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SPIRIT OF TfIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Papers presented to Parliament explana tory ofthe state and tendencies of the trade of this country, in certain articles of British manufac ture, during the last threeyeais, are by no means consolatory to those who merge every other con sideration in that of an increase of manufactur ing labour and production. The plain fact was insisted on two years since by this Journal, — and we were hooted at by the mob of commer cial and ministerial sycophants, high and low, for having the boldness to assert it,—that Eng land has now, for the first time, to encounter manufactiiring rivals all over the word ; and that it is the necessary growth of foreign manufac tures-which has really produced the diminution of our own, more than any circumstance that cduld have been avoided by the wisest course of domestic legislation, though not to the total ex clusion- of many for which we are-indebted to a policy the reverse of wise. In the years ending the sth of January, 1825, there were exported from Great Britain upwards of 344,000,000 yards of cotton _cloth ; Jan., 1826, 330,000,000 ; and Jan., 1827, 267,000,000,—a loss of nearly 80,000,000 of yards. But in that article by which we contribute to feed the manufac tures of other countries, cotton twist and yarn, in a half raw-material state, our exports have been extending,in the, same time, from 33,000,000 pounds to 42,000,000. With regard to woollens, the Bri tish trade has likewise declined. In the years end ing January, 1825, 7,349,000 yards; January, 1826, 7,803,000 yards ;- and January, 1827,. 4,941,000 yards—a decline of two-fifths ; and, in the teeth of such a falling off, the agricultural monopolists are attempting to enhance the price and lower the qua lity of the British woollen cloth, by the Mi nister to lay a tax on the import of foreign' wool. — Linens have sunk, in the three , years above-men tioned, from 63,000,000. yards to 39,000,000. Ma nufactured hardware and _cutlery, have diminished from. 214,000 cwt. to. 192,400 cwt. Leather, from 1,744,0001b5. to 1,461,0001b5. In every other branch of-exports, save iron and steel only, there has-been a visible reduction. The two latter articles have ex hibited an increase from 851,5781. sterling, to 1,107,724/.—Times. Mr. Sergeant Cross has been appointed At torney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster by Lord Begley, the Chancellor. We recollect that Mr. Sergeant Cross was grievously disappointed when Mr. Scarlett was preferred to that post, himself having stronger claims, as he presumed, on the patronage of Government, by identity of paiblic principle with its leaders. The explana tion was, that Mr. Scarlett's greater eminence at the bar rendered it impossible to pass him over. Is Mr. Sergeant Cross then, who has written a pamphlet, addressed to the late Duke of York, against the Catholic Claims, more identified in political sen timent with the Chief of the Administration than any other man on the circuit ?, Or is he the most eminent in talents on the circuit ? A Minister, or a man, who means to effect a purpose, should adopt all the preparatory means which lead to its comple tion, or he will be thought insincere in his profes sions. Probably Mr. Sergeant Cross may have changed his opinion on the Catholic question.--Times. On Friday, in our notice of the proceedings in the House of Lords, with respect to the Dis senters' Marriage Bill, we alluded to some ob servations in the New Times, which seemed to us calculated to produce an impression that the Established Church of Scotland had the mono . - poly of celebrating marriages in i!At country. The New Times of Saturday reverts to the sub ject, which is discussed with as much vehemence t as if the fate of the empire were dependent on the issue. It is no joke to come into collision with such a furious braweansir. We shall give " our contemparary " the benefit of his lecture , without curtailment : " We• have no hesitation," he observes, " in re-stating what we formerly said ; and we have as little in adding, that, on the subject of Scotch marriages, the Chronicle is, without exception, the most ignorant personage that ever undertook to instruct us or the public. We need not refer hiin tothe Directory of the Church, nor to the decisions of the Law Courts, but to any Scotcbman, or Scotchwoman, in London—and it• contains a few— to convince him of this. Banns, in Scotland, cannot be proclaimed any where hut in the Established Church of the parish where the parties have resided for the six weeks immediately prece ding proclamation ; and if they reside in different parishes, the banns must be proclaimed in the Established Church of. each. The certificate of their having been regularly pro claimed, can be granted by one officiary only—the Sessions Clerk—who is appointed solely by the Session (Vestry) of the Established Church. There is no record of any description in Scotland, but the one kept_ by that func tionary. Not only _no Clergyman, but no Justice of the Peace :tor even buckle-beggar, to use the phrase of our Contemporary, dares pronounce the cere mony of marriage without banns having been produced to him, under heavy penalties. What is called a marriage without banns is merely the attestation of an in dividual, that a man and woman appeared before him, and acknowledged themselves to be marrial persons. The mar riage ceremony in Scotland is, in.no case whatever, per formed in a Church, but at the residence of the parties or their friends ; and lie who can talk so wildly about them knows as much of the customs of that country as he does o 1 those of the moon. The ceremony may, after banns uuiyproclaimed, be performed by any Clergyman, and that fact we distinctly stated. This laxity in Scotland arises partly out of the state of the law, which holds two per sons married, to all intents and purposes, who merely ac knowledge each other as man and wife ; and partly out of the peculiarities of the Presbyterian Church, in recogniz ing no set forms either for marriage or any thing else. Where the law revires no form, and the Church imposses none, it is not easy to'see what purpose could be served by compelling people to be m arried by the Established Clergy man. Still, as we have stated, so strongly is the propriety felt of lending the sanctions of religion to a compact of so much importance, that no . marriage is celebrated in Scot land but by a Clergyman. In England, on the contrary, the law distinctly requires, mitt the Church, with the au thority of the law, distinctly lays down a form. There are no marriages of presumption here ; the rule is, ' no cere mony, no compact! And hence the mischief which must n ecessarily arise where proper rules for establishing the fact of such a ceremony's having taken place are not laid down, *Nell, we contend, is the case in Mr. Smith's Bill." It is not our ititention to enter into any .for mal controversy on*this subject. Our object in alluding to the observations of our contemporary was to guard against 'an inference long drawn in England from his use of the word Scotch Church and Clergymen, that Scotch marriages to be re- - "nular must be celebrated by the. Clergy of the r, Establishment: " Banns," he says, " cannot , be proclaimed any where but in the Established Church of the parish, where the parties have resided for the six weeks immediately preceding proclamation."