The Sun. — London, England, 1827-10-20 00:00:00

under the denomination of clubs-, otheri open at all hours of•the day and night, to the less select thieves who choose to frequent them. It may be justly asked, what must-be the feelings of the Government which can suffer. and connive at this wide-spreading ruin—what the state of its minor agents, who can calmly look on at this wholesale plunder, while petty marauders are hunted into the toils; with an assiduity worthy • of higher o bj ec t s ? To expect from the police as it is now constituted, and indeed as the law now stands, a ny ' e ffectual efforts against this alarming and increasing evil, would be much the same as to expect the drones to quit the hive, and encounter the rude gales of winter, while honey, warmth, and quiet slumbers are to be found within. But the more hopeless any re lief or a ssistance from that quarter becoines, the more imperative is it on those who know and see the alarming extent of the danger, to look elsewhere, and to knock at the door of the Go vernment till they are heard, and can see the hydra grappled with and subdued by the power of the State. We hear continually of pious, goodly people of high rank and station, meeting for objects of ten thousand times less importance than this, and talking themselves hoarse, and their hearers asleep, with their benevolent designs for the good of their . fellow creatures. We ask these persons, composed as they often are, of the reverend, the noble, the learned, and the good, whether, among the various projects of religion, proselytism, benevolence, and so forth, which they from time to time espouse,' any one can be named or thought of, half so worthy of their re eard and interference as this detestable vice, which with rapid strides is sinking its cloven foot into the very heart's blood of the nation. Away with the cant of piety and virtue which these people assume, if they will not, or dare not employ the qualities they so loudly blazon forth and boast of, for a purpose ten times more im portant and worthy of regard than any they have hitherto espoused. , But we are sometimes an swered by being told, that if we were to succeed in driving those robbers from congregating in public, gaming would be carried on - in private houses to a still more ruinous extent, because no longer under the check of general observation. This we do not credit. It is contrary to all ex perience to suppose, that that which from its. very nature requires association, can flourish to any thing like the same extent as a solitary vice. But if it should, its victims would soon tell tales, and we would pursue it fearlessly into that soli tude, till we had hunted it out of every garret. When a pestilence rages, the delicacy and for - bearance which distinguish a season of health • must be laid aside, and the one object of ridding the land it, alone attended to. We still trust, therefore, that we shall not appeal in vain upon this subject ; but that there is virtue and energy enough in the Government, backed as it would be by every Tight-minded man in the community, to crush this most audacious and formidable vice, before its efforts have been more successful in ruining the honour and character of the country. —Morning Herald. The leading Members of Administration seem to be seized with a sudden and violent love of privacy. The Directors ,of the East India Com pany gave on Wednesday a splendid' entertain ment in honour of Lord W. Bentinck, who is about to assume the Government of India, at which the presence of the whole or most of his Majesty's Ministers was confidently expected. — The disappointment . experienced both by hoSts and guests upon the occasion may be conjectu red, when we have said that not one of the prin cipal Members of Government condescended to appear ; and that the duty of returning thanks, when the health of Lord Goderich and the rest of his Majesty's Ministers had been drank, de volved upon Lord Bexley, who can hardly,' we imagine, be deemed a Minister at all. Besides his Lordship, there were, to be sure, Mr. Tierney, Mr. S. Rice ; but no First Lord of the Treasury, no Secretary of State, no Keeper of a Seal, whether Great or Privy, no President of the Council, no Chancellor of the Exchequer, and still more strange, no President of the Board of Controul, deigned to shed his lustre upon the assembly. But perhaps the occasion vies not deemed of sufficient importance to with draw these great men from their seclusion. — Whether a sulky or a patriotic seclusion—whe ther employed in the brooding over some new subject of mutual discontent, or in meditating how they may best promote the glory and welfare of the State—we presume not to enquire. It is, no doubt, a voluntary seclusion, and we feel that the mere will of men so high, ought not lightly to be questioned. Nor should we question it on any ground so light as that of an appearance of disrespect to the East India Directors or Lord "W. Bentinck ; but when it manifests itself in a manner which, while unexplained, seems to border upon disrespect to our beloved Sovereign, we, in common with the whole nation, have an un questionable right to demand full and satisfactory explanation. On Thursday; the day following the East India dinner, his Majesty held a Court and a Privy Council at his Royal Lodge, in Windsor Park, the attendance at both of which was, to use the gentlest term, unbecomingly slender. Lord Goderich, First Lord of the Treasury, did not attend. The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Home Secretary, did not attend. Mr. Huskisson, the' Cdonial Secretary, did not attend. The Chancellor of the Exchequer did not attend. Neither the President of the Coun cil nor the Lord Privy Seal attended. With the exception of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, there were literally none but underlings in at-' tendance upon the Court and Council of the King; nor did the number of these underlines exceed five, the Master of his Majesty's Stag Hounds, who resides Officially at Windsor, being included. What most forcibly strikes us upon this occasion is the appearance of personal dis respect towards our gracious Monarch. This, no doubt, will