The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-21 00:00:00

tended with so many difficulties, that we almost despair of any arrangement. Putting aside all considerations with regard to the property of the share of the tithes now enjoyed by the Church, it is quite clear that, whether the tithes belong to the nation or the corporation now enjoying them, they form a fund to which the landowners have no claim whatever. Thus, with regard to the share of tithes in the possession of laymen, they must be dealt with like ether property. But it is quite evident, from the language held at county meetings, that any arrangement on the prin ciple of a fair commutation will be rejected by the landowners and yeomanry in general. The yeo men of Devon and Cornwall have taken it into their heads that tithes ought to be commuted at a tenth part of the rent. he injustice of that is well pointed out by Mr. Charles Buller, in his letter read at the meeting at Liskeard. The rent, as he observes, is one third of gross pro duce ; and a tithe of the rent is, instead of a tenth of the gross produce, only a thirtieth part. We are, therefore, by no means sanguine as to the possibility of an arrangement ; and we be- . lieve the farm er s are , in the eastern parts of England, lukewarm on the subject. Another question, the settlement of which will be at tended with much difficulty, is the corn ques tion. In all the great towns, and throughout the manufacturing districts, great importance is attached to a free trade in corn. On the other hand, no representative will hereafter be re turned from a county, not pledged to vote against a free trade in corn. The landowners are persuaded that the effect of a free trade would be to lower the average price in this country, and consequently to lower rents ; and they will not yield to any abstract considerations of national benefit. So long as the manufac turing population continue in full employment, the danger from having a question like this unsettled may not be great ; but the first recur rence of manufacturi ng di stress w ill g i ve a fearfulimportance to it. In a country whence manufactures are exported, corn must always be dearer and manufactures cheaper than in other countries, and therefore the landowners of Eng land are without a shadow of justification for the use they make of their ascendancy in the Legislature in inflicting this injustice on the community, and clearly may we all yet have to repent their injustice. Besides the question 01 tithes, there is the separate question of the claims of the Dissenters, and the reform in the Episcopalian Church. There will, we should suppose, be little difficulty with regard to the claims the Dissenters now mean to urge. The Dissenters are too prudent to press points at present on which the nation is not sufficiently informed. The question of union between Church and State, and the mode of making the Universities available to all sects, require to be further elucidated. With respect to the reforms in 4he interior of the Episcopalian Church itself, there are difficulties which may be obviated, but we do not well see how, if the reforms are to be.of importance. But there are many other questions claiming the attention of the Legislature, but more especially the two for which Commissions of Inquiry have been appointed—the poor laws and the state of the municipal corporations. The laws with regard to the poor are full of abuses ; and in many parts of the country the unemployed labourers fill the owners and occupiers of land with the utmost alarm. In some places, a sort of Agra rian system is in operation, as the only remedy for the - demoralization caused by want of em ployment. The bastardy law and law of settle ment are among the worst parts of the present poor system. It will require great exertions and great sacrifices to escape from the consequences of the paying wages out of the rates—an evil, which, wherever it prevails, has reduced the peo ple to a bondage far worse than that of the middle ages, because there is no suitable machinery for compelling the labourer to work in our days. The Corporation Inquiries will open up a boundless field of controversy. Every part of th e field of law demands re f orm . Our colonies, too are in a state which demands the notice of the Le. gislature. Hitherto colonies have been places for the reception ofall idlers possessed of Parliamen tary influence to whom it became necessary to give an income at the expense of the people of thi, country. We have said nothing of the imme diate demands which will be made from all quarters on the very opening of the session for the repeal of taxes. Financial questions must necessarily occupy a great deal of the time of the ensuing session. We have deemed it not un advisable to indicate some of the matters which demand more attention than Parliament can give to them—and with respect to many of Which a good deal of 'di ssa pp o i ntment w ill b e felt—ht order to render more evident the wis dom of the policy that would concentrate the attention of Government and the Legislature on our domestic affairs. We have a long arrear of reform before us which cannot be safely delayed. Let us avail ourselves of the opportunity while we may. There is much in this country to endear it to its inhabitants ; and it becomes, therefore, the more necessary neither to proceed xashly with reforms, so as to endanger what merits preservation, nor to procrastinat e so much as to render the people indifferent and hopeless of effectual ameliorations. —Morn. Chronicle. The specific announcement of a close and intimate understanding between Russia and Austria on the subject of Wiley, made by the Allgemeine Zeitung, seems to us a superfluous piece of information. It is not to be supposed that Austria could be so blind to her own in terests as to regard with indifference, or without