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FILE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extractt from the Morning Papers, July 9, 18'25. [MORNING POST.] Notwithstanding the pertindcity with which certain persons continue to deprecate the Quaran- Otte Laws in this crenitry, we are well persuaded that Government will not relax in their wonted - vigilant attention to these salutary and important regulations. The following communication, re ceived yesterday, added to many others, of which our Readers are already 'in possession, must re move all doubts of the actual existence of this dreadful scourge of the human race in a quarter to which our attention ought to be most parti cularly directed. The plague being now unde niably prevalent in Alexandria, goods from that part, of which cotton wool constitutes by far the greater part, will doubtless be subjected to due purification before they are permitted to be received in our warehouses. The multitude of both sexes, and of all ages, employed in our cotton factories, would be most destructively exposed to the influence of pestilence, were not the most rie,orous precautions taken against the introduction of infected commodities; whilst the nide spreading consequences are not to be con templated but with feelings of the utmost dread and horror. The following is a postcript of a letter received yesterday by an eminent Mercan tile House in the City, from Marseilles : " I open my letter to add, that a vessel has arrived within the last half hour, from Alexandria. Four of her crew died on the - voyage of the plague, which, at the time of her sailing. raged in that city with greater intensity than could be remem bered by the oldest inhabitant ! It is scarcely necessary to say, that, in consequence of this alarming information, the most rigorous quarantine has been established here." • •EBRITISH PRESS. j The Times is resolved to find fault with the " City," happen what. may. This Journal has suddenly assumed a high tone of moral feeling, equally edifying and surprising to his readers. Its hatred of " gambling" leads it to abuse every new undertaking with transferable shares. "Mining concerns" especially are " gambling— gambling all !" When the fever of speculation was at its height, the Times was as suspiciously silent as if the whole attention of its conductors had been absorbed in soliciting shares. They never complained . then that cautions were not issued " against dealings in shares of mushroom companies," but now, when the infatuation is no more, they rail against the Committee of the Foreign Stock Exchance, because, in consequence of some recent transactions of a questionable cha racter, they have warned the members of their society to look to the respectability of the corn. panies in whose shares they traffic. Gambling in shares is no doubt a vice, and so is gambling in tallow or hemp. We complain that the Times, under pretence of upholding " common honesty and plain dealing," is seeking; for purposes of its own, to cast a false imputation generally on the " City." The insidious attempt to connect the appearance of the new Brazil Mining Association with the notice from the Committee of the Foreign Stock Exchange, particularly deserves to be re probated. That notice was no " commentary," as the Times pretends, upon that Association. It was aimed at a very different object. The re. snctable names in the direction of the Castello and Espirito Santo Association will bear it harm. less from the spiteful and scandalous insinuations of the Times. [THE TIMES.] We said not long ago, that the evidence before the Committees of Inquiry into the State•of Ire land was calculated to bring the inquiry itself to an abrupt, and if practicable, an abortive ter mination. Too many sore subjects were touch. ed upon—too many evils were displayed, and in colours too glaring and alarming—too much truth, in fact, was told, for the comfort or pa tience of men who feared to be fully instructed ; and instead of preparing themselves honestly and energetically to profit by the lessons which day after day were read to them, or to cure the mis. chiefs which became every hour more manifest, nerve and principle equally failed them : they silenced the screech-owls, and resolved that they would hear no more. For executing this purpose, it was necessary to save appearances. The parties of whom we are speaking came to a vote, that the Committees should within ten days or a fortnight report upon matter which would have required from the ablest men in the kingdom at least six months to digest it ; and they negatived another vote, recommending that the report should be presented next Session, and that the Committees should commence their labours anew.