The Sun. — London, England, 1827-11-20 00:00:00

I dualities of the people, caused this country to rise in political importance above all other states. After the Bank of England had been established more than half a century, those causes began first to operate on an extended scale, and in a remarkable manner; which, by increasing the productions of the mines, by extending manu factures, by giving ,enterprize to commerce, by jrnprovement in agriculture, have afforded re sults unexampled in the history of nations. The principles of. the Bank of England render it wholly unfitted to extend any effectual aid to those important causes, which in our day have produced such astonishing effects. But then, if ever, was the time, when the Directors should have resolved on establishing Branch Banks— when the- extended mining and manufacturing operationso,f the country needed the aid of new capital, to insure a successful and triumphant issue ; not when connections had been formed, 'interests grown up, and ample capital furnished, and judiciously apPropriated • by other banks. Thenecessity . for such aid was obvious, and its . urgencY may be. known by the fact, , that maim .facturers, in some of the remote parts of York shire and Lancashire, were' compelled to con duct all their banking . transactions at Notting ham; seventy to one hundred miles distant from their 'dwellings ; because there were no Banks at Leeds Or . Sheffield, or any of the intermediate towns. These transactions were performed in the most cumbrous and expensive manner. When a Leeds merchant received a remittance of foreign bills of exchange, the only Bank be tween his dWelling and London being situated at Nottingham, his habit was to mount his horse, carry his bills thither to be discounted, and briner tOme the solid metal in his - saddle-bags." We are willing to believe Mr. Burgess, when he says that, when..the: Country Bankers misconducted themselves formerly, it was from ignorance of the true principles on which banking ought to he conducted ; that since 1815 and 1816 their con duct has generally been correct; and that, `taught by experience, they are not likely to relapse into their former errors. A fact stated by him proves how little founded were the accusations against the Country Banks in ge»eral. " Seven parts out of eight of all demands upon Country Bankers, whb failed in the.crisis of the year 1825-6, have been 'paid in full 1": But the very reason given by Mr. Burgess for his partiality to the Country P an . kers' supplies food'for general alarm in times of difficulty. Speaking of Branch Banks, he Says, " They have no sympathy with individuals; and their rule cannot be relaxed for particular cases, however urgent or. distressing."—".lt may be said, generally speaking, that no. farmer enters upon a farm without knowing previously whether, kit case of a deficiency in his own means, the neighbouring banker will, directly or indirectly, enable him to purchase stock; .nor will , lie enter, upon extensive improvements without knoWing whether he will be , supported by the same pecu niary aid, till the , beneficial returns which must result from those improvements come to set him free:' :Now, it is the knowledge that a Joint Stock, or Chartered Bank, must act on fixed rules, : and, will not commit themselves to the, support of private .speculations , that gives. the public a 'confidence in them, and prevents • the mischievous alarm which always follows horn the fa'ilure,of .an extensive Bank. The two trades of ~rnoiley: b rokx.F and comer are pertly distinct,; and it is as . money-brokara, that is; as the medium between harrowers and lenders,, that, Bankers chiefly benefit a country. But the banker he comes'responsible to - the lender; and. if lie int pindently lock up his cam's in loans to farmers and, miners which cannot - -,be , recovered within a moderate period, lie will be unable to meet the demands on : himself for prompt payment in periods of alarm. It is better that the farmer or miner,'who. wishes to 'borrow for long-winded operations; should borrow directly from a Ca- . pitalist, and that the Banker should be the, mediurn,of loans for temporary purposes. The great power of the. Scotch Banks is derived from. the knowledge. of lenders that they are governed by fixed rules. Mr. Burgess mentions a cir cumstance, which leads to inferences which lie 4es not draw from it. .He says, " he is ac quainted with a Country Banker, who, till of late, generally employed all »is surplus capital among the industrious in the neighbour hood of his Bank. He has recently, for a con-, siderable time, lent 100,0001. to a wealthy Agerit in - London,. at a low rate of interest,. who has again lent that and other sums to a great house . the City, engaged in working mines in Sweden. , Another City firm- is adopting mea sures for working mines in Asia. In this man ner do .these chimerical changes work which have been introduced in Banking concerns : capital is withdrawn from the bumble sources of indus try, producing misery in the homesteads of Eng, lishmen, to aid the distant speculations of some overgrown capitalist.". Now this proves too much. It proves that profits are so low in this country, from the , heavy t a xation, an d the monopoly of landlords, ,§4c., that capital will betake itself from this country to where it can. find a more bene ficial investment. It proves that if home specula tions were at all profitable, there would be no dif ficulty of obtaining the Means for carrying them on ; but that all the skill and cleverness of our people are unable to struggle against the disad vantages, of taxation and` monopoly. There is a worm at the root Of our prosperity. In fact the productive class is sacrificed to the drones of so ciety. The evil is not in - the Branch Banks, nor the competition between the" Bank of Eng,tind and Country - Banks, but in the lowness of profits. "Mr. Burgess charges the Bank with giving great capitalists an advantage by discoun ting only to them ; but do not those who obtain these discounts from the. Bank afford credits in turn to smaller dealers? '- There seems to us nothing in this objection. He charges some of the Bank Directors with being embarked in wild-goose' schemes, and observes, that " so many Bank Directors are conspicuous for having their names at . one and the same time amongst the Directors of many of the new Companies, that a suspicion exists , with grave and sensible men, not very unreasonable, that the manage ment of the eirculatirig medium is desired, as a means by which the desperate game of individual speculation may be played with more certainty." He instances the Anglo . Mexican Mining Com pany divided into 10,000 shares, of 1001; per share, - on which 85/. per share has been paid, while-not an ounce of metal has been received, except sortie 'obtained _to promote a traffic in shares, as a speculation in.which " some, of the late an d presen t B a nk Direct Ors have an enor mous capital . invested."