The Sun. — London, England, 1827-07-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We revert, though rather unwillingly, to the caus e of ".Scott v. the Morning Chronicle." We suppose that every one will allow that the plaintiff has got quite as much, in the way of damages, as she was entitled to get. It, is diffi cult to conceive what can have been the inten tion of this woman, or of those by whom she was set on. If the vindication of her character was all that was sought for, this might have been done by an action against one Paper : why threaten actions against four ? Or if the Misses Long had failed in their attempt to rescue the children from the custody of the father, through false imputations cast upon this witness, they might have acted rightly in attempting to prop up her character. But they have succeeded by the highly proper decree of the late Chancellor. A father who deserts the path of virtue and pro priety; deserts that path in which his children ought to be placed; he, therefore, deserts them. The man who misuses the mother, is not likely to act justly towards her offspring. The melan choly late of the late Mrs. Long Wellesley af fects every British heart with son ow, and did, during the period of her sufferings, bring tears into many eyes that had never viewed her. Peace to her shade ! which would not be at peace, if -it knew that her children were in tie power of the authors of their inotheila wrongs. Mr. Justice Best very properly remarked upon this subject—" Could a father bring up - his children virtuously and religiously, who had come into Court yester day, showing that he was still connected with a person who had lately been proved in that court to have beenguilty of-adultery-with him ? lavish ing upon her attentions which would have ap peared ridiculous even if they had been bestowed upon his legitimate wife ?" It is remarkable, that, (so far as we can perceive on. reading over the trial) the defendant is not charged with. any malice or ill-will against the plaintiff. What motive, indeed, could the editor of the Nor- ning Chronicle have to injure such a person as Mrs. Scott, a woman totally unknown to him ? And had any casual error crept into his columns (a misfortune which, notwithstanding every pos zible care, will sometimes take place), this might and would soon have been rectified on the first mention. The chief subject of complaint is, that the affidavit was published before it was read in the Court of Chancery. This might have been the subject of reprehension from the Judge of that Court ; but if the very affida vit that was filed were correctly given, it could not in any degree aggravate its effect upon the character of the plaintiff. We know not why it '...fhotild have been insinuated that the proprietor and editor of the Morning Chronicle was not the real defendant, or that he would not have had the damages 'and costs to pay if any tiling con,liderable had been giVen. -We believe there is riot the slightest - ground - Ter the insinuation. He' did not seek the action, but was obliged to defend himself: whereas we have ;shown above, that the woman Scott could have no Personal motive for Commencing the suit, nor .had she, we 'would suppose, any funds for carrying it on. It is easy to throw out insinuations of the nature to which we allude, but we have never yet found any Quixotism in others to share our responsibility or risks ; and )2,ave the greater right; therefore, to look to that 'which is the only-prOte6tiimi of a free press in all Europe--a , i honest British jury: This unhappy cause has somewhat revived a question which we bad thought decided, and which is in truth de- , by" the good sense of the country repre 3ented chiefly by itsF jurymen. That question regards the propriety and utility of publishing legal proceedings, as they come out, during their course. The 'objection seems noW chiefly to be confined to the publication of the police reports. But we should be leave to ask, whether the de fence is not heard as well as the cLarge by the ,committing or acquitting magistrate, I)4ore he o,,Ommits' or acquits, at our police-offices ? If the accused chooses, as is often the case, to reserve his defence till the day of trial, can a stronger practical proof be aforded, that he does not fear all that ill effect which is said to result from suf fering unanswered charges to be propagated and sink deep into the public mind? Thetruth is, that a defence is often the more effectual, from the cir- cumstance of its being reserved till the first force of the charge has evaporated and spent itselfhy diffu sion: Nor can any reason be alleged why the rela tion of legal proceedings should be suspended till their close, which will not apply to the greater part of all the other occurrences in the world ; because these are no occurrences in which it may not be asserted that you will, to a certain degree, affect the issue by yoUr publication of their progress. With respect to a free press, let any man come forward boldly, and say, " I hate a- free press ; it is OD: , bane of a free country ; it is destructive-of civil liberty ; I wish for its total extinction—for the prohibitkm of printing and writing altogether, or at least for a censorship of the most severe kind." Such a a'e should honour for his frankness, though we -night per . haps think him in error. But against th...