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which those interests and passions are so nume rinte, and so necessarily opposed as in ours, nothing short of madness could induce us to doubt the justice of a measure, merely because it happened to meet the disapprobation of some. Indeed, in every society there are persons whose judgments are so distorted by prejudice, so clouded by the evil dispositions of the heart, and so perverted b habit, that the very circumstance of a measure having met with their approbation, would be a greund for doubting its propriety. And, therefore, we felt not only no surprise, but considerable satisfaction, on finding that the con duct, on the nart of our Government and our fleet, which led to the battle of Navarin, should have excited the unmeasured censure of some of our contemporaries. We have already joined issue on some of the charges more parti cularly urged, and had the satisfaction of observ ing the awkwardness with which our opponent endeavoured to back out of his finis-statements. We have also pointed out to our readers why we conceived that, on the broad grounds of natural justice, the Allies were justified in interfering i n the contest ; and we now purpose to endea vour, in like manner, to show, that, on the same grounds, the Allied Admirals were justified in the course they pursued previous to the battle of Navarin. It has not been attempted to impugn their conduct on the grounds that it was opposed to the unlimited dictates of natural right, which will always justify an interference in behalf of these who are pressed down by superior force ; but it is said that it was contrary to natural law, so limited and restrained as to become the law of nations. Now, if the law of nature be limited, and the natural rights of an individual or a state be restrained, it can only be justified by showing, that lee who suffers under the restraint has, by reason 0 ! it, received other advantages equiva lent to the surrender he has made. The law of nations is different among different societies of nations, and derives its sanction from the assent of those who are amenable to it, who have tacitly consented to surrender certain natural Tights, in consideration of other advantages. It es clear, then, that as this surrender is made in consideration of advantages to be derived from it, it cannot be expected from those who have received no consideration, nor can he who re fuses to make the sacrifice demanded expect to receive the consideration which was to have been purchased by it. Under this view of the case, it appears that if the Turks have not formed one of that society of nations who had tacitly assen ted to he governed by what we call national law they have not themselves conformed to its exigencies—they cannot expect the advantages derivable from it ; or that other nations should submit, in their ietercourse with them, to those shackles which they themselves have refused to wear. This is the natural justice of the matter, whatever may he the precedents which seem to establish a contrary doctrine. That the Turks hece never con-foriaed to the law of European Nations is matter of history. They have never lost time or opportunity, through their anxiety to ob serve established forms, and not only in its com mencement, but through the whole course of its career, their war proceeds on principles of conduct not recoknised among civilized nations. It therefore ca,nnoe be expected, that, as regards such a people, it >s E 0 far necessary to observe laws to which they rofess no obedience, as to risk the Noss of war's object for the sake of commencing it in the formal manner pointed out by teose laws. But, still further., it. must be remembered that the delivery of the Treaty of Londe n to the Ministers of the Porte was a conditiore I declaration of war, and and it expressly provid -.d for the commencement of hos tilities, without the necessity of recurring to an other declaratioe, unless the motives for such a course should i , e removed by the compliance of the Turks, for it declared, that unless a certain line of conduct pointed out by the Treaty was adopted by the Turks, they would have reccurse so measures which necessarily involved the com mencement of hostilities. They had fixed a mark, beyond which, if the Turks passed, the previously declared war should commence ; and the substance of this Treaty haying been com municated to Ibrahim Pacha , both- he and the Porte knew the point at which they should ex pect the commencement of war. Still further, Ibrahim Pacha had assented to the plans of the Admirals, and pledged his faith to the observ ance of the Armistice agreed on. That faith he falsified, and that Armistice he broke, by his at tempt to leave Navarin, and his savage slaughter of the unresisting Greeks. So sensible was .he that he had deprived himself of the advan cages of that condition which restrained the de claration of war involved in the Treaty of Lon don, that his fleet was drawn up in battle array, :and prepared for the attack of the Allies. The conclusion to which this circumstance irresistibly leads us, has been endeavoured to be evaded, by asserting that the peaceable dispositions of Ibrahim were evident from the circumstance of she fleets having been allowed to pass the bat teries unmolested, but it must he remembered that though Ibrahim - was conscious of having merited an attack, he did not court it. And as he had before experienced the extreme averse ness of the Admirals to resort to force, he was not without hope that he might again escape the punishment he had provoked, and there fore, while he prepared his fleet for battle, he did not think proper farther to rouse the resentment which might otherwise eva porate in threats. This forbearance, therefore, could form no ground for inferring that Ibra him was not conscious of having merited an attack. It is impossible at present to say what were the intentions of the Admirals in en tering the harbour of Navarin. We trust for t h e ir own fame, as men of expanded minds .and generous feelings, that they were of a decisive nature ; but, whatever they were, their entrance in battle array was justified by the treaty of Lon don, and the had faith of Ibrahim, and the cir cumstances which led to the actual commence.