The Sun. — London, England, 1827-08-02 00:00:00

spigrr OF THE L G JOURNALS. An address of a few inhabitants of Birmingham was presented the day before yesterday to Mr. Peel,—we can hardly say on what subject;—not an his retirement from office, for it is now four good months since he chose that better course ; we presume, therefore, it was an address ofton dolence on his continuing out of office. These good people of Birmingham ) being zealous, ac tive manufacturers, consider employment, no doubt, as the soul of life, if we may. use such an expression, "IVIr. Peel, therefore, being now " out o'.business," is, in their estimate of things, out of all possibilty of happiness ; trade is extinct with him, and he is consequently a fit object of compassion. Hence, probably, this address ; though the authors of it may not know the work- ings of their own minds any more than they do those of the machines by which the manufactures of the place are perfected ; and they very natu rally console themselves, as well as Mr. Peel, that there will be a speedy demand for the articles in thick he deals, " and that the time will soon arrive when he shall be called on by his Majesty to assist in his councils and the government of the country." Mr. Peel replies to the address in a modest and sensible manner ; and above all, we approve of one part of his reply, in which he seems to refute the pretensions of privileged dulness, to lord it - over their fellow-subjects. " I never," says he, " can reflect with any other feelings than those of pride and satisfaction, on my own intimate connexion with that important class of society, whose in genuity and active exertions have not merely be nefitted the land of their birth, but have increa sed the comforts of life, and improved the con dition of mankind in every country of the globe." Whether " the condition of mankind in every country of the globe" is not as likely to be im proved by acknowledging the independence of the brave, and participating with them in the maxims and practice of a liberal policy, as by merely vending to them the products of our looms and forges, we: eave to my man of ordinary re flection to decide. We wish the condition of mankind to be improved by either process, and shall challenge public support for those who seem to possess the greatest capacity for giving elect to both.— Times. While every one whoSe daily business calls him to the city returns home with exclamations of wonder at the - present and unprecedented overflow of money, few or none take the trouble of reflecting what consequences are likely to arise from it. We confess that our own attention to the subject has been for some time super seded by a train of considerations directed to public interests of a more distant nature ; but it is only justice to an intelligent correspondent, whose letter we published yesterday under the signature of " Barton," to state, that there are many of his observations which seem to us to merit the notice as well of the Bank as of his Majesty's Ministers. The interest of money, measured by the rate of discount, is apparently much lower than ought to be wished. A rate of interest which does not exceed from n to 3 per cent. per annum, proves, in general, that there exists a want of safe and profitable employ ment for capital, a consequent stagnation of com mercial industry, and a national condition the re verse of prosperous. Where capitalists are long unable to find at home a secure channel through 'Which to put their wealth into motion, they either transmit it to foreign countries—where, in many instances, they end losing it—or they transfer themselves along with it, whereby both the citizen and his fortune are lost to the country whence they emigrate —or, finally, they begin to embark in enterprises, and to invest their capital in se curities, which they hope may, yield a profit mag nificent in the same ratio in which it is con fessedly precarious. This is one wide cause of the malady of ovcrtrading, which may be properly termed the endemic of most commercial coun tries. We fear that the mischievous tendency has been increased by those who ought to have watched and restrained it ; more especially after the tirades with which both Houses of Parlia ment echoed soon after the calamities of the au tumn of 1825, which proved that some at least of the King's Ministers knew how to make a 'scape goat of the wild speculations of men in business, if the same Ministers had nothin g ; snore laudable in view than to conjure up a Fe.- text for the concealment of their own mistakes, instead of developing a useful fact as a basis for future caution. But the truth is, that among the more wary and reflecting, members of the monied world, Ministers and the Bank of Eng land are both censured as co-operating parties to the present overflow of circulating wealth. It may be true that the recent stimulus given to trade has been furnished by the increase of money ; but. that is a source of passing joy, to be paid for, we fear, by a distressing and dan gerous re-action. So the inordinate rise, of the public funds—almost 10 per cent. within a few weeks--might have given a shallow triumph to the Treasury in the days of such a Minister as Mr. Vansittart ; but it proves to a man like Mr. Canning, nothing more than the excess of money, the great material of gambling speculation, over the fair demands of sound and wholesome com merce. It would be desirable to ascertain at once, what value of Exchequer bills have--been thrown into the market, and what portion have been taken 'by the Bank of England since the vote of the last Session of Parliament. We are anxious also for precise information as to the relative amount of Bank notes now circulating compared with each of the last twelve months. If the quantity floating be greater than ordinary, the Bank have an opportunity of con tracting the issue in time to avert any simil ar c onvulsion to that