The Sun. — London, England, 1827-04-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We are not able to announce any farther ar rangements in the Ministry, for which we should be sorry, if we thought that the delay could re vive any hope among the seceders, of indecision in a certain quarter. Indeed, we think that the fondness with ,which the fallen party adhere to this hope of timidity or weakness in him whom they have insulted, is, if possible, yet greater insolence than the original affront, However, we shall here give Them, for their edification, a short extract from the Gazette of last night : e 'Whitehall, April 17. "The King has been pleased to direct letters-patent to " be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, " constituting and appointing his Royal Highness William " Henry Duke of Clarence, Admiral of-his Majesty's Fleet, "to be High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great ". Britain and Ireland, and of the dominions, islands, and " territories thereunto belonging." Thus are the Melvilles, whose administration of the navy (that of father and son) has been so great a curse, at length shaken off. God be with them ! May England.neVer heas,,of their names again ! But, to shew that we bear them no spite, except for our country's cause, and as retiring statesmen are sometimes honoured with an accession of heraldic fame, we would recom mend that the title of " Marquis of Catamaran" should be conferred on the present Lord, to commemorate one of the most notable exploits • during his father's naval administration; and that, together with the registry of this title at the Herald's-office, be inserted a copy of the tenth Report of the Commissioners of Naval Inquiry. —lt is, we believe, as certain as if the appoint ment were Gazetted, that Sir John Copley is Chancellor. Lord Bexley goes back again to his unimportant situation of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. His fate reminds us of a story in the Romish Legends :--When Saint Anthony, who preached to the fishes, was per forming miracles every day, the chief of his,mo nastery spoke to him on the subject, reprehend ed him for being too lavish of the power of God imparted to him, and prohibited his performing any more miracles. The Saint knew his duty, and promised obedience, but, in coming . out of the monastery soon after, he observed a crazy plasterer throw himself down from the pinnacle of one of the towers. " Stop," said the Saint to the falling body ; and the- body stopped midway between the pinnacle and the earth. " I'll just step in," resumed the Saint," and ask the Prior to allow me to perform this one mi racle more, of replacing your stupid carcass, unhurt, on the point from whence you started ; if he grant permission, well and good ; if not, with a precious clatter, you will come to the ground !" In like manner Lord Bexley precipitated himself from the tower. St. Canning stopped him when falling— stepped in and asked the Prior's permission, and the precipitated body is replaced unhurt. •The Lord Chancellor resembles the thief in Prior's Poem, who is for ever taking leave, " and yet loath to depart." Sir John Copley is the Cordelier who confe'sses him, and with a wink to the executioner, and a • Prithee despatch me this troubksome blade," • looks to the spoils. By the way, our French quo tation was misprinted in yesterday's. paper..: Whit we said was, " The Master of the .Rolls - a . bien jotte Jan role in speaking against Catholic emancipation." With respect to the filling up of the offices still va cant in the Administration, we should imagine that antecedent events point out a course. The .Whigs have already, when•out of Ministry, defended and justified that liberal and more diffusive system, of fo reign and commercial policy, of which Mr. Canning, with his friend Mr.,Ftuakissou, was the, author.— These same gentlemen, therefore, now that the au- thor of the , policy is in a situation to give it, accord ing to their principles, ,greater developement, and more useful effect, cannot oppose or decline contact with him; and if he, on the other side, seeks for ad herents among the enemies of his system and polac,y. what proof will he give the King and the nation of his sincerity ? Let there be a cordial eo-operation among men whose principles are, for the most part, the tame; and let not factious nor personal visws be allowed to interfere on either side, to the risk of destroying a noble opportunity of effecting a public good.--Timer. The appointment Of the Duke of Clarence to be Lord High. Admiral,. appeared in the Gazette of last night. According to the Court Circular, several letters have passed between Mr. Peel and Mr. Canning within the last few days. , We trust the correspondence was of a more amicable character than that between the Duke of Wel lington and Mr. Canning. , If Mr. Peel, as his friendsallege,haveno private grudge towards Mr. Canning, it is difficult to understand why he should deem it necessary to retire at this time. He himself told us some time ago that he owed nothing to the Lord Chancellor ; and we all ::r now that the Chancellor expressed himself more their once very contemptuouslyrespecting his le gislative labours, and particularly his attempt to put a stop to sham pleas. He had absolutely nothing in common with the rest of the old stagers who have withdrawn to the obscurity from which they ought never to have emerged, e x cept his opposition to • the Catholic Claims. He, on the , contrary, has beeti.exerting 'himself to benefit his country, by grappling fairly with the. Herculean task of freeing the lamp fnatri the grievous defects which at present attae.kto them; and it is but justice to him, to admit that the principles which lie has laid down, , and the man ner in which he has hitherto applied them, be speak a clear and unprejudiced head, and an honesty of intention which entitle him to the gratitude of the nation. We confess we should he sorry, on many accounts, were he to refuse office under Mr. Canning. Even supposing a successor were to tread• in his footsteps, it might be long before he acquired the familiarity with she subject possessed by