- ment of the action are only of any importance in aemuch as they serve to show that time Turks were prepared for, snd expected an attack, and were accordingly in tbat nervous state of hostility and ancer from which such accidents (if the firing on our boat rmest be so called) generally arise. If, therefore, the interference of the Allies was, as we have endeavoured to prove, originally just, she conduct of the Admirals who gave eff'ect to that interference, flowing, as it naturally and ne cessarily did from the treaty of London, and the circumstances in which they were placed, was not only justifiable but praiseworthy.—Nete Times. It is said in a letter from Leyden, in a con temporary of yesterday—" I have found in all Continental Clergy, an universal complaint of the very low state of theological learning; in England, and great curiosity to ascertain the cause that our country has ceased to make het wonted contributi ons to the important field of Biblical criticism." Lewth, seventy years ago , ahartsed his brethren generally with ignorance of the languages of Scripture ; so that at all events the present men are not much worse than their predecessors. A key to this may be found in Goldsmith's account of the offer to teach Greek in the Univerity of Louvain. " Why (said the jolly head of the University) I eat well, and drink well, and sleep well, without knowing Greek, and I think therefore that Greek may be very well dispensed with." The Leyden Doc tors, were they to come to England, would find their brethren in England, though little acquaint ed with Biblical learning, much stauncher in their orthodoxy than our earlier Divines, who ad dicted themselves to that sort of learning ; for, as has been well observed, the man who does not hunt for difficulties is less likely to meet with them than he who does ; and they would find moreover that their brethren here are noways deficient in those arts and acquirements which lead to livings. However this may be, a theolo gical appointment has taken place in Edinburgh, which would please even the Leyden Doctors, and must produce corresponding fruits. We allude to the appointment of Dr. Chalmers to the Theological Chair. This Doctor has just pub ished a Sermon preached by him at Belfast on the 23d September last, in which he com mences with giving St. Athanasius a hard hit. The terrible denunciations of St. Athanasius have not helped," he says, " they have injured the cause." Hear this, ye Archbishops of Dublin ! But not content with treating St. Athanasius in this manner, he actually wishes that the hearts of the Trinitarians might be softened towards Unitarians, and that Orthodoxy might clear itself occasionally of her bile.—" And would the heart of Trinitarian (he says) be but as obediently schooled by this passage (let nothing be done through strife, &c.) —would Orthodoxy, instead of the strife and the vain glory which have given her so revolting an aspect, both of pride and sternness, but put on her bowels of mercy, and to her truth add tender ness—would the champions of a Saviour's dig nity but learn of his meekness and lowliness, and while they assert him to be God manifest in the flesh, meet the perversity of gainsayers in the very spirit of gentleness that he did—this were the way by which the Church militant might be borne onwardly and upwardly to the station of the Church triumphant in the world. This is the way in which, by the mechanism of our moral nature, to obtain ascendancy over the hearts of men. Truth will be indebted for her best victories, not t 6 the overthrow of heresy, discomfited on the field of argument, but to the surrender of heresy, disarmed of that in which her strength and her stability lie—of her pas sionate, because provoked wilfulness. Charity will do what reason cannot do. It will take that which letteth out of the way—even that wrath of man, which worketh neither the truth nor the righteousness of God." On another point, Dr. Chalmers reads a lecture to those zealots in the City, who, in order to make them selves of consequence, have done so much to in jure religion. The following passage is descry ina of all commendation in these days of hypo crisy, when recourse is had to a barbarous legis lation, which, to the disgrace of the age, may still b© enforced, in order to injure the cause to the aid of which it is brought. The passage is, indeed, highly honourable to Dr. Chalmers, and we hope it will have the effect of stirring up other Theologians to rescue themselves from the seeming disgrace of requiring the arm of the Judge to support them : " But our time does not permit of any further illustrA tion—else we might have shown, at greater length, how, by the oversight of this great principle, the cause both of truth and of righteousness has been impeded in the world. Theologians have forgotten it in their controversies ; States men have forgotten it in their laws. Never was there a greater blunder in legislation than that by which the forces •of the Statute-book have been enlisted on the side of truth ; and error, as was quite natural, instead of being subdued, has been thereby settled down into tenfold obstinacy. The glories of martyrdom have been transferred front the right to the wrong side of the question ; and superstition, which, in a land of perfect light and perfect liberty, would bide her head as ashamed, gathers a title of respect, and stands forth in a character of moral heroism, because of the in justice which has been brought to bear upon her. She ought, :,11 all wisdom, to have been left to her own natural decay, or at least, reason and kindness are the only en gines which should have been made to play upon her strong-nolds. But, with such an auxiliary as the mere authority of terror, upon the one side, and such a resist ance as that of a generous and high-minded indignation upon the other—there have arisen the elements of an inter minable warfare. And not till truth, relieved of so un seemly an associate, be confined to the use of her proper weapons, will she be reinstated on her proper vantage ground. It is not in the fermentation of human passions, and human politics, that the lessons of heaven caa be with efficacy taught—and ere these lessons shall go abroad in triumph over the length and breadth of the laud, we must recal the inipolicy by which we have turned a whole people into a nation of outcasts. To exclude is surely not the way to assimilate. It is by pervading, instead of se parating into an unbroken mass, and then placing it off at a distance from us—it is by extensively mingling with the men of another denomination, in all the walks