The Sun. — London, England, 1827-12-07 00:00:00

light, therefore his only resource on a winter's evening was a game at cards ; and that he would frankly own it was his intention not to give them up."—/bid. We see from the Scotch Tapers that a num ber of agricultural labourers, could not receive en gagements at the late hiring markets, and that wages have in consequence been very much re duced. This is attributed to the depression of prices of produce. Thus, for instance, the Edinburgh Courant gives the following state ment from a Correspondent in East Lothian : " The scarcity of work which prevailed in the manu facturing districts, and which for a long time was severely iplt by manufacturers of every description, seems now to nave reached those counties which are purely agricultural ; for at all the recent hiring markets a vast number of young men and labourers remained unengaged, whilst those who fortunately found a master were contented to serve him at reduced wages. This stagnation of labour, which augurs no good to the prosperity of the country, was expected' to follow the reduction which has occurred in the value of f a rm produce, therefore gives no surprise to those who are prac tically acquainted with rural transactions. Indeed, under existing circumstances, the probability is, that the demand for labour will gradually lessen, till it is entirely confined to theoperations of ploughing, harrowing, thrashing, and other necessary purposes ; whilst every kind of improvement must be laid aside, front a total want of the means for carrying it into execution. If labourers thus suffer in the first in stance, the case of their masters will soon be infinitely worse ; for proprietors of laud may run abroad, and live at less expence than they can do at home, and labourers may emigrate to other countries in search of employment, though noue of these shifts can be of any avail to the mas ter farmer, he being bound neck and heel to the farm till his lease be concluded or his capital be exhausted. The case of the master manufacturer is very different, as, when trade languishes. he has only to stop businest till matters come round, and then proceed as formerly. Not so the farmer, for he must go ou with his work at all events, not withstanding its being as clear as noon day that from it no advantage can be reaped." It appears, then, that food is so dear in France, that the military. are hardly able to keep-down the starving population, while in this country it is so low as to ruin the farmer, while it is yet so much above the famine price of our neighbours, that we cannot export any to them. This comes of the mad attempt to force prices up by artificial means greatly beyond what , they are in other countries. The farmers say they must turn. off their hands from inability at the present prices to employ them. But how, we ask, can this be prevented ? Whence can they obtain higher prices? What branch.of our industry is in ; a state to afford higher prices for food ? How can the English manufacturer, on wages which do net exceed those paid on the Continent, pay a double and triple price for ,his food ? No Legislative skill can extract from men more than they pos sess. The times are now very different from what they were, when a cotton-spinner and his family received four and five guineas a week, and the single weaver his two guineas. Then the mechanic could fare sumptuously, and enable the farmer to indulge in all the luxuries of both he mispheres. But peace put an end to this state of things. The war burdened us with a ruinous debt, and peace offered to capital more bene ficial channelS of investment than are to be found in an over-taxed country. But with our decreas ing means, we retain many of the pernicioUs habits of extravagance . acquired during the war. The men who acquired capital in agricultute, were mostly of low origin, with frugal habits, and an everlasting vigilance, that attended mi nutely to every operation. But these men left behind them, for the most part, a set_ of profli gate sons, who played the fine gentlemen, kept hunters and livery servants, and forgetting that the success of farming depends chiefly •riti care and vigilance, and attention to minute details, trusted every thing to servants. The .conse quence has_been the breaking up of a great num ber of these men. There is no evil without its attendant good. We have heard that, in several p l ac es, where cultivation has been carried to a high pitCh of perfection, the destruction of :large fanners haegiven rise to a nw mode of cultivation. Several men of good char e acter of the lower or ders, who had saved Small capitals, NV C formed c opartnerships for stocking and labouring alarm, which has enabled them to avail themselves of the economy and superior distribution of labour introduced by the farmers On a large scale, while they display all the care and frugality of the small farmers, and conduct the labour with an energy and heartiness which, cannot be expected from the hired labourer. In this manner. a source of hope is opened for the industrious and virtuous of the labouring classes, who, by the general prevalence of large farms, re quiring large capitals, were ut off from all means ot emerging from their zaituation, and doomed to everlasting villenage. In the High. lands of Scotland, the inhabitants of which were devoted to destruction by the introduction of sheep-farming, the greatest change has, we understand, been wrought by the partnership system. The natives having acquired a know ledge of the management of sheep, combined in their respective villages to fo rm a flock, under a common shepherd ; and during the severe storms, when the great farmer had no 'extra supply 'of hands,_ each of the small farmers attended to his share of the common flock; and thus often suc ceeded, by extraordinary efforts, in saving them, while the 'flocks of the great farmer were de stroyed. We have heard that the improvements of the Marquis of Stafford, which were attended with such an, expense of individual suffering, have turned out in the end a bad concern, while the estates possessing old Highlanders have been more successful. But be this as it may, it is obvious that the agriculture of this country must go hand in hand with its manufactures and ,com pierce, and that all the Corn Laws in the world would be unable to extract high prices front rea duced profits 'and reduced wages. Rents must fall, and a number of estates mortgaged beyond • their value, must go from the owners. These t hi ng s are deeply to be deplored : but we know of no security against vicissitudes in this world. Estai.es must share the fate of other property. A fall of prices sends the merchant to the Gazette; a fall of rents beggars the owner, whose estate is deeply mortgage: a, For a lo g time past, many receiving rents out of the landlords have been capital of their tenants On lease. But this stag of things cannot last always. We see the Duke of Buccleugh has lowered his rents SO per cent. ; those landlords who refuse to imitate bun, must make up their minds to do so, when they beggared their tenants.