alarm, the progress which Russian ambition is making in the East of Europe, if site had not a secret understanding with Russia to' participate in the advantages of the vast project of aggran dizement which the latter Power is preparing, when opportunity serves, to carry into complete execution. Russia is virtually in possession of Constantinople, and has been so from the mo ment that she obtained that treaty which binds the imbecile Government of the Ottoman em- pire to close the Dardanelles against any or *every other Power at the requisition of the Au tocrat, There can be no doubt that if this troty had been concluded without the knowledge -- - or consent of Austria she would have taken Alarm. The formidable movement of the colossal power of Russia southwards would have re called to her recollection that from the scat of the ancient Byzantium a warlike people once poured their victorious legions to the gates of Vienna. She knows that the Turks could never again become a conquering P ower i n Europe, while a Russian nation planted on the Bosphorus might prove itself a most dangerous neighbour. The bonds of amity must, there fore, be very closely drawn between the two Powers—their union, indeed, must be cemented by something far more binding than mere gene ral expressions of diplomatic courtesy, to have the effect of preventing the jealousy of the one Power from being excited by the aggrandizement of the other. The most probable explanation of the apparent apathy of Austria is, that her portion of the spoils of the defunct empire of Turkey is guaranteed to her by a secret treaty, as in the case of the original partition of Poland ; and it is likely that Prussia also is to have some territorial equivalent for the great preponderance of power which Russia will acquire when her designs upon Turkey shall have been consum mated. It is true that, with regard to the con nection between Austria and Russia, a correspon dent of the Allgemeine Zeitung now denies the existence of a treaty which that Journal lately announced as having been concluded between those two Powers. Nothing can be more deceptive in general than what are called official and demi-official announcements. One half of them are Cabinet fictions, to de ceive the public through the medium of the press, and a large proportion of the other half consists of the fictions of persons who pretend to be in the secrets of the Cabinets, or of stock jobbing inventions, to o p erate on t h e money market. At least the experience of late years bears out our description, and justifies us in relying more upon the evidence of probabilities as to the intended proceedings of Governments than upon any announcements " from autho rity." Thus, if we had placed any reliance upon the repeated announcements made during three years past by our own Treasury Papers of the speedy or immediate settlement of the Belgic anti Dutch question, we should have been, like them, under the awkward necessity of continu ally making statements only to retract them. Instead of so doing, we looked to what was probable or improbable, according to the general course of policy which particular Governments pursued. We observed whether any affair of state which was announced was in unison with such policy or not. Thus, ex evidentia rei, we were enabled to draw conclusions which proved to be correct, when the repeated announcements of all the Treasury Papers turned out to be a repetition of ignorant assertions, or gross delu sions. The Funds, it is true, were operated upon, and they went up and down alternately, and so the speculators made their market. The Belgic question remains still an unsolved enigma —our own opinion is, and we have expressed it long ago, that the three Northern Powers have had no other object than to harass the Belgians into a restoration—nor should we wonder at that people preferring any alternative to continuing to suffer the protocol-persecution of our Minister for Foreign Affairs. It was by not implicitly pinning our faith upon any Government an nouncements, or diplomatic declarations, that we were enabled to take that just view of Russian policy, by which we anticipated all those dangers to English influence and English commerce, which the Treasury Papers begin to see, when the time for adverting them appears to have passed. How often, when we endeavoured to excite the vigilance of Ministers and of Parlia ment as to the ambitious designs of Russia, have we been met by the angry or sneering rebukes of the Treasury Journals !—those saga cious oracles that ivied to see nothing but pacific virtue and honourable intentions in the wily and rapacious Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, and now take credit to themselves for something like profound wisdom in discovering whnt we have been telling the public for years past ! We pre dicted what would be the consequences of that profligate transaction—the Russian-Dutch loan job, by virtue of which millions were given from the overtaxed people of England, just in time to enable the Autocrat to subjugate the Poles ; ever since which he has held the under standing and the courage of England in equal contempt, and has acted successfully on that impression, from the time that he trampled on the Treaty of Vienna, until the secret treaty with Turkey, and the recall of our fleet from the Archipelago. We observe that, in speaking of that recall, the Hampshire Telegraph says it was in consequence of orders which had been sent out from the Admiralty in the latter end of November. Of course the recall of the fleet was by orders from the Admiralty. Who ever denied that? But we say, though the orders must have come from the Admiralty, the cause of the orders was political. It is asserted in the Aus trian Observer, in the Allgemeine Zeitung, and other German Papers, quite as well informed on political matters as the