of civil and political business—it is then that the occasions of converse and of courtesy will be indefinitely multiplied—and then will it he found that it is by an influence altogether oppo site to the wrath of man, that we are enabled to work the righteousness of God." We regret that a recent prosecution should have thrown a stain on the present Administra tion. , for though the Administration have not countenanced the prosecution, yet it is unfortu nate that the return to the old spirit should have so soon followed the deatili of Mr. Canning. W e regret that the Attorney-General did not use his authority to crush it, which Ile might have done, and that it should have been reserved to a Whig Attorney-General to mix himself up even pro fessionally with prosecutions, which his predeces sor in office contrived to steer clear of. IN here ever there is freedom, there will b e diversity. The only security for truth is, that the mind of man is so constituted, that when truth and error present themselves to it, the former will be pre ferred to the latter. If truth cannot stand its ground againsg, error, we must abandon all faith in a beneficent Creator. Error has its use in the order of the universe, for it often leads us to a clearer view of truth. The principle is de testable, and unworthy of a free rnan, that the manifestation of any opinions whatsoever should become subject of punishment. If the opinions are bad and mischievous, they will be rejected the more easily. If they are propounded in an impertinent manner, they will excite a feeling of disgust which will only - impede the more their reception. In short there is no reason for a re currence to law, but the mere wish to gratify malevolent feelings, the love to tyrannize—to command rather than persuade. The Judges a pprove of these prosecutions, on the principle which leads one sheep to follow another—be cause other Judges have approved of them. They approve of them just as their predecessors approved of the torture, and their most timid predecessors of the trial by hot iron ; because Judges are generaily wedded to what they find established.—Morning Chronicle. The Ministerial Journals take much praise to themselves for contradicting, as they say upon authority, the report of Si r John Gore having been sent out to supersed e Sir E. Codrington in his command. To this report, if understood in its strictly official or technical sense, we never thought it entitled to credit ; because we did not suppose that Ministers would have the hardihood to brave that tempest of public indignation, which could not but have arisen if they had this week superseded and disgraced in the customary forms, and without any addi tional information, the Commander whom, no longer ago than last week, they had held up as the proper object of national gratitude and esteem, by conferring on him one of the most splendid honours in the power of the Crown to bestow. Yet from the midst of these official contradictions, or rather evasions, it is not dif ficult to extricate the truth. That Government have disgraced Sir E. Codrington is not the less a fact, although it has not yet taken the step of formally superseding him. The mission of Sir John Gore was a measure which the organs of Administration were compelled either to deny or explain. If the gallant Admiral could have been smuggled out of the coun try it would have been well—but as this was obviously impossible, the only course which re mained was to let out the truths connected with his mission—truths, as unwelcome to the people of England as they are discreditable to the Go vernment, by slow and cautious degrees. Ac cordingly, on the evening which immediately preceded the departure of Sir John, we find one of the organs of Administration admitting, with manifest and avowed reluctance, that the object of his mission was to collect, on board the flag ship of Sir E. Codrington, further information, and to require of him further explanations as to the circumstances which led to the battle of Na varin, in order to enable Government to judge whether, as a Government, it can or cannot ap prove of the conduct of the British Commander in that engagement. This was the first step in the progressive disclosure. Yesterday morning, that is to say, two days after the departure of Sir John Gore, we collect, from another confidential organ of Administration, a further particle of information, viz. :—That he has been sent to convey verbal instructions to Sir E. Codring . ton, for tic regulation of his future con duct. These two pieces of information are quite reconcileable, and are both, we have no doubt, entirely correct ; and their result is, that Sir John Gore, although it is by no means to be understood that he goes out to supersede Sir E. Codrington, does in fact go out for the twofold purpose of investigating the past conduct of that Officer, and of regulating, by verbal orders, his future conduct. 1 his, we admit, is not to su- persede Sir E. Codrington technically; but it is in effect to supersede him, and that in a manner the most degrading and ignominious. We do not hesitate to say, that whenever these objects of Sir John Gore's visit are unfolded to Sir Ed ward Codrington, the latter, whatever may hava been his errors, must, if he possess one re maining „park of the spirit of a British Officer, resign his command, and demand a public enquiry into his conduct. The leading Minis terial Paper tells us that so highly does Govern ment estimate the services of Sir E. Codrington, that a Peerage w4uld have been bestowed upon that Officer, if any precedent could have been found of such a reward for a naval exploit per formed before a declaration of war had been issued. We fully credit this assertion. We do not doubt that a week or ten days ago Ministers, if they could thereby have beguiled the country into approbation of the Navarro atrocity, and of the base and foolish Treaty out of w hi c h it sprung would willingly have created Sir E. Co drington, had such an elevation been possible, a Prince of the Blood. It affords us, we own, at the same time, a rather unexpected gratification to find an authorised organ of the present Ad ministration recognising any value or importance in the old-fashioned formality of a declaration of war.—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. slung. BOW-STREET.