The Sun. — London, England, 1827-12-01 00:00:00

;, - ,0 - expre Blacks (refugees from America and prize t negroes), free labourers from the Spanish main, t of mixed race, called Peons, and free Indians. The first party of the American refugees, fifty. • seven in number, arrived in the Island in No vember, 1815 ; five hundred and seventy-five in August, 1816 ; seventy-nine in January, 1821. The prise Negroes, fifty-two African females, were sent from Barbadoes in 1817, and eleven more were sent a short time afterwards. • The principal party came at the commencement of the rainy season, which induced fluxes and fevers, of which one hundred cases occurred in the first three months. These refugees are now 923 in number, having increased 147 since their first settlement, though the number of females is much smaller than that of the males, there being about 350 male adults, and about 160 women.—, Now h so happens, that while these free negroes are increasing in number,the slaves are constantly fie:Teasing. There is a great anxiety on the pert of all the witnesses, who are' planters, or de -pennant on planters, to . depreciate the character of the free negroes. Joseph Harregan, Esq. : " What description of free labourers do. you em ploy -Peons to cut down timber, American refu gees to saw boards and scantling. Do you {hid these people behave well, and continue steady at their work ?—I have no fault to find. with the Peons ; they work by contract, and I was in no hurry ; I generally gave them sufficient time, Living never found them punctual to time.: with respect to the Americans I cannot say so much; they are very frequently drunk, work slower than the Peons, and mix more with the negroes.- - What objection have you to their mixing with the negroes ? They entice them to drink, in terfere with the wives of the men, which creates quarrels and disturbances, and I-have dismissed them in consequence."—Dactor O'Connor: " Iu their habits, manners, and apparent condition, are the free labouring classes much superior to staves ?—I think the slaves generally better fed and better clothed ; those of the free labouring classes who have families suffer from want of food, and their children are very badly taken care of; their moral habits and characters are in no respect superior to slaves ; on the contrary, I think they are more depraved, being subject to ago controul diers, although receiving an allowance from Go vernment, are, I believe, amongst the most mi serable in the community, and are invariably given to hard drinking." Other witnesses gave the same unfavourable account of them. But how comes it that these free negroes increase and mul tiply,while the slaves decrease ? If you believe the witnesses alluded to,the negroes are treated with the utmost kindness ; they are better fed than the free :Pegrocs—their work does not in the least injure • theta —they are never worked beyond their atienati - All the a dvantages; in short, are on their aide, and all the disadvantages on the 'side of the free negroes. Yet, somehow, the greater mortality co;itrives to be on the side of the happy slaves ! The climate, it is said, is worse for the negro constitution than that of Barbadoes, where the slaves increase ; but then the sun shines on The just as well as the unjust—on the American refugee as well as on the slave. It is the same • climate for both descriptions of negroes. 'Then the neg.oes are very loose, fonder of drinking rum than of saying their prayers, and equally fond of debauchery. The females in particular are described as being so irreclaimably libertine, as to set all regulations at defiance. The only moral law they comprehend is that of strong bolts and bars. . . Dr. Williams says—" I can only say that, in my own family many years elapsed without any of the females hav ing children, end within the last three years two of the same women have commenced breeding, and have had each of them twins at a birth. 'What are the ages of these women ?—One of them I believe twenty-aist, and the ether thirty-two. To what cause do you ascribe the eireum stauce of their becoming nm:hers so Tate ?—I can only as ct ibe it to their previous debauchery and promiscuous in tercourse." Mr. Bresaosa—" Do you consider chastity to be an ordinary virtue amo n g female slaves 2--Not in the least. Have you any female slave upon your estate who Tian confined herself invariably to one hnsband?-1 have some who have lived regularly with the same man, but who have certainly not been faithful to him during that 'period, Do you not consider it to be the interest of the master that slaves should be married together, and remain faithful to each other ?..---Certainly ; I have done all in my power to promote it, but they have invariably, objected,.and claim the right of consulting their own inclinations. Did you ever punish them for changing their wives or hus bands ?—I have occasionally punished some of the younger ones, but it had very little effect ; and the elder generally allege such plausible reasons for a change, that I have con sidered that I should render them miserable by obliging them to remain together. Whenever I find a man with tWO wives, I endeavour to persuade him to give.up one ; but their general customs admit it ; the women themselves do not object to it; and it so well understood, that they have a particular appellation for two women living with the same man ; they call each ether combosse." Do you t'un think it is impraZ:ticable to cure their ordinary habits I f licentiousness? --I think it impossible to do it for some generations. Then it seems the slaves have another very singular vice. Mr. Shiel amused himself some , time ago very heartily with the prohibition which ail good Protestants are bound to regard, against " a man marrying his grandmother." But his countryman, Dr. James Lynch O'Connor, whose youth was passed amongst the pure population of Mayo and Sligo, was astonished to find " the p re valence among the slaves of the extraordinary 1) habit of young men cohabiting with old women, • a cause which, he says, " affects the source of population." The English Reformers must have