Mr. Peel, and conse quently the business of legal reform would ne cessarily be suspended for a considerable . time. We therefore trust he will be induced to return to an office -in which he can be eminently useful to the country. T. ate, like Mr, Peel, placed ' by his fortune abo v e the necessity of caring for the acquisition of wealth, the devotion of his ta lents to the service of.hie country is a, noble object of ambition. Th e man is greatly to be envied, who has the mean s w i t hi n hi s reach of diminishing the evils that affect society, and consequently adding to the , amount of virtue and happiness. To decline power when a man is persuaded that he can wield. it for Praise-wor;by purposes, so far from being an act o f magnani m i ty, i s a mean dereliction of duty, an un warrantable yielding to selfish indulgence, for which his cons i e-ence ought to sting him. We hold this language' & P e ak i ng of Mr. Peel, because we are i per. suaded he can understand it. To the Lord Chan cellor, we should i‘leeer,think of suggesting any con sideration, not immediately y connected with self. If he could have comprehended why a man ought to act occasionally from he r motives than the mere wish to accumu la t e p ea, iould have shrunk with horror from the mass of human miner to which he was co nstantly adding b;, hi eciszadcect money ioa.oaneeitermi nation to part w ith nothing s h a s and patronage, though it ,wasnf_t°rict!,,at the anke politicals . ruptcy ought to have been separated 14 '5 4 #,ti . ie Court of Chancery, and that the business arum- f rons the former, the Scotch 'Appeals,'Appeals, inf~ n made such havoc on the time demanded , t) lin. ...!ery suitors. But we will no t do Mr. Peel th e i n . Justice to class him, for mom ent, w ith th e LW Chancellor; and we think that, for the benefit of his own reputation, the sooner he quits a course, in which he may, possibly, be confounded as an asso ciate of is Lordship, the better. The Marquis of An gles'earSir John Copley, and Mr. Canning had au diences of his Majesty yesterday. The former has actually. accepted the Master Generalship of the Ordnance, and transacted business, yesterday, f or . the first time, at t h e Ordnanee Board. M. W. Courtenay, Assistant Clerk of Parliament, is spoken of as likely to succeed Sir John Copley-as -Master of the Rolls. We have no further intelligence to communicate - respecting the negociations on foot to slipply the deficiencies in the Cabinet. It would be strange indeed if, in the two Houses, better men could not be found than those who conceived their services were so indispensable to the Government that their strike would bring their Royal Master to terms.—Morning Chronicle. The formation of a new Ministry under the auspices of Mr. Canning so occupies public at tention, that: the actual state of the country seems for the present forgotten. The worshippers of the new Premier are ,so eage r t o se i ze t h e go ld en opportunity o f offering up the earliest incense to the rising sun, that any one who listened only to their language must believe that this country would become, in a political point of view, a perfect Garden of Eden, by his condescending to . shine upon it. These flatterers would fain persuade the public, through the agency of the Press and otherwise, that the appointment of Mr. Canning to the chief place in- the Cabinet and the salvation of England are identical pro positions. When we hear so much said of the destinies of the British empire depending upon the official pre-eminence of an individual, we can hardly imagine that we live in a nation dis tinguished for its cool judgment and intelligence. It is curious to observe the similarity which ex ists in more points than one between the situa tion of this country and that of France, at a period not long preceding the Revolution. The rulers of that kingdom had, in the vain pursuit of what is called military glory, entailed on the nation an enormous debt—the bitter fruit of long and ambitious wars—more especially did the wild project which Louis the fourteenth enter tained, at one time, of subjugating the states of the Seven United Provinces, and overthrowing their free Constitution, involve the Government in extravagant expense, and precipitate the people towards insolvency. It is true that this Monarch did not live to see any thing like the consumma tion of the evil which his ambition worked—. its first appearances were manifest in the closing years of his reign. Louis XIV. imagined him self despotic; as did his ,immediate successor, while the wishes of favourites prevailed over the councils of the most veteran Statesmen—and the nation, while flattered with the vision of univer sal empire, was in a state of contented obedience to a female government. It does not require to be proved at present, that those who preside ever the'intrigUes of Courts are bad'guardians of the public purse. France with' all the studied gallantry of her habits, was obliged to admit this truth. The financialernbarrassments of England arkgthose of Fr a n ce un d er t h e anc i ent reg i me, e the result of wars, of ambition, and conquest ±-but more p ar ti cu l ar l y o f wars arising nut of a hatred of freedom. The last Ipng and most sanguinary conflict, which brought this country more than once to the brink Of ruin, was begun in a spirit similar to that which ipduced Louis XIV. to make a sort of exterminat itig war on the free States of Holland. - 'Our Mi nistry, with Mr.Pittat their head, attacked the French j4eople, when exercising 'the right of an independent nation to choose their own form of internal govern- Ment. Out of this aggression arose the military power of Buonaparte, and out of the same aggres sion was created the More formidable 'pow er w hi c h nag survlVed - hii•==-We me an the power of the.debs. The debt has entailed on us an enormous taxation, which, in the twelfth year of peace, reminds us of the most disastrous periods of the late war. This taxation necessarily cripples the industry of the dpuntry, while the necessity of paying the interest prevents the reducti on of t axes , and at the sam e t me involves the State in financial