— TV. D---, Esq., was yesterday brought before Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, charged by two young men belonging to the 72d Regiment of Highlanders, with indecently assaulting them. The case was heard by Sir R. Buts's in private, on Thursday, when the principal evidence against the prisoner was gone into. When the case was called upon yesterday, Mr. Helder, a solicitor, residing at 17, Clement's Inn, ap plied to have the re-examination heard in private, in con sequence of the great respectability of the prisoner and his connexions. _ _ Sir Werra an Blassiu, however, would not consent to this arrangement. The prisoner, a gentlemanly-looking person, was then brought forward, in custody of Smith, one of the prin cipal officers. He was not, however, placed at the bar, but immediately in front of the bench. George Hay and Daniel M'Vie, two very fine lads, privates in the 72d Regiment, then came forward, ac companied by their sergeant, and the following evidence was gone into : George Hay is a private in the 72d Regiment of Foot. On the evening of Tuesday, the 20th instant, at about six o'clock, he was in company with Daniel M'Vie, now pre sent. They had been looking for one of their companions, and not finding him where they went to seek him, in Broad-street, Bloomsbury, they were proceeding to the White Hart, in Fetter-lane, where they expected to find him. They :had passed the lighted church in St. Giles's with that intention ; bet not knowing their way, having but lately arrived in London, they were inquiring how they should proceed, when a well-dressed man came up, and said, he would show them the way. Sir RICHARD BIRNIt—Can you identify that well dressed man? Is he present? The witness immediately pointed to the prisoner, and said, "This is the man." He then resumed his evidence. 111‘Vie fell a little in the rear, and the prisoner spoke to me. He said, being strangers in London, ',we ought to be careful of ours e lv e s, a s thre were a great many dangerous people about. We might get robbed, or the girls might run away with us. The witness here deposed to certain acts practised on his parson by the prisoner in their passage through Holborn. The prisoner, he said, then went and spoke to INl‘Vie, and continued by his sideuntil they reached the corner of Chancery-lane, when a gentleman alighted from . a cabriolet, and came across the street to the Witness. This ge ntleman asked him if he knew the person who was speaking to M'Vie. Witness replied that he did not. The gentleman ,then said, " I hope he is treating the lad with civility," and he added, "he is a brutish man, and he has been tried before for a brutish practice." The prisoner having perceived the gentleman speaking to the witness, walked suddenly away. The gentleman followed and spoke a few words to the prisoner. He (the gentleman) then re turned to She witness and ?,I'Vie, and took clown their names, saying lie should call on their commanding officer. He left them his card. Sir Itscoaan BraNts:.—Yes: heg s: v a e so h ;i i c s i toe: evidence before me yesterday. His name io Gates, city—a most respectable man, Daniel M'Vie corroborated the statement of the last wit ness in every particular. Arthur Oats, lived at No. 5, Bow-yard, and drove the cabriolet No. 71. Last Tuesday, at 6 o'clock, Mr. Gates took him up with directions to drive him to No. 76, L,stn bard-street. In proceeding along Holborn, Mr. Gates told lion to keep his eye upon two soldiers who were in com pany with a gentleman. Witness observed the gentleman take improper liberties with one of the soldiers. On reach ing the corner of Chancery-lane, Mr. Gates said, " 1 can hear this no longer, I shall speak to the young men." He accordingly alighted from the cabriolet, and went over to the two soldiers and the gentleman ; and after some time, lie ke returned, arid witness drove bini to Tom's Coffee-house. T evidence of Mr. Gates, which was taken the pre ceding day, was then read. He deposed to his lowing witnessed the disgraceful conduct of the prisoner on the e vening in question. Sir R. 818 shall require the prisoner to enter into his personal recognizance in the sum of 5001., and two good and substantial housekeepers, in 2bol. each. The prisoner's father and another gentleman became sureties for his appearance to answer the charge at the les- [We are requested to state that the prisoner is not con nected in the remotest degree with the banking-house of Dorrien and Co., as stated in some Morning Papers.] George Marley, late a driver of the Bristol mail-coach, was summoned at the instance of Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post-office, for carelessly driving the said coach on the night of Thursday, the 15th inst., so asr to endanger the lives of his Majesty's subjects. ' • On the night in question the defendant (who did not ap pear to answer the summons) was to have driven the coach! from Hounslow to Newbury. He got upon the box at thi• former place, but on proceeding a short way the witness per ceived that he was totally incapable of driving, being in state of intoxication. After proceeding about two miles and a-half across Hounslow-heath, the coach was upset, and witness saw the defendant fall headlong from the box. The gentlemen inside assisted in putting the coach to rights ; but would not proceed if the defendant was suffered to tat., the box again. Two of the horses were then put to the coach, and witness told the defendant to remain with the two leaders while lie proceeded with the coach as far as Salt-hill. The witness drove the coach safely to Newbury. Sir R. BIRWIE ordered that the defendant should be fined 101., and directed that a warrant should be made out forth with to take him into custody,. In default of payment, the defendant will be committed to prison for six months. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Sir GEORGE Fmt- RANT, the Magistrate, was yesterday occupied for a con siderable time in the havestigation of the following case, which was entered as a night charge in the watch book of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, and the par ticulars of which excited an intense interest in all who heard it. The history of it is shortly this :—Lacy, one of the beadles of the parish, was going his nightly rounds on duty, about 12 o'clock the night before, and as he passed No. 6, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, he heard a violent uproar inside, which increased to such a degree, that he in sisted upon admission. When he entered, he found Mrs. Grace, the landlady of the house, a miss Emma Carey alias Jones, and a Mr. George S— and Mrs. S—, his wife, who reside at No. 68, Grove-street, Camden-town, all involved in one general scene of personal conflict, and Mrs. S— in a state apparently of the most furious mad ness. Lacy endeavoured to pacify them, but in vain ; and Mrs. S— at last gave him a slap in the face. He now determined to take the whole party, except Mrs. Grace, to the watch-house; but before he could collect a sufficient force to do so, Mr. George S— darted out of the house, and out rau, after him, Miss Emma Carey ; but before they had gone far they were overtaken, brought back, and with Mrs. S—, lodged in the watch-house ; that is to say, Mr. S— charged with assaulting Mrs. S—, who in her turn, was charged with assaulting Lacy; and Miss Emma Carey charged with assaulting Mrs. Grace, her landlady, and Mrs. S— also ; but in the course of the night Mr. S— procured bail for the whole, and they were suffered to go home. Mrs. S—, a genteel and in teresting-locking young female, but evidently deeply wo worn, appeared efore:the Magistrate, accompanied by,her;tvro children, one a fine boy, about six years of age, and the other an infant, in the arms of a wet nurse, and Mrs. S— was also attended by another female servant. Mr. S— appeared dressed in the style of a buckeen about town, and Miss Carey appeared like what she is—a Cyprian. Mr. S—, when asked by the Magistrate what business or profession he was of, described himself as a riding master ; but Mrs. S— gave him the less dignified charac ter of a horse-dealer. That part of the case which excited the interest to which allusion has been made above, was the defence of Mrs. S. against the charge of assaulting the beadle.' She stated that she had had the great misfortune, some time ago, to meet with her present husband, then a servant or assistant at the Horse Bazaar, Portman-.quare ; she was then pos sessed of property amounting to many thousands, in houses, lands, and money; she kept her horses and her servants— the former of which, unhappily, were put to livery at the Bazaar, and as she generally rode out single every day, she frequented that establishment very often, and thus had the misfortune to become acquainted with Mr. 5 and mar ried him. He no sooner, however, had possessed himself of her fortune than he commenced a course of the most profligate description, which he has continued until now. He has spent almost the whole of her property, and, not satisfied with thus reducing her to comparative want, he ' treats her in the most barbarous manner. Repeatedly has lie by disease made her the victim of his disgusting inter course with others, as her physician can testify. Ile con stantly inflicts personal violence upon her, and on one oc casion with a blow loosened several of her teeth. Nor is this the extent of her suffering, far he is in the daily habit of telling her of the girls he keeps awl supports with her property, particularly this Miss Carey, of whom, in her presence, he speaks in the most insulting terms of praise, telling her, (Mrs. S—) that neither herself nor her ugly children are to be compared fora moment with the beauties of Miss Carey. " And it is no wonder, indeed," said the unhappy lady, " if I ever possessed any personal attrac thiouls,antldi,at after the cr u e l t rea tm e nt I have experienced, they should have lung since vanished." Her unfeeling she said, even told her that he would send her home the picture of Miss Carey, to show her how hand some she was. All she wanted, she said, now of Mr. S— was, either to abandon her and her children altoge ther, or to give up his other associates. She bad gone several times and remonstrated with this unfortunate young woman, Carey ; told her that Mr. S- was a married man and had a family of children, and hoped that she would discountenance him, but in vain; and she acknow- !edged that, driven to almost madness, she did go to Park street, where she knew her husband was with this woman, and, frantic with rage and despair, she owned she had con ducted herself with great violence. As for striking the beadle, she confessed that she did so intentionally, that she aligns be taken to the watchhouse and have an opportunity of stating her grievances to a Magistrate. To show, she said, still further the horrid degradation to which this may, her husband, subjects her, he actually on that night, after they were hailed out of the watchhouse, went home with Miss Carey, and passed the night with her ! The female servants of Mrs. S— fully confirmed her statement, as to the personal violence constantly used to wards her by her husband. Mrs. Grace, the landlady, said that this Miss Carey was recommended to her as a lodger, and the apartments taken for her by a Mr. T. G. C. Rieley, of No. 57, Wiripole street, who described her as a young lady of great respect ability and fortune, and whose relations were shortly to be in town ; but instead of that, she turned out to be the mistress of this Mr. S—, who was constantly visiting her, and she, Mrs. Grace, was therefore determined to get her out of the house. Mrs. Grace here produced a written agreement, signed by Mr. Rieley, for the lodgings. The case ended thus :—Mrs.' S— was at once ex cused for the assault on the beadle ; Mr. S--, who con ducted himself with the most unfeeling levity towards his unhappy wife, and in her presence was lavish in his atten tions to Miss Carey was ordered to find bail for the assault on his wife; and Miss Carey was discharged on her nader taking to quit Mrs. Grace's house in three days. During the progress of this distressing scene, Mrs. S—'s little boy, who stood by his mother's side, attracted general attention and interest, as he kept his little eye fixed upon the woman Carey, and frequently repeated,— " Oh you bad woman, oh you nasty woman, to use my poor mamma so !" A watchman, who was present, and who had !seen an old soldier, had his indignation so much excited, that, not con sidering where he stood, he exclaimed aloud, " By —, if she (meaning Mrs. S—) was a relation of mine I would break every bone in his (S 's) body." LAMBETH-STREET.