looked prospectively to the establishment of the Anglican Church among the negroes ; for, applied to them, the prohibition is not so 1 far out of the way. We suspect this wonder of Dr. O'Connor, if closely inquired into, will ei ther resolve itself into the impossibility of the young negroes obtaining any other than old wo inen (for where polygamy exists, and females are number than males, all cannot have f e wer 'in youn g woolen), or may be traced to the cause which leads occasionally the young countrymen o f Dr. O'Connor to offer their services to aged English spinsters. A coloured Venus, who has passed her youth in the way the witnesses de scribe, may possess the means of charming her young inamorato with rum, which is prized by the negro still more than love. But then if ne groes are so very ill-inclined, their freedom is not likely to cure them of their naughti ness. Accordingly, Mr. Mitchell, who is placed over the free settlers, and who speaks favourably of them in many respects, is forced to own (and as the admission affords a strong confirmation of the unkind accusation of Pope that ic every woman is at heart a rake," it justifies earnestness with which men have applied themselves to strengthen this vulnerable quarter, , 1 ,-V a rigid morality , wh ich, b y never for g ivin g a I IPse, ke e p s up a co nstant terror) that the free fe ;Hake "e no better than the slaves. "In the - " t "'" ) . " 11 have given in of the separations among,t Ole married couples, it appear that in nine out of ten y es t h e wo men have deserted their husbands ; your observation s, do you co nsider the women to be less constant in their attachments than the en gener ally . observed a disinclination I think . so ; I h ave m amongst the lonales in all the free labouring classes to marry ; those who are Catholics defer till they are in ex tremity to ensure absolution from the Priest." Black Eloisas every one of them, by the mere unassisted light of nature ; " Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, . Clap her bright wings, and in a moment flies." However, notwithstanding the climate, the rum, the profligacy, the love of old women, and a long list of et celeras, the free blacks do con trive to increase and multiply, while the happy . _ slaves decrease. The slaves are even more healthy than the free blacks, for Dr. Williams says—" From your observation, have you any reason to think that they are more healthy than slaves hi general ? I have not observed them to be more healthy ; on the contrary, I think them more subject to disease from their great excesses andtheir bad habits. I have known many slaves who continued healthy so long as they were in slavery and under controul, who, after they had obtained their freedom, became sickly from their excesses." The unhealthiness is probably the cause of the increase of population ; and the masters have only to be a little harsher to their slaves, and to make 'hem as unhealthy as the free blacks, and then they will obtain the same increase. One cause assigned by the witnesses is somewhat at variance with the rest of their evidence, and leads us to have some doubts as to the excessive kindness of :he masters. It seems the French and Spanish planters succeeded better in preserving the negroes than the English. Doctor Williams " they paid personally more attention to them, and refit, always careful to have a sufficiency of the country provisions growing. . . In general, the French resided upon their own estates, whilst the English properties were more frequently con :hided by managers." In short, the English are cruel task-masters, who live in the squares of London, and consign over the negroes to the officourings of our trading towns, looking only to the nett profit. Almost all the witnesses, too, say that the Catholic religion is better fitted for bringing rude people like negroes to a state of civilization than the Protestant ; and experience seems to justify them. The Catholic religion secured, amidst barbarous ancestors, the relics of civilization ; and it seems to be peculiarly well adapted for making an impression on negroes and, Indians.—Morning Chronicle. Sir Peter Laurie is evidently a shrewd man, and to use the common phrase, can see through a millstone as far as his neighbours ; but for all that he does not appear to be able to compre hend the reason for many of the practices which have been most extolled in this country. In a case at Guildhall, on Thursday, of a charge for receiving a stolen watch, which ended in the commitment for trial of Aaron Lazarus— " Sir PETER LAURIE called upon Lazarus to account how the watch came into his possession the day after it was stolen. " Lazarus began to roily, but his Solicitor checked him, and submitted that the Magistrate was not entitled to call upon his client for any explanation. " Sir PETER LAURIE remarked, that if Mr. Isaacs or himself had been charged with having stolen watches in their fobs, how ready they would have been to say how they came into their possession. He could not conceive how answering any questions could affect an honest man. Sir Peter,". rejoined Mr. - Isaacs, " I stand here upon L aw —perhaps in a moral point of view, I might be inclined to act differently; but I contend that by the law of England no man charged on suspicion of felony, is bound to answer any q uestion," &c. The Law is the perfection of human reason, and yet Sir Peter does not see the reason of the Law Mr. Isaacs carefully distinguishes between law and morality, and he is right in so doing. He is right, also, in preferring the Law to more lily, for an Attorney gains by the principles of the former, and loses by the principles of the latter. When Sir Peter Laurie observed that he should draw his own inference from the silence of Lazarus," he was within a hair-breadth of the discovery of the reason of the Law, which evidently is to keep up a sufficient stock-of rogues in the country. • i nnocen t b ufus —wittr , eagerness to tell his story, 'that he may not lie ger than necessary under the o ne moment lon dreadful imputation of crime. The most grievous of all IVIOITS to him is to