—The design of this management was more obvious than creditable : it was no other than to extinguish the injury ; and well has the reporter of the Lords succeeded in accom plishing his moiety of the task. It does not seem to us that the annals of Parliament —no, nor of a parish vestry—ever put on record an of. ficial document in all respects so unworthy of a great occasion. In reports from a Committee of either Hotte of Parliament, the country looks for something of enlightened discussion on the subjects which have employed its care, or at least for some attempt at illustration —som e ex. planatory reference to the impression produced upon the minds of the members by the know ledge which they have acquired, if it were only to satisfy the people that a serious and effective, not a mimic investigation, had been meditated. But this " Report," if we must call it so, answers no such intention. We pass it over as a feeble, drawling, and spiritless composi that! since the defects worth mentioning are of so much a graver stamp. But it k really more meagre than a title-page to a volume ; the " report" affirms nothing —suggests nothing— explains nothing—and is worth far less than no thing ; for, like Shakspeare's Lord Mayor to the citizens•of London, in proposing Rkhdrd for their King, the Lord Reporter in this notable record seems as studious to shelter himself tinder the verb impersonal, as if his only object had been to throw the blame of an opinion of any kind off . the shoulder of the Peers whom his pen thus worthily represented It has been sug gested," " it is stated," " it has been recommend. ed," "representations have been made," &c. &c. With regard to the two or three great questions whichoccupy,and willcontinue toagitate the public mind, the report observes an edifying freedom, not merely from all bias as to the mode of settl ing them, but from every thing like a conscious ness that their adjustment would be of the least value to the nation. Upon the Catholic disa bilities, the Committee are persuaded that no thing more was required of them than " to col lect information." With respect to the 40s. Freeholders, they limit their voice to the pro bable expediency of guarding against fictitious votes ; and upon the condition and maintenance of the Catholic Clergy, not one word is uttered. 'We conclude by repeating, that it was the evident purpose of certain persons to get up a nonentity such as we have been describ ing, and pass it off upon the country for " a report." It is indeed a report, extremely not , ll fitted to crush all expectations of a spon taneous remedy for the mass of evils which Ire land has so long but so impatiently endured. It is a smoaky ending to a flashy outset—a delibe rate extinguisher of confidence and hope ; but, we will add, a most unworthy and humiliating farewell to the people whose grievances were the professed subject of investigation. The report finishes with a statement of the measures which have been taken within these three years for the relief and tranquillity of Ireland, of which mea sures we do not, so far as they go, mean to ques tion the success or the importance. [MORNING HERAT.D. The late proceeding s at the Middlesex Sessions, as recorded in the P ublic Papers, seem to place the Magistrates in a singular, and not, we think, very enviable or creditable situation before the public. If we understand the nature and result of these proceedings rightly, the purchase and sale of offices in the gift of the Court (in trust, let it be remembered, for the public), is not only connived at, but openly avowed, acknowledged, and recognised. If any thing so flagrant as this be allowed to pass muster, we hope we shall hear no more of a Minister of State prosecuting a poor tinman for only offering him a bribe ; and that the Law against the sale and purchase of public offices will be repealed in favour of the virtuous and incorrupt Magis tracy of Middlesex. It is some consolation, hoe ever, to find that the majority which was found to sanction the transaction to which these proceedings had reference, was so small, and that it would not have existed at all, had not the matter been (very prudently, no doubt) brought forward at a period when many of the better part of the Magistracy had left town for the season. We are glad too to see that some account of these proceedings has found its way into the papers ; for one material reason, which has paved the way to this, as well as many other transactions equally honourable to this county, is the want of publicity, owing to the proceedings on county days being always { l. carried on with closed doors. Surely it is as fit that the rate payers, as well as the public at large, should krtoW what Magistrates do, as that the' latter should know the proceedings of their Re presentatives in Parliament. We rejoice to find that those who disapproved of those proceedings have had the manliness to set their names to a protest against them ; and we trust that every Gentleman, whether present or absent upon the occasion, who feels himself disgraced by such transactions, will, by adding his name to that