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sum OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The charg of Lord Chief Justice Best to the Grand Jury of the county of Wilts, on opening the Assizes at Salisbury, would have claimed our attention, had it been unaccompanied with any peculiar mark of respect from those to whom it was addressed. But his Lordship was, by an unanimous resolution of the Grand Jury, re quested to make it public. Nor was this all ; for, it having been declared by his Lordship that he had spoken without notes, and Consequently required time for the recall of those ideas which had been suggested by his view of the affairs of the country and the business.of Assize, a method was suggested, by which the topics of his speech might be more speedilN brought back to his re collection, and the whole British public made acquainted with it before the close of the Cir cuit, till which time he had proposed to wait. Of a speech, to which so marked a respect has been shown, it _is only necessary to state the facts above recounted, to direct • public curiosity to it, and insure it attention. His Lordship, moved by just indignation at a crime which we are pleased to think not_ natural or congenial to our countrymen—that of stabbing—expatiates on the advantages which are supposed to result from the practice of boxing ; but like us, he de precates prize-fighting. This is, no doubt, in jurious to public morals : but it is difficult to say how boxing can become a science, without the support of the opulent ; or how that support can be administered, but by means of prize fights ; and the most offensive thing to us in prize-fights is, to see smooth youths, with un ruffled shirts and cravats, who would dread the blow of an honest Englishman's fist worse than a thunderbolt, expert in all the terms of the ring, and encouraging two hardy ruffians to beat .each other to mummies for their gain or amusement. But Heaven forfend that the ab sence of plain straightforward fights among is should introduce the practice of the dagger ! An explanation of Mr. Peers Acts appears to be necessary from the. Judges ; and' it is really re freshing to see men of their age and attainment ; so free from the prejudice of system, so unwed ded to the old rule, that they can even recom mend further innovations in the Criminal Code of the country, beyond any which have been at tempted by the late Secretary of State for the Home Department. 'His Lordship's observa tions on the practice of paying the agricultural labourer in part from the poor 's rate is just ; nei ther, in one sense, an it be said to want the grace of novelty ; for though , it has been long and freely reprobated, but not beyond its deserts, by all considerate men, it was not till now that a person in a most eminent judicial station has Un dertaken to condemn it officially from the chair of justice. " Let the gentlemen of the country," says the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, " regulate the rate of the la bourer's wages, independently of the poor-rates ; and when, .decording to the original intention of the laws for relieving human wants, age and in firmities shall visit the peasant, then, and not till then, 'let him be the object of humane and careful protection out of sources independent of his own earnings." A most just and salutary injunction, highly creditable to the promulgator, and calculated to confer the greatest benefit on the object of it. , We hope it will be obeyed.— A new topic of discontent is alluded to bi oils City article, as now exerting considerable influence among the inhabitants of British India ---native as well as European. It appears that some attempt has been made to levy stamp duties in the East, and that meetings have been held at Calcutta, where the great houses of Alexander and Palmer, supported by the other representatives of the monied and commercial interest of that Presidency, were further aided by natives •of wealth and respectability, mer chants and proprietors of land, in adopting reso lutions expressive of the general repugnance to submit to such unnatural burdens oti A com munity so circumstanced. It would be childish to bring forward the old Stamp Act," which stood so prominent among the causes of our losing North America, for the sake of forcing an apparent parallel between the history of English Government in the East and West. There is little fear that the pfinciples of the British Con stitution will be appealed to by the European subjects of the Company, or that 100,000,000 of Hindoos and Mahornetans will be encouraged by their white neighbours to petition Leadenhall v.reet against the grievance of being taxed without being represented. India is not, as America has been, a colony, but a spoil; and its people have no right to allege, but that which military despotism vouchsafes its humbled ', - ictims. Ne vertheless we may he permitted to question the policy, while we admit the power, of imposing' a. restraint like this in question, which goes directly to retard the growth of a covnerce as yet in the earliest stage of infancy. The recognised source of revenue throughout the Company's domi nions is the land-tax. But Europeans are, on the anti-colonial theory, prohibited from possessing or occupying land : the effect of which is, that little or no increase of produc tion can take place for ages, and little or alo increase of value can be imparted 'to the soil, thus deprived of the improvements which might result to it from affording an example to the natives of what. can be accom plished in all situations by the skill and enter prise of European industry. Under the existing state of India; and the disadvantages to which its a gricultural interests • have been eposed by this • exclusion of the farmer from an acquaintance with more perfect models, and from the benefits cf a more animating and instructive