from the effects of which th e nation is but just .recovering; and if the issue has not increased, the official evidence of such a fabt will at once exonerate the Bank from a ll . suspicion of having caused or aided the evil which seems in a rapid course of reproduction, and will,guide the investigators of our financial state towards other quarters where may be found the real mischief, with its appropriate remedy. Perhaps it would have been discreet in Mr. Can ning to obtain from Parliament a power .of funding Exchequer bills as the occasion might suit, at any period before the ensuing session. Such a measure would help in some degree to relieve the overflow of convertible capital, and could hardly be adopted under more advan tageous circumstances than when Consols exhibit . a tendency to reach the half-way point between 90 .and 100. It may be remarked in favour of the policy of the Bank of England, , that in so far as its rate of aliscount exceeds that of other banking establishments, which is now, we be lieve, the case to .the. amount of lor per cent.,--theßan_kregulation operates as a check, instead of an gicouragernent, to an excessive currency.--Aid. Some of the advocates of the Ministry are in raptures because (as they tell us) the Pacha of Egypt has thrown off his allegiance to the Porte, and because the Government of tngland has the honour of having (as they say) encouraged and promoted this defection. This entire story rests merely upon rumour, and although hot ha probable in itself, will be proved, we imagine, to have been premature. We refer to it_ only be cause it seems to us to afford a fine illustration of the new code of political morality which is to guide the present Administration, if we are to suppose that the most zealous and the most pa tronized of its supporters are qualified to form any correct notion of its principles and spirit. The story is, and we take it as it is given to us by the leading Journal of the Ministerial Party, that the Pacha of Egypt has long entertained the intention of casting off his allegiance ; that he some time ago communicated that intention to Mr. Canning, having an instinctive presentiment that this was the proper quarter in which to seek encouragement and applause ; and finally, that the Right Hon. Gentleman, acting on behalf of the King of England, one of the oldeo and most intimate allies of the Porte, did not hesitate a moment, but with most meritorious promptitude promised the incipient rebel the sanction and countenance of the British Government. This statement is accompanied, of course, with the warmest panegyrics upon the consummate skill and dexterity with which the Prime Minister Livailed himself of this opportunity to facilitate the objects of the treaty then about to be con cluded for the settlement •of Greece. It would, we admit, be unjust towards the Administration, had and unprincipled as we consider it, to give implicit credit to this statement. The perfidy it describes is too. undisguised. The outrage upon !national faith and honour which it pourtrays and applauds is too violent and hazardous to be cre ,lible ; but the statement thus put forth with so many eulogistic flourishes by one of its organs, ,indicates at least but too plainly that the charac ter of the Government of England has recently undergone a lamentable change ; that it now aims at being ditinguished by its supe rior cunning, rather .than by its supe rior integrity; and that the more skilful land acute of its flatterers offer to it accord ingly the kind of oblation which they know will be the most grateful. In what light, we may ;ask, will these assertions and encomiums of Mr. 'Canning's friends and flatterers be viewed by the Porte ? Will they not appear to illustrate in a manner the most novel and striking the loud pro fessions of moderation, and impartiality, and good faith, contained in the Greek Treaty ? Will they not exhibit one of the parties to this Treaty as being admirably fitted for the high office of mediator between the POrte and certain other of its revolting subjects ? To hold the Administration expressly responsible for the .foolish or indismet conduct of those who iespouse its cause would be irrational and un fair ; yet it is nevertheless true that per !sons of kindred intellect and disposition naturally cleave to each other ; and the general character of a Government is sure, !therefore, to be inferred from the ge- neral tone of mind manifested by those who stand forward as its most prominent advocates.— It is no doubt a, misfortune to any country to 'have an Administration which can by possibility ,attract to its cause, partizans capable of such a combination of stupidity and wickedness, as that which has given rise to our animadversions.— Other Governments and nations were generally .disposed to put a charitable construction upon the fulminations of Mr. Canning, threatening, is they 'did, the whole earth with the power of England as an inciter of rebellions and revolu tions. By the common consent of mankind, and in a general spirit of reliance upon the known probity and wisdom of his Colleagues at tha period, his rash.and dangerous words were suf fered to pass as " A tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." We would seriously put it to Mr. Canning ,nd to his adherents, whether they are likely to ,dvance his character as a Statesman, or to pro note the glory and welfare of England, by now idopting such conduct or language as is likely o lead to a renewal of this interpretation.