The Sun. — London, England, 1827-07-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. W e do not recollect what exact amount of the public money has been appropriated by Parlia ment to the repairs, or nominal repairs, of the former Buckingham-house, but it is very cer tain, and not a little deplorable, that further sums will yet be required towards getting rid of some portion of those repairs, or amending those professed amendments of the late Queen Charlotte's Palace. The people of England have paid before now for frivolous and useless undertakings—for mean jobs—for thriftless and foolish quackeries of various descriptions—poli tical, military, naval, architectural ; but surely such a job as this new erection, or fabrication, or whatever it may be, under the name of a re building of Buckingham-house, was never before inflicted on a community who had eyes to see with. Let any man just pass along Piccadilly from west to east, or traverse the diagonal of the Green-park from Hyde-park-corner to the elegant and well-proportioned mansion built for his Royal Highness the late Duke of York, and let our pedestrian glance as he proceeds at the intended abode of Royalty ; we are satisfied t 9 let any such spectator determine whether a mass of deformity more hideous ever met his offended eye than the whole northern profile of the new Buckingham Palace ! What the centre of the main front may look like, when the scaf-. folding shall be removed, we cannot now antici pate ; but of the parts which are visible from the point to which we have before alluded, it may be said with truth, that nothing similar exists, or ever has existed, since architecture became a science. Three or four lumps or knobs protrude themselves, not unlike so many carbuncles on the proboscis of a bloated visage, with no link of relationship be tween them, or of connection with the edifice of which they are said to be members ; nor is there the least symptom of individual beauty vi sible in these extraordinary excrescences, to re deem their apparent alienation from the body of the building itself. Naked gables—unadorned cubes—one eliptical elevation, somewhat like an half egg-shell rising above the cup—and a gene ral air of crowding and confusion, without one particle of majesty or magnificence, are all that can at present be descried of that edifice which will have cost almost its weight in gold, and which Wi' 4 announced to be a noble and eminent retuf;ation of the ancient reproach to the metro olis of England, that it contained no decent ha bitation for the King. This heap (for it is no thing better) presents what has not been often equalled in works which pretend to be works of art,—a mixture of magnitude and meanness, of laboriousness and insignificance, of intricacy and poverty, of frivolous caprice with heavy and lum bering vulgarity. No professional or educated mind could ever have produced such a piece of monstrous meagreness. Mr. Nash, who is really a man of talent, disavows all participation in it. We do trust that where so many hundred thqusand pounds have been misapplied, and where still more must be sunk in attempting to cure the misapplication, some responsible person may be forthcoming. If intermeddling or dicta tion has been suffered from an irresponsible guar. tet . , there is no language strong enough to ex press our contempt for the unmanly servility which has endured it.—Times. In the History of the War in the Peninsula under Napoleon, a posthumous work of the late General Foy, of which the translation of the fir..,t volume has just appeared, some severe strictures are passed on the Duke of Wellington in his military capacity. " The glory of the British army (says General Foy) has arisen principally from its excellent discipline, and from the cool and steady bravery of the people. The military commands may be distribued with impunity, according . to combinations or Parliamentary in fluence ; it is the army which, of all others, can most easily dispense with extraordinary talent. The officers who have returned from the wars of Portugal and Spain, while they areloud and un animous in doing justice to the prudence and intrepidity of their leader, allow him the posses sion of no quality which eminently distinguishes him from the other conspicuous Generals of their nation. While they extol his characteristic firm ness, which from an early period liberated him from the trammels of responsibility, they have nothinc , to say in praise of the resources of his under standing, or the productions of his genius. We have heard it asserted by men whose opinion is not without weight, that there were twenty officers (and to mention only some of those who served in this war, Picton, Crawford, and Sir George Murray), any one •of whom would have com manded with as much, and perhaps with more, ability and success tha'.n Wellington, if they had had the same soldiers under them, the same pas sions to work upon, the same immense re sources at command, and above all, the same certainty of support from the favourable dispositions of the Administration. .. • • • • An English army left entirely to itself might conquer, but it would never know how to turn a victory . to advantage ; if, however, it happened to be itself defeated at a distance from its point of departure, it would experience not merely a check, but the most dreadful of all calamities. In writing the History of the War in the Penin sula—that war in which the English hatred to Buonaparte showed itself so strongly—we shall have occasion to show how nearly the army of Great Britain had; more than once, met with such a catastrophe as would not have allowed a man to escape to carry the news of it to London. As we have already said, such a system circum scribes the talent of the General. His first duty is to be careful of the machine committed to his charge, completely wound up so as not to wear it out by useless or extraneous movements. In his eyes the plans of operation will never have several aspects. A sound, but limited, judg ment will be sufficient