rivalry; there se ems no other channel through which the bulk o f the population can make any advances in the enjoyments or the arts of life, but the circuitous road of external and domestic commerce. The Coisipanv, it must be confessed; have appeared 1.6 look at this great instrument of wealth and eiyililation with no very favourable eye. If their can trade be, as we have heard it strongly as serted, carried on at a loss, amounting in the whole to more, ha half the debt of the Hon. y have taken care to establish laws Company, the and restrictions, under which the monopoly secured to them by charter shall be reaered most as injurious to others as to those for whose sake it was instituted. It is not merely the bar barous inhibition of British subjects from the tea trade enjoyed by the rest of the world which we now refer to, but it is affirmed to us that difficul ties of the most formidable nature are e xperienced by private merchants trading to India, or licensed to reside there, in the pursuit of their same' modes of commercial speculation which have not been denounced by law. Whether this be ss tematic on the part of the Company, we km:sv not, and we hope the reverse ; but the impose tion of novel and annoying duties, such as that which forms the subject of our city article, soikAt furnish uncharitable critics with a pretence fa. clamouring against th e policy of the Directo#, as if it bad really for its design to oppose every impediment, great and small, to_the growth of a commercial interest throughout -their immense . . .. . . • It .is much to be regretted that, on the dif ferent circuits, a greater number of days is not allotted to each town for the trial of the cases fpr the county to which that town belongs, than are at present allowed. At the Assizes of the county of Oxford, which have just concluded, *lr. Baron Vaqghan and Mr. Justice Littledale tbok their seats on Friday last, at eight o'clock i' the morning ; and each continued in Court , — t e one trying civil cases, and the other pri ners—during the whole of the day ; and Mr. Court— elaron Vaughan did not leave the Court till past tOn o'clock at night, while Mr. Justice Littledale sat for more than an hour later ; so that his Lordship did not quit the Shire Hall till nearly li' if-past eleven. That the Learned Judge felt that his own attention wa:s nut wearied out, and at his own faculties were not _exhausted, by f 1 s tting sixteen hours and a half in a close c owded Court, at a temperature of ninety-six d green, of Fahrenheit, we have no doubt, or his ordship, instead .of continuing to try men r capital offences, would have adjourned the .ourt ; but the question is, could the Jury k ep their attention alive for that number o hours in such an atmosphere, or were t ey worn out by the enormous fatigue of their citifies? Early in the day one of the Jury very larly fainted,- and could only be continued in h s place by drinking cold water, and smelling to sal volatile. However, this was not all ; for, after this extreme fatigue, the same Learned Jadge and the same Jury proceeded, at eight o'clock the next morning, to the trial of other uses, and sat in the same heated Court till six iri the evening.--If this were a solitary instance, iti might be attributed .to. au accidental pressure. of business in a particular county. But the filet is, that on the last Circuit several casesswere obliged, after the parties had brought their wit -1 n sses to the place of trial, to remain over to tI e present Circuit, because there was not time f r them to be tried. It may no doubt be said tliat these remanets were all civil cases between p4rty and party ; and that, for a few hundred pounds each, the parties may bring their wit n4sses to an ensuing Assize, and have their cases tried, but that no criminal case was left untried. --True. However, it still appears, that making th trials of cases which involve life and death, rue a race against time, and then be determined b3i Juries, exhausted by sitting fifteen or sixteen h urs a day in a hot Court, is not the best mode of administering criminal justice. If it was laid dclwn that all the prisoners at all Old Bailey Sessions must be tried in three days, or that the 586 cases in Lord. Tenterden's cause paper shbuld be tried in a month—that would be con- sulered absurd : and yet, on a circuit, all the criminal cases in the calendar, be they many or feiv, are disposed of between the commencement of the assize at that town and the day previously appointed for the assize at the next. This is inpre like the bed of Procrustes than might be expected in a country which boasts orits Crimi nal Laws.-11forning Herald. IWe noticed the other day, in the Journal des Debats, a whimsical article, the scope of which was to infer the comparative popularity of the present Ministers and of their predecessors in office, from the number of the London Journals which adhere respectively to each of the two par. ties. The Parisian Editor makes a strong mus. ter; of names in favour of the present Adminis. traction, whose cause he espouses ; but names are not in all cases sufficient, and his argument, if ;,argument it can be called, is obviously erro neous in principle as well as fact ; nor should we have noticed his errors at all, were it not that they afford rather a striking instance of the zeal with which papers and parties in the other European nations, the most opposed to their own respective Governments, think it behoves them to support the British Administration of Mr. Canning And the Whigs. It is at least something new to find the zealous supporters of an English Administration among the most de termined enemies of the Governments with which England is in friendship and alliance. It reminds us of former times, when we thought it our duty, England then being at war with France, to animadvert upon the schemes of the Directory, and to denounce the ambitious pro jects of Nayoleon. It was nasal in that state of affairs that we should so animadvert and so denounce ; and it is equally natural now that the enemies of Government in the abstract should be the fast friends of the present English Admi n.stration. It is impossible not to perceive that Europe, Ea a whole, is interested in the present state of the British Government, and that the question at issue is no less than this, Aether England is to become the rallying point of poli tical disaffection, and the general watch-word of political change, The traitors and the dreamers of the whole world wax bolder and more visionary As they look upon the Government of England, committed as it is to the hands of Mr. Canning .and the Whigs. The spirits of innovation and thedxmons of danger hold just now one uni versal carnival.