—The case of the Royal Pavi lion Theatre came on again for hearing to-day, and at tracted a host of the Drquzutis Personce, who at an early hour crowded the outer office almost to suffocation. The solicitor for the information was Mr. White ; and for the defence, Mr. Baddeley, with whom attended Mr. Adol phus, as Counsel. Upon Mr. Williams, the principal propr►etor, standing forward, Mr. HARDWICK informed him he was summoned there to answer for keeping a disorderly house ; and on Mr. Adolphus desiring to know what was a disorderly house, he explained it by saying it was a house in which anything was done or performed contrary to law, r eading at the same time, from the Act of Parliament, the definition of such a house. The question for consideration, therefore, in the present case, lie said, was whether the entertainments performed at the Pavilion were of a n ature to bring it within this description of prohibited places; and he de sired Mr. White, if he had any evidence to prove it so, to produce it. Mr. White said he had his proof ready, and immediately put forward a witness. Ile swore that he went to a thea tre called a pavilion, situated iu Baker's-row, Whitechapel road, and paid 2s. for admission. The entertainments he heard were a comic lecture in the style of Mathews, a mo nologue, music, and singing. This, Mr. White said, when he had finished, was all his case. Mr. WYATT—Did you see any person playing besides Mr. Williams ? Witness—No, I did not. Mr. Adolphus—A. man dor.'t keep a disorderly house by reciting somethi ng . You have not advanced a step yet. The summons is for keeping a disorderly house; you must show that there were such entertainments exhibited as bring it within the meaning of the Act, which you have not done. Mr. White—Here is a bill of the performance. Mr. Adolphus—Very likely. A man might be sent into the house to sell such bills. Witness said no, he had it at the door. In answer to other questions of the Magistrates and Counsel, he admitted that there was no dialogue ; the performance was done by one man, who changed his dress, and then personated different characters. There were songs, accompanied from the orchestra, but they were by the same person. Mr. Adolphus—All this don't prove it a disorderly house; and, if it were so, you may go to the Sessions and indict it. Mr. White—We don't wish to press the matter. All I am instructed to endeavour to obtain is the Magistrates' opinion as to the legality of the entertainments. Mr. Adolphus.—Whose behalf do you appear on ? Mr. White.—The Proprietors of the New Royal Bruns wick Theatre. Mr. Adolphus.—The Magistrates have no right to give an opinion upon the matter. It is an entertainment with which they have nothing to do—a man speaking and sing ing a song or two. You don't think that a man who sings in a house offends against the Act of Parliament? Mr. HARDwrcK,—Was there music ?—Witness : There was ; instruments of some kind were playing in the orchestra. Mr. Adolphus here remarked that they had authority for playing such instruments as he heard, and jocularly read a license from the King's Serjeant Trumpeter, per mitting the proprietors to exhibit to the sound of trumpets, or any other species of wind instruments. Mr. White.—We only want the Magistrates' opinion whether the performance, as it is described, is legal or not. Mr. WYATT.—We don't wish to draw ourselves into the case the least in the world. We want to steer clear of both your houses. Mr. HARDWICK.—You must show they are doing some thing contrary to the Act. Mr. Adolphus.—And that Mr. Williams is a proprietor, which you have not done. You speak to his performing, but that is nothing. You might as well infer, at Drury lane theatre, because you see the name of Elliston or Wal.. lack in the bills as performers and managers, that, on that account, they were proprietors of the theatre ; and, in regard to a licence, we contend that they are doing nothing which requires a licence any more than the " waites" at Christmas. After some further discussion, in which the Magistrates gave it as their opinion that the entertainments described did not bring thy?. house within the meaning of the Act of 22 George 11. it was suggested that the complainants could, if they pleased, have their remedy (if it was a disorderly house) by indicting it as such ; and the solicitor for the information agreeing to this, Mr. Williams entered into his own recognizance to appear and answer at the Sessions, when called upon so to do. YORKSHIRE iVILTSICAL FESTIVAL.—The Yorkshire Festival Committee meets on the first and third Wednesdays in every month. His Grace the Archbishop, when present, takes the chair as President; and the Rev. W. H. DIXON is Chairman of the Committee. The Com mittee consists of the Directors of the Concert ;Room, and of such of the members of the old Committee as think pro per to act. The following persons have already attended at the Committee meetings, viz.:—The Archbishop, the Dean, Rev. Mr. DIXON, Mr. CuoLstxr.Ey of Bransby, Mr. PESIBERTON, Mr. Alderman HALL, of Leeds, Mr. INGHAM, Mr. CROSSE, of Hull, Mr. J. GRAY, Mr. AT KINSON, Rev. Mr. BECKWITH. The guarantee fund, for the next Festival, already more than doubles in amount that of 1823. A guarantee fund, equal to that of 1825, when the erection of a Concert Room was part of the plan, is unnecessary for the next Festival. It is, therefore, certain that the Festival will take place.— Yerh Chron. ROUSSEAU'S HERBAL.—We have just seen the MS. Herbal of the Philosopher of Geneva. It consists of eight small folio volumes, bound up neatly in vellum, each volume having a thong of the same material bound three or four times round it. The plants are crushed flat, and fastened to the paper with gum ; and the natural his tory, or rather the scientific description of each, is written on the opposite page, in RoussrAu's small, beautiful hand writing. A very pleasing scent exhales from the volumes when open ; and neither the leaves nor the flowers of the plants have lost their brilliant colours. The MS. is valued at three hundred guineas.—London Weekly Review. ANCIENT FORTIFICATIONS.—The remains of the warlike works of our ancestors all sink into insigni ficance when compared with that nearly on the summit of Penmaen Mawr, about 9 miles from this city. It is sur rounded by a strong treble wall ; within each wall are the foundation sacs of more than 100 round towers, each about eighteen feet diameter within ; the walls about six feet thick. The situation must have been impregna ble. The entrance, which is steep and . rocky, ascends by many turnings. One hundred men might defend it against 5000. Within the walls is ample room for 20,000 men! It was an immense hold, and the great shelter of the Welsh during the invasion of their country, before and subsequent to the massacres of EDWARD L—N. Wales Chronicle. BONES OF THE MAMMOTH.