Hampshire Paper is on nautical, that the fleets of both France and England were recalled, in consequence of the energetic remonstrances of the Porte. It is not denied anywhere that such remonstrances were made, and that they followed the formidable " demonstration" which we made in the East, by repeatedly reinforcing our fleet up to the time of those remonstrances. Neither is it denied that our Ambassador made, in the first instance, a bold and explicit reply touching the " secret treaty ;" nor that immediate orders were given by the Porte to put the forts of the Dardanelles in a state of defence; whereupon our fleet was ordered back to Malta and the French fleet to Toulon, when they might have wintered on the eastern side of the Archipelago, at Smyrna ; in which case the French line•of-battle ship, the Superb, would not have been lost; or they might have wintered on the western side i n the harbour of Napoli: but these places are incon veniently near the scene of Russia's ambitious opera ti on s.—Morning Herald. The decrease of business in bankruptcy is so wonderful that the funds in the hands of the Chief Registrar of the Court have been barely enough to meet the quarterly demands of the Judges, Commissioners, Registrars, Deputy Registrars, Ushers, Clerks, Trainbearers, and Messengers, for their respective salaries, which were due on the 11th inst. How the ex-Com . missioners are to be paid we know not, for their is in their fund a deficit of some thousands of pounds, and Mr. Thurlow's compensation alone will, it is said, swallow up all that is in hand. These facts mark the very strong dislike with which the mercantile and professional world look upon the Court. The Solicitors, at its first institution, conceived themselves ill-treated by it, and vowed to bring no work to it, and they have now almost con summated their triumph ; for when there are no funds to pay the officers we do not see how the Court can go on. Mercantile gentlemen, on the other hand, do not like the appointments of official assignees, and do every thins in their power to patch up thei r insol vencies without bringing them into Court, where an enormous proportion of their always small dividends is sure to be given, by way of allow ance, to one of the worthy gentlemen assignees. We advise the Lord Chancellor to look to it, or there will soon be a halt in Basinghall-street. The surplus of fees, which was last year divided amongst the officers of the Court, will not be large enough for any division again ; and, if the humes3 continues to fall off during the next quarter as it has during the last, there will be many woful faces on the next quarter-day.— Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A man named William Godfrey, clerk to Messrs. Robinson and Burrows, Solicitors, of 23, Austin friars, was charged before the LORD MAYOR with having embezzled considerable sums of money, given by his employers to pay the expenses incurred in Chancery proceedings. Mr. Burrows stated that upon a former occasion the prisoner had been deficient in his accounts, but was pardoned on account of his large family, and that the manner in which he had of late contrived to defraud his employers was by so ingeniously com plicated a contrivance as to elude even a critical observation. The system was discovered by the information given by a celebrated Barrister's clerk to the house that the prisoner had not paid up certain fees which it was the custom of respectable Soli= citors never to leave unpaid until after the delivery of briefs. Upon examination of the books Mr. Burrows found that the sums mentioned in the accounts of the prisoner apparently accorded with, but actually differed from, those entered in the office book, and it was a considerable time before a case could be produced on which it appeared probable that a ground for committal could be established. The following was the case selected on which to prosecute : Mr. John Parker Burrows deposed that the pri soner had been for some time in the employment of himself and his late partner, Mr. Robinson, as Chancery clerk, and was intrusted with sums of money to pay the contingent expenses. The pri soner was instructed to pay the deposit of 1/. for the decree in the Court of Chancery, Boxall and Cobbett. The draft for 501., signed " W. Robinson," for the witness and his late partner, was in the hand-writing of the latter, and the indorsement, " W. Godfrey, for W. L. 5.," was of the prisoner's hand-writing. Mr. Cecil Moore, a clerk in the Registrar's Office of the Court of Chancery, on the 23d of June, 1831, received a deposit of I/. on account for the decree in the Court of Chancery, Boxall and Cob bett; and on the 22d of July, 1831, he received the draft for 50/. produced (as appeared by his writing on the same) for the decree, the charges for which, exelusife of the 1/. already paid, amounted to 451. 15s. 2d., and the witness gave to the prisoner the balance, amounting to 4/. 4s. 10d. Mr. A. L. Scott, clerk to Mr. Burrows, deposed that on the 22d July, 1831, the prisoner accounted to him for 46/. 3s. 6d., as paid in the cause Boxall and Cobbett, thereby embezzling the sum of Bs. 4d. The prisoner, who had been brought up for ex amination before upon other cases of embezzlement against his employers, took notes of the evidence, and asked the Lord Mayor whether his Lordship thought the case clear and strong enough to send to the Old Bailey ? Ile, for his own part, did not think so by any means.