—Morning Chronicle.. .. • There' are two classes of persons in this country who chiefly derive advantage from the present state of the law of libel—namely, per sons of sordid speculation, who hope to pocket motley by it, and persons of doubtful reputation, who wish to patch up a character. Among the former c l ass are the low and needy —or, as they are denominated in the " vulgar tongue," the pettilogging...... attorne ys. In the other class are g enteel swindlers and joint-stock schemers, who swarm in our day on the b an k s o f the Nile numer ously as the " reptiles - Lion of the unde rl in gs of office and the minor functionaries,who are as v intolerent of the eye and oice of public opinion as Spanish Inquisitors , an d whose moral health is •so . delicate that, as some satirical writer has observed, they cannot live withoutfianne/ next their 'reputation. On the other hand, we never meet with an• justice of a man of truly honourable mind and virtu us character who does not rely more upon the fotce of fact, and the eventual triumph of truth,; in clearing his fame from any temporary obloquy that prejudice or mistake may have thrown upon it, than upon the penal application of the law of libel, which, though it may . silence opinion, cannot convince it. This topic cannot be better illustrated than by reference to the language used by the Irish Lord Chancellor, Sir Anthony Hart, the other day, in the course of sonic ob servations which he made in reply to a statement of Mr. Saurin. That Learned Gentleman, in arguing the case at present in litigation between the Lord Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls, relative to the appointment of a Secretary to the latter, thought proper to observe that " It was extremely desirable it should not go forth to the public that any unpleasant feeling existed between the two Courts ; and more particularly in the present times, when there was generally prevailing a wish and au erukavour to degrade and bring into contempt those in high station." - . —How did the Lord Chancellor meet this ad captandum substitute for argument, in which the general feeling of society was vilified to serve the particular interest of the Master of the Rolls ? Did the Learned Lord countenance the doctrine in the abstract, or admit its personal applieationy His good sense made him disclaim the one, and his confi dence in his own rectitude would not allow him to set any value upon the other. His language, in allusion to this subject, deserves to be• borne in mind by all persons in authority, and espe cially by those who show a fretful irritation or a vindictive vanity whenever their conduct becomes the topic of public discussion. .He is stated to have said, " With respect to that part of Mr. Saurin's argument, relative to the wish existing in the persons alluded to by him to degrade and bring into contempt those in high stations, I have but one observation to make ; and it is, that he who acts uprightly, whose conduct is open, to investigation, and whose motives are freely and openly laid before the public-.-who feels a consciousness of acting uprightly, ac cording to the best of his judgment—has nothing to fear from the opinion of any man pr class of men. Such are my feelings, and thus I dispose of that part of the argument." Those are senti ments worthy of a British Judge who relies upon his own acts and his own intentions, and not upon legal sophistry or a law of terror, to pro tect from unjust aspersion the " spotless purity of the ermine." It is lie who entertains such sentiments, whether in public or private life, who knows the true value Of character, for 'lie establishes it on its only solid and permanent basis—his own probity and virtues. Where these do not exist, the law of libel may, indeed, serve a mercenary or a vindictive purpose ; but it cannot work a moral miracle, and give sound ness to a shattered reputation:—Morn. Herald. So intense has the anxiety of the public been with respect to the probable results of the battle of Navarin, that all other subjects are almost li terally passed over in sil e nce. It is now certain that Don Miguel is to -Visit London on his way to LiSbon,where he is to receive certain lessons for the direction of his future government of the Portuguese.. At the same time we are informed that the French troops are evacuating the Spa nish fortresses, which they never should have oc cupied. ThuS then we find our armed interfe rence has left the Portuguese to their melancholy fate, while in the East it is likely to lead to con sequences of the most disas6ous character. The public mind is completely unsettled—and the general distrust in the Administration nearly at its height. To relieve us from our foreign perplexities, or to devise any plan by wiat. a destructive war may be avoided, would b( conferring a valuable benefit on the public ; hut we much apprehend that the crisis will scarcely admit of - diplomacy coming to our aid. We never contended for the continu ance of the Ottoman Government as it is, or as it has been ; but we have still asserted, that some Power capable of resisting the ambi tious projects of any European Autocrat would be absolutely necessary to the protection of our Eastern frontier. It cannot he disguised that one of the Northern Powers has long cast a wistfel eye upon Turkey ; and that .if such Power were quietly allowed to cross the Pruth, the Black Eagle would be soon seen floating on the towers of the old Byzantium. The Russian Nobles and soldiers pant for employment—that is to say, for war ; and the Emperor has perhaps some reason to apprehend, that a long interval of peace would either induce or enable his subjects to turn their attention to the cultivation of other arts than those of war. The Sovereign himself may be peaceably inclined ; but that is not the prominent characteristic of his semi-barbarous people. Besides, where the Government is absolute, and the bulk of the people ,mere serfs, chained to the' soil, or else soldiers subject to the bayonet or the knout-:-the people feel a degree of restlessness which the