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misappreherision..„ We have no .“ factories" or corporations of traders now iu Portugal. Such corporations are expressly abolished or prohibited by an article in the above-mentioned treaty. --With the exception of a toleration for our reli gion (a concession which might be regarded as exclusive in 1810, but which by the Charter has been extended to other foreigners), the chief privilege - enjoyed by former treaties, and re newedby the last, was . that extorted by Crom well, of having difl'erences and disputes, between our merchants and . natives decided by a Judge Conservator, elected by the merchants them selves. A.Portuguese trader in this country does not require, and has never demanded, any other tribunal than that . to which thenative inhabitants resort ; but in the present state of the admini- , stration of justice in Portugal, British interests would not be safe without the special protection of the Magistrate above-mentioned. . If this, therefore, was one of the privileges respecting which the English merchants were consulted, it is not to be presumed that they would willingly yield, or that Government, in opposition: to their remonstrances, would cause them to sur render the point.—lbid. The Report of the Committee of the House of Commons upon the subject of Emigration, of which we this day publish a second portion, is a doctiment which will not fail to command that high degree of attention from the country to which it is unquestionably entitled. The subject is, indeed, one of the deepest interest, whether we consider it in its relation to the internal condition of England, or to the growth and prosperity of her Colonies. The two main pro positions asserted and established by, the Report, are—First, that the population of England, Ire land, and Scotland, is redundant, as compared with the permanent means. of employment ; and, secondly, that there exists in several of the Bii tish Colonies, large tracts of uncultivated land of such fertility that it would greatly augment the capital, and amply reward the toil expended upon its cultivation. We are not aware, indeed, that these propositions hive recently been disputed ; yet there was, nevertheless, au evident propriety in embodying in a Report of this nature the evidence upon which the Committee . felt itself bound to adopt them. The advantages of a system of Emigration, sufficiently extensive to afford a sensible relief to Great Britain on th e one hand from the evil of superfluous numbers, and its necessary consequences of misery, pau perism, and vice ; and to bestow upon the Colo nies on the other hand that rapid increase of population which is alone required to urge them forward in the career of prosperity, -can hardly be doubted by any who embrace, and there are few, we imagine, who will be bold enough to reject, the two. proposi tions above stated. Yet the Committee has wisely refused to trust, even in this stage of the investigation, to the conclusions : . of general reasoning. It has here appealed triumphantly to facts and experience, and has collected testimony the most unequivocal to show that the emigrants whom Government have already sent to the Co-" lollies with a view to experiment, are actually in a state not merely of comfort but of _affluence, compared to their former condition ; that the districts in which they are-settled are greatly im proved by their presence ; and that the parishes in Great Britain which they have quitted are greatly benefitted by their absence. .The only question which remained was, as to the practica-• bility of an emigration upon so extensive a scale as to afford the hope of sensible and permanent effects. Upon this, the only really difficult or doubtful question -which the Committee had to decide, it has justly bestowed the largest share of -its attention ; and, after the fullest inquiry acid the most mature deliberation, it has adopted the conclusion that the difficulties, though great arid obvious, are not insurmountable. The suggei tions of the Committee upon this intricate add important branch of the subject, require a more detailed and deliberate consideration than we On now bestow upon them. They proceeded updn the estimate that the sum of 601. will suffice for the transfer from England and the location in Canada of a .family • consisting of a man, woman, and: three children, and upon: the as sumption that parishes will deem it their true interest to unburden - themselves from . their pre sent load of pauperism, by temporary advances , at this rate ; it having been proved by incon testible evidence that such advances need be only temporary, inasmuch as _the emigrants would be fully enabled, at the end . of four years, to enter upon a gradual course of re-payment. We can not, however, leave the subject even for a inf ment without adverting to au objection which has been strenuously urged - to .any scheme of emigration under the superintendence . and pa tronage of Government.