strike every body ; but perhaps graver politicians than we pretend to be will see in it even a subject of severer censure. Is it fit, they will ask,' thus to strip affairs of state of their decent plausibilitie,S, by letting the whole nation know that the question whether Parliament shall be called together in November or February is one respecting which the above long list of Mi nisters are one and all indifferent ; or, which would be still worse, that a meeting of the Privy Council, professedly for the decision of this or other important questions, is to be considered henceforth as a mere matter of form, and in no sense of the word an opportunity for delibera tion. We shall wait with' impatience for an ex planation of the motives which have induced the leading Ministers of the Crown thus apparently to desert their Royal Master and abdicate their constitutional duties. --( Sin ce writing the above, -we have recollected that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is not . at pre sen t i n England.)— IV/orning Post.-- . The 72d , number of the Quarterly Review, -AM) has just appeared, rem i n d s somewln Of the days, when, under the guidance of Mr. Gifford, all innovations in Church and State were stoutly and rancorously opposed in it. It would appear that the neutral system has not an swered as a speculation ; and that, upon the whole, - it has been deemed. advisable to .throw the liberal Ministers overboard, and to pay court to the Bench of Bishops and the Country Squires. The present number contains an article on Agri culture and Rent, which lays down principles directly opposed to principles laid down in some former articles, and particularly in a Review of the first elaborate - Report of the ' Agricultural Committee, drawn up by Mr. Huskisson ; and more than hints that Ministers have mistaken their way. The writer does not understand very well either his own principles or the principles which he attacks, - and his zeal very much outruns his judgment. The author of this article, which extends to nearly three sheets, commences with an attack •on the periodical press, for having, during the last five years, perseveringly endea voured to persuade the public that the prosperity and wealth of this Empire owe their origin and increase principally, if not exclusively, to our manufacturing and commercial industry ; and as serts that this partiality arises from the writers being chiefly denizens of great towns, and their constantly associating with merchants and manu facturers, and also from the necessity of sacri-. ficing . to the prejudices of readers, in which those who may entertain more correct views are placed. The Reviewer must pardon us for be lieving that he has very loose notions respecting agriculture and manufactures, and that the par tiality with which he reproaches others is very fairly chargeable against himself.- 4 ' From 'the way," he says, " in which these matters are some• times treated, it might be imagined that manufac tures are in themselves productive, that they make an addition to the quantity of the food required for the support of the population of any country. We should have thought that even a child might perceive the absurdity of such a notion.— The application of the most ingenious ma chinery. ever invented by the art of man to the fabrication of cotton or cloth, never .can, by any possibility, add - one-grain to the quantity of COM grown upon an acre of land ; its effect is merely to enable the owner of agricultural produce to fa bricate a given quantity of wrought commodities with a smaller consumption of corn and beef." Now, with all deference to the Reviewer, his distinction is absurd. The correct way of view ing the matter is to consider the raising the corn and the making the cloth as parts of one manu facture.. Originally, the same man cultivates his field, Makes all the instruments he uses, and clothes himself. - By degrees different operations are assigned to different individuals. It is found that by the division of labour, confining one man to making cloth, another man to working iron, another man to the preparation of leather, an other man to ploughing, more corn, . cloth, and iron can be produced than if there were no sepa ration. A greater net produce is thus obtained ; each operator feels the benefit of the improve ment effected in any other branch ; and thus the general fund of society is increased. The Re- Viewer has perplexed himself with some of the Motions of the Economists, who considered the manufacturers as merely working up the surplus produce of the agriculturist, but not affecting it. If a farmer, in consequenCe of the improvements in machinery, can obtain the same quantity of cloth, iron, IPel, and whatever is necessary to his existence, for one-half less corn than heti:ire, he . can employ more ploughmen ;. and thus, by more careful cultivation, draw more grain from the acre. The Reviewer has referred to Sir John Cullum's HistOry of lierest(W. If he had read that invaluable wwk attentively, he would have found a confirmation of what we have been stat ing. " Agriculture, therefore," he says, " has been conducted here for some years, in the spi rited manner of modern times. The farms have, in general, been occupied by men of substance, Who employ at least -twice the number, of labourers that formerly wrought on the same spots." It is not therefore more true to say that the manufacturer works up the corn of the agriculturist, than that the agricultu rist works up the cloth of the manufacturer.. Raiment ,and shelter are as necessary as food, and , the separation of -the producers does not affect their equal dependence on each other. Before the assignment of different branches of labour to distinct classes, it is uniformly found that the inhabitants of a country are unable to make any savings. A country in which every occupier of the soil is cultivator, weaver, tailor, carpenter, and shoemaker at the same time, is always the abode of poverty and the most de grading superstition. The history of the change is a complicated matter, and very different from what the Reviewer supposes. He gives us a history of the agricultural improvements effected in the last