Goveiriunent finds it difficult to check. A Russian hates a Turk as the enemy of his reli gion ; and 'a Turk would destroy a Russian from the same motive. Both parties either know not or forget what they owe to civil society, and as good government has been equally a stranger to them, we marvel little at the surface which they present to an attentive observer.' Austria could not successfully prevent the irruption of Russia, even if she were'inclinfd to do so. Prussia of fers no barrier—for discontent' is gnawing at her borne vitals at ; and except by sea,GreatMritain herself can oppose no successful obstacle. To do this would require a large, naval and marine force in the vicinage of the liardanelles, or ge nerally in the Levant ; and thus it would so happen, 'that our victories must entail ad ditional burdens upon the Nation. We have hitherto unsettled the previous policy upon which the balance of power in Europe was thought to be permanently fixed. The Bour bons have now the possession of France, Sicily, Spain, and, without any great violation of truth, we may add Porti,igal. But fortunately there is not one of the race able to take advantage of the high ground on which he is placed, and turn the inistAqs of England to his own accoupt, ,fin like manner the rode was allowed to exist as an independent Power to co:mteract the designs of Aussia—but 'it seems Oat the good old-fa shioned policy of prevention has been abandon ed, with what useful object we are at a ioss to conjecture. Our Rulers surely must be infa tuated in the .conduct they are pursuing i or else' they would not blindly and rashly continue tot act as they have done. We hope, however, that the good sense of the British public will teach them their duty, and enforce its due performance. —Morning Post. The Marquis of Lansdowne has issued circu lars to the Police Offices, to inquire if any of their officers have been guilty of compounding of felony, by taking part in the restoration of the Warwick bankers' notes, and Messrs. Grimaldi's watches.' The Lord Mayor has had his atten tion directed to the same subject, and an inquiry is likely to be made in consequence. With what success, however, is doubtful. Whoever was engaged in those compromises will, very probably, have ingenuity enough to say nothing about' it. To ask a man if he has /committed a crime, the confession of which is sure to send him to )botany Bay for fourteen years, and to expect any answer but one, argues either a very generous opinion, or but little knowledge of hu man nature. We believe that the report of any officer being engaged in the cases in question was an idle tale, furnished on the usual terms at which such important news is purchased, and that it will be found so. The simplest mode of ascertaining.the facts, however, would be to 'hand up the parties confessedly impli cated, and to compel them to bear witness, or to be indicted as principals. We presume the crime of thief -bate has, to all intents and purposes, been committed as completely by those to whom, as it was by those through whom, the goods were restored. If they do not know the parties from whom the property was got back, they can at least describe them ; somebody else may know them. The attempt, however, to put down such acts will, we fear, be quite in vain, without an entire change of system. We per fectly agree with an evening contemporary, that while there is such a tenderness of liberty and of life in crimes unconnected with violence ; while every advantage is given to the accused if he can command a few guineas and so little to the accu ser; while Judges and Juries lean towards the former, and while it is matter of etiquette that even the Counsel of the latter should not lean too much against him ; where the slightest flaw, the minutest starting hole, the mis-spelling of a name, the incorrect description of a sinle par ticular, are allowed to defeat the ends of justice and slip the neck of the most consummate rogue in Christendom out of the halter—while, in fact, the whole endeavour in Criminal Courts seems directed to save the thief, and not.the honest man from being plundered—it is nonsense to look to any better security of property than we have at present. We see that a meeting connected with the subject we are discussing has been held in South Lambeth, an account of which will be found in another column. It was proposed to form a society in order to offer rewards for ap prehending criminals—a proposition which was opposed in a very sensible speech by one of the gentlemen preseht ; though ultimately, with some 'slight modification, it was agreed to. We fully concur with the gentleman who -opposed it on the folly of expecting that officers will ever exert themselves to put down thievery, while they have a direct interest in its continuance. We should as soon expect a club of country squires to extir pate foxes.—New Times. A number of the seamen at the Broomielaw have for some time past had their suspicions raised against a man who has been in the habit of passing and reprising in the Belfast steam-packets. On Saturday, shoot three o'clock, having got their eye upon the fellow as he was lauding from one of the boats, a consultatihn was held ; and it having, been whispered that he had on board a Subject, a determination was taken by the tars that he should be ducked. A rope was accordingly pro cure:l, and very nimbly passed round the waist of the sus pected violator of the grave, who, 'almost before he was aware,• was raised in his turn half-way- into the air by means• of a crane, which stood- very conveni ently at' hand, where, like the coffin of the eastern prophet, he was suspended for some time, amid the shouts of a large concourse of spectators. In a few minutes, by the turning of the wheel, he descended s l ow ly to the water, where be received dip the first, and wits again hoisted'on hi,gli, to the infinite amusement of the spectators, who insisted upon a repetition, which was ac .• 1 cormagly done several times. The poor man presented a l i very pitiable appearance, and seemed more dead than alive. _Li v ...e. 1.... t .- .masea tw• the police-off sera, and convey ed to the o ff ice. Be has since been ilismia.ed. H e is the individual who a short time ago was sciAed in Gallowgate with the dead body of a female child in his possession.—: But if he buy the bodies in Ireland, the people on this side the channel unel h a ve no cause of complaint.--Giw vou , Chronicle. HEAD POLICE-OFFICE. -ELOPEMENT.- HORRIBLE DRPRAVITY.