—Monzing Post. The Gazette of last night, besides the full par ticulars of the, Investiture of the Empei - or of Russia, with the Ensigns of the order of the Garter (which we have given at full length), contains an Order of Council, that the trade and commerce of his Majesty's settlements and terri tories at the Cape of Good Hope, the Island of IVlauritius, Island of Ceylon, New South Wales, and Van Diemon's Land, with the- respective dependencies thereof, shall from the arrival of this present Order within any of those settle ments, be regulated in the manner following All such laws, rules, orders, and regulations, as were in force within the settlements, territo ries, and islands aforesaid, or any of them, for the7regulation of the trade and commerce thereof upon the Ist day of July, in the year one thou sand eight hundred and twenty-five, shall, until further order be made by his Majesty in this behalf, revive and continue, and be of full force, virtue, and effect within the several settlements, territories, and islands aforesaid respectively ; and if any goods shall be imported or exported in aily-manner contrary hereto, such goods, toge• ther with the ship importing or exporting the same, shall incur and become liable to such forfeiture 4' in the said Act of Parliament is mentioned in that behalf."--Ibid. We have to call the attention of our readers to a report in another column, of a charge de livered by Lord Chief Justice Best to the Grand Jury* of Wiltshire. It is altogether a singular outpouring. Upon the Grand Jury it seems to have produced a most powerful effect ; for Mr. Benett, the Chairman, read a resolution, thank ing his Lordship for the charge , and inst r u ctin g their foreman to express to him their earnest re quest, " that he will permit his admirable charge to be printed, in Order that observations so itn portail+ may be generally circulated, and that the public may receive the gratification and advan tage which an acquaintance, with such valuable instruction cannot fail to impart." It is but jus lice to his Lordship to allow, that his charge is very advantageously distinguished from the twaddle that has so frequently been delivered on, similar occasions to gaping clowns from the judgment seat, and that it contains, amidst somequestiona- . - able matter, much good sense conveyed in eloquent language. We willingly do this justice to his Lord ship Lfor though we cannot abet him when he takes a part." in The - strug,gle now carrying on be tween the Press and the Justice of the Coun- tr)L," we shall gladly support. him in his strug gles to dispel error, and to advance the cause of reform. Of late Judges and Magistrates have set themselves; against boxing, with a zeal ap proaching to enthusiasm, and every charge at an Assize of Sessions contained a tirade against the brutalizing practice. Chief Justice Best seems to think that if we do not encourage boxing, we must be prepared for the practice of stabbing. " I cannot but express my regret (he says) that a knife should have been found in the hands of an Englishman, as an instrument of offensive quarrel. It was. formerly the practice in this country, when men fell out, to fight as long as they could, and possibly to do each other as much injury as could be inflicted by the personal strength of the combatants; but they fought in an open, fair, and honourable manner; they took no mean advantages ; they had no recourse to deadly instruments to procure superiority or .to gratify revenge. . . . . I will take care, as long as common assaults are punishable by the law, to visit, with the utmost severity of that law, those who dare to desert that mode of defence which nature. has given, and which time has almost sanctioned in their own country, and who have chosen to adopt that foreign practice of ein ploying instruments of this description against an opponent. Gentlemen, the practice of boxing has often been a subject of discussion in this country ; I must say that it,seems to me a practice that may very advantageously be encouraged to • a limited extent. It is in some sort a law of peace, for it discourages the use of unfair means of at tack ; it prevents malicious retaliation; it• only enables men to employ fairly advantages they may naturally possess, and in the use of whith they are restrained by the point of honour ; and while it encourages a proper English spirit, it prevents courage from degenerating into brutality, and secures men from the treachery and malig nity of those whom they have offended. Though, therefore, I view the prize ring itself as disgrace ful, I cannot but hope to see the old practice of boxing revived among the people of this coun try, as I consider that practice introduces a law of honour among the combatants, which will ef fectually prevent those who observe it from re sorting to instruments of this deadly descrip tion." We confess that we are no great ad mirers of boxing, though it be an English prac tice, and only enables men to employ advantages they may naturally possess ; or of kicking the shins, which is another English