renunciation of their doctrine of privilege in this respect, or come into very unpleasant colliiion with the Press. It is true, the Marquis of Lans downe added that he " was far from recommending a hasty exercise of that discretion with which the House was vested." Why, then, did he suggest the mode at all ? What object could there be in such a proposition, unless to save Mr. Canning from the consequences of his own intemperance, and to make the innocent suffer for the guilty ? Why should not the House of Lords rather, if they wished to follow up the business, demand a conference with the other House, and settle their dispute in that way ?—Morning Herald, Again the House of Lords have succeeded in thwarting the Government. Our readers will sea from . our Parliamentary Report, that the Corn Averages Bill has been by vote, which we will not call factious, reduced to a state which (should the evil pot he remedied in a future stage) would render it inoperative. The object of the Peers, who have disfigured this Bill, is stated by themselves to be, to determine the averages, not merely from the prices in the ports England and. Wales, but front the pr ices in, the n; land of England, and also From the ports and :_nland towns of Scotland and Ireland. The .corn o f Scotland, :ind particularly Ireland, is of an inferior qiixaliti, ccrigquently lower in j price than that of England. Again, the corn in' the inland parts of the country, whi b ch, with re and other (irreat towns . • gard to the metr o p olis, and places of exportation, )s generally lower thim it is on the coast, by the roe of conveyance. The effect of including these additional places (supposing there were machinery in ex . isteace for carrying the law into execution ln them, which there is not) would be to extend consider ably the protection to the home grower, and, as the Noble Lords no doubt think, _to force up prices in th e how -market. By allow in g da maged cor n , as well as corn of inferior quality, to enter into the averages, .they AVIPI4 g ain ad ditional protection. The more fair and may.iy course would have been at once to say the price fixed by Lord Liverpool in the Bill which many of us sanctioned, as. that At which the low duty should commence, was not sufficiently high : JTo show the injustice of the principle on which this alteration of the plan of taking the averages Is . pro p osed, we shall assume that the Corn im k.,9,ively for th e wan t o f th e people P'on°rttecloaSt. Upon wliAtzround then shall the.peo-, pie on the co ast, who are airway paying a high price from a dOcient supply, be burilened with the additional tax caused by the difference of price between the coast and the inland places, where ino supply is required ; or , by their including in the averages, countries in which the price i s low from inferiority of qu - alitY ? To . show the ah - sui• dity of the principle, let is take a country like Spain, in which .communication is more difficult than in England. It often happens that. in the towns on the coast of Spain—as Barcelona, for instance—The price of wheat is higher than in England ; while in the inland parts, as the Cas tiles, it is quite a drug, and extremely low priced. If Barcelona were to have its supplies from abroad regulated by averages of the inland parts as well as the coast, the population would be extermi nated by famine. That the Members of the House of Lords greatly mistake their own in -terests, in making an increase of prices and con tinuance of high rents, through the destruction of the commerce and manufactures of the coun- try, is obvious to all persons capable of connect ing two propositions together. .They are acting like froward children, who will have the object of their desires whether they can or cannot be effected: We will not say what the feeling of the people is with regard to them, but we will say that they have cemented the bond ofunion between all the industrious classes and Ministers. These ex- Ministers who, throughout, have been 'actuated by a desire to injure the existing Administration, and in particul a r by a hatred of Mr, Canning, ha+e not certainly gone the wisest way , t o work to at. tain their object. They have given popularity to the. Ministry, and completely annihilated themselVes as public men. As to the Duke of Wellington it must be a very charitable Admi nistration indeed, that would hereafter charge it self with . the ridicule of a connection with him. No, the Opposition have effectually done the business of Ministers. An enlightened Journal (The Scotsman) observes on this subject— "lt is well for this United Kingdom that it has now—we might almost say for the first time—an Administration more enlightened than the legislative bodies with and by whom they must act ; who perceive how the people—the country at lar g e—may be benefitted ; and who are anxious