-Saturday evening, an occurrence of this kind, marked by circumstanoes peculiarly aggrava ted, took place in the 'neighbourhood of the Broadstone, where the parties resided. The guilty pair Were both married persons, living in humble but comfortable circum stances, and have each deserted their home, leaving behind them respectively a helpless family of children in a state of almost utter destitution. The facts are shortly as follow : —On Saturday evening, the wife of a boat owner, named j— D—, left the house of her husband on pretence of going to market, but returned no more. On the neTt morning the husband discovered that the loss of his frail partner was not the only one he was doomed .to sustain, as, on , visiting his desk, he found it plundered of the whole of his worldly wealth, amounting to upwards of No?. in bank-notes and silver. It was soon after ascertained that had left his home at exactly the same hodr as a mart of the name of M — also a boat-owner, wife. Sufficient proofs were in a short time discovered to place the matter beyond doubt, that they had been mutual partners in flight. S—, it was found, hail, for a few days previously, been exerting himself to raise whatever sums he could, until he had collected a 'considerable amount. His last act in this way, was characteristic of singular inhumanity. Immediately before forsaking f or ever, his family, consisting of a wife, and three children scarcely yet advanced beyond infancy, after securing what ever cash and portable valuables were in the house, he ap plied to his wife, then actually on the eve of child-birth, for a few shillings and pence, with which lie departed, not leaving a single penny behind him either for her suste nance or that of his children. Hie unfortunate paramour, whose age is said to be about twenty-seven years, has left three children also, one of them an infant at the breast.— Yesterday the Magistrates, on the informations of the hus band, issued a warrant for the apprehension of the parties, who, there is reason to suppose, have directed their flight to Liverpool.,—Dublin Morning Post. HUNT EXTRAORDINARY.--On Tuesday afternoon we were a good deal amused by seeing a man dressed in a red night cap, and snuff brown coat, plough ing his way through the waves of the sea, followed by hun dreds of persons along the beach witnessing the feat. The Man sullenly kept on his watery way, his arms folded across his breast, without noticing any one. Every body seemed anxious to learn what all this meant, but nobody •appeared to know. At length the tale burst from the lips of one of those fair nymphs, who, with baskets on their arms, frequent the fish market ; she, must uncourteously thrust ing forth her head, —and almost forcing her brawny fists in the face of a young operative, excl aimed " a party thing that a poor feller like Joe can't get drunk, and ha' a Lit of a spree, without being taken up by sich as you be!" The young operative's colour mounted to his check bone 6, but as the blood returned with double force to his heart, his face assumed an ashy paleness, and be muttered an ex ruse to the virago, that lie only " aided and assisted," be= cause he was forced to " uid and assist." The woman, as she turned round to follow (not in his wake) Joe, cast a spiteful look on the poor operative, and said in quite a dif ferent tone, "poor feller, suppose lie is brought in a drownded corpse to night !" We then learnt that Joe had been keeping wedding with two couples tliet had been mar ried in the morning, and having taken too much heavy wet, he w as next compelled to take to the water, to avoid the officers, who hail interfered to put an end to the affray. in his native element, it being about half title, Joe set u tt e l e in e er r at defiance, swearing by all the beach col lected at the new groynes, that he would drown, and make a mermaid of any man that should dare to fish for him. Ti me o fficers were not such fiat fish as to attempt it, and therefore whilst he waded through the water till he got nearly to Bove, they kept on the Cliff, certain that he must ultimately come into their net. It seems there was a glori ous ki c k op, when the row first began—not less than some dozen men fighting or wrestling together---several women in fits-01E10,111mi, the Beadle, knocked down, and roll ed in the mud—and several fishermen plunging into the sea t o . a void the officers,.....Bripkton Gazette. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday two men, named Rush and Bentley,were brought before the Loan mAyoi b charged with having stolen a pair of boots in the shep of •Mr. Alger, a bOot-maker, on Ludgate-hill. There was something rather strange in the case. Yesterday was the first day of the Old Bailey Sessions, and it must have been about the time the prisoners entered the shop and stole the boots that the Court was opened-- They made way upon leaving the shop, as if by instinct, up the Old Bailey, where they were so shortly to appear to answer for the experiment, and were taken in the im mediate neighbourhood of Newgate, the shopman having observed and followed them in the act of robbery, and pursued them with an "halloo !" One of them was stop ped by a compositor ; the other, upon being closely pur sued, turned round, and performed his promise of "floor ing" the shopman if he persevered, but was soon after wards apprehended. They were then conducted before the Loan MAYOR, who committed them for trial. The Grand Jury then found a true bill against them for the robbery. It was expected that they would be tried in the course of the evening. - - A number of paupers from different parts of the coun try applied for relief, but the LORD MAYOR ordered them all, except one poor desolate woman, with a child in her arms, out of the room, as possessing no claim *upon the city of London. The female alluded to had been, it ap peared, sent up from a parish in Berkshire to London with is. in her pocket, the gift of the parish-officers, who told her that the Lord Mayor was the only person calculated to serve her. Some remarks were made upon this cruel prac tice of disposing of the poor, and the unfortunate pauper received some present relief. BOW-STREET. —The parish authorities of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, have at length bestirred themselves, and a strong desire is now evinced by tht.m to put down the abominable night houses that abound in the parish, to the existence of which we have so repeatedly invited attention. Mr. Thomas, the publisher, of York-street, Covent garden, who is serving the office of constable in his own right, waited on Sir R. Blame yesterday morning, for the purpose of informing him that