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I:ENT ASSIZES. WESTERN CIRCUIT.-:.TiNTON, APRIL 16. CROWN SIDE. William Parker, the 'boots at the London Inn, Tannton, was indicted for breaking open the writ ing-desk of Mr. Alexander Bailer, a traveller for the . house of Messrs. Edward Shepphard and Son, clothiers, in Gloucestershire, and stealing therefrom se)ove 801. in Bank notes. _ Ir appeared from Mr. Bailer's evidence, that he left his desk in the travellers' room, at the London Inn, Taunton, on Sunday the 18th Mai ch, and that the case was brought to him opened, by Miss Willie, the daughter of the landlord, on Monday morning before he was up, and that the money was missing. After dinner on Sunday, he was sitting by the fire alone, when some person twice disturbed him as he was dosing by entering the room, whom he believed to be the boots. On his cross-examination, Mr. Bailer said, he was not intoxicated, nor was he asleep when sitting by the fire, but his back was to the door, and he only saw the shadow of some person, whom he supposed to be the boots. Manly, the head ostler, stated, that the boots tame to him about six o'clock, and said the house had been robbed: he went with him to No. 3, and found the place in disorder. This was all the evidence against the prisoner, although other witnesses were called, and from the cross-examination of several of them, it appeared that the prisoner bore an excellent character. The JUDGE asked Mr. Moody if he wished this case to go to the Jury. Mr. Moody said, he did not wish to press the case, and The JUDGE said, God forbid that upon such evi dence as that, a man should be put on his defence on a capital charge. Mr. William Browne, one of the partners in the late firm of Cavenagh, Browne, and Co., bankers, of Bath, appeared to plead to an indictment for em bezzling propertybelonging to the estate:of that firm, they having become bankrupts. By an arrangement between the counsel, it was agreed to postpone his trial until the next Assizes. Sir William Cham bers Bagshaw and Mr. James Randolph, put in bail for his appearance to take his trial at Bridgewater, in a penalty of 500/. each, and the bankrupt in 1,0001. Elizabeth Viner, 15 years of age, was indicted fot administering poison to Mrs. Tereza .Eliza Fry, of the parish of Monkton Coornb, near Bath, (in whose service she was placed by the parish officers of Bath,) with intent to murder her. Mr. GUNNING stated the case. Mrs. Fry keeps a school for young ladies at Coomb Villa, about two miles from Bath. About 10 months ago she took tie prisoner from Walcot parish, intending to have her bound as an apprentice. Some sugar of lead was soon after this brought into the house for a gen tleman who lived there, for the purpose of making a mixture to apply to his eves. Three weeks before the offence was committed (the 4th of December last), the girl brought the paper of sugar of lead to her mistress, calling it burnt alum, and Lnquired if it would not be well to apply some of it to the child's mouth. Mrs. Fry was very much alarmed at this suggestion, told her it was poison, and wrote upon it, " Sugar of lead—poison." This packet was then put on the higher shelf of a cupboard in the parlour, which was locked up. On the morning of the 4th of December, Mrs. Fry found herself ill, and desired that the cook should prepare her some arrow root. The prisoner brought it to her in a basin, and said that the cook wished her to sweeten it herself. Mrs. Fry observed something on the top of the basin like water, and said, " Why the cook has put water in this." The girl said she had seen the cook make it, and she put nothing but milk in it. The prosecutrix then tasted it, and found it very sweet. She then said, " I thought you told me the cook had put nothing into it." She first found it very sweet, but afterwards it turned acid in , her mouth. She then a-id she thought there was cream of tartar in it. The girl said nothing. On the cook's being sent for, sire said she had put nothing into it but arrow-root, and took a spoonful of it herself. She was soon afterwards seized with violent pains in her stomach. This alarmed the mistress, and the cupboard was searched for the sugar of lead, as also for some oxalic acid, which had been left in the cupboard some months before. They could find neither. Mrs. Fry then desired her husband to carry the basin to her doctor, Mr. Day, who told him he had no doubt there was something of a noxious quality mixed with the arrow root. Medicines were then administered to both the females, and Mrs. Fry was ill for some consider able time afterwards. The prisoner, on being charged with putting poison into the arrow-root, denied it, " I wish I may be struck dead if I know any thing about it." Afterwards, she began to cry a great deal, and told a relation of her mistress's, who happened to be in the house, that she could tell her all about it. They went into another room, and the prisoner said she saw the cook take something out of a paper, and put it into the arrow-root, after which she threw the paper into the grate in the :itchen. She afterwards mixed it ail up together with milk, and boiled it in a saucepan. The state ment she repeated in the presence of the cook, and she offered to attest the truth of it upon her oath. On the following Wednesday evening, she went into the breakfast-parlour, and falling down on her knees, confessed to Mrs. Fry that she had put the sugar of lead into the arrow-root herself; but said she had not seen any thing of the oxalic acid. Mr: Cuff, chemist, of Bath, proved that a basin was brought to him by Mr. Fry, that it contained arrow-root, that he analysed it, and that it did not contain any sugar of lead or oxalic acid. From the evidence of Mr. and Mrs. Fry, it appeared that the basin had passed through a great many different hands, from the time it was taken from Mrs. Fry to that at which it was analysed by Mr. Cuff, so that it was impossible to say that the contents were the same. Mr. Justice PARK stopped the case, observing, that after this it would be impossible to arrive at a legal conviction, and it would be better at once to acquit the prisoner. The Jury acquitted her. George Gore and ./chn Wall were indicted for feloniously assaulting and robbing George Day on the King's highway at Banwell. BAyi.v called George Day.