practice, en titled to the like praise, dear to the people be yond the Trent. If men, however, will fight, it is better, perhaps, that they should fight in the manner least calculated to do themselves injury. But we do not see the advantage of encotirag - - ing boxing, any more than proscribing it. When the people of a country are addicted to any particular practice, ,such as playing at quarter-staff, or wrestling, or even boxing, we do hot see what business Magistrates have to stir heaven and earth to put down that practice. Men of refined habits will neither box, nor gouge, nor kick shins; but if these practices give pleasure to coarse-minded people, in God's name let them continue to box, and gouge, and kick. Preach against the practices as much as you please; do what you canto instil better ha bits Into the people; but as long as they injure each other by consent, do not attempt to reform them by the terrors of penal law. We are, therefore, neither of the party of those Magi strates who would seek to reform the habits of the people by the lash, nor of the party of those who think it is necessary to" encourage one bad habit as an antidote to 'another still worse. The spirit, however, which dictated the observa tions is deserving of 'praise. It has been too much the practice of late years to make war against all that the people delight in , as dancing , the exhibition of puppet-shows, ,athletic exer cises, &c. merely because the people do de , ';2llt in them. We are glad to hear the Lor' Chief Justice loud in commenJation of Mr. Peel, even at the twelfth hour, and still gladder to find that he concurs with us in thinking that the Ex-Minister has been too cautious in his Reforms—that he has not gone so far as he might have gone. We trust, however, the re mark of his Lordship will not be lost on Mr. Peel's successor. When Judges lament the cau tion of Reforming Ministers, their successors may well take courage. But what gives us most pleasure in his Lordship's charge is, the plain good sense with which he approaches the sub ject of the cause of crime. " I cannot look on the calendar (he says) without being convinced of the melancholy fact, that crime and vice are much extended in this country. I am afraid (he adds) they are not now that peasantry which were formerly called their country's pride." He very sensibly observes, that the eloquence of the Clergy will have but little effect on them, unless aided by other causes, among which he very pro perly includes such wages as they can decently subsist on without parish allowance. " There can he no greater curse befal acountry," he e l oque ntly states, " than that it should be reduced to a state in which the virtue of the peasantry is undermined by the destruction of that self-esteem, and that honest, indus trious, manly pride, which makes a peasant prefer his own exertions to any other mode of obtaining a subsistence.— Unless such are his feelings, the country which be inhabits can never become, or never remain, a great country. Gen tlemen, the greatness of th e countr y does not consist in the extent of its empire, nor ev en in the knowled g e and publi city of useful and orname ntal arts. Such things may be among the proofs of its greatness, but they ar e no t it s cause, nor by them alone can a nation always hope to re main great. A country may truly be said to be great when the mass of the people are in the enjoyment of comfortable and easy circumstances—a state in which alone they can always be expected to he virtuous—and he is the greatest benefactor who lends his aid to introduce such a state among them." We wonder how Mr. Benett, the Chairman of the Grand Jury, whose pamphlet on the ad vantages of keeping the poor on low diet we • lately alluded to, felt when his Lordship deli vered this. We shall return to this important subject, which we fear his Lordship does not fully understand.—Morning Chronicle. It may be recollected that at the promulgation of the Portuguese Charter it was argued by the French Ultra Newspapers, and, among others, by the Quotidienne, that Don Pedro, by the treaty between him and his father, in which it was provided, that Portugal and Brazil should thenceforth remain separate kingdoms,_ had de nuded himself of all authority over the former— that he was incapable either of i giving or taking away its rights and privileges—and that Doi Miguel was, in fact, its lawful Sovereign. This position seems now abandoned as untenable , tint the claim of-Miguel. to the. Regency, under the Charter, seers equally so, It is very justly remarked by. an!evening contemporary, that the abdication of Don Pedro is prospective—that certain conditions are required to render it abso lute, which conditions have not yet been complied with. The actual King of Portugal, therefore, is Don Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, and the In fanta Regent, or_Don Miguel, has no claim to the Regency, or to any other office in the. State, - except in so far as it suits his pleasure, which, in the case of the latter, has been distinctly sig nified by the command given to him to proceed to Brazil. We cannot for a moment suppose that there is any truth in the French accounts of Don Miguel's , claim being supported by Sir William A:Court, although these accounts re ceive countenance from the letter of Abrantes. We are persuaded: that both they and the letter must originate in misconception. England does not, indeed, seek to interfere in the internal ar rangements of her Ally, and if the Emperor should see fit to nominate his brother to the Re gency, the appointment would meet with no op position from. this country ; but to .agree to a claim ostensibly founded on the charter, which, if conceded, would go to deprive the Emperor of his sovereign authority, in virtue of which our troops are now-in Portugal, would be tantamount to the admission of a foreign