—The fossil re mains of this colossal animal, lately discovered by our countrymen in the Burman E.npire, imbedded with those of the rhinoceros, ruminating animals, tortoises, and croco diles, have given rise to much curious speculation among the geologists of France. It seems, that up to this mo ment the mammoth's bones had never been found in equa torial regions. It was thought, therefore, to have been designed by nature to inhabit cold countries, like the fossil elephant, which was discovered entire on the banks of the Lena, covered with a coat of thick fur. Geologists regard this discovery as very important, as it must give rise to fresh discussions and inquiries, which, if they determine nothing, will at least amuse for a while, and may, in the end, lead to something like a satisfactory conclusion.— London Weekly Review. VESTIGE OF AN ANCIENT CHURCII.-A few days ago, as the workmen were making some altera tions in a building situate at the upper end of the Long Close, near Walmgate,:in this city, they came to the founda tions of a stone buildin g, which upon i nvestigation u ,a v tta e htv s a tta t ie l i ll g u a teh t a i nel o tro n aeir. p eNo r c,f o oa v rsst e lt. d as to be those of the ancient churc h of St. Peter-en-les-Wil lows. This religious edifice was formerly a re ctor y under thechurches Piio in this city, Prior and y, it Convent of was K joinedir Kirkham, n to St. ,butgaartdetnhr this place, of Margaret's, in Walmgate, and the c hurch was suffered to decay. It will be er e ; ar f pr o ye u t n tuh d a el s tated nr i y, o bfo t u h ut e nbd i l y, d ; wst;inoi orn o r t y li o i s churchfr 0 York, what remain. Some yea r s a g o, in digging a place, a number of human bones Were found.— York Chronicle. OYSTERS.—The oyster dealers of every de scription are complaining that this is the worst season they have had for a numb e r o f y ears . Th e d eman d is still good, but purchas e r s will no t g i ve f ormer p r ices. There are fifty boats daily employed on the two beds at Newha ren. On an averag e th ey ta k e a b ou t SOO each, making a total of 40,000. B es id es th ese about 4,0 00 come daily from Preston Pans, making the daily consumption of Edin burgh and vicinity 44,000. —Scotsm an. PASSING FORGED NOTES.—Yesterday a genteel, good-looking young man, dressed in a black coat and waistcoat, and blue tro wsers and to p c oat, of the na me g T '"va of ROST. RITON, was examined at our Court-house, on a c A b le a s r s g r e s. Eic)aicyrilT, :13LyAtwo forged notes o f th e Bank of izns and Co. of thi s t ow . Mr. 1 ANDREW, of the firm of EAsrwoon and ANDREW, stated that the prisoner came to their shop about seven o'clock on the Tuesday evening, and purchased goods to the amount of 14s. Bd. for the payment of which he tendered one of Messrs. BECKETT, BLA, vns and Co.'s notes. He then got more goods to the amount of is. Id. and tendered a second. This excited Mr. ANDREW'S suspicion and he ran up to Mr. PowELL, Clerk to Messrs. BECKETT, BLAYDS and Co. and ascertained that they were both forgeries, upon which he returned and had the man apprehended. He had also sold a silver sugar basin to Mr. PTATT, of Leeds, and purchased an umbrella. The prisoner pretends to have no knowledge whatever of the basin, and in other re spects gives a very inconsistent story about his conduct.— He was remanded till Monday to gibe au opportunity of procuring further evidence against hint, and to allow him time to procure witnesses to rebut it. —Leeds Intelligencor. BARRoT, in his description of the coasts of Guinea, written more than a century ago, say. of Sierra Leone—" The air is altogether very unwholesome for Eu ropeans, as many Englishmen who have dwelt in the fort of the small Bence island during the high season of the year could witness, if they had not died there ;"—" fresh and sweet as the water is (the spring water), it has an ill effect upon the sailors, if taken in the beginning of the rainy season, but more especially in April, because the violent heats of the summer having corrupted the earth, and killed abundance of venomous creatures, the heavy rains which ensue, occasion mighty floods, and these wash down all the poisonous matter into the springs and chan nels, and consequen tl y g ive a mali g nit y to the water." Aid he recommends Europeans to eat the fruit of the country and to avoid drinking water to excess; if not , sparinglythe y , iea ' use a pestilential distemper, which is almost cer tain death." LONDON MARKETS. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKE'f._N°v 21 201. 72. g. Od. to 100 A. Od. (lover 90s. Od. to Straw-,- 3W. Od. to 31s. PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.) —Nov. '23. .., P. Kent Pockets 4/, Os, 4/, 105. to 51. 6 ,.. Seconds - 7j Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto Farnham Ditto, Fine -3/. 1os. 41. 4s. to u• If; .....—. :31. ss. '31.105. to :31. 1 7 ~........._ 31. Bs. 4/. Os. to 4/. ' at £140,000. 3 00 / 1/ ... 16 ( lo s ss . : 4 67 1 11 ... 1 4 toI s ss .. t tt 0 00 4/ 111 .. 11 Kent Bal Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto.. PRICE OF OIL. 134 6 Rape Oil, brown . . 321. 05........ Refined ...--- 0 23 Linseed Oil --- —...,---....... " .„, 0 -- Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ' 5 to nape Cake, per ton PRICE OF POTATOES.—Nov. 23. Ware N'orksh — ire Kidney5....,. 310 41. Oss.. to per ton. to PRICES 0F LEATHER. (1. 0 d ; Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. 1 1 14 Butts---50 to 561 b..- 24 221 Tanned Horse Hides. , 1 , f Ditto--60 to 661 b.— 221 234 Spaiish Ditto ~.....,..^^2 ' Dressing Hides....--- 134 17 Per dozen. is g Fine Coach Hides ~w.. 17 19 Calf Skins,...:34i to 4 01 b. ' W Crop Hides, 33 to 401 b. 14 134 Ditto --. 50 to 701 b. 0 Ditto-45 to 501 b. 164 ISi Ditto 70 to S011). 1 a 4 1 Ditto . lB4 20f Small Seals, Greenland,' UAW HIDES. tf• Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. s. ( Vi 6 Best Heifers& Steers 3 4 3 6 Ordinary -----.. '2 ''. ot tlt, Middlings 210 3 0 Market * Ca1f—........... 7 SHEEP SKINS. , 0). Is. 6d. to 2s. 0,1. I Lambs O. Od. tOIP . Polled , '2s. 6d. ,o 3:,. 6,1 _---- --,,,, PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, Sle.fper 112113.- 14°v *56,.. 4 4 Town Tallow 465. Od. Yellow Soap.„-- , •"" --. 925.,',',1 Yellow Russia 395. Od. Mottled.