century, with a view, we suppose, to show that an improved agriculture led to the extension of manufactures. Without entering on the wide field of the history of arts and im provement in general, we believe we may safely observe, that in this country the first stimulus wa s given by the Flemings, who first repaired to our eastern coast with their manufactured articles, and tempted the husbandman to exchange his corn, and skins, and wool, &c. for what he nei ther made so well, nor at so small an expence of labour as he employed in producing the com modity given by him in return ; and this gra dually drew over artisans,,who, for convernency, settled among us and formed towns. In flarri sop's time, the uplands were distinguished from the coasts as the abodes of barbarism. The -di `vision once begini soon extends itself, but agri culture is not more a producing cause of manu factures than manufacture of agriculture ; each branch of production acts and re-acts. In the historical account of agricultural . improvement, the RevieWer is in error with respect to the in troduction of turnips, which lie attributes to I.Lord Townsend, in the reign of George I. " That Nobleman," says the Reviewer, " accom panying George the First into Hanover, first saw fields; of turnips in apt country." Sir John Cullum states, that " Michael Houghton, about the. year 1700, sowed the first two acres ever sown in the parish of Hawsted (Suffolk)." — The turnip husbandry originated in the Nether lands long before the time of George. the First, and it is much more likely that the intercourse :between the eastern counties and the opposite coast led our farmers to the adoption of the im provement, than that it should have been bor oaved from Hanover. Besides, not to mention that in Lawrence's " Land Steward," published in the reign of George the First, it is observed, That " the farmers in some parts of . the North are not yet become so dextrous in sowing turnip Iseeds and grass seeds as they are in the South, twhere constant practice makes it more familiar," ;we have precise data in the work of Lisle, a Hampshire Agriculturist, as to the extensive use !of turnips in many parts of the country before the beginning of last century. . " Observing that t -the turnips which one 9f Illy tenants was cutting were Wormy, I told him they would have been less so in case he had limed his ground. He said, that last year (1702) he limed one part of his ground, &c Mr Heron, of Norfolk, assures me, that they dung their turnip land as much as may be. . . . I had dis course with Mr. Pawlet, of Leicestershire, who deals in' great quantities of turnips ; it was Au gust the 7th, 1699. . . . . Mr. Cooper, of Berkshire, • sowed four acres to turnips last summer -(Anno 1699), &c. Being in company with Mr. Gouch, a Norfolk gentleman, we dis coursed about the turnip, husbandry of Norfolk." So much for the cock and bull story of learning the turnip husbandry in Hanover. The Reviewer must have confounded turnips with rats. The Reviewer attaches immense importance to some cavils, respecting the manner iii which the doc trine of rent has been expounded, by what he calls the Hebrew-Caledonian School. Our li mits will not allow us, at present, to enter on this part of his subject. His views respecting rent and prices are vague and erroneous in the extreme. He does not seem to be aware of the grand distinction bettveen the employment of capital in the cultivation of a given soil and in man ufactures—that the former is limited, for every additional investment of capital, on a defi nite extent of soil, does not produce the same return; whereas manufactnring improvement is indefinite; and so long as produce can be ob- Atained in exchange for manufactures elsewhere, the wealth of the country may continue increas ing. . . I-lis notion as to manufactures being the surplus Of - the agricultural produce of the country, converted, is true only under a system of restriction. But we shall resume the sub ject.—Morning Chronicle. The subscription to the Monument of the late Premier proceeds in such a manner as to ful fil the utmost expectations of its most sanguine advocates The sums, indeed, which many noble and honourable individuals have contributed, Were their example followed up by a tithe of the 4dinirers Of Mr. Canning's genius and principles, would be sufficient to raise a monument, j)efore which the erection of former days to the memory of departed greatness would shrink into littleness. While anxious that the funds egllected should be correspondent to the high deserts of the de ceased, and that the tomb, or pillar, may be such as will do honour to the Subscribers—to the Me tropolis—and to the Empire—we are still more anxious that they should be derived from the nation at large. If it were possible to collect them within a reasonable time, we would prefer individual subscriptions of a crown to a guinea, or one guinea to ten. At this moment the noble men and gentlemen who signed the invitation to the public are under certain difficulties; which must necessarily impede their progress, and until a general Meeting shall have been held, these difficulties cannot be removed. They have no recognised status —they can come to no fixed resolution nor, indeed, have they any power to act, --;except in their individual ea pacities.- There is another circumstance which operates as an obstacle few or none of them are in town. They are scattered over va rious parts of the empire at a distance from each other, which renders mutual communications sometimes-difficult and in all cases tardy. When the public meeting shall have been held, which will be the case at the earliest possible moment that prudence will admit, certain rules will be laid down, a regular Committee formed, and steps for procuring the support of the most distant quarters of the country, will be effectually taken. We are happy, indeed to hear, that in various parts of the Empire numbers have, praiwio motu, come forward. When the Committee shall have been constituted. we should recommend that those individuals should he called on to form local Committees, for the purpose of aiding the great object. The Corporations of the great towns, when the matter is brought properly under their notice, will, e most proud to show their sense of departed genius 'and worth, and the Corporation of the greatest, the most enlightened, and, with all its faults, the worthiest city in the world—the City of London—waits but the call, to stand forward in honourable pre-eminence.