—ln Hutcheson's J ustice of Peace, 2d edit. Edin. 1809, vol. ii. p. 221, it is laid down The proclamation must be made in the parish churches of the parties. If the cere mony is to be performed by an Episcopal Clergy man, the proclamation must be made in the Epis copal congregation also. Of course, if the parties belong to any other Disi<enting Congregation, the proclamation should take place there as well as in the Parish Church." The various dams of Pres byterian Dissenters have their Sessions .and Ses sion Clerks, as well as the Establishment (gene rally the Precentor), and series of Church Courts, and observe the Directory for public worship ; and banns are regularly published in the different co ngregations. In all' the Dis senting congregations of the PresbyterianS all the solemnities are required ,which are -required in the Established Church ; and parties in ccim , all the solemnities. Runaway, marriages used to subject the offenders to - a rebuke ; and if they refused ' obedienbe they could not have their children baptized, or enjoy other Ecclesiastical ad vantages. When we said " a regular marriage does not imply a marriage in an Established Church, but a marriage in the Church to which the parties be long, in contradistinction to a marriage attested by a Justice of Peace," &c., our object was not to spe cify the place of celebration, but to show that regu larity meant a marriage agreeably to the, regulations of the religious community to which the parties be long: Every one knows that Church is used in a number of significations, and that the oldest and also the most general signification is in the commu nity, and not any particular place of worship. As our Contemporary refers to the Directory of the Church, we might observe, that in that Directory the Minister is publicly to solemnize the marriage " in the place appointed by authority for public wor ship." But as we do not wish to cavil, we allow that in practice marriage is usually celebrated else where than in the church, very often at the house of the ClergYman, especially where the parties are poor. The disuse of the church arose probably from a par ticular recommendation in the Directory, " We ad vise that it (the marriage) be not on the Lord's Day." This recommendation originated in the ideas of the Puritans that the Sabbath ought to be day of mortification. Hence Fraser of Brae, Mi nister of Culross, after the Revolution, observes in his Memoirs, " I think it a greater sin to marry on the Lord's Day than to yoke a plough, inasmuch as the work and concern is greater; and I judge it to he one of the provoking profanations of the Lord's Day, the sinful continuance of this; and I seldom ever see those marriages blessed that were celebrated on that day ; they must be strangely mortified crea tures that dO not find their own pleasures that day." Our contemporary is mistaken in asserting that the l'7resbyterians have no ceremony of marriage. In the Directory it is expressly laid down, " the Ali ister (if ,no impediment be acknowledged) shall tluse first the man take the woman by the right and, saying these words : " I, N. do take theeN. be my married wife ; and do in the presence of (pod, and before this congregation, promise and co vienant to be a loving and faithful husband unto thee, tintil God separate us by death." Then the woman shall take the man by his right hand, and say these Words—[Here the words are repeated, with the sub stitution of husband for wife.]—Morning Chronicle. ! Some time ago, in remarking upon the abuses cif Corporations, we alluded to that of Devizes, in Wiltshire, and expressed n hope that the c . venerable ,and select body" who exercise the ective franchise in the borough, to the exclu on of the rest of the inhabitants, .and levy taxes n the subject, under the name of tolls, would be Compelled to produce their charter, and expose dome of their secrets to the eye of the law. This has happened sooner than we anticipated, for a ride has been grained by the Court of King's Bench against certain Members of the Corpora -4 on, on, to shoW cause why one or more information r informations, in the nature of quo warranto, 4iould not be exhibited against them, with a view l to ascertain by what authority they seve ;ly exercise the office of chief or capital bur sses of the borough of Devizes. The persons against whom the rule has been obtained, are, vve believe, those who constitute the last batch of burgesses made by the veteran Directors of the local Divan. The present proceeding' is in stituted for 'the purpose of ascertaining whether those and similar elections are made in compli ance with, or in violation of the terms of the Charter ; and to show that the authority really is, the Charter must be produced. Now, we re always understood the Corporation to have en very anxious not to have any light let in 0611 their proceedings but what was necessary f or the ainvenience of their own - operations. They !lave endeavoured to inyolve_their.. Ch ar t e r i ii _ aa much mystery as if diey feared its production would witness against their doings. A sort of Freemasonry has been practised in this, as well *as in. many other Corporations, which has been tolerably successful in preventing the inconvenient disclosure of secrets. We are told that previously to the election of any person or persons to fill up the vacancies in the, extremely limited num lier of members to which the Corporation, in the lfipse of time, by management, has been reduced , a lort of inquiry is made into the principles and senti ments of the class of•persons from among whom the selection is to be 'made, - and those only are chosen whose accommodating' tempers and pliancy of dispo sition make it certain that they will always irnpli tlY adhere to the system as they find it—eat their udding—and ask no troublesome questions. We Have heard 'of a practice, in some rotten Corpora tions, of making each candidate take an oath before lie is actually appointed a new member, not 'to dis close the secrets of the body ; but as such oaths are illegal, we cannot presume, - until we see it proved, that the Corporation of Devizes go that way to work, although their secrets are