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to the gerreral good ? for if necessary, they are justi fiable. Smith considers the influence of the Poor Laws on labour merely with reference to the ine quality of wages in different places. But we have the experience of Ireland to show us that wages may he-very equal every where, and, at the same time, very low every where ; and if we do not take heed, NVC shall soon have the further experience of wages being every where as uniform in England as in Ireland, and as low. The grand question is, did the Poor Laws, upon the whole, keep down the supply of the labour, so as to prevent it from being any where greatly redundant ? Now the very cumstances urged by Smith as objections—that man, with a wife and family, who should attempt to transfer himself to another parish, would be sure of being removed; and if the single man, who was allowed to reside by sufferance, should af terwards marry, he would generally be remo ved likewise—prove that the Law of Settle ment have served to keg! down the numbers of the people, and consequently to keep the wages of labour higher on the whole than they would otherwise have been. Before the system of en couraging a redundancy of labourers had been acted on, which converted the whole labouring population into paupers, there was a marked distinction be tween the pauper and the industrious labourer, and the latter would not marry under circumstances which prevented him from suppoiting his family by his labour. That any great tyranny would, how ever, take place under the system of strict settle- anent, we do not believe, because though it might be for the interest of men of substance to prevent the increase of the poor rates, it was also their in terest to prevent wages from being much higher in their own parish than it was in another. One ex cellent effect resulted from the power of removal. Those labourers who lived in a parish on sufferance, found it necessary to recommend themselves by their good behaviour, and they were generally models of industry and correctness. They had, too, the most powerful of motives for exerting them selves to acquire a sufficiency of property to secure their residence in the parish of their adoption. But the Political Economists tell us that tho Poor Laws tend to encourage improvidence, by releasing men from the dread of suffering front want, and the infirmities of age. We may allow, that to a certain extent, they have this tendency; but then we con tend, that the dread of suffering from wane in old age, would operate far less in the way of restraint on uninstructed men, such as actually constitute the labouring population in every r•Orintry of Europe, with respect to marriage, than the positive impedi ments thrown in their way by Poor Laws and Laws of Settlement. A labouring man in his youth, is not disposed to look forward to the decline of life; but listens to the impulses of passions. He sees the future through the deceitful mirror which his inclina tions hold up to him. These restraints, which per sons of property interested in keeping down the poor-rates will infallibly oppose, are much more likely to be efficacious, than those which he will impose on himself. Till lately no pauper could marry, and no pauper ought to be allowed to marry. If there was no opening for a married man in his own parish, and if the attempt to marry in another, led to his removal us a pauper, the labourer found himself governed by cir cumstances, to which Ins inclinations were forced to yield. It is allowed by all political economists, that in all old countries there is a tendency in the people to increase faster than the means of subsist ence can be increased. It is allowed, also, that the lower the condition of a people, the stronger that tendency manifests itself among them. The ten dency can alone be counteracted by direct restraint, or the indirect restraint imposed by prudential con siderations. But all the political economists allow that the condition of the people is every where sunk so low, that the tendency cannot be counteracted by their prudence, consequently that they are in circum stances which will every day diminish their ability to resist the evil which is pressing them downwards. When they talk of the influential considerations, they talk of a people already sufficiently elevated, to he able to listen to such considerations; but as Mrs. Glasse says, you must first catch your fish —you must first raise your people. When you have raised them, they may receive youi lectures, addressed to their prudence; but, in the mean time, they must be placed under restraint. We are, therefore, strong advocates for retracing our steps, and ren dering the Law of Settlement mere rigid.— This, and the imposition of penalties on Clergymen solemnizing improper marriages, and the punishing females under the Bastardy Laws, instead of making these laws serve as an encouragement to transgres sion, the female who first sins being first married, and the power to the majority of proprietors to tax cottages arbitrarily, would enable parishes, when once free from redundancy, to keep themselves free. Ey closing the door against emigrant labourers from Ireland, it would necessitate some legislative mea sure for the poor in Ireland, a measure indispensably necessary to the tranquillity of that country. Were there Poor Laws and Laws of Settlement in Ire land, absentee proprietors would soon find it for their interest to rid themselves of estates which could be managed to much better advantage by re sident proprietors. We must ra is e th e c h arac t er of the people of Ireland, or to their own level; and we know of no means so likely to be efficacious as the closing English parishes agifinst Irish poor, and forcing Irish proprietors to exert themselves in improving their estates, under the penalty of being eaten up by beggars.—Morn ing Chronicle. A report has been very general for these last two days that a change is about to take place in the -Mi nistry, which would give it altogether an exclusively I,l 7 higgish complexion. And as a necessary accom paniment of this, it is added, that some change has taken place in a high quarter on the subject of the Catholic Question. This may be so, but we must have something more than mere report before we credit, at least, the latter of these assertions.