to proceed in the race of improvement even snore rapidly than the prejudices and selfishness of the Aristocracy on the one hand, and the commercial and manufacturing inte rests on the other, will admit. This enlightened spirit._ this philanthropic disposition in favour of the people, has been so strikingly exemplified in recent instances, and es pecially in this respecting the Corn Laws, that not only must the Administration have been raised much higher in estimation, by what was meant to injure and depress them ; but the country must also be thus induced to make great allowances for Ministers, when they attempt less than what might be expected of thein. They have i g n ora nce, and pre j udice, and cupidity to deal with ; and to g ain a little, they must often refrain from attempting much. O u r wish is that the people, and those who speak their sentiments, should so conduct themselves that the : Ministers of the Crown may not weary in well doing. At present we have one of the noblest spectacles ever exhibited in England— the Kin g , his Ministers, and the People, united in a struggle with a short-si g hted perverse Aristocracy." This is the universal language. In former times, when the population was almost exclusively agri cultural, the Crown struggled 'to prevent the Landholders from converting farms into sheep walks, in order to have some exportable produce wherewith to purchase wines and other foreign luxuries. The Landholders were obliged to de stroy men to obtain the objects of their desire.— The industry and skill of the country has enabled them to export their produce in the shape of ma nufactures, so that their wines and luxuries have been paid for, not with wool, hides, and corn, but with the commodities manufactured by those who consumed the produce of the soil. But what is it the Landholders now propose to themselves ? They propose to cut up the foreign market for manufac tures. Supposing, then, that an average of one fourth of the produce obtained from the soil accrues to the Landlord on account of his monopoly of the land, in what way do they look to obtain' the luxuries p wki t eadt them are o i iii t itqattigi#,Av on „ , ... 1 out i t iw n p t : A produce, like the Irish Landlords ? . But the Irish Landlords are protected by England in a system which dooms the people to potatoes and rags, that the Landlords may consume wines at home or revel on the Continent. Such a horrible social system could not exist one moment, but for the bayonets of E ng land. Besides, the Irish Landlords have the English market to themselves. But can the English Landlords think of reducing the population of Eng land to the same degraded state ? But if they export food for their luxuries (and what country can they ex port it to ?) the existing population must either be thinned .or reduced to a more wretched con dition. But let us take another view of this subject, that the ,cruelty, of the Landholders may be made more apparent—that people may see what it really is for which • the Earl Greys, and the rest of the aristocratical class, wish to die in their last ditches, Every encouragement they afford .to foreign manufactures by the forcing up the price of food at home, and interrupting the commercial- intercourse with other countries, neces sarily-adds to the toil and diminishes the comforts of those wretches at hinne who must toil to find ex portable commodities to exchange for the luxuries of the Landholders. The manufacturer who goes into a foreign market cannot say food is twice the price in England that it is in Saxony, or on the' Rhine ; and in order that my workmen may live, I must have twice the price for my commodities that the foreign manufacturers receive. He must sell p r t the same rate, Wherever he carries his goods, he is met by rivals, who employ men who consume low priced food. The consequence we see every where around us. In order that men like Earl Grey may talk big, our wretched labourers and artisans are ground to the dust. In order that our Lords may revel in luxury, poor little infants must toil in fac tories fourteen and fifteen hours a p a y. The wretch ed labourer in most, counties must toil from sunrise to sunset, on a dinner of cold potatoes. What will corne.of this heartlessness—this intense selfishness on the one hand, and this increasing misery on the other ? Where Will these aristocrats place the limit beyond which they will not extend the misery of their wretched countrymen and their own gratifi cation ?—Morning Chronicle. The Warehoused Corn Bill, which is the title of the tefaporary we3sure introduced by his Ma jesty's Ministers, .to remedy the loss of the last Coin Bill, was read a third time in tbe Commons last night, passed, and sent up to the Lords, where it was read a first t i me, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday. The flouse of Commons meets this day, when it is probable an adjournment will be moved till Tuesday. A di vfsionl rather a novel description, took place laSt night in the Lords, on the occasion of Lord Farnham's amencimPt k - ef !