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been a ttained. But let :it be admitted. that ate are wrong in this, and that the Police knows no think bf. it. If so, we can only say, what a precious police we niust have, which can be ig norant, of that which every body else knows.— We have said too,that these dens ofthieves are bees - sed ; and moieciver, to obtain such licences, clergy- men, ehiirchWardens, and constables, must, one or r all, certify • their knowledge of the morality of the keepers, and the good conduct of the places ; and that to some worshipful Alder men or gentlemen, who, of course, can never have heard or • known any thing to the contrary. And this, forsooth, is police ! This is what the country at large and the parishes are taxed so highly to maintain ! but a system which, we must be bold to say, is but too justly chargeable with winking at and encouraging that which it thus unaccountably suffers to exist. Our duty to the public has drawn from us these observations ; and if they should sound unpalatable in the ears of grave Aldermen, or Lord Sidmouth's Bar risters, both the one and the other have it i►► their power to take out the sting fro►u our re marks, by speedily doing away with the evils which have given rise to them.—lbid. e We rejoice to find that Addresses to Mr. Peel, expressive of the sense entertained of his • eminent public services, and of the regret which their temporary suspension has excited, are be coming more and more numerous, in proportion as, the people of England become more and more awakenedto a knowledge of the difference between . the late Administration and the present. We frankly confess that we do not look upon these Addresses merely as the expression of barren gra titude, or the enunciation of theoretical opinion : Although we should even in this point of view deem them of great importance, and pregnant with ulterior practical consequences of the high est value. The effects which we venture to anti cipate from these Addreses, assuming as we do that they ; will . become general, are more imme diate and direct. Our auguries are expressly founded upon the knowledge of individual "cha racter, and the aspect of existing circumstances. Mr. Peel, it is universally known might have been very • differently situated to . what he is at present, - were it not that on a late occasion he estimated too humbly his own value and rank as a Statesman, and appreciated with excessive modesty the estimation in which he is held by the British nation. The Right Hon. Gentleman was inadvertently guilty of a negative injustice to his country, in consequence of hav ing previously committed a positive injustice in his estimate of himself. The nation now perceives the consequence of this error on his part, and ,is accordingly eager to correct it. The welfare of England requires that Mr. Peel should understand something better than he has done, the value of his character, and theloftiness of his posi tion. He is the hope and the model of English To ries, and it is not too much to say, that a prouder station, or a more splendid name, was never yet assigned to mortal man. The country is at this mo ment, in consequence of the kind of Adminis tration upon which its Affairs have devolved, labouring under the intolerable consciousness of danger and of degradation. The vague term of liberality, the cloudy notion of indefinite change, have been incessantly paraded and produced by the Members of the present Administra tion and their partizans, till the nation, no longer willing to be amused by sounds, be.- - gins to ask what meaning is couched under them, and can find no other answer than NV hat either exposes hyp ocris y , or portends ruin. The nation, unable to see .M ate prospect any thing but confusion and uncertainty, is of course uneasy, and languishes for a Government com posed of 'men whose principles are unequivocal, and whose intentions are declared. A Govern ment founded notoriously and avowedly upon the principle of trying an experiment upon the national mind, or of watching opportunities t o d e feat the vigilance of the nation in reference to the most important. of its concerns-is a Go vernment too repugnant to the manly and generous hearts of Englishmen to retain any portion of their confidence or affection. Such is the predicament in which the Administration is placed, and we greatly err in our estimate of the British people if the permanency of this Administra tion does not involve a moral i m possibility.- -We believe that all things will yet work together for good ; and we are very far from • regretting that the present Administration has been called into existence. Not only will an honest Administration be held in the higher value hereafter as the natural effect pf contrast, , but .(and of this there can be no doubt) the facilities for the formation of 'such - an Administration are positively. increased by it. The consistent and honourable Tory Party have, it is clear, acquired by the Inanceuvres of the Whigs and Radicals an important aciiition to their numerical strength, available to the official. rvice of the state. His Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral is an excellent Tory, and so is the pre vent Lord Chancellor ; nor is there much reason to doubt, that those distinguished and valuable persons would feel themselves more ;at home in their respective stations, if united with a body of co ll ea gues] of political sentiments more congenial to their o'wn. The effect then of the recent changes is to Qdd two very efficient men to the official forces ot . The Tories ; for. the Earl of • - Eldon, Lord 'Melville, And the other able and upright Members of the late Administration, are liot likely to refuse their services to the country in whatever department they can be most bene . ficially employed; nor is there.any department of the public service over which they . ere not both eminently qualified to preside:—Morning P os t. A person was some time ago brought before the Lord Mayor, Tor smuggling cigars, who was represented as a man of middle age, a mate of a Hainburgh vessel, and a native of Guernsey.