— Morning Herald. Much has been said by most of the Ministerial Papers respecting the Turkish and Egyptian squa drons having commenced the fight, and that there fore our ships were justified in destroying them. But what would our King or :the people have said, if a French, Russian, and Austrian squadron had en tered Portsmouth harbour, while a fleet of ours had been in that. port, and the Commander-in-Chief of the supposed Allied squadrons had sent in to say to our fleet, " If you dare but fire a single gun, we will destroy you ?" And if such Allied fleet had en tered, and our ships had not given them a broadside, as soon as they possibly could with effect, what would people have said ? To enter a port in order of battle, and to suppose that they would not be fired upon, is to suppose that the Turks and the Egyptians were not men. But the latter proved to be braver men than the people of England sup posed them to be. As we have before said, we do not like the business ; and it was impolitic for Eng land to be at the head of such an alliance. And for whose benefit ? Not England's, but Russia's, in the long run ; and time, we think, will prove The chief ground upon which the Administra tion will defend the Greek Treaty in Parliament is understood to be, the declared determination of Russia to undertake the settlement of the dispute between the Porte and its subjects, and the neces sity to which the British Government was reduced by this determination either to unite with Russia for the attainrneut of that object ; to maintain the unabated supremacy of the Ottoman Power at the hazard of a war with Russia; or lastly, to stand aloof, and leave Russia the sole arbitress of the affairs of the East. Assuming the determination of Russi a to have been such as is here described, it behoved the British Government to appreciate accu rately the motives which dictated it, and to regu late the conduct of England with reference to them. To be convinced that a regard to suffering humanity, a des i re to extend the principle of political freedom, 01 . a n affection for the cause of national inde pendence entered not i nto the views or motives of Russia, it was only necessary to recollect the cha- carter of her government, the nature of her domes tic policy, and the occasions and objects upon and on behalf of which she had at all times, remote or recent, exerted her influence or power in the ge neral politics of Europe. No Statesman who re flected upon these things could entertain a doubt that the governing impulse of Russia was ambition. This feeling alone can explain her determination in telligibly or consistently. The conduct of England goes far to confirm this view of Russian policy ; for if England could have trusted Russia with the set tlement of the affairs of the East, no one will deny, that it would have been the true policy of the for mer to keep entirely aloof from them. England saw, no doubt, that the intltiees of Russia were those of arnbitien ; and with a view eventually to regulate and restrain their developement, she sub mitted to the degradation of uniting with Russia in a treaty as flagrantly unjust in its object and provi sions as any that stains the annals of nations; she lent her high sanction to principles which she ought loudly to have condemned; she humoured Russia when that Power should have been, and might have been, deterred by the threatened displeasure of England ; she sunk into the pander to Russian ambition, in the silly notion that she !night thereby acquire the right to limit its excesses. Such has been the policy of England ; and it is in disputably the weakest, the most pernicious, and the most dishonourable which was open to her. If England had declared her intention to resist any in terference with Turkish affairs on the part of Russia, an inteefereece the motives to which she might safely and candidly have inferred from its manifest tendency, Russia, we entertain but little doubt, would have receded from her determination ; and thus England and the world would have continued to enjoy the blessings of peace. Had Russia obsti nately clung to her determination, notwithstanding the admonition?: and the menaces of England, a war between England and Russia must, we admit, have been the result. This it will scarcely be denied is a fair way of looking at the question ; and it therefore only remains to compare such a war, as to its character and probable consequences, with that hi which we are now about to engage. The war upon which we are entering is in direct and flagrant violation of the law of nations, as under stood and interpreted generally throughout Europe fur a long series of years. It proceeds upon the avowed principle, that power constitutes right, and thus inflicts a most dangerous wound upon the peace and independence of nations, and the general happi ness of mankind. A war with Russia in the cir cumstances stated, would have been on our part a legitimate war, carried on for the purpose of protect ing an old and faithful Ally, from a partial dethrone ment at the mandate of Russia, and his dominions from certain dismemberment to gratify Russian am bition. In the war now about to commence the confederation to which we are united is knit toge ther, not by a community of objects or of feelings, but by the reciprocal jealousy of its Members. It is a war in which victory is likely to be more disastrous than defeat—a war in which the discomfiture of our most active Ally will make the British Government rejoice,—his triumphs make the British Government tremble. It is a war which may be prosperous only up to a given point; for if it should be further triumphant it converts infallibly England and her Ally into bitter and implacable foes. It is a war founded not more upon injustice towards the Porte, on the part of all the Allies, than upon fraud and hatred on the part of each of them towards every other. In a war with Russia, on the contrary, we should have been united in a zealous and sincere alliance with Turkey, for purposes definite, intel ligible, and honest. Such a war would not, like the present, have been pregnant with the seeds of future and more terrible conflicts.—Morning Post. In the learned and laborious work on British Pi" name, published a few days ago by M. Moreau' among a multitude of highly interesting particulars is a table of the revenue derived from 'Newspapers for the last thirty years. According to that docu ment the revenue from Newspaper Stamps in Great Britain—the accounts for Ireland only commence in 1818—amounted in 1798 to 145,000/., and in 1827 to 365,000/. in round numbers. Up to 1814, the stamp duty was 3)d. on each paper; from that period to the present it has been 4d., the only alte ration being a reduction in favour of Supplements, made in 15241, by which two or three of the News papers of the metropolis benefit to the amount of perhaps a couple of thousand pounds per annum, but which has no effect whatever on the great mass of the newspaper press. The ratio of the duty, and, consequently, of the number of newspapers, in 1798 and 1827, may be, therefore, stated as 14 to 36. In 1798, the duty on advertisements was 76,000/., and in 1827, 1.50,000/. in round numbers, which is in the ratio of one to two very