-he Corn Averages Bill, of which notice was given On Thursday.— The amendment was carried b y th e c asting vote op the Noble .Chairman,and the original cl ause , con sequently lost ; but, , 31) the rq.u should. stmd as es,iic;4 being put wheth e r the amended clause part of th e Bill, their Lordships, contrary to custom, again divided, and several of the support ers of the amen dment having, in the meanwhile, left the flouse, it was carried in the negative ,— In con sequence o f this second division, both the original and ainended clause have been thrown pRt. The error must, of' course, be remedied, on bAlPgillg 913 'the - report, - The propoSal: to include the Irish M arkets in the Corn AverageS Bill, shows the fixed determination . Of the Aris tocracyPPort what is plausibly denonciinated Agricultural i nterest. I re l a nd h as , under the Corn ihe to support Acts, been all along an exporting country, and not very long ago : one of their. Lordships complained of the law by . which the grain of that country was a d m itt e d into Eng land, unbindena by a duty ; yet that nobleman and his friends now come forward, and demand that the markets in Ireland shall be taken into accbufit.iii regulating the importation of foreign grain; not a solitary bushel of, which can, until the condition.of..lreland is changed, ever be in troduced there: . Had they been within the. reach' of an enactment, we have no doubt the markets of Poland would' have been attempted to be included also ; and the. one .motion would be, in every respect, as consonant with reason and justice as the other. .We are surprised that a feeling , - of interest should not have whispered to their Lordships, that, by en deavouring to grasp too much, they may lose what they have. If, ever there was a measure which bore all the marks of fair and impartial justice it was the Corn Bill. It leaned,' indeed, to the agriculturists— "it looked upwards"—as was fitting. It was mer cantile, in poitlt of principle, but it was agricultural in point of price, as its Right Hon. Mover well ob served: Their Lordships, - however, seem not to be satisfied . with having thrown away that measure, but they seek to clog even its temporary and imper fect substitute with conditions, which will hamper, if not destroy, its operation. No doubt in all this their Lordships are actuated solely by a strong feel ing for the public good. They have, indeed, as serted the purity of their motives so repeatedly and so emphatically, that he must be a determined scep tic that would venture to doubt it. For our own part we are fully convinced, that the fortunate coin cidence of their Lordships' patriotism and personal interest, like many of the coincidences that we have of late witnessed, is purely accidental.—New Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JUNE 22. .GAMBLING TRANSACTIONS. HUNTER. V. BELL. This was an application by Mr. PEPYS, on the behalf of the plaintiff, for an injunction to restrain the defendant from indorsing or assigning to a third person a certain promissory note for 2,0001., passed by him to the defend ant as a security for a bet. The affidavit of the plaintiff in support of the application, stated, among other things, that he was the heir of a Mr. Hunter, who died, possess ing a large fortune, in Madras. Shortly afer his father's death, a bill was filed in this Court against the executors for the administration of his effects, and a maintenance of 8,0001. a year was allowed to the plaintiff. The mass of the property was, at the, same time, paid into Court. Early in 1825 the plaintiff attended the Doncaster Races, and, after the day's amusement, dined in company with the defendant. Mr. Hunter, as he now represented him. self, being ignorant of the ways of the world, and then easily imposed on, accepted a bet offered by the defendant, to this effect--that the defendant should, from the horses entered to run for the next St. Leger Stakes, name three ; that if any of these three should happen to win, the plaintiff was to pay him 2,000/. ; but that the plaintiff was, on the other hand, to receive 1001. from defendant, if all the three horses should be unsuccessful. The plaintiff, in fact, bet 2,0001. to 1001, that the defendant would not select three horses; one of which should win. One of the three horses then named by. the defendant was Memnon. The plaintiff in his affidavit stated, that when he made this bet, it was after drinking a large quantity of wine ; and.that were be in the full possession of his faculties, he should not have acted so rashly. Shortly after this, the plaintiff having .consulted with his friends, determined on having nothing more