—.... On being placed at the bar, lie declared in the most unassuming manner, his ignorance that the act he bad committed was an infraction of the revenue laws. We were naturally led to express our surprise at this ignorance, considering what he was and whence he came ; and, reverting to our own personal acquaintance with Guernsey, w h:;cli, perhaps, we should have stated, had ceased for some years, we said, in language not stronger_ than was fairly app licable to the town of St. Pierre, when we visited it, that the whole of the people is it were directly or indirectly Con nected with smuggling. At that time there was, so far as a straoser could judge, no other traffic carried on ; every second house in the main street was a cooperage, and every cellar was filled with Hollow's, nor are we at all exaggerating when we say, that the kennels smelt of it--4he whole town smelt of it. In 1804, we recollect having seen nineteen smuggling vessels quit the roads in one morning, which could not have carried, one with another, less than five or six hundred tubs a-piece. Of our description of St. Pierre, the Guernsey Star complains in very bitter terms, and gives us as many hard names tan account pf it, as if we had had any interest in rep . resenting it as . .*e did. It states, that all these improper doings are now no more, and. that, in consequence, the town. of St. Pierre exhales the same effluvia that • other seaport towns do. We are happy to be corrected in an error into which we had been led by judging of the present by the past. We cannot help noticing, however, that the fact 'of there being but one revenue boat at St. Pierre is by no means conclusive. At the period to which we meant our remark to apply, there were, unless we very, much mistake, no revenue boat at all, for, the very obvious reason, that the island had no revenue lawn.—Nero Times. It is not a little curious to see men who have voluntarily, and for a given end, departed from the truth, at length get so habituated to falsehood as to becomq incapable of resisting its influence. This is singularly observable in those of our con temporaries who have set themselves to oppose, per fas ant iqfas, whatever is said or done by his Majesty's Ministers. Were we to arrange the open, barefaced, falsehoods which these pints have uttered since they entered on their uew occupation, we should have a string of " Lies of the Day," that would. fill our paper. They are; indeed; so deterthined upon misrepren tation, that they will not speak truth even when it would do their cause no harm. An historian says of a leader of the Roman opposition, that, rather than allow the daggers of his satellites to grow rusty, he would set them to cutting throats merely by way of practice. ,It is the same with these leaders of the present opposition ; rather, than allow their po - wers of falsifying to be weakened by disuse, they will lie gratuitously all round the compass. We made a few obser vations yesterday on the ambiguity of our Acts of Parliament, a somewhat hackneyed subject it must be allowed, and we•happened to say, that the last Edinburgh Review contained some just remarks on it. We might also have ad verted to a very good article which appeared in a number of the Quarterly, two or three years ago, had We been as fond of exhibiting our learning as an Evening Paper, which gives its -readers news from Aulus Gellius, and quotes - Bacon's aphorisMs against Mr. Canning. What will our readers imagine is, not the consequence drawn from our adverting to the Edinburgh Re niezv, but the positive assertion, that it calls forth from an opposition worthy ? That we wrote the article for the sole purpose of puffing the said Review ! Nay, (prodigious bribe !) that our reason for thus " puffing it," was our having ,received an early- copy !—We will not imitate the Billingsgate of the paper which puts forth this arrant nonsense, or we could give its cha racter very laconically. Did this depository of State secrets, past, present, and future, bribe the Duke of Wellington's footman with foul roofs ? In noticing - the ambiguity of Acts of arliament, we naturally observed, that no form of expression would effectually cure it, because it had its origin in the number and the diversity of their objects. We, at the same time, stated that the hurried way in which Bills were passed added unnecessarily to that ambiguity ; and we suggested the possibility of removing this latter evil, by making Acts, in the first instance, an nual. How, does our honest expositor read these plain words ? Why, that we seriously pro posed that all the laws of the realm should be re newed once a year. We have said enough.—lbid. ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE COAD- JUTOR BISHOP OF CLOYNE. • It is with sincere regret we have to state, that an attempt, which had nigh proved successful, was made last evening, on the life of that learned and pious Ecclesiastic, the Right Rev. Doctor Collins, Roman Catholic Coadjutor Bishop of the Dioceses of Cloyne and Ross. It appears, from letters we have seen, that a person named O'Brien, (a suspend ed Priest, and generally reported a lunatic,) called between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, at the residence of the respectable Prelate in Skibbereen, requesting to see his 'Lordship. Having got,an in terview with the Bishop, he spoke to him with ap parent calmness, and requested his influence with Doctor Coppinger, to procure a mission for him.