nearly. From this statement it appears that while the demand for news papers has increased in the proportion of 2i to 1, the demand for advertisements has only increased as two to one. It is very difficult to estimate what the real increase of trade and commerce has been since 1798; but, looking to the very different man ner in which business is now managed from what it was thirty years ago, and to the enormously augmen ted speed with which goods travel from hand to hatd in consequence, we should not perhaps over-rate the matter, were we to say that the occasions for sales and purchases, and, consequently, the legitimate call for advertisements, are twenty times greater than they were in 1798. We are rather disinclined to pronounce on the duty on the newspaper, because that is one in which it may be conceived we arc prin cipally concerned; and although it might, with no great difficulty, be shown, that in that duty also the public are interested, we arc willing that it should remain for the present as it is. But at a moment when, to the merchant, the trader, to every one who has any thing to sell, and to every one who has any thing to buy, it is allowed by all that every possible facility ought to be given, it may well be doubted whether so excessive a duty as three shilling and sixpence on the smallest advertisement be politic. It may be laid down as indisputable, that no means or method of advertising is likely to be useful to the advertiser, except in newspapers or periodicals. We do not speak selfishly in stating this obvious truth. Unless a man have the adver tisement in his hand, and have leisure to peruse and to consider it, it may as well not be presented o his inspection at all. There is not nosy only, but at all times there has been—for the occasion is one that never has ceased and never will cease in a trading community—a most grievous com plaint that there is no such thing as effect ing sales. Yet there is not the slightest deubt that these might be effected in numerous instances where they are not, were it but possible to convey to the public generally a description of the nature and forms of the articles. So true is this in London, more especially, that he who has sufficient capital to advertise often enough ,and long enough,is sure to create a business. Even if the reduction of the advertisement duty,which we should feel disposed to:recommendovere in our opinion calculated to diminish the revenue, we do not say on that account we should abtain, be cause we think that a revenue cannot be raisedfrom any more improper source than one which tends, when checked, to dry up the streams from which all the revenue beside must be drawn. But we are so far from imagining that such a diminution would be the consequence, that we firmly believe that there would be a great augmentation of revenue. We have stated the increase of commercial transfers gene rally,-since'l79B, at 20 to 1, but whatever may be the increase, can it be a matter of doubt that there occur in Great Britain, in the course of a twelvemonth, an infinitely larger number of cases, wherein an advertisement would be highly desirable, than half a million, which, allowing for repetition, is more than the number of all the separate notices made last year in all the newspapers taken together ? It was some tinge ago proposed in a Parliamentary Report, to lower the duty on short, and increase it on long advertisements, but we confess we are averse to all such complicated processes. If any distinc tion were made, we should feel inclined to make it in favour of a certain class. Notice@ for or by servants, clerks, &c., if not consisting of above five lines, we would not burden with a duty of above a shilling, and all others should, we think, be reduced fifty per cent., or, at the least, to two shillings. We have stated our confirmed opinion that the revenue would not suffer by such a reduction, and we do it more decidedly, for the following simple but con elusive reason :—`When a duty on a consumable article is reduced, and the demand for it increases, in the same proportion must the demand for some other article of consumption decrease. If you lower the duty on rum, and people buy more rum, they will buy less gin or whiskey; if you lower the duty on wines, those who betake themselves to that be verage will buy less spirits; and he who advertises to the amount of ten pounds at present, will still advertise to the same amount, although flue expense of each notice were a fourth part only of what it is at present ; and he who, because he cannot afford to ad vertise, has recourse to bills, placards, hawkers, and all such inadequate and circuitous means, will drop them for the more direct and effectual plan pur sued by his wealthier neighbours. No seller, of com mon sense, ever believed it possible to keep his name and the excellence of his wares too fully and frequently before the public eye, and therefore the most regular and extensive advertiser never yet thought he had advertised sufficiently. He may be repressed by the expense, but he is repressed by nothing else. Reduce that, and where he adver tised once he will advertise twice; where he sought publicity in one paper be will seek it in two. If, however, there be economists who ►emain uncon vinced by our argument, to such we say, let the reduction be tried for but a twelvemonth. The sa crifice of the whole 150,0001. would very little in jure the nation—the sacrifice of a part of it may therefore well be risked without scruple.—Xstv Time:. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—CHARGE UNDER LORI) EL LENROEOUGH'S ACT.-Yesterday four young men named Borten, Kevill, Cannon and Megertroy, were brought be fore the Lofty Mayoa., charged under Lord Ellenborough's Act with having cut and maimed a seaman named James Smith, who belongs to the ship Albion, in a dreadful manner about the neck and face with a razor. The un fortunate seaman is in a most dangerous condition in St. Thomas's Hospital. Captain Marshall, of the Thompson, now lying in the Thames, stated, that at about one o'clock on Thursday morn ing, upon going aboard his own ship, he saw two men in a barge, near the Tower. stairs, in a scuffle ; that he went on board the barge, and found that Smith, the seaman, was one of the disputants, and that he was wounded in a most horrible manner in the neck and cheek and lip. The wound upon the lip quite disfigured the countenance. Wit ness immediately seized them both, separated them, and took them to the watch-house. The constable of the night, in the watch-house of Tower Ward, corroborated the statement of Captain Marshall as to the condition of Smith, whom he immediately caused to be conveyed to the Hospital, where he was immediately at tended to by the surgeon of the house. Boden's hands were