—Ccommitted for trial. Boswell, who was a few days ago brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged by Mr. Mayhew, M.P. for Colchester, with having hawked about a petition for pecuniary aid, was brought up for re-examination. Mr. Mayhew had made inquiries into the state ment made by Boswell, and found that the man's family was in distress, and that the landlord had seized his goods for rent. It, however, appeared that the landlord had been provoked to that ex tremity by the obstinacy of the defendant, who bad refused to leave the house, although not able to pay a farthing rent, and offered a complete acquittance upon condition that he would go. The Secretary to the Mendicity Society stated that the defendant had applied to, and had been re lieved by, the Society. It was ascertained that he was really in distress. In fact, the unfortunate man fancied that he possessed high literary powers, arid wasted in novel•writing the time which might be profitably occupied in a less ambitious pursuit. In the extremity of his distress he had applied to the Literary Society for assistance, but they said that his works were riot exactly of such a character as entitled him to a participation in their fund. Boswell would leave the house, apply to the pa rish, and write no more novels. The unhappy man, who it appeared has really fallen a victim to the ea coethes seribendi, then left the Justice-room to be take himself to an abode a little more degrading, but certainly not less comfortable, than that to which poets have, by the general consent of mankind, time immemorial, been consigned. Mary Eccles complained that her husband de serted her, refused to give her any support, arid threatened to despatch her with his awl. The defendant is a shoemaker, and contrived to support himself and his two children very well. lie, however found it necessary to turn his wife out of doors, in consequence of certain visits which she had been in the habit of receiving from a Mr. Cole, a gardener, from Battersea, at just the very times he was obliged to be absent. Previously to the attentions of Mr. Cole she had been in the habit of going too frequently to the gin -shops, and from thence, by a very natural transition, to the pawn broker's, where shegleft not only her own clothes, but the clothes of her husband and children, for their greater security. At last she actually pawned her husband's breeches, arid began to intrigue with Mr. Cole, who happened to be rather fond of gin himself, and encouraged her in that agreeable mode of keeping up her spirits. A regular turn out then took place, for the husband, although he would have pardoned either of the vices unaccompanied by the other, could by no means excuse so vulgar a combination. The wife immediately placed herself under the affectionate protection of Mr. Cole, but even in the fields of Battersea she sought and found her beloved cordial, and Mr. Cole's clothes and blankets and sheets began to disappear in rapid suc• cession, by virtue of that delicious compound. Under these circumstances Mr. Cole began to repent of the iniquity he had committed, and followed the example of the defend,tht, by giving the complainant the " sky for a protector." She, therefore, went back to her husband, but ins[ead of embraces and welcomes she met with several hearty curses, and a threat, if riot to despatch, at any rate to stitch her all up with the most formidable instrument of the profession. - The LORD MAYOR asked whether the complain ant lived with the gardener ? The complainant denied that she had any other than a platonic ac quaintance with Mr. Cole. Her husband had, she declared, set a very bad example by following the example of better people in living with another woman, but she was willing to forgive him if he would receive her. The defendant declared that it was quite impos sible for him to think for a moment of running the hazsrd of being swilled into hunger and nakedness by his wife; and that as Mr. Cole was so fond of "lush," that gentleman could not find a more con- genial partner. The LORD MAYOR—If she lives with that man I shall certainly make no order for her maintenance ; but if she does not you must maintain her. Defendant—Soofler than give her a farthing I'll sell all my goods and go to America. Complainant —I'll follow you there.--(Laughter.) Defendant—Sooner than have you near me I'd go to the very d—l. Complainant—That's the only way you'll get rid of me, depend upon it.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR (to the woman)—You must go to the parish officers, and if they find you are not livin g in adultery they w ill com p e l your hus band to relieve you; but let me tell you to beware of gin. MARLBO ROUGH -STREET. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. SUPPOSED S Mr. George Smith, a respectable dealer in the ge neral line, residing in George-street, Rupert-street, Haymarket, waited upon H. M. DYER, Esq., the presiding Magistrate,, to solicit hi s advice under the fo lowing extraordinary circumstances : Applicant stated that on Friday night last self and neighbours observed a young woman of very genteel appearance standing at the bottom of George -court, the rain descending at the time very fast. She had the appearance of a person who had recently come off a journey, as there were two or three trunks pitched near her. After remaining there some time she asked permission of one of the housekeepers residing in the court to leave her boxes in their care, which was acceded to, and in a few minut es a f terwar d s s h e came i n t o appli cant's shop, attended by a gentleman of the middle height, we a ri ng a c l oa k. Th e latterin quired whether he (Smith) knew any person who could a c commo d ate t h e young woman with a bed for the night. Applicant observed that the young woman looked respectable, and, as it was his opinion at the time that the young woman had come from the country, lie replied that he had a bed in his house with which she might be accom modated for the night. The gentleman then re quested to see the bed, and applicant showed him up stairs, at the same time informing him that he was at liberty to approve or condemn the bed, but intimating that he could not partake of it. The gentleman was desirous of