—l am a farmer at Winseomb. I was returning from Banwell on the 20th of November. I left Banwell for Winscomb about nine in the evening. It was about a mile f r om one place to the other. I was overtaken by two men. I spoke to them. I said, " Night to ye.' 4 . They made no answer. I said what countrymen One of them said west - countrymen. I asked where t i le 's/ were going ? One of them said to Wood- borough. We walked together from 200 to 300 yards. 'f,'?ey asked me what I had been to Ban well for ? I said to buy two hatchets and a hook.— It was a very star-light night. I saw one of them distinctly, not the other. George Gore is the man saw. The other held down his head. One of them struck me down ; he hit me on the cheek-bone —(The manner of this witness excited laughter in the gallery. The Judge said, " Who is that laugh ing ? This is a very serious matter ; it becomes no one to behave in this way. This must be a very depra ved county for the people to enjoy these things.")— Ile knocked me down on the road; they hove me tip and put me on the bank ; both of them picked my pockets; one pat his hand in one pocket, and the other in the other pocket. One of them said, " -- ye, I'll have no squeaking; if we do, I'll put it on you." I had halfpence about me, but I a m not sure that I had silver. They robbed ma of ever! thing. George Gore stood by me, the other left me ; he pulled my waistcoat open, and searched my inside pockets. George said, " your eyes, you used to carry a watch with you, where is he now ?" I told him the glass was broken, and I had not carried it for some days past; he stayed with me about four minutes; he pulled mrbreecheS don, a.,1 turned my watch - pocket inside out. He :said I had more monev ; I told him I had not. As I was buttoning up my breeches, he used most abusive language, and knocked me down again. I cannot swear to Wall. The Jury found Gore, Guilty—John Wall, Not Guilty. Mr. Justice PARK told Gore that he should show lenity in his particular case, as he had not manifested so great a degree of cruelty (although it was still very great) as to induce him to leave him for exe cution. He had laid it down as a rule, from which he had never departed in his judicial career, to punish highway robbery with death, whenever it was attended with circumstances of violent cruelty. George Gregory was indicted for a rape on Han nah Smith, at Under-hill, in the parish of Midsum mer Norton. The Jury acquitted the prisoner. Two other prisoners, John Short, aged IC, and John Rogers, aged 9, were indicted for a misde meanour with the same woman. Mr. Justice PARK said, that as they had given no credit to the prosecution in the former case, they would hardly do so in the present. Indeed, the law deemed that the younger of the prisoners was incapa ble of the offence. The Jury acquitted the prisoners. The JUDGE said that, from the depositions, it ap peared that they had behaved with great rudeness and impropriety, adding, " My little lads, don't con tinue this course; follow your calling as good little lads, and don't attend to wicked advisers, who would seduce you into wicked courses." In the course of the day, Mr. Justice PARK re ferred to the extraordinary length of the calendar, and observed, that the county of Somerset must be an extremely wicked county; that he had gone over all the counties of England, but had never met with one in which there was so dreadful a list of criminals. Between 60 and 70 in the calendar were under 20 years of age. GLOUCESTER, TUESDAY, APRIL 17. CIVIL SIDE, JOHN SA xx)ronD ROWLES, DEMANDANT V. DEVEREUX BOWEN', OTHERWISE. BOWLES', TENS T. This was a writ of entry sur disseisin en k post. The deraandant claimed an estate at Chesterton, near Cirencester, as heir-at-law of Mr. Robert Sandford, of Cirencester, deceased. The tenant held the estate as a bona fide purchaser, for a valuable consideration, from a Mr. Davis, who purchased of a Mr. Self, who took the estate by virtue of a deed of gift made in consideration of love and affection from Mr. Timbre'', the sole devisee of the same Mr. Robert Sandford. The question at issue was, whether Mr. Sandford's will, dated March 12, 1804, was valid, or through the weakness of the testator's mind was void. The witnesses were ordered to withdraw, and be kept separate. Mr. LUDLOW, for the tenant, began and stated his client's case, which will appear from the evidence. Mr. Thomas Saggars, from Doctors'-commons, produced the will. Wm. Lawrence, Esq., formerly a surgeon—l was acquainted with the late Mr. Robert Sandford, and am one of the attesting witnesses to his will. I saw the testator and the other two witnesses sign their names. All the witnesses and the testator were in the same room. I knew the testator intimately for many years ; his illness lasted a long time; I at tended him; he was perfectly sound in his intellects, and collected during his illness; he died of an en largement of the prostate gland; he had a very su perior understanding, and was a well-educated man; about a fortnight after making the will he died; I saw him daily; his understanding was good for days after the execution of his will, and he was per fectly collected. Joseph Cripps, of Cirencester, banker, M.P., one of the Chairmen.of the, Quarter Sessions—l was born at Cirencester; and resided there all my life. I remember witnessing Mr. Sandford's will. I then was present with Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Roberts. Roberts was one of my clerks. The testator held the pen himself; he was feeble from illness but in as perfect state of mind as ever he was. - and Mr. Timbrell used to call each other cousins; both lived at Cirencester. They were extremely inti mate indeed. By Mr. CamPßELL—There are some interlinea tions in the will. Have you any recollection of see ing them ?