covered with blood. Before Smith was conveyed to the Hospital, be mentioned the names of the three other prisoners, Kevill, Cannon, and Megertroy, as persons who were engaged in the diourbance which had, lie said, taken place. Cannon gave himself up as soon as heard that the officers of justice were in search of him, and witness gave instruction to Robert Frazer, a watchman, to search the barge, in order to ascertain whether there were any sharp edged instruments to be found, as it appeared impossible that such wounds could have been inflicted with weapons of a different kind. Kevill and Megertroy were taken into custody soon after the violence was committed. Robert Frazer, a watchman, deposed that, by the direc • tion of the night constable, he searched the barge, and after a good deal of trouble he found two razors, one of which was covered with blood. The razors were then produced, and one of them was in the state described, so that no doubt is entertained of the manner in which the wounds were inflicted. Cannon told the witness that he had purchased the razors on the preceding evening, and gave them to Boden to take care of fur him. John Bailsford, who has been one of the night watch of the river Thames 17 years, deposed that at about twelve o'clock at night he saw the prisoner go on board the barge to await the arrival of the Ostend steam packet, there being a quantity of straw in the barge upon which they might sleep. In half an hour, Smith and twu or three other men went on board the same barge, and a general scuffle ensued, but witness could not say how the wounds were inflicted. The contest seemed to be a desperate and a g eneral one. Paine, a constable, stated that he witnessed the scuffle, and observed amongst those engaged all the prisoners. He did not, however, interfere. The LORD MAYOR said, that the conduct of Pal" was extremely reprehensible, be not having endeavoured to check such a tumult. This instance, however, only con firmed his (the Lord Mayor's) opinion of the witness's in competency, an opinion which had been expressed in the ward for which he was elected deputy constable. The op position which his Lordship had given arose, he wished it to be understood, from the advanced age.of the candidate, as he thought it most necessary to have able bodied men employed, and particularly in the neighbourhood where this desperate occurrence took place. The surgeon's certificate upon the state of Smith's health was here handed to the Lord Mayor. It stated that the unfortunate man was in such a condition from the wounds which he had received in the cheek, neck, and lip, that he could not by any rneams be pronounced out of danger. The Lost') MAYoa asked the prisoners what they had to say in defence of their conduct in this dreadful transaction. Roden said, that the complainant and some other man entered the barge when 'the defendants were there, and at tacked them most wantonly, and that they (defendants) were obliged to do all they could in their own defence. He complained that Captain 11Iarshall struck bins upon enter ing the barge. The other prisoners said, that when the scuffle commenced they left the barge immediately, and that they were inno cent of the offence in which they were said to be partici pators. The Loan illAvost said, that the assault was a most dreadful one, and alight be fatal. His Lordship ordered that the prisoners should be remanded for one week. Several of the friends of the prisoners came forward with offers to bail them, but his Lordship, of course, refused to take bail, whatever might be the amount. A young man of very respectable appearance, was charged with having misappropriated the sum of 2691., the pro perty of Mr. Banister Flight and his son Mr. Thomas Flight. A Mr. Taylor stated, that the defendant was collecting clerk to Mr. Thomas Flight, and had been in that gentle man's employment five years--that he was principally en gaged in collecting the rents of them, the two complainants, that it was his duty on receiving money to hand it over to the confidential clerk of Mr. Thomas Flight every evening, that on Wednesday he received the sum of 2691., which he did not hand over to the clerk, 180/. of which belonged to Mr. B. Flight. The defendant's salary originally was 201. a year, but it had been increased 51. each year. Yester day, instead of handing over the money which he had re ceived, he handed in an account as due to him of 257/., and a cheque for 121., making up the sum of 2691. The correctness of this account Mr. T. Flight totally denied. Mr. B. Flight said, that his son collected his rents, and that 1801. of the money received by the defendant belonged to him. . . The Loan MAYOR asked him who signed the receipts, to which he replied that be always signed his own receipts for rent. __ . Mr. Wooler, for the defendant, said, that Mr. B. Flight had no ground for a charge against his client, and that the transaction was a mere matter of account between his eon and the defendant; that the son undertook to collect his rents, and employed the defendant to do so. Mr. T. Flight said, that the defendant, instead of hand ing over the money, as he was bound to do, furnished him with the account before mentioned. It was true that the defendant, some time ago, furnished him With an account, and asked for an increase of salary. The account he con sidered outrageous, and to the increase of salary he gave a negative. The Loan MAYOR here remarked, that he thought it rather singular that Mr. T. Flight should have continued to employ the defendant after such an account as had been described was furnished. _ _ _ . _ Mr. Woaler said, that he could prove that Mr. T. Flight promised the defendant 1201. a year, after the expiration of five years, and that the defendant had been in his employ ment six years and a half. He produced a letter, dated 19th December, 1827, addressed to the defendant, stating, that if be would give up all claims upon him up to the date of the letter, he would enter into another arrangement.