to direct him in the means of execution ; he will prefer the defensive, which avails itself of all that has been foreseen, to the offensive, which, by its uncertain chances, re quires more frequently the resources of genius. The war will be reduced to a series of bold strokes. In the eyes of an English General, perfection of the art consists in bringing into the field fresh an d well-conditioned I troops, in - . posting them advantageously, and then coolly waiting for the enemy's attack. On the day of our disaster, we saw these sons of Al bion formed in square battalions in the plain be tween the Wood of Hougoumont and the vil lage of Mount -St. Jean. To effect this compact formation they had doubled and redoubled their ranks several times. The cavalry which sup ported them was cut to pieces, the fire of their artillery completely silenced. The General an d Staff Officers were gallopping from ont square to another, not knowing where to find shelter.-- Carriages, wounded men, parks of reserve, and auxiliary troops, 'were all flying in disorder towards Brussels. Death was before them, and in their ranks ; disgrace in their rear. In this terrible situation, neither the bullets of the Im perial Guard, discharged almost point blank, nor the victorious cavalry of France, could make the least impression on the immovable British in fantry. One might have been almost tempt ed to fancythat it had rooted itself in the ground, but for the majestic movement which its battlions commenced some minutes after sun-set, at the moment when the approach of the Prussian Army apprised Wellington that—thanks to numbers, thanks to the force of inert resistance, and as a reward for having contrived to draw up brave fellows in battle—he had just achieved the most decisive victory of our age.”—General Foy would seem to limit the merit of the Duke of Wellington to strength of purpose and te nacity, virtues which the qualities of English troops enabled him to turn to account. It would be presumption in us to offer an opinion on a subject so foreign to our pursuits ; but there are individuals in this country entitled to pronounce between General Foy and the subject of his criticism. It certainly has always appeared una countable to us, how a man, who, out of the military profession, appears almost destitute of penetration, should, in that profession, have dis played talents of the highest order. But we leave it for competent judges to pronounce whe ther General Foy has solved the enigma.— Morning Chronicle. Lord William Bentinek, it is now confidently affirmed, is to be the new Governor-General of India ; and a less exceptionable appointment, we believe, could not be made. It is said that the Marquis of Anglesea refused both this and the Vice-royalty of Ireland ; a circumstance, if true, which no one can wonder at, for who is there, situated as the Noble Marquis is (as to loss of limb in particular), who would not rather enjoy the income, the honour, and patronage of the Board of Ordnance, than any appointment, how ever splendid, which would remove him from the seat of Government, his family, his estates, and connections ? Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, it is also said, is to proceed on a Foreign Embassy, some say to Vienna ; and his place of Paymaster of the Forces to be supplied by another Whig—Mr. Calcraft. These same Whigs, by the bye, are rapidly realising all that we have said of them, especially as regards their attachment to the sweets of office. They are not the kind of people, it is clear, who feel any inclination to work for no thing ; or who are, in other words, followers of virtue merely for virtue's sake. We should be obliged to any Correspondent who would be at the trouble to furnish us with a list, in number and amount, of the good things which have already fallen to their share ; that the public might have a bird's-eye view of the difference between economy and reform in theory and in practice. At any rate, we trust soon to see an end to this struggling for places. Since the first dawn of Mr. Canning's Adminis tration we have heard every thing of men, but nothing of measures ; as if the whole skill of Government consisted of arranging, oiling, and feeding the machinery. We are far from saying that public men should not be rewarded for their services ; but unfortunately, the standard in such matters seems too often to be, not how a man may be tit for a place, but how far the place may suit the hungry applicant for it. We can ima gine nothing more revolting or degrading to an honourable mind than to be constantly beset, as men high in office are, by applicants out of num ber, for every species of public employment and sinecure, from the highest to the lowest. To such .a pitch is this carried, that we have to doubt that, were a Prime Minister to give way to it, his whole time might be occupied in recei ving and answering such applications . ; the whole or greater part of which, after all, he has little or no freedom of controul over, but is obliged to dovetail them so as to fall in with party sup port in or out of Parliament. This is an evil which will probably never be wholly cured. But a Minister who wished to become truly popular could not take a more effectual step towards that end than by showing his contempt of such means of support—at all events, as far as appointing persons to offices who possess no other fitness or recommendation than their connections. Judg ing by too many of the appointments of the second grade, at least, lately made, and others with which the country is threatened, we cannot say that Mr. Canning has shown the courage necessary to carry into effect the principle we are contending for. But again we would say, let this unseemly haggling for profit and place have an end ; let the country see in high places some symptoms of that self-devotion and self-denial which alone constitutes the ground-work of real ; patriotism ; but while the ravenousness of the Stock Exchange and the Western Hells charac terizes those who profess to serve