embarrassments. We are now paying the bill of expences for endear miring to put down the freedom of another nation, d for attempting to force alovernment upon a ople. Now the marmer i n w hi c h 'the flatterers o f Lr. Cann ing speak of him appears to us very ab sprd, for this reason—that Mr. Canning can no more remove the debt, or cut doWn the taxation while - the debt continues, than he can lift the tallest mountain ii;i the island from its base and throw it into the sea. Xust as wild and insane adulation. as we now see p l aid.to Mr. Canning, was paid to M. Neckar, when he was called into office to redress those financial difficulties which were facilitating the French Revo lotion. It is true the French Government made ppper money the representative of the principal of the debt, which brought about the crash sooner; and we made such medium the' representative of the interest of our debt, by taking advantage of that *ding system, by which the day of the great ac ctunt may be delayed, though it cannot b e pre y nted. What did .M. Neckar' do,?—h e retired . ..__ ff • m office, leaving the country i n a worse con di t i on t an he found it, and a b an d one d hi s id o l ators to dis a pointment—so it was with M. Calonne; he was to be another saviour of the sinking State, but tough a better financier than Mr. Canning, the dpbt was too powerful for his talents, and he was crhed by the weight which he attempt e d-t o ra i se . .i . orning Herald. A sufficient time has now elapsed to have enabled the distinguished persons who have se ceded from the Ministry, to cause the reasons which induced them to take that extraordinary step to be generally understood, if they had, any reasons which would bear to be explicitly stated. liut all is. silence on their part. Their Sove reign reproacheS thcm—their country condemns them ; they submit to this reproach and con demnation; and not a syllable is breathed by way of justification or. apology. They cannot, surely, be so infatuated, as to deem themselves superior to the censure of their King, and the opinion of their countrymen. . If they had any plausible criound of complaint—any well-founded appre hension that the elevation of Mr. Canning would • lead to a course of policy inconsistent with their principle S—it would be for their interest to let this be understood in a plain and tangible form ; bit no reason is assigned for what all . men think could be justified only by very cogent reasons.— S i tat pro ratione voluntas. They resign because they choose to resign ; and they leave the public to b auess.why they have done so. Statesmen so experienced as some of our Ex-Ministers•are, would not keep silence if they had any explana tion to give, which could avail them ; and it is not a harsh inference to draw from that silence, if we- suppose that they have acted, not upon public grounds but from personal feelings and views, such as would lower them . beneath the dignity even o f a fist instance,. party, and degr a de th e m into a cabal. Let 'us alw a y s un d ers t oo d t o sepa , i4 t e , from the rest. the n ame o f M r . P ee l. Th e elrses stated.gi wholly Hon. Gentleman, as e originated in mod i distinct from those whi c h mus t be t l r v i ati° inn of the thatfist suppo d to have influenee(thi colleagues—rno tives, alike unimpeachable and `impeached. If se had employed any ; Mr. Canningintrigue gue to di vert the beams of royal favour from them; and to himself—if he . fi d.,, •bi tur ni b e i r radiance urn a 7 un. derhand means, procured his elevation, and that, too, to the disappointment_ of a competitor favoured by them—they might, in such a case, hive had sortie pretext for 'dissatisfaction with . the individual, though, even then, it would have been more worthy of the - caprice, of spoiled children, than of the gravity of states Men, to have withdrawn, on merely personal grounds, from the discharge of their public functions. But they were themselves in possession of the Royal favour till they forfeited it by their own folly. Mr. Canning did not draw it away from them, but they (unintentionally of course) turned it towards Mr. Canning. The pre sent Minister employed no intrigues, no under hand means of elevation ; the arts by which lie rose were manly arts ; the display, before Europe, of those capacities which necessarily make one, roan the ruler of others, and seem, when in the highest place, to have found the station for which nature intended them. When Mr. Canning was called upon to form an Administration, there was no competitor in the field with him. It was admitted on all hands, that he was fitter than any person else for sitting at the - head of the Government; nor was there any individual whom even the most partial friends thought qualified for taking precedence of him.— His Majesty, not yielding to any private partiality, but consulting the good and dignity of the empire, and lending a gracious ear to the general voice of his subjects, puts the reins of power into the hands of him whom the nation thought fittest for holding them. Is it not extraordinary, then, that this act of a truly patriot ,King, should deprive him of'the services of men to whom he had been a kind friend as well as a bountiful Sovereign ?—NewTimes. Our attention has been directed to an article in a paper (The St. Janzes's Chronicle), which does not regularly come under our observation, but which is, we are informed, a journal of some respectability. In the present instance, it has this accidental claim to a passing notice, that it embodies in the article referred to, all the abuse which has been levelled against the Sovereign, and against that Minister who has received the highest proof of his Majesty's confidence. It is more, therefore, in the way of a curiosity, than as . ati 'expression of public opinion, that we are induced to bestow a few remarks upon so singular an effusion. When a man gravely undertakes to demonstrate that all the world are wrong, and that he alone is right, .if we can once get over the feeling that he ought not to be at large, there is an exciting novelty about hispretensions which makes the examination of them an agreeable office. Our opi n i on h as a l rea d y been implied, if not expressed, that the retirement of some of Mr. Canning's late colleagues proceeded from the mixed motives of personal :dislike and poli tical difference. , We may collect, from the in discreet advocate before its, how far the motive of personal dislike may have extended, by the viru lence of the outcry which is now raised against the Prime Minister. Mr. Canning, it seems, according to these authorities, " is, by inclina tion and habit, if not by birth, a . comedian." Mr. Canning is "he who stands least in need of the reputation of political subtlety." Mr. Canning is " a juggler." Mr. Canning's highest praise is,.that he is an expert rhetorician, and the chief of scoffers." If it were possible to forget who Mr. Canning really is, and how intimately his name is blended with the most.