The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JCURNALS. Our paper of this day discloses the miracle, so far, perhaps, as it is recdful to disclose it, of the fabrication of Lord Grey's retirement. The evening and Sunday papers were informing their credulous readers that Mr. Ellice had stated the fact of the retirement to Mr. Ross, M.P. for Northampton, at the very moment when we and others knew it from Mr. Ross's own acknow ledgment, that he had not spoken to Mr. Ellice, nor Mr. Ellice to him, for more than half a year ! However, let Mr. Ross have had the pre cious intelligence from whom he might, he con veyed it to Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, the town-clerk of Bristol, now resident in London,—the town clerk to his principal, the Mayor,—and the Mayor, by cry of bellman and placard on wall, to all the town ;—a felicitous and splendid ter mination from an obscure and small beginning. Still, who originated the report ? Yimporte ; this is the end of it, and Lord Grey stiil retains his office, and meditates future reforms. But that ill-starred man the Mayor of Bristol! we can compare him to none of the worshipful fraternity of Mayors since the day of Henry VI. It was then that the Mayor of St. Alban's be lieved in the miracle that a blind man, " Saun ders Simcox, an't please you, Master," had been made to see when worshipping at the shrine of the Saint. Saunders Simcox, then, was the , ",arne of the man who deceived the Mayor of St. Alban's by a pretended miracle. Sergeant Ludlow (the same number of syllables) was he v,.ho misled the Mayor of Bristol by something which, had it been true, would have been little short of a miracle. The documents respecting this affair are in our paper of to-day, and will amuse our readers.— Times. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE RIGHT ZION. EDWARD ELLICE, M.P., AND CHARLES ROSS, ESQ., 31.1% Cleveland-square, Jan. 22. Dear Sir,—Having been informed that a letter from Sergeant Ludlow to the Mayor of Bristol was posted on Saturday last io the public rooms of that city, containing a statement that Sergeant Ludlow bad been informed by you that you knew, on my authority, the probability or the fact of Lord Grey's resignation ; and having ascer tained from Sergeant Ludlow that }ou had communicated this information to him, I request to be informed on whose authority it was founded? As I have not seen you, to the best of my knowledge, to exchange as many words with you, for the last six months, it is impossible that you should have been misled by misconstruction of any conversation between us on such a subject ; and as I have no doubt you will feel equally anxious with myself, that the imposition upon }ourself, and, through you, upon Mr. Sergeant Ludlow and the Mayor of Bristol, of what I know to be a pure invention and falsehood, should be trace.] to its proper source, I rely upon your giving me your best assistance in discovering the author of it. I am alwaes yours faithfully, Charles Ross, Esq., M.P. EDWARD ELLICE. 60, Portland. place, Jan. 22. Dear- Sir,—The fact you state, of no personal intcr cou:se having existed between us for the last six months, would, I hope, he a sufficient assurance to you that I never could have circulated the report to which your letter alludes, on your personal authority to me. I never mentioned tl e subject but as a general rumour, ncr did 1 ever hear of it but as a runn,ur which had been in circulation some time beftre it reached me. Sergeant Ludlow mint have very much misunderstood me if he supposed that lever meant to give th report upon your authority, or on that of any other individual, although have no doubt I repeated it to him as I had heard it, and as I certainly at the time believed it myself to be true. I em, dear Sir, yours faithfully, The Hon. Edward Ellice, &c. CHARLES ROSS. Cleveland-square. Jan. 23. Dear Sir,-1 regret that you should bave made such specific statements on the authority of general rumour, end Mr. Sergeant Ludlow should have been induced by them to make use of my name in his communication with the Mayor of Bristol. So long as reports are confined to anonymous contributors to the press, they are perfectly harmless, and may be Fatly left to the judgment of the public, who have the hest chance of arriving at the truth by a reference to the probabilities of the case. In the pi e stnt instance, however, the specific words quoted to me from Bristol from Mr. Seageant Ludlow's letter to the Mayor, and widely circulated by his worship— ,, I ha ve only time to inform you that Lord Grey is out of office; the fact has just been communicated to me by Mr. Noss and Mr. Nichol, who had it from Mr. Edward Ellice"— left me no alternative but to endeavour to trace the mis representation conveyed by them to its source. I applied to Mr. Sergeant Ludlow to ascertain whether he had written such a letter, and correctly quoted you as his informant. He answered in the affirmative. On ap. plication to you, it appears that your information was founded on general rumour. As you can give me no further assistance in detecting the author of this most idle and groundless fabrication, I must be satisfied with pub lishing the correspondeuce that has passed between us on the subject, both that the public may be disabused on the present occasion, and