certainly as well kept as if the lips of each new member were sealed by the most imperious obligation; yet perhaps self-inte rest is the strongest of all ties, and that, we have no d'oubt, each member of the Corporation feels. It isnot the state of franchise alonethat we wish to see investi gated ; an inquiry into the state of the funds also would be interesting and useful. For what purpose is the Corporation allowed to levy taxes in the name of tolls ? Was it not to defray the expenees of paving and lighting the streets, keeping watch and ward, &c. ? Now, how comes it that a subscription was lately made under the pretence of paving and lighting the streets, to which subscription Mr. Wat son Taylor, one' of the Members for. the - Borough, contributed I,ooo4—and the other Member, Mr. Pearse, likewise gave a large sum, but vre'do not ' just now recollect how much. This looked like very substantial gratitude for their election; but it did not save the farmers of the neighbourhood a penny in their tolls. Of course, where such grati tnde is shown, the Corporation can never be at a loss fir fit and worthy Representatives ! The cha rities:whieli this Corporation have under their con troul ought to be ,comprehended in the inquiry. We hope they Will be sifted to the bottom. The law should protect. the rights of the poor with as much jealousy.as the estates of the rich.—Morning Herald. A' Morning Contemporary was wrong in terming Mr. Slaney's fill for amending the Poor Laws an Act ; it is still a Bill, and very likely .to remain so. In physical evils, the more dan gerous and difficult the disease, the more nume rous do we always find the remedies. Slight ailments are for the most part left to the regu lar practitioner, and every empiric has a specific for cancer and consumption. A like rule holds good in respect of political evils. The. reform of the Commercial, .or of the Criminal Code, is left to established men—hut such a reform as that, of the poor Laws, is an atchievement to which any young Member thinks himself equal. It must be confessed, in favour of such attempts, that where the evil is of surpassing magnitude, the dishonour of failure in the application of a cure is proportionably small. And it is fair to add, of most of the cures proposed for the evils of the Poor Laws, that, like the vinegar and brick-dust of the quack in the farce, if they are not calculated to produce much• good, they are not 'likely to 40 much harm. From this de scriPtion we must, however, except the proposal of Mr. Slaney, which, whatever be its other defects, is not of an inoperative character. Mal thus, in his- most ingenious Essay of Po pulation, proposes, if we recollect rightly, that persons -who- married after a certain ten, ihould forfeit all claim to parochial fixed D, od s belief. Every one knows to what virulence of abuse, and what absurdity of misrepresentation, this proposal exposed him. The object' of Mal, tus Was to check excess of population, which, hen pressing on the limits of subsistence, he deemed to be the fertile mother of most of the crimes and misery of this world. He propoSed to effect this by a very simple process, namely— ly every man to support his own Children, judging that, in that case, he would Calculate the chances of being able to keep a fa mily before he put himself in the way of having one. We do not pretend to decide between Malthus and his opponents, as to the legitimacy of his deductions, some of which are, perhaps, coloured by his attachment to a theory which he has so successfully demonstrated. We, refer to his plan only to show by what different pro cesses of reasoning different men endeavour to reach the same point. MalthuS would put an end to the Poor Laws by imposing pruden tial restraints upon marriage ; the Honourable Member aims at accomplishing the same end, by holding forth a bonus to those who shall yield the most ready obedience to the command to increase and multiply. The former says, do not marry; or, if you do, have as few children as possible, for you shall get nothing from the pariSh to help you; ; the latter says, the sooner you marry, and have half-a dozen children, the better; for if you remain single, or have but one or two, we will not give you a penny to keep you from starving. Tospeak seriously —wherein consists, we should like to know, the difference, in respect of inhumanity, in refusing relief to six, and in refusing it to seven ? We who are not much conversant in metaphysical niceties have al ways imagined that the existence of suffering was a sufficient cause for the exercise of charity, and ad mitting all the virtues that have everheen attributed to the said number seven, we cannot, see that an able bodied peasant and his wife, with no children, if they have nothing to eat, and nothing to do, are not as proper objects of relief, as if they had five. — The . Poor Laws are an evil; but they ate not an unmixed evil. Much physical suffering is redresied I& 'their operation,- which private benevolence would never reach, or would reach too late. And, looking to them in a general point of view, there is a degree of moral grandeur in the contempl a tion Of a system which-- goes . as far as human institutions can, to provide food, for the hungry, and cloth ing for. the naked, and which constitutes the na tion at large, a father to the fatherless, and a hus band to the widow. There are many disagreeable features in the detail.of the system, but the prin ciple of it 'bespeaks a generous and a Christian feel ing in the 'community ; and it is most honourable to the country gentlemen, that, with all their occasional grumbling at the burden, they have always been found strenuous opposers of any attempts to relieve themselves at the expense of the poor. Real relief is indeed, unattainable by legal enactments. By the diffusion of education—by showing to the labourer and artizan that their own comfort will be most effectually promoted by an abandonment of the Poor Laws, we may at length succeed in getting rid of them; but such a process of cure will require a somewhat longer period than will intervene between this and' the Ist of January, 1831.—New Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Jume SO. The LORD CHANCELLOR was engaged on bankrupt pe titions, of no public interest, until half-past one o'clock, when he rose for the purpose of attending a Privy Council on the Recorder's Report. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 30, SMITH V. JONES. The ATTORNEY-GENIRAI and Mr. Gunsey, on behalf of the defendant, showed cause against a rule nisi for a new kriat obtain.' by Mr. Marryat. The cause was tried at the Middlesex Sittings after Hilary Terna,ta-foro x.ora -.