power.,-New Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Rix 31. IN THE MATTER OF WILLIAM GALLOWAY. Mr. WHITMARSH reminded the Lord Chan cellor that he had made an order o►► Saturday last. respecting the affairs of this gentleman, alleged to be a lunatic. He bad now to move . orP behalf of Mr. Galloway, that his wife, who was in possession of his property, should be restrained from selling or in any way disposing of it. The order of his Lordship already went the length of restraining persons who flack obtained a bill of sale, from proceeding under it, but-Mr. Galloway had reason to fear that his pro perty might be injured by other means, and there- fore this additional application was made. The LORD CHANCELLOR could not see any rea sonable ground for this application. Mr. Galloway was the master of his own property, and if he appre hended that it was in any danger, there was nothing more easy than for him to protect it without the ex traordinary aid of the Great Seal. The shortest and most familiar way seemed to be by sending for a peace officer if any one attempted to remove his property, or otherwise personally to assail him. His Lordship therefore made no order. The COURT was afterwards occupied in hearing motions in causes. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday, Capt. H. Daw son, of the Mary, West Indianian, appeared before the LORD MAYOR, to answer the complaint of a seaman, named Kelly, a native of Ireland, who charged him with a violent assault. The complainant stated; that he had been hired abroad, by the Captain, as steward. On the voyage to this country, the Captain treated him with great severity, without hav ing received the slightest provocation. The Captain, upon one occasion, ordered him to make a fruit-pudding, and ac cused him of theft, because he went to a cupboard, by the advice of one.of the crew, to look for some of the materials. Upon another occasion, the Captain ordered him to make a ship's pie, but the witness not being cook enough to know how to dress up a dainty of the kind, put the matter into the hands of a black boy, who stowed away the crust of the pie at the bottom, and thus prejudiced the meat. For this the complainant said he received some kicks from the Cap tain, who charged him with having jntentionally destroyed the dish, and ordered him to be well scrubbed on the body with a hard brush, and to receive the contents of forty buckets of water. This sentence was put into execution, to the great suffering of the complainant. Some of the crew were produced as witnesses. Some of them witnessed the scrubbing, which was a rough one; others saw the buciiets of water sluiced over the unfortu nate complainant. The Captain said, that having engaged the 'complainant as steward, and being quite disappointed in his estimate of the man's qualifications, he employed him as cook. The complainant, however, proved his unfitness for that office too, and being incorrigibly filthy in his habits, it was ne cessary to have him well scrubbed, it being, in fact, impos sible to pass him on board without offence to one, at least, of the senses. As for the assault, the Captain positively denied having committed any. One of the crew stated, that the complainant was rather filthy, and that the scrubbing was of great use; no blows or kicks were given, to his knowledge. Some of the crew denied that the complainant was a dirty fellow ; his hands might have been soiled, but his flesh, elsewhere, seemed to be as clean as other men's. The Loan MAYOR ordered the Captain to find bail, to meet any charge that might be brought against him at the next Admiralty Sessions, by the complainant. GUILDHALL.—A young man, named Thomas Hef field, was charged with stealing a brown gelding, the pro perty of John Stevens, of Chingford, essex, a biggler.— It appeared that the horse was placed in a field near Gal leywood Common, in the Forest, about ten o'clock at night, on the 25th July, and was missed early the next morning. In the afternoon of the 26th the prisoner brought it to Dixon's Repository, in Barbican, where he ordered it to be put up by auction on Friday last, and sold to the highest bidder. He entered his name as John Linton, of Church street, Bethnal-green. The animal was sold for 30s. to a horse-dealer of the name of Clinsey, who took it into Smithfield-market in the evening, and there it was recog nised and claimed by the prosecutor's brother. The prisoner said that a person had employed him to sell the horse, and promised him five shillings for his trouble. He was to meet him at the Star in the City-road. Upon inquiry being made at the Star Inn, no such person was known there.—The prisoner was remanded. BOW-STREET.--A young man, named Baverstock, residing in Queen-street, Brompton, was charged with having presented a gun at an old lady, named Plummer. —The complainant said, that on Friday evening she was passing through Brompton, when she met the defendant and another young man on the road. The former had a gun in his hand, which he presented at her. She was much alarmed at the sight of the deadly weapon being pre sented at her breast, and when she ventured to remonstrate with the defendant, lie laughed aigter. "Well, (said Sir R. BIRNIE), r don't know that I can punish him for laughing, but the presenting the gun is of more serious importance." " Aye, (replied the old lady) I was much alarmed, and it was at thattime of night that I could make no resistance. I however hastened to the shop of a Mr. Betts, and because I asked for protection; the defendant sent a watchman after me, and I should have been taken to the watch-horse if I had not had a friend in the neighbourhood." The young man, in his defence, said, that he did not present the gun at the complainant. The gun belonged to a young man who was with him, and/it was so much out of repair that it could not be used ; in fact they were then taking it to the