the credulity of a portion of it less xposed to temptation in future by the circulation of un founded and mischievous reports of this description. I am, yours faithfully, Charles Ross, E.g., M.P. EDWARD ELLICE. Though Lord Althorp contents himself with informing the Parochial Committees that he and his colleagues have made up their minds on the subject of the assessed taxes, without condescend ing to inform them what that determination is, the evening organ of the Treasury is permitted to be somewhat more communicative, and hints pretty plainly that the Government means to propose to Parliament the repeal of the house t ax and the continuance of that on windows. This w ill be glorious news to the whole tribe of " window peepers," yclept surveyors, who have been looking for some time upon their doom as certain, and who, having screwed the house tax, in the shape of surcharges, up to a point beyond all bearing, may now expect still to enjoy a feast of lights. If such, however, is the determination of Government, or if, as is more likely to be the case, such is put forth as a feeler, we trust that its members will be induced to reconsider it before they venture to propose to Parliament such a measure of mere half con cession, and one from which, if resorted to, we venture to predict, they will be ultimately driven by the force of public opinion. We do not deny that the house tax, as compared with the window duties, is the most unequal, and therefore the most odious ; but as compared with any fair and equal heads of taxation, their injustice proceedspari passu, and equally calls for repeal. The window tax, as well as the house tax, is as often as not a tax upon man's necessities rather than upon his means, while it is quite notorious that it reaches neither the wealthy absentee nor the man of wealth who avoids « the cares of housekeeping." The win dow tax, tco, is a war tax, from which, in the eighteenth year of peace, the country has a right to see itself relieved. It is a tax upon air and light, those first gifts of the all-bounteous Au thor of nature, and as such upon the health, liberty, and enjoyments of his creatures. There is besides one point of view in which the win dow tax resembles in inequality the house tax itself, and which, though not often adverted to, must, when mentioned, be obvious to every one.' We allude to the severity with which it falls upon old houses over new ones. In the country this is particularly the case, where the old crazy inconvenient mansion has fre quently double the number of windows to those in a modern, much larger, and more convenient edifice. But the country will be told, no doubt, when the time comes, that the state of the revenue demands the continn ance of this one of these two unjust imposts. This might be very true provided it was also true that no further re d uc ti on s of expenditure could be made, and that no head of more equal taxation could be found as a substitute for this unequal one—the contrary of which we believe in both instances to be the case. We are as anxious as any p ar t o f the community can be to keep faith with the public creditor; but we see no reason why the public creditor, as part of that community, should not be expected to share in keeping faith with himself; and we do not ap• prebend that we should be very wide of the mark were we to say that the house and win dow taxes are not paid by one half the persons who receive half-yearly dividends at the Bank. Upon the whole we feel convinced that no half measure upon this subject will satisfy the coun try ; and that Ministers, if they mean to meet the difficulty, inuct look it manfully in the face, and decide upon it in the spirit of justice, equally regardless of clamour on the one hand, or of par tiality and selfishness on the other.—Morning Herald. Every thing announces that a desperate struggle is at hand in Spain. Two parties, widely differing in opinions and actuated by opposite interests, are already marshalled in hos tile array against each other, while the military officers in the command of provinces are at variance with the Executive, menacing the Queen Regent, and dictating to her the measures she is to adopt, and cautioning her not to employ such men as may be displeasing to them. The Governor of Catalonia further tells the Regent acting in the name of the Sovereign whom he has acknowledged, " that his exertions and those of his party have hitherto kept down the Revolution in one of the most turbulent pro vinces of the kingdom, and secured her autho rity against the combinations of a numerous body of Carlists." This is the picture which the Governor himself draws of Catalonia, at the same time insinuating that, if those exer tions are not rewarded, or if the Regent does not confide the helm of State to Anti-Carlists, meaning the Movement party, the cause of her daughter is lost. Coupled with the affairs of Portugal, what a frightful picture of the Penin sula will our Foreign Minister have to present to Parliament. Everybody is anxious to know what can be said upon this subject in the King's speech. We have committed the same error in Spain that we committed in Portugal, which error may be summed up in these very few words :—We have endeavoured to prevent the fundamental laws of two independent kingdoms from taking