their country, it is in vain for the country to expect long to maintain its hitherto high and enviable rank among nations ; for if the source be impure and selfish, the stream will be corrupt and muddy, and, in their outlet, poisonous to the ocean. — Morning Herald. On the 14th May last, a paragraph appeared in the Morning Chronicle, of which the fol lowing is a copy: " According to the usual custom, consequent on a new Administration, there is to be a new creation of Peers. The following wealthy individuals are among the persons named for this honour :—Mr. Alexander Baring, Mr. Watts Russell, Lord Sefton, Sir Thomas Acland, Mr. Portman, Sir George Warreniler, Colonel Hughes, and that steady and inflexible patriot, Mr. Coke, of Norfolk." In the evening of the same day, Mr. Hume made ..some remarks in the Commons on the propriety of no persons being created Peers who had not fortunes to support their dignity, and also regretted that there was no law for depriving those of their titles who were no longer capable of maintaining them. Mr. Canning, in noticing that Mr. Hume 's speech bore all the characters of irregularity—no uncommon thing with the Hon. Ex-Rector—insomuch as it was neither a question, a motion, nor a notice of motion, al luded to certain rumours in which it might be supposed to originate. This, however, Mr. Hume pointedly denied, and assured the House that he spoke without the slightest allusion to any report that had gone abroad, and on general principles only. Mr. Canning's observation on this expla nation of Mr. Hume, we find thus given in the New Times of the 15th May : " Mr. Canning said, he was glad of the Hon. Member's explanation, as he had conceived he had alluded to some most ridiculous but mischievous reports of what were his intentions in that respect. They were circulated by cer tain individuals for the purposes of delusion ; but they were, he could assure the House, without one syllable of truth." That Mr. Canning did not, and could not, allude to any Report, but that which the Morn ing Chronicle had lent its columns to circulate, is abundantly obvious, from the circumstance both of the publication being made that day, and from its being the first time that the rumours of a new creation of Peers had been distinctly em bodied in the shape of an annonce. Among other pieces of intelligence communicated by the Gazette, of Friday last, our readers were in formed of the elevation of Lord Binning to the Peerage of Great Britain. We do not mean to dwell on his Lordship's claims, from the high respectability of his family, and from the num ber of years that he devoted his talents to the support of his Majesty's Government,. to a dis tinction which he certainly shares with many meaner men ; all that we should wish our readers to remark is, that Lord Binning's name does not figure in the paragraph YThich we have quoted above. That it must have been prophe tically understood by the House as included in Mr. Canning's disclaimer, is obvious, however, from the following remarks of another morning contemporary : " When allusion to this and some other intended crea tions (which will, doubtlessly, soon follow) was made by Mr. }Mine in the House of Commons, Mr. Canning de clared the report to be ' not only wild and idle, but, at the same time, most mischievous—circulated, as he well knew, to create that very mischief ; a report in which there was not one syllable of truth.' Let the veracity of this solemn assertion be judged of by the official statement in a pre ceding part of our Paper of this day, of Lord Binning being raised to the Peerage, under the very title we some days ago announced ! ! When, in the first instance, we ventured to express a doubt in regard to the assertion of Mr. Canning, that ' there was not a syllable of truth in the report of the day,' we were most vigorously assailed by some of our contemporaries, who, in terms the most unceremonious, repeated, from authority, the positive con tradiction of the Prime Minister ! For the present, we deem it unnecessary to offer ' a single syllable' of comment upon this candid and most honourable species of conduct on the part of the Prime Minister of England and his obedient supporters." is remarked by nosologists that there are certain states of the human body in which, what ever enters it, is converted into poison. The state of the political stomach of the opponents of Ministry seems at present in this very lament able 'condition. It matters not what be the sim plicity or truth of the aliment received, as it is sure, in the process of digestion, to become tor tuous and false. The above is a fair specimen of the disease. First of all, poor Mr. Hume is charged with making allusions, which he most directly and pointedly denied the slightest intention of making. Secondly, he is charged with making allusions to Lord Binning, to whom, without the second sight, with which we have never heard the Honourable Mem ber for Aberdeen charged, he could not al lude, for the plainest of all reasons, that not even the Chronicle had once hinted a syl lable about him. Thirdly, Mr. Canning, and—" this is the unkindest cut of all"—we ourselves, one of " his obedient supporters," as our contemporary terms us, are charged with want of candour and want of honour, and we don't know what, because Mr. Canning said, and we. repeated, that " Mr. A. Baring, Mr. Watts Itlissell, Lord Sefton, Mr. Portman, Sir T. Acland, Sir G. Warrender, Colonel Hughes, and that steady anU inflexible Patriot, Mr. Coke, of Norfolk," were not to be made Peers, although rumour had said they were. Now, since not only have not these gentlemen been sent up en masse to the House of Lords, which was the rumour to which Mr. Canning was replying, but not one of .them has, up to this mo ment, travelled that way, we do humbly sub mit that the charges of want of candour, &c., are not fairly made out. Had they come from any other quarter, we should hardly have noticed these charges ; but we have a kindness for our contemporary which we can not shake off; notwithstanding all his late vagaries. Like Pope, we would not wish even an old post to be pulled up that we had long known. We do, therefore, sincerely wish and hope that our contemporary w ill yet be brought to see the error of his ways, and to resume the settled habits that so long distinguished him ; in short, that he will relinquish the office of a flying post, for which he is nowise fitted, and content himself, as of old, with standing by the way side and pointing the right road to those who are not too old and too feeble to travel in it.