•difficult and the most - triumphant period of our history, it might be supposed, from language such as this, that the " intriguer, juggler, rhetorician, and chief of scoffers, was some new adventurer, floated into office upon the wave of Court ser vility—a fortunate. minion, of whom it might be predicted, that— " A breath unmakes him, as a breath has made." But it is not possible to forget that Mr. Canning has been as&ottated with the service of his coun try from the earliest days of our contest with re volutionary France—Lthat •he Wei the bosom friend, 'and chosen miciple, of that great man, whose name has long been identified with the cause of social order and regulated liberty— that of all men living, he is the one upon whom the mantle' of his master's eloquence and com manding policy has descended—that he has, as as - the Foreign Minister of Great Britain,, stood between the two extreme opinions,,by which the world is, - threatened_ to ..be desolated, that o. bigotry and .superstition on the one hand, and a rash desire of change - on the other --and that to him, above all, it may be ascribed, that we have passed through a period of unexampled domestic calamity, without the slightest agitation of the po pular mind,and with a universal spirit of confidence in the wisdom and benevolenc e of his Majesty's Government; And yet this is the man, marked out as he is by his splendid talents, by his long expe rience, by the approbation of the King, and.by the admiration of the people, for the hi-hest office in the State, who is accused of having arrived there by " intrigue and indi rect influence." We have not concealed our regret, that the country has lost the services of so many valuable Members of the Cabinet, and particularly of Mr. Peel. But we must venture to repeat, that each and all of these illustrious per sons might have held office wider Mr. Canning without any compromise of their real dignity. To involve no question of comparative, talent, his long services alone as a Cabinet Minister entitled him to this distinction. Is it meant to be of firmed that the first office in the country ought to have been entrusted to some Nobleman, of inferior or even moderate abilities, under whose shade the real leaders might repose in con tented equality ? The country would not have to lerated this; and, as for any new and untried States- man, whom some of our contemporaries would have recommended to have been. hunted up, we may safely say---" non ex gnovis ligno fit Mercurius.— appointment of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence to the office of Lord High Admiral, has given the country the fullest confidence that his Majesty is , identified with his P r i me Minister in the most Marked and decisive manner. Nothing less could he expected from the spirit and dignity of George IV. He has never bestowed,his confidence unadvisedly, or by halves. He has, on more than one occasion, sacrificed his private feeling to the public good; and if the secession of so many tried and valued servants may have cost him a pang, he will be abundantly consoled in the universal and unbounded trust and affection of his people.—/bid. ON THE DEATH OF YOUNG CHILD REN _ - Ephemera die all at su n - se t, an d no i n sect of thi s class h as ever i2nrtvl in the b eams o f th e morning sun. "H app i er are• ye, little human ephem era !—Ye played only in the as cending beams, and in the earlier dawn, and in the eastern light ; •ye drank only of the prelihations of life, hovered for a little space over a world of.blossoms and of freshness, and fell asleep in innocence before yet the morning dew was exhaled. —Richter. The n um b er o f p e rs o ns con fi ne d in Clonmel Gaol for trial at the late Assizes was 401; of these there have been-- Executed Sentenced to death Sentence of death recorded Transported for life 7 Transported for fourteen years 3 Transported for seven years 55 To be imprisoned for different periods 24 Postponed their trial until next Assizes , Acquitted ... ... . Discharged by proclamation 155! ! ! SO that by this table it'would appear, that ,for every three confined ,there was ,one again s t whom no charge could be -- substantiatedconttemned to all the horror, misery, and contamination of incarceration in a crowded gaol, and his wretched family deprived ,of whatever support he could give them. Really this is not that species of activity in our "unpaid," which we can at any time be disposed to praise; but "more of this anon."_, Tipperary Free Press. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. dUILDHALt.;—/ifary :6 - t4aagli,' a remala years of age, was charged by Mi. Alderman GARRATT with having incurred the forfeiture of 20/. under the 32d Geo. cap. 54, h• offering to him a counterfeit certifiCati of character as a servant: The worthy Alderman stated that the prisoner called upon him at Old Swan-stairs some day last week to hire herself is it housemaid. He made the usual inquiries is to her character and fitness for the situation, and she stated that 'she had lived abOut a month before with Mrs. Noon, of Beddington, Surrey, to whom she referred for charac ter. She said also that she had lived for two years with Lady Uxbridge, at Kingsfon, about five years ago. He knew this must be false; for he himself had occupied for seven years the identical house where Lady Ux bridge resided, and he mentioned to the prisoner that Lady Uxbridge had been dead above eight years. The pri soner replied, that her recollection was bad ; it might he longer ago than she had thought. Mrs. Garrett wrote 'to Mrs. Noon, and on Sunday or Monday received a letter in reply ; but from the g.,At ral appearance of it, he doubted whether it was genuine,. and went himself over to Bed dington yesterday morning. After much inquiry, he learnt , there was one party of the name of Noon in the place, but it was a poor old • woman who lived in the lodge, at Rey nolds's bleaching -ground, who never had kept a servant, and who knew nothing of the prisoner. On his arrival in town, be found the prisoner waiting for a reply. He told her the result of his search, but she persisted that a respectable family of that. name had resided there, but sug gested that they were probably gone abroad: He then questioned her as to to the situation of the house at King ston, and the neighbours, the name of the vicar, Sm., and found she was an utter stranger to the place. He offered to forgive her, if she 'would acknowledge her error, but she refused to do so, and as a magistrate of the city he thought a public notice of the case would be beneficial as a caution against receiving written characters.---He did not call for any punishment. Sir PETER LAURIE questioned the prisoner, who seemed determined not to admit that she had done wrong. She thought it an innocent device for a good purpose, and the Adlerman had suffered no harm. She had last lived in a family at Liverpool. Sir PETER said, he feared this practice was widely re sorted to, and with success, and that the prisoner might have a little cool reflection, and recover from her present fit of stubbornness, he would remand her till the following day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday, a man named, William Pullen, a butcher by trade, was charged by Michael Angelo Taylor, Esq. M.P., with the following brutal act. Mr. Taybir said, that as he was passing through St. James's-street, he saw the defendant, who was. in a state of intoxication, seise a little female child that was sitting on the foot pavement, and in the most wanton and brutal manner dash it against the iron railings, which fortunately however, did not inflict on it any serious injury. Mr. Taylor instantly seized the fellow, and gave him into the custody of a constable, who lodged him in the watchhouse. As, however, the defendant seemed now very sorry for what he had done, and Mr. Taylor heard that he was a man of good character, he was willing to let him off oa his paying 101. to the parents of the child, who were very poor people. To this the defendant consented, and he was discharged. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday,, two individuals of re spectable appearance, named Jackson and Finch, were brought up from the Surrey watch-house, where they had been confined during the preceding night on the follow ing charge. Mr. Taylor, landlord of the Prince of Wales in the Lon don-road, stated that on the previous night the two de fendants entered his house, and having taken seats in the parlour, which was exceedingly full of company, it being fair-time, they finished some glasses of grog, after which, to the great terror of the whole room, they took from their pockets, a braceof long brass-barrelled pistols, and began to take aim at some:individuals composing the company. The extraordinary Conduct, of the strangers, who were supposed to be madmen escaped from some lunatic establishment, gave general alarm in the room, but none of the persons in it dared approach men armed with such: deadly weapons fearful of having a bullet thrOugh their heads. At length, however, the landlord of the house was made acquainted with what was going forward, who, apprehensive that serious consequences might result from the incaution dis played by the two unruly customers with their fire -struts, walked into the room,.and-liiiihg approached the place where they were sitting, under the pretence of wiping the table, seized the pistols from the defendants, who were highly incensed at the act, and vowed to be revenged on the landlord for having deprived them of what they termed " their :only safeguard during fair time." Having left the room with the intention .of placing the pistols in a place of safety, the defendants followed and abused him for depriv ing them of the weapons. Mactsraarz—Were the pistols loaded ? Complainant-- Every individual in the room apprehended they were, but I subsequently discovered that they were not charged. The Magistrate then asked the defendants how they could have been so indiscreet as to -display fire=arms 'in a room under such circumstances? Finch replied, we now see the folly of our conduct, 'and sensibly feel our situa tion. We, are much obliged to the landlord for the man ner in which he conducted hinuielf- on the occasion, and I. can only add, on the behalf Of 'myself and my friend, that should we be so fortunate as to get out of the scrape, We shall be careful in future how we produce weapons of any kind in a public room. I need not add, that we never intended to discharge the pistols, from their having been neither primed nor loaded. The complainant interceded in their behalf; when the Magistrate, after having reprimanded both the defendants, discharged them. The drivers of several vf.hieles on the Greenwich-road were summoned for conveying passengers to the fair with out having either licence or plates. The charges having been fully proved against the defendants, they were fined 5/. each for the offence. The act restricting. the proprietors of waggons, carts, Ice. from plying for hire without licences has had the tendency of thinning the present fair at Greenwich exceedingly. Waggon-loads of holiday folks are now not to be seen driv - ing down _the road to visit that scene of mirth and fes tivity as formerly; and it has been observed that the riots tumuand lts on on the road to town have increased, owing chiefly to the operation of the Act which passed during the' last Session, and which has excluded the fair-going people from having their sixpenny