— Horning Post. . Now the political quidnuncs have completely run the gauntlet of conjecture, and seem to -have exhausted all their breath on the subject of a Noble Duke's late visit to Windsor, that the subject itself may not too suddenly pass away, or the writers in question die of ennui, we will give them another edition of the matter quite differ ent from any which they haVe hitherto hit upon ; and it is this—That the Duke's interview with his Majesty, about which so much fuss has been made, had no reference to politics,, but arose en tirely out of his Majesty's personal feelings to wards his Grace and his family, as connected with the painful and injudicious disclosures which one branch of that family was at the time forcing upon the public attention. Though we have no more knowledge about the matter than those who, professing to have so much, have clearly none at all, yet we may state that this view of it was long since intimated to us, through a quarter, of probably quite as good authority as any from which any of the previous conjectures may have emanated ; and carries with it, to our minds at least, an air of probability quite as convincing as any which has hitherto appeared. . Of the King's personal regard—we may say affection, for the Duke, no one can entertain a doubt ; and• it re quires no penetration to imagine that, even the highest Personage in the realm may feel a lively interest in every thing which concerns the ho nour and happiness of a friend and subject so highly valued. And this conjecture is not a little strengthened by Lord Maryborough, the father of the one party and the brother of the other, being the messenger employed to effect the interview. if this view of the matter be cor . rect, it renders it one with which the public can I have no concern; and we therefore forbear to en , large upon it.—Morning Herald. We have extracted from The London Maga zine a very able article on the Wellesley case, which, we think, exhausts the argument on the subject. It has been suggested to us that a particular distinction ought to be made between the children of the Sovereign and of Peers and those of the rest of the community ; that as Royalty and the Peerage are not empty honours, but involve the exercise of powers in which the people are deeply interested, it is of the utmost consequence that all possible precautions be taken that those on whom Sovereignty and Nobility are likely to devolve, be fitted by their education for the due exercise of the powers to be committed to them, and that we accordingly see that in the case of Royalty the education of the Heir Apparent is deemed a concern over which the nation has a right of controul. In the case of the mass of men, interference between the parent and child is less necessary, and would, in fact, be impracticable. But in the case of Peers, their elevation above the people, and pos session of legislation and judicial power, must be deemed a trust not for their own . benAt, but for the good of the people, and therefore the ' trust necessarily involves a subjection to the means the best! calculated to ensure that end. Among these are, unquestionably, the proper developement of the moral and intellectual cha• ratter of the youths, on whose principles and • intellect arc to depend the welfare of the nation. This is an intelligible view of the matter. We have no objection to see Peers marked out as chosen vessels, on which any crack or flaw shall be held to bar them from the exercise of their parental rights. An inquisitorial power into their conduct might have the effect. of purging them from most of the vices which so often stain the character of ordinary men ; and !when we have once compelled them to be virtuous, their example would operate on their children in se cola secutoi-unz. At present it unfortunately happens, that the Peers consider their elevation !in a very improper point of view—that they deem it rather as a title to exemption from the rules of virtue and propriety, than as a bar to the in dulgence in vice ; and accordingly the decision in the last resort is entrusted to the most profli b- fi ate men, taken as a body, in the whole corn- Munity. As the case will soon be before them, we trust some virtuous Member will avail him self of the hints we have - thrown out. With respect to the other House of Parliament, the nation, has in some cases, and ought to have in all, the power of. sitting in judgment on their characters before their return, so that the nation is freed from all anxiety as to the means for in suring their perfection by cultivation. We have no doubt, therefore, that the House of Peers will at once 'see the necessity for placing them under a more strict surveillance than the Mem bers of the other House.—Morning Chronicle. An account will be found in another part of our Paper of the trial of Slade, at Huntingdon, for the murder ofthe Rev. Mr.Waterbouse. A con viction on more slender evidence has seldom been recorded. We do not think it necessary to make any protestations of respect for Jury Trial, for we are, perhaps, like all our countrymen, rather apt to sin on the side of admiration of its bene fits. But Jurors are men of like passions with others; they have often decided in ignorance— often in error ; and, notwithstanding the London ;University and the Bible Society, we rather think that they will continue to do so, occasionally, for some time to come. In the case of Slade, it does not strike us that it is possible to form two judgments of their conduct. We do not so much allude to the verdict being at variance with the di rection of the Judge (for Judges and Juries may differ without blame), but. it was utterly at variance ;with the whole evidence, as vt e find it reported. The only circumstances which made in any respect against Slade, were the blood spot on the trowsers, the bill-hook, and the foot-marks. The.spot on .the trousers was instantly and satisfactorily ac .counted for ; the hair, as it was called, on the bill, was thought to be the hair of a sheep's head, and the foot-marks were indifferently proved, and would have areued nothing had they been clearly proved. T here was, in' fact, nothing but the evidence, of Heddings to con nect Slade with the foul deed ; and how did that evidence connect him ? Why, by his own pretended confession, which he, on his