protest, show the public (and the Lord Lieute nant in particular) who it is who are not partici pators in them. NEW TIMES.) The Select Committee of the House of Lords has produced a valuable Report on the State of Ireland. Upon the great question of the civil disabilitie=. of Roman Catholics, indeed, the Committee abstain from offering any opinion ; but they deliver a positive approbation of certain measures, which have been adopted with a view to the tranquillising of the country, which effect appears to have been greatly promoted by such arrangements. They approve of the establishment of the Police and Constabulary force. This force we regard as the first essential step towards a tranquil and orderly course of submission to the laws ; and without such submission it is self evident that no legislative measure can be effectual for the relief of the country. From what we have heard of the actual operation of these measures, we cannot hesitate to give our ready acquiescence to this part of the Report. Not less convincing is the opinion of the Com mittee on the new regulations relative to the Magistracy. There has been a revision of the lists of Magistrates, and those lists have been corrected by striking out all improper names, so as to give to those which remain additional weight and respectability. The meeting of the Magis trates in Petty Sessions, and the aid derived, in the administration of justice, from the as sistant Barristers, are circumstances of which no one can doubt the utility. ' Means also have been taken to improve the selection of Sheriffs, and thus to ensure, what was long a desideratum in Irish affairs, the fair execution of the judgments awarded by the legal tribunals.—So much for the administration of the laws ; but the laws themselves have lately undergone some notable meliorations. Of these perhaps the most prolific in beneficial results has been the alteration in the Distillery Laws. Any one who has attentively considered the state of Ireland, for some years past, must be convinced that there is no cause of evil more pre dominant than the Illicit Distillation, and it has been the great object of the new system (even at•the expence of a temporary deficiency of Revenue) to render the pursuit of the illict distiller no longer a profitable occupation. Add to these 'causes of improvement the repeal of direct taxation, the remission of the Union Du ties, and the increased facility of commercial in tercourse, and we shall find abundant cause to hope that the prosperity of Ireland, if not inter rupted by violent political agitators, will advance with a steady pace. Manufacturing industry begins to find employment; and if the capitalist, who promotes such undertakings, can find security for his person and property, we may be assured that abundant supplies of money will not be wanting to the support of Irish manufactures. Upon the whole, the views of the Committee, within the limits which they have chalked out to them selves, appear to be sound and judicious ; and though there are other and perhaps higher con siderations to which they have not thought it proper to advert, the information contained in their Report will be found to be of extreme interest to all who look to the practical improve ment of Ireland. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] The German Journals pretend to know much more of the secret history of France than the French Journals themselves, though it is notorious that the resources of the lat ter are any thing but contemptible. Of this pretension an instance is given in the Papers which reached us yesterday, where it is stated that negociations between the French Govern ment and that of Hayti have been renewed, at the solicitation too of the former. It is further stated that an agent from Ilayti is actually in France, though he bears no public character. All this, it must be admitted, is highly plausible; but, we are obliged to add, it is highly impro bable, particularly that which relates to the agent, for, however snug he might have kept himself, he could scarcely have escaped the lynx eyes of the Parisian Press. A t the same time this statement pays a higher compliment to the libe rality and independence of the Cabinet of the Turneries, then the latter is entitled to. That Ca binet has repeatedly declared that it will not sacri fice the interests of legitimacy to considerations of personal advantage ; and we apprehend it is not free to pursue a different course. The other great Continental Powers will never consent, that it shall have a free will in matters of this kind ; and whenever it claims a right to act for itself, it must be ready to support it with an army of 500,000 men. It must be prepared, at the same time, to introduce great modifications into its system of domestic policy, as it could not hope to resist the confederacy of the other leading Powers without an appeal to the national feel ing, accompanied by important concessions to the great body of the people. We doubt much whether the King has this magnanimity ; and we are quite certain his Ministers have not.