— We look, therefore, to the period when that call can be legitimately given, not with anxiety, for we feel none, but certainly with some slight de gree of impatience.—New Times. We consider it a matter of no common charity to bring our readers now and then acquainted with the lucubrations of the Old Man of Ken- sington, for so few now-a-days read what he pens, that even his good things, when he happens to have any, drop dead-born ; they are printed, not published. • This week he is more than ordinarily rich, and we need not wonder at his tropes and his vapouring, when we look to the great occasion. There is, it seems, to be another Election at Preston. Mr. Stanley has, he says, got an office under Government, and must vacate his seat, and Mr. Cobbett must of course fill it. There is no hope for poor Mr, Stanley. The cunning rogue, however, lets out one truth which is not quite so well calculated to promote his canvass as tirades against the tax-gatherers. He has no subscription this time, and he will spend none of his own money. We fear, with his ragged regiment-at Preston, he will find it to be "no more pipe no more dance." He ought to have been more prudent, and to have given a few promises at least—it would cost him no trouble to break them. He will not, he says, accept of any office under Government when he enters Parliament; he is determined on that. So Mr. • Stanley; if he accept of the Under Secretaryship, has no chance of getting his rival, William, for a colleague. He is, however, not quite so re solved against money. He may be induced to touch that " in the way of bare, payment of ex- Fences for loss of time that might be due to him for services actually and personally rendered to ad tilethe country." Of a truth , the p aulo- post - future member knows what he is about. B y the by, the poor old man calculat es on but one out pon Nelnrt.e 'opponent in his canvass at Preston , but he reckonstrt , n with out his hOst. is settled that a candidate on the gentlemanOppositionwho s o interest shall ingeniously als foundo a Canning to be an Atheist has been selected for that purpose ; and if we are not misinformed, one half of Cohbett's electors are , in cas e of a 'poll, already pledged to support him. Cobbett tells us, that in 1806 Mr. Wyndham wanted to make him-an Under Secretary of State, and that, had he might have been a he accepted office then, lord by this time ! Mercy on us ! What a set of story tellers there are in this world I Why, the whole town of Kensington, and Knights bridge, to boot, not omitting Chelsea, know that Cobbett turned a Radical in 1806, because Lord Sidmouth would not make him an exciseman.— Ibid. BOUNTY oN CHILDREN.-- The King of the Netherlands, who seems to set Mr. Malthus and his doc trines at defiance, and to encourage the ordinary interpre tation of the text " increase and multiply , " has bestowed a reward of forty florins u p on a mason, for being the father awl cuilaren,„,49navn - weedy Review. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—Two cases, illustrative of the man ner in which night-houses of a certain description, in the immediate vicinity of this office, are conducted,, were yes terday heard before Sir R. BIRNIE, the sitting Magistrate, . A young man,' named William Rowe, was charged by Nott, a beadle, with improperly interfering with the duty of the watchmen of St. Paul's, Covent-garden. It appeared, that the defendant was passing through Brydges-street, Covent-garden, at a late hour on Thursday night. According to his statement, several loose women and disorderly fellows were collected in the street, creating riot and disorder, and not perceiving a single guardian of the night on his post, the complainant went in search of them, and meeting Michael Ryan, a watchman, whose beat is at Brydges-street, and who, it appeared, was on his re turn from quelling a riot in Bow-street, he accused him, in no very gentle terms, of neglecting his duty. He also loudly complained of the manner in which the parish ge nerally was annoyed at night by prostitutes and other dan gerous characters, who, lie asserted, might at once be cleared from the streets, if the watchmen would but do their duty. While the defendant was thus engaged in cen, suing Michael Ryan and his associates for their want of vigilance. Nott, the beadle, came up, anti gave him in charge for his interference. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, after hearing the statement of both parties, observed, that he saw no great harm in calling upon the watchinen to do their duty. The state of this parish was really disgraceful, and he wished that some active inspector of the watch could be found to undertake the office which the defendant seemed so willing to perform. The defendant repeated his assertion that the watchmen were not sufficiently active, and he complained of being dragged through the streets to the watch-house, and con fined au night in a dark cell, for merely doing that which he conceived was his duty under the circumstances he had stated. _ _ Sir Rieminn BIRNIE agaiii commented on the disorderly state of the streets at night in the neighbourhood of Covent garden, and he said he should feel it his duty to apply to Mr. Roach, the vestry-clerk, upon the subject. I find (he added) that a fellow named Grubb has re-opened his in famous house immediately under the very nose of this office. We have been' censured for allowing these night houses to continue open after certain hours; but, unfor tanately, the magistrates of this office have no power to close them. It lies entirely with the parish. The watch men could clear the houses if they pleased ; but they won't interfere. Wet have either too much or too little power. For my part, I wish we had less power, for then we should be removed from the odium of not interfering in cases where in fact we have no authority to do so. They have taken