remaining in the room two or three minutes, when the same observation was repeated to him in stronger terms, and he then retired. The young woman then went to bed, ap plicant keeping a sharp look-out that the gentleman did not return. In the morning he again made his appearance, and inquired after her health, and, on his repeating the visit an hour or two afterwards, he had some conversation with her. Mr. DYER inquired what the conduct of the woman was during the interval, or whether she made any observation ? Applicant—She appeared very dejected, and leaned pensively upon her band. She appeared in much distress, and, after the gen tleman's second visit on Saturday, she declared that she would never see him again, and made an obser vation which might have been considered expres sive of her regret that ever she had seen him. At about four o'clock in the afternoon he again pre sented himself, and applicant, acting on her obser vation, and considering that lie might be conferring an act of kindness on a distressed female, in formed the gentleman that she had left his house, and, in answer to the stranger's inter rogatories, declared that he was ignorant of the place to which she had removed. The gentle man appeared very dissatisfied with the communi cation, and ultimately left the place, applicant de claring that his visits would not be received with much pleasure by him for the future. The female was informed of the answer which had been given the Lothario, and Mrs. Smith remarking that she was still very much dejected, insisted on her taking a cup of tea with them, during which the young woman frequently observed that she had no father nor mother to protect her. At about six in the evening she said she should go to an aunt in I?til teney-street, Golden-square, and having gone up to her room to put on her bonnet, applicant deter mined in his mind to watch her. She came down stairs very quick, and observed, as she blew out the candle, that she should send for her boxes in half an hour. Applicant attempted to watch her, but lost sight of her from her leaving the house so quickly. She neither returned nor sent for her boxes, and, on Mrs. Smith going up to the bedroom on Sunday morning, she found a paper containing the remains of what appeared to have been an answer, on the outside of which was written _" oxalic acid." He became much alarmed, as it was his opinion that she must have taken the poison just prior to her leaving the house, and, having mentioned it to some person, by his advice he made his appearance yesterday at this office. Mr. DYER inquired whether she informed him what place she had come from with her luggage ? Applicant replied, that her account was, that she had just left her situation at Woolwich, and that her aunt was to have met her on her arrival in town on Friday night. Mr. DYER asked if she had made any communi ca,ion relative to her knowledge of the gentleman ? Applicant had made that inquiry of her, and she had replied she had known the gentleman for nearly twelve months, and that he resided in Albemarle street. Mr. DYER thought it would be illiberal to put the most uncharitable construction on the gentleman's conduct. He might have meant fairly and honestly towards the woman. It certainly was a most ex traordinary affair, and the only advice he could give was for applicant not to give up the boxes if they should be applied for until he could discover some thing which might unravel the mystery. B 0 STREET. THE BLACK KIDNAPPER AND HIS SON.—Yester day John Murphy, and Henry, his son, who have been several times examined on the charge of having enticed children from their parents and sent them into the streets to beg and steal, were brought up, and two other charges of the same kind having been brought against them and clearly proved, the pri soners were fully committed for trial. QUEEN SQUARE. Yesterday Joseph Harvey was charged before Messrs BURRELL and WHITE, by police constable Frazer, of the B division, No. 22, with noisy and disorderly conduct, and assaulting him, in Great Peter-street, Westminster. The Magistrate dismissed the charge. JEALOUSY.—R. Watts, a police constable of the B division, No. 48, charged a female named Mary Launch with violently assaulting another female, named Howe. The constable was in conversation with the young woman Howe in the streets, when the defendant came up and violently assaulted her and tore her bonnet. Mary Launch, in reply to the charge, said that the policeman had been unfaittiful to her. He had offered her marriage, which he bad failed to per form, and that was the reason why she had acted with such violence, which she knew was wrong. The deserted fair one appeared so very penitent that the Magistrates only inflicted a penalty of five shillings upon her for the assault. HA TT ON- GARDEN. Yesterday Edward Steed, a lad about 18 years of age, was finally examined, charged by Mr. James Besaire, copper-plate engraver, of Quality-court, Holborn, with having robbed him of copperplate engravings to the value of 4001. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. MARY LEB ONE. APPREHENSION OF " BOGY."