to do with horse-racing—(a laugh,)—or such unprofitable pur suits, and was advised to get rid, as soon as possible, of all his betting engagements: With this view he wrote to Mr. Bell by post, expressing his desire to withdraw from the bet. To this letter he received no answer, although it was ad dressed to the defendant's 'Usual 'residence. In the Sept. following the St. Leger Stakes were run for at Doncaster, when Memnon, one of the Verses named by the defendant, won; but as the plaintiff had heard nothing on the subject from-the defendant; he coneltiktd that the bet was consi dered to have been at an end. - ;:;In the latter part of 1825, the plaintiff went on a . contine4al tour; and in . the May of the following year, he tnetllhe defendant at the Salon des Etrangers in Paris, whet demanded of plaintiff the immediate payment of the . Mr. Hunter reminded him of the letter, and refused ri!pay the bet. An alterca tionx-4. took place between the parties, and it was finally set . tied that ,he was to call next d d a i yat the defendant's lodgings. On. troin• there he found tte t att •nd tw. • that it was ;impossible for him to meet the demand, until he came into the possession of his propeity, which was then locked up the Court of Chancery. The defendant threat ened in the most express terms to expose his character, in consequence of which the plaintiff was induced to pass him the promissory note in question for 2,0001. payable two years' after date, with interest,: Mr. Pepys hoped, that under these very strong circumstances, his Honour would grant the injunction, the object of which was to prevent the note from getting into the hands of a bona fide holder for value. The VICE-CtrANcELLon—The law considers a man of age at 21. I should like to know when a Court of Equity is to consider him capable of acting for himself? I can't grant this Injunction ex-parte. Mr. PEPYS said, that all they required was to prevent the defendant from endorsing the note before it became due. The VICE-CHANCELLOR—If the note be given for a gambling debt, it is void, no matter into whose hands it may go. Mr, PEPYS reminded his Honour that the plaintiff had been addressed by the defendant in a public' gambling-house at Paris, where he was taken off his guard. The VIcE-CM4NCELLOR-His best way would have been to keep away from it. In answer to an observation from Mr. WHEATIEY, his HONOUR said, that the best security for young men was to convince them that they had nothing to expect from a Court of Equity. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jaws 22. The Court was occupied the whole day on the new trial paper. None of the cases were of the least public interest. BUSINESS OF THE COURT. - - The King's warrant was read, authorising two or more of the Judges of this Court to sit in Banco during the en suing vacation, from the sth to the 11 th July, inclusively, and from the 29th October to the first day of Mi c h ae l ma s Term, inclusively. GRAY v. JOHN WILKS, JUN., FSQ., bL. F. This was an action against the defendant, as the acceptor of a bill of exchange. lie pleaded in abatement that be ought to have been sued as a Member of Parliament, and not as an attorney. To this plea the plaintiff demurred, and there , was a joinder in demurrer ; but the defendant having neglected to deliver his paper books, _ Mr: F. KELLY now prayed judgment for the plaintiff,' urging that there was nothing in the defendant's plea. Mr. Ciurry contended that the point was one of some nicety, and was intended to be gravely argued. Mr. Justice BAYLEY said, that possibly, if the defendant bad been sued as an M.P., be would bave pleaded his pri vilege as an Attorney. Mr. CHITTY answered in the negative, and said that the privilege of a Parliament man was higher than that of an Attorney. A Member of Parliament could not be taken in execution, but an Attorney might. Mr. Justice )3AYLEY said that the defendant might be taken on a capiat ad salisfaspiqnden, on ceasing to he Member of Parliament, . . . „ The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE could see no disadvantage to, the defendant in being sued as an Attorney, and, therefore, he thought judgment ought to begiven for the plaintiff. • Judgment for the plaintiff of Respondeat ouster. I.NSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jura , . 22. Jacob Cohen, a r.prii 1.1 -,oti v ersuasion, who lately carried on business at Cdcli4ster, was opposeq in his application by three Counsel, viz. Mr. Cooxx, on behalf cif creditors named Lazarus, Myers, and Moses ; by Mr. co).10, the assignees of the estate of Henry Jacobs, a bankrupt; 'and by 'Mr. lIARRY; for Mr. Finch and Mr. Davey.