— The party, too, who support the Ministers, would consider them as madmen, and denounce them as traitors, if they were to compromize the monarchical principle, under the plea of vindi cating the rights of the nation ; and therefore these speculations of the German papers are idle dreams. The report that the French Ministers are occupied at this moment in paving the way; to the establishment of - political relations with the new American States is still more absurd. In support of our opinion we need only refer to the answer which the French King gave to the De putation of merchants and manufactures, who waited upon him with an address, praying him to appoint , Consular . Agents for the protection of French commerce in that part of the world. To recognize the independence of those States would be more than the French Government would venture to do, unless it were determined to despise the remonstrances, and even brave the hostility, of the other landing Continental Powers. It has not the least objec tion, we are well aware, to participate in the profits of an unrestrained intercourse with South America ; but it has not, even in its dreams, thought of obtaining them at the risk we have just mentioned. It may be said, that the re moval of M. Hyde de Neuville from the Lisbon embassy, disproves some of our preceding argu ments. Here is an ultra displaced on account of the rigidity of his principles ; and here too is a striking instance of a desire to conciliate England at the expence of the monarchical principle ! Notwithstanding the speciousness of this remark, and its complimentary character with respect to our own Government, we appre hend it is more shewy than solid, and that M. de Neuville has been dismissed solely on account of his opposition to the Minister in his favourite project for the conversion of the rentes. M. de Villele, it is true, may wish to stand well with our Cabinet, particularly as he can gratify his vengeance at the same time; and where is the concession of principle after all, seeing that the Portuguese Government is fully as legitimate in form, and no doubt in its practice, as the most paternal Government of them all ? These Ger man lucubrations are excessively puerile, and are only tit for minds of a similar cast. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The Lord Chancellor has at length found a strenuous partizan in the Vale of Rod borough, in Gloucestershire, who, in The Courier of yester day, gives us the history of a suit in Chancery, in which he was a party, and in the course of which Lord Eldon displayed a degree of judicial excel lence, that did not merely satisfy him (that of course is an every day matter), bqt actually overset his principles. " My feelings (says Mr. E. Wall) were formerly rather favourable , than otherwise to these ostensible Reformers (the Whigs) ; but it is a fact, not now expressed the first time, but known to the whole neighbour hood in which I reside, that I returned from the Court into the country, impressed with the idea that the Lord Chancellor was the greatest and most just character that I ever contemplated." This beats Prince Hohenlohe all to nothing. It is well for the Whigs that their adherents have not all had an opportunity of contemplating the excellence of his Lordship, for it is pretty clear, from the example of Mr. Edward Wall, that it is too hard a trial for ordinary faculties. Mr. Wall, while, however, he maintains, frOm his experience in his law suit, that the Chancellor is the greatest and most just character that he ever contem plated, seems to lament that he monopolizes all the greatness and justice of his Court ; and more than insinuates, that he is surrounded by men who are every thing but what they ought to be.—" I know that it is often asked (he says) why the Lord Chancellor does not prevent the misconduct of others in his Court ? I pretend , not to answer the question, as in much alit, I know neither his power nor his will ; but I observed that he strenuously endeavoured to cause the Counsel to divide themselves, so as to be part al. ways in one Court, and part always in another, which would have been a great step in reform, but that he was trying in vain to the end of the time that I attended there." The Barristers are bad, the Officers are bad, Lord Eldon's excellence is lost, altogether thrown away on them. They are all incorrigible as so many Heathens, nay, so thoroughly lost to all goodness,that they are now joining in the cry against him, the pretext for which is their own worthlessness. Mr. Wall chimes in admirably with his Lordship. He sees now that with the best disposition in the world to remedy abuses, they are multiplying around him,—ke calls on Mr. Agar and other Barristers to tell, if they can, of any plan to remedy