deprive him of an .opportunity for setting himself right with the world. When that opportunity has been delayed for some time, the feverish agitation has often been found too much for the most vigorous frame. The idea that all those with whom a man wishes to stand well—all those in whose affections and regard he holds a place—believe him guilty of some foul crime, must be of all tortures the most agonizing to an honourable mind. Honesty, therefore, loses every thing by silence—and can gain nothing from•n. There is not a schoolboy who would hesitate . for one moment to draw the inference, that silence.is a confession of guilt. The world do draw uni formly that inference. Now, then, the object of the tender mercies of the Law is to save, in order to throw out on the world, men, whom the world charitably believe to be guilty, in order, that being suspected by all and trusted by none, they may be driven to prey on society. This is the object, and the only object of that kind provision of the Law which Sir Peter Laurie could not discover, but which the Lawyers were not slow to discover, and which so many of them have eulogized. We wish Sir Peter Laurie, if he have any doubt on the subject, would apply to .some of his Brother Magistrates who have laud ed the provision, to point out to him any other intelligible object—lbid. The Corporation of London, we perceive, are about to make an attempt to recruit their finances by strictly enforcing a law of a very o ppressive na ture, and one which, we think , ought to be allowed to go as quietly as p o s sible into oblivion. By that law the Corporation are empoweted to eompß all retail traders, shopkeepers, &c., to take up their freedom, as it is called, or else to inflict penalties on them for neglecting or refus ing to do so, and for non-payment of such pe nalties to seize their goods and merchandise, This law has frequently been made use of to harass and overwhelm those small retail-dealers ~ vho had not the means of purchasing their free dom, or of paying the penalties incurred through their incapacity to obtain it. This law has also the effect of excluding from retail business in the City of London all persons of the Jewish persuasion, and towards them a double tyranny is exercised—they are treated as aliens, incapable of taking up the freedom of the City, and they 'ate liable to the penalties of not becoming free men ; so that they are punished by this " liberal and enlightened" Corporation for not doing What it declares they shall not be allowed to do ! This is called an " age of intellect," of " won derful improvement," and of " universal benevo le but a law like this is only worthy of the d ar k a ges. It invests a particular body of men lith the power of crushing poor and industrious traders by seizing their property, and reducing them to utter bstitution. This is aL.7c) called an principles and liberal co- Igee of‘ free traderee,'"biitsucli alaV m is an absurd and tyrannical straint • upon trade as far as it goes, and is, in Its spirit, of the very essence of monopoly and clxaction. There are a great.many persons in the ' cl i. , onlmon Council of London who style them- selves patriots, and make speeches against the Corn Laws and the Grand Turk—not one of those " patriotic orators," hoWever, raised his voioe the other day against the proposition of Oldham (founded on the Report of a Com mittee), to carry this law against retail dealers into effect in a more general and sweeping way than had ever been done before ! Yet the Corn Laws, even on the showing of the " statesmen" of the Common Council, did not involve so ob noxious a principle as that which is the root of this law—nor does the Grand Turk treat Jews with greater intolerence than they experience from the operation of this specimen of Civic wisdom and liberality. If the Corporation feel it necessary to recruit their funds, it would be speak more wisdom and right feeling in them to economise their expenses rather than attempt to repair the consequences of their extravagance by levying a tax so vexatious and unjust. In the article of civic feasting alone they might save a very handsome fortune, which, while it improved the health and intellect of the body at large, would be a much more respectable expedient for liquidating their debts, than the adoption of a measure so vicious in its principle and so bur densome to their fellow-citizens.—Morning Herald. When we hear it stated, and that by the highest authoiity for such matters in the king dom, that great part of the public time, in the highest Court of Justice, is wasted in conse— quence of the blunders of the practitioners who draw up the proceedings in the various cases, we are naturally led to inquire whether some ra medy might not be found for so serious an evil. To our mind two very obvious remedies present themselves. The one, that parties making those plunders should be made to pay for them out of their own pockets; the other, that the proceed ings, or rather pleading;, the length and intricacy of which lead to many of such blunders, should be much shortened and simplified. It is a serious calamity to any country that the law, which we are all bound to reverence, should be come, in the hands of so many of its practi tioners, a perfect nuisance, and a tax much higher in amount, in many instances, than all the claims of the public revenue, great and numerous as they are. Even the Judges them selves, enlightened and keen-sighted as they are, do not, we will venture to say, know one half the extent of the abuse which, in the name and under the sanction of law, prevails from one end of the kingdom to the other ; and nowhere more than in the metropolis, which abounds with harpies, many of whom pass, unfortunately, for honourable men. These people spread their nets so universally, and there is, unhappily, such a tendency to litigation amongst mankind, that to expect to see the evil remedied by any general agreement arising from the mere common sense of mankind, is more, we fear, than can be rea sonably looked for. But for its diminution the world may look to the knowledge and experience, and undoubted integrity of the Judges ; and we are, therefore, glad to see that they are alive to part, at least, of the evil ; which we trust soon to see, if not wholly cured, at least checked and corrected, either by the adoption of the means which we have suggested, or such other as the benter judgment of those learned persons may devise.