— This letter Mr. Wooler•said proved' at once that the de fendant had claims upon Mr. T. Flight, which were recog nized by Bir. Plight's letter. The LcuuxMAtion said, oat the conduct of the young man in detaining the money was incorrect. His Lordship would not use a harsher term, as the defendant seemed to hare some claim, and recommended that the matter should be referred to some gentlemen of respectability. This was agreed to. Mr. T. Flight wished that the money should be lodged in impartial hands in the mean while. The young man said that he would place the money in the Lord Mayor's hands the next day, and abide by the de cision of the referee. James Pierce, a most deplorable object, evidently half starved, was charged by Linford, a watchman, with having gone up a ladder which was placed before Mr. Clode's house, No. 59, Bishopsgate-street. The watchman stated, that he saw the defendant, who is a tall emaciated man, at twolo'clockon Wednesday morning, mount up the ladder to the very top of the house. Witness gave the alarm. James Fish said, that upon going to the top of the house, he found the prisoner asleep, snoring. The LORD MAYOR—Ay, a sham sleep. Fish said that he could not tell, but the man appeared to be fast asleep, although he had chosen so strange a bed. Witness awoke him, and took him down through the house to the watch-house. The constable of the night said that the defendant had nothing about him except a few half-pence. The prisoner shook his head when asked what he had to say, and declared that he did not know why he chose the top of a house, when he was always in the habit of sleeping at the very bottom when he slept any where. He was remanded. GUILDHALL. —Mrs. Bridget Tacker, a small, smoke-dried matron, was charged with having assaulted Henry Newton; a seventeen-stone guardian of the night, in the parish of St. Sepulchre, and of course a person of some weight ist the affairs of that parish. " And please you, my Worship," said the weight• watchman, " at half-past ten o'clock last night, in Chick lane, this good woman and her husband were having a piece of work." _ _ " What do you mean by a piece of work ?" asked the Alderman. "Why they were bull-ragging and ramshackling one an other," replied the watchman by way of explanation; " by which means they were having a piece of work in the street at that present time, and accordingly she was down on the ground—in liquor, as you may say; for I under stand it began in a bit of a Christmas gambol ; but howsever that says nothing—she were down on the ground, and I puck her up ; with which she flew at her husband, right and left, and tore him all to pieces in his shirt sleev e s ; —a very respectable man he is, and a man that dresses well, and wishes to get his living honestly ; but she tore him up all to ribands in his shirt sleeves ! " Come, my good woman," says I, " my duty won't allow me to see you tear your husband up in that onpolite way—though it be Christmas time," says I ; by which means she kicked my lantern out of my hand, bit my thumb all across, and gave me a desperate dig in the short ribs before I could look about me, please your Worship. " Drat the woman !" thinks I, " what'll she be at next ?"—whereby I twirl'd my rattle pretty sharp, and help coming, we got her to the watch-house ; and there—just as I were opening my • mouth to tell the night constable what we'd brought her for, she gives me another desperate dig under the short ribs, and knocks all the wind out of me, so that I couldn't speak ! and because the constable told her she had no right to do that, she called him all the ugliest names in nature— she di,l!" " Really, she seems to have treated you very ungen teeny," said Mr. Alderman THOMPSON ; " but I should scarcely have thought it possible that a little old woman like this could give a watchman of your bulk so much trouble." . . " She is little, your Worship," rejoined the bulky watchman, " but little as she is, and quiet as she is now, she's a desperate merry one when her blood's up ! But the worst of it is, her husband—though a hard-working, pains-taking man as any going_would't follow us to the watch-house to give charge of her; and when I called at his house to ask him what he meant by it—' Why,' says he, I've had trouble enough with her ; and now you've got her, you may make the best of her !' " Mrs. Bridget Tucker—the most unlikely-looking person imaginable for doing the desperate deeds alleged ageing t her —did not deny that she had done them, but contented her self with quietly pleading in justification, that it was Christmas-time. Eventually her husband declining to appear, and the weighty watchman being willing to put up with the des perate digs she had given him under his short ribs, she was admonished to be of better behaviour in her gambols for the future, and discharged. B OW- ST REET. —A black female, Charlotte Col ville, was brought before the Magistrate, by Earl, one of the parish officers of St. Martin's-in-the-fields, charged with refusing to divulge the name of the person who is father to the child of which she is now enciente, she being chargeable to the above named parish. Earl had used every exertion, without effect, to pre vail upon her to disclose the name of the man to whom she could swear the child. She obstinately persisted in refusing to name the individual, and as a last resource, lie brought her before a Magistrate with the view that she should e n y o o t u l n i s rd , e s tl! n e n p u ar n i d s e h r t w v e i illegitimate tiLn a a ni te i o na ff t s i li offspring, by withholding the name of its legal father. nt a Mr. MiNsirtn.r., in the course of which she acknowledged that she was pregnant by a white man, whose name, how ever, she persisted in refusing to divulge. She said she was but 18 years of age ; that she was a native of the Brazils ; had come to this country when in her seventh year, and had travelled in various parts of Europe with an English family, under whom she lived as long as she could remember. After considerable pressing, she at length stated, that the father of her child was a shopkeeper in the Strand, whose name she consented to disclose. to Mr. Min shun in private, and measures were accordingly taken to compel him, to provide for the expected maintenance of the fruit of his (lark amour. A man named Daly, of Church-court, was charged by Mr. Warmwell, the proprietor of the New Somerset Coffee house, in the Strand, opposite Somerset-house, with an attempt at fraud, of which it were well that the public should be on their guard. Mr. Warmwell gave an order to the prisoner to purchase two hundred weight of pota toes for him at Covent-garden market, which he did, but, on discovery, it was found that two of the baskets in which they were conveyed, and which were supposed to contlin 711 b. weight of potatoes, had a 141 b. weight at tached to the bottom of each of them. The fraud was not completed so as to make out a case against the prisoner, but the Magistrate remarked that there was no doubt of his guilty intention. 11e was discharged at the intercession of the prosecutor, with a caution for his future conduct. lIATTON-GARDEN.