----New Times. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT TILDESLEY BANKS. Yesterday (Friday) morning, about six o'clock, a most appalling and fatal accident took place at Mr. Thomas Kearsley's mill, at Tildesley Banks, about four miles beyond Worsley, by the bursting of a steam engine boiler. It would appear that the engineer, who has himself fallen a prey to his own forgetfulness, in setting the engine to work, had omitted to turn one of the two valves. which admit the steam from the boiler to the engine; and finding that the engine was not going at the proper speed, was continually stirring up the fire in order to increase the power of the steam, which, having only one valve to escape by, was increased to such an extent as to blow the boiler to pieces, and to throw down a great part of the building, burying in- its ruins the engineer and 17 girls, who were employed as reelers in the upper most story of the building. Of these, the engineer and seven of the girls were taken out dead, and se veral others so severely injured that two of them are since dead, and another so much bruised as to be despaired of. The following is a list of the sufferers : William Guest, the engineer, dead; Sarah Cun liffe, dead; Mary Moscoff, dead; Helen Schofield,. dead; Jane Seddon, dead; Betty Davies, dead; Grace Hampson, dead ; Mary Kay, dead ; Ann Marsh, since dead; Margaret Hilton, since dead; Sarah Morris, severely injured—no hope of recovery ; Mary L e e, dangerously hurt ; Mary Barker, dange rously hurt ; Judith Atkin, dangerously hurt; M try Yates, slightly injured; Betty Fligginson, do.; Betty Gerrard, do.; Helen Yates, do. The building forms as it were two sides of a triangle, the one side about 150 feet long, the other about 90. The shorter side has only been recently built, and was not finished in the inside, there being neither floors nor machinery in it, with the excep tion of the room on the fifth. story, where the girls were, and one in the second story, both of them having communications with.the old building, and being situated directly above the steam-boiler. The angle where the buildings join and in which these room s were situated, to the width of each building, by the dreadful explosion, is now a heap of rubbish, the outer walls and the end wall of the new building having been levelled with the ground. Within the end wall, which is thrown down, there was an in ner wall, at the distance of three yards, b e tween which it was intended to erect another boiler ; the greater part of this wall has been forced down also. The windows of the new building have been all, more or less, damaged, and several have been com pletely blown out, some of them even at the oppo site end of the building, although, from the want of flooring, and the consequent roominess, it might have been supposed the concussion would have been but slightly felt. Although the mass of the build ing with which the girls were carried to the ground, seems to have fallen almost perpendicularly, a few single bricks and slates were impelled to the dis tance of thirty yards. The engineer had been on his way to examine the boiler at the time the explo sion took place, and was found half wit hi n the door of the engine-house, having been forced over back wards.—There were usually eighteen girls in the reeling-room ; but one of them, the sister of one of those killed, had fortunately just gone into the mill, and thus escaped the fate which a waited her com panions. A like fortunate circumstance saved the life of the man who is generally at work in the room just over the engine. The noise occasioned by the explosion is described by those who were neur, as like the hissing noise made by afterwardsas steam em first escapingsomething In e l th ou I from g d an aperture, and immediately report like the discharge of a can non. It was distinctly heard at the distance of three miles ; some say they heard it at Irlant—a distance of six miles.—Manchester Gazette. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—On Saturday, Henry Solo mons, an aged man, father of the Ikey Solomons after whom the Police-officers have been some time in pursuit, was brought before the LORD MAYOR under the following circumstances : When it was known that lkey Solomons had escaped from the Newgate-keepers, Mr. Cope, accompanied by some of the inferior officers, went to search all the places where they thought it was possible the fugitive might be con cealed. It has been a practice with knowing thieves of late, to hide, when they know they are " wanted," in the very spots where a person would never think of looking for them—namely, in their own, or in their relations' houses. Mr. Cope went to old Solomons' house, 24, Gravel lane, Houndsditch, and determined to ransack every part of the habitation. He saw no person in the house except Ikey's mother, who said that she knew nothing about the matter at all. Upon looking over the property concealed in the house, he found a number of gold and silver watches, and other articles of considerable value. He immediately took them to the Mansion-house, and the Lord Mayor or dered that they should be advertised, and tha t there should _ _ be a look-out after old Solonsons. • On Friday, the prisoner was taken into custody at the 1 west end of the town ; and as there appeared an owner for the watches, au examination took place on Saturday. Mr. George Grant stated, that he lived at No. 2, Wil borough-street, and that lite had a shop in Chancery-lane for the