—lbid. Although every thing in the actual situation of national affairs, forngn and domestic, concurs to point out the expediency of an meeting of Parliament, still it creates no surprise that the present Administration has adopted the resolu tion of postponing it to the latest possible mo ment. Those who believe the Ministry to be popular throughout the country, 'mist no doubt be exceedingly perplexed to account for its mani fest reluctance and dread to encounter the Na;- ss o ssras• - s,,,,essuosssisss , A A. aqual perplexity must be experienced by those who ever believed Mi nisters to be sincere in their professed intention to appoint an effective Finance €ommittee, at the commencement of the next Session of Par liament, with a view to reduce the expenditure of the year ; since the delay in calling Par liament together renders it quite impossible that such Committee (if even it is to be ap pointed at all) can investigate so comprehen sive a subject in all its important details, so as to enable them to present a satis factory report, prior to the period when the Government Estimates for the year must of necessity be voted., From this perplexity we are exempt ; because we do not believe the Admi nistration to be popular, nor did we ever believe it to be sincere in its professions of economy. When we look at the constitution of the Administration — at the conduct it has pursued—and, still more, when we regard the diversified and conflicting tenures by which it is expected to possess the confidence, and retain the support of a great majority of its declared adherents, and the severe trials to which those te nures will inevitably be exposed during the ensuing Session—we own it will be matter of surprise to us if it should dare to meet Parliament at all, rather than that it should be anxious to defer the moment of meeting, although at the expence of the most im portant interests of the State. Many of the antici pated supporters of Ministers are men who have al ways professed themselves so devoted to peace, and economy, and commerce, that we should hardly expect them to adhere to a Ministry which had led the nation into even a just and necessary war. How may such persons be ex pected to vote, when Parliament is called upon to sanction a policy, of which the probable result was, and is, to involve the nation in a war that is neither necessary nor just ? Many of the anticipated sup , porters of Ministers are men who believe, or at least assert, that the national expenditure during peace may be properly and.safely reduced by several mil lions annually. How are these persons likely to be affected, when they discover, as discover they will, this boasted economical Administration disposed not at all to reduce the expellees of the State, but rather to increase them ? Many are warm advocates of the dangerous and alarming measure of Parliamentary Re form. What will be the effect upon them when they find out that the cause of Reform is as hopeless as ever, and that popular election is so much the terror of the new Ministers, that they have in more than one instance modified their first official arrangements, for no other purpose than to keep some of their under• , liege out of the way of itG very formidable dangers ? Many of the anticipated supporters of Ministers be lieve, or (which is perhaps not the same thing) have frequently asserted, that the admission of Papists to the highest offices of the State, and ,to seats in both Houses of Parliament, is a measure without which Ireland cannot be preserved as an integral portion of the British Empire. What will these persons feel disposed to think and to say when hey find that Ministers, the majority of whom believe as they believe, or at least profess as they profess upon this subject, are determined never theless to encounter the responsibilities, or rather to enjoy the advantages and e moluments of office, leaving the Catholic question, and all that it involves, including, according to them, the preservation of Ireland, to chance ? Many of those upon whom Ministers depend for support believe that justice to the Protestant Dissenters of the Empire requires the repeal of the Test and Corporation Act. Several of the Ministers are known to entertain a similar opinion upon this subject. Will Ministers long ep „ t i n ne to receive disinterested support from men 'Those cause and principl es they abandon and with- stand, avowedly in defiance of their own convictions, and without any other reason or pretence than the love of place ? Of the various classes we have enumerated there is not one with whose services in Parliament Ministers can dispense. They must have the support of all of them, or fall; and it is ques tionable indeed whether they can stand even with that support. All we can say is, that if they obtain it—if they can rally around them, in the character of firm supporters, all the various classes whose principles and objects they are bound steadily to op pose, they will have atchieved a triumph without any parallel in the annals of political accommodation. —Morning Post. The evening contemporary, to an article insert ed in whose columns' we felt ourselves yesterday called on to reply, informs us, in a more legiti mate form, which we are glad to see it resume, that two of the Masters in the new University are not Dissenters from the Church of England, be ' cause they are members of the Established Kirk" of Scotland. We suppose we shall next be told of a Unitarian that lie is no Dissenter, but a member of the Established Church of Geneva. Our cotemporary asks us if we cannot form some idea how a Clergyman may explain Livy to a class of students without, at the same time, preaching a controversial sermon. We rather think we can, and we can form an idea of a writer, ignorant enough of the principles of