their due course, and have opposed ourselves to the wishes and interests of the great majority of the people of both. We have con temned the rights of two nations for whose independence we lately fought and bled, by supporting the factions by which they are re spectively oppressed. Lord Palmerston undertook to decide who was to be the King of Portugal ; and now Louis Philip, fortified by this ex ample, pretends that it is for him to settle the destinies of Spain, his family being deeply interested in the affairs of that country. It is not easy to anticipate the consequences of our erroneous policy in Spain ; but what has befallen us in Portugal is visible to every eye. There Lord Palmerston has been foiled and outwitted. Having assumed the right of nominating the Sovereign, he considered that he was equally entitled to appoint the Regent, very frankly declaring that Palmella was his choice ; and he has been thwarted by the very person whom he lately hailed as the liberator and regenerator of Portugal, investing him with full powers to carry into effect all the benign and beautiful system of reform which has produced so much happiness, concord, and prosperity in the United Kirgdom. Don Pedro it would, how ever, seem, is by no means tractable, for he availed himself of the first opportunity to slip the noose that had been placed round his neck. Having accomplished the first part of his object by obtaining possession of Lisbon, he thought it high time to throw off all restraint, and govern according to his own will, just as he wished to do in Brazil. For this he found that he stood in a false position. From the moment his true and original design in going to Portugal became apparent he knew that he was distrusted by his late supporters,' and when the plan for removing him from the Regency developed itself he saw that there was a determination to turn the tables upon himself. No man knows better than Don Pedro that it is common in ignoble minds to illtreat those who have been degraded into a state of dependence upon them. He, therefore, having first secured a French interest, resolved to break the Down ing-street trammels, for nothing has all along been more offensive to his dignity, or more re volting to his feelings, than .the style and title of " Duke de Braganza, and Regent in the name of the Queen," the only titles which Lord Pal merston allowed him to use. It is difficult to touch upon the affairs of Portugal with any degree of calmness, when the consequences of our follies and inconsistencies are considered. in the ninth year of his reign, Don Pe dro unmasked himself in Brazil. He has done the same in Portugal, even before he has suc ceeded in placing the crown upon his head. He, however, is entitled only to the smaller portion of the blame. He ought to have been better known before he was trusted. The cala mities of Portugal chiefly rest upon the heads of our Whig Ministers. They ought to have fore seen and appreciated the dangers to which their conduct was sure to expose a nation always our faithful ally ; instead of which they sacrificed, in their ignorance and folly, the honour and sub stantial interests of Portugal to support a faith less despot ; and, to further the ends of City speculators, allowed even our municipal laws to be violated. For his preposterous conduct towards that country it is to be hoped that Lard Palmerston will be called to a strict account. " Regent in the name of the Queen !" forsooth, when all the time the poor suffering girl is a State prisoner in the Necessidades, and her father's bureau is filled with legal opinions, obtained in Paris and Lisbon, to show that his abdication in her favour was illegal. If we are not falling, as principals, into similar errors in Spain, we are abetting and encouraging Louis Philip while he commits them. The events which have happened since Ferdinand the Se venth's death, are likely to prove as lasting and as calamitous in their effects as those which fol lowed the demise of K in g John the Sixth. These common misfortunes tend indeedtounite the population, and eve ntually the Governments , also, of the two sister divisions of the Peninsula, an obje c t w hi c h it has not hitherto been consi dered the special duty of British Statesmen to promote. M. de Rayneval may think that he has done wonders in locating M. Martinez de la Rosa on the spot lately occupied by M. Zea. The system, however, to be pursued is the same. M. de la Rosa may be an excellent poet and a moq accomplished man. He has been called " the Rose and Pink of the Constitution," and his plays have been pronounced delectable ; but he is no Statesman. He has neither the experience nor the nerve required to conduct the helm of State. Chiefly engaged in culling the flowers of literature, he never aspired to such a distinction. It is in fact well known that he has been put forward only for a temporary pur pose, of which Messrs. Rayneval and Villiers hold the secret ; but if he has the feelings of a good Spaniard he may render an essential ser vice to his country (although it is a query whe ther Llander and the other Captains-General will be satisfied with his appointment), if lie assembles the Cortes according to the constitu tional forms and ancient usages, in order to receive from them a declaration as to who is the lawful successor to the throne of Castile. If he does not do this, and express his a bhorrence of military massacres, he will be hereafter judged with the same severity as that which has over taken IVI. Zea.