The Sun. — London, England, 1827-06-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, It a ppears from a Return laid before Parlia ment of Naval Promotions which have taken place since the Ist of January of the present year, that 86 Midshipmen have been promoted to Lieutenants, 43 Lieutenants to be Com manders, 16 Commanders to be Post Captains. It further appears, that certain persons have been selected for promotion, who ought, if equal jus tice had prevailed at the Admiralty, to have con tinued some years longer where they were ; as, for instance, what has the Hon. Frederick William Grey done. to deserve the rank of Commander in the Navy ? After having ob tained his Lieutenancy so short a time ago as in 1825, this is a very short probation for the young Honourable ; but then his father, the Earl of the same name, has done so much of late to annoy the Ministers, that they must try to neu tralize and smooth down his Lordship, if pos sible : this is very mean in its motive, and in its effects on the service most pernicious. There are officers in the same list of promotion with Master Frederick 'William Grey, who have been Lieutenants for 20 years. There is no other instance of such a favour being shown to a sucking -Lieutenant throughout these 43 ap pointments, except in the case of one Mr. Rich ar d Freeman Rowley, who got his lieutenancy on the 17th of May, 1825. Who is Mr. Richard Freeman Rowley? Is fie a minion of birth, or money, or eaprice ? So, in the list of Commanders promoted into Captains, we find that Commander Samuel Thornton obtained his rank as such in April, 1825, and is now converted into a Post Captain. Com mander Henry TtyaUl Martin —son, we presume, or brother, to the Adniiral, who is a placeman—leas been made Post-Captain, having remained a Com mander only since April, 1825. When these people once get their nose into office, they make a snug thing of it for all their connexions.—Tinzes. We insert wholly the subjoined Act of Par liament, passed in the present Session, on ac count of its extreme singularity : " A Bill (as amended by the Committee) to declare and amend the Law relating to the Employment and Pay ment of able-bodied Labourers from the Poor-rate. " Whereas a custom of depending on parochial employ ment and assistance is prevalent among able-bodied la bourers in many parishes, equally contrary to the spirit and intention of the law, as it is inimical to the happiness and independence of the working classes ; be it enacted, therefore, by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament as sembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the Ist day of January, 1831, if any able-bodied la bourer (not having more than four children dependent on him for support) shall apply to the overseers of the poor of any parish or place for parochial employment or assist ance, it shall be in the discretion of such overseers to grant his request, or not, as they shall think right under all cir cumstances ; and if they think it expedient to refuse, no Justice of the Peace shall have any authority in the case : provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to give a right to parochial assistance to any person, or class of persons, which they did not before pos sess, or to lessen the right to necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, or such other, being poor and not able to work.; or to extend to the case of mechanics, arti sans, or manufacturers." The Act, then; is not to come into operation till the year 1831 ; and its object, however ludi crous and absurd, seems to be the prevention of the procreation of children. Who could be the propounder of this anomaly in legislation ? He deserves that his fame should be diffused and commemorated by one of those appellations called nicknames. Let not any healthy able bodied labourer expect, should he marry to morrow, that he can entitle himself to parochial relief in 1831 by the magnitude of his family ; for unless his wife should happily bring him twins, four children—the most that he can ho- Tiestly expect by that &Ate—will be tound-ituniffs cient to substantleae hrti..elai►n , to aid,! Wilat were it best, then, for such a man to dc•arig present time ? Not to marry, or to marry ? This would form an additional case to Rabelais' logical discussion (pro and con,) on matrimony. A most important Parliamentary Paper was delivered yesterday—namely, an account of the quantity, and of the official and declared value, of the twenty principal articles of British, Irish, Foreign, and Colonial produce or manufactures exported_ from, and imported into the United Kingdom, for the years ending sth January 182.5, 1826, and 1827. This is the first in stance of any Return of' Quantities as well as values, and the public are greatly indebted to Mr. Maberly for this very important improve ment, which we trust will be permanently adopt ed in our Annual Reports. On looking into the Exports, we perceive a great falling off in all our staple manufactures. We begin with Cotton : The number of yards exported in the year ending sth 31nuary, 1825, was £344,440,389 1826 1827 Cotton twit, and yarn, however, have expe rienced an incrwse-33- millions of pounds in the year ending 182.5, 32 millions 1826, and 42 millions 1827. So much for cotton.—Our next manufacture, in point pf importance, is the Woollen ; and here also there is a great fall ing off : Woollens entered by the Piece, year ending Jan.:- 1825 £1,856,201 1826 1827 entered by the Yard :- 1825 1826 1827 Linen, in these three years, by the yard, are sixty-thre e millions, fifty-two millions, and thirty-nin e millions. Our next staple is Hard wares and Cutlery ; and here the quantity in cwts. is 214,237 and 219,909, and 192,702. This branch see ms to have suffered the least. Leather, wrought - and unwrought, in pounds, for the three years , 1,744 ,015, and 1,595,750, and 1,261,245. In Eartiien4are, Glass, Hats, and, in short , every branch t h ere has b een a sensible decline. While our sapient Legisla tors of the House of Lords are bestirring them selves so lustily in keeping out foreign produce, and looking with so much jealousy even on t h e introJuctiou of foreign wool , foreign timber, and foreign hides and tallow, they no doubt think it beneath them to concern themselves with the falling off in our foreign sales. We observe Lord Lauderdale was greatly alarmed last night at the number of ships from the Baltic stuck up at Lloyd's. His Lordship