- terden, and a verdict was found for the defendant, who is the Marshal of the King's Bench prison. The action was .for the edeapo of- Abraham• Simmonds, a prisoner-in the rules of the Bench, at-the suit of the plaintiff, who aver red that the Marshal permitted him to escape on the 3d of October last. It appeared from the report of the trial, which Lord Tenterden read from his notes, that Simmonds being of the Jewish persuasion, and October 3d being a festival among the Jews, the plaintiff employed several people to watch on that day Simmonds's lodgings, who saw him leave them in the evening and go out of the rules to the house of a Mr. Hart, a Jew, where they saw him through the front parlour window, and where he passed the evening. This was the the escape relied upon. The de fence was, that Simmonds had a brother named Elias; that there was so strong a likeness between the two brothers, that none but their moat intimate friends could distinguish them apart ; and that on the evening in the question it was Elias, and not Abraham, who came out of Abraham's lodg ings, and was traced to Hart's house by the plaintiff's wit nesses, who had mistaken him for Abraham. Several witnesses were called to prove the resemblance, and that Abraham was not at Hart's house, but that Elias was. Elias, however, was not called, being too ill to attend the trial. On this evidence the Jury found for the defendant. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. GURNEY now con tended, that the jury came to a proper conclusion, and affirmed that there never was a case in which the testimony of so many witnesses hung better together. Mr. MA RRY4T, in support of the rule, said, that the affidavits on which he had moved were so numerous, that the testimony of the persons making them was deserving the consideration of another jury. The COURT made the rule for the new trial absolute on payment of costs. SPARKS AND ANOTHER AGAINST SPURR AND AN'OlifE R. This was an action.by the endorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange, in which the plaintiff was nonsuited, and a rule nisi for a new trial was obtained. Lord TENTERDEN read his notes of the trial. Tl►s bill was produced, and the signature of the defendant as acceptor was roved, but the words " payable at Fry and Chapman's" appeared on the bill immediately following the name of the acceptor, and in a different hand -writing . His LORDSHIP ruled, that it lay upon the plaintiff to prove that those words were written by the defendant, or with his assent, and the plaintiff failing in so doing, was nonsuited. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL now showed cause against the rule for setting aside the nonsuit, and argued that the burden of the proof was properly cast upon the plaintiff, for it Would be impossible for the defendant, who had not the custody of the bill, to show bow any alteration was made in it. Mr. CAMPBELL and Mr. JUSTICE, in support of the rule, contended, first, that the alteration was immaterial, for that the case of " Young v. Rowe , " in 5 Maule and payableSelwyn at a particular place, there ties no necessity t o aver a presentment at such place ; and t he statute of 1 and 2 Geo. iy. c. '7E3, enacted, that acceptances payable at parti cular places are general acceptances, u nless the y are ac cepted payable at such places only i alid that, the re f ore, the addition of the words "payabliat Fry and Chapman' s ') made no alteration in the legal effect of the acceptance; and they, secondly, contended, that it rested upon the d e _ fendant to show that there had been an alteration bill, for that the words " payable at Fry and Chapm an t a w he following the name of the acceptor, instead of following the word " accepted," and preceding the Pam , was not an unusual way of writing an acceptance, and tha t t he dif ference of the hand-writing could easily be acc oun ted for from the frequent usage oepersons emploYing their cl er k s to write every thing for them but their names: they ther e _ fore submitted, that neither of those circumstances were strong enough to raise a presumption that the bill had actually been altered at all, and that it therefore lay Upon the defendant to prove that the bill had been, in point of fact, altered after the acceptance. • The COURT, on the first point, referring to the case o f " Master against Miller," 4 Term Reports, held that, as aay alteration in a deed, ev en i n an i m material part, made by a person claiming under it, rendered the deed void, so the alteration in this hill would make it void, unless it we re made by the acceptor, or with his assent; but on the second point, they made the rule for a new trial ab solute upon payment of costs, in order to give the plain tiff an opportunity for removing the difficulty of the bur den of the proof, or, if on the new trial he failed to do so, to enable him to get the question, which was one of considerable importance, raised upon the record by ten dering a bill of exceptions. THE KING Z. WTI. HENRY MACKAY.: Mr. CHARLES WILLIAMS showed cause against a rule, for a criminal information obtained by the Attorney-Ge neral against the defendant, who is an attorney, for send a letter to Mr. Ackerley, a banister, calculated to Provoke him to A breach of the peace. Mr. Justice BAYLEY said that the letter did not pro- Voke a breach of the peace, and that therefore the Court would discharge the rule, but without costs. THE KING V. JOHN BERNARDO DA ROTCHA. Mr. BROUGHAM mentioned this case, which was moved on Friday, and produced the affidavit required by the Court to bring home to the defendant the libels pub lished upon his Excellency the Marquis de Palmella, upon which the Court granted a rule nisi for a criminal information. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE SO. BEASTON V. COLLIER. This was an action on a special agreement of service. It was tried before t'he Lord Chief Justice at Guildhall, during the sittings after last term, when the following appeared to be the facts of the case :--In 1803 the plaintiff entered into the service of the defendant, who was an army and navy agent, as clerk, at a salary of 70/. a-year. This ser vice commenced on the 25th of March, and a contract was made between the plaintiff and the defendant, by which it was agreed that the plaintiff was to be employed by the year current. In this manner the plaintiff went on until March, 1811, when a fresh arrangement was made, by which the plaintiff's salary was increased from '7O/. to 5001. a-year. This salary he continued to receive up to October, 1819, when Mr. Collier died ; but no difference arose from this event, the plaintiff still continued to receive the same salary from his successor, up to January 24th, 1827, when he was dismissed, having , received a notice to that effect on the 23d of December, 1826. His salary was paid up to the 24th of January; but he insisted that, his engagement being a yearly one, he was entitled to his sa lary up to March. These were the facts of the case, and the Jury being of opinion that the plaintiff had a right to receive the remaining two months' salary, gave him a ver dict of 831. With this verdict his Lordship expressed his e ntire satisfaction. On a former day in this term, however, Mr. Sergeant WILDE moved for, and obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial granted. t. Mr. Sergeant SPA WKIE dill day showed cause against the rule.