reli gion to confound them with a controversial ser mon. We have satisfied our mind—we wish we could satisfy our contemporary—that a cler gyman may accept an invitation to dinner, even though coupled with an implied condition that he shall not, while others are eating, go through the Morning or Evening Service. W e have sa tisfied our mind of another particular also, that a man in Holy Orders, who should, for the sake of a dinner, accept an invitation, in which it was an ex pressed condition that he should not ask a blessing to his meal, would be a very contemptible per sonage. This we conceive to be a case rather more in point than that which our contemporary has put. We turn to a matter of more import ance than replying to our contemporary, whom we do not hope to convert, and who will hardly convert us. It must be evident,to the meanest capacity, that if the new University be not in tended to inculcate Dissenterism by implication, as we were charitably disposed to believe, it is intended to effect a divorce between education and religion of every kind. Under the pretence of not offending the tender consciences of Dis senters, it seeks to separate what God and nature have said ought to be joined together ; and Which, if not united in youth, will never be united at all. At the risk of marring the effi ciency of the school in Upper Gower-street--of thinning even the class of the great master of political economics—we call most seriously on the Clergy and Laity, on the instructors and members of our National Church, to come for ward speedily, and vigorously, and unanimously, in its defence against such an institution. If they delay or refuse, they may seek for repent ance and find no place for it, when the conse quences of their lukewarmness and apostacy have overtaken them.—New Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.— William Arnold was charged by Mr. Simpson, glover, of 448, in the Strand, with steal ing four silk handkerchiefs of German manufacture, value 28s. _ . Mr. Simpson identified the handkerchiefs, and the pri soner was fully committed for trial. Joseph Stevenson was charged by Mrs. Elisabeth Gill, of 28, Great Surrey-street, with robbing her of seven silver table-spoons, five silver forks, eleven dessert spoons, and other articles of plate. Part of the property was proved to have been pledged by the prisoner, who .was.fully cont.. mitted for trial on the capital felony. H en ry Lawrence, the individual who underwent an ex amination at this office some days since, touching the death of the unfortunate woman, Mary Ann Watson, who threw herself from Waterloo bridge Under rather mysterious cir cumstances, came to this office, yesterday, for the purpose ' of obtaining the magistrate's permission to leave town on a visit to his father, who, l►e_stated, lived a hundred miles from London. _ ----- ----- Alderson, the officer who had been active in the business, explained to Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, that Mr. HALLS had man, in ease it should b e diegßowed. The river bad been obtai ne d th e a ppli ca nt' s promise not to leave town until an •besna.held ; ott the ,body of the unfortunate wo dragged in several places since, but up to the present time no trace could be discovered of the body, which is suppos ed to lie under some vessel in the river, by which Imam it is prevented from rising to the surface. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE told the 'young man, that if he left his father's address at the office, and signed an under taking to return to town, if wanted the Coroner's in quest, he might go. The young man complied with these terms, and left the office. W ORS lIIP-STRE ET. —Yesterday Henry Smith, a good-looking and decently educated youth of respectable parents, but unfortunately well known to the police of the district, was charged with committing a robbery at the house of Mr. Jones, civil-engineer, of Canoubury-lane, Is- lington. It appeared from the evidence of a young lady named Hudson, that about noon on Thursday, she saw the prisoner in the front yard, and asked him what be wanted ? He asked if she would buy any pencils, and being answered in the negative, went out at the gate. Miss Hudson was then in a room on the second floor, but she went down stairs presently afterwards, and passing the front parlour, observed that the window was open, but no person in the apartment. Returning up stairs again from the kitchen, the young lady observed the window down, and saw the prisoner coming from the sideboard. He again offered his pencils for sale, but Miss Hudson seized and held him until Mrs. Jones arrived from the kitchen, when they found that he had stolen a silver wine •funnel. James Price, an officer, produced the funnel and four bundles of black lead pencils, found on the prisoner. Mr. Twit - Foal) observed to the prisoner that he must be stopped in his criminal career, and committed him to Newgate. UNION -HALL. —Yesterday the two men named Lane, chimney-sweepers, of Peckham, were brought up for final examination, charged with having kidnapped a child named Walsh, under eight years of age. The little boy stated distinctly, that on being taken to the prisoners' residence, he told them where his mother lived, but it appeared they had not sought her ; end as a proof that they had no intention of doing so, they dressed him up in the garments of a sweep, and made him sweep two chimnies in the interim between the Friday afternoon that he was kidnapped and the following Monday that he ran away from them. The other prisoner said that he could clear himself on the trial.—They were fully committed. Woodcocks are selling in this city at 8-;. per couple. As the season has been generally mild, these birds have not yet appeared in great numbers,— Worce.ster Journal. ALLEGED MURDER.