% cl ass of people who commence every attack upon the free yress of the country, by pretences that they are its friends, we would most strongly caution the Public, and particularly that part of it on imposed the task of discharging uncom- Peliiitea - duties, to be on their guard. We know their haeknied phraseology too well-4- " "They are as'much friends, forsooth, as any to a free press, none more attached to it, but" 4 - that but always . means they nct only detest a. fre`e press, but every othe r f ree d om e a right which Britons enjoy. Your but in this cas e, if those who use it could have their w a y, wou l d be more of a peace-maker than jour if; fOr it would sink us all into base and unresisting submiosion to ::ny oppression or tyranny that might be exercised or zet Sir W. D. Best observed at the close of the proceedings on Friday, " If this case should last fOur or five hours longer, I cannot endure the fatigue. I never was a strong man, and the little strength I had is now gone in the service of my country." Suitably impressed, as we trust we are, with the, great value of the services which this learned, upright, and impartial .Tudge has rendered to his country, we cannot hear such a declaration unmoved. - 'We have to regret, in common with many others, that the ardour or the venerable Judge hurries him but too fre -cluently into exertions which are so dispropor tionate to his remaining strength, •and which are the more to be lamented, as they are not only 4ot - called for; but are often even out of place, observed by , a contemporary, (The Globe) that. " the opinion of the Jury formed Af it (the character of Mrs. Scott) makes it the more lamentable that a Judge should, on such an occasion, condescend to the passionate ear nestness in which, on similar questions, Sir W. Best seems too prone to indulge.": Patsion may be a luxury' for the young and 'strong, but it Is peculiarly aancrPrniic for those who have ex hausted their strength, either, like Sir W. Best, in the service of their country, or in any other service. If the venerable Judge could but re strain that ardour which impels him to an un necessary waste of strength, the country might indulge the hope of the enjoyment of his services for a long period to come. It is observed by the most acute of all the English philosophers, Hobbes, that " Eloquence is nothing else but the power of winning belief of what we say. And to that end we must have aid from the passions of the hearer. Now, to demon stration and teaching of the truth, there are re quired long deductions and great attention,which are unpleasant to the hearer. Therefore, they who seek not truth, but belief, must take another way, and not only derive what they would have to be believed from somewhat believed already, but also, by aggravations and extenuations, make good and bad, right and wrong, appear great or less, according as shall serve their turns. And such is the power of eloquence, as many times a man is made to believe thereby that he sensibly feeleth smart and damage when he feeleth none, and to enter into rage and indignation without any other cause than what is in the words and posses• sion of the speaker. the faculty of speaking powerfully consisteth in an habit, gotten of putting together passionate words, and applying them to the present passions of the hearer."—ln an advocate, this power over passionate words, and applying them to the passions of the hearer, is serviceable to his client ; but the passionate earnestness of the advocate is not required from a Judge, and the endeavour to conquer impassioned eloquence with the exer cise of the judicial power—that is, the power of weighing carefully and accurately the value and bearing of the faith and argument adduced by the respective parties in a cause, is a work of supererogation, to which (however suc cessfully performed by Chief Justice Best) few men can be supposed equal. We trust the venerable Judge will take our suggestion in good part, that it might be as well in future to relieve himself of that part of the conjoined effort which more properly belongs to the advocate than the Judge. His power of judging impar tially may not thereby be improved, but his strength will not be unnecessarily wasted ; and as there is an idea that ardour is incompatible with the due exercise of the judicial faculty, his opinions will not lose in popular estimation. Maitre Ja , .ques, in The Miser, throws off his insignia of Valet and appears as Cook in the twinkling of an eye. A Judge may in like manner take a part " in the struggle now going on between the Press and the Justice of the Country," and yet appreciate correctly the conduct of the Press. But it is given to few to make these rapid transitions with safety. But if the venerable Judge were even to confine his ardour to the matter strictly before him, our apprehensions on his account :would not be so Leen. But his sympathies are so warm, that they may be said to boil over on every object with which he comes even incidentally in contact. In his generous ardour too, lie is quite forgetful of the principle of reciprocity. For instance, in his charge to the Jury on Friday, he lavished a full quarter of an hour's eloquence in an uncalled-for defence of the sentence pronounced by Lord Eldon in the Wellesley cause. This tribute to the judicious excellence of Lord Eldon is the more honourable to Sir William Best, as, in the course of that very cause, the Judge whom he so highly 'compliMents on more than one occasion, pecked himself, and encouraged his Bar to peck at a little oversight of the Chief Justice, in his charge in the case Bligh v. Wellesley, namely, the confounding the injury supposed to have been done by Mr. Wellesley to his own wife (which was not the subject of trial) with his con duct towards Mr. Bligh, whose loss formed pro perly the subject of consideration for the Jury. Lord Eldon, on these occasions, did not, cer tainly spare Sir William Best, and the generosity of the latter is the more striking. But perhaps the venerable .Tudge is not aware of what took place in the Court of Chancery, and might have exclaimed, like Voltaire, who, on complimenting Haller to one who had just come from the latter, was told it was very generous on his part, as Haller did not speak well of him, answered, " Perhaps we are both of us wrong." We know not how Lord Eldon may feel when lie learns what a debt of gratitude he owes to Sir William Best for his eloquent endeavour to satisfy the country of the propriety of his Lordship's deci sion. His Lordship may pei haps think that this display of eloquence, like other displays in the charge, was not called for. There is one consolatory circumstance for the Press in this struggle with the justice of the country, that allowance begins to be made by Juries for the effects of that impassioned eloquence which bursts through all the bounds which have hitherto been set to efforts on the Bench.