—Rule discharged. COURT OF ARCHES, JUNE SO. RICH, BART., 7./. BUSHNELL AND OTHERS. t 1) This was a suit, by letters of request, to obtain from is Court, in the' exercise of its office of ordinary, a culty authorizing Sir Charlei Henry Rich, lay-rector of e parish of Beenharn, in Berkshire, to construct a vault r the interment of himself' and family, in the chancel of the parish church, and •to oftur monumental tablets to the virall of thi chancel ; and Calling the vicar and parishioners to show cause to the contrary. Dr. ARNOLD and Dr. Jassy ADDAMS, on behalf of the reverend John Bushnell, Vicar of Beenham, opposed the issue of a faculty for this object, on the ground that his consent ought to be first obtaimed. Sir J. Nrcnou. was of opinion, that lay-rectors were riot, as a matter of right, entitled to make vaults or fix tablets ; and if the ordinary had to exercise a discretion, sbme plan and details should be laid before him, to enable liirn to judge of the propriety of giving ,or withholding his consent. On the otherland, he (Sir John Nichol') could dnd no foundation, either from authority or principle, for the right contended for by the vicar : whose consent, Moreover, if necessary, ought not to be purchased by money : nothing was so contrary to all the feelings of pro priety. Upon the whole, he was of opinion that both parties had mistaken their way ; the lay rector was not en titled to a faculty without distinctly showing what he in tended to do, in order that objections might be taken if called for ; and, on the other hand, the vicar had no posi tive right of refusal. At present there was not sufficient gronnd for the grant of a faculty. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—JoAn Garrope, an Italian boy, who has recently arrived in this country to exhibit the tricks of a , monkey and a dog, was charged with assaulting Ann Dexter, a poor woman who keeps a green-stall in Fleet- market. The complainant was going up Holborn-hill about nine o'clock on Friday night, and the prisoner was walking in a contrary direction, nursing the monkey upon his left arm, and leading the dog with a long string. The dog, which was of considerable size, somehow got entangled With the complainant, and attempted to extricate itself by f 2 reing its way between her legs. In her confusion at this instantly sprang elrfdlrellirtheolieNta,4 l 4,44 - 44A% and bit her arm. The poor woman, who is far advanced iii pregnancy, said - her sight left her, and she should have fainted if she bad not been relieved from her new assailant immediately by the persons passing at the time. Prestidge, a city constable, took charge of the prisoner, and he now stood at the bar with the monkey in his arms, who alter nately eyed his master, the witnesses, and the Magistrate, as if conscious of what was going forward. ' Sir Join; PERRINO having satisfied himself that the boy had not incited either the dog or monkey to the attack, dismissed him, with 'an order to make the woman the best recompense he was able. This he did, by giving her 'is. 3d. all in copper, which he cried most heartily at parting with. LAMIIETH-STREET.—The hand of fate seems to press heavily on the family of the Solomons, and proves, that though the course of crime, as in their instance, be persevered in, with impunity, justice, though slow, and pro ceeding with a tortoise pace, will ultimately impede its career, and avenge itself on its offenders. Scarcely had the wife of Solonions been liberated from the fangs of the law owing to her coverture, and the presumption that the property was hitherto in the possession of her husband, when her son was taken into custody for an offence similar to that with which she was charged, viz....--being in posses sion of stolen goods, found in Henry-street, Commercial road) and was on Saturday placed at the bar, before M. WYATT, Esq. His name is John Solomons ; he is a ybun g m an o f good appearance, as yet in his minority, and seemed persectly undismayed at his situation. A solicitor gave him his professional assistance. Richard Skillern, one of the conductors of the Bow-street patrol, stated that on the preceding night he apprehended the prisoner as being the person in the occupation of the house in Henry-street, where the stolen property, part of which he produced, was found. When he made the dis covery, neither the prisoner nor his mother were there, and the only persons he saw were a little boy and girl. The house was, he understood, taken by the prisoner in a fictitious name. The Solicitor.—l shall show, by the landlord, that it was taken by Mrs. Solomons. Skillern.—l believe not, Sir ; the landlord is here, and. he will inform you differently. Mr. WYATT.—Let him be sworn; there is a receipt in the hinds of one of our officers in the fictitious name of Sloman, taken by the prisoner. . TheSolicitor—Solomons, Sir, is often pronounced and spelt in that way. Mr. WYATT_at may be so, among illiterate persons ; but not, I should suppose, by either the prisoner or the landlord. James Parish, the landlord, then stated that he was the proprietor of the house in Henry-street, or more properly s peaking Rutland. street, where the property was found. He had seen the prisoner before when he came to take it : it was next door to his own residence. The house was taken in the name of Sloman. Witness asked the prisoner his name, and, in reply, he first said it was Isaac, and then c orrecting himself, said his father's name was Isaac SlO - but that his was John. The witness told him if he paid a half quarter's rent in advance, they would ar— range matters. The house and fixtures he let to the pri soner at 261. 15s. per annum. The prisoner observed that he did not wish to be annoyed with the taxes ac id rates. Mr. WyAn—Hitherto You have only spoken of one person, was there any other, save the prisoner, present ? Parish--There was not. The impression on his mind was, that the house was taken for the father Isaac. He had an entry in his book to that effect (the book was here handed up); the entry was made previous to his receiving the rent in advance. He did not inquire whither the father lived, or who he was ; hie partner's wife told him, that in his absence two respectable-looking ladies had called with a young man, and were particularly anxious to rent that house. lflr. WYATT--When you were here before, you said nothing of this, neither did you at all speak of the father. You then said that you had let the house to a person named Sloman. V. The Solicitor—Who were you paid the advanced rent by ? was it not by Mrs. Solomons ?