himself, the other constable, and several watchmen, had been before the" Parish Board in the course of the morning, for the purpos e of g ivin g evidence as to the several flash-houses, coffee-shops, and oyster-rooms in the neighbourhood. After a very rigid inquiry and some discussion had taken place, the Parish Board came to the resolution to lose no time in indicting those houses against which they can obtain evidence; and Mr. Roach, the parish solicitor and vestry clerk, received instructions to that effect. Mr. Thomas added, that pro- ceedings are to be commenced immediately against three of the houses. Sir R. Butane was rejoiced to hear that the Parish Board had at length come to a resolution so praiseworthy. Mr. Thomas then retired. Mr. Thomas Cushion, of No. 12, Quebec-street, Port man-square, came to give information of a most daring robbery and attempt at murder, that took place in Hyde park on the night previous, which had very nearly proved fatal to his brother, Mr. William Cushion. The latter gentleman was crossing Hyde-park on Wednesday night about ten o'clock, and was on the footway leading from the Serpentine River to Grosvenor-gate, when accosted by a man, who asked him for a shilling to get a night's lodging, alleging that he was in distress. Mr. Cushion told him that he really had nothing to give him, and he was passing on, when, perceiving thatthe man kept close to his heels, he stopped for a moment to expostulate with him, and to assure him that he had no means to relieve him. While in the act of doing so, another fellow came behind him, and seising him by the aims, he was struck a violent blow by a third ruffian, by which he was knocked down. One of the fellows then knelt upon his stomach while his two companions pro ceeded to rifle his pockets. Mr. Cushion, although consi derably stunned, was not insensible, but conceiving exertion useless, he lay perfectly quiet. The villains took a silver watch from his fob, and three gold seals, and he heard one of them remark that where there was so good a watch it was most likely there was money also. They then renewed their search, and took from his pocket fifteen soveleigns. After satisfying themselves that he had no more property, , they next consulted as to how they should dispose of him.' " Shall we murder him?" said one. " Let us fling him into the gravel-pits close by," said a second, " and smother him in the mud." They ac cordingly took him from the ground, where he lay ap parently insensible, and carried him to the:gravel-pits, into whiek a great quantity. of mud had lately. been. thrown. One of the villains held him by the head, and the other by the feet, and getting close to the edge of one of the pits, they flung him right in; believing, no doubt, that the mud was deep enough to smother him, and then they ran away. It fortunately happened, however, that the place where Mr. Cushion fell was not of sufficient depth, and after satisfying himself that they had fled, he with great difficulty managed to creep:on his hands and knees front the pit, and pro ceeded in considerable pain to one of the gates of the Park.- w h ere b e gave information to the keeper, as well as he was able (for he was nearly exhausted), of the manner in which he ,had been attacked. Mr. Cushion added, that his brother was soon after conveyed home, where he now lay suffering considerable pain, in consequence , of the blows which he received, and the manner in which one of the villains knelt upon a most tender part of his body. he,,, v,!} .7 _,Bilialie having caused the above information to accon7p v a: i n " la y l ii it n i i s Cll:l=7l,l`l i b r Vt7l. l elP's u r k e e sid t e h n e ce ° , M ror the purpose of c ollectin g further particulars, and a description of the by whom Mr. Cushion had been so brutally attacked. Henry Fallon, one of the persons employed by Warren the blacking-man, in the Strand, to deface the walls in the neighbourhood 'of the metropolis, was placed at the bar, charged capitally with committing a rape on the body of Margaret Gains, an interesting child, only nine years of age. The aunt of the little girl is the wife of William Maybury, charged at this office some time ago, with em bezzling various sums while in the employment of Mr. Warren. He was tried at the Old Bailey, and sen tenced to transportion for 14 years. . The little girl was then sworn, after satisfying the Ma gistrate that she understood the nature of an oath. She gave her eiidence clearly and distinctly, and said she was assaulted by the prisoner, who took advantage of his wife's absence in the kitchen, while she lay upon the bed.' The prisoner was remanded till next' Saturday, when the child will be brought forward again if she should be sufficiently well. WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday, four gentlemen of great respectability, Dr. Jones, Dr. Gordon, Mr. Hughes, and Mr. Tyrrell, appeared before Mr. TWYFORD, to solicit the proteetion of the Magistrates against an intolerable nuisance, to which the inhabitants of Finsbury-square, and its neighbourhood are exposed, by the existence of two dis orderly houses in Cross-street. The gentlemen represented that the abominable scenes that were eonstantly occurring at these places, between the disorderlies of both sexes who resorted to them, had been the occasion of driving many respectable families from the neighbourhood, and the property of the landlords was in consequence greatly depreciated in value. Houses, for in stance, the rent of which had been 1301., would not let for more than SO/. Application had been made to the parish authorities, but the inhabitants could not get them to take effectual means to remove the evil, and they made the pre sent application in the hope that their object might be effected by the interference of the Police Magistrates. Mr. TIVICIORD observed, that it was a matte• of extreme difficulty to put down a house of this description, even at an expense of VOL " The owner may be indicted," said he, "but when you produce your witness, a barrister gets up and cross-examines him, and his evidence is discredited, because he has himself entered the infamous place." After some further conversation, it was agreed that the Board of Trustees should be written to on the subject of in dicting the parties, and that officers should be•employed to prevent the outward nuisance complained of. A woman of the town, named Maria Smith, was fully committed for trial, charged with being one of four women, who; on the morning of the 17th of November, broke into and robbed the house of Mrs. Shane, a green grocer, in the Hackney-road. Another prisoner, against whom there was not positive evidence, was discharged. HATTON-GARDEN.