•• The objection is, that there is plenty of waste land at home, in the cultivation of which those whom it is proposed to send to:the Colonies might be more advan • tageously employed. We meet this object* by simply denying. the fact upon which it rests. Where, we ask, is this waste land which could be profitably cultivated, and to what silly br sluggish proprietors .doss it belong ? That there is nauch. waste land in England, Ireland, and Scotland, we admit.. That : tliere, is 'midi which could be profitably cultivated, we can not believe, until we are convinced that landed proprietors are less willing than other 1 men to derive a reasonable income from their own possessions, or that fertile land inlay be ex posed to the daily gaze and tread of a race of skilful and eager farmers, without any .of them detecting its natural fertility, and rousing the drowsy landlord, by an unexpected bidding rente—Monting Post. We learn from' a Correspondence which has just been published between Dr: Harrison and the Censors of the Colle g e of Physicians, that tile former has resolved to question the right of the College to examine him, or in any way interfere with his right to practise his profession. Should the College have the, co urage (which many pqr sons, better acquainted with t he merits of the question than we profess to be, very much doubt), the world may expect to witness a cti rious and interesting discussion, upon a point which very much concerns the community, and though often threatened to be brought to a deciajon, has been virtually kept in abeyance. • All monopolies are in the abstract odious ; but th e least objectionable of all would be those se cured to places of scientific attainments , pip - v i ided they in their trio) secured to the public a 'we supply of persons quatifwl to exercise the learned professions.. It may, howev9r, be fairly doubted, whether the College of Physicians, •as 110 W constituted, is of that description.;- and whether it takes the only due means support ing itsl"ll°P6lY---Vi. by taking care that they A. Who teach wisdom • hd This defici ency , if it * do e t x he is m t ul i: * itt w s l o sek Much the fault of the College itself, ' as of those other Colleges from which exclusively it draws its members. The College, as it interprets its charter, says " no man can be a fellow of our body who has not been educated at Oxford or Cambridge ;" while at Oxford and Cambridge, it is well known, very little indeed is taught which can qualify a man to treat disease success fully, still less to teach and examine others. No better proofs, probably, can be given of the in efficiency of our two Universities for the purpose they thus assume, than the superiority of the Surgeons or the present day over .the Physicians ; and the undeniable fact that some, at least, of the most eminent medical men have studied in a far .different school than those receptacles of vice, indolence, and extravagance present. Friends as we are to " free trade," yet we do not deny the propriety of some test existing by which the fitness of persons may be ascertained who undertake so serious a charge as that of the lives of his .Majesty's subjects ; but unless that test be duly constituted, and the learning, the ex perience, and independence of the teachers and examiners be first secured, such a test becomes worse than a nullity, and much the same as sending forth people into the world for any other purpose with forged certificates. There can be no question but that, of the persons who present themselves, or are expected to present themselves, for examination before the Censors of the Col lege, many are as wise, if no better professionally informed, than their examiners ; and to say no thing of the professional courtesy which on such occasions too often takes the place of wisdom, a word need not be said of the inutility of a semi nary where the scholar can learn nothing from the master. But this medical monopoly, if va luable at all, should be universal ; though,strange to say, it is only claimed to extend over the me tropolis, and within seven miles of it; as if, for sooth, the health of the King's subjects became of less value when their persons were without the range of the two-penny post ! Such an -idea is absurd in the highest degree—tho Ugh 'not. more absurd than true, as the matter now stands. In short, it becomes a question whether such a test as the College now offers, and thus circumscribed in its effect, i 4 worth preserving at any rate ; and whether the public are not quite as safe in having recourse, as they always naturally will do, to _such_ medical aid as has proved its value by its experienee and success, as by any certificate it can receive from th'e College of Physicians, whose officers, if they perform their duty no better in examining candidates for the profes sion than others seem to have done in examining Lunatic Asylums in and about the metropolis, do not hold out any great inducements to man kind to look upon the modern temple of Esculapius as the receptacle of absolute wis dom.—Morning Herald. The affair between the Recorder of London and Mr. Sheriff Farebrother was on Saturday agitated in the Court of Aldermen. Mr. Sheriff Farebrother wished to rescue a young man, named William Crane, sentenced to be impri soned six months and whipped,for having stolen a piece of meat in Newgate-market, from the severe part of the sentence ; and a petition, re presenting the respectability of the prisoner's con nexions and whatever else appeared likely to operate in his favour, having .been put into the hands of the Sheriff, with a view to his obtaining the recommendation of the Judge who tried the prisoner to the Secretary of State, he proceeded with it to the Old Bailey, and handed it to the Recorder, requesting his signature. The Re corder, who, whether or not fortiter in re, was never certainly much distinguished for the sua viter in 2nodo, seems to have felt on the occasion somewhat as a dog feels : when an attempt is Made to deprive him of a rich bone- He in stantly wrote on the back of the petition, " Scan dalous." Adorned with this epithet, the petition was hardly in a state for presentation to Mr. Secretary Peel, but another petition having been got up and signed, the flogging was remitted, and the prisorter has been since liberated. Note this application of scandalous to so high an of ficer as the Sheriff of London, for any thing done by him connected with his official duty, is certainly without a precedence since the times of the Recorder Jefferies. That the Sheriff should have felt indignant at having had such an epithet applied to him is hardly to be wondered at, and that the