— Doctor Collins told. him he could not interfere be tween him and Doctor Coppinger, but that he was anxious to serve him, at far as was consistent with religion. The unfortunate man then put his hand into one of his small clothes pockets, out of which he drew a pistol, which he pointed at Doctor Collins; but which forttinately missed fire. He then presented a second pistol, the contents of which passed through the fore and middle fingers of the Doctor's left hand % and slightly grazed his breast. The wound on the breast was a mere raising of the skin. The Doctor had been making out of the room, when the weapon was discharged, and did not present a full front to the assassin. After the discharge of the second pistol, O'Brien re-attempted to use the first, but the intrusion of a servant prevented him from executing his design. There were some gentlemen after dinner in poctor Collins's parlour when this occurred. They heard the report of the pistol, but they dreamed not of the quarter from which it proceeded. Accord ingly, some ran into the street, and others to the rear of the house, but none to the scene of action. Unfortunately, the worst remains yet to be told. The Police having secured O'Brien and lodged him in a place of custody, the inhabitants infur►ated by what had occurred, assembled and demanded to get at the prisoner. Doctor Collins, \ from the window of the house, in vain remonstrated with them. They flung stones at the prison, and the Police, in return, fired upon them. We trust that the latter acted with discretion on the occasion ; however that may be, one man was wounded in the breast, and one woman in the leg; neither we hope mortally.— Cork 1119:°cantile Chrmiicle. Wheat cutting has commenced in this neigh bouchacd ; next week it will be very general, Seme beans have also been cut. Should we be blessed by Providence with favourable weather, the harvest.will be as productive and the grain as fine in quality, as has been known for many years.— Worcester Journal. DIFFICULTY OF MANNING THE ANIERI CAN NavY.—The following observations upon the system and means of manning the American navy are worthy of attention :—" Here (at New York) I had an opportunity of observing the extreme difficulty which the Americans experience in manning their navy. A large bounty is offered by the Government to seamen, but it is found in adequate to induce them to enter the service in sufficient numbers. In England no bounty is given, and sailors are at liberty to select the ship in which they choose to serve. This was found to be impracticable in the United States, in consequence of the excessive desertion ; and it becanee necessary to fit up the Fulton as a general receiving ship, where men are' entered for the service of the navy, and kept under strict surveillance. This vessel is commanded by a captain; and to such straits are they reduced for seamen, that she is completely fitted out for sea, with masts, yards, and sails for the purpose of drilling raw recruits from the inland states and converting them into sailors. It happened, that while I was in the yard, the officer of the . rendezvous brought up his report. In the course of that day, he had procured only two men, one of whom was a landsman. I was assured that he was well satisfied with this wretched acquisition, which surprised me the more, as was aware that the Brandywine and Boston were fitting out, and that they were greatly in want of hands. This scarcity o f men is by no means confined to their ships of war ; American merchantmen are well known to he prin cipally manned by foreign seamen."--M. De Roos's Per sonal Narrative, SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Ctock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Whitehall, July 24, 1827. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Bellingham, of Brighton, in the county of Sussex, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Joseph Corbyn, Token-house-yard, Lothbury, master, mariner. Kezia Franks, Wickham-street, Portsea, glass-dealer. BANKRUPTS. Tycho Pilbrow, Exeter, musical-insturment-seller, to surrender, August 15, 16, and September '7, as eleven, at the New London-inn, Exeter. Brutton and Clipperton , Old Broad-street, and Brutton, Exeter. George Peak Boyce, Princess-street, Haymarket, gun smith, August 3, at ten and eleven, and September '7, at ten at the Court of Commiesioners. Goven and Price, Orchard-street, Portman-square. John Thomas .Denny, George-street, Baker-street, Mary-le-bone, victualler, Aug. 2, at six, 3, at twelve, and Sept. 7, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Ellison and Bloxham, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Kezia Franks, Portsea, glass and china-dealer, August 3, 10, and Sept. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Norton, White-Cross-street. Charles Smart, Chalford, Gloucester, baker, Aug, 8, at five, 9, and Sep. 2, at ten, at thelßeaufort Arms, Hawks bury-upton. Dax, Son, and Meredith, 'Holborn -court, Gray's Inn ; and Stone, Tetbury. William Carpenter, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, book seller, Aug. 3, at ten,lo, at eleven, and Sept. 7, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Sutcliffe, Bridge-street, Blackfriars. Christopher Elliott, Brighton, Sussex, grocer, August 4,7, and Sept. 7, at one, at the Albion Hotel, Brighton. Holme and Co. New-inn ; and Coldbatch, Brighton. William Clarke, Northampton, innkeeper, Aug. 13, at six, 14, and Sept. 7, at ten, at the Office of Mr. Theo philus Jeyes, Solicitor, Northampton. Jeyes, Chancery lane, London ; and Jeyes, Northampton. Samuel Brown, Old-street, St. Luke's, straw4onnet manufacturer, August 3, 14, and September 7, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Willis, Sloane-square, Chelsea. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Juror 26. GIBBON 5. TOWNLEY. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved for a new trial of the issue in this case, the question iu which was, as to the plaintiff's title as heir-at-law, ex-pgrte materna, of one Matthew Gibbon. The LORD-CHANCELLOR asked what was the value of the property ? •Mr. HEALD believed it was about 1301. a year. The LORD CHANCELLOR regretted that a matter of such small value should have been so much liti gated. It had already been tried four times, and he wondered that any of the property was left, after the expellees which must have been incurred about it. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, two verdicts had been given in favour of his clients. Mr. HEALD was incompetent to argue this case, not having been present the trial of the issue. He was . to have had the assistance of Mr. Pollock; and if gentlemen of the common-law bar could not attend, he must give up such cases as required their assistance. It was then agreed that the Solicitor-General and the counsel with him should be .heard, and the further .betiring.of Alta ease was postponed. „ • VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JULY 26. RESPONSIBILITY OF SHIP-OWNERS-TESL , WOIF AND OTHERS. Mr. BICKERSTETH said that he had to apply to his Honour for an injunction to restrain the defendants from proceeding in actions at law against the plain tiff, and for leave to pay certain monies into Court. The plaintiff was the sole owner of a vessel called the Pomona, freighted from Portugal, and having on board property belonging to the defendants. The vessel was (Liven, by stress of weather, into Gibral tar, where it was found that considerable damage had been done to the cargo. The defendants then brought their action against the plaintiff, to recover the amount of the damage thus sustained, and it. was for the prevention of their proceeding with the same that the present injunction was prayed. The VICE-CUANCELLOR said, that the case was perfectly clear. He was bound to grant both the injunction and the prayer for the payment of the money into Court. He could not help remarking here, that it was a very odd circumstance that the people who were most clamorous against the tyranny and oppression of the Court of Chancery were the mercantile persons ; and yet those very persons had for the last few years contrived, by the aid of Par liament, to shelter themselves under its powers in a variety of instances. Upon the present case he should only observe, that it had called into op eration quite a new jurisdiction of the Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday George Mason, who owns a cottage and a small piece of land immediately ad joining Target Cottage; the property of the Baron de Be- Fenger, at Kentish-town, was summoned by the latter for threatening his life with a loaded fowling-piece. From the statement of the Baron it appeared, that being engaged in the prosecution of various scientific discoveries, he had taken a cottage at Kentish-town with a view of for warding his studies, to which place he had removed his family. He had, however, the misfortune of having in the person of the defendant, a most troublesome and unaccom modating neighbour. It happened that he (the Baron) owned a good many ducks, and these ducks were in the habit of resorting to a large pond upon his grounds, from which pond there ran a ditch (a branch of the ancient Fleet ditch), and into this ditch the ducks would some times waddle for pastime, and from thence ascend the hank at the opposite side, and ramble through the defendant's garden. Now there was no disputing that this was not a trespass, and the ducks were liable to be im pounded for the sane ; but the defendant thought proper to adopt a More vindictive course, and according as the Web-footed intruders entered tLe premises, he shot them without any ceremony. This conduct the defendant in to the size and sagiseteodfotnhepunrsncuoinnsgeloaunsdoftweintdheorust, adzulyckri4egadtrdakes, and duck lings were maimed and kill ed without the sli g ht est merc y . Threats and remonstrances were equally in vain. The gun of the defendant kept up an almost incessant fire, until at last 27 ducks, including some of the tender age of nine days, fell victims to its remorseless aim. It was not, how ever, so much the loss of the ducks that the Baron coMplained of, as the danger to which he and his family were exposed from the random shooting of the defendant. His (the Baron's) children were constantly running about the grounds, and they were not unfrequently at p la y at the other side of the ditch, at the very moment when the shot from the defend ant's gun rattled against the adjoining hedge. " Well, Mr. Mason," said Mr. HA LT,S, " what have you to say to the serious charge preferred against you ?" " I have got this to say," said the defendant, " that I had a right to shoot these here ducks, because they were eating up my cabbages, and destroying my young plants. I have been terribly annoyed, t your Worship, both by the ducks and the`Baron's children, who are constantly tramp ing down my garden." ".The children never go near your garden," said the Baron, "except now and then that they climb over the wall to pick up the dead ducks ; hut you generally take care, Mr. Mason, to save them that trouble." yr. Harts, after observing that' the defendant's con duct had shown him, to be a man whose temper rendered him unfit to be trusted with firearms, directed him to find g ood bail t o keep the peace towards the Baron and the rest of the King's subjects. • A dirty-looking man, without a coat, and.the remainder of whose garments did not appear ;o he worth a shilling, was lutinmoned by the driver of a hackney-c6ieh for re fusing to pay him an additional sixpence. The appearanCe of the defendant as a party co mplained against in such a cause excited some surprise ; and as it appeared that the coachman was justified in making the demand, Mr. llAt.t.s could not but express his astonishment at the folly of a man with - a dirty ,shirt, and without a coat, enjoying the luxury of a drive, and then subjecting himself to he pulled up for sixpence, at the hazard of being saddled with the expences, in the event of the coachman's proving his case, which they generally took care to do. ' " I merely wished to try the question of distance," said the defendant, quite coolly, 4 , and as I find the coachman was right, I of course must pay." " Eleven shillings," said Mr. Sedley, the clerk, "in cluding the disputed sixpence." "Only see," said the Magistrate, " what your folly has brou g ht you to." " Why, it's rather a dear ride to be sure," said the man, " bat I wished to try the question." So saying, he drew a handful of money froM a greasy pocket, paid the amount with the greatest good humour, and seemed quite reconciled to his loss, having had the satisfaction of " trying the question.'* HATTON-GARDEN.