—Morning Chronicle. The. question of the right of the Allied Fleets to attack the Turks without legal warning, still continues a subject o f di scus sion among our con temporaries,and, as usual, the observations which we ave mad e on ' ed-by those who do not the subject are distort t .happen to view it. in the .saine light. Among other charges, we are ;stated to have set up ab , a provisional defence, Oat Turkey, 'being a barbarian "'. rower ; we were not obliged to proceed towards her according tq the Ordinary .rules 'observed,by civilized nations towards each other. We . did .indeed say, en passant, not as a provisional nor a permanent defence; that men gave starting room to deer but not to wrilves, and we still entertain the same opinion which dictated that observation. Why is a declaration, or . equivalent formality, required .among civilized nations? Is it because of any innate value which a document, long or short — or a message, courteous or arrogant, as the time or the - temper Of the parties may dictate=possesses, that it is the usual precursor of mar ? Or is it be cause in Europe, and among Christian bellige rents, it has been tacitly agreed that such . a ce remony shall be used? Turkey has but one way of declaring war, and that is, by the imprison-4 ment of the .unlucky Ambassador of the . State with Whom it has quarrelled.. What right, then, has Turkey to demand a declaration, which in no case whatever it will make ? . What would have . been the result ' of such a declaration ? Why, the immediate imprisonment of Mr. ' Stratford Canning, and the rest of the "Ambas sadors in the Seven Towers. The customs of Tnikey not only dispense all the. world from using towards her the ceremony which the prac tices of civilized nations require, but they abso lutely prohibit it under pains and penalties. While, however, we are pointing out the absur dity of this cant about declarations, we do not mean to rest the justification of the attack of the Allies upon such a technical nicety. We have all along held that the declaration -of the Am bassadors to the Porte was amply sufficient to justify the Allies in using all the means in their power to accomplish the objects for which they had entered into.the treaty of July 6. Looking to the question abstractedly,, we should, with our contemporary, most sincerely regret if any moral objection could be fairly urged against the form of an intervention, for which every feeling of humanity, and every principle of morality, and, we may add, every principle of sound policy; have long called. But we do not see in its form more than in its essence any fair ground of cen ____ _ The provocation which was the proximate cause of the engagement, is represented in 'a print, which seems to labour under a physical disability of describing the least complicated mat ter as it happened, as bearing an analogy to the case of the attack on the Swiss Guards in Paris. We allow that in that 'case it was a matter of ex tremely little importance which party fired first ; neither, had the' Turkish vessels opened their fire on the English on entering Navarin harbour, should we ,have called them the aggressors. But though the menacing entry of the Allies might have excused such an act, nothing can excuse the base cowardly murder of .an officer carrying a message, from whose approach no . possible danger could be anticipated ; and the second murder of the pilot, when on the very side of the Turkish vessel,, was even more cowardly and barbarbUs. Agreeably to the laws of every war like code in Europe, such atrocities would have justified'immediate and 'deadly retaliation even between two parties whose respective nations were in perfect amity.. Nay, the murder of the bearer of a fla g of true;. has even been held a sufficient reason. for the denial of quarter to the guilty party.—New Times. During the last eight days public opinion from all parts of the country has so decidedly expressed itself, in deprecating the ijaval action at Navarin, as a most unjustifiable act of violence anti aggres sion, that to the serious alarm of iVlinisterssinee the receipt of the account of their " victory," have succeeded bickerings and recriminations in the Cabinet, which their examination of Lord Ingestrie has not tended to moderate. In the first moment ,of consternation at the event, the Ministers; Faith the weakness of imitators, re solved to follow the Admiral's example, and, by ii political bravado, to lead or lull public opinion , 'by obtaining on the instant a Royal Mark of ap probation for the . Admiral, and heaping on the Officers the most extensive rewards ever known to be, given for a naval victory. This resolution of the Ministers was not acceded to, without Some of their colleagues calling their attention to the propriety of waiting for more conclusive in formation from the Admiral. • The LansdOwne party in the Cabinet: carried the point, and Lord Dudley's correspondence, on being referred to, was found to be so totally defiCient in afford ing any justification for the Cabinet, that they found it more politic to make common cause with the Admiral than to enquireinto his con duct. The Red Ribband was therefore recom mended, and the Admiral gained his real victory not -at Navarin but in Downing-street. This affair being settled so satisfactorily for the Admi ral's own responsibility, we may now without fear of detriment to him speak out. We are authorised