jaunt to and from Greenwich. PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH, BLACKFRIARS. The annual vestry was held yesterday, in the small room appropriated for the purpose. Mr. BURSLEM, stationer, of • Great Surrey-street, in the chair; but in consequence of the anxiety manifested since the last year's exposure of the parochial affairs by Mr. Henry Hunt, the room was insufficient to hold half the persons present, who were idly standing in the body of the church, endeavouring to catch a syllable of the business. At ten o'clock Mr. Hunt came into the room, and moved an adjournment into th e b o d y of the church, which, after some little opposition, was carried. The vestry was called for 13 specific purposes, and vlthough scarcely an hour h a d e l apse d , Churchward ens h a d been elected, Guardians of the Infant Poor, Commissioners of the Courts of Re quests, Auditors of Accounts, Workhouse Commit tee, Vestry Clerk, Organist, &e., had been appointed; and the only portion of business not transacted was the making a minister's-rate, and poor's-rate. The other business had been got through in the old man ner, without debate or opposition. It was moved and seconded, that a rate should be made of Is. in the pound for these purposes. Mr. 'JUST moved, as an amendment, that tht rate he raised to 25., and was seconded by Mr. Thorne of Hatfield-street. ' ' The amendment was loudly exclaimed against, explanation, sa id hi s mot i ve in do and Mr. Hunt, in ing so was to compel the parishioners,. by the pay ment of a high rate (the only means of bringing them to their senses), to look after their - own affairs. The motion, being intended more in irony than se riousness, was negatived without a division, and the original resolution carried. A vote of thanks was proposed to the late over seers,:second amendment from Mr. Hunt,whuiceh said he a h g edid not do so w ith any intenti on of defeating the vote of thanks, b u t. that it was the, n would be afforded , ioly I nconsWuretnuenitY that Mtn of the way the other business had been managei4 of introducing ., a. motion which It was for the production o f thehe meant to ac'c'ount -books , of Mr. Mackay, the master of the workhouse, an d t h e baker's book. Mr. Hunt then entered into a long detail of the proceed ings which took place at a meeting of the auditors appointed last rear, of which he was one. When be came into that meeting, he said the other auditors had passed the .butcher's acceunt, without reading a sin g le item of it ; and when lie eipOilinlited With thein; they deefiiied . it - Wai the way in which the parish accounts were always passed, and that th e . , , business was transacted usually in one n i g ht, and a motion which he midi- for reading these items was violently and successfully opposed. The next bill examined was the baker's, and it was about to be passed in the same way, when he remonstrated, and. begged to know if there were any, check kept on the items of the account; the book of Mr. Mackay, the master of the workhouse, was then produced, in which the daily delivery was contained, and the ac counts were found balanced to a shilling. The baker's daily book was then produced, and on coma parison of the first quarter with the master's book, thirteen or fourteen errors were detected, most of which were against the parish. He then wished to have gone into the next quarter, but was told that it would occupy too much time, and that an adjourn ment was necessary. He pressed them to adjourn de die en diem, which was obstinately refused, and an adjournment for a week took place. When they again met, the books were produced with alacrity, and the second quarter's accounts gone into, and not an error ofan ounce of bread, or afraction ofa farthing, could be detected. But (said' Mr. Hunt) though my eyes are not quite so good as formerly, I easily discovered numerous alterations and erasures ' in them, which -I pointed out to the auditors, of whom the majority assented to my views. It came out (he continued) that Mr. Carter and Mr. Smith had, in the interval since the first meeting, sat up a whole night together in going over the accoants, to which they had obtained access through the master of the workhouse. In the first instance he had at tributed the errors to the master's ignorance or in attention ; but when he saw the erasures and altera tions, he declared them, as now, that he considered them as gross fraud and forgery as many persons had forfeited their lives for at the Old‘Bailey.—(Hear, and cries of « Order, order.")—ln making this as sertion, he called on the parish not to listen to it without having recourse to the best proof—the books themselves; therefore he would move his amendment. Mr. WurriitousE conceived it impossible that any honest man could object to the productiOn of the books, and therefore cheerfully seconded the amendment. - Mr. TILLEY, one of the'Overseers, ,objected to their production, :on the ground that they had been already examined by the auditors, of whom a ma jority had certified their correctness. Mr. FAuT, another parish - officer also objected : if they examined into acc ounts already - passed, they might go further, and examine all the accounts of the last eentury.—(A laugh.) • Mr. CARTER, a former Overseer, alSo objected. He alluded to what he called an ex-parte report, published last year, of the proceedings, and attributed this to Mr. Hunt having taken the :reporter home with him. All the auditors had signed the accounts except Mr. Hunt. Mr. HUNT—That is explained by the fact, that several of them never attended at all. Let the names of those who signed it be read. This was done accordingly, and it appeared but eight out of the fourteen had done so. Mr: CARTER resumed—He appealed to Mr. Tay lor, who was now present, if •the conduct of Mr. Hunt, at the meeting of auditors, had not been most ungentlemanlY., He had come there, and asked " - What does that fellow (meaning Mr. Carter) want here ?" and ended by calling me a blackguard. A voice in the Church.