—An application was made to Mr. Sergeant SELLow and Mr. LAING, by a medical gen tleman, on behalf of his friend who accompanied him, for their advice respecting the course that must be taken under the following circu mstan ces A few day s ago, a highly respectable ge n tl eman , c losely connected with the Greek States, took lodgings at his friend's house. Oil the morning subsequent to this en .gagement, the family were thrown into the greatest alarm by the wildness and inconsistency of their lodger. Upon calling in medical assistance, it was found that he was perfectly insane, and it was thought proper to have him removed to one of the lunatic asylums, which was imme diately done, and the gentleman hound himself to be res ponsible for his expences. His trunks were opened, and his papers, among which appeared some duplicates, were examined, but no clue could be had to any of his family connexions in this country. The gentleman now thought it hard that he should be obliged to bear the responsibility to which he had somewhat rashly bound himself, and he therefore applied for instructions to the Magistrates. The Magistrate. assured him they were incompetent to give him advice under the circumstances. Upon this they both withdrew. lhe names of the persons we could not learn. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—An inquest having been held on the body of James Croft, who was shot in Black lion-fields, Paddington, on Sunday morning, by John Jack son, and a verdict found of accidental death, Jackson was brought to the office on Wednesday night, to be liberated. —He was discharged. Yesterday a gentleman informed Mr. Gil.lrrinr, that on the sth of this month he went to an evening party in one hackney-coach, and returned in another, and afterwards missed his purse containing a 5/. note, and 4/. 10s. in money. Whether he lost it in either of the coaches or elsewhere he could not tell, but he had since traced the note from the Bank of England back to the waterman of the coach-stand, in Portland road, near the Crown and Sceptre. Mr. GRIFFITH immediately sent Mr. llewitt, the chief officer, to bring the waterman to the office. He gave his name Edwards, his number 283, and said he found it on Monday morning, the 10th of this month, among the rank of coaches on his stand, wrapped in a piece of writing paper, and no money with it. He men tioned it to no one, kept it till the following Sunday, and then changed it at the shop , )f a Mrs. Davis, in the neigh bourhood, to whom he owed a few shillings. Mr. RANvuNsoN asked him if he did not know an office in Rossiez-street, where, under a rail, coachmen , • * Y and uratermen were required in a given time to leave pro perty found. The waterman replied yes, if found in a coach, but a coach and a coach-stand were different things. The vvaterman was ordered to repay the gentleman 6/. Among the night charges, a person named Dancer was charged by Dieffenback, a watchman, with being drunk and lying in the New-road, at one o'clock yesterday morning. When the ease was called on, " Dieffenback," said Stowell, the officer of the day, " bring forward your prisoner." " Got bless my soul," replied Dieffenback, who was born in Germany, " he's run't avay." " He says his prisoner has run away, your Worship," said Stowell to Mr. Griffith. Mr. GRIFFITH—" Run away man !" what do yon mean? Dieffenback—l prought him town from to ♦atchhonse, your Vorship, and set him upon to pencil pehind te peoples; and pefore I could get my eyes open, he shlipped away. Mr. GILIFFITII—YOII must find him again. Dieffenhack —Very Soot. Mr. Gait-mu—lt's very bad, perhaps you don't know him ? Dieffenhack—Ven I see him I vill know him, asd I vill pring him pack. Mr. Gnu-ran—You are big enough and strong enough to take care of a prisoner,—you must be reported. Dieffen back—Tere vas too many peoples incite ; he set. upon te pencil, and vile I turn my pack he 'ain't away. I rill re in/Taper him, and look after him, and pring him pack, your vorship. Mr. GRIFFITH—If not, I shall remember you. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a further investigation tcok place at this office before M. SWASEY and D. KING, Vsqrs., into the circumstances attending the burglary and robbery committed on the evening of Christmas day, in the house of Mrs. Lewellyn, No. 69, Great Suffolk-street, Southwark. Mrs. Fellows, the wife of the chandler in whose shop Chad was apprehended with the pistol in his possession, on Tuesday evening, a little after seven o'clock (the time the complainant's house was broken into), heard the cry of " Stop thief !" from the direction of Mr. Lewellyn's house. About the same period, Chad entered the shop, and asked for a pennyworth of tobacco. While witness's husband, who was inside the counter, was serving him, he saw the but-end of a pistol in his hand : her husband was so much terrified at the sight of the weapon, taking it into his head that he was going to have it blown off his shoulders, that he called for her, and she fearlessly approached the young man, and took it out of his hands. Hearing of the house just broken open, and suspecting that he was concerned in it, she questioned him respecting the possession of the pistol, when be at first said that he had found it in the street, but immediately afterwards recalled his words, and declared that his brother had given it to him. Mr. Su's( BE V-Did he appear confused when he first en tered your husband's shop ? Witness—He (lid. I parti cularly noticed, when I mentioned that I suspected be had some hand in the robbery, that he trembled and appeared I agitated. Soon afterwards, the witness said, Chad de clared that lie had been spending the evening with his uncle, Mr. Pedley, in Surrey-row, accompanied by his brother, and that he was sent out for some porter and tobacco, and that he called at her shop for the latter article. She, how ever, conceived there was so much suspicion attached to his conduct, that she sent for a constable, and gave him into custody. In justice to the accused, she should state, that he did not hesitate in giving his uncle's name and address. Sharp, the constable, into whose charge the prisoner was given, produced three skeleton keys, which he described were picked up close to the shop of the last witness. It was ascertained, that the prisoner Tron, in his attempt to escape from Mr. Lcwellyn's premises, ran past the shop in question ; therefore, there was a probability that he might have dropped the keys in question in his career. Sharp added, that on examining Chad, he found the pistol un loaded, together with a small scent-bottle and a penknife.