—No, I have not.—[Mr. Campbell handed up the will.] You observe the word interlineations in the at testation ?—I do. Does not the final s seem written at a different time ?—lt seems in a different ink. Mr. Roberts.—! was one of the attesting wit nesses, and remember the execution of the will by Mr. Sandford, who appeared to be in complete pos session of his faculties. I had known him for seve ral years before, but not intimately. In my opinion he was a man of sense. Mr. Sandford said, " You may wonder, Mr. Cripps, at my not doing this be fore ; but Mr. Ledyard knows why." The letters " Richd. Robe" are my writing. The letter s, and the letters ts, appear to me to be an alteration, and I know nothing of it. The execution of the will took place regularly, according to my supposition. Joseph Pitt, Esq., M.P.—I lived for many years at Cirencester, and practised there as an attorney from 1779 to 1811. I knew Mr. Sandford intimately. He had read a great deal, and was a man of strong sense. Ido not know that he ever was deprived of his mind by illness. I know Mr. Timbrell and Mr. Self. They are both magistrates. Sandford arid Timbrell were very intimate. They were, I believe, first cousins once removed. Edward Cripps, Esq.—l am a Magistrate. I knew the latP Mr. Sandford and was intimate with him. Our intimacy continued, as long as he saw people, up to his decease. ' He was a man of re markably strong mind, which he retained to the last. I remember him during the time of his last illness, that impaired his bodily strength, but not his mind. I know Mr. Timbrell. He and Mr. Sandford were on remarkably good terms. They called each other cousins. Cross-examined—l saw Mr. Sandford within a month or six weeks of his death. The last time I saw him was at his own house, within six weeks of his death. I have seen him when under the affliction of his disorder, in pain, but I did not think it affected his mind. He never conversed with me about the disposition of his affairs. He did not fre quent his club within a twelvemonth of his death. Edward Wibraham, Esq., a Magistrate—l have resided chiefly at Cirencester. I knew Mr. Sand ford and Mr. Timbrell. They were on the most friendly terms. He appeared to me a very sound sen sible man. Up to the last time I saw him I never noticed any failure of his natural intellect. I know of no other relation to him than Mr. Timbrell. Mr. TAUNTON.—The question to be tried is not what was Mr. Sandford's understanding during the whole period of his life, but what the state of his mind was at the time the will was made, and re ceived the form of signing. There were three ser vants, and I shall call them all, and if, as I am in structed, they prove that Mr. Sandford had been gradully sinking into a state of dotage and imbe cility, and did acts which will show you his under standing was gone, you will not think he was competent to do so solemn an act as to make a will in which he disinherits his heir-at-law. I charste that the will was made by conspiracy, and that the conspirators were Timbrell, Self, and Ledyard. The will devises the whole estates, with the exception of a few legacies, to Timbrell. The present action is brought for a part of the property, the Chesterton estate, worth 9,000/. - Within four short months, he makes a deed of gift to Mr. Self of this estate. What Ledyard received I cannot prove; but the in ference is, he did not Lind himself the worse for be ing the penman on this occasion. It I make out my statement with adequate proof, I shall sit down with perfect confidence that you will do justice, and re store the demandant to his rights. Mrs. Curtis—My maiden name was Ann Smith. I lived with Mr. Sandford seven years and three months before his death. He had suffered much from illness. He had an influenza 12 months befoi4 his death, and never from that time down to his death had his proper senses for a long time together. Sometimes he was in his senses, but for a very little time, and then he used to let very particular friends see him, such as Mr. Timbrell, Mr. Self,. and Mr. Ledyard. They would come not very often once or twice a week. At other tim es h e was ch ildish; would ring his bell unnecessarily, put his snuff in his tea, , and he would drink it if we had not minded him. We could not leave him when in that way for a minute together. I had been with him five or six years before he was so bad as that. He would ring the bell at night and ask for his dinner, which he used to have at two. It was Frances's business to go up. On the 12th of March, 1804, I was called up at one o'clock in the morning by a violent ringing of the bell. I got up as fast as I could. He told me he was dying. I thought he said dine ; so I said, " Dine ! it is one o'clock in the morning." He said, "I am dying." I then understood him. I asked him who I should call. He said, "No one." He then said, " There is some money in the drawer, you must give it to me : I have never made a will, and never shall; and I must give you something." I looked in the drawer, found nine guineas, and took them to him, and said I would call Fanny. He gaie me six guineas, and three guineas for Fanny. I asked him several times who I should call ; he said, "No one." I said; " Shall I call Mr. Ledyard ?"—"No." " Mr. Tim brell ?"