has all his life been an alarmist. It is well for the credit of his Lordship, that few persons can boast of the ad vantage possessed by Mr. Huskisscn, of having all the three score pamphlets in which he has communicated his various 'nostrums for pro poting the prosperity or preventing the ruin of the country. We, however, possess a few of them ; and, among others, one writte n after his beard was grizzled,—namely, in 1805, 1 in which this profound political economist gravely endeavours to fill the manufacturers of l Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Warwickshire, with ap prehension for the transference of their manufac tures to Ireland, in consequence of the Irish Union. All this was to be effected by Irish absenteeisni, and borrowing in England for the service of Irqland. l And he arrived at his conclusion in this way :—ln time of peace our usual exports to Germany did not exceed 1,900,000/., but when we treated the Em peror with Imperial Loans and other advances, Ger many became inundated with our goods, receiving to the value of eight millions annually. Now, as ab seenteeism saddles Ireland with two or three mil lions to noblemen resident in England, it follow e d that Ireland would in like manner, pay in manufac tures, and .that Yorkshire and Lancashire would change places with Munster and Connaught. His Lordship was then all alarm for manufactures : " Little doubt," he said, " can be entertained by any man who reflects on the situation of this coun try, that it is our manufacturing industry which has enabled us to support the unparalleled attacks made of late years upon our resources." In those days, he told us not to concern ourselves about agriculture for " agricultural industry, when in a state of per fection, cannot be checked in a moment ;" but to look carefullly after our manufactures, lest they escape into Ireland. And yet this man is the oracle of the House of Lords; the sage whose lectures are greedily devoured by that branch of the collective wisdom of the nation.—Morning Chronicle. One of our contemporaries, whose magnani mous self-devotion to Mr. Canning is notorious, is exceedingly angry with us for having stated that a report was current, even among some of his adherents, that there was stilla possibility of the Right Hon. Gentleman's accepting the Go vernor-Generalship of India ; and, with a view of throwing ridicule upon the idea, goes on to assert that it is upon a par with our having noti fied the appointment of Lord Bathurst to the Governorship of Jamaica. In somewhat milder terms than Mr. Canning once employed towards his present ally, Mr. Brougham, we must be per mitted to say that we never notified, or, to the best of our knowledge, ever heard of any such thing. Nor do we believe, much as a warmer climate might suit the Right Hon. Gentleman's warm temperament, that he is as yet re-destined to become the Monarch of the East—an appoint ment, by the bye, by no means dishonourable to any man. What we asserted, and what we know to be true, is, that there are those even among his political adherents, who- calculate upon such an event as not at all improbable.— What we believe is, that Mr. Canning cannot maintain his present station in the Government, either with credit to himself or advantage to the country. We are not the foes of Mr. Canning. We are aware of the weak as well as the splendid points in his character. Had he remained where he was, his conduct, barring his absurd Portuguese ex pedition, was the subject of our unqualified appro bation. But in aiming at a higher object, he has overshot the mark; and as far as his Administration has yet gone, it appears to us to be a failure. His coalition with the hungry Whigs has, above all, dis gusted the independent part of the country. Our own conjecture is, that these same Whigs will, in return, seize the first opportunity of throwing their new patron overboard; and that, having thus ob tained the Government, which, after all, they will not be able to keep, it is not at all improbable that Mr. Canning, mortified at the failure of his own plans, and the ingratitude of his new allies, will be glad to bury in a splendid retreat the mortification which he must feel at his own indiscretion and the ingratitude of his new and anomalous associates.— Morning Herald. It is a pity that all the appointments are not publicly announced ; we should then have that from authority, which is now often only to be picked up among the on dits of the day. We have just heard, for instance, of sundry good things obtained by the Whigs, and of others in prospect, which we refrain at present from nam ing, for fear of mistake. Why will not the good people at Brooks's publish a Gazette of their own, or at least let us know in some authentic shape or other what part of the plunder is falling to their share ? Or is it some small remaininz whivti - Xeeprllle matter secret 7 However, the truth will out ; and the public will soon see how fond the bawlers for economy and reform really are of the very abuses they profess to loath.—/bid. A Morning Paper, adverting to the discus sion which the W 00l Trade has undergone, and to a petition that was presented to Parliament, suggesting that a higher duty should be levied than at present, and a drawback allowed if ex ported in a manufactured state, puts forth the following enlightened remarks upon the subject ; " We are decidedly inimical to drawbacks, bounties, or any similar stumbling blocks or mystification in commer cial countries, for they are useless departures from simplicity, and in almost all cases lead only to torment. We should, therefore, 'recommend the petitioners, with regard to the import of wool, to petition simply that a certain tax be laid on its importation; we would recommend them to propose threepence in the pound, and not sixpence, for sixpence in the pound is too much. Sixpence in the pound would comparatively amount to a prohibitory duty ; and tbere is no article that we would prohibit. If we bad any thing to do with these matters, we would admit every thing from every nation, with as little difficulty as possible to the merchant, shipowner, and captains, who entered our ports. We would not mind from what nation ships came, nor what description of goods they brought. We would do away with all the nonsense as to such and such goods be ing brought only in British bottoms, or such and such goods being brought only in slips belonging to countries, of which