Court of Aldermen should sympathise With him is equally in the order of things. The ,Recorder, in justification, urged yesterday, that the Sheriff was.a Ministerial Officer, whereas he himself was a Judge ; and that he having, after a full consideration of the crime and character of the prisoner, passed the sentence, it was the duty of the Sheriff to carry that sentence into execu tion, and not to interfere with the judicial part of the business. But with all deference to Mr. Recorder, whose judicial merits, especially with reference to his knowledge of the Law of Evi dence, are pretty well understood by most of our readers, it is no unusual thing for Sheriffs, and even humbler men than Sheriffs, in a country like this—where men are both acquitted and con victed in a very odd sort of way, and where, if a second trial of the convicted did not frequently take place, the most shocking injustice would, in many instances, be perpetrated—to collect such evidence as, either from the poverty, or the stupidity of a prisoner, or the want of Counsel, was not produced on the trial, in order to obtain a mitigation or a total remission of the sentence ; and, therefore, as Mr. Sheriff Farebrother could have no particular revelation of the omniscience and infallibility of the Recorder, the mere fact of his interference could hardly in fairness be termed scandalous. The Recorder urged moreover, that the offence was one of frequent occurrence, and it had become necessary to add to the se verity of the punishment. Human nature is in genious in finding arguments for punishing others for our own faults, Lord ltedesdale.lals,,, an Irish peasant allows his son to run wind tiff the age of 15, and commences his lessons by felling him with. a plough-shaft. If, in the course of your progress through any of the lanes and alleys of this metropolis, your ears are as sailed by a noise to be equalled only in Pande monium, occasioned by the frantic rage of a fa ther vented on a child, it is ten to one but you would find, o n inquiry, that the child has been suffered, by the neglect of the parent, to run wild ; and that, if due care had been displayed, the offence would not have been committed. Mr. Recorder's notions of justice have evidently been borrowed from the Irish peasant and Saffron-hill. James, and John, and Andrew, and Peter, and many others, have taken pieces of meat from Newgate-market with impunity, and, encouraged by this indulgence, William ventures to turn. to take a piece, when lo the Recorder awakes, as it were, from a dream, and, in his wrath, makes William suffer, not only for his own offences, but the offences of James, and John, and An drew, and Peter. This is English justice, lin which the Recorder is certainly an sujept,.tifJe must make an example of William, because lye neglected our duty in the case of those who coin,' mitted the same offence before him. But this principle of allowing a Judge to punish an in dividual not according to a scale fixed after a fair consideration f of what, were the law fairly executed in all cases, would he sufficient to de ter from the commission of particular offences, `but with a severity proportioned to the frequency of the commission of the offence caused by former remissness, is atrocious in the highest degree, and cannot be too much stigmatised. If there is to be no proportion between the offence and the punishment; but the Judge is to be guided by such considerations as those urged by Mr. Recorder, acquitting an individual, or punishing him with two or three days' imprisonment, for what, on another day, half a year's imprison ment, and a severe flogging, is deemed too little, where are the limits of judicial discretion to be fixed ?—Hanging would be still a more striking `example than half a year's imprisonment and floggingif the - proportion between the offence and the punishment is to be disregarded, why not allow Mr. Recorder to order one wretch to be hanged, for what another wretch shall do with impunity ? This would be the perfection of English justice. Away with such monstrous doctrines, which would enable any old Judge, when his digestion went on kindly, to let all manner of vagabonds loose on society, that, on another day, when suffering from the gout or an overflow of bile, he might indulge himself to his heart's content with flogging: But it seems the prisoner had been convicted three times on former charges. We should like to know the respective sentences for the first, second, and third times. IWe are mistaken if ample proof of the justice of these observations would not be found in the course pursued with regard to this identical William Crane. The Recorder denied the right of the,Court of Aldermen to question his con , duct in the discharge of his duties as a Judge. Here we suspect the Recorder is in the right. The conduct of a Judge may be animadverted on by the Members of the Court of Aldermen, as by all other individuals ; for the conduct of every Public Functionary; in a free State, ought to be open to discussion ; but it would be dangerous to allow the Court of Aldermen to call the Chief Judge of the City to account to their for his judicial conduct. If he err, a proper Tribunal for the cognizance of the conduct of Judges ought to be applied to ; but it does not follow that, because the City of London choose him and pay him, they may treat him as a m as t ter treats the servant who eats his bread. So much for the Recorder and Mr. Sheriff Fare. brother. We observe that the Lord Mayor threw in one of his characteristic touches. He ".strongly condemned the conduct of the Re corder, who was the paid servant of that Court, and yet had used language to one of the Mem, hers of it which could not be tolerated. The Sheriff was not paid for the important duties which he performed ; on the contrary, his office was extremely