— William Taylor, a youth about 15 years of age, was charged with stealing a hearth rug, the property of Mr. Cowen, of Southampton-street. Waddington, the officer, stated thift as he was passing by Southampton-street, on Saturday last, about half-past twelve o'clock, be saw the prisoner going quickly alonc , with a rug under his arm. Witness looked at him with earnestness, and the prisoner observing witness, hastily threw off his shoes and ran away, taking with him the rug, which, however, he dropped in Slade's passage, leading to Goswell-street. Witness followed him, but before he came up to him, the prisoner was stopped by a street keeper. Waddington took the rug and the prisoner, and soon after ascertained that the rug had been stolen front Mr. Cowen's shop. Prisoner asked witness to let him off. Mrs. Cowen identified the rug as being the property of her husband. It had been exposed for sale in the chop at 57, Southampton-street. She saw the rug in the shop on Saturday morning, 'at half-past eleven, and missed it in about an hour after. Taylor denied having stolen the rug, and laid that be . found it in the street rolled up. The uncle of the boy said that every thing had been done for Taylor to no purpose. He had been put into several situations, but would not remain many of them. Mr. Lama told Taylor to make the Jury believe, if he could, that he found the rag in the street.—Coistsnittes , . Wm. 4ohn Kingman was charged with assaulting Mrs. Armstrong, his landlady. Mrs. Armstrong stated that the defendant lodged in her house, and was removing his furniture which she endea voured to prevent. A scuffle ensued, and he struck her. Witnesses were called who proved the assault. Mr. LAixo ordered Kingman to find bail. Kirby, the officer, here complained that Charles De Roche, one of Kingaman's friends, collected a mob about him at the corner of Hatton-garden and Hatton-wan, and they shouted after him, and attempted to impede hint in the execution of his duty. Mr. LAING orilTed De Roche to be placed at the bar. Kirby was sworn to the truth of his complaint. Mr. LAING asked De Roche what he bad to say to the charge. De Roche said he had been in the neighbouring public house with hie friend and several others, including the officer and Mrs. Armstrong, and all of them left the public-house at the same time on their way to this office. There were a number of people together, but he denied that they were collected as a mob, or did any act to impede the officer in the discharge of his duty. Mr. LAING-If you don't make an apology to the officer, you shall find bail, Sir. De Roche—l have net been guilty of any thing, Sir, for which I ought to apologise. .Mr. LA rwc—You have collected a mob about this office, Sir, and unless you make an apology to him you must find bail. De Roche, after a few hens and haws, consented to apo logise, considering it wiser to do so than to have to go the trouble and expence of procuring bail, and after that to go to the Sessions. —He was then discharged. INIARYLEBONE.—Mr. Tomlins, of the Bed Lion public-hotise, Harrow-road, appeared with his solicitor, 'Mr. Harmer, to answer two informations exhibited against him by Paddington parish, for keeping his house open till unlawful hours on the nights of Friday and Saturday, the 13th and 14th instant. . _ Before entering upon the charge, some conversation took place between the solicitors for-the pariah and the defend ant, relative to there being two informations. Mr. liar, mer declared that he only can prepared to speak to one= namely, that on the Saturday evening, and conceived there must have been some mistake as to the dates ; it was found, however, on explanation, that the parish had lodged two, as stated. To the second, he said, in consequence of not receiving instructions, he must be obliged to acknowledge be bad no defence. Daniel Boyd, a watchman, swore, that being on duty on Friday, the Igth, and having received directions from the serjeant of the watch for that purpose, he kept a particular look-out on the defendant's premises. There were lights in the long-room, and he heard singing, and as late as a quarter past one he saw ten men come out of the house. The serjeant of the watch, Thomas Lockwood, bore tes timony to the truth of his statement. He set him to watch, as he had said ; and to make sure of the fact of there being persons in the house, he himself came and lis tened, and at the hour mentioned, not only heard singing, but could plainly distinguish the drawing of corks. It turned it out, as to this particular evening, that there had been a shoemaker's club held at the house, and the singing and drawing of corks happened in consequence of their keeping their jollity up until rather too late an hour. There being no defence to this charge, Mr. Tomlins was fined 40s. The second information charged the defendant with a repetition of the like offence, on the night of the following day (Saturday), and early on the Sunday morning ; on e both which he was stated to halve entertained company in his house from the hours of 11 until two o'clock. The evidence was the same watchman, Boyd.—At eight minutes past one, on the Sunday morning, he deposed he saw two men come out of the defendant's house; and at half-past one as many as thirty. He admitted that there •were no persons let in--they were only let out. Mr. Harmer explained the business. There was, he said, a Mr. Purdy, a gunmaker, a most respectable trades man, who had given his men a dinner at the defendant's house. It was an annual one, a sort of bean feast. Men on those occasions would stay a little longer than usual. He had not kept his house open to admit a promiscuous company, but merely for their aceommodation. Mr. GRIFFITH, who sat with Mr: Hosnws, hinted that a party dining at three o'clock, which he understood they did, might have enjoyed themselves, and yet broke up before one o'clock. Ten hours, he said, was a long time to sit drinking. Mr. Harmer.