— , Morning Chronicle. Another instance of the fatal effects of impri sonment for debt has occurred in the Fleet Pri son. Little do those who pay their way in the world know of the lamentable state of those who, through error or misfortune, do otherwise. For midable as our Criminal Code is represented we will venture confidently to affirm, that nineteen .-‘rentieths of criminal offences are not half so severe..., nunished as in the civil offence of debt. Many a ..,,rant who, by robbing his employer, and thereby -^ing him to ruin, has not, after having been tried aids. n • llof 'nVlCte the offence, suffered one-tenth part of 11epu,.;sh ment which the insolvency of the latter, L-,ught on by the treachery of the former, has brouglA upon him. The evil, great as it is in itself, is more than doubly aggravated by the shameful state of those crowded receptacles of misery, and nurseries of vice, called Debtors' Prisons, While every degree of sympathy, to the most nauseous extent, is -excited towards the really guilty occu pants of every felon's gaol from Newgate to the Hulks, and when the wants of these real outcasts of society are more attended to than those of the unfortunate inmates of hospitals and workhouses, the d e i,:or is allowed to pine in wretchedness and disregard, herded with his co-mates in mi sery like pigs in a si,`Te, often urged to suicide and every kind of desperation, or consumed by disease, brought on by every species a mental and bodily agony. As far as the Debtor Pri sons in London are concerned, we cannot help thinking that a degree of blame, not to say of c riminality, attaches in higher quarters than those of gaolers, marshals, wardens, or turnkeys, Of course we cannot venture to say to whom we allude ; but if, instead of calling forth the re sentment which plainer terms might draw upon us, we can awake " the still small voice of con science," where its lowest whispers would be so useful, we shall at least have done some service in the cause of true humanity. Of all the ad vantages of a free Government, none is more valuabl e than that which a ssures to misery in every station the certainty of its complaints being heard, Of the wretchedness we allude to, no small part, we fear, is never known or heard at all ; and of that which is known, the Press may fairly lay claim to the merit of being almost the sole promulgator.—Morning Herald. On Saturday, Sheen, the murderer, was, as we had anticipated, acquitted. The evidence brought forward proved clearly that the child with whose death he was formerly charged, was as well known by the name of \\Tm. Beadle as Wm. Sheen ; that, in fact, the corpus delicti in both trials was the same. In the plenitude of our wisdom, we are apt to deride the institutions of our ancestors, but a more careful study of them, will in many cases, as well as this, con convince us that they were not so purblind as the vanity of their sons may at first sight con clude. The appeal from the intricacies of law to the arm of the strongest, was extremely natu ral in a bold and martial people, and at a period when Courts of Justice were notoriously cor rupt. Our Courts are now pure, but they are still beset with technicalities, and when these, in the grave case of murder, interpose between the shedder of blood and the justice of the country, it is very much to be regretted, that some means analagous in their effect to the rough remedy of our fathers, should not be devised for enabling us to escape from them. We think this might have been provided, in most cases, by leaving the appeal in case of murder, but limiting it to a new trial, abrogating only the wager of battle. In that case the technicality which had prevented conviction in the first case, might have been got over in the second. We hope that this, or some other plan, will be suggested by those who are better vested in such matters than we pretend to be, to prevent common sense from being shocked a second time by so monitions a result as the acquittal now under our consideration.—New Times. In the action brought against the proprietor of the Morning Chronicle and Observer, for an alleged libel on Mrs. Honoria Scott, the Jury, under the direction of Chief Justice Best, re turned a verdict for the plaintiff,—Damages, One Farthing ! The case was very fully detailed in the evidence and pleadings given in the New Times of Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Scott was one of the numerous witnesses produced in the Wellesley case. Her affidavits were considered to bear very strongly against Mr. Wellesley's claim, and, in order to meet them, two counter affidavits were filed in Court, which charged Mrs. Scott with adultery and theft. The publication of these affidavits constituted the libel for which the exemplary damages above mentioned were awarded. There was also a police report, in which Mrs. Bligh was represented to have re peated the allegations of adultery and theft con tained in the affidavits ; but this was evidently brought forward to bolster the other part of the charge. It is not necessary to follow the argu ments of the Learned Counsel on either side, for, except in so far as they applied to the special faets of the case, they were of the same character as have been used in numerous in stances before ; nor can we suppose that our readers are yet to learn what may be said against, and what in favour of the Press. That that powerful engine has its defects—that it may, sometimes from carelessness, sometimes from ignorance, some times from misdirected zeal, and sometimes from motives utterly indefensible, erect itself into the tyrant of that public of whose liberties it is the most efficient protector, we readily allow. Iden tified as we are with the Press, though not more so than the community with whose well-bein g it is indissolubly linked, we are not blind to its errors ; we are its admirers, not