—An old woman of the "Bogy" family, a name well-known for cen turies past as a terror to children, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged by a policeman of the D division with the following misconduct : It appeared from the evidence that, as the con stable was on duty, in Harley -street, between two and three o'clock on Sunday morning, he met Mother" Bogy," who is the wife of "old Bogy," char-mender, of Paddington, coming towards him, _ .. as much out of the perpendicular as the leaning tower of Pisa. On speaking to her he at once dis- covered that " Old Tom" was the cause of her tra- versingthe King's highway in such asloping position, and fearing that the singular movement of the lady would, if ;he were left to herself; end in her paying her respects to the mire in the road, in which case a snuff-coloured gown, ornamented with sundry flounces, and a lace tippet, would have received irre ? arable damage, he th oug ht i t p ru d en t to convey her to the station-house. In reply to the charge, Old Mother Bogy ad mitted her drunkenness, which she said was caused by her Earl, young Bogy, who had not only been "flaring up" himself, but had made her and.the old man "flare up" too as long as he could. She assured his Worship it was her first offence, and that all the trouble she had got into was owing to the quality, and not the quantity, of what she had been tasting. The MAGISTRATE, under all the circumstances, discharged Mistress "Bogy," with an admonition► to keep herself sober in future, and to recommend the same line of conduct to every other member of the " fogy" family over whom she might possess the least influence or control. UNION-BALL. Yesterday John Winkfield, carrying on an exten sive business as a cement and plaster of Paris manu facturer in Southwark, was brought up for final ex amination charged with forgery. The prisoner was adjudged to find two sureties of 2501. each, and himself in 5001., to answer the charge at the next assizes, and to give 48 hours' notice of bail. The names of two highly-respectable mercantile men were immediately tendered as the prisoner's bail. THAMES POLIC'E. A tall ruffian, named John Harrington, was charged with committing a most violent assault on the keeper of an eating-house in Shadwell, and after wards beating several policemen. The prisoner is one of the most desperate fellows in the district, and has spent two out of the last three years in the House of Correction for assaults on the police. He was only liberated from prison last Monday. He went into the eating-house and had some supper, which he refused to pay for, and commenced beating the landlord of the house, who called in a policeman. He had no sooner made his appearance than he was knocked down. The pri soner served five other policemen in the same way, and it was ultimately found necessary to employ se veral men to tie him neck and heels, and carry him in that way to the station-house. The prisoner was, for the eighth time, convicted in the full penalty of 54, and in default of payment to be imprisoned for two months in Coldbath. fields Gaol. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 20. PAINE V. THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER. Mr. EARLE showed cause against a rule obtained to set aside an award in this case, on the ground that the arbitrator had refused to examine the noble defendant. The application was founded on the affidavit of the plaintiff, who stated that his Counsel agreed with him that it was necessary the arbitra• tor should examine plaintiff and defendant. COURT OF COMMON PI.EAS, JAN. 20. (Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Justice GASELEE.) WALKER O. GROOM AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover from the defendants, the assignees of Messrs. Chambers and Co., a sum of 3781., being six years' salary as librarian to the Italian Opera Houe. The plaintiff, as he alleged, had been appointed librarian to the Italian Opera House by a Mr. Tra herne, who was secretary to the defendants, as assignees of Messrs. Chambers and Co., after they got possession of the Opera House from Mr.Ebers. It was stated that the plaintiff at this time acted as copyist, and was to have the charge of the library, it being his duty to give out the music for the performance, and to superintend it generally. A letter was put in from Laporte to Traherne, to show that the plaintiff had been employed as librarian. After a most tedious trial the Jury found a ver• diet for the plaintiff—Damages 1001. ARCHES COURT, JAN. 20. (Before Sir J. NICHOLL.) SERGEANT O. SERGEANT. This was an appeal from the decision of the Learned Judge of the Consistorial Court, in which a suit was commenced by a Lieutenant Sergeant, of the Dragoon Guards, against Harriet, his wife, for a divorce, on the ground of adultery. In the Court below a libel was admitted on behalf of the husband, charging adultery, as committed by Mrs. Sergeant, and a responsive allegation was offered in behalf of the wife, pleading connivance by the hus band, and alleging acts of adultery against him. The Learned Judge of the Court below (Dr. Lushing ton) rejected the allegation offered by the wife pleading connivance and adultery against the hus band, from which decision the present appeal was made. Sir JOHN NICHOLL said the parties in this case were married in 1825, in Scotland, the husband being a minor. In 1829 the husband, having a Lieutenancy in the Dragoons, proceeded to join his regiment, which was in India, leaving his wife at home. In his absence, while residing in Sloane street, she formed an adulterous connection with parties, with which the husband became acquainted, by receiving a packet containing among other things a letter sent by his wife to a stranger, asking a loan of money. The husband obtained leave of absence and came to England, and having heard of the adultery of his wife commenced the present suit. A libel pleading connivance, offered by the wife, having been rejected by the Learned Judge of the Court below, the present appeal was promoted. There was nothing to show that the husband con nived at the adultery of his wife, who was experi enced in the work], had been a kept mistress before her marriage, and now received an annuity, which it was pleaded the husband well knew, as she now enjoyed it. The Court must not look too closely to the temperament of the husband. He was a young Officer of Dragoons, and might not have acted judiciously, but, having formed the connection, the Court could not relieve him from his duty to his wife. If all the facts stated in the recrimina tory allegation