—Remanded. John May, late of Peldon, near Colchester, Essex, an extensive farmer, was opposed by Mr. HEATH for all the creditors in his voluminous schedule. Mr. HEATII intimated that be bad an application to make t? the Court, but he would first ask the insolvent a question: '" The'insolvent was first arrested in Essex, when he put ip bail, and afterward Cattle td 'London,' to surrender. He dinied that since an action had been brought ,against him be had coigned property to the trustees of his wife.' He lately ppctiPiP4 . 7Po acres of land: Mr. HEATH then moved fqr leave to remove the insol, vent down to Colchester, at and near which Place a ll the creditors lived. The application the reient circuit ? time for the insolv en t t o be heard during p time Commi ss i oner L AW inquired if there was s ufficient The reply was in the affirmative. gave r ise to a Lon; discussicrn, owing to its being a novelfibe. ; The commissioners at length sahl . that they could not make an order to remove the insolveit to:Colchester, as it was only' a borough gaol; but they would send him to. Chelmsford, or the case might be re ferred in like manner with the last, if the creditors thought it a more,preferable mode. It Nvas.finally arFaugo;that the insolvent should be seat to Chelmsford on or before Tuesday next. Theinsolventwas then removed from the bar. • Samuel Howell, an accountant, from Stepney, was op posed by Mr. PoLtocK, on behalf of Miss Sophia Nicklan, to whom the insolvent was indebted for the eiucation of his daughters.--Remanded. MOTION FOR A RE-HEARING. In the matter of .• Catherine Abbott, the wife of John Abbott, Mr. ADOLPHUS moved for a rule for the dis charged female to show• cause why her discharge should not be revoked, and why she should not be brought up for re hearing on her petition and schedule. Mr. AnoLfitus said, that she had been trading as. a widow, and transferring and selling out stock in the funds, and it was a hard case upon creditors that they should be thus defrauded. • The Commissioner LAW thought there was little to be said about her trade (the keeper of a brothel) ; at all events it lay with the party applying to falsify her by proving that her husband was not living. • The Court wished to know whether the affidavit gave the name of the • clerk at the Navy-office who made the search ? Mr. ADOLPHUS answered in the negative. After further discussion, the Court said that it had bet ter be ascertained, and put in ; at present, the Learned Gentleman could take nothing by his motion. Mr. AnoLemus intimated that this should be done, and here the matter rests for the present. . POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. —Mary Nash, an Irishwoman, between 30 and 40 years of age, who stated that she obtained her living by selling fruit in the, streets, was charged by James Hould, a youth, an assistant in a grocer's shop, with endea vouring to extort 51. from him, under a threat of swearing that he is the father of a child with which she is now pregnant. He knew she was cohabiting with some min , at the time when the intimacy occurred with him, in ,December ; but she had threatened him, that if she granted favours to forty men, she would fasten the bantling upon him, out of revenge. He did not believe 'she was now pregnant at all. Sir P. LAURIE dismissed the case, and told the woman if she was really pregnant, to apply to the parish officers. BOW-STREET.—The butler and nephew of a gen tleman, residing in . South Audley-street, were brought be fore Mr. HALLS, yesterday, upon an assault warrant, charged with having assaulted a Sheriff's officer, named Levi, and his son William Levi, a lad. - Levi, sen. said, it was not the first time the butler had served Sheriff's officers in that same manner. He added, that it was not wonderful he should be anxious to go up stairs- after the gentleman, when it was " next to no thing" he would be getting out at the back windows when he heard who was in the house. _ _ The defendants, and a SOlicitor who attended on their behalf, repelled this insinuation. " Yes," said Levi, senior, "but when he did Come to us, he refused to surrender, and I couldn't get him away." The Solicitor, with a view of showing that his cliente were not to blame, inasmuch as when they laid hands upon the complainants they were not aware of their oc cupation ;—among other questions, he asked Levi if he had told truth in what he said to gain admission to the house. " Tell truth !" ejaculated Mister Levi, why we never do ; I don't know when we should catch a gentleman if we did !" Every body laughed except the solicitor and the de fendants, who were ordered to find bail. UNION-HALL.--Summaav PUNISIOIENT.