—At three o'clock yesterday afternoon, all the police-officers attached to this Establieli ment were assembled together, agreeably to.an order of the magistrates given for that purpose, at an early hour a the day, by Mr. Mall,tt, the Chief Clerk. The three magistrates (A. S. LAIN°► Esq., W. ROGERS, Esq,, and Mr. Sergeant Set,t.on) were sitting, when Mr. What requested the reporters and all other persons (strangers) to withdraw, as the magistrates were about to enter into an investigation of rather a private nature. It was generally understood, however, that this inquiry originated from the circumstances of the late rob beries effected von the notes of the Warwick Bank and upon Grimaldi and Co., jewellers in the Strand. QUEEN-SQUARE.—Late ou Wednesday evening, Mr. Ford, a solicitor, of Great Queen-street, Westminster, and Mr. Cook, a solicitor, of Bedford-street, Covent-garden, attended before the sitting Magistrate, Geoltee W. MAR RIOTT, Esq. Mr. Ford had been requested to attend in consequence of an application having been made to Mr. WHITE, ' to accept bail for the gentleman in custody for fraudulently obtaining and uttering a draught on Sir Claude Scott's house for 1501. He had been prepared with his witnesses to prove the ease against the prisoner; but one of his wit nessei, named Stevens,)bad been arrested at the door of the office, and the other had been taken in execution. After a long conversation, Mr. Mansion consented 'to accept of bail, as the prosecutors had no objection... • Two bail were then required of 250/. each, to answer for the prisoner's. appearance next Wednesday, when Mr. Ford should be ready to support the charge. The proprietor of the Saloon, in Piccadilly, declined being one of the bail, and another bail was put in and ac cepted, when the prisoner was liberated on his undertaking to procure another bail in the morning. Yesterday morn ing another bail was procured. . MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—As soon as Mr. char- FITE{ had taken his scat upon the Bench yesterday morn ing, Mr. Coleman, of No. 11, Prince's-street, Lisson-grove, informed him, that on passing the Alpha Cottages at St. John's Wood just before, his attention was drawn by se• veral persons collected together in a lane having no tho roughfare, and standing round something wrapped in wool, enclosed in two sheets of writing paper sewed together. At first he thought it was a rabbit, but it proved to be the dead body of a new-born female child. The office-mes senger was immediately sent with a shell to convey the body to the workhOuse, where it remains for the inspec tion of a jury. A poor woman; who lives at No. 83, Devonshire-street, Lisson-grove, asked Mr. Gamtrrn to assist her in recover ing three guineas, offered as a reward for the finder of some Bank-notes. She stated, that on Sunday afternoon she found two 51. Bank of England notes, and intrusted them with a man of her acquaintance, that he might in quire whether they had been advertised. They were lost by Mr. Butler, of No. 11, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside, who advertised them, with the above reward, which the man to whom she intrusted them received, and has applied to his own use. Mr. GRIFFITH was sorry he could not assist her, and ad vied her to apply to the city magistrates. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday morning a Mr. Roffey, re siding in Baalzephon-street, Bermondsey, attended at this office for the purpose of making application for a warrant against an individual, who bad endangered the life of his son by careless driving. The MAGISTRATE advised the applicant to place the matter in the hands of an attorney, who could enter an action against the driver, and in all probability heavy damages would be awarded against him. DREADFUL SHIPWRECK, AND MELAN- CHOLY LOSS OF LIVES, The brig Aurora, of this port, Captain Richard Howlen, master, burthen 190 to 200 tons, sailed hence on Sunday morning last, with a very full cargo of bacon and butter, for London. She had been but a few hours at sea when she became leaky ; By degrees the leak increased to such an extent, is to require the incessant labour of two men. •In this critical situation, the weather becoming adverse, and no prospect appearing of being able to make the English coast, (then distant about ten or twelve leagues,) the Captain found himself necessitated, on Tuesday morning, to put about and steer back for Waterford. On Wednesday afternoon, a most furious gale came on from the South, during which they :made the land, and were proceeding under easy sail for this harbour, when a tremen dous tea struck the vessel on the weather side, and a sudden gust of wind, more violent even than the preceding gale, coming on at the same instant, laid her on her beam-ends, and rendered her almost totally unmanageable. Every expedient, however, which prudence and good seamanship could suggest, was tried, but all to no purpose, as the increasing fury of the storm and the partial shifting of the cargo frustrated every effort of her almost exhausted crew to get her upright. Thus ' left a mere helpless log upon the water, she of course drifted before the temps t, and was carried by the resistless Waves, then rolling mountains high, in. the direction of that part of the shore near Tramore Bay. The sensations of the hapless poor fellows on board, at this juncture may be more easily imagined than described. Depressed and worn out by long continued toil—hurried rapidly towards a steep and rocky coast, on which the surges were: breaking with terrific violence—and without the slightest rational hope of escape (the situation of the vessel-prevent ing them from getting out the long-boat, and the jolly-boat having been previously washed fr9M her i s i t a e l i i • i ct i ) g no on prospect eof iev i a ta p b p l e e tu d •ed t h b e . for T e doomed !--for about five o th rs, b al but tb e onea vessel struck upon a ledge of rocks, a little to the eastward of Brownstown Head, which . 