were proved they were not sufficient for the Court to call upon him to defend himself, and he (Sir J. Nichol)), therefore, pronounced against the appeal, thinking the Learned Judge in the Court below rightly rejected it. SHERIFFS' COURT, JAN. 20. THE DEFUNCT " MOVEMENT" SUNDAY NEWSPAPER. —DR. SHERIDAN V. FRANKS. Mr. KENNEDY stated that the plaintiff was a physician residing at Pimlico, who devoted his leisure to literary subjects. The defendant was a respectable tradesman, and had been proprietor of a paper commenced last year under the title of the Movement, but since discontinued. The question for inquiry was a sum of 4/. claimed by the plaintiff for articles supplied to the Newspaper, being, ac cording to prior agreement, at the rate of 11. per article. Two letters in the hand-writing of the defendant were put in as evidence. In the first it was stated that the editor had been supplied with money at ihc time to meet all current demands, and that from his accounts it appeared the claim of Dr. Sheridan had been paid. The second referred Dr. Sheridan to the editor, with a promise that if the editor's ac knowledgments were produced of the articles hav ing been accepted, and not paid for, the defendant would give the same his immediate attention. The following written acknowledgment was afterwards obtained from the editor by the plaintiff: —" I can have no h es it at i on i n saying that three articles of yours were inserted in the Movement and that 3/. are still due to you." Mr. George Willi am Service examined—ln the beginning of M ay in last year I was engaged by Mr. Francks . to edit the Movement newspaper. I con untied to edit it for six weeks. It was part of my duty to procure contributions from persons I thought qualified to write. I contracted with the plaintiff for this purpose, with the knowledge and approbation of the defendant. There were four articles s u ppli e d b y D r . Sh er id an i nserte d in the illovenzent of the 26th of. May. One was on East India affairs; the second, a leader in reply to the Times; the third, on Poor Laws for Ireland; and the fourth, a critique headed " The Fine Arts." It had been agreed the price for each article, con. tributed should be 1/., but still I considered the amount was to be in some measure governed by the length of the article, and should have demurred to paying 1/. for the short article on the fine arts. I considered 3/. to be what was fairly due for the four articles. I paid the Doctor for previous articles, but did not pay him for these. Some dispute tween the defendant and myself caused an early tl mination of our agreement. The Jury, after consulting a few minutes, foul for the defendant. Mr. PHILLIPS applied to the Under-Sheriff certify for double costs, as the sum in dispute wi cognizable in the Court of Requests. The UNDER SHERIFF said, he must take time consider. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 834 d. fot t 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from 3d. to I}6d. bel( that price. PR! OF SEEDS.—Jan. 20. New Englishßed Clout? Seed (per Cwt.) 465. 58s. fine Ms. 65: Old Ditto New Foreign Ditto Old Ditto New White Clover, JOs. 565. fine —s. 63: —s. 445. fine —s. 56: 50s. 565. fine 58.. 651 5 1 6. L 6.; fine .—s —s 17s. 20s. fine 21s. 23s —s. —s. fine —s. —s 14s. 164; fine IS. 208 —s. —s. 84s. fine 88s Old Ditto Dab New Trefoil - ald Ditto Rib Grass English Carraway Foreign Ditto Coriander St. Fein '-.....---- —s. —s. 83s. fine 86s Rye Gra.;; --- Pacey Ditto ••••••••••••••••,••••••,,,,,,,,,, 128 • fine 14s .(per Quarter).— 465. 48s. fine 50s. 54s --s. —s. new 40s. 44s —s. —s. new —s. —s. Ms. fine —s. L6a 48s. 525. —s. fine —8 —s. —s. Ws fine 63s Linseed, for feeding Ditto, for crushing,,,, 1, New, 'at° White Mustard Seed.......(per Bushel) —a. 1 3s. fine —1 Brown Ditto —s. 17s. 18s. fins lanary Turnip Seeds, Round: Green and Red Ditto Tares ; —s. —S. 18s. fine 20s, —s. —a. 18s. fine 21s, 4s. Od. fine 4s. Bd. vitro New 4s. 6d. fine ss. Od. Ra•peSeed, English, fine (per Last) 231. Foreign 241. 264 PLUCKS OP HOPS.—. 20. New Kent Pockets (per cwt.) 51 Os. Jan 51. 12s. to 61. Os. Choice 61. 6s. 01. Os to 71. Os. ..—. 61. Os. 01. Os. to 6/. 10s. 71. Os. 71. 10s. to 81. Os. —5/. Gs. W. Os. to 51. 10s. ... 5/. 15s. 0/. Os. to 61. 6s. .111. Us. 0/. Os. to 121. 12s. .101 Os. 0/. Os to 11/. Os. East K Choice New Sussex Pockets Superfine Ditto Ditto (secOnii;', Yltll OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 6s. Refined X 39 6 Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cakee27 10 ltape Cake, per ton 5 10 PltlOE OF POTATOES—Jan. Os. to 31. 10s. per ton. Os. to 2/. ss. ditto. Os. to 4/. 10s. ditto. 10s. to 4/. Os. ditto. ....Al. Os. to 2/. Os. ditto. Shaves Wwronno. Middling Marsh Champions Scotch Reds..,. Chats -- WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKEL—Jan. 18. Hay 70s. Od. to 84s. Od. Clover 755. Od. to 95a. Od. 245. Od. to 295. Od. Per lb. (1. to cl. English Horse Hides.,,, 14 19 Spanish Ditto ..........,—. 17 26 Per dozen. Calf Skim,. SO to 411 b. 14 21 Ditto 40 to 601 b. 17 23 Ditto 70 to 901 b. 20 2A Small Seals, Greenland 16 18 Large ditto .12 16 PRICES OF Per lb. Butts, 14 24 Ditto, 13 Dressing H 11 15 _ 121 16 Ditto, light ...---.—... Crop Hides, 1ight........ 12 131 to 501 b. 12 16 Ditto— l4 181 LEAI'HEIt. PIIICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows: — Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Ss. Od. 1 Moulds, per d0zen.........95. 6d RICE OF RA FAT, er stone ot Price of Tallow (as s tated b y the' allo p w Melters) 81b. .-- 2sAld PRICE OF TALLOW Town Tallow ......--......48e. Od. Yellow Russi, 4Bs. Od. White —s. Od. Soap Ditto —s. Od. Melted Stuff..—... 375. Od. Ditto Rough 21s. Od. COAL MARI Per Ton, s. d. Hebburn Main 17 0 Holywell 17 9 fantield 18 0 Wylarn - 17 3 Walls End Bewicke & Co. 19 9 Walls End Brown's.