—" No." I pressed upon him to call some one, and at last he said I might call Ledyard, and he might call Timbrell. I went to Butter-row to Mr. Ledyard, who kept a small stationer's shop there,and called him. Mr. Sandford had not mentioned either Ledyard or Timbrell's name befcre I did. In a quarter of an hour Ledyard came alone, and went to his room, I heard nothing pass between them, but left them together. Mr. Timbrell came in half an hour, and went up to his room, where he and Ledvard conti nued upwards of two hours. I and Fanny occa sionally went in. They seemed in very close con versation together, but Mr. Sandford appeared to take no notice. At the end of the two hours Tim brell came down into the hail, and went home, :mei left Le,lyard in the room with Mr. Sandford, where he continued all night. About nine, Timbrell came back with Mr. Self, and they went tip to Mr. Sand ford's room. Ledyard came down for a quarter of an hour, and then Timbrell and Self came down. Self said " We have been trying with Mr. Sandford that he should make his will ; but we can make no thing at all of it; and, Nanny, it is you must do it. You must put him forward; you must rouse him." According to their orders, I went up to Mr. Sand ford's room. He was in a very stupid state, and I went up and put my head on him to rouse him, and I said " Here is Mr. Self, Ledyard, and Timbrell, and you told me you had never made a will." He said, " I never told any one but you and Ledyard ; and what have Timbrell and Self to do with it ?" I came down and told them the words. Self said, " It's very true, Nanny." Ledyard then said " You must put him forward, for I would not for a thou sand pounds but Mr. Sandford should make a will ;" and he asked me who I could send for paper, pen, and wax. I said " Martha Brown." He sent her I to Butter-row. He remained in the hall; she ' re turned, and Ledyatid, who had remained in the hall, told me to take the paper, ink, pen, and wax, and place them in the paper by the bed-side. Then Ledyard came up to the room, and said it was not the right paper, and he ran out for other paper. I re mained with Mr. Sandford. He was not fit to make a will, he had no recollection at all that day. Led , yard soon returned with the paper. He went up. I saw him sit it the table. Mr. Sandford took no notice at all, and lay with his back to him. In a quarter of an hour he came down in the hall, and ordered a table to be put there, and he wrote . about two hours, and then took what he had written sip to Mr. Sandford's room, and came (limn and asked me and Martha who we thought Mr. Sand ford would like to have to sign his will besides Mr. Lawrence. Martha said Strong end Mr. William son. Strong at that moment passed by ; Martha said " There is Strong, I'll call him in," but Ledy ' and went Wei her , sent her back, and said he would call some one. He went out to Mr. Hoare's, and returned, saying he was not at home. He then went to Mr. Joseph Cripps and Mr. Roberts, who shortly came and went up stairs. They did not re main above a quarter of an hour or ten minutes, and he was in the same state in which I had seen him before. He was in bed, but was 'mit when Mr. Cripps came. Martha, Frances, and .Myself w'- the only servants in the house. I did not assist out of his bed, and be could not get in or out of bed himself. Afterwards he was in the same stupid state as before. About four o'clock Mr. Musgrove called, and went up stairs. It was an hour after the will was made. I went up with him. Musgrove said, " How do you do, Sir." Mr. Sandford looked at him, but did not answer. Musgrove asked me if he had made a will. I said " Yes. Musgrove said, " When ?" I said Ledyard had gone out with the will about an hour. Musgrove said, " Was he in this state when the will was made ?" I said," Yes." Frances Pincock—l was five years and three quarters before his death servant to Mr. Sandford. He was taken ill with an influenza, and from that period he declined about a year till his death. It was my particular business to attend on him. He often put pepper in the tea, and would have drank it if I had let him. He often knocked with his stick, and rung the hell at night-time, and asked for dinner. I used to tell him he had dined, and ac quainted him what the time was. He would strike the table with his stick every five minutes, and when I came he said he did not know what he wanted. On the morning of the will, at one o'clock, the bell rung; Ann went; returned with nine guineas. I got up. Ann went back into Mr. Sandford's room, and I followed. He said he should get out of his bed; I assisted him. He asked me to put on his coat; I did so. He ordered me to look up his pocket handkerchiefs and napkins from off the bed, and to tell them. I did so; he made me put them all in his pocket ; he then laughed and said, he never had so many pocket handkerchiefs in his life. After that, he screamed out, and seemed in a very out rageous state. I went down, when Ledyard came into the room. Curtis attended Mr. Sandford that morning. I did not go in till after ten. He was in bed; Ledyard was with him. I came in to him several times, and spoke to him, but he made me no answer. Timbrell left at three o'clock in the morning, and came again between nine and ten. I heard Ledyard say, that Sandford had said that Lawrence had gone into the servants' room. At that time Lawrence had not been in the house. I saw Mr. Timbrell and Mr. Self come from his bed-room. They said they could do nothing with him, and Mr. Self ordered Ann to go up and rouse him to make the will. Ann came down and said Mr. Sandford had put himself in a passion, and said he had never told Timbrell and Self he had not made a will, and what had they to do with it ? Self said, "He never had." I was in and out of his room all the day, and spoke to him, but he never spoke to me. Mrs. Crump—Was an out-door servant of Mr. Sandford for three years before his death; he was ill, and a year before his death he had the influenza and a fever; he used to do many childish and foolish tricks ; the witness detailed many things, which, if true, would clearly have proved him to have been in his dotage. Mr. LUDLOW.—AII the criminal trials during these assizes put together do not amount to a question of so much importance as the question before you to day, for you are to sit in judgment not only on the character of living respectable witnessess, but are called upon by the demandant to stigmatize, awl consign to irreparable infamy, the character of the dead. I have heard of dead bodies taken up to have an inquest sit upon them, but never heard of an inquest before upon the characters of the dead.