to affirm, what we are assured can be proved'by the log-book of the Asia, and by the reports made to the Admiral, that his official dis patch is a garbled ' equivocating account of the action, contradicted by the log-book of every ship in the squadron ; which untrue account has, since it was received in England, undergone several erasures, loppings, and alterations, with the con currence of Ministers. The Admiral states in his dispatch—" The three English ships were ac cordingly permitted to pass the batteries and to Moor, as they did with great rapidity, without any act of, open hostility,, although there was evident preparation for it in all the Turkish Ships; but, upon the Dartmouth send ing a boat to one of the fire -ships, Lieutenant G. W. H. Fitzroy and several of the crew were shot with musquetry. This produced a defensive frefrom the Dartmouth and La Sy rene, &c." This, we are authorized to say, is an unfair and quibbling statement of the fact; and we are well assured we may refer to the log book of every ship in the squadron for the truth of the following " contradiction :—The Dart mouth chose to place herself about 30 yards from the Turkish fire-brig. The pinnace of the Dartmouth was manned, with orders to take possession of the 'fire-brig. The First Lieu tenant, Mr. Smith, with . two Midshipmen (Harrison and B. Smith), and 14 picked men, went in her; when, in the act of boarding the Turkish brig, the First Lieutenant and Mr. Harrison were wounded; and Midshipman B. Smith killed, by being blown up; two of the . men were also killed;. The Turks, after a short fight, fired their brig, and jumped into a .boat alongside. Lieutenant G. W. H. Fitzroy , :and eight • men were then sent in the Dart mouth's cutter, to tow the brig clear of the Dartmouth ; he attacked the Turkish boat, in which there were about 18 men ; he .was shot dead by the Turks in the boat, and brought alongside, the frigate. The fire-brig was then towed clear of the Dartmouth, and afterwards went down, when within 30 or 40 yards of the Turkish frigate, in the attempt to tow her on the Turkish frigate. Assured as we are of the accuracy of this statement, we may fairly ask, can it for one instant be doubted . on which side the aggro%Sion took place ? The Admiral knew sure. that the Dartmouth's pinnace had actually boarded thelnig, and forced the Turks to resist ance, before Lieutenant Fitzroy, in the cutter, was sent, ,who was shot bravely obeying his or ders. Why was Lieut. Fitzroy's death selected as the circumstance on which by inuendo to infer, that on his approaching the fire-brig, the Turks then committed the first act of hostility ? Because Lieut. Smith, in the pinnace, " - had pre viously attacked the brig, and was not fired upon till 'in the very act of boarding the . Turkish brig, on the deck of which Midshipman Smith was blown up. It is a mere waste of words to priss this point more closely to conviction—the ship's log-book, when laid before Parliament, will con firm this statement. But, we will ask, was the action of Navarin the first open act of hostility committed by the British fleet against the Turkish ships ? Do then Ministers not know that, in the Gulf of Patras, the signal was made by the Dartmouth—" The fleet are much scattered, and some may be cut off." Do they not know that in consequence a firing com inenced about four o'clock in the afternoon from the British squadron, which was kept up for nearly two hours, without. the Turks returning a. shot ? Do they Rot know that about ten of the Turkish brigs were cut off—that the next morning the Asia, the Talbot, and the Dart mouth, boarded Turkish brigs, which they found full of provisions for the relief of the. Turks at Patras ? Do they not know that their vessels were towed as far as , Zante? Do they not know that at this very time Lord Cochrane was at sea, and had captured five of these Turkish vessels ? Again to the Admiral's story.— He says, " When I contemplate, as I do with extreme sorrow, the extent of . our loss, I console myself with • the . reflec tion,, that the 2neasute which produced the battle was absolutely necessary for obtaining the results contemplated by the Treaty, and that it was brought on entirely by our opponents." The admission that his measure of entering the port and taking up a position produced the battle, is a truism which no one can deny.; but he will find it a difficult matter to prove that the action was brought On by his 'opponents. Log books are awkward things—the Ministers cannot falsify them ;----and this account of the pinnace having actually boarded the brig, ;before the cut ter left the Dartmouth, commanded by Lieute nant ,Fitzroy, is on the logbook, and was re ported to Sir E. Codrington. The high rity and honoUr Of the British flag have been lent to a purpose contrary to the law of nations, and to the fair and impartial character with which the British Navy and the British Nation have hitherto acted; the folly is only equalled by the injustice-,—and as. bravery can never sanctify in justice, we have to , lament not only the loss of life, but the loss of honour, charaeter, and truth. —Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday morning the irnlividual who was in company with the unfortunate woman on Wa terloo-bridge, last Friday night, a few moments before she was drowned, under circumstances of strong suspicion against • her companion, came to this Office, -and having announced who he was to Gardener, an officer, he surren ' tiered himself inui his' custolly to abide the_eveut of any in vestigation which the Magisttatea might-deem 'it necessary to order. The young man, who seemed perfectly cool, proceeded to state that his name was Henry Lawrence, that he lived at No. , 27, Grafton-street, and was a chymist and druggist. Lie then stated that he knew the deceased for six,_ ite Ai:yen years, and that he name was Mary Ann 'Watson, but that sbeiient by the naffre - of Clayton ; tharknne - years ago'she lived in Norwich, where he first knew her, and was appren tice to a straw-bonnet-maker, named ,Boardman. He had not he said, been intimately acquainted with her until within the last twelve months, when he met her for the first time in London. He occasionally visited her at her lodgings, NO. 3, Meal-Ws -court, Dean -street, Soho. The deceased was a woman , of the town. lie knew her in this way for nine months. 