—You might have retorted, and called him a blacking-man. Mr. CARTER --Wag this the sort of man to whom the parishioners would pin their faith ? He said that he came to the Meeting for the e x p ress purpose of detecting errors in the accounts, and he hoped:he should not be disappointed, as hi would blow them akup. Let the- declamations of Mr. Hunt,. whose oratoriCnl. powers were notorious, not be minded; but let the parishioners decide by facts. He could set down the opposition of Mr. Hunt to no other cause than that they had refused to postpone a vestry fracas in un w til hi li ch is be re w tir thefromn e e ngag e d.—(Lau d e . _ el Fa i o u n g e h e t r e i r n . s —Let the accounts be referred to a Committee to report to a general vestry. Mr. HUNT assented to this part of the proposi tion ; but let them be produced to this vestry, and he would undertake in five minutes to convince them of the facts he had stated with regard to erasures and alterations. The auditors had been all called honourable men. Why, all persons in, office were honourable men. My Lord This is an honourable man, and so is' Mr. Secretary 'That; but 'where : was the use of appointing auditors at all, if their accounts were not examined carefully ?—(Hear, hear.)—He had not, as was said, Called the master of the work house any improper name ; he only pronounced him an illiterate , ignorant man : in one inst ance , i n his accounts, he had spelt Monday with an u.— (Loud cries of " Oh, oh," and " shame.") A Parishioner.—He wants a classical man to keep the workhouse. Mr. HUNT would not have mentioned this, but he wished to show that the two gentlemen who had been so careful in making his accounts honest and true, also wished him to appear a man of learning, and had actually scratched out the u, and made it 0. He again repeated, that the erasures were fraudulent forgeries. If the accounts were not prodticed, he was convinced no parishioner would have the least doubt of- the cause. Mr, CARTER wished to have it understood, before the question on the amendment was put, that no per gsounimresrhd.oiburludtre.votiAbcottihtoafccpoarrdllinagmetontt.he qualifications re - Act of Parliament-- c t e h r e 6.ilily;le t gentlem a n ' s to be misunderstood. 11 S i 11 ortiovteesby ar e n t the The CHAIRMAN—Let the names of those who will vote for thanks to the overseers. be given to the Vestry-clerk, and their qualifications shall be exa mined. Mr. HUNT asked, if the act had been made only for this specific purpose, or if it meant to include . - non disposed called for for it to b e every act of vestry The Clerk, after some hesitation, said it w as meant for the wh o le proceedings. Mr. HUNT—Then why not vote acco r di ng l y f or c t i h o e nme o .r t . h c er A r T e E s it ti_on ß s aeleraeuadsey Mr. 1- l uNT —The motive of t hi s i s eas i ly seen through. wh e n you o ff er no resistance to thg gen tlemen managers , you may vot e as ill ega ll y as you please; the instant y ou s h ow any desire to thwart them, out comes the A c t o f P ar li ament; and the ne cessaryqualifications. (H ear, h ear. ) L et u s l eave the church to themselves. They are still able to out-general us. Several voices exclaimed, " It's all a humbug, from beginning to end ; let us follow Mr. Hunt?' More than half the persons present then quitted the church, and .left the churchwardens, overseers,• vestry clerk, and about a dozen otheri, to'dispose of the amendment and vote of thanks. THE"TOivER of LONDON.-4 dispute has arisen between the' Authorities in the Tower and ,the City of Lo n d on; w i t h . re g ar d to t h e T owe r St a i rs . I n conse quence, of thiS, Captain powlen, of the Third G uar d s, waited on the Lora Mayor on Saturday, with a letter from Major Ebrington, the principal resident Officer in the, Tower, in which he asks, "if the Lord Mayor has re , seised authority from his Majesty to take possession of the Tower Stairs, and levy contributions on his Majesty's sub jects ?"—The Lord Mayor declined answering this letter until he should communicate with the City Solicitor on the subject. Not long, since, it will be remerrrbered, that at the end of Tower-street a' chain was extended, which isolated Tower-ha - 4 and after considerable agitation of the su bj e ct, the City,succeeded in their efforts, and caused it to be. removed. 'While the Mint was held within the pre cincts of this ancient edifice, two persons were sent to prison for some crime there committed, and they were sub sequently tried by a City of London Jury, and executed at N e urgate ; thus showing that the jurisdiction,' lot offences t kao, rests in the City of London. THE MARKETS. (From the New London Price Current of Tu esdal4 SUGAR—The demand for Mu scova d es l ast week. was very limited, no reduction in the prices yrs% however, submitted to; towards the close of the Market there was rather more firmness on account of the public sale of Mauritius Sugars having g one off with more briskness and at an advance of is. per cwt. The deliveries last week are rather unfavour• able for the Sugar Market, they are 801 casks less than the corresponding week of last year; the stock is also accumulating, it is 726 casks more than in 1826. The Market for Muscovades continues closed on account of the holidays. The Refined Market gave way last week Gd. to ls. per cwt.,notwithstand" ing the great scarcity of goods; Grocery descrir tions were particularly heavy. Molasses were 6d. lower. The Refined Market became exceedinglY heavy this afternoon, on account of the unfavour able report of the Hamburgh and other great markets. The Market otherwise was also very heavy. Mo lasses 245. In Foreign Sugars no alteration in the prices could be stated. COFFEE—The Coffee Market last week was a shade lower in price. Some extensive sales of Bra zil took place from 435. 6d. up to 475. St. Domingo was steady, 445. a 465.. and British Plantation was dull of sale and rather lower. There were no Pub - lie Sales of Coffee to-day, and up till n. late hour no purchases by private contract were reported. PROVISIONS—There is no business doing in Irish Provisions, and no progress has been made in selling the American,. the prices asked for the latter are, according to the rumour of the market, rather high • above 755. asked for the Beef,' equal to about .5.1. 