— The learned counsel commented-with great acute ness upon the evidence of the witnesses, and before he had finished hi; reply, the jury intimated that they were satisfied upon "the case, and • without giving Mr. Sergeant Bosanquet the trouble to sum up the evidence, - they'fOund a verdict for the tenant, thereby establitlling the will. The trial lasted the whole of the day. - To . _ - *n o y LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1827. We learn that Rear-Admiral Sir EDWARD OWEN and Sir GEORGE CLERK are to succeed Lord DOWNES and Sir HENRY HARDINGE, at the Beard of Ordnance, and that Mr. DEN NISON is to be one of the Counsel of the Duke Of CLARENCE, instead of Sir GEORGE CLERK. The Ultras are still said to delude themselves with the phantom of expectation, which confirms the old saying, " that while there is life there is hope." Their theories upon the subject of Mr. CANNING'S finding it impossible to get on, are very beautiful and ingenious superstructures, and want little but a foundation in fact. They build a great deal on the idea that the KING told some Archbishop or other, that notwithstanding Mr. CANNING'S appointment, his MAJESTY was going to maintain a balance in the Government, by having an Anti-Catholic Chancellor, an Anti- Catholic Home Secretary, an Anti-Catholic Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and an Anti-Ca tholic Secretary for Ireland. Some conversation between his MAJESTYand the Archbishop may have taken place, but we should require stronger testimony to convince us that the Sovereign had unfolded the secrets of his Royal mind to his Grace, of CANirityesyttlr, The poor fellows who are out, persist in fancying that Mr. CAN NING meant to form a Catholic Administra tion ; and they derive most unwarrantable sa tisfaction fnam, ,ev'ary circumstance which contradict* tliiA gratuitous impression. We every day hear fartherproofs that, notwithstanding, their solemn asseveration to the contrary, the Ex-Party looked on the last Cabinet as decidedly Anti-Ca tholic, and not as really neutral on that subject. Judging from. themselves, they thought that Mr. CANNING would act as unfairly on his side of the question, and having once taken up this notion, they cannot get rid of it, and fancy they see vascil lation and weakness in every introduction to the Cabinet of an Anti-Catholic member. But they had no grounds for supposing that Mr.CANNING meant to force this measure on the nation. He thinks, with all the greatest statesmen of latter times, that Emancipation will alone re medy the wrongs of Ireland ; but he knows that bigotry and obstinacy strengthen by in judicious and violent measures, and that mat ters are not yet ripe for making it a Cabinet question. We can tell the Ultras, however, that it will now have fair play, and that is all it wants. The LORD CIIANCELLOR, at the last rising of the Court, said that be would sit this day and Saturday, to give judgment upon a few of the many cases waiting his Lordship's decision.— The appointed day has arrived, but not so the promised judgment, nor is there any day posi tively fixed for that important consummation, so devoutly wished, but seldom realised at his Lordship's doubtful hands. The question now ix, will Lord ELDON ever give judgment ? and the answer certainly inclines less to yes than no. If he do not, Sir JOAN COPLEY will have a precious legacy in the accumulated treasure of his predecessor's briefs, savouring so largely of dust and doubt ! The evils of a Chancery suit have become proverbial, but the miseries of the " law's delay " have never before been so fully realised as in the present instance, when cases which have danced attendance before the CHANCELLOR for upwards of a quarter of a century are in a fair way of being sent back to Coventry, to begin their career de novo with " hope that sickens" before a new Chancellor ! Upon what principle of justice or common honesty can such a course be defended ; is it not e nough that the greater part of the property in many cases has been devoured during the creeping progress of our Equity jurisdiction, which -L Like a wounded snake drags its slow length along" but the remainder is doomed to be swallowed up expences of a re-hearing, consequent upon the dilatory nature of Lord ELDON'S pro ceedings,— " Never ending—still beginning, " Speaking still, and still destroyin g ! Should his Lordship sit in Court a ga i n, we can promise him a full attendance—not altogether of disappointed suitors, but of those whO will thank their stars that they were too late to be disappointed. Men, after an age of labour retire from. the world with the satisfaction of surveying the good they have done either in public Or private life, and saying in honest pride -t " .this is the...work of my hands." NoW we doubt very much if .Lord ELDON woulii find much complacency in making any boast of the kind—we are sure his suitors would hear him with little sympathy. But if, looking to the mass of undecided causes left on the hands of his successor, he were to say " all these I have not disposed of," how sincere would be their burst of regret that they ever came under his consideration. Let us hope that the new CHANCELLOR will take warning by the doubts of the old, and learn to attempt less if he cannot perform more. In any case the public must be gainers, and the interests of justice pro moted. In consequence of the Festival of Easter, none of the rvlorning Papers were published in Paris on Monday. German Papers have been received this morn ing to the 13th inst., but they only echo the reports of matters which have already been laid before the public with respect to Greece. The Russian Government means to introduce a sys tem of improvement into its naval and mercan tile departments STUTTGARD, APRIL 9. It is well known