— The accused gave the same account to the constable rela• tive to the pistol that he had previously given to Mrs. Fel lows on the subject. A Mr. Emery, who accompanied the complainant home on the night in question, stated that he distinctly saw Tron and another man clambering over the wall of his friend's house on the night mentioned about seven o'clock. Mr. Swa BEI - observed, that in doubtful cases such as this certainly was, Magistrates, by a recent act, were empowered to hear the evidence on the behalf as well as against the accused. The accused was therefore at liberty to call whom he pleased. James Pedley, Chard's uncle, was then called. On Tues day evening lie invited his two nephews to spend the even ing with him in Surrey-row. They came a little before seven o'clock, and he sent out Thomas Chad for a pot of porter and some tobacco, desiring bins to call at Fellows's shop for the latter article. Being absent rather longer than he should have been, witness, accompanied by his other nephew, went in quest of Thomas, and on the way heard of a robbery, and that the men were apprehended. Con vinced, on bearing this intelligence, that his nephew had followed the parties to the w atch-house, like many other ) proceeded there, and was thun derstruck that his nephew was taken into custody n o ung people, n ha suspicione p ° le , of having hearing hrai T ign i t t g h "es been implicated in the offence. Mr. SwASEY—Were you aware that your nephew had a pistol in his possession when he called at your house ? The witness answered in the negative. The brother of the accused was then called, and proceed ed to detail circumstances fully confirmatory of the state ment previously given by his uncle : in addition to which, he said, that on meeting his brother on the morning in question he gave him the pistol to carry, as it was rather too large for his (witness's) pocket. This witness describ ed where the pistol was purchased, and said that he was in the habit of carrying it about in his pocket unloaded, as he was partial to fire-arms. The whole evidence being gone through, the magistrates fully committed Tron, and discharged Thomas Chad. SLAUGHTER-HOUSES AND CATTLE MARKETS OF LONDON; An open Meeting of the Provisional Committee appointed to take measures for abating the nuisances arising from the present mode of driving and slaugh tering cattle, was held last night at No. 12, Regent street, Pall-mall. Several gentlemen not connected with the Com mittee attended. There were also present four or five butchers extensively engaged in business. Some of these admitted many of the inconveniences arising from the present state of Smithfield market, and the evils of driving cattle through the city; but most of them expressed themselves hostile to any measure which should prevent butchers from slaughtering cattle at their own slaughter-houses. A long discussion then ensued on the advantages 'et the proposed change; we have room only for the result, which was, that the following resolutions were proposed and carried unanimously That a Sub-Committee of fire members be appointed for the purpose of inspecting the London cattle markets, and several of the slaughter-houses connected with them, and of examining the present modes of driving and slaughtering cattle in the metropolis, as far as either may be considered injurious to the health, or in other respects opposed to the convenience of the inhabitants. That the Sub-Committee be requested to direct their at tention to the nature and extent of the evils arising f rom both the above causes ; to c onsider how far th e erection of public slaughter-houses s imilar to the abut toirs of Paris would tend to their rem oval ; and to re port their observa tions opinions Committee thereupon eupon to the P rov i s i ona l C omm i ttee . having been a pp o i n t e d, it was nex and t resolved)-- (The That they:be requested to make their Report on this night fortnight. That such Report, if approved and adopted, be laid be fore a General Meeting of the inhabitants of London and Westminster, the time and place for holding which, to be appointed at a future Meeting of the Provisional Committee. That subscriptions be entered into for defraying the ex pense of bringing this subject under the consideration of Parliament. That for the present such subscriptions be paid to Mr. Welsh, No. 12, Regent-street, Pall-mall. In the course of the evening a gentleman addressed the Meeting,:and read a letter received from Mr. John Valiance, of Brighton, addressed to the Pro visional Committee. Mr. Valiance expressed his concurrence in the object for which the Committee was appointed, and adverting to the great waste of butchers' meat, by the difficulty of keeping it long " hanging " in the summer months, mentioned that he had discovered a method by which meat might be kept fresh and sound in the hottest summer months. The letter was ordered to be entered on the minutes of the Committee, with a view to its con sideratiems at a future stage of their proceedings. When the Resolutions above given were carried, the Meeting of the. CoMmittee was adjourned to Thursday, the 10th of January, at seven in the even ing precisely. On the Horsham road the waters have also been out, and seriously impeded travelling..—Brighton Paper. MINIM THE MARKETS SOUTHALL MARKET.—Dec. 88. This day's market having been, as is usually the co:, with the first that follows Christmas-day, thinly att en d by buyers, each kind of meat, though the supply limited, met with a dull sale, at the following prices r e stone of Sib. to sink the offals : Beef 3s. Bd. to ss. ed. 1 Veal 4s 4d to ss. 6 s4 ' Mutton —3 10 5 0 Pork - t 6 04 5 The foregoing quotations arc precisely the same as t.. h --l e ft this day se'nnight. A considerable proportion of the stipplf the market unsold. RUMFORD MARKET.—Dec. 26. , s. d. to s. d. 5 d.tc" g 0 b Beef 341 4 8 Veal Mutton 3lO 4 8 Pork e pp Suckling Calves from 14s. to 40 5 . ; Q uar t e r old PigglOs. t °l6 Supply rather limited, and trade very dull. , „ Ar Eflt• COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING TH. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Per Quarter. s. to S. F. to s. s. to s. b. 50 Blandford 56 29 25 ' rg 6 4 Brigg 4 fo 51 27 19 4. $ sr , Chard Huntingdon .- 30 39 29 V. ss 41" Long Sutton...— 42 51 17 21 s 5 Louth 45 48 25 28 :15 2' ) 40 63 Lynn - 4(1 Newark —.- 48 61 26 34 lir/ 30 , 4 ' Nottingham 55 61 36 42 .30 40 Peterborough 40 50 28 32 24 30 Plymouth 54 64 28 30 18 2 . 3 Pontefract.. - —5 O 32 I 44 4 4 ' 4 : 4 Sherborne—. 52 55 28 51 24 Uppingham 44 56 22 21) 20 3 8 '",n 4 1 Wisbech.- 4O 54 '2O 30 29 24 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Dct. 2 4 . rtf There were few dealers at market to-day. The in l e t o f of Grain since last Tuesday have been very trivial , ba l! Oatmeal and Flour they have been extensive ; Whit about Id. per bushel higher for New Irish, Old of al i o scriptions was dull sale, and its price is unvaried are scarce, and the stocks were never known to be 00 ' l n v ' ' , as they now are, Id. per bushel advance was to-4#",,, tamed for the better qualities. 