----- --- se.. ir White . 4os. (Id. White..,.. ---^"`"--- '2 0, •,),J. Soap Ditto ,ISs. Od. Grsves .----- " 5 , ;. Melted Stuff 365. Od. Good Dregs..„,—..--- -- "' Ditto Rough — ---......215. Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, ' per stone of 81b.--N° v " 'rice by Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) PUICE OF CANDLES. The price r of do S s to . r l e s. o O3 a l ud to le4 s ,.i od n . th i e m r o et: t ilzh p o e ps r , do is ze a: DD N D Nia ttittot l oo ls Ditto Perkins and C° - : 39 „ 5 Ditto IlidthiPs..—...*^'" 41 6 Ditto Russell's 6 Lambton small Londonderry Blyth Trader 633 di Cowpen 35 s„; Hartley 45 Stone Coal Cox 36 ". Ward's Llanollv—.."'" 3.9 ; Neshani Walls End Hetton.." , " 41 6 Walls End Lambtoo—," 39 Ditto Ditto Stewart's 41 " Russell's Hetton sold, 594—Unsold, • '0"" COAL MARK 36 , - 3d. Beaumont. 34 6 Felling 34 6 Heaton 39 6 Hebburn Main -- ns) 0 36 3 Killingworth 38 6 Pelaw Pontop Simpson 33 6 Pontop Windsor..~,.- 33 6 Shipeote— _ ~..35 3 Tanfield Moor 34 0 Wylam Walls End Bell and Co. 39 0 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 37 9 Ditto Bewiekeand Co.— 41 3 Ditto Brown's 37 6 Ditto Burraten 38 3 Ditto Clarke and Co. 37 6 Ditto Carr and Co—._ 36 0 Ships at market, 85—Ships ,lair's COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DUBINO THE Bes" . Wheat. Barley. I Oats. ...J. 0 % / A Per Quarter. A5hburn,...,.,....... 50 58 at 38 22 30 Basingstoke ..--.. 50 62 27 34 20 36 B a th 4B 63 28 :34 24 32 4 ' 4 ,4 ° Bridgewater 48 68 26 34 17 _.. Bristol 52 56 32 36 16 24 ei Chesterfield Derby Devizes 4.3 63 29 37 21 34 `", Doncaster Dorchester 4B 64 23 32 22 26 Exeter 56 60 34 36 18 21 Gloucester-00.-0. 50 60 21 32 22 30 '":„ Hungerford Leicester--...—. 54 60 34 36 37 40 „ Mansfield Romsey Shaftesbury Shepton Mallet 50 56 30 39 24 28 4 ',4 PA Sleaford -- 32 47 52 25 32 18 28 I n ' Taunton 4B 58 28 32 20 Yeovil Per Bushel. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d. 0 Shrewsbury....... 90 96 46 52 6 0 70 SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Nov. orSi° Our market was well supplied with all sorts ° to-day, the greater part of which was inferior - e 1 this has caused a farther decline in prices, par ticu o ls Wheat, which is 4 s. lower on the top ; and all other ric2l.lalutalaortrie,rs.E7LlDr4olllbabNf:Booot, R 4 806 H are also a shade lower. 1/1 Wheat. Barley. Oats. P ea se. 4:9 04 First 76s Od 35s 6d 28s Od 42s Od Second Third PRICES OF movistoNs, od t° - 'lO Beef, per 1b.... Os. 3d. to Os.7d. Fresh Butter,lb.s. l „ ' 0 Mutton 0 3 0 7 Salt 0 Veal 0 6 010 Ditto, per evk t. 80 0 0 . 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 1 2 r , Lamb, per qr. 1 6 3 0 OatStrawN4.) 0 g v 1 t(91 g° I°l 0 0mo Et:ALWv..,:ryiee:ypteD,:i:ttttt.o.:„.: mARKET.—Vov, :20. mar , Oatmeal a t this the advanc e on the top Pri ce ' Per Stone of 1411). First Oatmeal ...••• 1 1 Second ditto .. / .......... B ar l e y mea l ........ „ ..... C 41i Peasemeal , .. , ..... .-2d, 1.75.--1,011„,/ We had a small supply of ket, which sold heavily at Is Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £l 19 Second ditto 1 15 0 Barleymeal 1 10 0 PeaSCMCAI I 10 0 Pot Barloy—No. 1, per cwt. 12 ------ 21. Ali GLASGOW CORN MARKEL,. s. A ma de: " Wheat is in fair demand, at former, ,e business done in Barley and Oatat_alrou t previous 10 0. 0. a 0 per if4ll). s. -' 1 5 0 Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. _y, l5 oto„ British, 01d... ...... 30 Oto 32 0 1. ' 28 l3ritish - new 24 0 0 Beans, per 2601 b. .'ti Canada, free 29 0 3 1 0 English Irish - Scottish ... 21 0 00 ..... .... Barley, per 3201 b. 41 0 1 5 3c 0 Pease, Scottish . ar , A J English 2B 0 Tr 6 Oatmeal, per 110Ib. ;"0 '- Scottish 25 0 0 0 Flour, per 2801 b.... "' Irish... MEETINGS OF CREDITORS•^ „. issioners B • LONDON DIARY.--TrusDAY, Nor. conun 9Basin 2%.—(At ,”" Acton, Ipswich ghall-street.) % ., 1 11'. JO rn 11 Ebswortli and co '. ', .. ~ 10 11 court .... •e • 1 1 13 owne J. Canterbury ''''''''''''''' r lao • r 'and Co.,ed Lion Cheese o., Edwards, J. Wate", e ... 11 court - Hatfield, J. Cambria ' Delamere, H., It t' d oin or lil Jessup, J., Ratclift ••• ' ••• 10 ~ Bentley, J ., ~ HOW ....„ COUNTRY DIARY.—TUESDAY, NOY. 27. ~ ." Abbot, E, Leamington —Royal hotel, Leamington Acton, T., Holton—Bull, Chester ........................... Harrison, W. 8., Manchester—Clarendon-huildings, ... .•l u pool .................................. • • ........................ Holbrook and Co. Northwich—HOtel, . Newark ............ ... „ Knott and Co., Salford—White's, Manchester."... ............ Roby, R., Leamington Priors—Bath hotel, Lea . '" .... Priors ................................... . ............................. " .... Rogers, S., Bristol—White Lion, Bristol ............... ......... Sharp and Stroyan, Newcastle-upon-Tyne--Hal l .. Newcastle ............................................................... Tetley, J., Harden—Devonshire Arms, Keighley ........ ..... Wheeler, H., Frome Selwood—George, From e ...... . ..,•••• Whitelegg, J., Manchester—Star, Manchester ........ , 4 11, 0 i TO BE Lincoln's Inn 1 9 il-street, AT NI?". Hackney V6lthaillitOW Penn , ii" salford Peril' j "Lambeth DISCPIA J Hackney hiPil lan * v" to" Steen% N SouthamP Stuckey, P., Holborn INSOLVENTS APPLYIN Petitions to be heard at Pertug NOT. 2S, Dixon, J., Spitalfields ord J., Battersea Crl ß : h o ° T k:lo:ek. Hayward, T., Deal Horsfall, D., Manchester Jackson, J., Oxford M'Dougall, L., Hart-street Mayor W., Liverpool' couNTny —A Om Leicester, gi Merriman, .W., t Clielsea - Ise Nov S Drake:_y, T., Coventry Hudson, E. City- 034 Glover, C. Leicester Kellam, C. Melton ~ Henson, d., Barkstone Morris, W., Leiceg4',..../- ,i i , litai On the 19th inst., at Newington-green, '''''- .". Wm. Hickman, Esq., of a (laughter., --------- 4 MARRIED , ft A On the 22d inst., at Welton, Yorkshire, by the -- rz e 0 Popple, Robert Raikes, jun., Esq., youngest son of i' el jess Raikes, Esq., Welton House, to Eleanor Cathernfoor daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Puget, C. 8 ., 01. e, nor-place, Bath. On the 22d inst., Mr. Bellville, of Comp t er East, B r unswick - stprue, to Mary, eldest daugh.t:eo, r et b e N s V o i n ll l i e a r l s n et. Bird, Esq., Westford House, near We ll ' . 0 , On the 23d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-squa t t f the Rev. Dr. Ward, Rector of Great Hawkesley, . 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