trial, so lemnly denied, and which, so far as circumstan- 0 tial evidence could do, was distinctly negatived by others. Indeed, what credit was due, eve► to the uneontradicted testimony of such a man, confined on a capital charge, of which he was to be freed on condition of giving evidence. We suspect the escape of Sheen has occasioned the conviction of Slade. The Jury, no doubt, thought that society would be overturned if -an other murder were permitted to pass without a victim. We rdcollect heating a story of a Jury, some years ago, which this trial brought very forcibly to our mind. There had been a great number of petty robberies in 'a county in the North of Scotland, and the parties charged with them had, one after another, got clear. At length, one fellow was caught, against whom it was thought a tolerable case had been made out. The Jury retired, and having chosen a respectable country gentleman, a Baronet, to be their Chancellor, as the Scotch term the Foreman, they proceeded to deliberate. The charge fortunately was not a hanging one. The Baronet, who had been bred a lawyer, as was usual with almost all the Scotch gentry about 60 or 70 years ago, stated his opinion of the evidence, and showed very clearly its utter insufficiency to convict the prisoner. He al lowed he might be guilty, and, perhaps was ; but there was nothing in the proof that brought home the facts to him. When the Baronet had finished, another Juror rose and addressed his brethren—" It is true," said he, " there is no, perhaps, just evidence of the man's being fairly guilty, but there has been a hantle of thieving for this some time past, and we must make an example, Sir John." In Scotland, as in France, from which the practice was, we believe, bor rowed, criminal Juries decide by a majority, and it is almost unnecessary to say which way, after such a cogent argument, the majority went. The man was convicted with one dissentient voice, and banished from Scotland—no great hardship perhaps. So in Slade's case, the Jury seem to have thought, that there having been a gttat many crimes of violence of late, though the evi dence was not exactly'strong enough, yet it was necessary to make an example.—Nero Times. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DI A RY.--FRIDAT, Commissioners, Clark, J., Holles-street, Ca- — venaish-square Cotsworth, T. jun., Cam AUGUST 3.—....(At the Court of lasinghall-street.) - - berwell Dickenson, R., Little Gros venor-street ' 11 Fear nley, C., Crutched Friars l2 Godden, M., Cleveland-st., Fitzroy-square ,ll Johnson and Davis, Vaux hall ......... 2 .................. 1 Leigh, E. and Co., chid_ dingstone . .......... , , 12 Paragreen, .1., Totte"nha — ra". court-road .. ................. 9 Phillips, T. and C 0.,.. F en _ church-street ... 11 Rose, T., Strand ........... 10 COUNTRY DIARY.—FRIDAY, Auo. 2. Probert, J.,Crickhowell—Ram, Gloucester Schofield, ~ Wardlesworth—White's, Manchester Stocker, T. jun., Devonport—Elliott's, Devonport Wardell, G., Liverpool—George, Liverpool 1 Wilcock, R., Lancaster —King's Arms, Lancaster Williams, W., Norwich _Rampant Horse, Norwich 4 Woodcock, W., Preston—Messrs. Pilkington, Preston ll AUGUST 4. Barnes, J., Ledbury—Feathers, Ledbury ll Bridge, 0., Marple—White Lion, Stockport Eveleigb, J., Manchester—Star, Manchester 2 Hague, J., Ashton—White Bear, Manchester ' INSOLVENTS APPLYINI Petitions to be heard at Pertug A uovsT 4, Abraham, M., Edmonton Abbott, C., Kent.rciad Blackley, R., Canterbury Britten, IL, Basinghall-street Bruorton, W., Gloucester Chenn, M., Tottenham-court- TO'BE DISCHARGED, al-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, , AT NINE. Imray, J., Minories Izod, J., Kingsland Jee, J., Dockbead Nettland, J., Knightsbridge Reynolds, J., Kingsland Rothenburg, F., Soho Shout, 8., Vauxhall Stapleton, T., Stepney Smith, ~ Deptford Tenter', C., Soho Thacker, J., Wardington, Ox fordshire Ward, W., litheftgeld Wallis, F., Chertsey Wale, S., Peckham new mad 'Davenport, C., Dalston Edmonds, G., Stepney Edwards, D., Gloucester Ernberick, J., Finsbury Harper, J. Dryton-parva, Shrop shire • Hickson, T., At. p an ... Raiford, R.,Moor-fields I COUNTRY.---At the Court-house, Northampton, August 8, at Ten o'clock. J., Titchmsrsh Loveday, H., Weldon Hinson, J. Heyford Mountfort, _ Hinton Jeffery 11 U., Northampton IReever, 8., Lilburnc LAW INTELLI GENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Auc. 1. WATKINS AND DIAULE. The argument in this case was resumed and con cluded. The subject in dispute arose in consequence of certain estates and iron works, which had been 'sold by auction, not answering the description in the particulars of sale under which the purchaser bid for them. The LORD CHANCELLOR directed a reference to the Master, to ascertain the difference between the actual description of the estate, and that in the par ticulars, together with the value of the alleged diffe rence, if any should be found, and with liberty to the Master to state special circumstances. IN THE MATTER. OF THE REV. WM. HORNE. Mr. PHILLIMORE applied on the part of the son in-law, the husband of the daughter of this gentle man, for the order of the Court to ground a com mission of lunacy. The LORD CIIANCELLOR said he must have the opinion oft physician 'before he could grant a com mission. There was a very able practitioner in the neighbourhood, Dr. Arnold, of Leicester, whom he would order to have access to the alleged lunatic. TIIE EAST GREENWICH FREE SCHOOL. Mr. ROSE moved in this matter, that the trustees should be restrained from disposing of the funds of this school, and that they should pay them into Court, to wait Crie decision of an information filed against them by the Attorney-General, at the rela tion of a Mr. Townsend. The affidavits stated, that Mr. Townsend, being a candidate to fill the office of master of this school; had been duly elected at a meeting of the trustees, but that an objection being. afterwards started, that he was a tax-collector, and therefore ineligible for the office of schoolmaster, the trustees proceeded to another vote, and rescinded his appointment, although lie offered to give up, and had actually given up, the situation of tax-collector. The relator thinking that this was illegal as well as unfair, took possession of the school-house, from which he was forcibly ejected by order of the trustees. He then filed his information, and the pre sent motion was for the- purpose of obtaining an in terlocutory order to prevent the trustees from pay ing another master, whom they had since appointed, out of the trust funds. The LORD CHANCELLOR rose before the whole of the Counsel had been heard, to attend an appoint ment with the Master of the Rolls. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Auc. I. COSTS. Mr. Cos having made an application for leave to vary the terms of an order of.the Court, The VICE-CHANCELLOR, in granting it, said he would take that opportunity of repeating what he had before said on this subject—viz., that in every case where he found that obstacles had been thrown in the way of the performance of orders of the Court, and that those obstacles tended to no other purpose than to swell the bills of costs of solicitors, he would take care to throw the costs upon the parties with whom the delay originated. In the present case he should make the party who had rendered this supplementary order necessary, pay all the costs of it. His Honour also intimated, that for the relief of the suitors of the Court in lessening the enormous expellees to which they were not unfre quently put, he should state it to the Lord Chan cellor as his opinion, that on taxing bills of costs before the Master, all charges for supplementary orders should be struck out. He haped that he should be able to persuade his Lordship to give the Masters directions to that effect. CONST AND H.A DAIS; Mr. Twiss moved, in this cause, that all proceed ings directed by the late Vice-Chancellor should be suspended until the termination of the suit. Mr. SUGDEN opposed the motion. The VICE-CHANCELLOR could not grant this mo tion to suspend all the proceedings generally. He could not be justified, on any ground, in presuming that his predecessor had made a wrong order, or in tweiudging a case on an interlocutory motion of this nature. He could not, therefore, make any order, except such a_one as would not impugn the decree, and would save the e)cpence. PREROGATIVE COURT, Aucusr I This was the first Caveat day after Trinity Term The Court sat by Surrogate. IN THE GOODS OF WILLIAM CAMPBELL, ESQ., DECEASED. Dr. HAGGARD moved the Court to grant joint administration of the personal estate of the late Mr. Campbell, of Russell-square, Chairman of the Board of Stamps in Ireland, to the widow and the Rev. Daniel Campbell, brother of the deceased. Mr. Campbell died in June last, leaving a widow, a brother, and a sister. The infirm state of Mrs. Campbell's health made her desirous of joining Mr. Daniel Campbell in the administration, and a proxy of consent was given on the part of the sister. The REGISTRAR stated that it was not usual to grant a joint administration under these circum stances, unless special grounds were shown by affi davit. He knew an instance in which joint admi nistration had been refused to the widow and the' father of the decea'sed. The Court (Dr. Daubeny) refused the motion until a precedent could be showm The other business consisted of unopposed mo tions and matters of mere form. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. Hearne, the proprietor of the King's Arms, on Holborn.bridge, came to the Justice room to apply for a licence for a house which had been a public-house in the liberties of Saint Bartholomew, and which had been lately rebuilt. He produced - a recommen tion signed by Sir James Shaw, a great number of the most respectable inhabitants of the parish, and the Gover nor and Deputy-Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He stated that he had, as far as he found it possible, com plied with the new Act of Parliament on the subject, by putting tip notices, &c. anti he hoped to be able to sur mount the difficulty of applying on the regular licensing day. The house had been, up to a few years ago, 'licen ced, but it had beeii allowed to go to ruin, and it had become necessary to rebuild it. The applicant thought that the fact of the house having been licensed for a number of years would operate in favour of his claim. No house had been licenced instead of it. The LORD Mayo& said, that he had very atten tively studied the new Bill respecting the licensing of public-houses. He had, he regretted to say, found it extremely defective in, the very point to which his attention had been drawn upon this , occasion.— If the public-house of an individual happened to be burnt, the owner had it not in his power, by this act, to act upon his licence in any other house until he should build another. The Legislature evidently intended accom modation of the sort, but the provision was so clogged that nothing could be made of it. The act professed to give to the Commissioners of Excise the power to grant a licence under such circumstances, but the act was so worded that the authority was found to be merely nominal. This error of course extended to cases of the kind just described. His Lordship said that the applicant had no alternative but an application .on the regular day of licensing. Mr. Adkin, the proprietor of the Ben Jonson public house, in Shoe-lane, was summoned by Foster, the Marshal. man, for having his house open at an unseasonable hour. Cathie, the officer, stated, that on Friday night, at half past twelve o'clock, 'he saw some gentlemen drinking in the defendant's house. He understood that they were connected with the press. The LORD MAYOR. , --I know nothing at all of newspaper men in a case of this kind. The house ought not to be open to any body. A clerk of Mr. Harmer appeared for the defendant, and stated, that it was the custom of Magistrates to grant indul gence to licensed victuallers, circumstanced as the defend ant was. _ _ The Loan MAvoa.