sr.le of watches, &c. Be was in the habit of leaving the shop at about half-past nine o'clock at night, and he returned to business next morning at nine. On the 24th May he left his shop at the usual hour in a complete state of security as he thought. The LORD MAYOR asked the prosecutor whether he had left any body behind him to take care of the chop? The prosecutor replied in the negative. He had fastened all the windows and doors, and he did not think it possible for any one to get in without the key. When, however, h e went next morning to business, he found that the next house, which was empty, had been broken into by thieves, and that they had cut away a pannel in the party wall, whicit was made of wood, and got into his shop, and re moved every thing they could lay hands upon. Upon seeing the advertisement in the newspapers, he went to see the articles, and found that almost all the property he had lost was in the possession of Mr. Cope. Mr. Cope stated that he found the six gold watches and eleven silver watches in the house of the prisoner on the day after the robbery. The Loan MAYOR asked the prisoner whether he tvi.died to say any thing. Solomons said that he would leave his defence to his solicitor. The solicitor desired him not to say any thing. There would be, he added, a complete answer to the charges at the Old Bailey. Upon the person of the prisoner were found a watch, and 20 sovereigns, and 45 duplicates of the dates of 1819 and 1821.—Committed for trial. Lyon Lyons was charged with having received a quan tity of broad cloth, the property of Mr. Waller. Other articles which had been stolen were also found on the pre mises of the prisoner, in Cock-and-Hoop-court, Hounds ditch. Some of the property being identified, the prisoner was committed for trial. He had previously borne a most excellent character. The Loan :Maros, incidentally, in the course of these examinations, expressed his astonishment at the extraor dinary conduct of men of business, who, notwithstanding the daily occurrence of robberies, left the most valuable pro perty merely under lock and key in uninhabited houses. Complaints had been made fo him several times of the in activity of the police-officers, by persons whose houses had been robbed, but he found, that whenever be asked under whose care the houses were which had been broken open, he was uniformly told—under nobody's. The most extensive dealers in stolen goods have been, by the vigilance of the City Officers, almost entirely defeated in their object. A thousand eyes are fixed upon the move ments of persons in the neighbourhood. In fact, since the prosecution of Dudfield, the thieves have foind greater difficulty in getting the " swagg" off their hands than pre viously. That notorious " fence " was in the habit of employing pedlers to carry the produce of his labours about town and country. It is known, that soon after the last successful plunder of silks, the pedlers were better supplied with that commodity than many of the small shops. The present Lord Mayor has ordered that the police shall direct their most especial attention to houses of the description to which those examinations allude, where the bargain between a thief and a fence seldom occupies more time than a few seconds, and ti." T a h th e e briin p :L ty o o f ft rr u ece nd i e v r e g rr hoWeevirr,geis"easilnity adopted, and the police have found that the moment any very extensive fence is " pulled," and likely not to re commence business, another starts up with full accom • plishments for the trade. Some receivers have been known to export cart-loads of goods the 'very day on which they were stolen. GUILDHALL.—On Saturday Richard Coster was brought before Mr. Alderman Warrraraw for final hear ing, on suspicion' of uttering a forged acceptance for 354/., to Mr. Burke, of Cork, in payment for a quantity of feathers. Mr. Gates, the solicitor for the prosecution, stated that the prisoner had been remanded on the evidence of Mr. Burke, that he believed the acceptance to be forged, and he had been allowed until this day to go over to Ireland and obtain such evidence as would set the question at rest. He had returned with Mr. Power, the alleged acceptor, who would admit the genuineness of the document, and be (Mr. Gates) therefore had nothing further to press against the prisoner. Mr. Power was then called into the witness-box, but Mr. Beresford, the Chief Clerk, objected to taking any minutes of his testimony, on the ground that he was not cempetent to give evidence, having an interest in the bill. Mr. Harmer, for the prisoner, concurred with the Chief Clerk that he was not competent to give evidence. Mr. Gates conceived the Magistrate might legally examine him. Mr. Power was certainly the most likely person to know if the acceptance was or was not written by him. It was immaterial to him (Mr. Gates) whether this gen tleman's evidence was taken, as the prosecutor was now satisfied the acceptance was not forged, and withdrew his complaint. Mr. Fitzgerald, a solicitor engaged for Mr. Power, said, his evidence was clearly a dmissible in this case. If an ac.• ceptor comes forward to say this is a good bill, he does that to his own prejudice, or at least it is clear his interest has no influence upon his evidence. Mr. Harmer would not admit that a person's evidence could be received if he swore one way, and rejected if he went the other. He was either wholly competent, or wholly incompetent. However, he did not object to Mr. Power being examined. Mr. Fitzgerald—Then what are we talking about, if there is no objection ? Mr. Alderman WAITIIMAN-1 must not look to which way the evidence will cut. I wish to know if I may examine the gentleman on Oath ? Mr. Beresford again replied in the negative, but after some further discussion Mr. Power was allowed to be heard, without taking the oath. He wished to state the whole of his transactions with the prisoner, but being sometimes interrupted by Mr. Harmer, and labouring under much emotion, his outline was brief, broken, and compli