expensive." The being paid and unpaid enter as very important ele ments into the judgment of his Lordship ; but the offence of a paid man towards a man not only unpaid, but able to fill an extremely ex pensive office, is the very ne plus ultra of delin quency. If the individual insulted by the Re.. corder had been a 'paid man, no matter how uprightly he might have discharged the duties of his office, and how acute his feelings, the offence would have been of a very.different complexion. Is it possible for a Lord Mayor to have one thought into which mammon does not enter The people of this country are so corrupted by the everlasting incense offered up to wealth, that in order to exhibit the absurdity of what fell from the Lord Mayor we must take an extreme case. The Lord Chancellor is a paid servant of the public ; would the Lord Mayor' have thought of taking the distinction in his case, and that of a Sheriff? 0 t., but the Lord Chan cellor is paid so very much—that alters the case. Who would not bow the knee to a paid servant of the public, in the receipt of 20,0001. a year ? —Morning Chronicle. There are two objections . urged against the proposal of relieving the distresS of the country by Emigration, which require to be noticed at greater length than we were able to do in our analysis of the report yesterday:. Of one of these we stated that we• should not discuss it on the principles of the political economists ; . but rather reply to it as the'reporChas done, by citing the' testimony of Mr. Malthus. This • objection, namely, that no funds'ought to be advanced by Government, or otherwise, to carry labourers out of the country, while there remained any waste lands.at-home, was brought forward by the Morning Herald yesterday ; and it is certainly not unamusing to listen to that enlightened au thority, while condemning, with easy assurance, plans which have received the sanction of such men as the Author of the Essay on Population, and the Bishop of Chester. That there are many fine wastes in England, and many more in Scot land and Ireland, is true. But did the cause of their existence never strike our contemporary ? To us it appears extremely obvious—they will not pay the cost of cultivation. To attempt to reclaim them a ould only add another waste to the number—a waste of capital. Can any man seriously suppose, that had the uncultivated land in the United Empire been worth improving, it would not have been improved ? Is it at all probable that money would have been lavishly sunk on infe rior soils while superior soils were allowed to lie in the condition in which the flood had left them ? What, then, 'would be the consequence of an at tempt to convert bogs into bean fields, but that instead of bettering the poor it would impoverish lan what it cou ld b e the rich ? No doubt wheat might b e grown present ; but if th e i w n. h o e d r u e c w ti l o i n ea o t f is h i c io o t st g m ro o w r i e l t a i t sold for, he must have very curious notions of fitness and unfitness who could seriously recom mend such a crop. If ever . the wastes of Great Britain and Ireland are enclosed and made to yield a reluctant return, such an event must be preceded by a great and permanent rise in the price .of agricultural produce, which at present is, we believe, desired by few and anticipated by none. If the lands which the emigrants will be called,on to cultivate abroad were of the same description as the wastes at home, there might be some force in the objection; but not only is that not the case, but, on the contrary, the lands on which the emigrants will be located are su .erior, for the most, not to the worst, but t o the best lands in England, with the additional ad vantage of a climate much more uniform than a large portion of England is favoured with. The other objection requires a little more consider ation. The attempt to g ive relief to the ex isting distress by Emigration has been ridi euled, because no Emigration can be cal -1 temPlated of a sufficiently extensive nature to afford it effectually.. The population of the country, it is said, is twenty. millions—suppos ing a million removed, what would that effect ? Yet the removal of a million of individuals would cost twenty-four millions sterling, the calculation of the Committee, we may notice, by the by, is only twelve pounds a-head ; but it would have been hors des regles to take the. facts as .they are stated. It is not very easy to say, Lwhat.super fluity of lab Our actually exists in the country. That there is a superfluity is obvious to every one ; but the degree does .not admit of such in tuitive proof. When a merchant has more webs in his warehouse than the demand of the market can immediately absorb, lie may do two things : he may submit to a reduCtion, or he may .hold his goods until the demand grows brisker. Al though, therefore, a fall of prices in manufactured goods is . a pretty sure proof of excessive supply, it does not exactly follow that excessive supply must be immediately succeeded by a fall of prices ; but when th ere i s more l a bo ur in the market than the market requires,. the fall must be nearly instantaneous. Labour cannot .be warehoused ; the poor man cannot shut up his appetite under lock and key. until better times render .the grati fication of it more ac,cessible.; hunger, thirst, and cold, cannot wait for redress until the demand for cottons and woollensgets brisker. There is another distinction which must be attended to. A fall.in the- price of manufactured goods produces, for the most part,' a reaction on_ the market. The demand abroad, and among . a nume rous class at home, increases as the price diminishes, Were the price of shoes to be re duced one half, it 'is probable that the demand for shoes would be doubled. This tendency of increased supply to produce increased