'Barley, Malt, Beans, r e f Oatmeal and Flour were dull sale, without any a/te lio ' ll in price. The holders of Bonded Grain h a ve not r e ni a ,he theprices they were asking, and it is probable , ive itity exported to the Isle of Man, that we 6 14 ,frr— " -ece an equal proportion of the growth of that • laud' is r ev. OLD. A f• $ S. d. s. d. s• 6a 9 3 7 ra, 0 O 0 a 0 0 6 0 ~„ O Oa 0 0 0 "- (1 Oa 0 0 7 - 0 g O0a00 0 n ",0, 70a89 0 "„Oi 4 3 a 5 0 0 ," "3, 4 ` " O Oa 0 0 4 ° 4 ' O Oa '0 0 4 „ 4 OOa 04 4 4 6 O0a00 4$ :4 8e , 51, ()a 56 Ott s O 0 a C 0 3 1; 3 3 0 a 3 9 2 3 ; O 0 a 0 - 0 3 9 " 9 67 0a69 0 0 o e n 60 0a64 0 0 I; 0 U 30 0a 32 0 ° 0 " Ooao 0 0 g ti p 30 0 a 32 u 34 oa 0 0 0 3 34 Oa — O.OO 46 0 450 00 a n 0 6 34 oa3o 0 - a i 6 O Oa 0 0 , 25 ° is O 0a 0 022 ° $ 0 0a 0 025 OA Wheat, English, per 701 b. Irish (red)• Ditto Scotch Canada (free)— Foreign (free) —.— Foreign (in bond),,,. Barley, English, per 601bs. Irish -- Foreign Beans, English, per bnp. qr. Oats, English, per - Irish. - Scotch Malt, Fine, per Imp. qr. - Flour, Amer., duty paid, per sour - Canadian Indian Corn, white, per qr. of 480 lb. red Pease, English white, per Imp. qr... Rye Oatmeal, English, per 2161b5. Irish Scotch LEEDS CORN MARKET.—IIec. 24. l i t tle There was a thin attendance of buyers and but ilf doing in any article of the trade ; Wheat of good go; ~ ar ie; was sold at much the same prices as fast week. sd was dull sale, and rather cheaper. Oats, Shelling , . Beans, were nominally the same. to ` ,66 . 4 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, 60th. 50s. • •,,, 1 York. and Lincoln. 601 b. " Barley, Norfolk and Suflblk . Vs. to 345. t 9. Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe —lHealing, Foreign 121 d. to 13d....Engliih Ind. to 12cl. Pe it o, Sh e lling ..... f2Ss. to :30S. Pc r , osl , Rapeseed, English, 221. to 241. Foreign, --/, to --d. 1.1 e;," MANCHESTER SMITHFIELD.—Dec. 26. At per lb. sinking the °MI. 54. to I 223 pigs ..,,,,,,.....,. . tolj: 3,687 Sheep 506 Cattle MANCHESTER POTATOE MARKET. —Dec. 2` 2 ._ Potatoes, 4s. 3d., 4s. 9d., and ss. 9d. per load of 12 scerfoir§, 1211 m. ; New ditto, Os. Cid , Os. Od., and Os. per ditto; Tu,„_ ss. 9d., Gs. Od. and 6s. 6d. Per load of 16 pocks ; Onion/4 "- 1 ls. Od., and 12s. per 12 score. MANCHESTER YAW No. d. (1. Throstle Twist, 20 101 to 11 20.,.12 14 MAR: r.-D0 t 01( 11 j 5 16 50 15 11 60 orer... '7O ; SO row••••• 100 2B 5 6 ,120 St 4 10- 14 8 gi IS 9 I 24 40 15 1& Mule copTwistl 30 —ll 12 for warp 40_14 • 15 .50 I'7 19 fA 19 20 22 24 SO 2S Mule Cop. Weft ... Weft from Waste GLASGOW RETAI] Beef per lb. Os. sd. tolls. 9d. Mutton 0 4 0 6 Teal 0 3 0 9 Hams 0 7 0 9 Lamb perqr. 1 6 3 0 (,),uartern Loaf... 0 9 0 0 Hour, per stone 2 0 2 8 113 e MARK: 21. 10 6 pu Oatmeal, eltaiedmtetaol p . ... 02 1 s C oo d t p Pot Barley, ewt.l2 0 1, o Pearl ditto .... ..20 0 0 Grey Pease ...... 12 0 , White ditto .....13 0 I. 0 HOP INTELLIGENCE. ock. t° WoncEsTv.u, DEC. 26;—On Saturday 18 9 P i and were weighed i n our mar k e t ; b us i ness was 1 1 , ; f5th the prices n ear ly s t at i oxary . I n t h e year end in o ur inst., the number of p oc k e t s o f H o p s weig ll. market was as follows : . New 3, 991 Old AIEETINGS OF CREDITORS. le3ahlice.J., Portsea—Fountain, Portsmouth A., Walcot--Angel, Bath.. ................ 11.1 Edwards, E., Cheltenham—Royal Hotel, Cheltenham ...... :/3 Lomax, J., Stockport—Bulkeley Arms, Stockport ...... Macauley, J., Liverpool—Bard b well and Co., Liverl ,o°l Roberts, J., Ross—George, Celoucester... .................. ..... " ... , , INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCPIARq` I3' Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fitt Jan. 1, at Nine o'clock. n tace Appleby, J., Burton Latimer, T., GastigneY - y Bancroft, J. Birmingham Peploe, S. Chelsea „,e0 Beminan, W., Southwark Piner,lT., Crown-street. ~."" Bromficid, G., Walworth street Butt, J., Sheffield Poulter, C. Dean-street Corlass, J., Oxley Richardson, , W., Lambourt. Fielder, 'l'., Maidenhead White, 8., Bayswater r. , tranklin, S., East-street, Man - Woodham, W., Southwa cheater-square .114 COUNTRY.—At the Guildhall, at Carnarvon, at Tcn o'clock. Evans Evan, Caraarvon, mariner On the 25th inst. the laul 0 f EMT'? 8. -to- of On the 22d inst. the lady of Fl e ury Earle , .-..t• George-street, Hanover...Tose, of a 1013. , Esq. , ePark-plac, North Brixton., .07... i 0 On the 26th i n st. at Clap)" —itutnon, Mrs. ~ rt. D. cr. Dallelst oni Shears, of a daughter. ---e --* _ ____.-- N:ARRIED. On the 27th inst. r." St. Pancras New Church , j ai*. Stoddart, Esq. of Charlotte -street, Fitsrny.6quar* o ,f the beth, widow of the late Charles Meltr.T, 9 ' l ? Grove, AslAbourn, Derbyghire. t so u f. On the 26th inst. John Abel Smith, E. 0 3e. wi d John Smith, Eat M.P. of Dale f Stisser, id, Anne/. of the late nalpt William Gil" B ac kwortr , thumherland, and eldest de' ...titer of the Rev.. Sir _,,, Clarke .fervoise, Bart. of P worth-pork, Bente. • On the 24th inst. at S:. Mary's, Dover, byllit Mould, tl.e Rev. Thor .t Deacon, of Stone, Kent, . Burgiss, of DOver. by M it i Oknqd a°ll6 P RI N T ED and PiJi3LiligD SUN OFFICE, No. fl 2, ... A l l ' - % t i T r. rF w,o i 4 CT o A f I t . he i Aik• W.rnAhilli 144 • "ll th g infallible L i tiqzth, whetli;:l ;a Gold, Mineral tiau:th tot C'lnPle 7,u ffErlit ; and j his Perior syhtei found no and r lg c i:7 ll ant v i satiat„ v ""ge Wil s° , x) °° . tr Y Practre e iu tzikrtinu, to give 6 , 8 NY) o n I . e —actiq 8, t:ioti of ' 611. !...&e., ju ntl izndemi P 6 P e l.;i x tl i g n "Z --...............":_____1C1 P 4 NEW Edition, V N its. I. it • —l c'n mof att4 0 evident that , q t form of the hue and dial o ,, 14, Printed fo' kIY published, eni Te,,, lof taint th e ot.s t e Dt , 6 ,, 13 y IS gard,,:":" for I In 1 Vol. fgE 0 mom k`p"l" to tl i tfri Eu phra , GE duril Lit.s , tkrd e l for end ( I ; told b, - • DIED. On the .I.'lsth Dec., of apoplexy, Lim/tenant' Marshall, first of his Majesty's shiiv. Sriartinte. On the 22d Inst. at Bath, deoply rersitrd, gob 4 g cliffe, Esq. of that city. 'Aes 6 e. On the 23d ir. at her bons., Ccnstituti,n---.i, Aberdeen, Jean Walker, relict of the late Andrew 1 14I b; son, physician, Aberdeen, and grand-daughter Sir Alexander Cuinin, of Cultel, Aberdeershire, Orr. o t On the '27th inst. at Capton, COrr.w4ll N•Nom s'a son of Cornwall Reynolds, Esq. - On the ¶.7th inst. at h.Tresideace in Mary-street , roy-squar , , -. E. Coffin, relizt of the late E. Coffull ;a At his ii2use in Beil ur 1-squire, miter a days ilineirjos. Hon. Alicha,el Nolan, Esq. King's Counsel, and Chic' tice of the Brecon Circuit. On the 25th inst. much regretted, Jessie Fraser te r. ner, eldest daughter of Mr. H. Gardner, of the Kent /1$ works, Deptford. ( . 4 13 i On the 19th inst. at &inning, Reading, Berks , Lockwood, aged 63. a i° On the 26th inst. John Frederick Kers t e n, Bo on of Captain Burrowes, late Bth Hussars. Ilt; # On the 22d inst. in the 8 6 th y ear o f his ageo-- -eboy, Robert Fowler, upwards of th irt y y ear s Rector of ~ in Huntingdonshire, and. of Langton, in Lincolnshire- s-