—AII Inquest was held on Monday week, and adjourned to Tuesday, on the body of OwEN WILLIAMS, ship-keeper of the Hamilton, lying in the Queen's Dock. From the evidence given, it appeared that the deceased left his residence, in Ashton-street, Tox tet! Park, to proceed on board, at half-past nine on Satur day evening, and was found wandering by the dock police officer, from twelve to one o'clock on the followindg tow morn ing, in a state of intoxication. He was conveyeards liinne, and promised to prosecute the remainder of his journey by himself. His body was found at eight o'clock the same morning, lying in the gut of the Old Dock, where the tide hid left it, with an extensive cut across the throat, penetrating to the root of the tongue. A large clasped knife, which he was accustomed to carry, was found closed in his pocket, much etained with blood, which supposed to be the fatal instrument used. He was 77 Oars of age, in good circumstances, and it did not appear front the evidence adduced that be had recently quarrelled with any person. Fifteen shillings and sixpence were found on his person, which was all he had in his possession during the day .--The Jury re turned a verdict 4 ‘ found drowned ;" but the Coroner has since offered a reward of L if e / a . t for sysueslpUeicithouets and ma appalling y suceessfu a ll n y leevaelitt.o...aLdievvserlpope courier. LAW INTELLIGENCE ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 30. WARD OF COURT ..-.-SCALYR V. SCALES. This was the case.of a ward of Court, between whom,,and a young man of the name of Saul, a clan destine mdrriage - had taken place in April last. The young lady, still under age, was entitled under the will of her father to a very considerable fortune. The defendant was the son of a butcher, possessed of no property ; and had no other means of obtaining a livelihood than that of assisting his father in his business. The marriage had been solemnized by banns, in London, and it was row wished that a proper settlement of the young lady's property might be made. Mr. PEPYS, who appeared on behalf of the guar dian of the young lady, and the executor of her fa ther's will, stated, all that was now desired was, that a proper settlement of the property might be made. The MASTER of the RoLLs.—Then let there be a reference to the Master to approve of a proper settlement; and let the husband undertake to exe cute such settlement when prepared; otherwise hos tile proceedings must be instituted against him. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. SO. GRAY V. Ca VIIIRIDCE......GRA 'I V. EDWARDS. In these two cases the claim was for restitution of money paid to the first defendant, an auctioneer, for the purchase of an estate sold by auction, alleged by him to have been paid over to the vendor, the second defendant. Verdict for the plaintiff, subject to motion for set ting aside the trial and entering a nonsuit. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, GUILDHALL, N0v.30. ZIEGILHIL V. RICMNANT. Mr. BUSBY opened the pleadings. Mr. Sergeant TADDY stated, that this was a case in which he certainly felt much interest for his client, who was a young lady, the daughter of a gentleman resident in the country. The action was to recover compensation for the very serious injury she had sustained from the neglect of the defendant's ser vant. The defendant was himself a chemist and. druggist, in a very considerable way of business, and kept a horse and gig. On Sunday, the 12th of August last, the plaintiff was walking down Alders gate, and was crossing at the end of Carthusian street. The defendant's servant was also driving the horse and gig at a rapid rate in the same direc tion, and turned into Carthusian-street at the mo ment the plaintiff was crossing, and in so doing he drove against her and threw her down, the shaft striking her with very considerable violence : and, had it not been for her presence of mind, in moving a little, the wheel must have inevitably gone over her. As it was, she was seriously injured, and had lost several gold trinkets. The effect of the whole was to throw her into such a state as entirely to in capacitate her to carry on her business of dress making. These were the facts of the case, but they were considerably aggravated by the conduct of the defendant when the father of the young woman called on him to say that he should expect him to make some remuneration for the loss sustained. Mr. Wm. Smith—l am the son of the landlord of the Three Cups, Aldersgate-street. On the 12th of ' August last, about one o'clock, I was standing at my father's door, and saw the plaintiff crossing Car thusian-street. A chaise end 'horse were coming down the street, at the rate of about nine miles an hour, and turning round the corner, the shaft caught the lady's breast, and she fell. The chaise and horse, with the man in it, went on. I went after him. He saw the lady fall. I followed, and he stopped at the defendant's door in St. John-street. I did not pick the plaintiff up. She was taken up before. I think he ought to have called out to her when she was crossing. There was time for him to have done so. Charles Heywood—l live in Carthusian-street. I saw the lady and the hors, and gig. The gig had passed by her. It drove on'and did not stop. I called out to him, but he paid no attention. Mr. Ziegler 4 am the plaintiffs father; and on the Tuesday, after this accident, I called on the de fendant ef our man " ,n You hs are fendimt at his house. I found him in h is counting house. I said, " Yes:' said he ; " and what have I to do with it ? It is no busine ss of mine. My man informed me:it d p o e n deoub to t informed my daughter.of,e t mischief was more her fault than his." I said, " Sir, it was your horse and chaise, and. therefore I shall look to you. She has received considerable injury, and likely to be under the surgeon's hands for some time ;" and I said I hoped he would defray the ex gs;haifllyobue p h e a t v i e ses a . ny H d e e s m a a id n , d, " t l he si r i e all i d s o m n y o s m uc a li n2 th h in e forthcoming." I said it was a mercy she was not killed. He replied, "Well, if she had it was no fault of mine,—l could not help it. But," he added, " I see you prevaricate from what you told my young man, to whom you said she had lost 101. worth of trinkets." I said," No, Sir, I do not pre varicate ; when she went out, she had on two gold lockets, and a chased gold key attached to a chain ; when she came back, she had only the chain, which was broken. I did not see her go out, but had seep her in the course of the morning." Mr. Robert Blake—l am a surgeon, and was called in to attend the plaintiff. She was at her father's house. She was much agitated from the shock she had received, as well as from the bruises. I saw her the next day, and examined her to find if any ribs were broken, Her back and legs were very much bruised. I continued to attend her up to the middle of last month. She had a continued pain in the back, arising from the , injury. I applied a blister. The amount of my bill' was 61. 