--They were not drinking, Sir, all that time, I presume. There is a bowling-green and 'skittle grounds ; and some would, no doubt, take a little walk, and then return back to tea, or smoke their pipes. I have a witness here (Mr. Purdy's foreman was put forward) who, I believe, can prove that Mr. Tomlins endeavoured to clear the house of company as early as possible. Mr. Pnrdy's foreman said, that long before the hour charged, Mr. Tondins requested the company would depart, and that the singing was stopt in consequence. — He got rid of them as soon afterwards as he possibly could. The Magistrates consulted together, and taking the cir cumstances into consideration, that it was a dinner party, and that the house was closed to other company, directed that the defendant should pay the 4xpences only. A person, who described himself as the parish-broker of Kilburn, applied to the Magistrates for advice under the following circumstances : —He was 'employed in the course of his duty to distrain on the _goods of a carpenter, for non , payment of parish rates, and having made his seizure of a water-butt, washing-tubs, scaffolding, and other articles of a similar descrip ° tion, which were in the yard (for he ha d been prevented from entering the house) put an old man into pos session, with an inventory, and quitted the premises. He had not left long, when the man's wife, finding the person in possession to be only a poor old tottering infirm creature, laid violent hands on the property, and forcibly removed it into the house. The old man told her she was doing wrong, and warned her of the consequences, but she dared him to follow the goods, and ultimately got them all into the house, from whence her husband afterwlrds bad them conveyed away. The broker stated that the goods should have been condemned to-day, the five days' expiring to morrow, and that lie was likely himself to be subjected to the loss of them, unless something could be done for him in the case. Mr. GRIFFITH said there did not appear to have been any breach of the peace committed, or assault on the per son of the old man in possession, and therefore lie could not take cognizance of the charge; the woman had not taken the goods off the premises, in the first instance, but only removed them from the yard into the house, and he had no evidence to show that they had been taken out of the house afterwards. He must apply for redress to the Yestry of Kilburia;who' could take the proper steps in the business. UNION-HALL.—Three young men, named Glynn, Ladd, And Zak the eons of respectable individual, were brought before the sitting Magistrate, R. J. Craamaras, Esq., charged, under the Wilful Damage Act, with destroy ing some furniture, and defacing the premises, of Mrs. Bloomfield, in Lambeth. The complainant stated, that a female, named Robinson, had apartments in her house, to which the defendants had constant access. The complainant, a few evenings ago, discovered, on her return home, that in her absence, her lodger had absconded ; and on entering the rooms which ' she occupied, the table was found broken to pieces, the chairs were knocked about, and the walls and ceiling were plastered with rotten eggs, which it appeared were purchased for the express purpose of mutilating the apartments, and rendering them unfit for the habitation of any respectable persons. The complainant, knowing the defendants to have committed the offence, procured warrants against them, and had them taken into custody. Mrs. Bloomfield estimated the damage she sustained at 51., and had pre viously consented to accept a compensation to that amount from the defendants ; but they refused to give her any re dress, and she was therefore compelled to seek the present mode. The Magistrate inflicted a penalty of Si. and costs on the defendants under the above Act ; and having been asked whether they were prepared to pay it between them, the answer was in the negative. MAGISTRATE.-- ' Then I shall commit you all to Brixton. None of the friends of the defendants came forward in their behalf, as it appeared, in consequence of their irre gularities and dissipation, they inflicted much pain in the minds of their respective relatives. When the hour arrived for the departure of the defend ants to Brixton, along with the other persons destined for that place, the former showed a disposition to resist enter. ing the vehicle used for the purpose of conveying offenders. They were, however, ultimately placed •in the cart, and driven off to their new abode. TAKING THE. WHALE. (From the Portsmouth Journal, an American Paper. ) The scene exhibited in the Piscataqua last week, was an occasion worthy of the descriptive powers of the Author of Waverly or Mr. Cooper. A small whale of the pikeheaded species, so common on the New-England coast, in ehasing a shoal (or school as our fishermen have it) of alewives, was induced to enter the river, and, in the eagerness of the. pursuit, finding the game perhaps very abundant, actually passed the Portstiforitla Bridge, about three miles from the sea. He ascended the -ri4e.lor mirat.4ltance, sporting in its clear waters, making sad havoi amongst the small fry, - and •being a source of wonder and delight to all the men, women, and children _who live in these regions. In descend ing the river at his leisure, his whaleship showed an evident reluctance at again passing the bridge : whether the sight of it terrified him, or whether, as some think, he had bruised himself against the piles in going up ; or whether, as it seems to us more probable, the tide, which runs at the rate of four or five miles an hour, in coming in contact with the piles, sounded to him like the sea upon the breakers, we cannot determine.— But so it was, he would not pass the bridge, but upon coming in sight of it, turned about and ascended the river again with great velocity. For a distance of six or eight miles from the sea, the Piscataqua is a deep, and broad, and beautiful river, large enough to catain the whole navy of the United States, were it forty times as big as it is now ; but at the distance it diverges into three or four smaller streams, neither of which is thought worthy to retain the name. The largest of these is the Exeter River, and across this, about six miles above the first, is thrown another bridge ; and of this bridge the monster seemed to entertain the same soft of ap prehension as he did of the other ; so that the two helped to form a sort of enclosure, which proved as effectual to prevent his escape as if they had been bars of iron. In the meantime the cupidity of the fisher men and the zeal of the sportsmen begun to be roused, alld the river was soon covered with boats in full chase for the whale. Soine of his pursuers were armed with spears and lances, some with muskets, and a few had harpoons ; not one of them had ever seen a whale killed, or had thrown a harpoon, except