the goods were the produce. We would tax all descriptions of goods upon their entering into our ports, and that highly rather than the contrary ; and we would tax goods at a higher rate if brought in foreign vessels, than if brought in our own: thus, for instance, we would tax wool three pence per Oa., which pays now, we believe, only id. or Id. a lb. Cotton wool we would tax either 3d. or 6d. a lb. ; it pays, we believe, only id. or Id. Silk we would tax a. or 9d. ; at present it pay s 3 ( 1. From these thre e de script-Los o imports, we beru•v e thst a very' considerable addition mfgla be made to the revenue. As to the grumb ling of manufacturers, we would not pay the least attention to it—their represelatations we would disregard." With respect to the 4rst of these articles, which our contemporary would delight in visiting with an advance of duty, we should have thought that the circumstance of the quantity of wool, which has been entered for home consumption, u p to the present time, being less, by one-half, than the amount of that on which duty was paid in the same period of 1825, would sufficiently prove that a successful rivalry had been maintained with this country, in the manufacture of woollen goods, by foreign cations, which, together with the diminished consumpkon of those manufac tures at home, induced by the late distresses, would seem to render any advance in the prices of the raw material peculiarly disadvantageous at present, As to the articles of cotton and silk, the former of which our contemporary seems undetermined whether he would tax at the rate of 50 or 100 per cent., we shall only extract one or two p aragrap h s respect i ng th em from this Journal, at the commencement of. the present year : " During the last year (1820, 200,000 bales of cot ton have been imported into the port of Ifavre de Grace, while, in the year previous, the amount imported did i►ot exceed 100,000 bales, which accounts, in some degree, for the falling off of the imports into this kingdom during the l a st year. In fact, France is making rapid strides in the cotton 111 4 1 W4ctnring branch of business, as is the Conti nent generally, and the ITnited States of America as well." We exposed the fallacy of iiii;;;;;;;;; • at the time ; but we quote it now, to prove the absurdity of any one who entertains a belief in the correctness of such a statement, wishing to place a further advantage in the hands of fo reigners, by enhancing the price of this article to our own manufacturers. With respect to silk— in a letter from Lyons, which also appeared in the columns of this paper, we find, that the " French manufacturers are full of apprehension at the rapid progress which Englishmen are making in the manufacture of silk goods ;" and, accordingly, our contemporary would relieve them from their fear as speedily as possible, by prudently increasing the duty to three times its present amount ! After this, what a humble opinion must such men as Messrs. Canning and Huskisson entertain of their labours, when they find their alterations characterised as " nonsense," by so able an authority. N o r c an an y one , we think, hesitate to admire that firmness of principle, which teaches our contemporary so totally " to disregard the representations of the grumbling manufacturers," as if they were so many vermin on the hop-bins, against which our contemporary piques himself in having carried on so successful a war of extermina tion.—New 7imes. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 28. THE TING V. MILLS, CLAVERLEV, AND MILBURN. Mr. Alexander Milburn, a solicitor, Mr. Mills, and Mr. Claverley, a linen-draper, were brought up to receive the sentence of the Court upon a conviction on an indictment charging them with conspiring to give an undue preference to Mr. Mills, who was a creditor of Claverley and Hut chinson, linen-drapers, over their other Creditors. The defendants were tried at the sittings after last termn, before Lord Tenterden, and were convicted, principally upon the evidence of Hutchinson. Affidavits in mitigation and ag gravation were read, after which Mr. BROUGHAM, for the defendant Claverley, in miti gation, allowed that the offence of which the defendants had been convicted was one more frequently committed than punished, that it was one which, in a great tradi ng country, was in general peculiarly deserving reprobatio n ; but there was an absence of all aggravation in the pres ent case, which was even accompanied with circumstances of a mitigating nature. Claverley had begun business with a small capital, and, like other persons who do so, was unde r the necessity of becoming obliged to his friends. He had, with his partner, applied to Mills for assistance at a time when they had no doubts of their own solvency, and on his own account Mills had been induced to lend them his ac ceptances to bills for 688/., which bad all been paid by Mills. When he found that, notwithstanding this aid, he was on the brink of bankruptcy, his reflections were, that the kind friend who had assisted him on his first setting up business, was about to lose a large sum, which he had, through his miscalculation and instigation, prevailed upon him to lend. It was, no doubt, the defendant's duty to have let Mills come in with the other creditors, but still this was a very different case from the ordinary case of un due preference; and he, Mr. Brougham, submitted, that it was not a case calling upon the Court for a heavy pu nishment. The Commorr SERGEANT, for Mills and Milburn, said that Claverley had represented his case to Mills, and Mills had related it to Milburn with all the partiality with which persons invariably state their own case. Mills acted under the advice, received from his attorney, and thought that he could legally become the proprietor of so much of the goods of claverley and Hutchinson as would cover his own debt; and Milburn, who was not present at the removal of the goods, consulted Mr. Basil Montagu, and when that gentle man gave his opinion that Mills was not entitled to the goods, and advised him to return them to the assignees, Milburn immediately acted upon that advice, so that the creditors were not wronged. Mills had paid 688/., the amount of his acceptances, and had proved under the estate, which only paid ss. in the pound, so that he was already a loser of upwards of 500/. The transaction was not imbued with any thing highly criminal ; and as the parties had already suffered most deeply, he trusted that the Court would not be averse to the prosecutors taking a more lenient step than calling for the judgment of the Court. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that the prosecutors had not been influenced by any private motive, their object was only to obtain public justice, and after consulting with his client, consented that the judgment of the Court on all the defendants should be postponed until another day, with an understanding that they were to go before the Master. BOW-STREET.— Wm. Flannigan, a remarkably ill-looking young fellow, was, placed at the bar and charged with having committed a highway robbery of a very daring nature, and at noon-day on Thursday, in George-street, St. Giles s, within 100 yards of Great Russell street. A Mrs. Mary Macpherson, a respectable married lady residing in Rockingham-row, Kent-road, was passing the corner of George and Bainbrid s-streets, at 12 o'clock on 214 - 1 %b. asy serzed rouna the body from behind with great force, and at the same moment a pull was made at a reticule she carried in her left hand; but she retained her hold of it, and it was again pulled with a force that brought her backwards to the ground; even then she did not loose her hold, and she was dragged along the pavement for some distance till the strings of the reticule broke. She was then able, for the first time since the attack, to look round for her assailant, whom she saw running away with the reticule, which contained forty-seven pounds in not es and gold. She saw enough of him to be aware that he was the same man whom she had observed leaning against a post on the footpath the instant before she was attacked. She pursued him along one or two streets, but he darted up a court, and she lost sight of him ; and although she cried " Stop thief" as she ran, no person took the least notice of or attempted to assist her. She swears positively to the identity of the prisoner, whom she says she took particular notice of, from his having looked at her and the reticule in a very sinister and peculiar manner as she passed him. There were two other men standing near, but when she looked up after being knocked down, they had totally disappeared. From the description she gave of the man who bad robbed her, the prisoner was appre hended by Duke, of this office, who knew him to be a doubtful character. An alibi was attempted to be set up by the prisoner, and le was remanded until Saturday, when further evidence is :o be forthcorniug. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday a young fellow, named John Hooper, was brought from the watch house of St. George's parish, Hanover-square, before Sir GEORGE FARRANT, the sitting magistrate at this office, charged with attempting to break into the house of Au gthuestnuigs h A t i b a e n f n ore in , g, wi E th sq a . n , No. S, Mr. Manning stated, that between one and two o'clock, e n r m tf m oaid t - a st r re n e b t b , et A y l . ayfair, his attention wa s attracted by a noise in the front of his n B t , to li c house, under his bed-room window; and on his cautiously raising up the sash to ascertain the cause, he observed a light in the front area, close to one of the kitchen win dows. Suspecting immediately that thieves were endea vouring to enter the house, he determined to adopt the best means of securing them ; but just as he was withdraw ing from the window, he accidentally let fall a boot hook into the area, which alarmed the prisoner, who immediately ascended the area stops, and, climbing over the iron railing with great expertness, ran off as fast as he could. Mr. Manning, however, Called out for the watch and stop thief, ml after a short chase a watchman secured the prisoner. t In tta s his r ti m e f h e n e ce h a a d t nw downa tch-h t o h us e e a t , 17 a, p h i that had merely gone there for the gall:lnt purpose of paying a noe .titgr t e l!at sai h d e . noc turual visit to one of the female servants at Mr. Manning's house, with whom he had been a long time acquainted, and who had appointed him to come to the house at that liour on that night. In consequence of this statement at the watchhouse, the girl named by the prisoner attended at the office yesterdays when the prisoner repeated his defence; but the girl posi tively declared that she had never made any appointment whatever with the prisoner at any time, or that she had ever given him any invitation to the house. She had, she acknowledged, known something of the prisoner as a s light acquaintance for a short time; and she now recollected that on one or two occasions he asked her some q uestions as to the particular situation of some parts of Mr. Man ning's house, but she thought it mere curiosity at the time. Besides this decided and, no doubt, true contradiction, by the girl, of the prisoner's excuse, there were found, un fortunately for his cause, a crow-bar, some phosphorous matches, &c., in the area, just close to the spot where the prisoner ISMS first discovered ; and marks of the crow-bar were visible on the outside of one of the kitchen-windows, where an effort had been made to foxe it opera The prisoner denied any acquaintance with those imple ments, but he was, notwithstanding, committed to take his trial on the charge. _ A fashionable looking female, of the name of Caroline D o uglas, appeared before the Magistrates at this Of fice, to charge another married lady, named Rathbone, with having feloniously (as she contended) removed a qua ntity of val ua bl e furniture from a house in Bruton street, Berkeley -squa re , to a house in Bird-street, Gros venor-square. It appeared that the furniture in question, w hich is worth 1 ,5001., was the property of Mrs. Douglas, to whom it had been assigned in consideration for a debt ; a nd Mrs, Rathbone, the defendant, was permitted by Mrs. Douglas to reside in the house in Bruton-street, for a tern poraryss) afterwards nearly th e whole of the furniture was period, in ord er t o p re p are it for her (Mrs. Douglass) reception. Airs. Rathbone, on these took possession of the premises, and shortly condi tions,oo rtllya accordingly COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jur! 2S. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE sat at Nisi Prius this morn ing for about ball an hour, and took several undefended causes. At ten o'clock, his Lordship was joined by the other Learned Judges, when the Court sat in banco, and disposed of several cases of no general interest. COURT OP EXCHEQUER CI MACDOUGALL V. THE LEATHERSELLLILS' COMTANI. minis is a suit instituted for the recto - very of The plaintiff is the inipropriate rector of the parish of St. He len's, Bishopsgate-street, and claims, under the '37th Henry VIII., a sum of 2s. 9d. in the pound upon the rent of the premises which constitute the Hall of the Warden and Society of the Leathersellers' Company. It was contended by Mr. BIC); ERSTETIT, the CoaiaeoN SERGEANT, and Mr. BOTELER, on behalf of the defend ants, first, that the decree which was to have given effect to the Act of Henry VIII. had never been enrolled, and consequently that the Act was inoperative. The fact of the enrolment, they said, was already negatived by the de cision of another case, in which 'Mr. Macdougall was plaintiff, which had been tried in the Court of Common Pleas in 1826. Nor could the argument on the other side —that the enrolment must be presumed because the decree was lost—prevail, because it was found to be deposited in the archives of St. Paul's Cathedral. The fact was, that some time before the passing of the Act of Henry VIII. the offerings of the citizens had amounted to 2s. 6d. in the pound. Archbishop Arundel, however, introduced a re inforcement of twenty-two new Saints into the calendar, for which he obtained a bull from the Pope, whereby the offerings were increased by twenty-two additional half pence, that is, a half-penny for every saint, which raised, the former rate of 2s. 6d. to 3s. bd. This gave rise to great discontent on the part of the citizens ; and from that (lay down to the present period there had been no peace in the city on the subject of tithes. The remonstrance of the citizens led to the passing of the Act in question, limiting the rate to a sum between the old and the new—viz. 2s. 9d. in the pound; and a decree was drawn up by the Chancellor and others, in pursuance of its provisions. Neither parties, however, were satisfied with this adjustment. The citizens were unwilling to pay more than the rate which they had for merly paid, and which they deemed sufficiently burden some; while the clergy were equally unwilling that the decree should take effect. and thus deprive them of the additional offerings which the new Saints were to have produced to them ; the Archbishop, therefore, instead of having the decree enrolled., carried it away with him, and deposited it in St. Paul's Cathedral, where it has remained ever since. And as another proof that this decree bad never be e n deemed to be in operation, no allusion whatever had been made to it in the Fire Act, which was passed after 100 churches had been burnt down by the great fire in London. In the next place, it was insisted by the de fendants, that even supposing that the decree had been enrolled, still they were not liable to the demand in question, because the site upon which their premises were erected had previously been occupied by buildings which were exempted from this rate, in consideration of a cus tomary payment of an abstract suns of Ss. 11. yearly, in the nature of a modus. Sir CHARLES WETHERELL contended, on the other side, that the Court must presume that the enrolment of the decree had taken place; for that fact had been established by the finding of a jury in 1647, which year being so much nearer to the period when the decree had been made, the verdict in that case was of so much greater auth or i ty upon the question th an th e v erdict in the Commo n Pl eas l ast year ; becaus e m an y p roo f s th a t might h a v e ex i sted i n 164.7 might by thi s ti me h ave b e en lost. Th at quest i on, then, being re m j u di cata, i t oug h t n ot to be opened again. With respect to the other points, be contended that the exemption, in consideration of the Ss. 3d., only referred to the buildings, and not to the land upon which those build ings stood. Consequently, the premises o f the defendants being new buildings, they had no claim to the privilege enjoyed by those which had formerly occupied the same site. Besides, the defendants' premises only covered a part of the land on which the former premises had stood; the remainder was occupied by other buildings, for which the full rate had been paid. The case having been argued for three several days, The Loan Crimp BARON at length observed, that it was useless to occupy any further time in arguing it at present, mince it was clear that an issue must be directed to a Jury, to try the question on both points. His Lordship, therefore, directed the case to stand over to a future day, to give Counsel an opportunity of agreeing upon and draw big u p the proper issues. COURT OP CONDELEGATES, JUNE 28. Pulse° V, BRISCO. A motion stood for this morning, calling upon the Court to pronounce Sir Wastel Brisco in contempt for non-pay ment of costs and alimony, decreed against him by the High Court of Delegates, The Proctor for Sir Wastel stated that they would be paid this morning, and the Proctor for the other side thereupon declined to press the motion. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—A constable, who had, he said, apprehended a man in London, on a warrant from the Lord Mayor of York, charging him with having absconded from that city, and leaving behind him his wife and child ren unprovidad for, applied yesterday, to the Lord Mayor, to have the depositions of the man taken, in order that he might be sent back to York. The LORD MAYOR asked to see the warrant. The constable said, in reply, that be had it not about h:m, nor had he it at all in his possession : but he was aware that it had been issued, and the prisoner's own confession was tantamount to an acknowledgement of the fact. " That may be," said his LORDSHIP, " but you must be aware, that, in apprehending the man without a warrant, you have acted a very injudicious, and almost illegal part, however well meant. I shall not, certainly, under such circumstances, without the production of the warrant, take the depositions of any man against himself." , The constable again addressed the Lord Mayor, and intimated' that an officer might be sent with the prisoner to York. His LORDSHIP declared that he could have nothing to do with the cave, as it stood at present. " Well," said the constable, who, with the true persever ance of a thorough-bred Yorker, was resolved to try every way to accomplish his object, " what would your Lordship recommend me to do?" " That," said the LORD MAYOR, " I