138.: that has been paid. Mr. Ziegler recalled—My daughter has been pre vented from carrying on her business from that time to the present. She was totally confined far about two or three weeks. At every attempt to work, she experiences very severe pains in the arms and shoulders. Mr. Sergeant WILDE, in addressing the Jury for the defendant, stated, that his client did not mean to deny the facts of the case. He admitted that the horse and gig were his, and also that the ser vant was in . his employ. A verdict must, conse quently, be given against him ; and the only duty now remaining for the Counsel was to divest the case as much as possible of the colouring it might have ' rece i ve d,' with a view to mitigate the damages. The Learned Sergeant then went on to comment on the evidence which had been given, and observed that a great stress was laid on the fact of the servant ,not -having called out when he saw the plaintiff crossing the road. He (Mr. Sergeant Wilde) knew, however, that in cases of women and children it was not always, if ever, advisable to call out. The other day, while riding in his carriage, he observed that his coachman had driven very near to some children, and feeling angry at his having done so without calling out, he pulled the check-string and asked him why he had not done so ? If I had; said the man, I should cer tainly have driven over them ; for if you call out to women and children, they invariably stand still and scream out, and unless you have the horses in good command there' is much difficulty in avoiding them, This immediately struck the Learned Ser geant as being true, and he appealed to the Jury to say, if they were in the habit of driving, if they had not found it so. Another circumstance which might have been instrumental in causing the accident was the fact of this young lady's having been equipped in one of those unfortunate bonnets which were now so much in vogue, and which, doubtless, afforded a very delightful retreat from the prying eye of vulgar curiosity, but they were, nevertheless, exceedingly inconvenient in narrow crowded thoroughfares, and might frequently place the wearer in danger. The Learned Sergeant concluded by saying, that al though the case might call for compensation, it was not one which would subject the defendant to great aid grievous moral censure. Mr. Justice PARK, in summing up, said that the d'Ffendant had acted very judiciously, bY instructing his counsel as he had done : an attempted defence would only have aggravated the case. Ifig ship recollected not long since to have bee n crossin4 a road at the same time with 'an old wo man, h o ld was in danger of being run over, when he took hore of her arm, saying, " My good woman , wht- B you about, don't you see that carriage coming ? had no sooner said the words," said his Lord4l4,', " than she sprung from my arms, and thre w hef t immediately under the horses' heads, iiher 0 e; stood still and screamed. Very fortunately for 1 1 r ‘ however, the coachman pulled up, and she escar unhurt." His Lordship, after having remarked 01 the language used by the defendant, which reflecteatu no credit upon him, left it to the Jury to say w h A damages they thought the nature of the casc manded. The Jury, without much hesitation, 're' turned a verdict for 151. WORKMAN V. NIONSKOUSE. t he . This was an action of assault and battery • defendant pleaded the general issue. On the JO too which the assault complained' of was committ ed, plaintiff was returning, with some companions, frjA some houses at Camberwell, the erection Of W ; 13 - he was superintending, and when passing theZ 7 d berwell-grove Assembly-house, kept by t he fendant, they heard the inspiring sounds -(3` were fiddle. Attracted by the merry notes that, e t• drawn from it, they went into the house to as $ taro what was going on, and there they fo es ' number of gentlemen most appropriately ace's ed in white trousers and boots, most actively elKl e r in threading the mystic mazes of the dance. 7 s. , were accosted at the door by the waiter, wh ° ., o . formed them that they could not join the partY , : A less they produced a ticket; and he then ask .g they wished any thing to drink, when the asked for a glass of water, which he said he wo u ld pay for as liquor. It appeared that at this timis, defendant came up, and some words having pa s L e . o he.struck the plaintiff in the face, and knocked down stairs . .. This was the assault complaiP eu .,,, sv and a witness was called to prove that it egfil but he did not give a very 'distinct acco t int . : o transaction. a nd It appeared that the case was undefended, t the Jury having considered the whole of the fact 40 0 . returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damege 9 ' 0 0- In an action on a bill - of exchange, which w 115 , : `,. * defended, M r . J us ti ce PARK examined the plea u ,l e t to ascertain whether the bill had been propel y forth in them, and having carefully perused them,o said to the Counsel, " Is this right? I see the of the allegation in this declaration is, that " eo i defendants made a certain bill of exchange,' matte. of describing them all by their Christian 01, This was not the manner of doing it in my.tirne• Mr. JusTtcE observ"d, that this change wa s ,fo of the consequences of the " march of mind, conspicuous in the present day. ° to find fault with this practice. His only object Wes :Mr. Justice PARK said, it was not his i ntents s to know if it were correct, as it was not so Wl' he was at the bar. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS• LONDON DI ARY.—Tensoax, Dec. 6.—At the Cal," Commissioners, Basin hall-street. Acton, J., Ipswich Bayertz, t., Broad.street dale .... .. ... . .......... . ........ mews Beswick and Co., Dover- Camelo, Devonshire street Biggs, J., Lewisham Cardinal, 3., Leicester ...... COUNTRY DIARY —Tussosy„ Dec. Alderson, G., rerrybridg-e—Angel F er rybridge ............ ••• Buck, J.,Norwich—White Lion, Norwich ....... ........... . ..... 4 Cooper, v., Cheltenham —Royal hotel, Cheltenham ..... Copley, G., Wakefield —Angel, Ferrybrid e .....................••• 4 Hughes, J., Cheltenham—Yearslers, Cheltenham .. . ........... 5 N e wmarch, 13., Cheltenham —Royal hotel, Cheltenham ...... Ch ri stopher, W., Kidderminster—Swan, Stourport ........... ......... 4 Merrefleld, W., Kiddenninster—Swan, Stourport. ... Birkhead, P., W a tlington—Mitre , Oxford .......................g M‘Turk, W. Pilsworth—Whate's, M an chester...... ............ --_______-_—:--------_ INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCPI ecember ARGEM :I, COUNTRY.—At the Court-house, at Liverpool, D at Tau o'clock. Woollen, P., Mackay, J.; Liverpool Spencer, R., Liverpool Pantridge, 1., Liverpool Standish, T., Liverpool Parr, T. Liverpool Tilley, C., Liverpool Pendleton, W., Liverpool Walker, J., Liverpool Liver pool Prince, &, Toxteth Wiggins, .1., Liverpool Roberts, J., Liverpool Wignall, H., Liverpool Robinson, A., Liverpool Williams, DI., Li ver pool Smith, W. Liverpool Woods, J.,Liverpool , Spence, K., Liverpool OLD BAILEY. ABSTRACT OF THE RESULT OF THE CO MIwn MENTS TO THE LAST SESSIONS. ej,s4, Convicted. AcO tt 3 'Marlborough-street Office SO 12 Mary-le-bone 2B 9 Hatton Garden 2B Bow-street ' 23 14 Thames 2O 17 Worship .street Queen-square... l6 4 Whitechapel ll 2 Coroners and Country Magistrates 14. -- 189 8 1 Lord Mayor and Aldermen 4l 1 0 Of the above cases— Mr. Justice Park tried Baron Garrow l5 The Recorder 4O The Common Sergeant t3 6 Sergeant Arabin 9O _....e5 theOlnatetble'Susannah, reli ct DIED. 1 ' tlor On the 22d ult., in Craven-street, Strand, Oro; fir h2oBmthasußlt.e,amaltl, Buckingham, not only secured for I !,':d b us. toes se andof Sir am Charles iable W qualities,lE3eß"sr agedt. 7 T 0 1.1 is the warmest attachment of her now much any-n-neetion9 band, but also the respect.and regard of all her c° l 3 - w ill of and acquaintances. Her pious resignation to t to ning God, and her-dependence on the mercies of 041. of fro° Saviour, added to the tranquil separation of her slier or' its earthly tabernacle, were witnessed by many of “ e s , / - b s iel ) rounding relatives with those feelings a consolatie° will ever attend the pious and the devout Christian. 0 1, Oa the 29th ult., at his house in Portlaudgplae'.' o° „or ,0 ral Ross, Colonel of the 5 9 th Regiment, and Geyer— Fort George. w' ~, p On the 20th of July , at Bombay, after aPe ness, Robert Jackson Meek, third son of John Pew pratt, Esq., of Walthamstow. Pe On the 22d ult., at Brighton, Thomas PhiPl 3s, Commander, R.N., aged 45 . tl 4l On the 28th ult., at the Grove, r Kentish-to we Ac t residence of her son-in-law, Mr. Pardoe, Elizabetb i ;, i `ii6 of J amen Hooman, Esq., of Habberley - hous e, near N" minster, aged '7l. ...,,,cP I On the 29th ult., at his house, Mitcham , Surrey, "• regretted, John Oxtoby, Esq., aged 56. n 1 01 ' On the 26th ult., at Bath, aged 76, the •-ev. Elony, of Liskeard, in the county of Cornwall. 1,,,t1Yt On Wednesday evening, at his house in South Lin, e iEsq.,n the 47th year of his ace, John Pittman, Esq., P ri i t f olt h Proprietor of the County Chronicle an d County b e i o r and one of the Common Council for the Ward of F 3 r,f o of, lon Within. He had been for some time in a dec 4 ' 0 1 ~ t ht ae t ef ao t f a lh er a e sl thu lt b ti u ll t I l v ii i s th d in ear th es e t flatrietntdhsreheawd eenokss,usvipiiiceioonf oboe lebility became so exeessive as to baffle the power °,,tel' most eminent Professional assistance. Of an active, 1 . ,, e 0 tigent, and liberal mind, it may be said truly that feetemilie possessed in a greater degree the respect and esteem 0 iiir ,:irele in which he moved, or quitted this transitory 0 Inure deeply or sincerely lamented. Ever active 11, :ause of benevolence, firm in his friendships, a nd p°7 3o d in all the endearing qualities of social life , his roe *f ill .v ill long be revered, and those who knew him best leplore him most. ' ------/ _______,_____-----_________----__ ~,,, PRINTED and PoimistrED by M. YOUNG4at &11. _ - Sox-0117104 No. 112, Strand. A f (, Vas , RA Mid I her TEA TR LAArps, ovERs, Plat lota' VENISOIJ. " EVAN ' taSILL, 'respectful: 1 iNt Ninl3l u Arti \V„k his, of ruar u Per (,eat, under STI3 I ,VE nRAT ' I RE ittor 1 to b t ...ONb see "A ST( * . hill, EAGLE LII I ' CORM': Digi,, x; • rir l ,CT: TA 1 E DI ,4 4. , [ABLE tu i si : . f the , in co t! , , The younger t ordi nary Ile The Female L•A murex "%e if ri e ca, for ti or Garriso Ak, for the V ' 4 ` ll. Y, Civil, or Four-fifth e o Whether at hoo A cal ( Coruhill ; and ; it 1 , 4 1ys : le ft ielatis a ITA W eyro N orwiel 41 , Now 4 4. ' I I kt e t_ 13i rh .'° 1 14 Li ner k:%14 1)° k 4 !: l ed -1114, (2 40.1;:;' Doef ert i: bed • before ), f o Cla V out f o r e 14 anet '• out vibtt• b our, 'n Brj, ta blilc o , Tauui wind Livor Two. Norw Pis% berb) liefu re s Cant N.B turing ribr neCelltr any Pa unlev hale 0 %Inger, -- BIRTHS. a At the Polygon, Southampton, the lady of J. vian, Esq., of a son. Lately, at New York, the lady of Captain . 1 - R.N., of a daughter. On the 28th ult. in Mecklenburgh-square, the At"' Captain Langslow, late of the Bengal Army, of a rt►s' On the 29th ult., in Upper Stamford-stre et, Atwood Smith, of a son. MARRIED. ~,,i) , 0 On the 28th ult., by the Rev. Horace Chev^se, ' , P -1 ot Chevasse, Esq., surgeon, to Catherine Margaret, Y(,)°,111,' daughter of Colonel Ludovick Grant, of Bank-house, l'e' sey, near Worcester. 1 i iq'' `' At Alverstoke, Lieut. J. Robinson, R.N., of ' f tli jesty's ship liritornart, to Whillielmina, daughter 0 , o: Rev. James Francis Grant, Rector of Merston and WrslP -_______—____ ---- r