'The young man went on to state, in a cool and circumstantial manner, the different places at which the deceased lodged during the abov e ti me . Within the last three months they lived and cohabited together -ttsre e as , man and wife. They lodged' a t No . to, King Soho, at a Mr: Wright's,about five weeks ago ; after which he engaged apartments at No. 2, JOhn•street, Waterloo road. Until within three weeks last Saturday, she con ducted herself properly; on that day she came bine with an abandoned woman, having been out the Whole previous night. The witness then said, that finding they were both tipsy, he endeavoured to turn the strange woman out of . doors : the deceased endeavoured to prevent him, when he struck her over the right eye, which caused a slight discolouration. o On Thursday last," said the witness, 'after stating a variety of un important particulars, " I left the deceased at half past five o'clock, and agreed to meet her at twelve o'clock that night at the top of the Haymarket. We met accord ingly 'at the time and plaee appointed, and I asked the deceased if she was ready to go home. She appeared in great spirits, as if she had been drinking. She appeared unwilling to go home, and I asked her for the key of the door, but she refused to let me have it. I then en treated her to go home along with me, and at length she consented. On .our way down the Haymarket, the deceased lift me, and went into a house in Coventry court. She joined me in about ten minutes, and appeared flurried. I asked her the cause. She replied, that some man had been upbraiding her with his ruin, at which she said she was very unhappy. After walking a little way, the deceased expressed a wish to have a little brandy. We went into a public-house, and she had a glass; I drank some porter. Alter she had taken the brandy, she wished for some porter, but conceiving she had drank enough, I refuied, and left the house, thinking she would follow. She did so, and we walked down Catherine-street to Wa terloo-bridge. We 'reached the toll-gate together, and I asked her if I should pay for her. I did so, and she took hold of my arm, and we proceeded on the bridge for about 50 or 60 yards. After we got thus far, she suddenly stopped in the middle of the pavement, and said she wish ed to he alone for a moment. I aid not believe her and told her I feared she meant to drown herself." The witness, in order to show why he entertained this opinion, went on to state, that about three weeks ago, at night, she went outside the coping of the bridge, and a lady and gen tleman who were passing at the time assisted in lifting her upon the bridge. " I upbraided her for this the next day, (said the witness), and she then told me that it was her intention to have drowned herself. I asked her why she had not done so?" Sir R. BramE.—You asked her that, did you? Witness.--I did, and she replied that the water was very low at the time, and she could see nothing but the mud when she got upon the outside of the bridge. Mr. Hants.—Did you acquaint any person who knew her with this attempt to destroy-herself ? Witness—l told Airs, Bland, the woman at whose house we lodged, and I upbraided the . deceased very much. I never passed over the bridge with her at night since that time, except two or three times, as I was afraid of her re peating the attempt. The witness then reverted to Thurs day night, and said that he refused to leave her when she wished to be alone ; " she swore she would not stir a step unless I did. I said if she did not go off the bridge I should bring the watch to her, and I called to the watch nian two or three times, but he did not • answer. I then had bola of her by the arm, as I was fearful she intended to jump into the river. I led her to the toll-gate next the Strand, to take her off the bridge, but she stopped . at the wicket and said, ' she was.determined not to go for any one.' She then told me to leave her to herself for a minute or two, assuring me that she had no intention to do herself any harm. She walked up the bridge, and• I passed through the gate a second time, and spoke to Carlo, telling him I was afraid that the woman meant to drown herself. Carlo made anwer No, no ; I hope not ; I don't think she in tendi any thing of the kind.' I was then standing at the gate, and somebody 'passed through to • go over the bridge. This person spoke to the deceased, who was sitting in the first alcove. 1 then saw her mine out of the alcove, and walk further upon the bridge on her w ay hew.. I followed her, and she ,walked on to. the second alcove. I vas then some way behind her, when I observed hir when about twenty yards from her get upon the top of , the bridge, and I immediately ran forward, but before 1 could reach her I heard her fall .in the water. Ido not know whether she threw herself in or whether she fell off. I heard her scream twice, as iC for assistance." Mr. HALLS—Did she use any exclamation? Witness—No, I heard no words; she Merely screamed, I c shied for the watchman, who came up, and I saw the deceased floating on the water for two or three minutes. I called for a boat as loudly as I could, but the de ceased had disappeared' before it arrived. The witness then repeated almost word for word the evidence of the watchman and Carlo when they both came to the' spot. The watchman, be said, told him he must go with him to the watchhouse, and the night constable told him he might go if he left his address. - . - - Mr. Watts—What address did you leave ? Witness— I left the name of Clayton. .Mr. liar.r.s--riut your name is Lawrence, not Clayton; how is that ? Witness—The deceased was called Clay ton, and I have gone by that name also. I gave that name because I was fearful the matter might get into the public papers. Harts.