* 17 3 Ships arrived since , SOAP, &c. per 112th. Yellow Ms. Od. Mottled 70s. Od. Nlll4 - 725. Od. 14s. 11/d. ss. Od. Grave Good Dregs {ET.--Jan. 20. Per Ton. s, id, Walls End 17 3 Ditto Northumberland.. 17 6 Walls End Stewart's ...... 21 0 Walls End Springwell 15 3 Walls End Adelaide 18 3 Walls End G0rd0n...... 18 3 last market-day, 2. Workmen have commenced taking down the Me: s, Trafalgar-square. On the 13th and 14th instant, the Rhine at Cologne bad fallen nearly three feet, and was on the latter day at 16.5 inches. BIBLIO MANlA.—Archdeacon Wranghamt who regularly attends the book sales, is said to possess the greatest number of printed but unpublished books in the kingdom. The Duke of Bedford occupies the most pro-. minent place as a printer at his own expense of books for private distribution. NOBLE SPIRIT OF A LAD.—A most un fortunate and fatal accident happened at Stranraer on the 12th (Sunday). Mrs. Miller, wife of Mr. Robert Miller, innkeeper there, had just lighted a fire, when a young boy (her son) who was in his night dress, pressing somewhat too near it, his shirt was caught by the flame. The accident was perceived by a younger sister who was still in bed, and she was hurrying to his assistance, but was stopped by the fine-spirited boy, who cried out, he would much rather himself be burnt than allow his sister to run the risk of being so. Mr. Miller, on hearing the alarm, came to his son's assistance, but not until the latter was so severely injured as to occasion his death between nine and ten o'clock the same evening, notwithstanding every assistance that a skilful medical practitioner (Dr. Wilson) could render.—Carlisle Journal. BIRTHS. On the 18th inst., at Orlingbury, the lady of the Rev. Brook George Bridges, of a daughter. At Colworth, the lady of H. Magniac, Esq., of a son. On the 19th inst., Mrs. Comerford, of 'Change-alley, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., at Truro, Mrs. Conn, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at Penzance, the lady of Colonel Glover, of a son. On the 14th inst., at Helston, Mrs. John Ash, of a son. On the 14th inst., at Penzance, the wife of the Rev. Richard Treffry, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., Mrs. Edward Row, of a daughter. Last week, at Camborne, Mrs. Bonds, of twins. MARRIED. On the 16th inst., at the Friends' Meeting-house, at Kendal, Westmoreland, Joseph Travis Clay, of Rastrick, Yorkshire, to Jane, eldest daughter of Isaac Whitwell, of Kendal. On the 20th inst., at St. Clement Danes, Mr. James Franks, of Albury, Surrey, to Mary, third daughter of the late Richard Watson, Esq., Guilford. On the 14th inst., Captain Hamilton, only son of Lieut.- General Sir J. Hamilton, Bart., and Aide-de-Camp to Lieut.- General the Right Hon. Sir J. Kempt, to Marianna, only child of Major-General Sir J. Cockburn, Bart., and of the Hon. Lady Cockburn. On the Bth inst., at Condover, the Rev. William Evans, rector of Shipston-cud-Tidmington, Worcestershire, to Ka therine Walter, only daughter of Thomas Parr, Esq., of Lyth wood Hall, Salop. DIED, On the 19th inst., in Bolton street, aged 56, Sir Charles William Flint, late of the Irish Office. On the 10th inst., at Roselle, Ayrshire, Richard Oswald, Esq., younger, of Auchencruive, in his 37th year. On the 16th inst., Mr. Thomas Cawthorn, of Bishopsgate street, London. On the 17th inst., at Upper Holloway, Sarah, the wife of John Harrison, Esq., aged 23. On the 13th inst., in her 40th year, Sarah, the wife of Mr. Robert Badcock, of College-street, Fulham road. On the 12th inst, in her 25th year, Mary Georgiana, the wife of Wm. Hollick Nash, Esq., of Royston, Cambridgeshire. On the 18th inst,, at Wiggington, Yorkshire, aged 86, the Rev. William Dealtrv, prebendary of Southwell, Notts, and rector of Wiggington, and of Skirpenbeck, Yorkshire. On the 11th inst., at Newport, Isle of Wight, Captain Henry Gill, of the 50th, or Queen's Own Regiment (on the eve of embarking for Sidney, New South Wales), aged 28. On the oth inst., at Minehead, in her 77th year, Frances Chilcott, relict of the late Captain John Chilcott, Royal En gineers. On the 18th inst., at Deeping Saint James, Lincolnshire, Mrs. Greaves, in her 73d year. In September last, in the north of Mexico, Mr. Thomas Cochrane Stirling, aged 27, son of the late Rev. Dr. Stirling, Minister of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, N. 8., and nephew of Robert Auld, Esq., Crane-court. On the 10th inst., at Falmouth, Mrs. Anna Cory Rogere, aged 59, relict of the late Captain Rogers, of his Majesty's packet service there, and subsequently on the Holyhead station. On the 13th inst., at Fowey, aged 85, Mrs. Ann Johns, a native of Wales. On the 12th inst., at Felynt, near Looe, Mr. P. Tambling, aged 89. On the 15th inst., at Blazey-highway, Capt. Wm. Woolcock. On the 15th inst., at Cellars, near Wadebridge, Mrs. Daniel, in her . 66th year. On the 15th inst., at Ellenglaze, in Cubert, Joseph Roberts, aged 70, hind to the late Joseph Hosken, Esq., in whose family he had lived upwards of 60 years. On the 15th inst., at Cubert, Mrs. Glasson, aged 85. At Trenethick, St. Agnes, Mrs. Catherine Richards, aged 60, of paralysis of the throat. On the 16th inst., at Madron, Wm. Hall, aged 101. On the 25th ult., at Donerail, Ellen Hogan, aged 107, having been 90 years in the gardens of Lord Doneraile. At Findochty, in the parish of Rathven, William Smith, Whitefisher, aged SO. Although little more than half of Job's p g ow a e Mrs. Lockhart,y years older Wifet than n o h f i mf. the se Rev. J. Lockhart ; age, yet, like him, he lived to see his nost er i ty to the fourth genera tion. His own was the fir s t f uneral that ever went from his house, in which he had liv e d f or sixty years, together o f Blackfriars Church in th at city. ev. with ln a G h la e s l m two PRINTED AND PUBLIPRED BV MURDO YOUNG, AT TH SUN OF4IOE, 112, STRAND,