demand, checks the fall of the market very materially. Let us see how an excess of labour acts. We shall not put the case of an excess of five per cent, but of.. one per cent. If there be 100 labourers where 99 only are required, the conse quence must be that each of the 100 will receive ninety- 7 nine.parts of wages instead of a hundred. Were, they ,to res( content. under, the privation consequent on this reduction, and to :labour no more than they had done before it tools place, supposing no diminution . of demand, the evil would stop. But this is not in human nature to practice, and accordingly' each workman' will now labour an hundredth part more than be formerly did, in order to enjoy the same rate of wages. The manufacturer who had means of paying only' 99 workmen will thus find that he is still called on to pay 100, and that his stock is at the same time accumulating in the ratio of one in a hundred beyond his means of disposing of it. He must, therefore, again reduce the wages of his workmen one per cent. This new reduction will, in its turn, call forth fresh exer tions from the workmen, to be checked by anothe r reduction, which will produce similar effects, until the labour periormed by the workman is at a maximum, when the farther fall of wages must be accompanied with a retrenchment of the labourers' purchases, and thus another cause of a sinking market be introduced to ag gravate the effect of those previously in .opera tion. By this reciprocating process it is evident that even so small an excess as one in a hundred, beyond the fair demand of the market, may sink the wages, of labour not 1 per cent. but' 50 per cent. It is by no means accurate; therefore, to say that the removal of one in a hundred of the labouring poor would do no good, or even one in two 'hundred, which, according to the plan of the Emigration Committee, would be removed in the space of three years. But it is said, that even on the admission that emigration should carry off the superfluity at present in the market the vacuum which it creates will be immediately filled up—that another and another drain must be had recourse to, and' the never-ending, still beginning, task will remain unaccomplished.— It requires no great wit to find out, that if the causes which have led to . the disease be not re moved, the proposed specific will operate only as a palliative. But from what part of the Committee's Report .are the opponents of Emigration entitled to conclude that no at tempt to remove them will be made ? Ois the contrary, we should say, that not only will it be made, but it will be made previous to the application of the remedy. At this mo ment the- destruction in Ireland of the baneful practice of splitting farms intn'Aelds, and -fields into paddocks, cannot be accomplished, beeatise there is no means, as we yesterday observed, of absorbing the labour, which the return to a sane and sound system must disengage. When those means are presented by, an Emigration Board, we may reasonably expect that landlords will pro ceed, not in a body, nor at once, but by degrees, to collect the scattered particles, of their estates, and thus introduce decent and substantial farmers, instead of_ half-starved, ,half clothed, miserable cottiers. Let us suppose that this conversion of potatoe grounds into farms takes place the first year in a district of forty or fifty thOusand souls, there is - no reason to conclude that the difference in the two modes of agriculture would east idle snore than the Emigration plan could take up. Now, in' such a district the cure would be per fected. Nothing in the condition of the .rest would reintroduce the cottier system there, unless we suppose. the proprietors of the soil something worse than insane. We repeat that it is very difficult to ascertain the real excess of labour, whether it be a hundredth part or a twentieth part : but whatever the excess be, Emigration holds out fairer hopes of cure than any plan yet suggested.—New Times. The copy of a very extraordinary document is handed about among the principal, foreign mer chants of the city, and has produced a great sen sation. We understand it purports to be the copy of a letter addressed by Mr. Huskisson to an English Ambassador, for his opinion respect ing the withdrawing of all privileges from Eng lishmen resident in foreign countries. The Am bassador submitted the letter to the principal merchants, who exclaimed against the proposed change, and have sent the outlines of the docu ment to London. It has made some noise on the Continent, and the tendency of the change, they 'say, will be, that Englishmen will be in duced to become citizens of the countries in which they reside.—Evening have made inquiries, and cannot learn on what found - ation the above statement rests.] — Times. BOURBON GRATITUDE.—Lady Faulkner s first husband, M. Assiotti, did some services to the Duke d'Angouleme, when that prince was an exile in Scotland ; and his Royal Highness, as a token of his gratitude, presented . M. Assiotti with a seal, inscribed with the donor's name, saying—" If ever the hour arrives that my family are reinstated, present this seal, and you shall then know that we are not insensible of the at tentions you have paid to, us."—Sir Arthur and Lady Faulkner being lately in Paris, and wishing, to obtain facilities of access to inspect some in stitutions, her Ladyship addressed a letter'to the Duke d'Angoulem e , reminding him of the cir cumstance abovementioned—stating that she was now the possessor of the seal—and requesting the honour of an interview,. to present it. To this letter no answer was returned.