perhaps at a por poise or a . hallibut ; but to it they went, deter mined to make up in resolution and perseverance what they lacked in knowledge and•dexterity. The attack commenced ou Friday afternoon ; his pursuers, however, seemed to make but little impression for some days ; the musquet-balls he cared no more for than for the pellets of a pop gun ; they could not reach him with spear of lance, and it was long before they could get pro perly shaped harpoons, and longer yet before they could throw them with any certainty ; so that the death of the whale seemed an event somewhat remote ; and it was even suggested that we had better send to Nantucket or New Bedford for a reinforcement. On Monday afternoon he seemed determined to give his pursuers as fair an opportunity as they could desire ; he moved .slowly up against the tide, appearing at the surface every three or four minutes, to take breath and to look about him ; there were not less than twenty boats in the river round him, and the bridge below, and the islands on each side, were thronged with Spectators; he would rise slowly to the surface head foremost, throw up a column of water some twenty feet in the air, bend his huge car case into the shape of a crescent, and gradually disappear, after having shown half his body, as din sport, or in derision to his host of enemies ; he could evidently discern the boats as he rose, for although he did not advance up stream twenty rods for half an hour, yet he always contrived to avoid the boats, which were dashing across in every direction. This day, however, passed without success, and so had nearly the next ; but at five o'clock in the afternoon, .avoiding his enemies, he be took himself into that branch of the river which leads towards Berwick, followed by a single boat, manned by some enterprising fishermen by the name of Willey. They now felt sure of their game, and followinglhim rapidly into this stream, they soon had an opportunity to throw a harpoon fairly into his back. The creature made tremen dous exertions to free himself ; and at last broke the cord attached to the harpoon; another bow ever was instantly despatched, and down the river went the whale dragging a boat containing seven melt with the velocity of lightning. He e s b o y o n c o e l n o c n o e u l n p t e e r c ed at u r a , n another boat, who again com manded trans fixed him, and yet' notwithstanding the innu merable thrusts he was receiving from lances and darts by the men from both boats, he continued to drag them up and down the river until seven o'clock the next morning. Such tenacity of life , we can scarcely comprehend. The whale was brought into town the next day, and was exhibited for the gratification of public curiosity. It does not seem to be accu rately described in any book on zoology which we have had an opportunity of examining ; it is pike-headed, but wants the doral fin of the com mon pike-headed whale. On Thursday evening, about seven o'clock, a woman of the name of Needham, residing in South-street, attempted suicide at the house of her sister in Younge street, by cutting her throat with a razor. Her husband being in the house,. with the assistance of an Irishwoman, succeeded in depriving her of the instrument before she had done herself any serious injury, a slight wound Only having been inflicted: The woman had been in a low de. n 343l ding 044 of mind for Kora time...Bl4ficla THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.-July R 5. . This day's supply was by no means great, but the buyers having been comparatively few in number, each kind of meat went off slowly, at the following prices per stone of 81b. to sink the offals Beef —.— 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. f Veal —.....—. 2d. to ss. 2cl stutton _3 4 4 4 Pork ---- 4 0 5 0 _____. _______ Lamb 4s. Od. to ss. Od The foregoing quotations are, Veal, Ed: per stone beyond those of this day se'nnight. In prices of Beef, Mutton, Lamb, and Pork, no alteration. Considerable numbers of Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs, left the market unsold. LEWES MARKET.—JuIy 24. Beet 4s. Od. to'4s. Bd. Veal 4s. dd. to ss. OJ, I Mutton 4 0 410 Pork— 0 0 0 0 Lamb ' 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. Supply moderately good, and trade, except with the very primed stock, very dull. RUMFORD MARKET.—JuIy 25. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. , Beef 3lO 4 8 I Veal Muttou 3 8 4 5 Pork 4 2 5 2 Lamb 4a. Od. to N. Od. Suckling Calves from 14s. to 39s ; Quarter old Pigs Qs. to 14s. each. Supply good. and trade dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Beans. Per Quarter. s. to a. a. to s. s. to a. s. to s. Blandford ....-- 52 60 38 44 30 36 54 .60 Brigg— 55 60 34 38 26 32 42 4$ 57 23 20 47 Chard ----...—,.. 56 76 33 44 24 32 45 ". 48 Huntingdon— 24 39 47 59 Louth 59 62 39 40 26 30 52 56 59 62 SO 44 22 29 52 60 Newark 60 63 38 46 30 37 53 64 Norwich**. 55 62 36 40 25 28 40 42 Nottingham 38 65 40 47 29 32 54 59 Peterborough —.— 58 60 30 34 Plymouth 56 6(1 37 38 25 29 56 32 42 30 35 56 64 Uppingham --- 56 62 39 42 26 38 53 66 Wished] 52 60 24 31 50 52 York A, 62 38 42 21 30 54 50 LEEDS CORN MARKET, July 24. . . There was a large supply of Wheat, Barley, and Oats; fine fresh Wheat sold at much the same prices as last week, but stale samples and Foreign were almost unsaleable. There was a good deal of Foreign Barley offered for malt ing at 345. to 360., and grinding at Sos. to 325. per quar ter, but very little business done in.elther. In Oats and Shelling there was no alteration. Beans were dull sale, and rather lower. Nothing doing in Rapeseed.. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 60113. -- York. and LiDCOII.I. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and &lablk ' 20 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding 32s. to 335. % Beans 631 b. Oats, Potatoe 1 to .3 1. 4 1 : . ,4 ,-• —llealing, Xoreign 14d. to 15d....English !N raw!. per ;V Shelling ~...ndr.::.- 5 411. to 365. per lead. rtepossetl a -Kiaglitb atii..t44l.-e-- -- Foreign, —l. to —/. yet last. , MANCHESTER SMITHFIELD.—JuIy 25 At per lb. sinking the olThl. 