gunsmith's. It was true, as he passed the complainant, he held it in the attitude of recovering arms, but he did not present it at her. Sir R. BIRNIE thought it was a most foolish case to be brought before him, and he believed there was not the slightest reason for the complainant -having so much akirmed herself. He, however, advised the defendant to pay the expences, and then he would he discharged. A man, named Stuart, was charged with having threatened to murder his wife. The defendant denied having used the threat, and said it was a conspiracy, set on foot by his wife and another woman, whom his wife wished to have in the house as a companion; and, to gain their point, they had promoted this prosecution, to throw him into prison. The wife declared she was in danger of her life, and she also said that her husband prevented her carrying on her business of a corset-maker, by which she earned 4/. 10s. per week. The husband was committed until he found sureties to keep the.peace. UNION-HALL.---A youdg man, named George Riggs, late servant to Mr. Brunel, the Engineer, was charged with having robbed his, employer of some articles of jewellery and clothes. It appeared that the prisoner was in the habit of dressing himself in the evenings in his master's clothes, and, to be quite the ton, had worn a gold chain and eye-glass, which he found in his master's dress ing-room. Mr. Brunel having been informed of the pri iner's proceedings, waited at home for hint one evening, d discovered, on hi 4 return, that he was rigged out from p to toe in one of his (Mr. Brunel's) suits of clothes. + gold seal and two gold keys bad been missed some time. and they had been seen by some workmen in the prisoner's possession. Prisoner admitted having occasionally slipped on his master's apparel, but denied having stolen any of his property. He was anxious to appear respectable, he said, iu the evenings amongst his friends, and for that pur pbse borrowed the loan of a coat and breeches now and then, as he was partial to a decent turn out. He was re nlanded for further examination. FIELD SPORTS FOR AUGUST. (From the Annals of Sporting.) "It is bland Plenty's season; harvest fields Give up their riches to the general store, Whilst luscious gardens, vineyards hung about With berries, blue and white, attest the power Of Nature's one supreme. Now to the moors Or highland hill and heather hies, right glad, The jolly fowler on ; whilst o'er th'e sea, Bounding in rivalry, gay navies ride, Not in rude war, but sport ; and the brown sod The thin shod hoof of noble-mettled steeds Presses with lightning speed—'tis a brave time We'll learn discourses of it —"—.liNow. has been munificently and compassionately ordained by him " Who bade the Spring to rise, the Summer bloom, Autumn bring fatness, Winter frost and gloom," that every season should produce something to gratify or profit man ; many things which ought to make . him con tented, and happy, and grateful. Leaving every other class of our fellow creatures out of the question, we, who are sportsmen, ought at all events to be cheerful, and because not a month comes round, but it brings for us gratifying employment. It was but an hour ago, comparatively speaking, that we were compelled to lock our fowling pieces in their rests, and now, in a very few days, most of us will be taking them' down, and with our steady pointers and staunch setters, plodding our way to the moors and high lands, and other places where grouse' are fond of feeding; inasmuch as the legal destruction of that exquisite bird, dates its commencement from the 12th of the present month. As yet the " busy bum of preparation "is alone heard, but, upon that day, the mountains of old Scotia will reverberate to the peelings of the deadly tube, and yield hundreds of their winged-occupants to the skill, patience, and perseverance of the trudging southern. During the Month of August, young wild ducks will become strong on the wing, and, in places where they are approachable, will afford amusement with the fowling piece. Now, too, opportunities will be afforded for training end exercising • pointers. Fur those who visit the grouse mountains, or reside in their vicinity, the moors are very eligible for the 'purpose, while' in the enclosed parts of the country, the animal: can he very well exercised on the grass lands, particularly towards the evening, when partridges are generally to be found in the after-grass, where they run a good deal, and thus afford young dogs the best possible opportunity of acquiring a correct knowledge of their business, and of becoming in a short time steady. Upon the Turf, the spirited amusement to which it gives birth, still continues, and will be followed for some months longer. The most interesting events of those meetings which have come off will be found in the body of our work, and the results of all in our turf record. That most manly and very ancient game, Cricket, was never more in favour than now. Some very excellent matches, in all parts of England, have been played during July, and many Others have been advertised for the month upon which we are about to enter. Of the more interesting of the former we have furnished ample details; and those of the latter worthy particular notice, shall receive it at our hands. Lord Bacon has wisely said,----indeed, all his sayings smacked of wisdom,—that " walled towers, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horses, chariots of war, ar tillery, and the like, all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin, except the breed and disposition of the people be stout and warlike," therefore we rejoice, that besides the athletic game we have above spoken of, wrestling, and boat and sailing matches, are receiving such an encourag ing share of effective patronage. Those are the pastimes that make a people hardy, at the same time that they make them happy. They form, too, a