---I shall impose the smallest fine, 10s.: I can't help it. Mr. Harmer's clerk said, that the defendant merely ac commodated those who were obliged to sit up at a very la borious profession. The Loan Mavon.--Those who are connected with the press must have their stuff from the public-house at an early hour. Public-houses must he shut up at 11 o'clock. The solicitor stated that the Magistrate had a discre tionary Power, and that such power had been uniformly ex ercised towards those who opened their houses to persons connected with the press -with indulgence. It was stated to his Lordship that a reporter, who perhaps had written 14 or, 15 hours, at night' would sometimes willingly pay five times the value of a pint of wine to save himself from exhaustion. This was as pressing a case as that of a traveller. Mr, Adkin submitted to the Lord Mayor that his house WAS as well conducted as any in the city of London. He had never opposed in any way the authority of the police. He had never allowed any person of questionable character to approach his bar, as all his neighbours could testify. It was admitted tkat the house was extremely well con ducted. The LORD Mayor—Very well, I shall fine you the very lowest fine. Mr. Adkin—My Lord, I trust that you will consider the consequence of recording a penalty against me before you decide. If I have erred, it has been an unintentional error. It surely could not be the intention of the Legisla ture to fine for a mistake arising from the observation of the practice of magistrates, who made allowances in cases of this nature. _ The LORD MAYOR—There is something in the argu ment which you have just advanced, and I shall not fine you ; but yott must close your doors at 11 o'clock. Mr. Coils, of the Rainbow tavern, in Fleet-street, was summoned for a similar offence against the Act. gentlemen were found sitting there after 12 o'clock. The LORD Mairoa—Your house must be closed at 11 Several o'clock. I cannot allow you to have an exclusive privilege. Will you promise to close at eleven ? Mr. Coils said that he might as well clOse his house alto gether. He begged to know why the coffee-houses were not visited by the police as well as his house? Coffee houses were allowed to do as they Incased. The Loan MaYoa said that be would not hear of any distinction. 'Will you close your doors at that hour ? Mr. Culls—Certainly, my Lord.—Ne fine was imposed. GUILDHALL—Dor.Lr's TAP. —One Mr. John Thomas appeared before Mr. Alderman T:►omrsox, among the bibulous disturbers of the King's peace, yesterday morning, charged with having grossly misconducted him self at Dolly's tap. Dolly's tap is an appendage to Dolly's chop-house--a chop-house almost as well known as' St. Paul's Cathedral, and highly appreciated by all lovers of mutton chops in this mutton-eating metropolis. The tap is, as aforesaid, an ap pendage thereunto—a place in which the chop-eaters may moisten their chops to their heart's content, with any liquid they may fancy, from Champaigne or Bon: Rethib, down to Deady's" cordial or Barclay's entire butt. Of Dolly's tap, one Mistress Oldfield is the comely landlady; and on Tuesday night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, just as she was contemplating closing her tap, and quietly setting down after the fatigues of the day—in pops this Mr. John Thomas, and demands a glass of port. The portly pro prietress of Dolly's tap instantly handed a glass of port to Mr. John Thomas—and down his red lane it went at one gulp. Mr. John Thomas then smacked his lips and de manded a glass of gin and bitters. The glass of gin and bitters was handed to Mr. John Thomas, and he chucked it down his throat so suddenly that Mrs. Oldfield verily believed it must have overtaken the port before it got half way to the bottom. Mr. John Thomas then demanded• a glass of porter ; but Mrs. Oldfield refused to let him have it. Perhaps she thought it was a strange anti-climactical declension from prime port, through gin and bitters, to plain heavy wet; or perhaps she thought John Thomas had already imbibed more moisture than enough; but so it was, that she peremptorily refused to let him have any more, alleg ing that she wanted to close her tap, and desir;ng him to pay for what he had swallowed, and depart in peace. But Mr. John Thomas was not to be so put off; he wished for porter to make the port and the gin and the bitters sit easy on his stomach ; and as Mrs. Oldfield persisted in refusing it, he stalked into her bar, and began pumping some himself. Mrs. Oldfield became alarmed, and called in the watchman. Mr. John Thomas vowed he Would knock the watchman down ; and the watchman, being a very ancient and quiet watcliman,very prudently abstained from coming within the reach of such a conse quence. Mrs. Oldfield called her husband. Mr. John Thomas swore he would knock her hiishand up; and her husband, being much indisposed, declined running the risk of being knocked in any way. Finally, Mrs. Oldfield called a constable ; the constable came at her call, and called John Thomas to come out of the bar ; John Thomas defied the constable; the constable collared John Thomas; they struggled together for a moment, and away they went scuffling out at the door of Dolly's-tap, and irito the door of the watch-house nearly opposite--something after the fashion of Punch and le Diable in the show-box. Mr. John Thomas—when the Alderman asked him what he was, said he was a surgeon ; and when asked what he had to say in excuse for such extremely unsurgeonlike conduct, he replied, in a sort of touch-and-go style,— " I was walking—had been drinking—rather thirsty— said to the watchman, " watchman, come in here, and I'll give you something to drink."