shall not give any advice about, as, if I happened to give you advice of an illegal nature, you would endeavour to shelter yourself under the authority of the Lord Mayor of London ; but this I will say, that the same authority by which you took the man into custody without a warrant, or even with it, unless it was backed by a Magistrate of the city of London, will allow you .to send him into custody to York. You have begun this matter unadvisedly, and you are 'at liberty to terminate it as you think proper." The constable withdrew baffled, but not defeated, as he still kept possession of his prisoner, who is, no doubt by this time, on his travels to the North-Eastern metropolis. A decently dressed female was placed at the bar, char ge d with having made an attempt on the life of a waiter, at the New England Coffee-house. A whole host of witnesses appeared in defence of the prosecutor, and one of tbem stepped out of the crowd, and, with a valiant and courageous look, addressed the Lord Mayor : "My Lord," said he, " this is a case, which we are anxious to have heard in private, as it concerns no one but ourselves." " We shall see that," said the LORD MAYOR ; " but, first, I must know that it would obstruct the ends of jus tice to bear it publicly before- I adopt your recommen dation." " Well, my Lord," resumed the applicant, " I won't go so far as to say that ; but all the parties, including the prisoner, are anxious that the investigation should be private." The LORD MAYOR having ascertained from theprisoner's own mouth that this was the fact, consented to have the examination gone into in his private chamber; premising his wish that, as it was to be so, none of the parties them selves would send a garbled statement of the particulars to the Papers. . . . . _ _ _ With this intimation the parties went into his Lordship's private chamber, and the result of this investigation we can only learn from the fact that the prisoner was held to bail on the charge; and, in default of sufficient sureties, she was committed. GUILDHALL.--Richard Coster, of Staining-lane, was again brought up for examination yesterday before Mr. Alderman LucAs, on suspicion of uttering a forged bill of exchange for 3541., purporting to be accepted by Pearce Power, Esq., of Rosskeen, near Mallow. After a long investigation, it was determined that the prisoner should be again remanded, to allow time for bringing evidence from Ireland respecting Mr. Power's handwriting. The question was then discussed whether the prisoner should be remanded for eight or ten (lays. Mr. Burke said he would start for Cork the next morning, but Mr. Power was a fox-hunter and country farmer, and he might not meet with him the first day he reached Mallow. It was ultimately settled, however, that the prisoner should stand remanded till the 7th of July. (as Mrs. Douglas stated) surreptitiously removed, bid under such circumstances that Mrs. Douglas caused Mrs. Rathbone to be apprehended, and when the officers pro ceeded to the house for that purpose, they discovered Mrs. Rathbone locked up in the wine-cellar. Mrs. Rathbone and her Solicitor contended that she had a legal right to the property in question, having acted under the authority of Dr. Hallett (Mrs. Douglas's brother), who had given her a power of attorney to act as she had done, the Doctor being indebted to her in the sum of 1,3001. With respect to the charge of concealment, the Magistrate was informed that Mrs. Rathbone entertained considerable dread of being subpoenaed on a trial ; and this induced her to lock herself in the wine-cellar. Mrs. Douglas said that her brother's property was no thing to her, and Mrs. Rathbone, at the time the goods were removed (six o'clock in .the morning), was aware that they belonged to her (Mrs. Douglas), having been directed a few days previously to prepare the house for her reception. The officers stated that they had experienced great diffi culty in getting into Mrs. Rathbone's house, having been obliged to break several panes of glass before they effected an entrance. The case was ultimately ordered to be postponed, Mrs. Rathbone's solicitor undertaking for his client's appear ance ; and also, that none of the property, part of which was produced, consisting of a parrot, a pair of candlesticks, &c. should be made away with. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. We directed the attention of our readers last week to a debate in the House of Commons on the subject of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, and we then particularized the principal grounds of complaint contained in the petition to the House, signed by a large number of mem bers of the College. This body derives its pre sent name and powers from a charter granted in 1800 ; in which, with incautious liberality, Royal favour conferred the dangerous gift of absolute power, not only unchecked by the slightest re sponsibility, but, as it were, carefully guarded by self-election and tenure of office for life. The College were further authorized, under this char ter, to levy from the members considerable sums without being obliged to render to any body the smallest account of their expenditure. Such is the corrupting influence of power on the human heart, that a wise and good man would pro bably hesitate to accept the tempting offer ; but this kind of diffidence has seldom been shewn by bodies of men, and seems so foreign to the feel ings of this surgical college, that they have not only maintained all their ancient pretensions, but have enlarged the number of recent additions, of great consequence, which have ultimately roused a formidable spirit ofopposition, and thus brought the matter under the consideration of Parliament. Not only the surgeons of London, but those of Winchester, Bristol, Bath, Somersetshire, Leeds, and other parts of England, have addressed their complaints to this high tribunal. The alterations made by the College, since the London petition was agreed on, prove that several of the com plaints then brought forward were well founded ; while the statements of their advocate, Mr. Peel, deprive them of all merit in these changes, by sheaving that they were made in consequence of his suggestions. Of the recent oppressive regu lations, two are yet unrepealed—viz. that by which candidates for examination are compelled to attend an hospital in London, Dublin, Edin burgh, Glasgow, or Aberdeen ; and the other, which obliges them to bring