12s. 6d. for Irish Mess Beef, and 7.55. is asked for the Navy Pork, and 60s. for Cargo Pork. In Bacon there is an advance. Butters are at nearly nom inal quotations. COTTON—The sales of Cotton for the week end ing last night inclusive are about 700 bags; there is no alteration in the prices. The holders of Cottos look with much confidence 'at the immense con sumption evident from the weekly sales at Liver pool, and also that the account from Manchester state extensive sales of goods, though'at low prices ; they anticipate a considerable revival in the Cotton trade• ".GLASGOW, APRIL 14. " There was a goo d d eman d f or Cotton dur i ng the week, both from the trade and speculators, not' withstanding• which prices hive again declined about id. per lb. The sales amount to 2,739 bales by private_treaty ; they consisted of 10$ Sts 101 at I lid.; two at 13id., three stained ditto at 7d. 21 bowed ditto at 7id. ; 1,273 'Bowed Georgia at 6d. a 6 d. ; 227 New Orleans at 6*d. a 7id.; 40 Mobile at bid. a Gad. ; 119 Demerara at 7id. Bid.; eight inferior ditto at sid. ; 104 Egyptian at 7id. a Bid.; 291 Surat at .sid. a s*d.—and by auc tion .53 damaged Sea Island at 3d. a 44d. ; eight stained ditto at I d.; and 389 Bowed Georgia at id. a 21d. per lb." INDIGO—Since the India sale a few lots have been sold at a small advance, but the general reports of the Market is that Indigo is quiet at the sale prices. TOBACCO---There were no transaction's reported in Tobacco last week. At the close of the Market to-day 70 hhds. are reported sold for Ireland, and 100 lthds. for export. HEMP, FLAX, and TALL W--The demand for Tallow has been st ea d y an d considerable; 'the prices are rather lower, th oug h t h e i ntelligence received from St. Petersburgh i s f avoura ble ,; the exchange ' was above 10d., and few sellers of Tallow tinder 100 rubles. In the prices or in the demand for Hemp or Flax there is no alteration. RUM, BRANDT;and HoLLANDS—The Rum Mar ket continues heavy; .the fine Jamaieas'are still sup ported; Leevrards are very heavy, but there is no further reduction in prices ; the few sales for ship ping are still *under 2s. 6d. free on board. 'ln Brandy ,or. Geneva there is : no alteration. v Oii.s—:-The. Oil Market is very heavy ; we cannot quote any alteration in the prices. FRUIT—The Market is rather more firm. SALTPETRE—There is rather more doing in Salt petre, the nearest price is 225. SPlCES—Spices continue very heavy; Pepper is offered a shade lower without facilitating sales. ,COUNTRY CORN . MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Per Quarter. s. to a. s. to s. Boston„" — 33 36 Canterbury —..— 54 63 38 4i Grantham 36 66 42 45 Grirosby--...—.. 58 69 Horncastle—.—. 50 58 38 42 Lincoln 54 58 40 44 Maidstone 52 (13 38 43 Spilsby. 54 58 38 44 iltsmford 53 58 42 45 Oats. Beans. I. to s. 28 28 37 84 4.; 34 38 28 38 34 38 28 37 32 34 34 37 b. to r. 40 48 58 $4 58 59 $5 :60 58 de 43 49 58 PO 47 SO COTTON WOOL, LIST OF lIIIPOItTS AND EX: IMPORIID. EXPOILTED. A Previons ly this year. Bags, &c. 7,885 ISame pe- This riod last year. • year. ' Bags, &c. Bags, &c. Bags, &e. Liverpool 186,069 132,465 London 734 10,945 13,895 , . 920 Glasgow 16,441 54835 --- Total exported in 1827 ............ 15,855. COTTON WOOL—GLASGOW. The sales during the week amounted to 2739 bates. 103 Sea Island s ............. ained....................... Ilid. a 13%d. 3 Ditto St ................................. '7d. a Od. 21 Saw_ in n Ditto 7id. a ` oa. merara (inferior ) 1273 Boweds ............................... ... . 127 De 267 Orleans ........ ......... .5%d..... • rid. a 7%d. 194 Egyptians 71d : a 8.%d. sid. a s,id. , 2 1 Surats BY AUCTION. 53 Sea Islands se. a 4%d. Ditto 399 Bowetis St ained lid. a Od. Id. a QV. Imported from Savannah lB6 Do. Charleston Do. Demerara 315 1121 bales. KNARESBOROUGH, APRIL 12.--A consider able sensation was produced on Sunday afternoon; in this place, from a report that something resembling gingerbread, but containing poison, had been thrown about the Market place, and that some poor children had been gathering it. About three o'clock the child of a weaver was taken se riously ill, but immediate surgical aid being administered, this child is likely to recover. Two little girls, however, of the name of Longthorne, the one five years old, and the other three, died on Sunday night, after severe suffering ; their stomachs were taken out and examined, and were found to contain mineral poison. On Monday, an inqueEt was taken by Mr. Shepley, the coroner, who returned a verdict of- 4 ‘ Died in consequence of poison picked up in the market-place, in something resembling gingerbread, but by whom left there unknown." It is supposed tbat No clue actorss yet more children would have part a k en o f t hi s mixture, b u t through the prudence of an o ld er g i r l , w h o came amongs t i i n )ee th n is d t ie ra co g v ic e a reci l bu t , h in a e t s i i s ._ lik L el e y vi t : Mercury. l t ea lie d rn io the i n or li r n a t i Gower, of o o n f na a u d g a h u t- g p h l t a e c r e . , On the 16th inst , at B C I On the 17th inst., at Charlton, R i a li t ai tmhetils:dvyredoferLicimkitile Colonel Power, of the Royal Artillery, of, her fifth son, Lady Wigram, of a daile, of a son. On the 15th inst., Hamilton -place, the r l e oun 4,6 Church, b y t h e Rev. Henry Delaf osse, of the High On the 17th i ns t., at Daniel Wil son , A. M.,MCA3RipstillainiingEti::f , Hornsey-l ane, Hig g ß a e t n e. g al ArtilleTy, to bliss Shield, at Hastings, L ev i son Smith, Esq., 1 Ifßlobestrq Smith, Esq.,llth age d 25. sec o on n d son ° the 14th % 4th inst., at Worth. in O x f or d s hi re, Frede... rick 'William , e ldest son of Joseph Wilson, Esq., of Bat» tersc a-rise, Surrey , aged eight years and a h a lf. On • tli s 16th inst., a t Ri c h mond -hill, near Bath Mr. Benjamin Ba rb e r, of that city. Oa the 14th instant, in Jerilyn -street - , after a protrt!ct— ed illness, which s h e sustai n ed with Christian tojek:l4/g' Mary, Only remaini ng d aughter of George Joad, P4*, of Blackheath, in the 27th year o f h ex age. r Plif • NIED and PU BLISH E D SU it .. OFrICX, NQ. 112,. straud. „., t i ;PORTC i