—Don't know if he followed me—if not he behaved very ill—certainly very ill.— people rather hasty—Man especially. Very thirsty— wouldn't go--pushed out—and into watch-house in a mo ment—no idea how—but in a moment, as it were !" " Then," said the worthy Alderman, " I convict you, for having been drunk, in the penalty of five shillings for the benefit of the poor of the pariah." Mr. John Thomas did not half like this—" I assure your Worship," said he, " the charge is a made-up charge altogether—a very villanous thing !" But there was no remedy ; the penalty must be paid ; and having paid it, he departed much out of humour with everybody ; and espe cially with Dolly's tap. MA RY LEBONE. —Ann Beff, a canal boatman's wife, dressed in her hest, with Leghorn hat and artificial lilies, was charged with being disorderly, and breaking five panes of glass in the bar window of the Red Lion public-house, at Westbourn-green. It appeared that the defendant's husband manages the boat in which the Grenadier Guards embarked yesterday morning at Paddington for Liverpool, and on the happy occasion she had taken one or two, perhaps three, glasses more than sufficient. In this condition she applied to Mrs. Priscilla Tomlin, the landlady of the Red Lion, for a little more. " I will not serve you," said Mrs. Tomlin, " for you are tipsy already ; and if you do not go about your business, Tomlin shall make you." " Ile.make me !" replied the boatman's wife ; " if he comes near me, " I'll give him such a scratch on his face that lie shall be ashamed to go to bed to you." , An attempt was made to turn her out, when, instead of scratching the landlord's face, she broke the window as before stated, upon which Mr. Tomlin sent a mes senger on horseback to Marylebone office for assist ance, and Mr. Rawlinson sent Buckeridge and Webster to take her into custody. She is detained until she pays for repairing the window. HATTON-GARDEN.—Yesterday a tall young man, dressed in sailor's clothes, and reluctantly giving his name Thos. Morris,was brought from the Foundling watchhouse, before the Sitting Magistrate, charged by Wm. Wells, a private watchman, with attempting to force his way into the house of Whitmarsh, Esq., Guildford-street, and assaulting him (Wells) while in the execution of his duty, on the previous night. It appeared that the defendant, who had just returned from a visit to the distant shores of Battersea on the , efight in question, had either missed or forgot his way home, and by mistake drifted into the wrong port. Being rather un ceremoniously repulsed by the Philistine (Wells), who was there stationed on guard, he made desperate resistance; 1 and if the marks inflicted by hint on complainant's coun tenance might be adduced in proof of his lineage, we should have no hesitation in putting him down a Hittite. It having been ascertained that these was no felonious intention, and that the defendant was highly respectable, he was ordered to find bail for the assault, or settle with the watchman. The latter course was preferred, and a piece of the pre cious ore was administered in the shape of a sovereign re medy, at the sight of which complainant seemed to forget all his former troubles. On quitting the bar, our hero was advised by the Magi strate not to venture on that dangerous coast again, with out an experienced pilot. UNION-HALL. —Yesterday a gentleman named Orme appeared at this office to answer the complaint of Mr. Cook for having assaulted him, under the following cir cumstances. The parties had each a solicitor in attendance. The complainant commenced by stating, that on the -preceding afternoon the defendant called at his house at Camberwell, and having requested an interview was shown into the parlour, where, after having alluded to some family matters, he began to abuse Mr. Cook in such a manner as to induce the latter to order him out of the house. The moment the complainant had opened the door to give his tincourteous visitor an opportunity of withdrawing, he was immediately attacked by the defendant, who struck him right and left in the face with his fists, accompanying his blows with these expressions—" You villain, I'll knock your -- head off your shoulders, before I have done with you." Mr. SwAßEY—Pray what offence had you given Mr. Orme, to act ill the manner you have described ? Are you related ? Mr. Cook —We are not related. I was formerly paying my addresses to one of his sisters, but,— Mr. Swansv—l suppose he considered you had de serted the lady, and therefore felt 'irritated. Mr. Cook-4'revious to the assault having been commit ied on me, Mr. Orme accused me of having paned his sister in the.CanaberWell-road, and treated her contemp tuously. I repelled the accusation : upon which he struck Me, and during the scuffle above related, I at length suc ceeded in getting bum down undermost, and whilst 'I was holding him in that position, he bellowed aloud, " For God's sake; let me rise : consider my wife and family 1 ." I, however, held him down, until one of the servants went for a constable, into whose hands I handed him over. Mr. SWABEY-Tbere appears to have been a regular affray between you. Now the question is, which of you struck the first blow ? Mr. Cook—l am on my oath ; Mr. Orme did ; and I should not have proceeded to these lengths, had he not, in an emphatic manner, on leaving the house,' ejaculated, " I shall make you repent before lomy." Mr. Cook added, that he considered that threat implied that he would do him some personal injury. Defendant—l am happy now my family have escaped connexion with such a blackguard, and shall de cline entering here into his conduct respecting my family. Mr. Copk—He threatens to horsewhip me on the Royal. Exchange. The Magistrate reprobated the language, just made use. of by Mr. Orme, who was ultimately held to bail in his. own recognizances to appear at the sessions. CONCEALMENT ot an