-- . -Did the night constable then say not 'a word about detaining you? Witness—No. He simply asked me for my address ; there was no charge made against me. Mr. HALLS—Did you consider yourself in custody when in the watch-house? Witness-A did not consider myself in custody at all. The witness then stated that the deceased had made two attempts to poison herself. On one occasion she Iswallowed a quarter of an' ounce of laudanum, and he administered an antidote to counteract its effects. The witness then concluded his statement, which occu pied a considerable time in its delivery, owing to the slow and guarded manner in which be pursued his detail. The account which he gave, it will be perceived, coincided in a remarkable manner with the evidence given by the wit nesses on Saturday night as published in the papers of yes terday. Part of that evidence was again gone into, after which, Mr. HALLS said, that the circumstance, to put the best construction upon it, reflected no credit upon the individual now before him. He should therefore not detain him, but he must hold himself in readiness to attend the Coroner's inquest, in case the body should be found. With respect to the conduct of Edwards, it was most disgraceful, and he had no heSitation in declaring that such a man was totally unfit for the office of constable. He regretted that, being a parish constable, be had not the power to suspend him, but his conduct in this transaction should be laid before those who had power to visit it with the punishment it merited. The parties then withdrew. John Morton, a young man who some time ago was• in the service of a person named Salisbury, by, whom lie was charged with writing a letter, threatening to accuse him of an infamous crime, unless he received 501., was placed at the bar, a true bill having been found against him. Mr. Richard Anthony Salisbury, an elderly person, hay ' ing an appearance of foppishness in his dress, and a rather sinister expression of countenance, was then sworn. He said he lived at No. 18, Queen-street, Edgeware-road, and reposed that the prisoner was the person whom he meant to indict. The prisoner, a vary well-looking young man, who seemed burning with impatience to speak, exclaimed—" I'll indict you, as sure as you were born ; you are a perjured man." Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, addressing the prosecutor, observed with a smile, that it required no mean exertion of mental courage to come forward to prosecute in a case of this description. The prosecutor had had many struggles within himself before he made up his mind to adopt the present course. -The prisoner —Oh, you old sinner ! Mr. HA tss told the young man that he was doing him- . self no good. -The case Mint go to a Jury, and when he was on his trialle wotild - have sufficient opportunity of de-' fending himself. The prisoner was then taken from the bar, and the pro; secutor and his friends retired. LAWETR,STREET.L—A man, named James Bousey, tas, summoned at'the instance of the Parish offi cers of St. Anne, Limehousei foll refusing to maintain two children (twins), the offigning of a married . woman, named Dickson, and of which he was the reputed father. Her husband had been confined in the House of Correction from October, 1828, to April, 1827, and during that time had, no opportunity of intercourse with her. The defendant. pleaded the woman's coverture, and that he ought not, in :justice, to be saddled with the expence, while, her husband was accessible to her. - - It could not he said that she had no opportunity. of seeing him, for she showed him a letter, in which he wished her to visit him; adding, that they could enj4 , each other's soeiety for ''twO lmus-:--that he hat} an exct'llent fire, &c. ; this he thought ought to exonerate 31r. Beelry, the governor of the prison, was, tow-' ever, sent for, and 'said that, according to the prison*egu lations, it was impossible that the husband, during, 04 time he Wag in prison, could have hail any intercourse with his wife. An order was therefore made opon'the defendant to pay 4s. a-week. MA YL EB ONE-OFFICE:--• Charles Lew is La ,ZOTUS, with another man and' a woman, were charged by 'Troth], a street-keeper, with offering fruit for sale in Oa ford-street, on Sunday morning, during, the hours of •di , vine- service. The defendants - prOftlised not to offend again in that pa rish, and in consideration of the confinement they had en dured, Mr.` Rawlinson ordered their I)sket of fruit to be restored to`thean, and set them at liberty. George Harvey, a young sailor just paid off from the Blanche frigate, after serving four years•im the coasts of South America, - was charged with assaulting Mr. and Mrs. Bojin, of 24, Ogle-street, St Pancras. . At ten minutes before one .yesterday morning, the de: fendant being more than " half seas over," forced himself into conversationwith Mr. and Mrs. Buhn, in RuaSell-place, As they returned home after paying a visit to their friends. In the first place he gave them a glowing description of things as they were in Peru, and then he pushed Mrs. Bohn into - the gutter, and struck Mr. Bohn on his left ears by way of showing hoW he thought things were likely to be in Con stantinople; for which he was sent to the watchbouse. . The defendant told Mr. Rawlimon he was too groggy to know what he did, and made every concession i❑ his power ; .hut as Mr. and Mrs. Bohn expressed a determina tion to prosecute him, he was held to bail. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Cnist. CON.—An in- dividual of respectable appearance applied to the Magis trates for a peace warrant, against a Mr. Charles Carroll. The applicant said, that his wile had been seduced by the above-named Mr. C., with whom, about two months ago, she eloped; but on being informed of the place of their re sidence, he (applicant) succeeded in obtaining an interview with the unhappy woman, and eventually prevailed upon her to return to her friends, ,under whose protection she now was. Since her separation from her paramour, the latter had, on repeated occasions, threatened to do him some bodily harm. The Magistrate told the applicant, that it would be necessary to produce some person who heard Mr. C. make use of the threatening expressions he alluded to ; on doing that he might have a warrant. The applicant expressed his intention to pursue the course pointed out by the Magistrate. " The Turkish ships were moored in the form of a crescent, with springs on their cables."