that for these nine years past endea vours have been made in several parts of Germany, and for these four years in Wirtemburg, to unite the two Pro testant Churches. The Calvinists, whose number is very small here, have at length, as was long desired, joined the Lutherans ; and this event was yesterday announced from the pulpit. On Easter Sunday the Calvinists will for the first time celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in our Hospital Church, and they will retain the piece of bread according to the usage of their Church. WIESBADEN, APRIL 9. The Session of the Estates of the Duchy of Nassau, which was opened on the 12th of last month, was closed to-day. The assembly was chiefly occupied with the re gulation of the public receipt and expenditure for 1827, and the examination of the accounts of last year. The whole sum required for the public expenditure was esti mated at not quite a million and •a half of florins. The surplus of last year's revenue, and the increased produc tiveness of the indirect taxes, made it possible to reduce the direct taxes by one-eighth of last year's grant, with the ex pectation of a similar reduction next year. But as it ap peared that even if these direct taxes were reduced by a fourth part, the revenue would still be equal to the expen diture of the current year, the State resolved on this greater reduction, which, however, of course cannot be considered as permanent. CONSTANTINOrLZ, MARCH 18. (By way of Bucharest.) All the Ministers of the European Courts, residing in Pera, have made representations to the Reis Effendi, con cerning the pacification of Greece, and advised the accept ance of the proposals of the Ambassadors of England and Russia. Many eonsider this step as a complete accession to the terms of the conference of the 4th of April, 1826, though others find a difference between the threatening tone of the Russian and English Ministers, and that of the other Ambassadors who merely advised the acceptance of their proposals. The unexpected answers of the Porte will probably determine the farther course of these important negotiations. M. Von Testa, the first Dragoman of the Austrian Legation, and who has been forty years in the Austrian service, died lately at a very advanced age. No accounts have lately been published from the theatre of war in the Morea. TRIESTE, APRIL IS. As all ships from the Levant must sail with convoy, they arrive here late, and many together, so that we are often for a long time without news. The letters, received to-day from Constantinople of the 10th, and from Smyrna of the 2d March, bring nothing worth notice, except that great exertions are making to equip the Turkish fleet, that it may put to sea as soon as possible. At Smyrna, Lord Cochrane's arrival in the Archipelago was .pokers of, but there were no positive ac counts. A French brig which sailed from Marseilles with out convoy, was robbed by the pirates of a large sum of money. _ _ P. TETVISBURON, MAICH 28. Not only in the Imperial Navy, but also in the mercan tile marine, we may shortly expect a very improved sys tem to be introduced in the constitution. and equipment of the yeailelle, the Government ,hegintring with great judg ment and 'activity to organize this branch of the public ser vice, with which the prosperity of the inland trade and manufactures is so intimately connected. His Majesty has approved a representation of the Minister of Finance, re commending the formation of a special Committee for this purpose. VIENNA, APRIL 7. Metalliques B9i Bank Shares 1069 Account.) have been received from Gibraltar, of the 29th of Maroh, which mention that the evening before a corvette and a brig schooner, supposed Colombian, passed up the 'Straits, said to be with the intention of cruizing against the Spanish flag. To what a state must the Spanish Navy be reduced thus to allow a repetition of so small a force to prey upon their Commerce even at the mouth of their own harbours. By letters from Zante of the 7th ult. we learn that the Greek Pirates have become so numerous in the Archipelago that it has become more dan gerous than ever for vessels to sail in those seas without convoy. The British cruisers have captured and destroyed several of this lawless set of desp era d oes , b u t they still continue , and in such n um b ers , as to occas ion great difficulty in clearing th e sea o f t h em . A after being board e d by ves sel (the Ram bler,Constantinople, KNIGHT,) has arrived from a Greek cruiser, almost in sight of the Island. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 203 3 per Cent. Red. .73234 3 per Cent. Cons. S3 134 per Cent. w Ditto lied. 88%36 4 per Cent. New ' 99 Si Ditto, 1826 97% Bank Long Ann. 19 3-16 1-16 India Stock . Ditto Bonds 6 8 .69 pns. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds, 5 percent. Brazilian Bonds 64 1 ,4 4 3% Buenos Ayres Bonds. SEN Chilian Bonds, 6 per ct. — Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824. 3 6M4 Danish, 3 per cent. ..... Greek Bonds Dittoi Ins Guatunala Mexican Bonds Do. 1825 7N 70 PRICES OF SHARES THP Brazilian Mining Co. Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Guardian Assurance Co. Liverpool and Manchester R PRICES OF IRISH Bank Stock Consols, 3 percent. Gov. Stock, 3% per cent. 8734% Ditto, New B73i 4 per Cent. Gov. Deb. 3 per cent . . 89n Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent. Ballast Office Deb. 4p, et. MA] Arrived. Due. O America 1 O Brazil 0 • Buenos Ayres ..... O Donaghadee 0 1 Dublin O Flanders 1 France O Gottenburgh 0 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South. Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. 48 47 pm. Ditto 5OO 2d. 46 47 pm. Ditto Small ...... £d.... 413 pm. Ditto Commercial pm. Bank far Account India for Account Cons. for Account 83% 3 THIS DAY AT ONE O'ci.ocr. Neapolitan, 1824 Peruvian Bonds — Portuguese Bonds 78N % Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto, New — Russian, New, 5 p. c. Spanish, 1821 12Fi -- 1823 — French Rentes, sp. c. —t —c. Exchange ...... —f. —c. --- 3 per cent ..... --f. —c. --- Exchange..,.,, —f. —c. B DAY AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Paid, Per Share, £2O 25 kosoe 5 , £1 11 10 18% al w ay 20 22 23 STOCKS, ♦PRIL 16., St. Patrick Insur. (per eh.