—A man, named John Piggott, residing in Walworth, was brought to this office on the following charge:—.lt appeared that the prisoner enticed a female child, of between seven and eight years of age, into some fields near the St. Helena tea-gardens, at Rotherhithe, and proceeded to take the.most indecent liberties with her, when the child cried out, and some women hastened to her assistance, and proceeded to inflict summary punishment on the delinquent, in the fol lowing manner :—They selected a deep and muddy ditch, not far from the scene of his transgressions, thither they conveyed him, and having secured his hands and feet, flung him in amongst the filth, and kept him there until he was literally smothered. They then dragged him out of the %rti l e'ES" . ". 43 " l "f - ZrrlifftYuP he " ladies" engaged on the occasion, to - WM_ ifnpo.s sible, for his nearest kindred to identify him.. After having been taken,.out of the ditch, the women, conceiving that he hnil not suffPred sufficient punishment at their hands, drove him on before them, with sticks, towards the canal, and having well soused him in the water, he was taken out as clean as a new pin, washed of the abominations his person had undergone in the mud and filth of the dirty ditch. He was then permitted to crawl home ; but some of the friends of the child thinking he deserved further punishment, had him subsequently taken into custody and brought up to this office, when the above circumstances having been disclosed, and it appearing that the child had not received any serious injury, the accused was permitted to leave the office. THE UNKNOWN GENTLEMAN.—The individual charged at this Office on Tuesday with riotous and disorderly con duct in Vauxhall Gardens, and who described himself as the brother of a Nobleman, was yesterday again brought before the Magistrate. The letter which he wrote to Sir Richard Birnie, was delivered to that gentleman, but he disclaimed all knowledge of the writer, and said he thought the signature of " Limerick" attached to it was a forgery. The prisoner affected great surprise that his old friend Sir Richard should refuse to come for card, and said he thought his letter bad miscarried, otherwise there was that friendship subsisting between them, that he would have pitched all business to the d—l, and come to bail him. — The Magistrate and tlie Officer assured him that his letter had been delivered. " God bless my soul," said the defendant, " I am quite surprised at Sir Richard ; if my friend, Bob Peel, knew where I was, he would come to me at once. Let me see (he added, and assuming a vast deal of importance), I have such a prodigious number of friends, that I scarcely know upon whom to fix next to inform of my being in custody." He then wrote three or four letters to persons at the West end of the town; but the parties refused to come and bail him, and he was sent to gaol. MEETINGS 'OF CREDITORS. LONDON DI ARY.-TUESDA. Commissioners, B Almosnino, S. and Co., Be vis Marks Andrews —, Louth Badnall, , R., Leek ...... 10 Banyard, C., Deptford 1 Barlee, C., Lambeth .. . Burkinyoung, P., Old Kent road ll Churchill, S. Deddington II Clemence, T., Truro Cole, T., Stonehouse, Ply -10 mouth Dunham,CroeG. JlS.,ecwa-rceuyt..; ..... .. r, JUNE 26.---(At the Court of lasinghall-street.) Ella, S., Noble-street to Finden, J. John-street, Fitz it roy-square 11 Fry, J., Artillery-street Gibbons and Co., March -10 mont.street Haynes, J., Gutter-lane, Cheapside 11 Het h e rington, Eing,:- gate-street . 10 Heywood, E., Abchurch yard ll Hill, T. East Grinstead ..... COUNTRYitniG. ,i Button—Bridgeee,i) e,anl : D .: l A Ge rellgoYer inn, . , — e T xi v l / 3 : p o s l D t o o A o n i r ' jU N E 26. Impenal hotel, Cheltenham I Cheltenham— •10 gham—Royal hotel, Birmingham 2 Boardman, 10 Fox, T., Ellthalll—Tovrn-hall, &, f0r rca5t1e......... II George, T., Newport, Moam and C., Newport .. outhshire—Messrs. Prot hero Daniel,Ce nduwpwaldnic:G:, E. : i ....,,, Harlan'', J., Bolton—s"w"; .. E.; .. ........... ......... •. • ......... • .... • Hudson, W., Stan)ford:—.C; r-r" . Deer G. ffith—Castle an d' own, Stamford .... . ........ ..:.. . . , Lomax, J. Halesow Ball, Bath .... .......... .. . ... . ...... : Mitchell, J. L oc k en—White Hart, Harnehury ..... . dersfield ....... wood in Aldmondbury—Court-bouse, Hutt ................... ll Phillips, a' Sfepney-oouse, _Elephant Yorksh. and Castle, picicato:rl -. ._, .9 W. , Liverpool --George tiverool 1 lcOulnoori, J., Liver po ol —Angel, p i- A ngel: Liverpool l2 Shute, F. and Co.lrlditon, Devonshire —Old London inn, Exeter ..... .. * .................. . .................... . ............. . Tilstonand c o . 140...,81acic Lioll, Mold ll Woodward,'G.: Birrningtam—,Hen and Chickens hirr, Bir tough . . ...... . ...... . ... : .... .... .. . ...... : ........ .. .. . . , TO . DISCHARGED,, .house at York, June r, at Kemplay, R., Bridlington Knowles, W., York Mallory, G., Ruston Parva Nevison, W., East Harkey Nicholson, F., Catwick Nicoll, J., Leeds Oddie, E., York Pannett, A., Kilvington Peacock, W., Nupington Peirson, T., Slingsby Rin§oh, J. Howden Simpson, W.; Malton Wetherill, IL, Newton Wilson, T., Dunnington I:2d OLVENTS APPLYING 0504411.