0 0f e t lo h e e k m , t \ h ve . re uuheepilY forms the easternmost point of Tramore Bay, when she immediately tumbled over, bottom. upwards, and was soon dashed into 'atoms ! • The master is the only survivor of this dreadful calamity, and his escape is chiefly owing, under Pr ovidence, to his uncommon personal strength and courage, as he was nearly three houra struggling in the water before he got safe on shore, when he had to climb in the dark up a very steep precipice, where scarcely any footing was to be found, and had then to walk, or rather crawl, a considerable distance to the nearest human habitation, where, under the roof of a poor man named Patrick Faby, he received every kindness and attention that the limited means of its inmates would afford. The unfortunate suf- ferers on this occasion were eight in number (in cluding two young boys.) One of the bodies, that of one of the boys, was picked up on Thursday; none of the others had been found at a late hour yes- terday. The vessel, which belonged to se; era] owners, was not, we believe, insured. We are happy to add that Capt. Howlan is now out of danger.— Waterford Chronicle. We had a very heavy sea here on- Saturday and Sunday night, the wind blowing 'a strong gale from the S.W. The moon being nearly full, the tide was much higher than it has been for a considerable time.- - Early on Monday morning it swept away part of the new groyne near Lamprell's baths, which had been temporarily fixed there till the new road is completed. The western end of the new sea-wall was also laid bare of beach, and some yortions of it swept away. —Brighton Gazette. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—DROWNI NG. —Sunday 'morning, a female, of respectable appearance, was observed wanderingalong the banks of the Royal Canal, evidently betraying, by the wildness of her air and manner, somewhat of an unsettled state of mind. She entered se veal houses, desiring to purchase some milk, but not pro curing any, she had a little beer at a public-house near the l:e of s t c h l a i O'Bv.lEN,ct n of she ti ve threw residingwife o herself a inrespect able into Tal Tenth Lock, which, while she parto o k of, she conti nued to utter the most incoherent expr essions, and evi nce other symptoms of deranged inte llect. On leavin g this, she proceeded but a i l e i n t ttltiefiheed t o be n a further the Canal, convenient to the `Eleventh Luck. Th e b o d y eras tradesman, yesterday d of ston-street. Some misfortunes of a domestic nature were latterly observed to prey heavily on her spirits. It was rather curious that on leaving home on the morning of Sun day she exchanged the dress which she usually wore for another of a much more indifferent quality, also leaving behind her a sum of money which she had for some time carried about her. A razor, a small bottle, and a few coppers were found in one of her pockets. An inquest was yesterday held on the body before Mr. WOARTny, one of the Coroners for the County. —Dublin Morning Post. On Wednesday last there was found in the River Clyde, opposite the lands of Belvidere, the body of a man, apparently about the age of SO or S 5 years. His hat, in which were a handkerchief and pocket-book, was upon the bank, immediately behind where he himself lay. In his pocket-book was the copy of an indenture, with some other papers of little apparent value. From these he appears to have been a ROBERT Dieu, a printer, from Belfast. The circumstance of his bat, &c., being left upon the bank, gives ground to suppose that he must have committed the deed intentionally. His body was con veyed and locked up in one of the proprietor's offices. In the evening, two persons, of rather a suspicious appearance, called at the dwelling-house, and pretend ing to he friends of the deceased, requested to he shewn the body. During the night, however, the pl4e t p in ei i . e so a n i s )p l o v i to ted e , al s l e e e d ni , a t n o d a6 th r e d ir go n o b d t was broken open, and the corpse carried off. The suspici ttlwileas committed. On Friday the body i o t,:aiv s si a nd p ga p ri e i: a tg r u a m n ou c e e t,ria . ag f te reason to suspect that they were the individuals by whom was found on the ground of a neighbouring proprietor, in such a situation as shows evidently that the .perpetrators were s cared, and thus deprived of the booty which they no doubt expected to have got off without interruptiop. The c orpse has been taken possession of by the proper alt thorities, and will therefore now be &Coady interred, :THE MARKETS. • SOUTHALL MARKET—Noy. 5. , . • , i pd , At this day's market, which was largely stippl;eo, rather numerously attended by buyers, each kind of n' of met with a dull sale, at the following prices per scene . B zir e ut f r -- on 3 3s i 81b. to sink the °Us:— to 8 0 d. to 4 45. Bd B . r V o e r a k l 5 6 d. r The foregoing quotations are Beef, Mutton, and Pork,,,j same as those of this day se'nnight, from which Ve al rcre. c . from 4d. to 6d. per stone. A considerable proportion of the c o' ply lett the market unsold. thi. to (,)i,• HAILSHAM MARKET.—Dec. 5. Beef 4s. Od. to ss. 4d. as. Mutten—..„..... 4 4 5 8 I Pork 0 0 Supply good, .and trade brisk. l Our Christmas the b Cattle Show awarded liavin to Meagre. p to g been 1 ster and Denman, of Willington Park ; for th e best to Mr. James Gorringe, of Sharpets ; and for the runt to Mr. Searl.—[As nothing was said in our it ; letter about the prizes for the sheep, &e., awar ds ,rl i e probably unknown to our reporter at the departure 6' at post.] 1e the prize RUMFOnD m. s. e toy , i ' s. d. toil. d. 4 4 I Beef 3 8 4 8 I Veal V - ,i, Mittn 3 6 4 8 Pork • - duckling Calves from l 2 s. to SBa. ; Quarter old PigglOs• to 16s. ei"" Supply good, and trade tolerably brie ARKET.—llec. 5. - - - _ 3 c „. o ing, N. B.—No account having been received from plit Arundel, or Chichester Markets, they are pro ba-i t feal off till next week, for the purpose of hringig - nearer to Christmas. 7.7771, .110' txu THE ' COUNTRY CORN MARKEL'S DURING B 80' Wheat. Barley. Oats. to Per Quarter. a. to a. a. to s. a. to s. ov, Blandford 57 so „ 43 40 45 IS 24) 18 25 'l'.4 -- 54 29 21 1 .9 Chard 56 76 32 38 24 30 4. 51) Huntingdon 30 32 20 25 44 11 Long Sutton,.... 42 54 17 22 41 Louth • , 44 50 26 30 pi '22 Lynn 3B 56 es 32 lti 24 T..). Newark 48 60 "27 35 IS 30 t Nottingham 55 61 36 42 30 40 5 ' Peterborough 40 50 2S 32 24 3U Plymouth 56 66 37 38 25 23 52 33 9 0 - 7,, 2u , Sherborne—,—.... 52 56 26 32 23 28 •7 , Uppingliam 46 58 24 30 20 41 AR) 40 41? I Wisbech 40 54 30 35 20 '24 LEEDS CORN PdARKET.—Dec. 4 , e There was a good supply of 'Wheat, but the Us no , dull, and p r ic e s w e re rather lower. The arrival ° f , e asy ley was l a rg e , an d ver y s l ow sa l e a t I s . to 2e. Pe r c i„ a l decline. In Oats, Shelling, and Beans, there w B5 teration, but the sales were liruitted. Wheat, Norfolk and S u ffblk, 601 h. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ' 33s. t ° 92d• a Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding '2ss. to ~ Beans 63lb. Oats, Potatoe 325. to el.:j. Foreign 120. to 13d....Eogliblt I lid. to: 14 ",,10. Shelling 3 3 5. to 3 00 . l' er 10' Rapeseed, English, 221. to 241....... Foreign, —/. to Xl.l MANCHESTIR YAI No. d. d. Throstle Twist, 20 101 to 11a 30 —124 13 40 16 I'7 MuleeopTwist} so 11 12 for warp 40-14 15 -‘l7 60 _9O 21 70...24 26 80..28 31 :N MARK . !---------- /, toii 1 1 F.T.—Doe• I N r 34) ........—• ~ i , 1 1, . 4 50 ...,......, 1U i 1 1 1 i 2? 60 ............ 80 730 d 20) io orwoov. 5 - 6 100 ...neer., 3 4 120 ..e.r...."" a 10,...—,.. fo. 14 —,....... ; ! I 18 ~........, 10 i .., 24 ..» ---- - '1 Mule Cop Weft.: Weft from waste :GLASGOW RETAI Beef per lb. Os. 3d. to Os. Dd. Mutton 0 4 0 6 Veal 0 5 0 9 Hams 0 7 0 9 Lamb perqr. 1 6 3 0 Quartern Loaf.— 0 9 0 0 Flour, per stone 2 0 2 8 Rye 1 6 1 8 Pearl ditto.... 2U Oatmeal, per st 1s• tid.tol 6 Grey Pease l2 0 14 0 White ditto __I:1 0 i} Blue ditto 13 0 - t 212: 03 Geo HOP INTELLIGENCE. ice" WORC ESTE R, DE C. s .—On Saturday 131 = " l u ll; were weighed in our market ; the sale was verY_ ter ot the last-quoted prices were scarcely main t a ined ; jui samples were lower. MEETINGS OF CREDIT COUNTRY DIARY.—MormAY, " S ' ' ... ......... . 1 Bayley, J. Manchester—Star, Manchester ................. ii Bee, J., Chesterfield—Angel, Chesterfield . ....... 1 , Bullock, E., Bath—White Hart, Bath ............................ Clemesha, S., Liverpool—Clarendon, Liverp001................... I Duff and Co., Liverpool—Clarendon, Liven ....... ...• I I Dyer, R.', Exeter—Globe, Exeter ... ............................... . . Jones,Haynes, T. , M ai ß c e i s m t e l rt g Ith rie °Y a Hart, l Lucas, 'P., Bratiapton—Mr. Gillett, Chesterfield ............• ..:. 1; Mincher, E., Birmingliom—Royal hotel, Birmingham ....... P o Prout, J., 112th—White Lion, Bristol .. . ... .••••••••" I,i Salter and Co., Manchester — Star, Manchester ................. 'I .... I ffornpson, W., spondsn—King's Arms, Derby Smith, J., Mattock—Au el, chesterfield , .. Derby r• I I Watson, J., North Shields—Ueorge, Nem .... ........ . ' ...... i l b Le te ie l 'es il te in r n.i.l g..1.1.a. ...... :: .. •: .. :::: I; 'Wilson, J., Leeds—Court-house, Leeds .. a- e ................... ' '') Wortley, N., Uppingham—Three Cru4s . : . .11;:c...-i .... ..... ‘. 0 0)t COUNTRY. — T A S t AP the P C L o u Y r t I - N h o G us e TO at BvitarwDiTifilf).Aceituibor J. at 'fan o'clock. "lamp, P., Birming ha m S a ddler, J. Birminghle Green, J., ,Birminglisidn Spancer, T. Birminghnit , g. . 1 _,, " , 8 0 • Tanangtoo, W., Birr Thomas, J., Birrainghan, Thurman, Y.., Nuneaton Travis, J., Aston Tutirt, R., B i rrn i ng hael_ li , Wakelam, J., Birtning' Walker, J., Sheffield • • , Gilea, 8., Birmingham Greares, J., Birmingham Horatio, S., Birmingham Johnson, J.,Birmingham Leedham, t.,Birmingham Mantle, It., Birmingham Peplow, J, Birmingham Podmore, J., Birmingham Pond, J., Birmingham Perkins, J., Birmingham ilipkins W., Birmingham Powell, J., Birmingham ARRow-RooT.---Nothin • cn l ; b e : ° 0 i ti s " at g founded as the assertion, that the farina of the potato c wholesome and nutritious as the arrow -root. •l' e . -- ' lle s , ferments speedily in a weak stomach, and its inferiority lt, be proved by placing the jelly made from it against iis jelly of pure arrow-root; the first soon acidulsitee alai I' • ~ to water; the second retains its sweetness and consistePc, for a comparatively long period. Pure arrow-root ' o r much cheaper article in its first cost than the public stud_ .rally imagine; and if there were no unfair practice a tt ' r ice ing the retail trade, it might be purchased at A V o te which would make it hardly worth while to sub tbe potato farina. In the city, the brokers who suPP l i t 0 cii ever, yin i f s o t r s use, and are dr not ug o s so druggists, trade send out the genuine and very good arrow-000 v, Is. 6d. to 2s. per lb. ; the very fine samples (which) l 'oe °c old ) pound; and supposing potato flour to be a dded, t; ii e are, of course, dearer- ,c profit must be enormous. Some arrow-root Was 6° 3 01 few days ago, duty paid, at from 51. to Bd. per lb. ; t io retailerSUPPBlinsg outl, however, Of reason.______ . ______-'" probably,opf4btlhicis,ltt4e i,e r • BIRTHS. rd, On the 3d inst. at the Heath -house , the of SOO the lady of John Burton Philips, Esq. of a daughter. ii , On the 6th inst. in Caroline -place, Aleekleub or i 4 square, the lady of Robert Willis, Esq. of a son. 0 4 a l b .7 o w d h when portion reducedgrgrocer, een:ilbli.ye be retail lorteiatttaoiajecti:4ottilr_lll):"er On the 14th Nov. at Plorowe, the Hon. Mrs. Feedlot, St. John, a son. erg On the 2d ins;,. the lady of Wm. Horne, Esq - Ij Harley-street, of a daugh t er. ---------"'.." MARRIE -;D. Jo e " Lately; at St. Thomas's, Dublin, by the Bev' t° Fea, Wm. 011ver - Bigg, Esq. Lower Crescen t, Clan; of Frances, daughter of the late Thomas Buckland , Earl's-court, Middlesex. 01 On the 6th inst. Morris , son of Wm. Fo ster Re„e ? Esq. of Carshalton-house, to Emma, daughter of ''' James, Esq. of Plascombe-house, Surrey. • 1 04' On the 4th inst. at Brighton, Charles _ R Witte 000 Esq. of London, to Eliza, sister of the Rev . John Is St. Luke's, Chelsea, jos' by the v eil' Sophia, youngest daughter of the late William '''olt 4 at St. Rae, Esq. R.N., to , 1 ,,,, f "),0 1 ' G EI a s o eocin t t .i l a. t yo y tf , rh o tleuh f snetti Brighton. islandAinst. iv o:a 1f t Dominica, and niece of Mr s. he Cadogan-place. On the 6th inst. at St. George's, Camberwell, i,Pialoli Rev. John Vane, M.A. ,Wm. Cooke, Esq. of de te r, c r ° to Eliza, youngest daughter, of Mr. George G ar Camberwell. if DIED. f 1) On the 6th ult., at Marseilles, in the 38 t h yeerni e. Ego age, Dr. Abraham Solomon, formerly of Birtningbe'. On the 25th ult. at Glasgow, Robert Muirbehb aged 80. f f l°' On the 28th ult. at Glasgow, Mrs. :11014e, wife u 1:,i9 . lessor Mylue, and daughter of the late John Milieu advocate, Professor of Law in the University o f Ghl e ,t i tteT On the sth inst. at Cheltenham, Thos. Wils oo ' '' , E re sti lioc . tn of Bank-hall, Lancashire, and Wootton-pi o .l '' fordshire, aged 57. lie ti' LefisiLitimnehboy M. YOUNG, at o t f h t e he 4thla late e n shit. Mr. John J C o o h l i e i b u r ottoykdeo.Trio:avg, e i d, sl Islington, ola,E l ' 1 l' o i f',ol' On the 6th inst. Anna, wife of S. Cartwright, - pa d Old Burlington-street. On the sth inst. at Tunbridge Wells, Peter ~h ri st Richardson, Esq. of Leyton, Essex, third s o il of pher p ß it i l e: T ar E d D so an n, d E r s u % r ...._______2._—.•-"': th e s u N °MU ? N. 112, Strand. 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