—Morning Post. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 25. HOWNESS V. WOOLLETT. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 100/. for money lent, and interest. At the trial of the cause, the plaintiff having proved the loan, the defendant set up payment as a defence, and pro duced a receipt, the signature to which was sworn to by one witness; and a conversation with the plaintiff, in which the plaintiff admitted that he had been paid, was sworn to by another. These wit nesses were cress-examined severely, and the cir cumstance that the receipt was for 110/., which was more than was due for both principal and interest, was strongly relied on. The defendant attempted to explain the difference as to the sum by calling a witness to show that a settlement of wages due to the plaintiff had taken place at the same time, and that the wages made the amount reach the sum of 1101, _ The Jury, however, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Mi. CHANNELL on a former day moved for a rule to show cause why this verdict should not be set aside. Defend:int had been taken by surprise at the trial, as he would have been able to give satis factory evidence both as to the payment of the wages and the handwriting of the receipt, but he had been misled on that point by the conduct of the plaintiff's attorney. Mr. PLATT now showed cause upon affidavits which denied in the most distinct manner that the plaintiff's attorney had ever admitted the hand writing to the receipt. Mr. CHANNELL supported the rule.—Rule dis charged. EX PARTE DE MOLE IN THE MATTER OF ROBERTSON AND OTHERS. Sir J. SCARLETT applied for a rule for a criminal information in this case for libels published by the defendants. Mr. De Mole was the clerk and soh citor to the Merchant Tailors' Company, and the libels of which he complained were published by the defendants in the Sunday Herald. They were six in number, and the last of them appeared in that paper on the 29th of September, 1833. The de fendants, not content with assailing Mr. De Mole in his capacity of solicitor to the Merchant Tailors' Company, in which attacks they made the most false accusations against him, contrasting his con duct with that of a highly honourable gentleman, Mr. Knapp, the solicitor to another Company, and stating things utterly untrue of Mr. De Mole, in order to make out the contrast, but at last thought fit to wound his feelings on the most tender point. They not only slandered his own private character, but they attacked the virtuous reputation of his mother. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE asked whether the proof of publication was sufficiently made out `? . Sir J. SCARLETT said that it was; and The COURT granted the rule to show cause. THE GREENWICH RAILROAD. COURT OF COMPENSATION, TOWN HALL, SoLITftwARK, J AN.25. A Special Jury was summoned before the RE CORDER, the HIGH BAILIFF, Aldermen, &c., to assess the amount of compensation to Mr. Thomas Hun', a baker, in Bermondsey -street, whose pre mises were about to be pulled down, pursuant to the Act of Parliament obtained by the London and Greenwich Railroad Company. Mr. RICHARDS stated the case to the Jury. After explaining the object for which they were met, he said that the project of erecting the railroad was entirely a speculative one, and whether the parties whom they were authorised to deprive of home and business were benefitted or not by the re moval was a matter of (to them) perfect indiffe rence. If the present speculation succeeded it was expected that a profit of 1.5 per cent. would be made upon the outlay, arid, therefore, the parties whose premises were required should be handsomely com pensated for whatever injury or inconvenience they might be subjected to. William Giles, the claimant's journeyman, stated that his master's business had doubled since July last. The price was 41. per loaf of 4lbs. The sick of flour made 94 loaves, and the price of the sack was 40s. The profit on biscuits and fancy bread was also very great. The claimant's removal would greatly injure him, and it was probable would destroy all his custom. His business had risen from six to sixteen sacks per week. Mr. Green, a baker, stated the profit on each sack of flour made into loaves to be 7s. I Id., after deducting incidental expenses. If made into bts• cuits the profit would be ten shillings in twenty. If into fancy bread it would also yield cent. per cent. RECORDER—How do you account for making 94 loaves of 41b. each from a sack of flour ? You must use something else to make up the weight. I do not wish to pry into the secrets of trade, but the Jury must be informed, so that they may make their calculations? Witness—Potatoes to be sure. We have an Act of Parliament for that. Mr. Sergeant TADDY—Any thing else. Witness —Yes ; yeast and salt. Mr. Sergeant TADDY—Any alum. Witness (he sitating)—Yes. Mr. Sergeant TADDY—Pray have you an Act of Parliament for that ?—(Laughter.) Witness—To be sure we have not, any more than we have to sell short weight ; but I tell you this, we do both some times, although it is dangerous.