certificates of attend ance on winter courses of lectures, thus render ing summer studies insufficient. The former enactment is insulting to the surgeons of all the provincial hospitals in England, clearly implying that they are incapable of teaching their profes , • • might lean; surgery at those institutions with less expence and trouble than in London. It is detrimental to the public, because the large hos pitals or infirmaries of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Birmingham, Leeds, &c. &c., afford much ampler means of surgical study than such small establish ments as the Middlesex, Westminster, and St. George's Hospitals in London. When we con sider how directly this regulation tends to aug ment the fees received by the surgeons of Lon don hospitals, and further, that the body who made it consisted, with one or two exceptions only, of such surgeons, we hope that the College had some other good reasons to give for it, and that it will condescend to favour the public with those reasons. This learned body may at the same time explain how it happens that surgical knowledge is rendered of less value by being ac quired in the summer. We have returned to this subject, not viewing it as a dispute between the petitioners and the council of the College, but as a matter of public importance, since every individual iii the community is personally inte rested in the efficiency and respectability of the surgical profession.—Times. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.—MONDAY, JULY 2.--(At the Court of Commissioners, Basinghalkstreet.) Bennett, W., Kensington lO COUNTRY DlARY.—Mownsr, JULY 2. Bel!chambers, E., Gloucester—Royal hotel, Cheltenham 2 Bidmead, W., Cheltehnam—lmperial hotel, Cheltenham Burman, R., Southam—Bath hotel, Leamington Priors Gerrish, J., Bradford—Angel, Bath ll Gibson, R., Aldborough—Angel, Norwich Harris, J., Leamington Priors—Bath hotel, Leamington Priors i Holiday and Co., Preston—Ottice of Messrs. Troughton and Co., Preston ll Hudson, G., New Malton—Tavern, York ll Nickolls, J., Kidlington-mills, near Oxford—King's Arms , 11 Oxford Parsons, J., Oxford—Golden Cross, Oxford it — Phillips, G., Brighton—White Horse, Brighton 11 Ross, R., Yeovil—Albion, Chester lO l Wright and Leedham, Manchester—White's Wren, T., Preston—Troughton, Preston 1 - le's Hotel, Man- 10 chester 11 .... d Ju it h i. .. l ly e lh io n to t im e m l, es, B oß i f rm riFs i te n oa g it h h a e m ;; ........... .. ... ........... 12 3. 13 Ban ore n , i8 .1 t . e , Bull, L., W Ea . it ß no i r rm , H in e g r h e a f m or 1 2 Bi L ci e m d e b a u d r , y ....... in Briggs, M., 13arkisland , Office, " .................. . lifax ...... ................. . . ............................ Campion, 11 ... ............................ „ Chaffin, C., Wootton--Commercial P ns o 3ICLCA3 Cook, nlfeeceerSenikxtkiekaia,rt,rAninsdt Manchester L E DJ,et ph : ew b vaeßee rr e ro,rhikn:e h S o hp is e uac.d a s A sirwhnt r etr d P aaeny a e P d t , t Jinx 3, Bailes, J., Brewer-street, de n- square Gol- H Fr a a les c , e E , E j j . .. : ,N ewar k J: ia ln y e e s r :3 St orehouse , Hanley tain-road G TO BE DISCHARGED, Sal-street, Line°ln's Inn Fields, ♦T NINE. I Wlntosh, T., Lamb's Conduit- street - - Shaw, D. Kensington Smith, J., W es t o n De gate, Lin colnshire S te i n berg, N., Cirencester -place, Fit 7roy-square Stephens, S., Powerstock W ae iek, P., Shadwell W'Watson, T., York-street Weeks, E., Surfleet, Lincoln- shire White, J., Roystone, Yorksh. tf he t that feet wholeeoltheloewshthe 'surface Americanssides clear have eao rf THE AMERICAN NAVY.--An "old Post lately adopted a paddle-wheel, constructed to act entirely submerged, and by a simple action avoids up back water. With this wheel a most mo tive -force is coupled ; they are both calculated carrying compact Captain " i a n tso fo ta r o m a leave s uixs the water , for action. They have another instrument of most destructive appearance. It is a shell made su fficiently , strong su to perforate, " when project ed," a ships side or mast. This shell is filled with a chemical substance, which ignites on being projected from a cannon, &c. and, having six holes, it discharges its contents (a liquid fire) into or upon every thing it comes in contact with. BRITISH REFORMATION SOCIETY. Yesterday, a General Public Meeting was held 0 ' the City of London Tavern, for the'purpose of fort ing an auxiliary in the city of London to the BritiO Society for promoting the religious principles of the Reformation. The Right Hon. Lord FARNHAM the chair. The Noble CHAIRMAN alluded to the formation° the - parent society at the Freemasons' Tavern, i' May last, and stated its object to be-Ist, to enabl Clergymen, and others engaged in the reformation Ireland, to purchase such quantities of Bibles, taments, and Tra c t s , as th e i ncreas i ng wants o f the'' respective parishes and districts may require; 2d,t supply individuals and associations with the met, of circulating such instruction and inform a ti on a s inl best meet the present circumstances in Ireland; P to enable the friends of the reformation t o d e f ra y 1". t., expenses incurred by meetings for religious discs' sion, and by the publication of their proceedings, f fi , which no society at present exists ; 4th, t o colle t ; and circulate authentic intelligence res p ec ti n g ' w „ progress of the reformation ; and 5 th , to proms' such modes of instruction as are best suited to tt e condition of the lower orders of Roman C a tholie j throughout the Empire. The Nobl e L or d s tate' that the object of the present meeting was for th e purpose of forming an auxiliary in the city to ass" in the promotion of these glorious objects. m The General eedn Capt.etHn. Ga r ah GORDON ofooßranmpo ß aNtini Nvosoenvei moved d u R seconded dt thehdee vn society. t hneEe next in r ts ol a short speed' resolution,ution whirl was seconded by The Rev. JOSEPH IVIMEY.