cated. We understood him to say, that about April or May, 1824, in consequence of an advertisement in the Irish papers, he entered into a negotiation for the purchase of his acceptance for 5001. He received in exchange bills only to the amount of 2961., and hurried to London to complain to Mr. Coster of having been . ill used. Mr. Coster insisted that he had used him in a very friendly way, but Mr. Power said he would pay him no.more than he received, and leave the question of the terms of the loan to three merchants of London or Cork. He came to London' almost wearied to death, and felt himself exceedinglyl ill then, as he did now ; and by one way and another Mr. Coster induced him to give his acceptance for 300/. The bills he (Power) had received, he derived no advan tage from, and when the 3001. bill became due, he refused to pay it. Mr. Coster threatened a writ, , and after some further negotiations, he learnt from Mr. Coster. that he was a bankrupt, and his affairs had gone into the hands of Mr. Stopes, who would insist on immediate payment. He, i however, made a treaty, by letter, wth. this Mr. Stopes, that the bill should be renewed for 20 months, and the whole matter be settled by arbitration in the meantime. The bill in question was the one sent to him for acceptance by Stopes in consequence of these arrangements. He em ployed Mr.,. Keating, of Dublin, and Mr. King, of South ampton-buildings, in London, as being highly respectable individuals, and total strangers to Coster and Co., to be the medium to secure to him the old bill for 3001. before the new one for MU. was parted with. Mr. Power con cluded energetically, " I was swindled out of, my accept-I ance, for I never received a farthing consideration for it, as God is my judge." The bill had been put into Mr. Power's hand when he was asked to say if the acceptance was genuiae; be retained it while he made the above statement, and at the end he clapped it into his pocket. Mr.. Coster raised iris voice loudly against this step, and begged that Mr: Povirer should be compelled to Mutt it to Mr. Harmer sounded the Alderman's feelings upon the subject, and finding it was against him, consoled his client with the information that Mr. Cope, the City Marshal, who took his papers from him, was liable for the value of whatever he did not return. Mr. Alderman WAIaiMAN said the present charge against the prisoner was at an end ; but he was aware that a most grievous and extensive system of swindling was car ried on by some parties in this city. If there was no ether complaint against the prisoner, he might be discharged. No person stepping forward to complain, Coster was dis missed. Mr. Power, in reply to a question from the Alderman, said there was no such person as Stopes, the drawer of the bill. At the previous hearing, however, Mr. Harmer offered to call the said Mr. Stopes into the witness-box. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—On Saturday one Mrs. Berry, of No. 18, Molineaux-street, was summoned be fore the sitting Magistrate to answer to all such matter and things, as, in his Majesty's behalf, were on oath objected against her by Lago Button. Mr. Button stated, that on ThurFday last the lady, with out provocation, " broke the solid panels of his shop-door," and threatened to do him a " private injury." He was asked by the Magistrate what he meant by a private injury? " She threatened, your Worship, to tear out my eyes, if I called her a . I called her nothing, your Wor ship : she never heard the sound of my voice, whether it is high or low. She lives in the floor above ; only said my wife (Mrs. Button) should not open the street-deor to fellows, who came with their double and treble raps after Mrs. Berry. Look here, your Worship," continued Mr. Button, as he exhibited some fragments of mahogany, " I am a cabinet-maker by profession, and if I was to repair this sash with wooden squares which she broke, it would cost me 12s. or 155." Mr. Button then produced a neck kerchief, torn to pieces (as he said) when Mrs. Berry, in lone instance, collared him; and was entering very fully into the particulars, but Mr. Gait , Frrn interrupted him, by saying, " Hear me, man : you must not provoke a woman, if you are not pre pared to take the c onsequences." Mrs. Berry afterwards gave the complainant satisfaction, by paying costs and repairs. ' COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, JULY 7.-There continues a good de mand for British Plantation Sugar for the home trade; the sales this week amount to upwards of 1,100 hhds., at a further advance of ls. per cwt. on the brown and middling descriptions; besides the above, 350 bags good white Bengal Su g ar have been taken by the grocers at 765. to 775. per cwt., being a similar improvement in price. Yesterday, 30 chests Bahia Sugar were brought forward by auction, and were bought by our refiners, brown at 295., and low middling to good whites at 365. 6d. to 425. per cwt. according to quality. Immediately afterwards, a small lot of soft Pernambuco Sugar, consisting of yellow and good whites, were bought by the same parties at 355. per cwt. round. West India Molasses are in more request; about 270 puuchs. Trinidad, of good quality, were sold at 295. per cwt. from the quay.-Our Coffee m arket remains in the same dull state, the business being still confined to the home trade; prices continue without alteration.-Cocoa unsaleable.-Small parcels of Pimento have been sold at 81d. to 9d. per lb. ; and of ordinary Barba does Ginger at 455. per cwt.-About 300 punchs. Rum have been disposed of to the trade, consisting chiefly of Demerara, good flavours, at 3s. Bd. to 3s. 10d. per gallon for 27 to 30 0. P. Owing to the arrivals of Cotton, which have amounted this week to 28,914 bags, the demand has been rather languid ; the prices_generally, however, have been maintained, except the lower descriptions of American Cotton, which, in some instances, have been sold a shade below our last quotations. The sales amount to 8,400 bags, consisting of 2,630 Bowed, from 50. to 7d., chiefly at 6*d. to 60. for middling to good fair; 1,380 Orleans, from 6d. to 80., principally at 60. to 7d. for fair to good; 1,160 Mobile and Alabama, from sid. to 6i d. ; 280 Sea Island, from 10d. to 15d.; 10 Stained Ditto, from 74d. to 9id. ; 340 Pernambuco, from 9d. to 91d.; 700 Maranham, from Bd. to Bd. - 450 Bahia, fB7rido*md..lB3l(los. Surat, to u ... tr a B ti t : g d a . te ; . 