ac knowledged evils,—for he himself knows nett of any. The Lord Chancellor may be all that is excellent, and the other parties above referred to, may be chargeable with all that is faulty in the Court of Chancery. The Chancellor may be only chargeable with au excessive and disin terested indulgence. Certain it is, however, that he carries his indulgence for the errors in his own Court very far indeed. We do not remember ever hearing him till now complaining of the grievous injury sustained by suitors from the in- crease of fees. We remember, however, having often heard him justify, with all the ingenuity of which he was master, the multiplication of sinecures in Chancery ; we remember having lately heard him dwell on the injury which suitors would sustain, if every office were not filled with persons who merely received fees from those performing the duties, without discharging any duty themselves. Hence, no doubt, the necessity for increasing fees, that as many persons as possible may live on the same office. Mr. Lowe says, " There is now a strong disposition to render Officers and Ministers in dependent of attendance, labour, and care, by giving them high salaries whilst in office, and providing large pensions for them when superan nuated ; by establishing fee funds ; and by em ploying the unemployed cash of the suitors for their benefit. Hence arises an indifference to expedite business; such indifference continually increases ; and men in office, like Masters in ordinary in ancient times, are becoming men of other habits ; not indeed humbled as the Masters in Queen Elizabeth's time were, but by brilliant salaries and emoluments, lifted from the middle into the highest ranks in society. The hour of attend ance, for the dispatch of business, which, when the writer was admitted an attorney, and long afterwards, commenced at nine o'clock in the morning, is now delayed until ten or eleven, and then the attendance is only until two or three o'clock in the afternoon, without, as heretofore, the evening attendance." COAL MARKET JULY 8. Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. N Newcastle - - 29 -29 s 6d to 38s Od 29 Sunderland - 21 29s Od to 39s 6d COUR3E OF EXCHANGE, July 8. • Anistetdant r ., . it eF. C. Ditto, at Sight l2 19 Rotterdam l2 3 Antwerp l2 3 Hamborgh ' Altona Paris,3 Day's sight Ditto Roordcaus, ditto Berlin 7 0 Frankfort on the Main . .... 151 i Es. Money Petessburgh '. • • . 94 Vienna „ 956 Trieste Nladrid - 36 f . Effective Cadiz ,1311b0a..,.., . Barcelona ievillc Giibraltat .'. : Leghorn Gema ^ 15i-Veniee, Hal. Lis. 47 Malta Palermo , • Lisbon Oporto Itioianeiro 'Bahia , 52 Dohlitt .... 9i Cork 94 pet Cent. BULLION. Portugal Gold, i n Coin 1.0 0 0 per 01 Foreign Gold, in Bars 3 17 10i New Dooldoons New Dollars 0 4 11 Silver Standard in Bars. 0 Mademoiselle BERT' N, a Parisian milliner, was much patronized by MARIA ANTIONETTE ; and upon the strength of the Queen's kindness, as sumed a most ridiculous degree of pride. A lady one day went to that famous fashion-monger to ask for some patterns of mourning for the Em press. Several were shewn her, all of which she rejected. Mademoiselle Bertin at length ex claimed, " show her then some specimens of my last transactions with her Majesty." The savage owner of the bull, in pride of vic. tory over Mr. MARTIN'S efforts to convict the bull baiters, brought out the same bull to a field about two miles from Ilounslow, and there set on an unlimited number of dogs, who literally tore and devoured the living flesh from off the bones of this poor defenceless victim of their cruelty. DREADFULSUICIDE.—Yesterday evening, about half-past eight o'clock, the neighbourhood of Coldbath-fields was thrown into confusion by the' following melancholy catastrophe :—A man of the name of Godfrey, about fifty years of age, and who formerly was an officer of Marylebone police-office, contrived to effect an entrance, by the back-way, into a shut-up public house, the sign of the Apple Tree, the corner of Great Warner-street, and putting the muzzle of a load ed pistol into his mouth, literally blew the left side of his face to atoms ; indeed, such was the horrid spectacle that presented itself, that some time elapsed before the unfortunate man could be recognized. It appears, that about 3 weeks ago the deceased was conveying a prisoner named W. Thompson to Coldbath-fields prison, and having nearly reached the place of destination, was pre vailed on by the prisoner to allow him to take some refreshment before placing him in the cus tody of the Governor of that prison, when Thomp son ran out of the house, and although closely pursued succeeded in effecting his escape, in con sequence of which Godfrey was removed from his situation. The deceased had since been ob served in a desponding state, and, watching an opportunity of entering the house whence arose the cause of his distress, there terminated an ex ;Sten ce which had become a burden to him. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—After the business had closed on Thursday evening, and when Sir R. Birnie was about to leave the bench, John Dodd, the man who charged Sir Richard with assaulting him in Pall-mall, came into the office, and one of the men in attendance having stated who he was, he was desired by the Chief Magistrate to make his charge.—Dodd, who is an elderly man, somewhat stout, and dressed in a drab great coat, and wearing a seal-skin cap, stepped forward, and said, " I have to state, Sir Richard, that on Tuesday Morning last, about half-past two o'clock, as I was standing in Pall-mall, 1 was violently assualted and knocked down by you." Sir R. BIRIIE—What part of Pall-mall ? Dodd--At the bottom of St. James's-street. You were there with a staff in your hand. Sir R. Butxm—.Which I never hsd in my life. Dodd—You never had a staff in your hand ! Why I saw _you with my own eyes, and felt the weight of the statf. You came up to me and struck me with it, first on my shoulder, and then on my head, and kweked me down. Sir R. BialuE—Pray do you know me? Dodd-0 yes, perfectly well, from having had the pleasure of working for you many years ago. Sir It. BIUNIE said it was all a mistake. He was in bed at ten o'clock on that night, and was not in Pall-Mall at all. Dodd, however, persisted in declaring that Sir Richard was the person who committed the assault upon' him, and that it was quite impossible he could be mistaken in his identity. Sir B. BIRNIE—I tell you, Sir, it is quite false, and the truth is not in you. Dodd.—lt is quite true, and I say again you are the person. Sir R. Bllo;lE—Officer, lock this man up until I can make inquiry about him, and ascertain who and what he is. Dodd was then taken away to the lock-up room, but had not remained there long before two decent-looking females, o ne of whom was said to be his wife, c a m e t o i n t erce d e for him, and they both, on seeing Sir R. lirnie, declared that he was not the individual who struck Dodd. They stated that they were with him at the time, and that the person who committed the assault was on horseback, and had a long silver mace in his' hand. Sir R. Amax said, the person so described cotpld be no other than Mr. Lee, the High Constable of Westminster. Dodd, who had been brought in, and beard this explanation, apologized very humbly, and said, he must have been nth taken. Sir R. BIRXIX.-1 think, m friend, you ought by this time to be satisfied of your mistake; but if you have still any doubt, I assure you that I never mounted a horse in my life in the ex ecution of my duty, and that I never carried a silver mace or staff. I also again assure you, that I was not in Pall-mall at all that night, but was in bed particularly early, and if you de sire it, I will send for my footman, -who will swear that such was the fact. Dodd (bowing very low)—I am perfectly satisfied, Sir Rich ard, and am heartily sorry that I should have fallen into such an error, but I assure you 1 was grievously assaulted. I arP 5 standing quietly on the pavement, looking at the carriages and company, as I thought every subject of King eeorge had right to do, when the man on horseback, with his long mace, came up to me, and asked me what I stood there for ? I told him for the same purpose as other people, to see what was goinS on. He said I must not stand there, and I told him I must for a little while, for I was tired of being push e d a b out among the crowd. Without saying another word, he struck me on the shoulder with his staff, and then fetched me a tremendous CraCk on the head, and down I went. Sir R. BIRNIE.-_Well, if I had really been there, and had,. seen you standing q u i et l y as you d escr ib e, I do not think A should have molested you. You may go about your business- Dodd left the office with his female friends. BULL-BAITING. On Thursday afternoon John Holt, one of the two me" against whom warrants were issued for being concerned in the Hounslow bull-bait, was apprehended a t H ampton races , and having been l o d ge d in a watch-house for the night, was brought before Mr. IlliNsHui.L. and Mr. lIALLs yesterday.for exanti* nation. Mr. MARTIN, M.P. b egge d to h e a ll owed to say a few wordsin explanati on o f w h at was stated to have fallen from him on a former day with r e f erence to t h e G entlemen practising at the Old Bailey B ar . H e was fi rm l y ofopinion that the Gentlemenpractising in th a t C ourt were engaged in as honourable an lir"' cation as th ose w h o p l eaded in the Court of King ' s Benc h, at the Chanc er y B ar, or at t h e B ar of the House of Lords i tse lf : If, in th e i naccuracy ofh i s d reaming imagination, he ha d sa t any thing th a t h a d b een construe d i nto an i ntent i on to cast' , ; the slight est re fl ect i on on t h e h o n oura bl e a nd -use f u l men o f t he Old Bailey Bar he was truly sorry, and was ready to make the, most humble apology. He declared that he was unconscious of having made any observation which could be so construed% but it having been represented to him that he had done sat he now offered the most ample apology, and hoped hi s re ttectw ty would find its way to the public. The defendant (as stupid, and, at the same time, as rubll a looking fellow as could possibly be met with), was called, pleaded not guilty. Mr. PHIL LIPS , i n s t a ti ng t h e case , d escr ib e d the exits l)o jC in question as the most horribly cruel that could possibß e es imagined, and stated that not only were the mouth and var l oS parts of the body of the unfortunate bull worried until 1 4 . 