species of athletic, or gymnastic (if the word be preferred), education, which will combine to form effective defenders in the hour of England's need, invincible protectors to man in the trial hour, should it unfortunately come again, the wooden walls of old England ; or 464 i, and maintain her red-cross banner in the field of military renown. " Honour rewards the brave and bold alone.; She spurns the timorous, indolent, and base." These, then, not to dwell upon others of minor, but yet satisfactory import, are still the sports which remain with us. May each of our readers, and every other good sports man beSides, possess health, strength, and the means to enjoy them ; convinced that such pastimes are a myriad odds above those more effeminate enjoyments, those " sleepless midnights, noisy routs That turn our skins to parchment." PENSIONS TO AUTHORS. (From the Furet de Londres.) The following list of the pensions granted by Louis XIV. in 1663, to the men of letters.of that time, has fallen into our hands. This list is curious, from the comment which is attached to each name ; we transcribe it without alteration : To M. Pierre Corneille, first dramatic poet of the world fr. 2,000 To M. Desmarets, the most fertile •f authors, and endowed with the finest imagination ever pos- sessed by man V 1,200 To M. the Abbe de Pure, a writer of history, in pure and elegant Latin l,OOO To M. Menage, an excellent critic of dramatic pieces 2,000 To M. Corneille, jun. a good French dramatic poet 1,000 To M. Moliere, an excellent comic poet l,OOO To M. Benseiade, a very agreeable French poet 1,500 To Father I.ecointre de l'Oratoire, an able historian 1,500 To M. the Abbe Cothin, French orator To M. Vallier, having a perfect knowledge of the Arabic To Mr. Perrier, a Latin poet BOO To M. Racine, a French Poet..., BOO To M. Chapelaine, the greatest French Poet that ever existed, and the one possessing the most solid judgment To M. the Abbe Cassagne, a Poet, Orator, and Professor of Theology To M. Perrault, clever at Poetry and the Belles Letters 1,500 To M. Mezerai, Historian 4,000 After reading this list, where Racine has much less than Chapelain, and where Moliere is placed on a level with the Abbe de Pure, it must be confessed, that authors of the present day know their interest better than those of old : poor Racine, too, must be pitied, when we reflect, that the most trifling melodrame brings more money to its author than Athalie did to him. SINGULAR CUSTOM IN RUTLANDSHIRE. While the Court was going through the dull detail of the every-day evidence in these two cases, my attention was drawn to divers pieces of brass and gilded iron in the shape of- horse-shoes, but much largtr, nailed up to the wall of the old Court-house, which is a sad building for the capital of the county of Rutland. Upon inquiry, I was informed that it was customary from an early period for the lords of the castle (in which the Court-house is contained) to demand from every Nobleman on his first passing through, the fore shoe from his horse, to be nailed upon the castle gate as a mark of territorial jurisdiction. The bailiff of the manor has improved the custom much to his own advantage, as is often the case when the real purpose for which a custom is first instituted ceased to exist. This gentleman is pro vided with horse-shoes of every size, and to save the trouble and delay of unshoeing, promptly fur nishes one of dimensions just commensurate with the travelling Peer's generosity. The largest shoe (after the Prince Regent's) is that of the Duke of York, dated 1788. There are shoes from the Dukes of Cumberland, Gordon, Buccleugh, Leinster, &c.; the Earls Lonsdale, Aylesford, &c. ; Lords Darnley, Brownlow, &c. FEMALE FASHIONS FOR AUGUST. • (From Ackerman's Rejaiository of Arts, Fashion's, pc.) PROMENADE DRESS.—Gros de Naples dress of fawn colour, made high and easy, with a little fullness in the centre of the front and back set in, in the band round the waist. The sleeves are large and full, and fastened at the wrist by black velvet bracelets, with amulet clasps. The skirt is ornamented with a broad. ribbon, en carri, of the same colour, above a deep flounce, with small scollops at the edge, pinked; the ribbon, en carre, is repeated, and beneath is a drapery spread out at the top and bottom like a fan,. drawn to gether in the centre, and confined by a bow. Large circular vandyked collerette of French cambric, beautifully worked; and tied at the throat with azure gauze ribbon ; the ends are very long,.and each terminated by a bow: worked vandyke cuffs of French cambric. EVENING DRESS.--3rESS of white crape over a white satin slip ; the corsage is made slightly full and rather high, with a narrow tucker of folded crepe lisse. The sleeves are extremely short and full, and ornamented with three ser pentine scrolls, formed of oval rose-colour puffs, large at the shoulder, where they commence, and gradually decreasing to a point. .The front of the dress is decOrated by three wreaths of rose colour laureMeaVes, beginning at the row of leaves that surrounds the top of the bust ; they approximate at the waist, extend and rather en large as they descend, : and form the upper part of the bdrder of the skirt. The centre wreath•passes beneath, and unites the base of the serpentine ornaments, formed of oval puffs placed together as on the sleeve, only considerably .larger; the centre scrolls meet in an elegantlorMinfrOnt,' and are united by a fancy cross ; small circular spots are dispersed between the laurel and about the border ; the skirt is terminated by a double row of vandyke rose-colour satin. • • LONDON MARKETS. (From the . Neu' London Price Current of Tuesday.) S uaa rt.