—Sir E. CoDRINGTON'S Letter. A spring .is a hawser or rope passed out from a ship's stern, and attached to a cable pro.. ceeding from her bow, when she lies at anchor. It is usually put on for the purpose of bringing the ship's broad side, or battery of cannon, to bear upon some distant object, as another ship, or a fortress on the coast, &c., and to keep her in a required position; or, in other words, to prevent her swinging about, according to the action of wind or current. Hence, if a ship rides with her head northerly, and is required to cannonade a fortress to the south or south east, a hawser is,run out from the stern ; and, being carried forward without her side, is attached to the cable, at a com petent distance a-head of the ship ; the hawser is then tightened by the capstan or tackles, and the cable being then slackened, the ship immediately turns her side towards the object intended to be battered.—See Burmy's Fal coner, p. 485. SHIPWRECK.—The ship Wanderer, of and for Plymouth, WAI. WAyGOoD, master, on her voyage from Quebec, was on the 22d of 'October, in lat. 45. SO. N. long. 42. SO. W. struck with a heavy cross sea, which carried away her bulwarks, stannchious, and the round house, and ripped up her plank sheer, and caused the ship to leak so muchohat the crew, with all their exertions, could not keep her clear. The mizen mast was then cut away, and the crew, after taking some provisions, took re fuge in the tops at nine o'clock at night , where t hey had not been long before the ship turned o ver on her beam ends : and soon after the masts gave way and the master and seven of the crew were unfortunately drowned. She soon righted, and eleven men were left on the wreck, the sea then making a free break over the ship : they lashed themselves to the windlass and bias, where they remained for two days and night s , until providentially, the Ameri can ship - Great _Britain, of New York, Capt. T. M. FRENCH, with great promptitude, came down to their as ei.itance, and succeeded .in taking the survivors off the wreck, although at the time the sea was running at a most tremendous rate. Capt. FRENCH, with the greatest hil -1 inanity, placed the men in his cabin, and paid the utmost attention to them, administering every thing necessary to relieve their wants. They were landed at Havre.—Hants Telegraph. LAM INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S. COURT, Nov. 19. KIRKBY V. WRIGHT. The circumstances of this case were these :—Mr. Wright, the proprietor of a newspaper called the Leeds Intelligencer, and a vender of patent medi cines, sold to three persons, Messrs. Goderice, Inch bold, and Kirkby, his newspaper and his business for the sum of 1,0001., and an agreement between the parties was: entered into. The editor of the Leeds intelligeneer, however, set up an opposition paper, and the parties who had purchased the former journal became alarmed lest this circumstance should decrease their profits, and make the property they had purchased worth considerably less than they supposed it to be at the time they made the bargain. Mr. Wright held this matter very, lightly, and offered to enter into a fresh agreement, to the effect that the purchasers should pay the pur chase-money by instalments, and Ontaining proviso, that if at the end of four years the profits of the business 'of Messrs. Goderice, Inch bold, and Kirkby, added to thoSe of his busi ness, and the proceeds of the newspaper, did not amount in four years to 1,000/., he (Mr.-Wright) would make up that sum, and pay to the purchasers the deficiency between the actual profits and the sum of 4,0001. The first and second instalments Were paid, but the third and fourth were withheld, in consequence of the profits of the concern being found considerably under the sum at which they had been estimated. In the first year the profits amounted to little more than 400/.; in the second, to considerably less ; and in the third and fourth years, there were no profits at all. Mr. Wright brought - his action for the recovery of these instat , ments, and Mr. Kirkby, the defendant, (he having purchased the interest of Messrs. Inchbold and Goderice in the concern), applied for an injunction to restrain Mr. Wright's proceedings at law, and succeeded. Mr. Kirkby afterwards filed a bill against Mr. Wright for a specific performance of his agreement to make up the deficiency in the profits. Mr. Wright had put in his answer, and the cause now came on for hearing. Mr. HEALD (with whom was Mr. HAYTER) ap peared for the plaintiff, and contended that the only question before the Court was, whether the profits had amounted to 4,0001., or fallen short of that sum. The defendant had, indeed, made an allegation that he submitted .to the judgment of the Court, that the plaintiff had no right to withhold the instal ments; and another, that he had been informed by a Mr: Marie Alexander Watts, that the plaintiff and persons concerned with him 'kept a double set of books, and that he, therefore, believed their repre sentation of the amount of the profits to be untrue. As to the first allegation, it was entirely got rid of by the terms of the agreement ; and for the second,l there were, first of all, the affidavits of two account ants, who had inspected the books, and pronounced them correct, with the exception only of 591., which proved to be an error' in the casting; and also the affidavits . of two clerks, who swore that no double set of books were kept in any of the part nership concerns: Thus, then, these two allegatiOns were got rid'of; and what was the defence set' up by "Mr. Wright ? Why, that although it was true* he had agreed 'to make up the difference between the 4,0004 and the actual profits, yet that there was also a contract implied, if not expressed, on the part of the purchasers,—namely, that they should conduct the business in the same manner in which it had been previously coaducted, or, at least,' in some other proper way. 