----Ar 'the CO T o Ball, J. Sunderland nx a , "n l'l d Aa C cftc o bur . , Itt) 711 irsk Cockshott, M, Bubwith Dawson, T.,A ycliffe Ecc l e s, T., }loom aodsoll, J. Driffield Holliday, F., 'Norton Holmes A., Volt Jackson, T. York Jackson, J., Scoreby Browßßarnone. , Hotham Johnson, T., North Newbold Kay, T., Southcoates LevantA b L la od ok ge bird , in th is nest cou wasnty c o ntaining recently five f fo und young n on e: , three of which were milk white! Two of them died, but the third is alive, and in the possession of the Hon. W. J. Coyentry....... Worcester Journal. • • LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of Friday.) COTTON.—The sales for the week ending last night iw elusive, consist of (in Bond) 1,180 Surat 4 3 0. a 5-ktl.; 200 Bengal 44-d. a 4i-d. ; 40 Pernams 9d. ; 80 Bahia Bd.; 10 Madras 54d. ; 580 Egyptian 7d. a 7d., dnty paid; 150. Bowed SP. a .qd. The Market here is without alteration. At Liverpool the arrivals have damped thel Market. At Manchester there was a gloom oTer trade; lower prices for goods are quoted, on account of the Coro' Bill being withdrawn. OlLs.:—The Oil Market continues heavy, and r ather lower. TEA.-The delivery has been large since the sale. TWO' kays are much inquired for ; the lowest bear 2d. profit. Stna.—The Bengal sale is going on an average abor t the last sale, some filitures a little higher, some a little lower. No difference in other silks. The finish of the sale will determine prices. . INDIGO.—The East India sale is expected to be increase! to 5000 chests, the quantity on show is chiefly of good and fine quality; there are no purchases by private contract t° report. The Manilla Indigo at public sale, 50 c hest' went off 6d. to ls. under what was considered the currency but it cannot be given as a criterion of the Market on eic" about lO publics. per count of th e unsa l ea bl e qua lity of the Indigo. PROVISIONS.-There is no alteration in Irish Beef tsr , Pork ; th e H am b ro ' B ee f goes off. at 51. 10s. ; the Amer can a t b c o r Beef and 9 Pork. 44 Rbags whir I Beng sale barre ttißs fore a- Rl* 13s. 6d. a 14s. fair quality ;: Rice is highe r ' CtovEs.—By public sale to-day 160 'bags Bourbo n Cloves middling to good Is. Sd. a ls. lid.' -SALTPETRE.—B y public sale this forenoon 2760 bag Saltpetre, a good proportion sold 21e. 6d., remainder take' in 21s. RUM,BRANDIT, AND HoLLANDS.—There is no alter tion in Rum, the fine Jamaica and low Leewards continue in some request. In Brandy and Geneva there is alteration. • Toaacco.—The Tobacco Market has become heavy. purchases are inconsiderable. It is stated the speculator' are, exporting some proportion of their stock. Hon.—The 'duty from 90,000/. .on this day fell i t! 45,000/. The. nearest rate is now 48,000/. The o u vance in price is about SOs. per cwt. limn., FLAX, AND TALLOW.-There is little alterati°: in . the Market ; Tallow is rather lower. In Heinp or Ala there is no alteration. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH in CORN ' (wen GOVERNS IMPORTATION) I 1 For the Week en d e d June 15, 182 u 7, made up from the ..e - ,„ rl Of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eng' -' and Wales. . Wheat...... 585. 2d. I Oats ....... 275. lld. Beans...—. 50s. a , Barley.-- 4ls. 6(1.1 Ry e ........„ 455. Od. I Pease...—. 465:.) WHITECRAPEL HAY MARKET.—June 21. 995. Od. to 120 s. Otl. 1 Clover— 110*. Od. to 1505. Straw ifs. , Od. to 425. Od. PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)—June V. Kent Pockets.....--- 6/. 10s. 7/. is. - to St. Sussex Ditto 61. Os. 71. Os. to '7l. ri ; Essex Ditto - W. Gs.' 71. Os. to 7 1 . 1 ' F ar nham Ditto,Fines 0 1 . Oa. .91. Os. to 111. Seconds 01. Os. St. Os, to 9 1 . 5/. 12s 61 . 6 , to 51 Os. 61 . Os to 61. Si. s s. 6 /. 6g. to 7 1 . Old Duty laid at £50,000. Kent Bai Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto, PRICE OF POTATOES.—June 22. New Ware 01. 14s. to 0/. 16s. per cwt. Middlings----- 0/. Bs. to 0/. 10s. tlitto. PRICES OF LEATHER. d. to d. ' Per lb. ( 1 . i ~t ° 19 21 . Tanned Horso Hides.. 1 3 1 1 22 23 Spanish Ditto ...,........—... 1 4 13 15 Per dozen. ii 16 17 Calf Skins— 36 to 401 b. 18 14 15 , Ditto ........-50 to 701 b. 24 15 16 Ditto 70 to SOW. 21 161 18 Small Seals, Greenlandl!../ RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per d. B es t Heifers&Steers 2 9 3 0 Ordinary lO Middlings.--- 2 4 2 6 Market 02:!../' 1 Downs SHEEP SKINS. 2s. 6d. to 3s. Od. I Lambs Is. 2d. to Is*. Pelted Os. Od. to Os. Od. Per lb. 8utt5......--50 to 561 b.... Ditto 60 to 1361 b.— Dressing Hides Fine Coach Hides Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. to 501 b. Ditto • PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown ----- 281. 6s. Refined --. Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand -- Rape Cake, per ton i:3l PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121b.—Jun Town Tallow . 