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine mining Co. of Ireland • Commercial Buildings Arrived. Due. O Guernsey& Jersey 0 I Hamburgh 0 • Holland 0 O Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islands O Lisbon 0 O Malta I Waterford 0 THE FUNDM - - - --C - ITIIS DAY). CITY, Twelve o' Clock. T ne h y e Consol n 4 3 both for money an d o p e ned this mo rn i ng at 831, the price ; they immediately afte r bec ame buyers at that pri ce , but have receded to 83 1 ; few transactions have, ad account, Market left off yesterday at 83* how ever, taken place, although there is a considerable de gree of firmness in the appearance of the Market, which is additionally supported by a current report in the City that Mr. Peel will be induced eventually to add the weight of his talents and ability to the new Administration. Scarcely an alteration has taken place in the premium of India Bonds or Exchequer Bills, the former remaining at 68 9, and the latter 46 7. In the Foreign Funds some improvement has ta k en place in Colombian Bonds, which are quoted at 361 ; Mexican are 70.1. The wind still continues unfavour able for the Twe e d' s arr i va l , an d no accounts , consequen tly, have been re ce i ve d relative to her, wh i c h causes many grave faces at Lloyd's among the Underwriters, and if she does not make her appearance immediately after a change of wind, the alarm will be considerably increased. Although no material alteration in prices has taken place in the Share Market, yet there appears more elasticity generally in Mines, with the exception of Brazilian, which have fallen t o 1 di e ., par . Three per Cent. Consols, 83 1 ; Ditto for account, 83l oc x F India tc Bonds, 68 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 46 . 7 pm . F ilian, 64 ; Buenos Ayres, 57 8 ; Chilian, 35 6 ; Colombian, 1824, 361 '7 ; Danish, 601 1l; Greek, 16 1 ; Mexican, 5 per Cent., 57i 81; Ditto 6 per Cent., '704 ; Peruvian, 32 4 ; Portuguese, 78 1; Russian, 89 4 ; Spanish, 121 1. MINES.—AngIo Mexican, 40 35 die. ; Brazilian, 1 die. par; Bolivar, par ; Colombian, 15 16 per Share; Pasco Peruvian, 17 16 die.; Potosi, 28 30 per Share; Real del. Monte, 90 100 pm. ; Tlalpuxahua, 20 25 pm. ; United Mexican, 13/ 121 dis. Two o' Clock. Consols 63, sellers; 4 per Cents. 1824, ex div. 97i. No variation in Exchequer Bills since the morning. Co lombian Bonds are S6l Mexican, 69i 70. Brazil Mines have gone down to 2 a 2: 1 .1 - discount. THREE 0' CL 0 CR• - Consols, 83, buyers. - - FOUR o'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICES. Consols 83 Danish Bonds -- Do. for Ac. 83 Greek Do. 1885, . 161 Brazilian Bonds 631 Mexican Do. 1825 70i Buenos Ayres Do. 584 Peruvian Do. 33 Chilian Do. 364 Russian Do. 89i Columbian, 1824, 36i Spanish Do. 12i CHILIAN BONDS.--(THIS DAY.) A Meeting of the Chilien Bondholders, was held tl i. day at the City of London Tavern. ' Shortly after on. o'clock several gentlemen had assembled. After soil desultory conversation, Mr. RostNsox was 'called to tilt Chair. , , The BONDHOLDER, by whom the advertisement c oo. vening the meeting had been inserted in the newspapers' then came forward ; he contended that it was incumbent on the Bondholders to take some step with respect to their claims for the two last half yearly dividends do e on their bonds : he therefore should propose a resolution to the effect that a Committee of five persons ought to be appointed for the purpose of communicating with the Chi" Tian Envoy on the subject. A BONDHOLDER assured the meeting that the contrac tor for the loan, as well as the Chilian Envoy, were eel desirous of communicating all the information i n their power respecting the claims of the Bondholders on Of Chilian Government. He was conv i nce d, from all he had heard, that the finances of Chili were NV adequate to meet the demands on it. The div i " dends, he believed had remained unpaid, because the Government had been as yet unable to enforce the par merit of the terms from the individuals who hid contract , ed to collect them. Mr. You No suggested that the Bondholders should in the first instance invite the Contractors and the Envoy to sr' tend a public meeting, for the purpose of stating whatever information they may be in possession of, If this were fee' ceded to, a direct communication could thus be opene d with the Chilian Government through these. Gentlemen. Mr. HAMMOND complained that the Chilian Govern' ment bad not acted fairly towards those persons in this country who had advanced their money ; but he Ive s fishy convinced that the Bondholders would not receive a satisfactory adjustment of their claims, until they shook off their present inactivity, and boldly declared tha t they must have their dividends regularly paid. He we e aware that strictly speaking, their transactions with th e Chilian Government were not, perhaps, strictly legal, but he at the same time thought, that a strong representatio n from our Foreign Minister, to the effect that Chili could nut well expect any favour or protection from our Governmen t while it continued to disregard its solemn pecuniary engage: ments, ' would have a good effect. The Chilian Governmen t had distinctly pledged certain revenues, that arising, f e ' r instance, from tobacco, for the payment of the 'loan'' and their present excuse was nothing more nor le° than this—" Twice we have pledged these revenues you, but since that vvedhave disposed of them to others. He concluded, by proposing certain Resolutions,setting faith that the two half-yearly dividends on the Chilian loam due' on the 21st of March last were still unpaid, and the t there was no prospect of the Bondholders being paid, _un less they addressed the Secretary fo r F ore i gn Affairs, AP" earnestly requested him not to sanction the reecit" nition of Chili, unless the persons forming the Go' vernment of that country showed themselves w orth,' of being placed in the rank of nations, by discharging the ir solemn engagements. After a few words from the Chairman, Mr. YOUNG again urged the propriety of invitiog the Messrs. Hullet, Brothers and Co., the contractors ft' e r the loan, and the Chilian Envoy, to a public Meeting r s the Bondholders ; and it was ultimately resolved, with only three dissentient voices, that these gentlemen be requested to attend such a Meeting on Wednesday next. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—As you frequently give your Readers interesting details of incidents connected wit h Maritime affairs, I extract the following fro► n The Manx Sun, and send it for your use, be' lieving it harmonises with the spirit of your Sun, and will receive a ready insertion, NAUTICILS " In the practice with the mortars forthrovr ing a shot to a vessel in distress, on Caput° Manby's plan, which took place on Douglo sands, on Friday morning the 23d of March, 0, the presence of the Insular Committee, aro , numerous spectators, the experiment was es,t' times, repeated with, uniform success. The tanee thus attained varied between 235 and 26 0 yards ; several of the shot fell within a very fe l/ yards of each other, nor was a single line broken' The "plan of projecting a line by a rocket, either from a vessel to the shore, or from the land to $ vessel, as brought forward by the zealous and in' defatigable Mr: Tringrouse, of Helstone, in Cornwall, (the apparatus for which, had beer presented by the Royal National Institution England, to our Insular Association), was als o partially tried, and the distance attained by th e rockets caused considerable interest : further es' periments on this plan will shortly be tried on I large scale, and a future report be given of th e result. From the precision of the shot thral l by the mortars, and the portability of the rockets) and the speed with which they can be conveyed over the most rugged rocks, we trust that the combination of these invaluable inventions, 60 5 brought to perfection by two active and meritori' ous friends to our seamen, will in future pros e a great and important addition to the measure s already adopted by Life-boats and other moo s ' to avert as far as possible, the calamity of 514' wreck on the wild and dangerous shores of a i dievineFrom th e number of wrecks whic h t , suffer ot 011 yon thatou r m coasts, w lives e will eb i e .e T to s everyab I s l an d. pre served, but that such regulations and i m prove' ments may be adopted, both on land and on ships board, as may ultimately much lessen the risk 4 2 lives by shipwreck. The rockets which we re tried on the sands last Friday, may probably be rendered v e ry serviceable, if carried t o sea . 1 4 every vessel. On a lee-shore, on which vess ell are almost invariably wrecked, they would carry a rope to a great distance." The Horticultural Society held their periods; cal Meeting at their house, in Regent -street, on TuesdaY; when many valuable communications were read by l Sabine, the Honorary and Gratuitous Secretary, and Alf; Lindley, the Deputy. A liberal distribution of rare seed was made amongst the members ; and it was at the sail time communicated to the Society, that a public breakt would this year be given at th e i r fi ne an d ex t e nsive gard e " at Chiswick, instead of the annual dinner. The exact Pei riod will be determined upon when a sufficient number e the members shall have put down their names to indernei"u the Society against loss. One of our Cotemporaries has called the ELl,rt wu of W-d a pillar of the Stat e . Thi s rem i n d s us of old story of a publican who complimented with this title we", soldiers quartered in his house, who had just rec eived a { large sum of pay and p r i ze - money . S omet i me a fter one t; these poor fellows returned to the same house (having b e fj wounded and discharged), in a state of destitution , $., meeting with Lint a sorry reception from mine host, be " c j i minded him that he was one of the men whom he paid so . , attention to, as the Pillars of the Nation- "Oh," said t d publican, " if I ca ll e d y ou s o, I meant the caterpillars ° the nation." 7.--Although Tuef Yet we have h a d to- d o • of 2,000 bags h LIVERPOOL, APRIL 1 day, Manchester market day, whin little or nothing is ne a very sold animatedl d d o n at e v i n e r o uryfull u demand,lpt rt prices. .and market, itpva r d y ni APRIL 17,--Th c sales MANCHESTER, - ev:reryk supnai uniform r havem as e t b o ee l n ead considerable , 10. 8 0 i . ,-- Le to-day a b l e v e a xp li e t e tl t e et i i m , t Co he tt g o i n ian fo ti r ty sev s e:a n l that it has not been very far from the weekly consumptw; of the trade. For a few days past, the prices have b ee " there has been recently a great dulness, and the price v e I t lo in " U . e to lt i m m a p ) ;O l v io e s , ve t v h e a r t , it will, in some measure, Prt )ci if loom A Cnllonthqsuaersetdweta. more steady, and a better feeling in the Yarn department, in fact, therstd to-day more inquiry for that article. Goods are repo road, who as dull, but the returns of the quantity shipped proves t o , considerable business must be doing in them : the Ste t t Y id s e i d le ly m in on req T u u es e t, sd an a d y a e r v e e s n e i a n r c g e. a Ity ,l : Jolly Carters, Hampstead-road, on view of the body of,i if Cotton n l sh n :l e l V d l ard Samuel Farquharson, bookseller, Morley-street, Han'l 39l :',' put a period to his existence, on Monday w ing last, by cu tti ng hi s th roa t. Verdict—insa 3 itY* ', IA SANG FROID.—The Marechal de •Fabe_r_oe, v a siege, was pointing out a particular ilace with his qtlf stretching out another, he continued his dis o Q 4 r se, as he spoke, a musket ball carried off the finger, now