'lnstead of this, he said that the plaintiff and his partners had been guilty of the greatest misconduct and neglect, and that there-' fore. the plaintiff'had no right to, claim the interfe rence of that Court. If such a•defenee could avail, why then Mr. Wright mieht have made it under any circumstances, and by whomsoever the concern had been managed, 'he . Might have 'said, for' the pur pose of screening himielf, that the concern was ill- Inanaged, and therefore that he bad no right to per form his agreement, • • • ' Mr. I-loaNE -'Whom was Mr. BARBER) ap peared for the defendant. The learned counsel con tended that the affitirs of these g entlemen.had been ,toiti.(o,ssl fallingy m i o s m ff a i n n a t g h v e d rand 9fit s t h o ;t f t t h t e o n t e h ‘ a v t spa c p ats e l r e w a a l s ore to ) be attributed. The learned counsel, submitted that this was a petition which the Court could not en tertain. Mr. HEALD replied. The Vici:-CuANon.Lon. said this appeared ta him to be a very plain case. The, question was, 'whether the agreement was one of such a nature as could be carried into execution by the Court. The plaintiff stated. that the whole amount of the ptofits of the concern, for the four years, was 1,2331. Ss. 2d. If the defendant admitted that statement, the decree would be made aceordingiy ; if not, the Court must order an account to he taken. He therefore wished to know 'whether the defendant wished that an ac count should be taken. _ _ Mr. BARBER said, certainly they did. After a long conversation between the counsel, as to the•mode of calculating the interest, and of taking the account, The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, that to prevent mistakes he would put his order into writing, and hand it over to the counsel to-morrow. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 19. In the case of BLACKBURN V BLACKBURN, which we gave in part yesterday, the Court decided that there was no ground for a new trial. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 19. Nothing of importance occurred in this Court to day. A case of some interest was Postponed, in 'con sequence of the absence of the Lord Chief Baron, who was engaged elsewhere. Their Lordships rose early. . . INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 19. Evan Oliver .was opposed by Mr. CITKWOOD on behalf of the assignees of Evan Oliver, senior, a bankrupt. The insolvent was employed by his father, a cattle dealer in Montgomeryshire, to purchase and sell cattle in all parts of England. His father had be come a bankrupt, and it was to his estate only that he (insolvent) is indebted, and' that debt arose under the folloWing singular circumstances. He stated that about ten o'clock on an evening in April, 1826, he being in London, was induced to go home with two ladies, who, during his stay, contrived to draw him of notes and cash to the amount of 9001. Not content with this serious loss; he happened to be at Leicester early in the following June, when he was enticed away by another pair of ladies, who fleeced him out of 7001., making a gross loss of 1,600/. with in six weeks : it did not appear, however, that he had tried to recover his property, either by applica-. tion to the police, or by advertisement. Shortly after the second loss he embaiked for America with 1504, with the. view of obtaining a situation, but after staying a fortnight he returned back again, as he could not get any person to hire him as a jobber. When he came back he was minus by his voyage 1001., and the police obtained the other 50/. in consequence of a search-warrant. When he got back to Liverpool; he was taken into custody and examined before the Commissioners under his father's bankruptcy, by whom he was committed to prison,' and who afterwards detained him for a debt. He said he did not tell the American cattle-dealers how cleverly he gad parted with his money in Eng land. Notwithstanding he was often' Cautioned by Mr. CurwOod,•the insolvent persisted that the story he now told about the 1,6001. was true, and he would stick to it. Mr. CunwooD.—Were they ladies of character (A laugh.) Insolvent.—Yes, of character, but not very good ones I should think, for I suspect that they robbed me of my money.t(Laughter.) To further questions put by the opposing counsel, the insolvent stated, among other things, that he lost his original account•book on his voyage to America : ~._.~ be :here were .no ladies on board to rob him, 'Ua t ;opposed he ihlopped it into the sea.—(A laugh 6f Mr. CURWOOD then put in a deposition sigtied,!. :he insolvent, and the evideNee he gave before 0" father's Commissioners, when , Mr. CURWOOD wanted to prove that;the the commission ruptcy had given a different aceountin another piece . ° t dfebctaenckl their .. b w e a i s n i, g r roe;ictieciveed. d given to-day, for he had sworn that he did net W e, what became ~of the money ;" he would, - 1- 4 )weY send to see whether the commission was in towl 1 ; 0 1, • The CIIIEF COMMISSIONER appealed to the Le a Gentleman's experience, and . asked w hether . t Lord ..Chief Justice of the* King's Bench would, ,e• the close of .a case, stop the trial to allow , vi we i s t he to be sought for tw prevent a nonsuit ? ll e : `• e n Chief Commissioner) could not allow the ap . 0531 , t to be put in as evidence, because. the insolvent !,)11` net be permitted to convict himself of perjorY: 0114 Mr. CURWOOD then addressed the Court, argued, that it was preposterous to imagine b,reig moment that the statement. made by the ills ° , l L if was true. Was, it within the scale of . probahib!. ) ;,. the young man had lost 900/. by hiS imprudefi t old ciations .in April, that within six weeks he 51 `". 0 0 again yield td the persuasiOng of . equally ic1 0 ? company with so much property in his posse' le, The Learned Counsel considered it a mere to defraud his father's creditors. 1'35 To a question by Mr. HEATH the insolvent 531 ,0 weekly expenditure had been from 2,000!. t 0 3 '/ is for several years past, . and he often had 5,t his possession. that Mr. HEATH, for the insolvent, submitte 6 bC his client had sworn (God knew how truly) t 1 : 11. 