--Examiner. Sir Jonah which theßarri gratitudengtonrecords in stances emi grants was displayed i n a s i m ilarof Royal lab manner. COURT OF ALDERMEN, SEPT. 29. SHERIFF FAREBROTHER AND I'HE • RECORDER.I After the routine business of the Court was trans, acted it Saturday, all the officers of the Court were ordered to withdraw, it being considered necessary to conduct, so delicate. an affair as that between Sheriff Farebrother and the Recorder as privately as possible under all the circumstances. The SHERIFF rose to state his ground of complaint against the Recorder, which, as well as we could collect,, was' nearly to the following effect :—The Sheriff had, in the course of his officiarinvestigation; found that a young man, named William Crane, who had been sentenced to be imprisoned six months and whipped ; for , having stolen a piece of meat in Newgate-market, was considered to be an object for the merciful consideration. of Government, and was determined to exercise his influence in order to procure a remission, of the most liewiy part of the sentence. A petition was drawn up representing the respectability of the .prisoner's connections, and whatever else appeared to be matter for justifying the abatement of the more 'rigorous punishment, and it was handed to the Sheriff, with a view to obtaining the recommendation of the Judge who tried' the prisoner, to the Secretary of State. The Sheriff proceeded to the Old Bailey, where the Courts were sitting at the time, and handed the petition to.the Recorder, requesting his signature. The Recorder, upon reading the petition, took a pen, but instead of subscribing his name to the paper, wrote upon the back of it the word " scan dalous." This word the Sheriff considered an in sult to himself, and he addressed the Recorder in a private room, near the Old Court, upon the sub ject, in the presence of one, of the Judges. The terms in which this address was made, on a topic calculated to excite so much heat, were not, we are informed; very measured; and the observations of the Recorder were not just such as to conci liate an offended officer of so much importance in the city of London and the county of Middlesex. The Recorder . stated, that if the Sheriff' did not. put the sentence, of the Court into- execution, a. fine should be inflicted upon him,,, The Judge said not one word upon the sujject, but witnessed the cri mination and recrimination with all the coign gravity for which he is distinguished. The angry diseus sion at an end, the Sheriff, not diverted from his in tention of obtaining the liberation of the prisoner as soon as possible, represented to those who had sign ed. the petition the necessity of getting up another, the writing of the Recorder upon the one of which he was in possession, being an obstacle to the pre senting of it to the Secretary of State. This course was adopted, and the Sheriff applied with the new petition to the then Secretary of State (Mr. Peel), and obtained the. desired remission of the sentence, and the prisoner has been since liberated. The SlieniFF, however, thought that the indignity which had been offered to him by the Recorder, in applyin g to his interference the epithet " scanda lous," required serious notice, and resolved to 1100 M• s which appear convict n t v o ict, be andfavourable the m anne in , plain to th e C ourt upon the subject. He h a d b een performing w h at h e considered a most essential part of his duty; wh en h e engaged in representing the circumstances of e an unfortunate tanc in which'he was checked by the Recorder for having interfered, from an impulse of humanity, was such as an officer of such rank as he had the honour of sustaining could not tolerate. Ile had ikp personal motivelorjriaking this complaint, He felt not the slightest personal hostility, but he .felt that words had been used-in reference toltis conduct which cer tainly. ought to be retracted: The word " Scanda lous" had not not only been written in the petitiOn, btit the Recorder had, in the conversation which took place between them, accused him of scandalous conduct in countenancing' the petition. He should leave it to the Court to decide upon the merits of the complaint, and of the excuse or justification ' and was ready to call witnesses to substanti a t e th e facts he had stated. The RECORDER said, that the sheriff had impro perly interfered with his duty, in refusing to carry into execution a sentence, which, after a full consi deration of the crime and character of the prisoner, had been passed. The offence of which the prisoner had been found guilty was one of frequent occur rence, and it had become necessary to inflict the punishment of flogging and severe imprisonment upon offenders of the kind. . The example of public flogging was, in such cases, most salutary. But in the case of the prisoner whom the sheriff had thought proper to recommend, there was nothing whatever to justify recommendation; for he had been con victed three times upon former charges, and was of course a person to whOm it could not be very wise or very charitable to extend the:indulgence of a re mitted sentence. .There was evidence of those mn victions on the records of the Court, and he (the Recorder) had supplied himself with copies of theM. He had refused to sign his name to the petition be cause he knew there was no foundation for a,petition at all ; and he considered the interference of the Sheriff, who was a servant of that Omit quite un justifiable, and such as was calculated to' draw forth severe animadversion. The petition which had been sent to the Secretary of : State was not the petition which had been presented to him for his signature. That which carried on it the mark of the Judge had been destroyed. After some further observations in justification of his conduct in refusing to sanction the object of the Sheriff, he stated, that the Sheriff's 'argument against the whipping—the indisposition of the prisoner—was not available, as the indisposi tion took place subsequently to the period at which that punishment