from us the privy search, and the consequence is, that we cannot now search public-houses and clear them of suspicious characters. Ford, the gaoler, observed, that Grubb's house, which is situate nearly opposite the office, was open nearly the Whole of the preceding night, and all sorts of bad company resorted to it. The defendant was discharged without further comment. It may be well in this place to observe, that the powei of privy search to which the Magistrates alluded, was given to Magistrates by the 17th of Geo. 11. c. 5, and continued in force until the passing of the late Vagrant Act, which repealed the former law, and substituted no clause em powering Magistrates to clear the public-houses of suspi cious characters. By the old law, Maeistrates were not only empowered to enter public-houses ' for that purpose, on sworn informations, but they were specially enjoined so to do, at least four times in each year. The next was then gone into. Two young men; named Chilcock and Haller, the for-. mer a tailor's apprentice in Cecil-street, Strand, and the latter a salesman in Covent-garden market, were charged by a young man named 'Davis, a Jew, with assaulting him in the house of the notorious Mother 11., immediately fac ing the box-entrance to Drury-lane Theatre. The complainant stated, that on Thursday night he went, accompanied by a friend named Jones, to mother H.'s, for the purpose of. playing a game at billiards. The two de fendants were in the room at the time, and one of them, Chilcods, drew a dice-box from his pocket, and challenged I him (Davis) to play at hazard for half-a-crown. The complainant at first declined to do so, hut being taunted by the defendant with the fear of spending his master's money, he at last consented, and lostin succession three half-crowns. He, however, shortly after retrieved his loss, and wen two half-crowns from the defendant. He then, he said, sus pecting, from the manner in which Chilcock held the dice box, thathe played false, declined to continue the game, and demanded his winnings. This was refused, and it ap peared that a general row was the consequence, to quell which, a person named Smart, who, it appears, is the active partner of this reputable concern, came up stairs and insisted on turning the parties out. Davis and his friend Jones were accordingly dragged down stairs, followed by the others ; and the former (Davis) asserted that he was shoved by Smart into a dark room and beaten by him, whilst his wife pulled his hair: He was then, with his friend Jones, turned into the street at three o'clock in the morning, where, finding the two defendants, who, it ap peared, had already been ejected, he gave them into custody. The Magistrates, on hearing this statement, immediately sent an officer with a warrant to bring Smart and his wife before them, and in a short time they were brought ac cordingly. Smart was asked if he had a lieence to sell liquors, and he said that a Mr. Richmond, who was also a partner in the concern, was a licensed vintner, and he had a wine-licence in his name. In answer to other questions, . _ it appeared that a Mr. Ellis, and a person named Hodg kin, are also partners in the establishment—the former being son-in-law to mother H., whose name the house still bears, although she has long since retired from the con cern, where, at one time, she was the presiding deity. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS, after consult ing together for some. time, directed the two defendants and Smart and his wife to find hail for assaulting the complainant, which they did accordingly in the course of the day. This concern of Grubb's, and also Mother H.'s, are two of the greatest nuisances in the pdrish. The former is the resort of all descriptions of thieves, from the daring house breaker to the simple pickpocket, and there is no doubt but that many robberies are planned there. The concern for some time was closed, the proprietor having become an . in mate of the King's Bench prison, but the house is now re fitted, and the business has begun again with renewed vigour. In direct defiance of the law, it is open at all hours of the night. Mother H.'s is somewhat of a higher, though not a less infamous plan. Under the appearance of an oyster-shop, scenes of the vilest debauchery are nightly practised in this diabolical " finish." The premises are most extensive, running from the front entrance in Biydges street to Charles-street, where there is also a door, at which the company generally make their exit. The visiters are usually supplied from the neighbouring theatres, and every .sort of accommodation is afforded them. William Morris, William Patiford, and Edward James, were finally examined on the charge of stealing two great coats, and other articles, from the passage of Mr. Fox, in Church-street, Lisson-green, on Friday morning, the 12th instant, and were committed to Newgate for trial. MARYLEBONE.OFFICE Melcleizedeeh Jbnes, a journeyman butcher, was charged by his master, Mr. Thomas King, of Paddington-street, with applying to his own use the amount of four bills for meat delivered, which he had received on his master's account.. The prisoner ad mitted the charge to be true, anti he was remanded until Tuesday. HATTON-GARDEN.---Joseph.. Ford and Edward irasterman, jewellers), residing at No. 16, Prince's-street,fled Lion- s quare, yesterday brought -, before Sergeant SELLON, the sitting Magistrate, John Easterbrook, upon a charge of embezzlement of articles of jewellery to the value of ISI. Easterbrook was employed by the prosecutors as an iti nerant salesman, to carry out jewellery to the. shops and about the streets of the metropolis. His box usually con tained a large variety of articles, amounting sometimes to the value of 501. The mode in which the parties carried on their relative transactions with each other seemed strangely negligent, incorrect, and confused. The com plainantsvitiiout takingt usually, in any ly delivered their what heiis m tock igh t t o b t e h te e r p m r ed ison a e n r invoice, and without ever requiring a receipt 'or acknow ledgment for the number and value of the goods So de livered. All they did was to fix by a private mark