445. Od. I Yellow Soap Yellow Russia 4os Od. Mottled 00 . 86 1 White _ Soap Ditto:: Melted Stuff. Ditto Rough. —s. Od. Graves ...... 345. Od. Good Drei .20s. Od. 29 , 0 RICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b.--June : y.• o r -rano.. (as !stated try the-rtn2Oer-Metters) PIZICE OF CA ND.U:S. The price of Store Candles , _in the retail shops, is as fotioN v i L'i ) 7Aindlez, per doz. Bs. Od. to 9s. Od. I Moulds, per dozen COAL MARKET.—June 22. . 3ls. Bd. Walls End Brown's..-- 1 4 ,1 Brown 35 3 Ditto , Pontop Wind50r,.,.,,..,,,,,,. 30 0 Ditto Russell's Tanfield 33 6 Culai Cox _ ;5 - 1 Townley. .- .32 6 Scotch Willington -- 35 3 Walls End Hetton—.... WallsEndßewicke&Co. 36 6 Ditto Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 35 3 3 1 5 Ships at Market, 181,i—kihip3 sold, 12%—Unsold, THE NSIP7 COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE' Wheat. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. ls.to s. s. to s. s. to 8. o 60 63 42 45 38 42 Banbury 54 58 40 42 40 45 ( 7 . „ Basingstoke 56 63 38 43 29 34 '' , Bath 52 62 40 45 34 40 u" Bridgewater , — 57 36 32 ;," ' 6 l Bridport --„ 56 56 33 34 26 28 46 0 1 56 60 44 48 2.4 32 Chesterfield Daventry 56 60 40 44 35 40 '); Derby --. 64, 66 34 37 5 d Devizes Doncaster 60 68 40 42 25 36 Dorchester 5O 62 38 40 32 36 Exeter 62 64, 40 42 34 . 0 37 4 6 441 .54 36 39 26 5 6 F: Gloucester.- 56 58 44 ' 46 32 44 . 54 Guildford 44 64 38 43 33 44 . 5 , Henley 50 64 32 43 27 34 ' 54 Hungerford .42 64 37 '43 30 40 4s r Ipswich 54 63 36 42 - - 64 Leicester 6O 63 42 45 22 id 48 Mansfield 52 58 41 45 "401 Newbury, 5O 66 39 42 1 1 6 o° 41 53 Northampton 57 34 42 60 34 38 42 55 o Reading 5B 72 : 7 9 30 24 54 I Sa Sal h isbury 37 57 54 60 42 ,29 36 45 ndwic 65 4° Shaftesbury 58 ‘ ,., 42 46 36 38 66 Shepton Mallet 54 •„" t i 40 42 30 38 54 / Sleaford 54 6 1 Truro Taunton ;r 74 43 45 34 4 1 48 Uxbridge 58 65 40 44 24 36 55 tl 58 66 38 45 30 40 5 2 ` l ', Warminster- 54 2 8 2 38 37 4403 3.134 12 6 1 6 ,2 3 61 Yeovil ......--- r - d. s. d. s. d. d d s• Pcr fl ush° • 6 0 7 6 441 5 0 ' 3 . 6 . s i 3 6 0 d shrews ~ bury 10 0 10 6 6 0 7 0 8 0 9 0 0 - SCOTCH MARKETS. I ' EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—June 20. 63;J We had a limited supply of all sorts of Grain to-day . 0 , r ,, sold heavily, at a reduction of 2s. Barley, Pease, and Be: 1 ,1: f 1 main without any alteration. For Wheat we had a r,,./0 mand, at an advance of ss, on the top, and 2s. 10d. On the rage of last market day. 134 Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 56 , 0 First...... 51s Od 46s Od 3 9 s Od 561 64 bli A h i 6 7c 7. 13 . 5 . uc 0 . liadt ..at.... . 11 : —: 7. 6 4 i ' ' Second ... 66s 6d 41s Od :35s Od 514 04 . l e i T 2 h 3 ird . There .. a . w . ; ........................... 38 r: h r . I t s i . 1.! i . .26s market,7oi6lw, 6 ............ 79 ,:y. 18 ............. 68 68 0 6 65 9, 49. ......... ... ....... 6ESs. 2d. 2-12 ths—Onsold, 10--Grey, 0 ' 1 rßicirs OF PROVISIONS, Sic. to I°. V Bee f , Per lb. ~, Os. d. 3 to Os.Bd. Fresh Butter,lb.oll 0 Mutton---- 0 6 0 8 Salt Ditto.—,—. ' '9l 0 V ea 1....---... 0 5 0 8 Di tto, per cwt. 0 0 0 , p0rk.....~............ 0 4 0 6 Eggs, *dos: 0 8 1 1 i Lamb, Per fotr. 2 0 4 0 OatStraw(4l.)l4 0 O L i Tallow, per lb. 0 4 04i Wheat jigitto....lo 0 oit Quartern twit' 0 8 0 9 Bailey Ditt4a ... 0 o_____y i Potatoes; 14lb: 0 8 0 0 Hay, per st.— 0 0 3/ EDINBURGH MEM We had a middling supply of which sold heavily at 2s. per sac Per Sack o -£ f 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto 2 5 0 Barleymeal I is 0 Peasemeal 1 10 0 Pot Barley—No. i, per cwt. 16 L MARKET.—June ' Oatmeal at this day's "- ',•1: lower than last weel:. Per Stone of )41b 0 X % 01 First Oatmeal Second ditto Ba T ieyp.,eA O, Peasemi - 41 :• 205.-- GLASGOW 'CORN , ,ARKET.—June 20. ei Wheat 'has f actvanted-ls. tid., find Barley a s. to 4s. ve/ a Oats in fair. demand, at fully foicrnot ra;eq: Beaus and re * ,I in more request, and rather dearer. Wheat, pet 210%. s: d. 's. d: ' ' Oats, per 2g411 ) . 5... 1 "..0 t t British, 'old ' 32 oto 33'0 Irish , " ~, . , ""..."—'" Canada, ge v .."" 11l 0 0 :33 0 0 13rit li ll e ti ans, per '26(0. 28 ° a Irish I Barley, per 3 201 b. Scottish 2, 00 English ... : ........... Pease, Scottish ~ • 0 t' Scottish ............. Oatrneal, per 140IP ip Flow. --- • 40 Irich --- ........ 39 0 40 0 30 6 40 0 350 370 2801 b... BIRTH. On the 21st inst. - , at his seat, Talacre, Lady of Sir Edward Mostyn, Bart., of a On the 21st inst., a l‘ t i S A t n . R G lE eorg D e . 's, Hanover-seeei,ir the Hon. and Rev. Robert Eden, George Palmer , c i f son of George Palmer, of Nazing Park, Essex, an e Hadham, Herta, Esq., to Elizabe th Charlotte, date John Surtees, late of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Esq. a S nd ui l l .( u gl s o l ;S E , D No i : y l 1 A 2 I : S Y tt?an i d T N . G' at