its worshippers. If, therefore, Chief Justice Best had limited his censure to the case he was trying, which, al though a jury of independent Englishmen did not, notwithstanding very strenuous endeavours used to influence them, the Chief Justice might, without imputation on his judgment regard as one deserving punishment, we should have been the last to stand forward and criticise his expressions. Had we even perceived a desire manifested by the Chief Justice, by needless in terruptions of Counsel, by impatient remarks, by unfounded objections, to force a verdict for the plaintiff—had we beheld him, under the in fluence of that feeling, exhibiting, not the grave impartiality of a Judge, but the heated zeal of an advocate, still had his zeal been confined to the case immediately before him, we should have ab stained, out of respect for the judicature of our country, from remarking on his conduct. But when Chief Justice Best, instead of directing his attention to the party before him, goes out of the record. and tells the Jury, then impan nelled to try a newspaper Editor, that at present a struggle is going on between th e p ress a nd the justice of the country—when he says, in so many words, that not only is the defendant in Court, but all others connected with the press, engaged in so unhallowed a struggle—we feel compelled to vindicate ourselves, and—for on such an occasion our interests are common — our contemporaries, from so foul an aspersion. If the character of the press of England were to be judged by the number of libels that of late have been tried, there might be some semblance of reason for the Chief Justice's remark. But we are sure, that it cannot have escaped so very acute a mind as Sir Wm. Best's, that there is such a thing as throwing encouragements in the way of complainants—that there is a strong temp tation for him who has nothing to lose, to gamble in law, where the chances, from able known dispositi on o f th e B enc h, are d ec id e dly in his favour. To adduce an i ns t ance i n po i nt :-- 'hat so long as it is known to the p u bli c t h a t there e, i u d ge , 0,-,a he a learn e d an d one, who looks press avia , 'n evil an eye, that he does not hesitate publicly to cieo.., the that it is at war with the justice of the country, arm, ..„ sequently, deserving of absolute proscription ; there will never fail to be complaints against it, nor will that judge ever fail to have them brought under his cognizance. To the Jury we would say one word. Are they aware of the value of the farthing which they on Satin day gave to heal the wounded character of Mrs. Scott ? That farthing will cost Mr. Clements five hundred pounds. An acquittal would have saved him at least half that sum ; it could not have saved him his own expenses, for who was to pay them Should they again be placed in such a pre dicament that they must punish the pro ' prietor of a newspaper or an attorney, we would beseech them to consider whether it might not be worth while for once to lean towards the former, though he be an opponent, and his a ntagonist a retainer of Justice. Nothing can well be more desperate than the case of a news paper, when dragged before a Court. If the proprietors be respectable, and the paper have a high character, the Jury are called on to award heavy damages, for the character of the libellers gives double force to the libel. If the character of the proprietors or of the print will not stand a rigid inspection, then, too, they must give heavy damages, as a punishment due to the offenders, if not to the offence. We had hitherto thought that the hardships to which this dilemma exposed us admitted of no aggravation ; but we were mistaken. We were safe from its operation while we kept out of Court. The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas is not content with crushing him that ventures to confront him, but, like the wonder-working hero of Cornwall, he throws his noose over the heads of the giant and his brethren at once, and hangs half a dozen in the same halter.—lbid. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, JULY 14.—There continues a good demand for British Plantation Sugar; the market being barely supplied, the sales amount to only 800 hhds. at a further advance in price of fully Is. per cwt. Nothing done in East India Sugar, and of Foreign our stock is exhausted. West India Molasses ale in good request, the few sales made consist of Trinidad at 265. 6d. to 275. per cwt. there being no fresh parcels to offer. Our Coffee market remains without alteration, although there appears a little feeling towards an improvement. About 100 tees. Ja maica sold by auction were taken readily by the grocers at full prices. Cocoa and Ginger dull. Pimento in request; none now to be had under 9d. to 9-td. per lb. Rum steady —sales limited. Imported into Liverpool, from the 7th to the 13th July, ' 1827, inclusive, by 3 vessels from Jamaica, 1 Demerara, 2 Quebec, 1 Montreal, 2 New York, 3 Charleston, 3 Savannah, S New Orleans, 2 Mobile, 1 Ceara, 2 Dant zic, 1 Carlbv, 1 Alexandria, and 1 Malaga : Jamaica Sugar, 342 labds. 27 tees. S brls.; Demerara ditto, 125 hhds. 65 brls. ; Molasses, 168 casks ; Rum, 402 puns. 39 hhds. Ceffee,slB tees. 134 brls. 132 bags; West India Cotton, 101 bales ; New Orleans and Mobile ditto, 4333 bales ; Rest United States ditto, 8939 bales ; Brazil ditto, brls. ; Foreign Wheat, 1800 bales; Montreal Ashes, 203 Wheat, 1775 qrs. ; Canada ditto, 4703 Egyptian, 480 bales; qrs. ; Rice, 200 tees. ; Pimento, 11 bags; Baltic Tar, 810 brie. ; Logwood, 42 tons ; Nicaragua Wood, 22 tons; Fustic, 3 tons; Malaga Oil, 164 casks; West India Cow and Ox Hides, 192 ; Brazil ditto, 2240 ditto. Our Cotton market was steady in the early part of the week, but since Wednesday it has become very animated, in consequence of a b r i s k demand from the dealers and spinners, who purchased largely at the previous rates, and have also paid about id. per lb. advance on most descrip tions of Cotton, but at this advance there is a sufficient quantity offering to