a cer tain price upon each article, under which price they Would grant no discretionary 'power to sell them. They kept no other book of account than that of cash, wherein Was entered every evening the receipts of the day. The salesman knew nothing of the exact number and precise value of what he received, for they were seldom put into Isis box under his immediate inspection. He kept a book wherein was specifically set down each article that happen ed to be sold, and the sum it was sold for. Such extra ordinary inattention to business, and 'gross negligence on the part of Ford and Co., necessarily gave rise to mistakes, andime groundsprodueed o e f rr tb is : present ofaserio c u h s a n rg at e u . re, E w as h te e r n b e r e oo o k r , ig i i t natd t ap peared, acted with strict integrity, and without in any manner affording the slightest grounds for suspicion, from the time he was first employed till within the last five weeks,. when his employers began to hold his honesty in deubt, and accordingly proceeded to examine his steel, and . BIRTHS. On the 18th inst., in Arlington-street, Lady Mary Ste phenson, of a son. On the 18th inst., Mrs. Frederick Temple, of Guildhall, of a daughter. On the 12th iust., at Woodford, Mrs. M. J. Turner, of a son. compare his sales with their cash-account. They then found there was a deficiency of goods amounting in value to 181. within five weeks past, when they delivered to him the last stock, and for this deficiency he could give no satisfactory account. When the matter of the charge, and the circumstances under which it was preferred, were laid before the Magis trate, all appeared a comiilete chaos. However, there were features in the case that warranted the Magistrate in de taining the prisoner for further examination ; and Kirby, the officer, was despatched, with a warrant of search, to 53, Gray's Inn-lane. Upon a strict examination being there made, nothing was found sufficient either to convict or confirm the suspicions entertaiued of him. Meanwhile information was privately given to the pro secutors, Ford and Co.; that certain articles of their pro perty had been sold on last Wednesday to Tilly, pawn broker, No. I, Mile-end-road. Ford immediately proceeded to the house of Tilly, and found the information to be correct ; he learned that various articles of jewellery had been purchased there, of Easterbrook, to the amount of 275. He recognised these as his property, and upou referring.to the sale-book, kept by Easterbrook, there was no statement entered in it of four brooches that appeared among the lot. The pawn. broker not being forthcoming at the time, the worthy Magistrate postponed going further into the examination till Thursday next. Ingram Meyer, horse-hair manufacturer, 85, Wardour street, :Soho, then came forward, and after speaking to the integrity of Easterbrook, entered into a recognizance of 40/. for his appearance on the day appointed. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. Yesterday Mrs. Elizabeth Brierly, a lady of re spectability, of No. 6, Eccleston-street North, Pim lico, and George Warden, a baker, of Queen-street, Brompton, were indicted for a misdemeanor, by in decently exposing their persons in Coleshill-street, at ten o'clock, on the night of Thursday, the,l lth instant. The case was fully proved by the watchman, who found them on the pavement. The _CHAIRMAN sentenced both the defendants to two months' imprisonment in the House of Cor- rection. Mrs. Brierly left the Court declaring her's was a very hard case. LADY BARRYMORE AGAIN. Mary Anne Pearce,. commonly called " Lady Barrymore," was indicted for assaulting Edward Jones, one of the dismounted patrol, on the night of the 3d of October. It appeared from the testimony of the prosecutor and his witnesses, that her Ladyship was discovered between eleven and twelve o'clock of the night of the day in question, in a state of intoxication, fight ing every one she met, and making a terrible dis turbance. The prosecutor, after endeavouring to bring her to her senses by talking to her, which proved perfectly useless, was about to take her to the watch-house, when she - threw herself into a fighting position, and, notwithstanding Jones de fended himself as long as he could, she came off second best,. and was ultimately compelled to call several watchmen to his assistance. Her Ladyship's defence was, as has been the case scores of times, that she had been drinking with some friends, whom she had not seen, for a long time, and did not know what she was about. The CHAIRMAN sentenced her to two months' im prisonment in the House of Correction, hoping, at the same time, that she would amend when she came out. On hearing her sentence she cried out with a stentorian voice, that " She'd be -- but she would be ten times worse when she came out of prison." MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY...--TUESDAY, OCT. 21—(At the Court of Commissioners, Basiughall-street.) Child, D~ Kingsland Doren, R., Frith-street .12 Nesbitt and Co: Alderman- Edenborough and Co. Man- bury lO chester Ellman, W., Lambeth 2 bridge-road How, R., Haymarket COUNTRY DIARY...-TnESDAY, OCT. 23. Beechen(); R., Stamford—Crown, Stamford Dangerfield, G., Bromyard—Hotel, Hereford — Flower, T., Melksham—White Hart, Bath ll bee, J., Nottingham—Punch-bowl, Nottingham ....... Ham, W., West Coker—White Hart, Bath l2 Heaton, L., Heaton—Star, Manchester 1 Hodgson, W., Pickering—Black Swan, Pickering ll Linton, T., Crowle—Townhall, Devonport ll Pain, J., Paulton—White Lion, Bristol .... Smith, J. - Newcastle-under-Lyme—Roebuck, Newcastle under-eyme ll Sparrow and Co., Newcastle-under-Lyme—Roebuck, New_ castle-under-Lyme 2 Watts, G., Nottingham—Punch-bowl, Nottingham INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, COUNTRY.—At the Court-house, at Bath, October 24, at Ten o'clock Chamberlain, J., Bath Niblett, 8., Walcot Frankling, D., Melkshttm Whittaker, J., Bath Hacker, J., Bath At Nottingham, Clark, W., Nottingham Gunthorpe, W., Ordsall Huskinson, —, Mansfield Hutchinson, E., Newark Oct. 24, 3t Ten. Mather, T. ' Alfreton Morris, S., Nottingham Naylor, 8., Alfreton Parr, H., Cropwell An affray lately took place between some men returning from a fair in Muskcrry, in which one of them, named Denis Mahony, was killed. Three of the individuals charged with the mur der have absconded, and it is thought are now endeavouring to effect their escape out of the country.