----Parish-..1t was not. It was by the prisoner, who said he would go to Highgate for it. This witness further said that his alarm was first excited by the removal of a quantity of goods without his being made acquainted with it. Mr. WYArr--If you had suffered for it, it was only what you merited. j-lere is a house taken under every circum stance of suspicion; the rent is paid in advance—a very unusual occurrence; no inquiry is made by you as to the Party whom you had let it to, or what was his character : —goods are removing surreptitiously, and yet you talcs no notice ; your negligence, to call it the least, is certainlv not to be excused. The Solicitor—Mrs. Solomens, Sir, is ready to prove that she was in the ()empathy!' of the house. Mr. WYATT.-Mrs. Solomon has been discharged. You had better not go into the business, it would be pain fUl to me to make the wife prove the criminality of the husband; and this must be the result, if she shows that this stolen property was in his possession. There is not at pro • sent sufficient evidence to send the case before a jury, there fore I shall discharge the prisoner. Before he left the bar, Mr. Wyatt addressed him most feelingly and emphatically, on the course he should hereafter pursue in life. UNION-HALL.—On Saturday much merriment was excited at this office during the examination of a boy named Jackson, who was charged, under the Vagrant Act, with sleeping in the open air. One of the constables of Lambeth stated, that on the preceding night, as he was passing along the Bishop's-walk, he heard a noice proceed from a place where timber was depo sited, resembling the cries of .a cat in great agony. He has tened to the spot in order to extricate the animal, conceiving that it had been jammed between the logs of wood, from its doleful lamentations. On his way thither, however, the cries of distress were changed into the most loud and boiste rous squalling he had ever heard in his life, as if at least a dozen cats of both sexes were engaged in their noisy amours. He therefore stopped short, not much relishing the idea of approaching too closely, seized up a brick-bat, and flung it at random (the night being too dark to dis cover objects) towards the place from whence the " row" proceeded ; but he might as well have spared himself the trouble ; for the caterwauling, instead of diminishing, in creased to a degree that was quite stunning. He, there fore, plucked up all his courage, and having cautiously,-on tiptoe, advanced, with a stone in his hand, weighty enongh to knock the " nine lives" out of any poor mouser, he was astonished, on looking about, to see no cat or any thing in the shape of a cat, but discovered the boy Jackson, lying very comfortably coiled up between two immense beams of timber. He pretended to be asleep at first ; but when the constable said he was convinced he was only "shamming," and added, that the uproar the cats had been making would have prevented any human being from closing their. eyes ; " the boy then admitted," said the constable, " to my wonderment, that it was he who kicked up the disturbance, and imitated the cats to the very life." "And so," added the constable, " I took him to the watch-house, and locked him up, for lying out in the open air." The boy, who stood smiling diiring the constable's state ment of his adventures the'night before, on being asked how he got his livelihood, replied, " By chanting the cat's last dying speech." Mr. CHAMBERS-What is the cat's last dying speech, my boy ? Is it such a noise as the constable has represented you made last night, sufficient to disturb a whole neigh bourhood ? Boy—Please your Worship, it is rather noisy. Mr. CUAMBERS—Show me how you do it ? The bey, having exhibited a little embarrassment at first, on account of all eyes in the office being directed towards him, at length, to the great amusement of the auditory, commenced with bil right hand to strike his chin with great rapidity, which, aided by his voice, produced the loud, shrill, and discordant yells of a cat, whose body, one would suppose, was jammed under the leg of a chair. Mr. CHAMBERS—That will do, my lad. You have given us a pretty good specimen of your power in imitat ing the feline species. You are discharged now, but take care that you are not found again sleeping in the open air. The boy, oh 'leaving the office, the moment he got into the passage gave another proof of his powers. RECORDER'S REPORT. On Saturday the Recorder of London made his Report to the King in Council of the prisoners under sentence of death in Newgate, namely :—William Rowland Williams, aged 18 ; Charles Thompson, 23 ; Geo. Wilson, 23 ; Charles Green, alias Henry George Clements, 27 ; Wm. Turtle, 16 ; George Williams, 33 ; Joshua Boggis, 28 ; Eleanor Dryoan, 18 ; J. White, 23 ; Samuel Smith,. 43 ; John Caton, 21 ; Charles Randall, 19 ; John Petre, 20 ; Avis Pope, 34 ; Richard Jones Lee, 32 ; Mary Allen, 27 ; William Taylor, 21 ; and Mary Brown, 64 ; for stealing to the value of 40s. and upwards in a dwelling-house.— John Haswell, 20, for housebreaking in the day-time and larceny therein.—Thomas Roach, 18 ; Thomas Parker, 16; John Haines, alias Macewen, 23; Benjamin Back stay, 20 ; Wm. Condell, 38 ; George Plummer, 18 ; and' John Diegan, 24, for burglary.—Norah Ragan, 26 ; Julia 19, for highway robbery.—George Warner, 42, for Coin - - ing.—lsaae Johnson, 18, for horse-stealing ; and Henry Nicholls, 24, for sheep-stealing ; all of whom his Majesty was graciously pleased to command, should be respited during his Royal pleasure, excepting W. Condell, for bur glary ; George Warner, for coining ; and Henry Nicholls, for sheep-stealing, upon whom the law is left to take its course, and they are ordered to be executed on Friday next, the 6th July. THE EXECUTIONS. It will be seen from the Recorder's Report, that three unfortunate persons are ordered to be executed on Friday. The first is William Condell, who, with George Plummer, Elizabeth Herniae, and Mary Ann Vandervell, were in dicted for breaking into the houses of several pawnbrokers, and stealing goods. The two women cohabited with the two male prisoners—Vandervell with Plummer, and Har man with the man who is condemned to die. It appeared upon the trial, that the prisoners had, for a very consider able time, been in the habit of robbing pawnbrokers ; their plan was to get into an empty house adjoining the pawn broker's, and by this means they were enabled, without much fear of detection, to secure a great deal of property. From the house of W. Wood, pawnbroker, in St. John street, Clerkenwell,:were stolen 500 yards :of lace, and