meet the demand. The sales (of which about 3,000 bags American have been taken on speculation, and 1,000 American and Brazil for export) amount to 27,850 bags, consisting of 7,660 Bowed, 5i -d. a 74d., chiefly at bid. to 6id. for middling to good fair ; 4,240 Orleans, 6-Id. a B:}cl., chiefly at 6id. to 7d. for middling fair to good ; 9,150 Alabama and Mobile at 6d. to bid. ; 640 Sea Island at l Id. to 14id. ; 120 Stained do. at 7A-d. to 9p. ; 1,820 Pernambuco at Sid. to 9,1 : d. ; 760 Maranham at Bd. to Bjd. ; 1,600 Bahia at Bd. to 8.3 d. ;25 Para at lid. ; 1,750 Egyptian at 6-id. to Bid. ; 320 Demerara at lid. to 10d. ; 25 Barbadoes at 54d. to 6d. ; 20 West India at 7d. ; 70 Cumana at 6id. ; 490 Car thagena at sid. ; 140 Surat at 41d. to sd. The arri vals have been 15,653 bags ; 480 Sea Island and 250 De merara are declared for auction on the 20th inst. An import of 1,600 barrels rough Turpentine was offered by auction on Wednesday, of which 650 brls. were sold at 12s. 6d., the quality about two-thirds soft; the principal part of the stock is in the hands of the trade. A cargo of 750 brls. Stockholm Tar has brought 15s. 3d. per brl. : American is much wanted, and very little in the market. Rosin is steady. There Las been a very con siderable demand for Ashes, principally on speculation, and upwards of 3,000 brls. have changed hands, at a further advance of 6d. to Is. per cwt. ; the sales consist of 1,150 brls. Montreal Pot at 235. 9d. to 255. 6d. for brand 1825, 265. to 275. for 1826, and 265. 6d. to 28s. for brand 1827 ; of Pearls the sales are 960 brls. at 265. 6d. to 275. for brand 1826, and 275. 6d. to 28s. for 1827 ; also, 1,080 brls. United States' Pot, principally new, at 275., and a few old at 265. per cwt. Fine Quercitron Bark is much wanted, and very scarce; 100 Mids. very ordinary Philadelphia have been sold at 121. The demand for Dyewoods is decidedly better, al though, at present, prices do not improve ; the sales of Logwood are about 400 tons Ctmpeachy at 71. ss. to 71. 10g., and a small parcel at 71. 1,55., with 55 tons Jamaica at 6/. 2s. 6d. to 61. 10s. per ton. Cuba Fustic being scarce, 10 tons have been sold at 131., and 20 tons Spanish at 71. 10s. to 91. Some inquiry has appeared for good small Nicaragum Wood, but holders are unwilling to sell at the prices offered ; of large solid 25 tons have been sold at 161. per ton. Camwood is lower ; 12 tons are reported sold at 12/. 10s., but the principal holders will not sell antler 141. The sales of Barwood are trifling, at 61. 10s. to 71. for Gaboon. Cochineal is rather higher, good Silver now bring 15s. per pound. In Valonia little doing. Shumac is in better request, 200 bags Trieste have brought Bs. 6d., 160 bags Verona 7s. 6d., and 300 bags Sicily 10s. 9d. to 11 a. per cwt. Safflower is inqui► ed for at improving prices ; 13 bales good East India have brought 71. 2s. 6d., and 14 bales ordinary ditto at Si. 10s. per cwt. in bond. Madder Roots meet a ready sale ; 150 bales Turkey have been dis posed of at 355. per cwt. Madders are also in good de mand. No sales of Saltpetre are reported; the stock here is brought into a narrow compass. A few chests of the better marks of Lac Dye have been sold at Ss. 3d. to 3s. Bd. per lb. duty paid. A parcel of 530 hhds. over re maining old American Flaxseed been sold at SB9. per hhd. Olive Oil remains with little alteration, some small sales of Gallipoli have been effected at 421. and 30 tuns Malaga have again been sold at M. per tun. Seed Oils are in fair demand. The new imports of Pale Seal Oil are sell ing at 231. to 221. 105. per tun, in small parcels, but the market heavy ; offers of 211. in quantity have been re fused.—ln Cod Oil little doing, and prices rather low.— Palm Oil steady at 2'7l—There is more doing in Oil of Tur pentine.---Hides continue in good demand : the sales are 950 New York salted Ox and Cow at 41d., 1,900 Buenos Ayres salted at sid., 450 Para salted 4(1., 630 dry Buenos Ayres at 10?-0., and 500 dry Odessa at 61d. per lb.—Ca rolina Rice is rather lower, 65 casks old have been sold at 14s. 6d., end 40 casks new at 19s. to 20s. 6d. ; in East India the sales are 300 bags at 16s. 3d., and 100 bags ditto screened at 17s. 3d. per cwt.—P. C. Hemp has de clined to 391. per ton.—Tallow is lower, Petersburgh Yel low Candle is now selling at 395. 6d., and for arrival at 395. per cwt. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK• Wheat. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. Andover S. to S. 5t 59 s. to s. 34 40 S. to 8. 30 34 a. to a. Carlisle, 60 68 Morpeth 58 60 Newcastle -- 58 68 Romsey 48 56 Sheffield 61 6'7 Winchester 64 46 48 30 42 28 38 38 40 26 46 30 , 42 2S 32 26 36 27 30 26 36 48 56 48 52 50 55 60 6b Per Bushel: — s Z •a.s d. Birmingham , 4 8 4 Coventry '7 4 8 0 Newcastle (Staff.) 10 0 10 6 Northallerton -- 7 6 8 6 Penrith 0 0 8 3 Stafford , 9 4 0 0 Warwick 7 6 8 2 Worcester 7 8 8 0 Per 8011. Barnardcastle.—. Darlington Durham s. d. s. d. 53 56 52 56 00 00 00 00 00 50 70 7 6 50 53 60 63 s. d. s. d. 4 9 5 54 58 50 52 39 40 51 00 00 00 46 53 40 50 s.d. s.d. 74 80 76 80 9.0 10 0 70 76 00 00 96 100 76 80 78 84 1 13 0 17 6 11 0 15 6 15 0 17 6 12 6 13 9 143 166 ,14 6 17 6 00 106 110 00 106 00 00 100 00 00 110 00 73 106 66 90 79 96 70 00 74 86 86 106 - 0 150 100 136 10 0 12 6 00 00 00 00 00 00 Stanhope cr. , lsingliam HADDIN2' G r,O TO 7 , }1 0 RN I‘i ARK MAR KETS. ET .—July 13.1 The market'was well suppllea with Wheat ; one small parcel of One old brought 64 5 ., I s. a b ove the top of last day, the average wi is also up 3d. B.l2th s. B arley met with a very dull sale, top price nearly ss. down, better prices were offered for some of the Barley unsold, but refused; average down sd. A middling sup. ply of Oats, top price down 25., while the average has advanced 4d. 7-I2ths. Beans and Pease are both up, on the average, about 6d. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First 64s 51 405 6 d 40s Od 47s Od 50s Od Second 6os Od 40s Od 35s Od 455 Od 49s Od Third There were 353 qrs. of Wheat in market, 316 whereo were sold. 3 ...at 64 s. Od. 13 ...at 6ls. 6d. 60 ...at sBs. Od 40 42 37 Unsold.