—Cork Constitution. MARRIED. On the 18th inst., Arthur Clarke Kemball, Esq., of p o h cf e o r lk j,eatoffrElesoizan, Mary,rector eldest est Lougborough,ilaughter a t‘GhVleYonclEtved.irslCahlastNaond chaplain to the most Noble the Marquis of Hertford. O n the 16th inst., at Bray, Berks, by the Rev. Walter Levett, vicar, Mr. Williams, of Maidenhead, surgeon, to Ann, daughter of the late Mr. Josh. Clerk, of the same place. On the 18th inst., at St. Mark's, Kennington, by the Rev. T. S..Basnett, of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, C. H. Basnett, E . s . q., of Bath, to Anne, youngest daughter of the late Nathaniel Basnett, Esq., of Cambertvell. On the 18th inst., at St. Mary's, Newington, Mr. H. J. Haddock,-of the Old Jewry, to Martha, third daughter of the Rev. John Chin, of Glocester-house, Wahvortb. On the 18th inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, Mr. C. Lee, of Tollington -park, Horusey-road, to Charlotte Louisa, youngest daughter of the late W. Wykes, E s q., o f" St. John-street. . _ On the 18th inst., at Christ-church, Blackfriars, by the Rev. Mr. Mapleton, Mr. J. N. Fairman, of his Majesty's Customs, to Emily Elizabeth, eldest d aug ht er o f Captain M'l3ean, of Kennington. • On the 18th inst., at Lydden, in. Kent, by the Rev. the Vicar, G. B. White, Esq., of Cambridge, to Elizabeth Ann, second daughter of the Rev. Thos. Downe, Vicar of that place. On the 18th inst., at Hatton, Samuel Percival, Esq., banker, of Northampton, to Jane Goodchild, youngest daughter of the Rev. W. Jackson, Hatton, Warwickshire. DIED. On the 15th inst., at his house, No. 2; Strand, aged 76, Captain Robert Williams, R.N. In the early part of his life he hid seen a good deal of service, and was in Lord Rodney's victory on the 12th of April, 1782. On the 19th inst., at Richmond, where he had gone for the recovery of his health, Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Sackville, of the Hon. East India Company's service, in the 43(1 year of his age. On the 19th inst., at his chambers, Verulatn-buildings, Gray's-inn, James Pewtriss, Esq. On the 18th inst., in the 21st year of his age, William, the son of Isaac Robinson, Esq., of Park-road, Regent's-park. On the 11th inst., at Ayr, North Britain, Charles Shaw, Esq., aged 68. On the 13th inst., at Stoneyhurst, in the 77th year of his age, the Rev. Charles Wri g ht. O n the 18th inst. , in the 84 th year of his ag e, James Alston, Esq., of Winson near Birmingham. O n the 17th inst., Mr. R. Simmons, of the Strand , in the O n the 9th inst., Jere Greenland, Esq., of Beckenham, Kent, in the 94 th year of his age. On 20th Feb. at Groty, near Bangalore, Lieutenant Frederick B. Griffiths, of the 42d Native Infantry, third son of Lieut.-General Griffiths, aged 23. th year of his age. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of Friday)' Rum, BRANDY, AND I-IbLLANos.—There are no pr o i chases of Leeward Island Rum this week ; a large r r A,• Jamaica, 28 over, sold at 3s. 10d., and a lot at 35• 34 over at 4s. 3d.—Brandy continues to be held with firmness. -In Geneva no sales are reported. Iwnico.-The market has since appeared to be th , proved by the reduction which has taken place in 4 ,, prices; several considerable parcels are sold at 3d. and per lb. advance on the sale prices. TEA.-Boheas and many breaks of Congou are jo ie, 'mand ,at cost prices, and in some cases at a fraction of p r s ;, HEMP, FLAx, AND TALLOW.-The letters fro) , Petersburgh, stating 'that 9,000 casks . T a ll o w were P ur " chased in one day and 19,000 in the week, occ asioned sensation, and the Market prices hav e s i nce been 'le t ing ; the fall is 6d. to Is. per cwt. We insert tbe e t , tation at a late hour this evening. Hemp and Flat rather lower. of The letters to-day from Petersburgh are of the jit inst. Exchange 10 7-16.-Tallow 97 cash, 997 3 months; bought 300 casks, shipped off 124,000 (as 4 remaining 40,000 casks. fi Carroty.-The purchases of Cotton for the week en do last night inclusive , consist of 4 .11 , 600 Surat 71d. a si-d. t 130 80wed.....50. a 260 Bengal a 4d. 40 Pernams..Bld. 80 Egyptian-lid. a Sd. 50 Grenada Bd. Duty paid. By Public Sale this forenoon, 1,444 bags Sursts Bengals were nearly all tak en i n ; 4€l. bid for a part ° I , o f Surats, taken in 4d., and` 4d. al s o re f use d f or a Pa t `, l o the Bengals. 102 Boweds sold at 50. and sid.; ' Berbice fair at 71d. and Tad. A large proporti on o f th e E as t India , sold since the lo l l t , SALTPETRE.-By p u bli c sa l e a b ou t 1,500 bag,' S'i petre sold 245. 6th and 255. Toaacco.-Some large contracts for Tobacco afloa t reported. ile t) SPANISH INDIGO. - -By public sa l e yester d ay a bout , , serons Spanish Indigo were brought fo rwar d : a fter a ° : 200 serons had been disposed of at 3d. to 6d. below tl' last sale, the other sales were withdrawn. SPICES.-By Public Sale yesterday :-Cloves, 2001 0 5 Mauritius Is. 3d. a I. 4,d., Amboyna, 15_ bags, ls. 6(1. The Pimento at Public Sale has again given way, s lo, good 10id. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SALE, 17th OCTOI3II COFFEE.--... 1,345 bales and bags, mid. to good beet) , Mocha 735. a 85 s . or di nary di tto, taxe d a 72 5 . and r' o fused ; pale good ord. Batavia 375. 6d. a 409. ; dark bro', Ceylon 395. 6d. a 409. 6d. ; good ordinary ditto 3 55 1 5 , 379. ; ordinary and mixed ditto 31s. a 345. ; damage d bags B enga l, goo d an d fi ne to s lO ti s cr . A u a n .a_ der io sio ,o un 99 d. w hite 6d. a Vs. 6d. ; middling an d l ow w hi te 32 5 . 6d.s 349 damp is. to 29. under sound. 11 11. RicE.-.7,631 bags, low and middli ng w hit e Benga 6d, a 12 9 . ; good and fine ditto 12s. 6d. a 14s. 6d. ; g and fine Patna 18s a 20s. 6d. WHITECHAPEL HAY• MARKET.—Oct. 19. Pf. lbs. Ott. to 105 s. Od. (lover 90e. Od. to 10' Straw _ . 345. (kl. to 38s. Od. PIIIOES OF .I.IOPS (per Cwt.)—Oct. 19. Kent Pockets _ 3 /. I . B s. 41. 12s. to , gs. Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto. 3/. 