5 acil . : ; 3 at 6 1 5 05 d. i3e;nSgao l, Egyptian,Westa at 4d. 4 fromd. India,7 d a to Imported into Liverpool, from the 30th June to the 6th July, 1827, inclusive, by 1 vessel from Cal cutta, 1 Jamaica, 1 Trinidad, 1 Campeachy, 7 New York, 5 Charleston, 2 Savannah, 1 Wilmington, 12 New Orleans, 4 Mobile, 1 Montreal and Quebec, 1 Newfoundland, 2 Marseilles, 1 Palermo, 1 Licata and Messina, 1 Genoa, 1 Oporto, 5 Odessa, 1 Cha rente, and 5 Dantzic :- East India Sugar, 1,561 bags; Jamaica ditto, 603 hhds., 60 tees., 1 brl.; Trinidad ditto, 50 brls.; Molasses, 225 casks; Coffee, 10 brls. ; East India Peer, 1,090 bags; Jamai ca Rum, 235 p uns.; pp Brandy, 114 casks; Mahogany , 86 logs; N e w Or leans and Mobile Cotton, 15,158 bales; Best United States Cotton, 13,756 bales ; Tobacco, 24 hhds.; Carolina Rice, 5 365 tces., 17 h. tees. ; Ame rican Flour, 2,155 brl.; Dantzie 30 brls.; Canada Wheat, 1,086 qrs. ; Foreign, 8,822 qrs.; Turpen tine, 1,631 brls. ; American Tar, 140 brls.; Mon treal Ashes, 396 brls.; Logwood, 523 tons; Ni caragua Wood, 10 tons ; East India Indigo, 18 boxes; Lac Dye, 12 boxes ; Shell Lac, 20 boxes; Cochineal, 16 serons ; Cream Tartar, 35 casks Sicily Shumac, 900 bags; Madder Roots, 446 bales; Madder, 186 casks; Senegal Gum, 22 casks; Brimstone, 190 tons; Argol, 42 casks; Wool, 216 bales; New York Cow and Ox Hides, No. 649; Newfoundland ditto 21 bundles. But little business has been done in rough tur pentine, the principal holders unwilling to sell at present prices; the sales consist of 727 brls., at 12s. 6d. per cwt.-In Tar, little doing, the sales being chiefly confined to the dealers.-Rosin steady. The demand for Ashes has been extensive, and an advance of 6d. to Is. per cwt. has been realised for old Montreal Pot and Pearl ; the sales are 302 brls. Montreal Pot, brand 1826, at 255. 6d. to 265., 239, brand 1825, at 235. 9d. to 255. and 31 bris. old, at 235. 6 d. per c wt. ; of Montreal Pearl 608 brls. at 255. 6d. to 265. 6d. per cwt., and of States' Ashes, 610 brls. Boston Pot, brand 1826, at 265. 6d. to 275. 50 bris. New York, at 265., and 124 New York Pearl, brand 1825, and 265. 9d. per cwt.; a vessel has arrived here from Montreal with new Ashes, but as the importers are not willing to sell at present rates, no price can be stated.-110 at u 12s. pe : cvQu‘t- e i c . , yesterday i tr o n a Bark have parcel beenof 3 sold 0 casks were offered by auction, but were withdrawn for want of bidders.-Brimstone in trifling request ; 10 tons have been disposed of at 5/. ss. per ton. In Dyewoods the holders of Logwood have had to submit to a reduction in price ; a parcel of 300 tons prime fresh Campeachy have been sold off the quay at 7/. ss. to 71. 7s. per ton ; for a few small lots to the dealers 71. 10s. to 71. 15s. has been obtained. Nicaragua Wood and Fustic less inquired for, and prices without alteration. A small lot of Camwood at 14/. 10s., and a trifling sale of Barwood at 6/. 10s. per ton : 250 bags Verona Shumac have brought 7s. 3d. to 7s. 6d.; and 320 bags Sicily, part of good quality, have been sold by public, sale at 10s. 6d. to Ils. per, cwt.: 15 bales Persian Yellow Berries have been disposed of at 171., and 10 bales Turkey at 2/. 18s. per cwt.: 11 casks fine white Bologna Argol at 705., and 1 cask Venetian Cream Tartar at 80s. per cwt. For 5 tons fine pickled Smyrna Valonia 16/. ss. has been obtained. In Olive Oil little doing; only a few single pipes have been sold, at for Gallipoli 431., and for Spanish 381. per tun. Linseed and Rape Oil dull of sale ; the latter a trifle lower. The transactions in Rice consist of 400 bags East India at 15s. 6d., and 130 tierces Carolina at 18s. 6d. to 21s. per cwt.; 228 casks offered b y auction yes terday were withdrawn, the highest bid being 18s. 6d. per cwt. A'small ;of of .20 bags Saltpetre has been sold at 245. per cwt. Thc sales of Hides have been inconsiderable, 400 Para salted Os and Cow at 4g, 300 New York 4 1 d., an d 7 00 dry St. Petersburgh at 61d. per lb.: 20 tons St. Peters burgh Clean Hemp were offered by auction on IVion -1 , day last, but were withdra wn for want of bidders ; , the owners now ask 391. per ton ; 100 bales East India sold at 20/. pet ton. In tallow but little doing, and may be quoted'6d. per cWt. lower. MACHINERY.. Lord Lauderdale, in a pamphlet to which we alluded a week or two ago, confidently predicted t the speedy transference of the manufactures of Yorkshire and Lancashire to Ireland, in conse quence of the effects resulting from the Union. I, No trade is more hazardous than that of a pro phet, in all cases where the events predicted are not postponed to a distant futurity. Lord Lau derdale, for example, has lived to see, not the Yorkshire and Lancashire manufactures trans ferred to Ireland, but the only manufacture of consequence possessed by Ireland nearly en grossed by this country. When machinery comes to be extensively em ployed in a country, there is a strong tendency in all manufactures in which machinery is used to congregate. Machinery is always manufac tured in the greatest perfection where it is most extensively used ; and it was stated in the evi dence before the House of Commons, that ma chine making was more perfect in Manchester than in Glasgow, from the greater division of operations, the result of the more extensive de mand for all sorts of machinery. Those who in- • troduce machinery for the first time into any country, have great difficulties to struggle with, from the want of competent artizans in their neighbourhood to keep the machinery in order. When machinery in Manchester, Leeds, or i Glasgow, gets out of order, the pieces wanted can be