other property, which was valued at upwards of 3001. They left the empty house next to Mr. Wood's, at four o'clock in the morning, with their booty, and' whenever they met any person, Harman said, " Make haste, or we shall be too late for the coach." The whole of the pro perty on that occasion was taken to Condell's lodgings, in Grange-court, Clare-market. The principal witness to prove the facts was Mary Ann Vandervell, the accomplice, who was accepted an evidence. She receives an annuity of twenty guineas a year, and which she would lose if convicted of felony. The same party also robbed the premises of Mr. Balfour, in Chandos-street, Coveut-garden, of goods to the amount of nearly 1001., of which Mr. Balfour recovered about 15s. worth. Mr. Wood was fortunate enough to recover the whole of his valuable property, as the prisoners had not sufficient time to dispose of it ; but Mr. Dobree, of Char lotte-street, who was robbed of gOods to the amount of 300/., did not recover a single shilling. Condell pleaded guilty to all the indictments which were preferred against him. It appeared that he was the person who first pro posed the robbery :to the other prisoners, and on that ac count the severest punishment is probably visited upon him. Elizabeth Harman was transported for fourteen years. George Warner, alias Griffiths, who is 42 years of age, was indicted with Elizabeth Harvey, aged 41, for colour ing base coin. It appeared from the evidence given at the time of the trial that the prisoners lodged together in Chesterfield-street, Marylebone. An officer named Lim brick, having received information that they had been in the habit of making and disposing of base money, entered their apartments, and there found the male prisoner with his hands in that state which indicated that he had been recently at work upon base coin. In the room were found 820 bad shillings, three bad sovereigns, and several bad half-crowns. Griffiths, when taken into custody, said, " It's all up, and that if he had not been - short of blunt,' (money), he would have got away." He was immediately found guilty by the Jury ; but as there was no evidence to prove that the woman assisted in colouring the coin, she was acqaitted. Henry Nicholls was convicted for stealing upwards of twenty sheep, from the field of a farmer in the neighbour hood of Islington. They were found at his residence in Westminster. ..... Since the awful intelligence has been communicated to the culprits, they have conducted themselves in a most ex emplary manner. The President of the United Mexican States has addressed the following Decree of the General Con gress relative to the duties on cotton goods, dated Palace of the Federal Government, Mexico, March 16, 1827:-- The duties payable on cotton cloths, which were directed to be altered by the Government in its order of the 14th of October of last year past, shall, until definitively re gulated by the Board of Finance now deliberating on thi s subject, be graduated at the rate of two reals per yard on narrow cottons, and three on broad cotton cloths, it being understood that by narrow cloths are meant such as do not exceed one yard in breadth, and by broad ones such as exceed one yard, and do not exceed one , and a third yard, an allowance being made of one inch for the middle widths, (jatidlucl medics); and such of said cloths as may exceed the greater breadths specified, shall be liable to an extra bty of .three grans on every,surplus eighth of a yard. ue effect is ordered to be given by the Authorities to this Decree. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JUNE 30.—0 n Saturday last Messrs. Wm. Abbot, John Hodgson, John Barrow, and John Richard son, were elected Scholars on the old foundation at Queen's College. On Monday last Lancelot Arthur Sharpe, Th omas French Lawrence, and George Adams, were admitted actual Fellows; and Jas. Gilman, Arthur Philip Dunlap, and Robert Wm. Browne, were elected Scholars of St. John's College. On the same day Geo. Maliw, Commoner of Lincoln College, was elected one of Lord Crewe's Exhibitioners in that Society. • On Thursday last the following Degrees were conferred: MASTERS or AnTs.----Samuel Hartopp Knapp, Merton ; Rev. Gregory Birch Boraston, Michel Fellow of Queen's ; Rev. E. Ludlow, and Rev. Thomas Stuart Lyte Vogan, St. Edmund hall ; the Lord Viscount Morpeth, Christ Church; Rev. Thos. Hart Dyke, and Rev. E. John Wingfield, Stu dents of Christ Church ; Rev. Carr John Glyn, Thcs. Byce Loyd, and Richards Beauvoir Berens, Christ Church ; Rev. Daniel Jas. Eyre, Oriel; Rev. John Marshall, Wor cester; Rev. William James Butler, and Rev. James Rus sel Phillott, Demies of Magdalen; Richard Durnford, Fel low of Magdalen; John West Henry, Pembroke ; Edmund Goodenough Bayly, Fellow of Pembroke; George Cole brook Jordan, and' Rev. James Thomas, Pembroke ; and Rev. Robert Alderson, Exeter. BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Philip Wro - aghton, and John Fielding, Oriel ; John Francis Cole, Worcester ; James White, Pembroke. At an Ordination, held on Sunday last, by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, in the Chapel within his Lordship's Palace at Wells, the following persons were ordained:— DEACONS.—Edward Biley; B.A. Clare Hill, Cambridge; William Luke Nichols, B.A. Queen's College, ; John Walter Phelps, S. C.L. Jesus College, Cambridge ; Charles Pickwick, B.A. Worcester College, Oxford ; Charles Scott, B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge ; John Towlson, B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford. PRIESTS.—Gregory Birch Boraston, B.A. Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford ; William George Dymock, B.A. Exeter College, oxford ; Thomas Newton, B.A. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge ; John Hawes, B.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, William Henry Ed ward Dalzes Shaw, B.A. St. Peter's College, Cambridge ; Wm. Michell, LL.D. Trinity Hall, Canibridge, by leave dimissory from the Lord Bishop of Exeter. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTs. The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Richard Cockburn, 8.D., Prebendary of 'Winchester Cathedral, to the Rectory of Banning, Kent, in the dioiese of Rochester. The Rev. James Duff Ward, M.A. of Trinity College, has been inducted to the Rectory of Kingston, in the Isle of Wight, vacant by the resignation of William Stanley Goddard, the last incumbent, and to ' which he was pre - sented by George Ward, Esq. of Northwood Park, in the Isle of Wight. . . The Rev. Wm. Goodenough, son-in-law of the Bishop of Carlisle, has been presented by his Lordship to the Arelideaconry of Carlisle ; to which is attached the living of Great Salkeld, in Cumberland. His Majesty has given the situation of Canon Residen tiary of St. Paul's, vacated by Dr. Wellesley, to Dr: Carr Lord Bishop of Chichester. His Lordship is a sound divine, a good preacher, and an excellent man. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford has collated the Rev. Thomas Symonds, M.A. Vicar of Ensham, to the vicarage of Stanton Harcourt, in this county, vacant by the cession of the Rev. A. H. Matthews. On Monday the Rev. William Mitchell, LL.B. was in-- stituted by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, to the Rectory of Barwick, Somersetshire, on the presentation of John Newman, Esq. of Barwick aforesaid. Rev. Archdeacon Bonney to the Deanery of Stamford. The Rev. W. C. Leach, M.A. to a minor Canonry and Precentorship in Ely Cathedral, vice the Rev. W. Metcalf, deceased. ' The King has been pleased to grant unto the Rev. W. King, M.A. the Archdeaconry of Rochester, void by the death of John Law, D. D. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DlARY.—'hMusoAv, Jute '5. Burden, T. and E.,. Stourbridge—Wheatsheaf, Bewlßey it/ Fairbotham, J., Nafferton, Yorkshire—Blue Bell, Great Driffield.. lO Fairhurst, J., Prescot—Angel, Liverpool . l2 Griffiths, T., Bolton—Star, Manchester lO Harrison, W., Nottingham—Bear, Nottingham ItI Hill, 8., Manche ' g s nntA h Oirrnr e Ztr, 4 .11.41StirlS ~ Northampton—Guildh a ll , Northampton Hubbard and Co., Norwich—Castle, Norwich 4 Latham, J., Liverpool—York hotel, Liverpool i Pearoe and Co., Nottingham—Black's Head, Nottingham.., 12 Phillip*, G., Brighton—White Horse, Brighton — Schofield, W., Wardleworth—White's, Manchester 2 smaller., J., Liverpool—George, Liverpool ll Wain, R. and Co., Longnor, Allstonfield—Green man inn, • Ashbourn 12 Wardell, J. Guisborough—Cock, Guisb oroug h ll Willett and Co. Thettbrd—Angel, Bury 3 Young, S., Nott ingham—Ram, Nottingham ll INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, JULY 6, AT NI a. Akehurst T. Brighton Paste, J., Leather-lane Cleeves, E., Fording-bridge Poulter, T., Esher Cunningham, J., Deptford Shoosrnith, T., Oxford-street Fisher, W., Tottenham-court- Simmons, J., Greenwich road Simpson, G., Colchester Fricker, T., Shaftesbury Urge, J., Romford Georgi, A., Gray's-inn-lane Virgo, R., Christchurch Gregory, J., Ratcliffe Walker, J. Newcastle Hopkins, H., St. Giles's Wheatley,T.,Half-n toon - street Jones, J., Deptford Piccadilly Neal, T., Sutbury COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. Andover ... 54 59 34 40 30 34 69 42 35 Hex ham . . 6O 68 40 46 30 42 Morpeth 58 62 40 46 27 30 4 8 52 Newcastle 57 67 38 40 28 38 48 5 2 Romsey , 4B 56 40 44 28 36 50 55 Sh effield 63 69 40 46 26 36 61 64 Winchester 61 Per Bushel. s.d. s. d. s.d. s. d. d. d. s.d. s.d. Birmingham 7B 80 56 64 49 56 71. 8 0 Coventry . 7 4 7 9 5 0 5 6 5 2 5 9 7,1 8 0 Newcastle (StafE) 10 0 10 6 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 2 0 0 10 0 Northallerton 73 86 00 00 39 40 69 73 Penrith . 00 83 00 45 51 00 00 00 Stafford 96 100 00 00 50 60 80 100 Warwick '79 82 53 56 46 56 76 80 worcut er 78 80 60 63 40 50 78 84 Per Roll. Barnardcastle 16 0 17 6 0 0 10 6 7 0 10 6 0 15 0 Darlington 14 6 16 611 0 0 0 7 0 10 013 0 13 6 Durham, 149 180 106.00 BO 96 100 126 Stanhope Stockton 14 9 16 9 0 0 0 0 7 8 9 0 0 0 0 0 Wolsingham 14 0 18 0,11 0 0 0 8 6 10 6 0 0 0 0 CORNWALL mAnxi Tavao.—WhOat (average) 245. 6d.—Barl HatsTow—rWheat, 24a. Od.—Barley, ST. Austatr.—Wheat, 2.11. to 27a.—Bar] 13.. to 154. • .ETS. ley, 161,—Oatti, lid .Od. . 6d. 14, - 14s. to 15s.—Oats, BODMIN—.Wheat a v erage) 266. Od.—Barley, 15s. (3(l.—Oats, 14 ; LAUNCESTON—W eat (average) 245. W.—Barley, 14s. Ocl —Oat,, 10s. 6d.—Beef, 7d.—Mutton, 6d. LtaxsAuo—Wheat, 245. Ott. to Ifis. Od.—Barley, lbs.—Osts, to 14s. Ott. ST. Cocumn—Wheat, 24.. to 25L—Barley, 16s. to 148.—Beef. and Mutton, 6d. to 7d.—Veal and Lamb, 5) d, to 7d. BIRTHS. On the 30th ult., at the Earl of Fortescue's, in Gros venor-square, Viscountess Ebrington, of a son. On the 29th ult., at Preston Rectory, near Bath, the lady of the Rev. John Hammond, of a son. On the 30th ult., the lady of Mr. R. F. Newman, Ar tillery-place, of a son. On the 30th ult., Mrs. J. K. Hooper, of Queenbithe, of a son. MARRIED. On the 30th ult., at Cookharn, Berke, by the Rev , Thomas Whateley, Captain A ugus t us Chides Skyn ner , Royal ol Onthe 3oth only atb Maria o Adelaide Pe ac h e y R o bbi ns , eldest daughter of the latewie of f Li e u t enant - i Colonel riPorr, Esq. , paymaster of the 1 2tIL Price Robbins , (o f St. Mary'a, Southampton), by his second wife Anna Maria, now the son f L a nc ers. William t Augustus Skynner, of "chain , Esq. ult., Henry Pratt Robarts, Esq., surgeon, of Everett-street, Russell-squ ar e , to Miss Bauch, of Guil ford street. VieTVAI T HE •coi TUESDAY, the 11 dery in writing TWO THOUS To be deliver' Deptford, one-h by the 18th of The Cenditio Each Tetider and be delivered and the Persoe • on his behalf, n • ROYAL A THE E] A Adiniesior LIVE _TAMES cere than has received sir confident it onl future success. The situatioi which are coml with in Hotels every conveniei Suit of Apartn J. R. has, Baths in the I which are at accommodatior patronage, pos for Families, a to the general V gRY LING ti and Night . Fc FRO SKINNER The following Birminghar with two Coa Market-street, ney Stratford, Coventry, and ham, to Shill Shelton, OSWI and Holyhead coachmen,Birmin ei wick, Leamini and Stoney SI early the next Barnstaple, North Lawtc Chumleigh, 1 Bath and borough, Hui noon at one; London Tave. Boston M. Huntingdon, Spilsby, Alfo seven, Sunda Cambridge and Royston. quarter befor, Carlisle E: and Whitehai pleby, Broul Richmond, I caster, Newai Stilton, Bigg direct Coach Chester, tl porley, Midd] Coventry through Redl WeedOti, Da Dover and Dorchester Blackwater, Salisbury, IA live and ei,gb Dartmout Brixham, K Exeter Ui Charmouth, Inn, Salisbu water, Bags Glasgow, trownhill, Well, and al Holyhead and Salop, ] Hull Exl caster, Alor " Rockingh Kendal, 1 Chorley, Oi Leeds Ro Biggleswad , ford, Stamf Markham-I Ferrybridg Afternoon, fax, Skiptoi mien only.- Liverpoc past six. DIED. On the 21st ult., a t her mother's residence, Chipping Sodbury, Mrs. Wentworth Stacpoole, youngest daughter Of the late James Lloyd Harris, Esq., of the Moor, Here. fordshire. On the 29th ult., at Merton, in Surrey, in the 37th year of her age, Anne Caroline, only daughter of the late Rev. John Blakiston, Rector of Little Barford, Bedfordshire. On the 29th ult., at his house in Woburn-place, Charles t en tley, Esq., in the S4th year of his age, formerly a Mem er of the Council of Fort William, and Chief of Patna. • On the 30th ult., Catherine, wife of Joseph Fidler, Esq., Camberwell -terrace, aged 53. On the Ist inst., Thomas Drinkwater, Esq., of his Ma jesty's Customs, aged 67. Pitirmua and PVELISHED by M. YOUNG, at the Surt-Orricx, No. 112, Stitad. S. Friend for an) of 'nor Unless ar the rondo, I