—He had for the 19/1 16 years been actively engaged in the work o f e: 1 cation in Ireland, and he t rus t e d t h a t hi s efforts been attended with some good. In ages long po i , Ireland was very different to wh a t it now was . / 0 1 the 7th century it was called the Isle of Saints, a it did certainly possess a greater portion of 'I P ' Christianity than any of the neighbouring s tates." What a painfully different aspect it now worl i Much, h owever , h a d a l rea d y b een d one; an d he , not doubt but in a few years political emancipal would be rend ere d unnecessary, b y the spirit emancipation that was eff-cting. He charged the 1 1 ", testants of Ireland with criminal apathy. When had visited that country, he found that he m ust even speak of the evils of Popery, for fear, giving offence. He had been told that th e lelY readers would certainly be killed ; that, however; had not yet happened. He had answer e d an d yet said, they had nothing to do with consequence; they had a duty to perform, and that they must Pe e ' form,_ and leave the consequences to God. H e was o of those who could use no measured t erm s whet speaking of Popery—it was the abomination ta d maketh desolate—it was a great lie, a long lie, 6 :1 made up of every species of aggravation. It expo% its wretched followers to every sort of misery he'j and eternal perdition hereafter. He could not 0 , 4 terms sufficiently strong to express his opinion of La, statement of a Protestant dignitary in Ireland, upon all important points the difference betver' t Protestantism and Popery were very slight. If di r ' e was the case, then he thought the titular ought of right to be possessed of the revenues of fr e j see. He detested such compromising, and wish er to see the spirit and the plainn ess o f o ld Latin' revived. G. Finch, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Stewart, of Ire l3ll ,{ the Rev. Mr. Davies, Captain Vernon; R. N., the Rev. Geo. Phillips, then addressed the meal which, after thanks were voted to the Chairo!A I who acknowledged the compliment in a short separated. The meeting was but very thinly tended. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—June 27. Est, At this day's market, which w as , i n th e w h o l e, toleerab.3,ol, supplied, but rather thinly attended by b u ye rs , eac h kind of ' t ry except . good Lamb, which was in briskish demand, met 1 0 40 4 very sluggish sale, at the following prices per stony of Sibs to • the offal, Beef lod. to 4s, 10d. 1 Veal 4s. 4d, to 5 1, 0 are, p e V s e n a f l 4d. per kindssto n e h igh er n f ni t I r e 5 Mutton 8 4 8 I Pork . 4 0 • Lamb . ' 50; Od.'lto Ow- Od' tIO on this The f r d e a g ; s n e g ' ri g nl g o t h a t t . s n alteration. A good many Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs, left market unsold. LEWES MARKET.—June 26. 5 , 4 4 Beet * 4s. 4d. to 4s. 10d• I Veal 4s• 6d.- 0 Mutton 4 0 5 0 Pork 0 0 0 Lamb ss. 4d. to 6s. Od. Supply moderately good, and trade rather dull. RUMFORD MARKET.—June 27. s. d. to s. d. s Beef 4 0 4 6 I Veal Mutton 5 0 4 8 Po r k Lamb 4s Bd. to ss. &I. Suckling Calves from 14s. to 40s • Quarter old Pigs 9s. t Supply moderately good, and trade rather dul i, S. d. to t 6 4 6 5 O 4 0 ; 0 14§. IVE!'t; COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURINGTHE or es o 1 Wheat. B a rl e y. Oats. u Per Quarter. s, to s. s. to s, s. to s. , Blandford 52 60 3 8 44 30 36 54 6 " Brigg 56 63 3 6 42 35 42 5S s'i Cambridge 51 40 24, -- Chard 56 76 38 44 24 32 45 40 Huntingdon --... 50 55 36 38 24 3 0 44 P. Louth Lynn 52 el 39 44 22 36 , Newark 57 63 38 43 30 34 57 4 3 , Norwich — 55 63 36 40 28 31 4 4 1 5 Y Nottingham 58 65 40 47 28 32 Peterborough 58 60 30 34 32 36 Plymouth 56 66 40 42 26 30 Sherborne 55 32 38 30 36 0 Uppingham 56 62 38 44 34 40 Wisbech,.__ 52 62 24 31 :7 1 0 , York 56 64 36 44 24 34 LEEDS CORN There was a goo/f supply of limited, and prices were full 2s. day se'nnight. In other attic] doing, and prices nominally th , Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, --- York. and Lincoln Barl MARET, Jun Whea K t, but thedemand was ver ,' to 3s. r qua r scarcely 4 ter lower than thio thl' les there was " $ same. ................... 593. to 625.) 4 qu. ................... 583. to 60Q. A ............425. to 435. ley, Norfolk and Suffolk .... . ............ . ........ 435. to 445. l ' Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ........ .• 361., to 3gs. ------• Grinding .......................... ................. 58a. to 58s. Beans 6:01). .... .. • to 365• pets t• Oats, Potatoe ..................... .. • ........ English 16d. to 17d. ,J, —Mealing, Foreign 15d. to . ................ 365. to 38a. per I."' - t , Shelling ....................... .. . •,;;;; . • ... Fereiwn +d• 4 _ ~ per lai Rapeseed, English, 2C_±/ .: tc_2Z:____•''•: == _ ,= ,-- . i.i, —, Cpt per b;isi:iii.nirTll. 38 Pies 7 6 n ii g F t l h E e L o g d .... c. June 27. 12 kid. to 5d 1,646 Lambs •,. at id. to &I 3 '3 1 0 98 4 CattleSheeiA, mANCHESTER POTATOE MARK ET.--J!!ne 23 ' sli d p o t a toes, 9s- 06., 9s. 3d., and 11s. 6d, per load of 12 score ii.ot r od W . d an gA i 2:2S od . : ;d per i si gf r :to . pee s MANCHESTER YAR. No. d. d. Throstle Twist, 20,.,12 to 121 :0...13 14 40 —lBl 191 Mule copTwist} 30 12 13 for warp s 3 60 -- 2 7563 40 0 21 2 1 , 1 ) 61511) T.—June 26. 13 .30 --- 12 to 0 40 ..........,..... 12 0 60- 16 ,4 171 L t 70 -20 i ,i SO .... ~ 24 a" - 100 -- 30 so L120.--._ 34 9 , 10 ..__.„, S g , 14..—., 9 0 , , 18,-- 110 i i 24. 10 __, N MARKS . Mule Coii. Weft Weft from waste ----HOP INTELLIGENCE. viroaciertan, JUNE 27.—The accounts from our 1 111 : 0 , rat i on s are somewhat co n t ra di ctory, but it appears s led, t hat, in the generality o f s i tuat i ons, the filth has increl pi ed i Although the pl an t st i ll exhibits considerable vigouri T.ll the weather sho u ld b e very favourable, our plantation "gle do very littl e . B usiness is very dull here; the Aver a prices are 61. to 61. 10s. Our duty still at 60001. BIRTHS. On the 25th inst., at Elmpark, County Armagh, 11 ::: land, the lady of Maxwell Close, Esq., of a son and hel On Mond a y, th e 25th i ns t., th e lady of G. Sigel, ": of a son. MARRIED. On the 28th inst. at Brixton, Mr. Winder, of theCitt, road, to Jane, youngest daughter of the late A. ii r i l°llt Esq., of Stockwell. we!' Yesterday, at Chelsea, by the Hon. and Rev. Dr. lesley, Joseph Jessop, Esq., of Waltham Abbey, to D ' " phemia Frances, youngest daughter of the late Capt. Dr u° mond, of Sloane-street. On Wednesday, at St. Pancras, G. F. Travers, Esq' to Mary, widow of the late Lieut.-Gen. Trent. DIED. On the 25th inst., aged 24 years, Martha, wife of P- t. Thomas Clarke, Clerk of St. Mary's Church, Manchestll On Wednesday, Miss Edwards, daughter of R.' 13a**' — Esq., Castle-street, Holborn. utec Same day, at Holloway, aged 6 years, Emily, clang" of D. Nevill, Esq. PAINTED and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG, at til e Sot-Omen, No. 112, Strand.