-3 Grey. DALKEI' The quantity of C general sold heavily, Wheat. First 66s Od Second Third [TH CORN MARKE Train at this day's marl , with the exception of Barley. Oats. 36s Od 34s Od 34s Od 30s Od 32s Od 23s Oct :et is small, Oats. , Pease. 54s Od 52s Od, 50s Od I I, which in Beans. 54s Od 52s Od 50s Od CORNWALL MARKETS. Tarao.—Wheat (average) —s. Od.—Barley, 16s.—Oats, 146.0 d. HatsroN—Whee, 245. 6d.—Barley, 18s. Od. ST. A USTELL--.. Wrl eat, 235. to 26s.—Barley, 145. to 15s.—Oats, 13s. to Hs. BonmlN—Wheat (average) 285. Od.—Barley, 16s.—Oats, 14s. 6d. LAuscEsToN—Wheat (average) 245, Od.—Barley, 13s. 6(l—Oats, 245. 9d. to 25s,—Barley, 15s. 9d.—Oats, —s. to 13s. Od. Mutton, 6d. Ltstcaaan—V 7 L — at 3 , l Wheat, 245. to 255.—Barley, 16s. to —s.—Beef, a l n O: d .T° ll . I d ;tto:, 1 6 1. ; 1 / 4 id, to id.—Veal and Lamb, Od to Od. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday 2,989 0 Average Produce 7% 0 Quantity of fine Copper 232 1 Amount of Sale, 15,24% Is, Od,—Average Standard, 1141, Is. Od. OLD BAILEY, JuLy 14. OLD COURT. Henry Solomon:, aged 72, father of the notorious Ikey Solomons, was indicted for stealing 22 watches, value 1271. 14s. ; seals, value 284 145.; rings, value 25/. ; and other property, value 15/. George Grant is a watchmaker, residing at No. 21, Chancery-lane; on the night of the 24th of May last, the witness's shop was broken open and 27 Watches, 27 ear-rings, 14 watch-keys, 14 , seals, 28 rings, five watch chains, eight shirt pins, two eye glasses, two pair of bracelet snaps, and a locket, were stolen. The day after but one, he saw the whole of the stolen property, &c. mentioned in the indictment, in the possession of Mr. Cope, at the Mansion-house. The property altogether is of the value of about 2001. He did not see the prisoner till the 6th of July, when he saw him in custody at the Mansion-house. Mr. Cope, one of the Marshals of the City of London, on the 25th of May went to the house of the prisoner, in Gravel-lane, where he found the box produced, which contained all the property stated in the indictment. Vann, the officer, proved having apprehended the prisoner on the sth of July, near the Obelisk, in Southwark. He then said, his son Ikey had left the box at his house. The prisoner, in his defence, denied having any knowledge of the robbery, and said, his infirmities were so great, that he was incapable of making the exertion necessary to commit it. Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character. The Jury re turned a verdict of Guilty. NEW COURT. Dick Bowers, whose name has appeared in the pa pers on several occasions, charged with the offence of duffing, was indicted for stealing a shawl, a piece of glazed calico, and a pair of gloves, the property of Mr. Thomas Moss Phillips. Prisoner protested his innocence, and, like some other equally amiable persons about town, com plained of the injury done to his character, by the publications respecting him in the newspapers. The DEPUTY RECORDER told him that the Court had nothing to do with what was in the newspapers. The Jury found him Guilty. MURDER OF MR. WATERHOUSE. (From the Huntingdon Gazette of July 14.) FURTHER PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO THE MURDER OF THE REV. J. WATERHOUSE, AND SURRENDER OF ziEDDINGs, " Late on Thursday night Heddings, whom the officers have been searching for during the whole of the week, surrendered himself to the Keeper of the House of Correction. It seems he had concealed himself in a hovel, near New Pasture Common, near this town, since Monday last, anfl seeing no chance of escape, and most likely tired of his retreat, disco vered himself to the shepherd of the common, and wished him to fetch the Keeper of the House of Correction, to whom he would surrender himself.— He then made a statement of what he knew of the horrid murder; and there now remains no doubt whatever but the man committed upon suspicion, Joshua Slade, is the murderer. No public exami nation has yet taken place, but the following is the statement of Heddings, who said that Slade com municated to him, about three o'clock in the after noon of the murder, the manner in which the murder was committed. Slade told him : I got into the old fellow's house a little after nine o'clock in the morning, when the old man had stepped out, and secreted myself. I thought the old man was out, but the old man saw me, and said, What, are you here again ?' He seized me by the collar; I got away, and he ran after me to the gar den door, where he caught me by the jacket, and pulled me back, and seized me by the neckerchief and throat, when we had a desperate struggle, and I thought at one time he (Waterhouse) would have choaked me; but I kept jobbing at him with the bill in the throat, hacking and striking him about the head and face, and at last I became too powerful for him. The old fellow at last dropped, and I threw him in the tub; at this time I heard the dog barking, and I went to see if any one was coming. I thought it was all up with me, and somebody there; but find ing no one coming, I went back to the old man in the tub, and found him groaning, and heaving him self on his side. I thought he was getting the bet ter of it, so pulled out my knife, and quite despatched him. Heddings, on surrendering himself, was in a very exhausted state, not having taken any refresh ment since Monday, nor ventured from his place of concealment. The whole of this unparalleled trans action has been investigated with the greatest de spatch, and the country is deeply indebted to J. Torkington, Esq., our worthy Magistrate. A few days ago application was made to the Secretary of State for a police officer, to assist in the discovery of the murderer, when Mr. Sturges Bourne, with the greatest promptitude, sent. down Ellis, of Bow street; but, before Ellis could enter into prompt exertion, the disclosure narrated above had taken place. We have not given so full a statement of this affair as we could have wished, but sufficiently so for general information. Had we proceeded into more minute details, and related every circumstance, we might, probably, by the publicity given to it, defeat the ends of justice. Heddings will be con fronted with Slade before the Magistrates this day (Saturday.) MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.