5 0 almost baited to death, but that those parts which distingu i lt ea him from the minor portion of his species were actually bl o i off! There was an immense number of persons assembledt., o l4 among them, he was sorry to learn, were very many indiviaPure of rank and title, encouraging the lower ruffians in the to rt o l of the wretched animaL The defendant had not the additi g r , • discrace of possessing rank and education, a circumstance ...5 haps that would operate with the Alagistrates in procull° in more lenient punishment than would, he hoped, otherwise b° p. flitted. It was not his.(lllr. Phillips's) wish to press bard °r the defendant. H e on l y w i she d he had some of the title d °f feel ders under accusation—if he had he should most certainly bound to press for the fullest severity of justice. hat Mr. Benjamin , a glass-dealer, was called, and proved t met bull-bait took place at Hounslow on the 21st of June, rW hZ was attended by a great concourse of persons, among wh om observed a large n um b er o f m ili tary. Ile saw t h e defen h i e li there with a dog which he let loose at the bull twice, and t en d. bit the latter ani ma l i n several places. The bull was A; to fully bitten aad l acerate d, an d several dogs seeme d to 111 have their limbs broken. The defendant s a id th at h e acte d i n i gnorance . T . 4 .-e r eally did not know that he was offending against the law. e k Mr. PHILLIPS said, that in the commencement he hfiii .t pressed a hope that the punishment would be lenient; IDieuelert had since been informed that the agent of the Society, NI loci had received a letter threatening his life, for the part • taken, and he hoped the :Magistrates would notice that t G" The Learned Gentleman produced a copy of the letter. lette r Mr. Miximuia. said, that neither the writing of tiT i „ c le.• nor the baiting to death of the poor beast, was traced to ;go fendant and therefore ought • not to operate to his diss""..,,, tage. The practice of bull-baiting, lie did not hesitate toroafie was a foul disgrace to the country, and he did sincerely !l e that ere long, an exhibition so cruel and disgusting, and n,bet grading to those (especially persons of rank and education)are engaged in it, would be unknown throughout the land' ee of defendant had pleaded the best excuse lie could, the law • but after what had taken place that day, such e o_f to l cure could not be pleaded in future ; and it must be und o il ti ce that all persons who might hereafter be convicted of this would be punished by the infliction of the very highest Pe,"_ . r ot The defendant, after some consultation, was fined 2os ss. costs, and, in default of payment, .was ordered to 5L.'" committed to the House of Correction for 14 days. . the Mr. PHILLIPS said, that this being the first convict ion, onj object of the Society was fully answered in the decisr o : the amount of the penalty was but a minor consideratio ignorant BIRTHS. 10' At the Admiralty, on Thursd a y even i ng , the 7th inst. , Keith Donglas of a son. gal °t ' At Padang, island of Sumatra, East Indies on the 1 August, 1824, Mrs. William P urv i s , o f a d a ughter. ___....--• M ED. t o At Edinburgh, on the 5 A RRI th inst., Lieutenant-Colone l G r it i4 . Henry Zuhleke, C. 8., to Miss Elizabeth Liddell, Y OU daughter of the late Andrew Liddell, Esq. 3is t At Edinburgh, on the 30th ult., Mr. Mathew Frier,,tl su rglia garet Field, daughte r o f M r . Th omas Fi e ld , s l ate r, Edo__ . On Tuesday, the sth in DIED st. , at his residence, Cliio6l°4 Kent, Francis Shackelton, Esq., in his 69th year. John Oeori On the inst. at Cromer, in Norfolk, aged 43, V Lockett, Esq.., of l Upper Conway-street, Fitzroy-srler, jar' Last week, i n a d ec li ne, w i t hi n f our d ays o f each • _ Eh and Mrs. Elborough, of Cross-street, Islington. On the Ist i ns t., at Pentonyille, aged 74, Dirs. E t . o li t oca Brooks, relict of th e l ate Thomas Brooks, sen., Esq" v i e of Cateaton-str ee t. Mary, f On the 7th i ns t., a t B r i xton, i n h er 17 t h year, - in ster'of niece of James S ea t on , E sq . , o f B r id ge street, Wes" T elio At Wantage (found dead on her bed), Mrs. Hobb s, +' Mr. Hobbs, of Standlake. 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