procured on the spot immediately, and in troduced into the works ; whereas, in a country , not possessed of mechanical skill, the works must I often stand still, till the pieces required can be obtained from a distance. The difficulty of keeping up machinery in a . rude country, is forcibly stated in an article on Cornish Mining in America, in the last Number , of The Quarterly Review. "At the first glance it must appear that the cost of transport- • ing a seventy-inch engine to the mines even of Mexico, must be something quite enormous. The whole country is one eon- ":1 tinued obstacle to the undertaking. It is neces sary to make roads, to construct bridges; and such unnatural efforts are and must be attended by unnatural expellees. Snpposing, however, that all these difficulties are by dint of money surmounted, and that this unwieldy labourer does get to the Mines, at what expence is he to be supported there ? What is to be the price of his fuel ; and what are to be the salaries of the artisans who Must unavoidably be maintained for the purpose of repairing every sort of acci dent that may happen to the many-limbed and most delicate Colossus in his unnatural exile ?" The introduction of complicated machinery . into the manufacture • of linen has, it would ... seem, drawn it to the country in which the ma chinery is best made and preserved. Thus it appears, from the Returns relating to Hemp, Flax, and Linens, ordered by the House of , Commons to be printed, 15th June, 1827, that • the British Linen exported for the year ending sth January, 1827, amounted to 29,049,332 yards, and the Irish only to 10,937,378 yards. The bounty paid on the British Linen exi '7ted " was 144,4821., on the Irish to 44,4821. The ~ British Linen exported from England amounted • to 17,826,347 yards, the Irish to 7,713;036 yards ; the British Linen exported from 'Scot- - land to 11,111,291 yards, the Irish Linen from Scotland to 465,468 yards. We wonder that our sagacious landholders .. havenot resolved that we should grow , our own flax as well as our own corn. The importation of flak into this country is very great ; etid were we to lay a heavy duty on it, a great extension of cultivation would be requisite. We observe that the quantity imported for the year ending , sth January, 1827, into the United Kingdom . . was no less than 688,665 cwts. of which 315,000 cwts. came into England, and 363,000 cwts into Scotland. What a robbery this . is on our' - landholders ! It is true that braising the price of flax the manufacturer may be injured.' But this is only a possibility, whereas the certain effect of a heavy duty on imported flax .would be to raise rents; and even should the manufacturer ultimately suffer, the . effects for some time would be confined to starving the tvorkmen.—Morning Chronicle. . COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WREN. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. Andover---- N : W R BCN l lo o e i : ermeipv i ,n n ' ic -P etie c c si a n e irhe e a ts : tsesß h r: t ity l hl : te. e - e lf :71: 1:: Northallerton Penrith Stafford Warwick Worcester--~.... Per Uoll. Barnardcastle Darlington Durham Stanhope Stockton Wolsingham s. to s. 34 40 S. tO S. 30 31 s. to s, 48 56 48 52 50 55 61 64 4,6 49 40 42 25 at 36 40 40 46 30 42 28 33 26 96 27 30 26 36 s.d. s.d. 50 56 5 2 5 6 0 00 00 00 00 30 00 00 53 56 60 63 s. d. s. d. 49 50 54 58 50 52 40 46 , 51 00 50 6 0 40 50 40 5 0 73 106 66 90 80 96 70 00 74 86 86 106 s. 78 SO 7 6 0 „ 96 v 7 0 10 7 , 0 0 0 10 0 10 0 6 76 8 0 78 8b 00 10 61 110 00 106 00 00 100 00 00 1 11 0 00 - 0 15 1 1 10 0' 13 P, 10 0 12 7 , 00 0v 00 0 00 0 Wheat. s. to s. 54 59 60 63 58 60 57 67 48 56 63 69 s. d. 80 84 78 80 10 0 10 6 70 89 00 83 96 100 76 80 78 80 13 0 17 6 140 156 14 3 16 6 12 6 13 9 14 3 16 6 1 .5 0 18 0 SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN MARKET.—JuIy 6. The market contained 'a middling supply of Wheat; prices,. h ave declined Is. on the top , a nd 9d. 1-12th on the average.. ft very small and dull Barley market v average down about 3s. OP Oats, 123 quarters were in, and 87 sold; top price up 2 5 ., but the a verage is nearly Is. 6 d. below that of last day. Pease are up 30' and Beans are down 2s. 2d. on last average. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First 63. Od 45s Od 42s Od 52s Od 51s Od ' Second 6os Od 43s Od 34s Od 51s•Od • 486 Od Third Th e re were 207 qrs. of Wheat in market 231 whe were solo% 9 ...at 63s. Od 11 ...at. ..... 625. 6d.1 39 .at g2„ . 0(1. 37 28 39 Unsold.-5 Grey. .., 4" MARKET.—JuIy 5. , rain at thisday's market Is smisl i 'l Ler prices. Oats. Pease. Beans. ••• 363 ._ Od 546 0.1 54s Od .4. Od 52s Od 52s Od 285 Od. 50a Od 50! Od DALKEITH'COIi The quantity of all kinds of which sold heavily at nearly fc Wheat. Barley. First 66s Od 41s rld , Second Third 56s Od 32s Od CORNWALL MARKETS. , TRURO _.Wheat (average) —s. pd.—Barley, 16s.—Oats, 146 . 00 ' HALaros--Wheat, 265. 6d.—Barley, 16s. Bd. sr. AUSTElx—Wheat, 245. to 26s. --Barley, 14s, to 158.-00 156. to 14s. , Boons —Wheat (average) 265. Od.—Barley, 16s. 6d.—Oats, lii• LsuricEsrox—Wheat (average) 245. Od._ Barley, 14s. Od.—thit , 10s. 6d.—Beef, 'M.—Mutton, 6d. LisKEsan—Wheat, 245. 9d. to 25e.—BarleY, 155.9d.--c0ati......k to 13s. Od. , Sr. CoLumn—Wheat, 245. to '2ss. —Barley, 16e. to ....;.—Bedo and Mutton, 6 / . 1 _I , d. to '7d,—Veal and Lamb, Od. to Od. 146P.Irozitcoad.—__Whikeeaft,,,n2gsm. utotto2ns:.-sdß. taorldy.,_lpSozs. 04 1 to Butter, Ild. per lb. .....—.... BIRTHS. On the 7th inst., in Park-street, Westminster, the lak of John Farquhar Fraser, of a son. On the 7th inst., in Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzror square, the widow of the late John Robert Lazigriatif Esq., of a son. On the 7 th inst., at the Priory, Homerton, Mrs. Sainte / Amory, ___(!fLt • MARRIED. On the sth inst., at Hill Martin Church, Thomas Heil rigton, Esq., of Iqllrnington, Somerset, to Mary, - N eon ° d au ghter of _Stepll_ 3effries)EB(l''oflin,7ilts• DIED. 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