should have been inflicted; and he concluded by denying the right of the Court of Al dermen to •question his conduct in discharging the duties of a Judge. Some of the Aldermen here proposed that the Recorder should apologize to the Sheriff for the of fensive words which had been used by the former. The RECORDER, in a firm tone, declared that no thing should induce him to apologize. He acted under his Majesty's commission ; and it would be an indignity to him .to apologise to the Sheriff for conduct which in his conscience he approved. The LORD Mayon strongly condemned the con duct of the Recorder, who was the paid servant of that Court, and yet had used language to one of the members of it which could not be tolerated. The Sheriff was not paid for the important duties which he performed : on-the contrary, his office was ex tremely expensive. The offensive words ought at once to be retracted, otherwise it might. be found necessary to adopt some .course which would be likely to prevent a repetition. • The RECORDER repeated that he would not apo logise. Alderman ATafris thought that the conduct of a Judge ought not to be interfered with by a Sheriff. If such a thing were to be endured, the office of Judge must indeed be very far from independent. Besides, he did not see how the Sheriff should come to that Court and act in his double capacity of Sheriff and Alderman, in bringing forward the charge. He agreed with the Recorder in denying the power of the Court to interfere with the duties of a Judge, however appointed, or by whomsoever paid. Sir PETER LAURIE suggested the propriety of adjourning, and thought that the affair would ter minate well in the departure of all the members of the Court. The LORD MAYOR objected to adjournment, un til the other business of the Court should be gone through. Sheriff Farebrother eventually shook hands with the Recorder, and thus the matter terminated. Wm. COBIIETT.—Bonn el Thornton, in the f o ll ow i ng passage, has pretty nearly hit off the character of Cobbett :--" If a atron'attachnient to a particular aids ject, an almost total ignorance of every other, in eagerneSs to introduce that subject upon all occasions, and a con firmed habit of declaiming upon it without either wit or discretion, be the Marks of a pedantic character, as they certainly are, it belongs to the illiterate as well as the learned." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.— George Hobbs and Thomas Do) were brought up for retexaminatiou yesterday, before Sit PETER LAURIE and Alderman ANSLEY, to account for the possession of a stolen 10/. country Bank-note. Mr. Edmund Newman, of New Windsor, stated, that on Sunday se'nnight he put a letter in the post-office al that place, directed to Messrs. Wiii.ockson and Harding, looking-glass-makers, in Lombard-street, and containing 10/. and a 5/. mote of Ramsbottom's Windsor bank, par able at Messrs. Williams's, in town. He recognized the 10/. note now produced as the same. He knelt/ it by hay. ing written the number of it in the letter, and also en dotied his name on the note itself. Mr. Wilcockson said the letter was delivered, with about a dozen others, at his counting-house.on Monday morning. The notes being missed, notice was given to the banker, and on. Friday afternoon one Moses Benjamin, a dealer in clothes, residing. in Upper Whitecross-street, was stopped at Messrs. 'Williams's counter, with the identical 101. note. He related that two men had been bargaining for clothes to the amount of nearly 21., and on tenderin g this 10/. note, he thought it prudent, to ascertain its value before h e ga ve change, and had cents away at once to the banking -house. Having secured Benjamin, Drinkwater, the officer, went to his house and apprehended these two men, who professed to be brothers, George Hobbs giving his came as Win. Davis, and Thomas Day as John Davis: The prisoners were privately examined before Mr. Al derman AxsLxv on Saturday, the first inipression being that the notes had been stolen from the letter in the Post office. John Davis alleged that his brother had picked up the note in the city on the previons•Monday, and he Had accompanied him merely to see that he laid it out w ith judgment. W. Davis told the same story about the find ing, said he found but one note, and denied that he knee, any thing of a person named John Hobbs, of 22, Sutton-, street, Clerkenwell, cabinet-maker : he certainly was no t S brother. Now it happened that the said John Hobbs had heard of his brother's apprehension, was waiting outside, and being called in, swore positively to his relationship with the pretended W. Davis. He further stated that he ! (John Hobbs) worked for Messrs. Wileockson, and en! Monday last sent the prisoner George with some articleei to them ; and on his return his brother produced the two Windsor notes, relating that he had picked them up in 'Change-alley. • • Wilcockson was now completely satisfied, that , to the prisoner GeOrge had not access to the counting-house when he brought home the goods, Mr. Harding (who was out of town) must have dropped the notes in the ware house, When the prisoner picked them up. The prisoners Were therefore discharged with a warning that they had narrowly escaped a prosecution. BOW-STREET.