0e hat! lost the money in the manner described/ Court were bound to receive his -oath. The•prisoner was then ordered to be discbei C4 after a suitable admonition. IRELAND. (From the -Irish Law Recorder.) . Many idle and inaccurate' rumours having ° l ot lated within these few days, with respect t ° t he claim set forth by his Honour the Master a' h is Rolls, for the appointment of a S ecre t a ry own, to note his judicial acts, we can funish 103, statement of the facts. So f a r b ac k a s April, "bleb his Honour addressed a letter to M. Peel, ill °% 2 , 3 he stated the inconvenience he suffered in 1 10 1;0 person appointed to perform the duty over `!,. hi had no controul, and the increas e d • laboar,,, l ' ' o ut posed upon him; for when this. individual ell" bi 4 choose to attend in his court, as in most (o °s ' Ili Hcinour is obliged to write out his own o rders' teLl • his letter to Mr. Peel, his Honour, however , s t '' e pt that he was unwilling to disturb the arraege°lohe that then existed, or to interfere with the ellivialt ments of Mr. Lockwood, so nearly connected the then Lord, Chancellor; but he reserved t° ll ll4 self the right to assert his claim in the event out Great, Seal passing into other hands. His / 10 ; to suggested also in this letter many improv ef lei o which might take place in this Court, most belle the to the King's subjects, and a great saving t° suitor; such as proceeding universally by riot ice re' stead of by petition, whereby the costs, as far lated to the difcrence .of Torin, would be ". -9 iye! sd. is to 21. Ws. 7d. 'to this letter 'qr. )Ir. returned a favourable 'answer, -as well Sturges Bourne, and the Marquis of P t hey dovvne, to whom it wasalso addressed , 11 4 10 successively came info office. This last 11 ( 3° t° transmitted the letter to the Irish Govere o report 'On it. On the . rumoured appoin t !: t v e r . o f Baron Alexander to the Irish Seals, the ,*".„ the Rolls sent forward a copy of this lettel;iet and the Baron was pleased to signify thatl e ' a m Se.' his Honour should have the nominutioe 01 tlj e erery. The same course was pursued hat thi s present Lord Chancellor was appointed, . 0 t o to lii claim *as a long time in existence previt" o o ' 5 arrival, or appointment, or nomination. eo t it WAS ascertained that his Lordship:ll': leav e accede to the claim, his Honour proposed r i ( 1101 ,- t the question to the adjuetation of the Lo r `d, o r to cello'. and the Master of the Rolls in Evil ° \c 0 0 ' any of the Judges, but this vas declined' io fes' the Sergeants, and two barristers. of Or sional reputation in Ireland, gave opieions 'of lll€. port of the claim.. The, two p re decoo' s e ,:er Honour, Sir Michael Smith, and Mr! Cur " . "' 10 1 . rne or, ot tne the cised the right of appointing secretarie, 611 ! 4 : f W received compensation on the cipal:from office. Such is :1 j,,V ) „ I 5. 1 I late nominative q o facts as they have oceurredi , , h notnini more '0 Mr. Shaw was, we m ule •ff rs the question of right for the purpose of pla.ns, Under all clr , t ins by train of judicial investiga• that many grown by curostances, it is evide" t , . , r ite w lien were not warra moors have aireulated, , j.,or rel'ir l e e statement of P r following' nnteference to the foregoing , truth or fact. letter was addressed b f` e ) oriso nd . I have received the papers handed W befor e M'Kay and Mr. Shaw, respecting the proceeiT g ; orde r ; sCtahTtalnhiceneglfl°,oltriO the officers of his Court :-- by ' l ` . " his Honour the Master of th e Rolls, as to mak", watt 0 and petitions, addressed directly to his Honour- in ', 00 4 '; being addressed to. the Lord Chancellor. I a° 8° ,, c 1 ,0 " der this a question of pectiniary claim beto-een t i l,e l)e „ Chancellor and the Matter of the Rolls. math the dignity of the Court to s uffer such a i a tO" become the subj ec t o f pu bli c li t i gat i on . c ' a „ e r l iie vP be made in r c a t there is at p he High Court of 'Chancery in f riresent no authority under which an -- a petition, add resse d p e rsonally to the Master "ion o f s~ ol o,Y and that I could not legally enforce the e%ecutt. , e / 0 4 orders so made against the person or property of subjects. It is upon this principle only that I 12 3, , uc or directions to the several officers of the Court, t:',,,„:&ot der should pass upon such a petition as bC . lllg o te authorised by the Lord Chancellor. My tole , ,ti f t of his flow, vi , intended to impede or impugn any act , helm Maiter of the Rolls, which, in jar]. funct iC' ! l :if , within the competence of his judicial "g 1 1, • re' -st Rl' Ow" 11. , (Signed) ANTII° I ‘ r „ R. L ioriG, Secretary." e',' ,- at Westmill, Herta, the ij i/ f Rev. Henry BIRTHS: '- ; . ef to . On the 17th inst., q tt, On the I9th inst., at Clapham, M r s. F. 10 .1 daughter. ' .:( of p" 1 On the 17th inet. at Lydtl, Louisa, the W e ' Denne, Esq. of a daughter. • .' '' 4.: Galt fsit' On the 12th inst., at Bath, the ladY la . . ( Pepys, of a daughter. ' . , o f 3 , C , John Wilson, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Nepean, R.N., of a daughter. - " i 13 4) On the 18th inst., .in Great Conan-street, t•te On the 12th inst., at Camberwell, Mrs. Hutt ° 2 of a son. ' of a datightle, Ch O ui n ch th o e f 19th st. i c us l t e a n n ie t n , l‘ t i sEi : ° , :O vo ci .n l e h l i nd e ra tmtS-garden h s r : a te n i o o fr o n dff s ttoLh.ALf,eilvrt;l Haymarket. t 0 1 , t . e AaPrly n G: S R ls :atl at t oiRhn o . t 'av e ee n risk B e Etr : R ; e : t . l o i s Plo ru l fi g p i' l i g n l e l‘'it i ll , l e y 'i l er;. n ß o ar : i rr i r sl Pll: g ; le : il l 2 : l 6 A r it i tli t> t o '.'l:e . ' 0 1 ' Ar, ton, Esq. 4, 11.01 1 , On the 19th inst., at East Ham, Essex, by - e 1 Boulby, Mr. J. A. Chalk, of 'Change-alley, to As44. l° Womersley, third daughter of Robert WoinerslaP 4 IC" Plashet-hall,. Essex. i ,1 :01 e st On the 15th inst. at Hillingdon, the Rev. J'''' O oOA.I , Cobb, of Spiatton, Northamptonshire , to Carolioe,?' o . 6 P j daughter of John Chippendale, Esq. of the 1_11,7_, lingdon. IE On the 17th inst., Mary D Ann, D. aged 5 0, the l e °ll‘ o l l,l William Dexter, of Alpha - place , St. John's-wo° 0 , A" On the 18th inst., in Upper Brook -street, Isabe , Strand , the wife of the Rev. Algernon P e y ton. w illi 0 0 ( O'n the 17th 77tli ) inst., in Norfolk -street, ~o f Cralui), Esq., of St. Petersburg h, in the 10 ( ' • his age. 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