INFANT'S BIRTH. An event, which naturally attaches a degree of Culpability to the implicated parties,' became a subject for the inquiry of a Coroner's inquest held on Sunday last ,before J. H Holiway, Gent., coroner ,for the borough, at the Peacock Lin, iu this town. The following general outline of the facts, as they appeared in evidence, will explain. the origin of the inquiry: Some months' have elapsed since suspicions were first excited of the pregnancy of a . widow. named Darby, whose husband has been dead a considerable period s and who with her three children were the sole inmates of a. small house in Lawrence-lane, in this town. On the even ing of Sunday se'nnight she was suddenly taken ill, but, as she declared, was not aware that the time of her pregnancy was complete. During Monday she still continued indiSposed ; -on Monday afternoon her illness increased, and she stated she was four hours in very great distress; between seven and eight o'clock on Monday night , she became the mother of a female child. No one was present with her at the time of the birth, and with the exception of her children no human being entered her door during the whole of Monday. She declared the child was dead when born ; it never cried ; and she laid it upon the bed. She allowed the infant to remain four hours upon the bed where she first laid it, and then she secreted it under the bed clothes. On • the day after the birth two of her female ac quaintance went in to see her, but she did not mention to them what had occurred. She said She had no one to send for a Doctor on Monday afternoon, when she was's() seriously ill ; her eldest child, who is a boy nine years old, was out of doors playing, and did not come home till nine o'clock that night. She declared she had never been taxed with pregnancy, nor .had She ever denied it to any one. - Samuel Bowers, the reputed father of the child, was next called. He said he was a sawyer by trade, but had latterly got his living by making mattresses:— About ten o'clock on Tuesday morning last Mrs. Darby sent for him, and when he went to her house he found her in bed. She handed a key to him, and asked him to lock up a box Which stood at the foot of the bed. He did so ; and she afterwards told him the box contained the body of a child born on the night preceding, and begged him to take it away, and bury it.— About ten o'clock the same night he again visited her ; the child was then taken out of the box, and wrapped up in a pocket hand and kerchief, nailed i e l d e ma d ay tnfuofprr from t thea Tuesday box, whichodsae; fil he had htuiires rmdeaayadleni night, about in winch state he carried it home, it l about half-past ten; when he interred it in St. John's burial ground. The mother told Bowers that if he buried it privately no . ,stir would be Made about the matter. He admitted he never mentioned the birth nor interment to any person. Mrs. Darby had frequently conversed with wit ness during her pregnancy, and said she would not have a doctor if she could possibly do without. Maria Bills, an acquaintance, the first disin terested person who - called upon Mrs. Darby after the birth, merely said she found Mrs. Darby ill, and that she. told witness she had taken 3d. worth of laudanum on the Monday without its producing any effect. Mary Lusely said she called on Mrs. Darby on Tuesday last. She suspected that Mrs. Darby was pregnant; and had observed that a length of time. The witness mentioned this to Mrs. Darby, who replied that she knew it had been reported some time, but it was all false. in making this declaration she did not seem at all confused. The next door neighbour of the deceased was called to ascertain whether any thing like infant cries were heard. But it turned out that this neighbour was a woman named Waltham, whose appearance proved her to be upwards of seventy years old, and whose deafness prevented the like lihood of the child's cry being heard, supposing it bad been born alive. ' Hannah, wife of John Brewster, sister-in-law of Mrs. Darby, said she called upon her on Wednesday, when Mrs. Darby said a breeder on her side had broken inwardly. Witness had re peatedly taxed Mrs. Darby with being in the family way, but she always denied it. On Satur day she taxed her with it again, and she again denied it. Bowers was recalled, and said be had agreed surgeon, with Mrs. Darby to deny the fact of the child being born and interred. He declared his only . , mo t i ve in uenying it was that Mrs-Darby m i g ht not lose employment at some houses where she usually w ur believed the child wa ar , burn born alive. a pearances whether the child w ie ungs oated in water, but that test is not now cons id ere d conc l us i ve . Th e ti sl l l rl . oH. ti ht e r Mr. Parsons,arpl l time : could not, say posi tively from washed. s full child appeared healthy, and likely to live. The whole of the evidence was then summed up by the Coroner ; after which the Jury consulted, and returned a verdiet— ,, That the child was found dead, but whether it was born alive no evidence appeared to the Jurors." --Boston Ga zette. BIRTH. On the let inst. in Burton-crescent, the lady of F. Re hello, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the Ist inst., at Hampstead Church, Wm. Lovell, Esq., of Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, to Miss Miller, of Hampstead. On the I2th ult. at Dumbartonsbire, N.B. by the Rev. Dr. Scott, of Greenock, Edwin Sandys Bain, of the Middle Temple, Esq., and eldest son of Lieutenant-Col. Bain, of Livelands, county of Stirling, to Christian Jane . Fullerton, eldest daughter of Lieut.-Col. T. Gells, of Gelston, late of the 3d Foot Guards. DIED. On the 30th ult. at Earl Fortescue's, Grosvenor-square, Louisa, Viscountess Ebrington. On the 30th ult. in Connaught-terrace, Mr. Stephens, father of Miss Stephens the vocalist. PaieTEn and Postmann by M. 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