--Tu Es „y, Commissioners, B Corbett, A., Friday-street 1 Cox, J., Brixton 9 Cross, G., New-cut ll Dobson, T., Holborn ........ 10 Douglas, A., Bow-lane . ll Fox, G., Blackheath 10 Grain, G., Cambridge Groves, D., Norton-str eet, Marylebone 11 Gunn, T., Foley-place ll Hardern and Co., Maccles field ll Haynes, J. Gutter-lane lO Herridge, W., Lewes lO Hetherington, H., Kings gate-street ll Hobson, E., Shoreditch lO Hodsoll, T., Chancery-lane 11 Jones, T., City-road 1 Jennings, R., Poultry Jessop, W., Oxford-street 11 JULY 11.—(At the Court of asinghall.street.) Johnson, R., Broad-street 11 Ker, T., Strand KithillLoll, H., High-street, Borough ll Kite and Co., Macclesfield- wharf Lavanchy, F., Air-street, Piccadilly Wrowe, J., Basinghall-street 10 Intyre, 2E., Stockwell park, Surrey ll cb:ooney, 8., Hanover -it., Long-acre lO esbitt and Co., Alderman bury lO Nunn and Fisher, Grubb street Offer, J., Cambridge ll Phillips and Co., Goldsmith ,- street COUNTRY DIARY, Booth, J. Chorlton-row, Lano -THURSDAY, Jut 19. ,hire—White's hotel, Man. 10 le—George, Newcastle 11 Bristol e—Crown and Thistle, New- __ cheater Brown, J., Newcastle-upon-Tyr Davis, J. Bristol—Mr. Cooke, Ewart, F., Newcastle-upon-Ty* castle Hobbs, W., Bristol—Commercial rooms, Bristol Pattinson and Co., Leeds—George, Kingston l2 Shelley, S., Oulton—Bell and Bear, Stone Strong and Dodds, Durham—Turk's Head ins, Newcastle upon-Tyne Stokes, J., Worcester—Hop-market inn, Worcester lO Stone, P., Bristol—Commercial rooms, Bristol 1 Marshall and Co., Bristol—Swan Bristol 1 Thomas, S. Bristol—Commercialroorns, Bristol l2 Woolley, Nottingham—Punch -bowl Nottingham ll INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, COUNTRY. --At the Court-house, at Dorchester, July 10, Downton, G., L eigh i Morris, M., Upway At Cambridge, July 20, at Nine. Downham Fordington J., Fenstanton Dodson, J., Swavesey Sherman, W., Cambridge Ind, R., c • Ward, W., Girton G A o u il vr a e s :s p , ., Poole at Ten iF o ß ' : cl t o tt, c e k rri: .. T,., Cambridge Robinson, T. jun., Cambridge MADRID, JUNE 20.--SPANISH TRANSLA TION OF SCOTT'S CRUSADERS.--A translation of the Crusaders has just appeared here, and it is read with such avidity, that a considerable number of copies have already been sold. This is the first work of Sir Walter Scott's that has been translated into Spanish, but as it is circu lated in Saragossa, Valladolid, Seville, C a di z , Barcelona, and Valencia, there is little doubt that the translator will apply himself to the other novels of this celebrated writer, who seems likely to become as popular in Spain as he has long been in France. I have read the work over carefully, and it is but justice to say, that the peculiarities and beauties of the original are rendered with - considerable skill. The three volumes, beautifully printed, are sold for about six: MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, in? 14. Gilson Orton was indicted for obtaining money under false pretences. It appeared that the defendant had gone to the houses of several persons, with letters which he pre-' tended to have carried from the two-penny post office, and on which there were fictitious post marks. For each of these he demanded and obtained the usual sum of two-pence and three-pence postage. Most of them, upon being opened, only contained a word or two in the shape of a jest at the folly of the persons who received them. The Jury, after considerable deliberation, " found the defendant Guilty;" and he was ordered to be brought up for judgment on the first day of next sessions. Thomas J. Ryder, an elderly man, was convicted of indecently assaulting two little girls; for which he was sentenced to be imprisoned for six months, and kept in solitary confinement. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. --One Francis Mabbe, a native of Ghent, who described himself as a "commissionaire, or doer of errands, or anp other littel things," was brought: before Mr. MINSHULL an Saturday, and Elizabeth LarviN: better known as the " Swiss giantess," attended in herows. proper and large person to prefer a charge of assault against him. The complainant stated, in very broken English, that she met the defendant (of whom she had some knowledge) in the streets the other night, and that he, without any provocation being given, abused her in a most shocking manner, and indeed, called her everything but a lady; and not satisfied with this, he scratched her neck and her nose, thumped her several times, and finally tried to twist her head off ! The defendant said, in answer to this charge, " Her ladyship spit in my face, before I struck her, and I will not submit to be spit in the face by any woman." It then appeared, in the course of a long, noisy, and passionate dispute between the parties, that formerly a liaison of no very refined nature existed between them, and that in consequence of some dispate latterly, their love had been converted into hatred. Mr. MINSHULL reproved Madame Larvis for spitting in the defendant's face, but told the defendant it was not suf ficient provocation for a man to strike a woman ; and as he did not show any signs of contrition, he must find bail. - Francis Mabbe had no bail, and he was locked up. MARYLEBONE.