2,324 Sheep sd, to 80. I lA Calves -- :us Cattle 4 0 4 pi o 3,158 Lambs at *l. to +lid. 3,id. to id. 4 5 'MANCHESTER POT ATOE MARRET.—JuIy 21. Potatoes, 7s. 6d., —5., Bs., and 92.0 d. per load of I'2 score and 121bs. ; New ditto, S.. 0,1., Os., 95., and 10s. per ditto; Turnip;. its. Od., Os. Od. an#os, Od. per load of 16 pecks ; Onions, small, Od. per lb. MANCHESTER YAW: No. d. d. I .N MARK: P.—July 24. 30 II to .12 40.......,. IV 12 50 16 17 -17 iat "0 --, tot 22 80 24 20 100 —.-- 30 32 120 --, 34 36 • 10 .-- 8 A 14 9 18 .--- 10 1 24 10 11 Throstle Twist, 20 —lll to 121 30 —l3 14 40 ....IS lti MuleCop . Mule copTwisti 30 Ili 121 NVeft for warp..,~„ 40.,,14 15 50 - 17 19 60...20 21 70 —2l 26 'Weft from 80..2831 waste HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, JULY 25.--The general accounts from our Plantation are of a more favourable character ; about the middle of last week an improvement took place, and at present some grounds are quite clean, and coming into burr. There are other grounds which still remain foul, and can do little , blight having attacked the fresh shoots. Under these cir cumstances, the crop will of course be partial. Our Dal has got up to 6,0001. Prices are rather lower. hi the Borough the Duty of the Kingdom rose yesterday to 95,0001., but many persons think it over-rated. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY.—MoNDAY, JULY 30. 3 Moneyroeut, M., Swaffhana—Rampant Horse, Norwich Potter and Holt, Oldham—Palace, Manchester Rangeley, A., Hayfield, Glossop—Warren Eulkeley Arms, ~ Stockport ; Ratcliffe and Co., Manchester—Star, Manchester Scholfteld, J., Outrington, Cheshire--Messrs. Law anct Manchester C 0.,., 1 Waters and Co., Bristol—Mr. Beddoe, Brist o l • I Wood, W., Salford—Hayward's, Manchester JULY SI. li ° Barthley, E., Crompton—Palace, Manchester Bellehambers, E., Cheltenham—Royal Hotel, Cheltenham li. Cox, W., Burton-on-Trent—Crown, Burton ...... Gillibrand, W., Bolton—Star, Manchester Hodson and Co., Radcliffe—Star, Manchester lO Howe, S., Devonport—London inn, Devouport Harris, J., Modbury—Globe, Exeter II Ireland, J., Cattistock—George, Crewierne Lloyd, A., Dolgelly—Talbot, Shrewsbury I Lowe, T., Middlewich—Albion, Hanley ll lloneyment, M., Swaffliam—Rampant horse, Norwich Morris, 8,, Cheltenham—Royal hotel, Cheltenham Phillips, G., Brighton—White Morse, Brighton Potter and Holt, Oldham—Palace inn, Manchester Reynolds, H., Cheltenham—Fleece Gloucester l° Matter, T.; Manchester and W. Pearson, London—Star, Man chester ll INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED , Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. JULY 31, AT Nita. Hartley, J., King-strict, West- Matthews, J., Portsmouth „, minster 'Smith, J., swallow-street, '" Lawrence, .1., Castle-at., Lei- James's ceeter-square Steele, G., Britannia-terrace' Lewin, J., Somers' town City-road Marsden, 1., Littleboro', Lan- Tuppenny, G., Lambeth cashire Whitelaw, J., Somers'-town Quantock, G., Great Turnstile,' Wilson, J., Cornhill Holborn •-bouie; Shrewsbury, July 26 '? o'clock. Amp')lett, T., Lloyds Jonee, J.,Cizorley Andrews, T., Ludlow Lowe, ~ Dosuaington , Benyou, J., Ellesmere Owen, R., Luppington Dodson, F., Rushbury Parish, J., Oldbury, Halei' Garbett, R., Wellington oven Giles, 8., F.ardinton Rigby, 'P., Sbiffnall Gregory, C., Market Drayton Woodsll,'P., Wellington • • At Dover, July 3), at Nine. Bandock, a, Alargate Miles, J., Margate • Clark, P., Rye Sutton, T., Sandwich Claringbould, W., Dover Wood, R., Margate Milea,'J., Canterbury COUNTRY..---At the Court. at Ten On Monday week, about eleven A.M. a cir lumn of dust, &c. arose, as if caused by a whirlwind, at the S.E. corner of the Ballast Hills, near this town. Ii assumed the form of a pyramid, about 1 . 0 feet high, and moved in a direction towards the houses on the N.E. aid e of the open apace in front of the burying-ground, agains t which it broke, and nearly smothered a poor woman wil e Was carrying a basket of earthenware. Many people sail it, who describe it to have been as broad at the bottom as a large hay-stack. It was partly composed of cinders ar small stones-- Tyne Mercury. BIRTHS. • The lady of W. Sharpe, Esq., of Upper Berkely-streets Portman-square, of a son. On the 20th instant, thelady of Captain Ellice, R.N. , of a son. On the 26th inst., at Lewisham, Mrs. John Oswald, of a son. On the 25th inst. at Hinxworth Rectory, Herts, Mrs. 5- Lafont, of a son. DIED. This morning, of consumption, Mr. William Bacon, of the Hare, Cambridge-heath, Hackney-road, aged 46 years• On the 25th inst., Mrs. M. Treble, relict of the late Mr. J. Treble, and upwards of 50 years an inhabitant of St• Marylebone. On the 25th inst., aged 83, Mr. Thomas Blades, of Wandsworth-road, Clapham, formerly of Piccadilly, St. James's. On the 26th inst., at his father's house, Devonshire street, Portland-place, aged 11, Chas. Whitmore, second eon of C. Babbage, Esq. On the 25th inst., at his house in Baker-street, after very short illness, most deeply and deservedly lamented by his family and friends, Alexander George Mackay, Esq. of Bagthorpe Hall, the county of Norfolk, in the 60 year of his age. On the 23d inst., at llatchett's hotel, John Wickens , . Esq., late of Mapperton in the county of Dorset, in the 88th year of his age. On the 20th inst., at Tunbridge Wells, Anne, eldest daughter of the late Edward Golding, Esq., of Maiden Erlegh, Berks. On Tuesday last, after a few days' illness, Mr. H. Hen frey, aged 48, many years belonging to the firm of Messrs.; stolliffe and Banks. Mr. H. possessed considerable talent, which, combined with great experience and practical en gineering, rendered him a valuable assistant in the con-, struction of the Waterloo, Southwark, and the New Lon don Bridges. On the 22d inst., at Crawley, near Winchester, Willisig` the infant son of the Rev. S. Best. PRIN7cSI) and PUBLISSIED by hl. YOUNG, at tie Surf-Onus, No. I lg a Strand, I NOI NI %ENE] }liver, th, of Londo Works of Judy insta Dated ,__ I)Rovir N° PROM o n FRIT» The C Cr house an Ihteakfast Excellent or 2e. PE reasonabl don, Irisl Coffee-ro T• wtsT. ~ HA-N 4 Office: tle men of the ( of their Bette, F 1 factured Wash -h; Mule an of Tilt* ANA with the climates. 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