—*illiam Power, a private in the; Life Guard's; and another sniffier, also in the Life Guarder were yesterday charged with creating a riot in the Strand. Porter was further charged' with brandishing a naked sword over the head. of John Thomas, a watchman, - who interfered to keep the peace. . ..As.itOon as the watchmen had stated their eharge a Ser geant .of tbe!Life Guards stepped forward, and stated, that as the prisoners were about to undergo a military punish ment, for a disobedience of orders,' in being out withoss leave, he hoped. that they would be given up to him, in order that they might be dealt with accordingly : Sergeant Si h RICHARDr ta the 'might B axt rh,t removeon this the und prisoners erstan to their quarters. told t the r quarters. A decent-looking woman, named Smith, who resides io Denmark-court, in the Strand, was charged with attempt' ing to drown herself. The unhappy woman was perceived by the"watchinam on , eri , o , d o . t b h r : i t d , o'clock on a o l : S rl a iio t : u ed r t a Saturday night. She was walking in a hurried and distracted manner, and he overheard death should name, or d fused r ess brought a as o before e ) declare, Magistratethat she y ecouldstyesterday, da n o longer ehe a y e te n o d suh u iel ti r e e he t airencig: atbeollv her eent for her son,. who y led g her home. MARLBOROUG 11-STREET, ._On Saturda evening last, two men, named Henry Cas e an d John Ja y nes, wer e brouglitto this Office, charged with the, followin g c urios° robbery, A gentleman, named Storer, of Mount-street, Grosvenor' square, had been bathing on Wednesday last in th e See' pentine, and while in the water some person contrived tn, carry off unobserved his trou sers , w hich contained hi s gol d watch, chain, and seals, together with some money. Div thing was heard of the trousers or their contents until Ss; turday, When a constable, named Lewis, who obtained some private information on the subject, went to a twolovf coffee-shop in Oxford-street, and a p pre h en ded the prisoners, who were sitting there together ; and on search ing them, lie found on Jones tyre gold watch and . its appety doges, but there was th en no accou nt of the t rousers . Jones said in his defe n c e , th a t h e pi c k e d u p the we' ll in the park, and that h e k new no thi ng o f th e t rousers . . Mr. Storer having id e ntill e d.th e wa t c h, J ones was cona mitted for trial, but Cas e , aga i ns t w h om th ere wa s 0° evidence, was discharged. Yesterday, however, he was again placed at the ha►'r and it appeared that he had gone that day with a letter , purporting to be written by Jones, and applied for the trousers left at the coffee-shop. Sir GEORGE FARRAR; the magistrate, said, that' since the prisoner's discharge on Saturday, he lost 0° time in making out a strong ow against himself, and re' mended him until. Mr. Storer can attend to identify the trousers. WORSIIIP-STREET.---Yesterdai Mr. John Me" shall, a French kid-skin merchant, residing at' No. i s ' Hackney-terrace, Hackney-road, was brought before Broughton, upon a warrant charging him with an assau" upon the person of Mrs. °intent. The prosecutrix having deposed to the assault, the cle: feudant was ordered to find bail, in two sureties. of bi)i' each, and himself in 100/. ; and in order to leave it NO to future arrangement, the magistrate would not bind the parties to prosecute. , • • BIRTHS.. On the 2Sth ult. the lady of Geo: Watson, Z i g ; o f 00 SWan. lane, of a daughter. :On beard his • Majesty's ship Blanch., at sea, on th e 22d of Septeinber, the wife of C. R. Nugent, Esq., Majesty's Consul-General in Chili, of a son. , On the 27th tilt. in Bryanstone-square, th e la dy o f Thomas Marsh, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. On-the 29th ult. at New St. Pancras, Lieutenant 0' Beazeley, to Eliza, fourth daughter of the late Ralph Nicholson, Esq. of Thornton, near B er wick=upon-Tweed' On the 29th u lt. at St. Andrew's,Holborn; Mr. Jobs'Evans, of T oo k' s - court, Ch an c er y-lane, Solicitor, to Esther , eldest daughter of the late Mr. It W. Hayward, of t he same place. On the 29th ult. at Old Swineford, Foley, Mr. Edwar d Wri g ht, of West Smithfield, to Mary Anne, only daughter of t he late Thomas Hampton, Le g' of Coalbourne-ball , Worcestershire.' On the lat ins t. at St. Anne's, Aldersgate, by the n.'' J. Hutchins , F re derick Parson Smith, sur g eon, Aylshan i, Norfolk, to. Jane, f o u r th d aug h ter of Thomas Walter Wil" r a ms, Esq. of the Inn er T emp l e. On the Ist. inst. at S t. M ark ' s, K enn i ngton , M r. J o hn Savory, nephew o f Th o Mas F. S avor y, E sq . o f B on d' street, to Miss M ar th a Hames Oakey, of Winterslow-place, MajestyKepnington, n i ece o f J o h n H tmes, E sq. of his Majesty Customs and H ouse h o ld. by the Rev. T. P. DIED. On the 29th ult., Newcastle-upon. Tyne, Mr. Ed' Ward &limn, corn-tnerehant, much and deservedly I "e' spected. On the 29th ult. at his house in Duke -street, Portland' chapel, Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. James Newton, i n tho 72d year lA , her age. On the 26th ult. at York-place, Kentish l tawn, 'nog. Hughes, Esq. aged 74. On the 29th ult. at Wovinley, West-end, Nicholas Chef' i rington, Esq. of Mile-end, only son of the late John Chat rington, Esq. • On the 28th ult. at the Villa Cottage, Kennington-lsil e f Surrey, aged 13 months, Charles John, only son of Chade e Palk, Esq. Hempstone, Devonshire. On the 28th ult. at his house, Harlow, Essex, in the S3d year of his age, universally respected, Anthony Parkin , Esq. of Great James-street, Bedford-row, who formerly fof fifty years held the office of solicitor to his Majesty' s p o st' office. • On the 29th ult. after many years' severe suffering, 10 I Barbara Hannah Heron, late of York-row, Newingto o, l Surrey. On the 27th ult. after a lingering illness, in the 3 23 year of his age, Thomas Cooper, Esq. of Countess Wei r ' Devon, 'eldest son of John Cooper, Esq. of Lonning, Berk' On the 30th ult. at Champion-hill, Camberwell, Sara l ` Curteis, wife of William•Crouglaton, Esq. On the 30th ult., deeply regretted, at his house, Nn v ting-hill-terrace, Major-General Littellus Burrell, o f the, Honourable East India Company's service, at the advance age of 75, of which 53 years were spent in active militori duty in India. PRINTBD and P 111.21.181011) by M. 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