16s. 4!. 10s. to ~* Farnham Ditto, 0/. Os. 71. Os. to , Seconds 01. Os. 5/. 55 to pt..; 0.3. 3/. 10s. 41. 105. to Z : iss. 3/. 3s. 3/. 12s. to o—, 3/. 10s. 4/. 4s. to 4 " 'd at £140,000. Kent K Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto., PRICE OF OIL. ,„ i 6 Rape Oil, brown Dt. Os. Refined .t-?,1•11 Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton ••••••••••••••••••we...No PRICE OF POTATOES.—Oet. 19. New Ware 31. Os. to 3/. 15s. 1)02_2," PRICES OF Per lb. (1. to d. Butts.... 50 to 561 b..., 20 22,1 to 661 b.... 2223 f Dressing 13k 16 Fine Coach Hides r 19 Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 14 151 to 501 b. 16 18 Ditto - 20 LEATHER. eL to J. lier lb. 1 1 14 91 Tanned !Torso Hides- , 0 , Spanish Mtn:. ............."-. 2 4 Per dozen. a„ Calf Skins-36 to 401 b. 6 / , Ditto ....—.... 50 to 701 b. A , , Ditto 70 to SOlb. iii ~...,' 1 Small Seals, (Ireenland/r RAW HIDES. (L. Per Stone. s.d."tos.d. Per Stone. I tog. s. t 7 1 Best Heifers& Steers 30 - 3 4 Ordinary 2 ' pa ch , Middlings _ .2 8 210 Market Calf—..,..—. 7";:i- Downs SHEEP SKI NS. Is. Sd. to 2s. Od. I Lambs t° (14. Polled 2s. 2d. to 2s. emi• PRICE OF TALLOW, St Town Tallow Od. Yellow 395. 6d. White 4ls; 0(1 Soap Ditto - 3Bs. God: Melted Stuff - 36s. Od. Ditto Od. AP, &c. per 11.21 V~. f Yellow Soap..--~'"" c;~,. Mottled White.. — Good DreZa^ '"'•'"' PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sib.—Oct. 'rice by Tallow (as stated by the Tallow PRICE OF CANPLES• ./ The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as fbilo1 0 :(4 , Candles, per doz. 7s. Pd. to Os. Od. 13io alas,per dozen Beaumont COAL MAR -- 39 0 35 0 Leaton ----- ,KET.—Oet. 19, Walls End Newt-lurch-. 61,. Tardiel 1 Trader------ ir4 b o Ellison small 1.,—...---- \ il Bell and Brown small-. 9 i Lambton small ...--..«-30 ' 0 Londonderry small ~...., 11 11 0 Russell's Hetton'ssma ~ Cowpeu ~.........--,....-„,- „ a Marquis Main .-----, , ii I), Hartley e ,,,, , .:••••••• en........«.... : 0 r e Stone Coal Christie...-'• 41 G Llangenneth Coal.--. 33 0 Wa ll s End Elgin ..,„-..... 3 1 0 Ditto Henderson---.^ si 6 Henderson Main,--- , - 3 2 a Inverkeithing Splint , 3 2 " 6 Nesham Main,---...---• 4 4 o Walls End Hetton ,,,, '"' V Walls End Lambton..., Holywell Killingworth , 39 0 Percy 33 .0 34 6 Willington Wylam wwwwww,••••••••* 34 9 WallsEndßewieke&Co. 40 6 Ditto 36 1) Ditto Carr and 36 6 Ditto Clarke and Co. 36 6 Ditto Cramlington— 35 3 Ditto Hotspur—....— 36 6 Ditto Jesmond 39 3 Ditto Northumberland 36 6 Ditto Peareth 37 Ditto Biddell's 39 9 Ditto Russell's Ditto Nutt 0 0 Ships at market, 61---Sh COUNTRY CORN MARK, Whet. Per Quarter. Basingstoke Bath 51 58 52 60 50 e 2 Bridgewater ......... Bristol Chesterfield Derby Devizes 48 5.2 50 60 53 • 57 50 65 44 (4 48 64 (4 • 68 52 62 48 60 51 61 50 52 55 58 Doncaster Exeter . ilungerford Mansfield ~„.....,...... Romsey ..--.......v..n. Shafteibury Shepton Mallet „„, Sleaford 56 58 45 51 52 60 66 6 1 ; s. d. s• 72 d. 90 Yeovil Per Bushel. • Shrewsbury ips sold, 36-.,_Unsold 37 90 30 32 30 36 30 35 31 36 29 32 28 36 28 32 21. '44 32 36 - 28 32 30 3 3 3:3 40 25 30 32 15 20 3 0 w 26 4 6 5 sf; rd 3c3 44 ; 61; sdd• Qi riS DURING THE Batley. Oats. 24 31 20 23 25 3 2 20 - - 18 2' 2 18 1 ,2 .25 32 25 30 22 fly 22 . 3 ° IS 24 2 8 38 22 30 0 43 ,R 31 zi ; 2 4- .; 32 32 35 18 32 26 34 s. d. s. d. 60 8 6 h l a ,:n d l a Sl f l . G ir s r p pfy ° Yall iA krn i f ( lf l o .. FG 43c r t in r. t o- " l'si r ; generalWe i: rley. ranch oats the same pease as list k t Oats and Barley, which are a shade 10,. 00 1 " 6 „i t od )d 33 35 : Oil 23 29 : 6d o.d 5 5 ( 1 5 : (4 (;(1 . I 5665 Z Od i)j 653 Second '''' 565 - 27 s Od 19s tkl- 42s 6,1 I 4 ' . Third .... PRICES OF PROVISIONS, :N.!. o I° ' sect, per lb. Os. 441. to Os.Bd. Fresh Butter, lb.s. 10/1. t ;0 sales flat, a li y a , t, eazetlap:t.i. c es v M e t al itt ,___ on.--7 . 0 0 7 4 0 0 7 9 S p a i l t t to D :pe tto r ..,....„...... mt. 80 0 r; SO 0 5 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 010 1 9 n v Lamb, per qr. 1 0 3 0 OatStraw(kpi.) 9 0 9 Tallow, per lb. 0.1 0 411 Wheat Ditto.., 8 0 9; a Quartern Loaf 0 8 9 0 Barley Ditto 8 0 O,P Potatoes, 141 b. 0 0 0 4 Hay, per 0 9 -- EDINBURGH MEAL H M A RKET.—Oct. la . jsl . ply of Oatmeal at this at last week's prices. i. p Per Stone ot 14lb. lA't t o First Oatmeal .......... , l e Second ditto ............ I , l Barleymeal ............... c 10, Peasemeal ............... 30 s.-2d, 155.-3 d, 175.--r° ----- We had a very good sof market, which sold heavily, Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £l 18 0 Second ditto 1 16 0 Barleymeal 1 10 0 I'easemeal 1 10 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 13 GLASGOW CORN .ARKET.—Oct. 4 13 e,,, In prices of Corn' fe y" at, and fully dearer; id equally limited• j , i g . Oats, per t 34113. ti ; 0 to Irish ................... 0 British .......... . / 0 Beans, 0 if! English .......• .2,5 0 Scottish .............. 0 0 0 Pease, Scottish 1 6 0 .0 Oatmeal, per 1101 b. . 1 , 0 Flour, per 2801 b.... ° llt. .1 Little alteration to-day i steady ; Barley in good reque Oats on shew, but the demo Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. British, old 3O 0 to 31 0 new Canada, free 29 0 31 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English 2B 0 3C 0 Scottish 25 0 27 0 Irish. 2OO 260 GRECIAN RAM.--This animal, the oroliee of the kind in England, we believe, may now be rafr the Zoological Society's grounds in the R eg ent a 01 4 Its wool, resembling long, coarse hair, hangs i both sides of the body in great profusion, " s oi r touches the ground, giving it the appearance of an moving under a load of goat skins. It has very . ; 4 torted horns, is of a very large size, a n d as it 59 s' that it cannot be left at liberty for fear of its breaking; .1r fences to pieces, it is tied by a rope to a sta::: :7 ,s, olidtle of the plot dlott it . -.— London TY":/Lll/ INTRO tk e and PUBLISHED by 'VI. YOUN..), A Sini-Orimor, No. 119, Sirmail. ut ! the 24th of oel ir fiE 0 , 13 F HEI pri ratedfo‘: HAel)l HAN of auCnald(o)°(L);(.ll' CIE C ATI Th TAIR e / 11 8 TO E tion, g„: The firs 3. s . 2 vols. 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