—On Saturday Lord Hotham charged John Rollick with wilful misbehaviour, in driving, whereby injury was done to hie Lordship's gig and horse. Lord Hotham's groom stated, that on the 12th of July, as he was sitting in the gig, opposite No. 17, in Orchard street, waiting for his master, a loaded coal waggon over turned it, threw the horse down upon the pavement, and him (the groom) against the area-railing. It must have been done through carelessness, if not wantonness, because there was plenty of room to pass. He did not see the waggon until the accident happened : it came upon hint from behind. The carter was sorry for what had been done and assisted to extricate the horse and lift up the gig. A general postman saw the groom sitting in the gig, close to the foot-pavement on the near side of the road, with hie back to the waggon. The waggoner, instead of being by the side of his horses, was behind them ; and when he saW the mischief about to happen, he could not get up in time to prevent it. He believed him to be in liquor, and wa* certain the accident was occasioned by his misconduct. The waggoner owned himself in fault, because he was not forward enough. He said he had lived 13 or 14 years in the service of Mr. Edward Wood, at Northumberland wharf, never had an accident before, and ascribed this in great measure to the misconduct of a young horse which was in his cart. " If you bad such a horse," raid Mr. Munn in re• ply, " you ought to have been more careful; the accident was occasioned altogether by your negligence, and I acts sorry that the highest penalty I can inflict is 10s., which I think very disproportionate to the offence." Lord Hotham then interceded ; in consequence of which, and the defendant's previous good conduct, as testified by his master, the penalty was mitigated to ss. William Mills, the driver of Gaywood's Paddington coach, was charged with having endangered, by wanton and furious driving, the persons of divers of his Majesty'e ' subjects, in their lives, limbs, and property. The ease was proved against him by John Finney, Esq., but as he is young offender, and promised to insert an apology i n ths newspapers, no penalty was inflicted. Maria Bootle was held to bail for having assaulted I female lodger, at No. 40, Newman-street. After the cow duct of a dissipated woman had been fully disclosed in the hearing of this case, a respectable-looking young man pre• seated himself before Mr. Rawlinson, and said, I am the unfortunate Mr. Bootle: I keep a lodging house in New' man-street, and while I have been out of town for a for days, my wife, this woman, has sto:en 2f chaldrons of coals, and a bedstead worth ISL, and has sold them to I broker for one sixteenth of their value. Mr. RAWLINSON—I cannot assist you in any way, it I no theft, for what is your property is her's. Mr. Bootle—Well, Sir, but what can I do? If she if not disposed of in some was' or other, I cannot carry my trade, and every lodger will leave the house, for eal turns it into a brothel. Mr. RAWLINSON—I know she is a very bad w0man.....• Have you seen your friend Mr. Harrison since your re turn? She sent him to the watchhouse in your absence. Mr. Bootle—l know she did, Sir, and if something it not done with her, she will destroy all my property. She is a most abandoned woman : the other day I found her in bed with a man, at No. 4, in Hertford-street. ..,. " Oh ! Mr. Bootle, Mr. Bootle," exclaimed the ladyr who had hitherto been silent." Mr. Bootle—lt is true, your worship, and I understand she turns my house into a brothel—what can I do wicl i her ? Mr. RAwuNsow—Get rid of her. Mr. Bootle—How, Sir ? Will you take her, and Mr. RAWLINSON (interrupting him)—Me t a k e her s what can Ido with her? Her taking your coals and your bedstead is no robbery, and I cannot interfere. If she does not find bail, she must go to prison, and that is that I can do. Mr. Bootle left the office in disappointment, and Mil. Bootle was placed under the care of the gaoler. Mr. Rome, a barber, was charged with unlawfully re fusing to pay the driver of a hackney chariot, No. 1,132' his fare. It appeared that on the 31st of May, the de fendant was accidentally called upon to shave a gentleman at the Swan Inn at Bayswater, who afterwards sent him to procure a hackney coach, and told him he would pay bins for his trouble. The barber hired the chariot above de scribed in Paddington-street, Marylebone, and when he got back to the inn at Bayswater, (why he went so far for one was not stated), the gentleman was gone. The fare Oleo amounted to 25., which the coachman demanded, and tbe barber disputed, but offered to give the coachman a cards which consequence of o t f this deception,tafaleenamean th da e ddr rs Inc s. summons w served upon a wrong party, and after much &ea], and delay in finding him, the barber was apprehended under 0 warrant. Lord MoNTFoan heard the case, and ordered the barber expenses in att e ndi ng at The barber looked upon his Lord s hi p w i t h aston i s h ment , " for," said he, " I only did it, a n d l ost my own t i me, to o blige the gentleman at Bayswat er ." Lord MolsTfoan--The coac h man has nothing to do the epay office, the to fare, the with coachman,three and day s a' costa. with that ; it is quite out of the question for him to suffer, and impossible for me to give any other decision. BIRTHS. On the 13th instant, in York -terrace, the lady of Charlet A. Saunders, Esq., of a daughter. On the Ist instant, at Lausanne, the lady of Thomas Richardson Auldjo, Esq., of a daughter. On the 10th instant, at Jersey Villa, Cheltenham, Mrs. John Prince, of a son. MARRIED: On the 12th instant, at Halifax, Mr. John Cottingbau 2 Johnson, of Aldermary church-yard, London, to Marianne, only daughter of Mr. Win. Greaves, Clapham-common. On the 14th inst., at Paddington, by the Rev. Dr, crane, Mr. Alexander Glennie, wine -merchant, Size-lane, to Elizabeth Catherine Jubilee, only daughter of Francisco Ferriera, Esq., of Oporto. DIED. On the 13th inst., at his house, No. 4, Hackney-terrace, Mr. Samuel Ireland, late of Cannon -street, city, aged 76. On the 13th instant, in the 63d year of his age, Mr. Hensrnan, of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire. On the 13th instant, universally respected, Ann, the be loved wife of Mr. Richard Townend, of Tottenham, Mid dlesex, in the 65th year of her age. On the 13th instant, at Newington, in the 58th year of his age, Mr. William Tilbury, formerly of Monkwell-street, wholesale druggist. PRIFTZD and PUELISHED by M. YOUNG, at the Suw , Orrtex, 11R, Strand, Beans, du gel Re