-The late large arrivals have prevented trans actions to any extent. Few purchases were effected, in the anticipation of a large 'show this week; the holders, heWever, did...not give way; the prices were unvaried ; the sales averaged about '7OO hogsheads each day. In the Re fined Market last week, the transactions were not extensive, and the prices were but little varied. FOREIGI4 SUGAR. -The purchases effected by private contract dnring the last week were about 500 chests Ha vannah, low mid. to `mid. white, 48s. to 50s. ;good, 525. ; yellow, 40s. ,By public sale above 1,100 chests brown and yellow Havannah were offered, and nearly all with drawn ; they appeared to be taken in rather above the market currency; some damaged sold 369. 6d. to 375. EAST INDIA SUGARS.-The sale of the 17,000 bags at the East India House went off with great briskness--the prices were fully maintained. The two sales of Mauritius Sugar, 3,400 bags, sold freely at former prices; . dry brown, 60s. to 635. ; yellow, 645. to 6'7s. The market of this day, up to one o'clock, was heavy, and the prices were the same as on the last market day. TEA.-Bohea per lb. •Is. 7d. to Is. 101 d. ; • Hyson per lb. ss. to ss. 4d. ; Congou 2s. 6d. to 3s. 044. ; ' , bung Hyson 3s. 6d. to 3s. 11d. This market continues steady. COFFEE.-The Coffee market was steady in price at the opening of the market this day. During the whole of the last week there was rather a heaviness, and a large pro portion of the quantity brought forward at public sale was taken in-Ood ordinary Domingo at 455. SPICES.-The demand for Spices has considerably sub sided, and the prices are again rather lower. At public sale last week, above 400 bags unsifted Pepper sold from tid. to 4-Id; ; the sifted was withdrawn.---Nutmegs, which were at 3s. 11d. to 4s. 3d., are to-day 3s. 9d. to 49. Rog, BRANDY, ♦ND HOLLANDS. -The contract for 100,000• galls. Rum was taken at 2s. I id. Th e re are buyers of Leewards at 2s. 2d., sellers at 2s. 3d., but little doing. In Brandy or Geneva no alteration. TOBACCO.-The purchases lately are quite inconii; derable ; there have been many inquiries, but we believe few actual sales have taken place. Ous.-The first accounts of the success of this year's Greenland Fishery were yesterday received ; they were favourable, but as a few vessels went to that Fishery (the great proportion having gone to Davis's Straits) no effect was produced on the Market.-Spermaceti and Rape Oils are considerably higher. SALTPETRE..-The demand for Saltpetre has in some degree subsided, but the late prices are maintained. TURPENTINE.-There has been some demand for Tur pentine ; the new sold at 145., old 13s. INmoo.-This market continues steady. The last sales at Liverpool went off at full prices. An advance of front 4d. to 6d. per lb. has been realised, but this'advance is not general. COTTON.—The Cotton market last week was steady, but without briskness. The purchases are about 3,000 bags, the prices unvaried. PROVISIONS.—In Beef or Pork there is little alteration ; negociations for the sale of parcels of Foreign have com menced, but we believe no actual sales have yet been made. Bacon continues in demand. Butters are lower ; the ar rivals last week are 9,100 casks from Ireland, and of Fo reign about 5,400 casks. HOPS.—Kent pockets, 4/. to 4/. 15s. ; Sussex poe kets, 3/. 12s. to 4/. 4s. ; Kent bags, 3/. ss. to 4/. 4s. ; Sussex bags, 2/. 199. to 31. 14s. The accounts from the Hop districts continue favour able. Where the bines are strong they are advancing rapidly, and show burr where they are weakly. It is thought that the season will be two or three weeks later than last year. The price of Hops remains nominal. The duty varies from 106,0001. to 110,000/. The latter, how ever, is now the nearest estimate. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. I Barlay. I Oats. I Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. Canterbury —,— 50 65 39 45 31 39 44 50 Grantham - . 6l 65 42 26 36 53 62 Grimsby 59 62 25 40 26 30 57 59 Horncastle . 57 60 40 42 30 34 58 62 Lincoln 56 61 32 56 58 60 Maidstone . 50 65 35 28 32 48 49 58 60 40 44 54 56 54 €3 39 40 28 31 WAKEFIELD CORN MARK .-Jury 2'7. The supply of Wheat here to-day is large, a consider iedi n a .. l . t . e ..y rid m i s n . to va s lr able part of which is of the released Foreign—the weath 4 - having been wet yesterday, with an appearance of remain ing unsettled, the sellers asked more money for good Wheat, but have not been able to realize it, and the mar ket concluded heavily at the rates of last week. Oats are plentiful, and suppert last Friday's prices. Sh e lli ng f u ll tr al o t lk a , re ß -----,--- 'fine fits. White.... 565. to 61s. fine 635. ---- Yorkshire, Lincoln, &c. Red... 535. to 595. fine 595. White 575. to 60s. fine fits. • ----- Foreign, Reu sos to 565. fine,sBs. as Wheat,tiear. N B: 4 ns andand Suffolk, Barley, Ncrfolk and Suffolk -- - Lincolnshire —s. to —s. fine —s. Yorkshire Wold . —3. to —s. fine —s. Beans, Small Lick 50s. to 51s. fine 525. Oats, Poland and Potato 'ins. to 335. fine 315. ---,- Friezland and Small 23s. to 255. fine 30e. Mealing l3ld. to 151 d. per Stone. Shelling 345. to 379...-3. to --s. per Load, Malt 37s. 465. fine 48s. per Load. Rapeseed BIRTHS. On the 29th ult. the wife of Dr. rnitb, Bloomsbury square, of a son. On the SOth ult., in John-street, Bedfbrd-row, Mrs. Mackarness, of a son. At Cherry-cottage, 'Woolwich, Mrs. W. Hudson, of a daughter. Yesterday, at Croydon, Mrs. Thomas S. Carter, of a daughter. MARRIED. j On the 28th ult., at Maidstone, by the Rev. M. Miller, Lieut.-Colonel Tod, lath of the 29th Foot, to Miss Hills, of Romney-place. On the 80th tilt., at Brighton, George Hillhouse, Esq of Comte-house, Bristol, to Agatha, daughter of R. Bar clay, Esq., of Dorking. DIED. On the 29th ult. at Brighton, Mrs. J. French, foßnerly of Fitzroy-street. On the 26th ult. at Sturkeridge-house, near Tiverten v Mrs. J. Milner, aged 36. PRINVID and PUNLISHID by M. YOUNG, at the SoN-Orrict, No. 112, sttand. v; For 3 Conn Poop Fo Corn Has FOF man Doc: gers, AC so; Lyii Poo and Put CO rest ope BE nun