—(Loud laughter.) RECORDER—State to the Jury the ingredients used in mixing your flour, and the cost upon each sack. The witness then gave the following items : Salt and alum 3d. per sack ; potatoes Bd. per bushel ; coals 6d. per sack; wages is.; wear of oven 2d. ; leaving a profit of 7s. 11d. per sack, exclusive of the large profits on biscuits and fancy bread. Several flour-factors proved the quantities of flour supplied to the claimant. The Jury assessed the amount at 1861. 10s. LIVERPOOL COTTON -MARKET, JAN. 25. The market far cotton up to the close of Thursday was very unsettled, and prices receded id. to id. per lb. : there was on Friday a more extended inquiry both from the trade and on speculation, and prices may now be quoted about the same as last week. The Surats went off heavily, and at id. per lb. decline 1,200 taken for export. Speculators have taken 1,500 sew Bawed and 250 Surat. The import this week is 15,219 bag., and the sales are 15,730—viz., 320 Sea Island,, 14d. to 20d. : 10 Stained ditto, 7id. to 11d. ; 7,320 Boweds, lid. to 9J. 0,1,200 New Orleans, 7jd. to 10d. ; 1,120 Alabama, &c. 61,1. to sp. ; 940 Pernams, 9id. to 111(1. ; 590 Bahia, 9d. to 90.; 460 Maranhatn, 91(1. to 101 , 1. ; 20 Demerara, 100. ; 700 Surat, 5 1.3 d. to 611. per lb. By auction, 3,050 Surats, 4id. to O. per lb. Th , re has been a brisk demand for cotton today. The sales amount to 3,500 bags. Previous prices are maintained. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSIuiV-HOUSE. Saturday a little girl, named Bridget Murphy, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged will] having robbed a poor woman of a box containing a sovereign and some silver. The girl was in the ser vice of a woman who had scraped together the fruits of her hard earnings, and locked them up in a tin box, which the prisoner got at, broke open, and emptied. For several nights the prisoner went to see Jack Reeve "flaring up" at the Adelphi, after which she partook herself to a fourpenny bed in Pettycoat-lane, where she treated a set of young vagabonds like herself to gin and milk, and the moment all the money was spent back she weni, said she was very sorry for what she had done, and began to look about for other moveables by means of which she might repeat her visits to Cupid at the Theatre. The LORD MAYOR asked the girl what she had done with all the poor woman's money ? The mother of the girl—Arrah, then, you don't cay my child's a thief, do you ? The LORD MAYOR—No doubt of it ; and I have very little doubt but that she is encouraged by you. The mother—Ah, then, blood and ounds, you're not serious, are you ? Why, that girl would despise thieving, it's so mane a thing. The prisoner—Why, mother, you know I tuck the money as well as I do. The mother—Hould your tongue, you . . . She then gave the girl a punch on the head ; upon which the Lord 57,iyor ordered that she should be placed at the bar along with her unfortunate child. The girl said that she had been brought up very badly, and was regularly sent out by her mother to beg. The LORD MAYOR ordered that both should be remanded. A man named .lohn Torres: was 1 rought up, charged with having sold a load of manure which did not belong to him to a countryman. Thomas Smith, the countryman, was a great curiosity. He appeared with a smock frock upon him, and upon being called lie scratched his head and said, " Eh, what do you want of I ? The LORD MAYOR—My good fellow, do you know the nature of an oath ? Witness—l'se sure I cant't say. The LORD MAYOR --Do you know what swearing means ? Witness—Oh, to be sure I do. D--- my eyes is swearing. _ _ The LORD MAYOR—Can you read ? Witness— No, that I can't ; nor I'm blessed if I can wri:-e either. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, tell us about this dung. Witness—Why, you see, this man which stands there, he comes up to me and he offeis me the dung for a half-crown. All I bid was 25., and so I forks 'em out, and I shoved the dung into the cart. So as I knowed there would be a bit of a rumpus about it, I goes to make an inquiry, and they told me it wa'nt his dung. So I tells him what people said, and says he, "Never mind, I'd make it all straight." But he didn't do no sich thing. It wa'nt all straight, for he prigged the dung.—(Laughter.) Howsomdever, I gives him the odd sixpence vot I owed him, so I thought that would make all straight for me at any rate; but it didn't make all straight, for up comes a police gen tleman, and he says to me, " Where are you going with your dung ?" " That dung is paid for," says I. " No, it a'nt," says he ; " it's my prisoner, and pull you before the beak." . . The LORD MAYOR—You swear to the truth of this statement ? Witness—lf I don't I'm —. (Great laughter.) .The LORD MAYOR—And if the prisoner says that you took the dung without his knowledge he tells a frikehood ? Witness—Yes, by —, a lie.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—I believe you are a very honest poor fellow, but you have an ugly way of swearing. Witness—Why, please your Lordship, didn't you ax me to swear You wouldn't let me go until I relieved myself in that way, and Pm if I mean any harm. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, prisoner, do you wish to ask this man any thing ? Think well before you a•k him. Prisontr—My Lord, he took the stuff out of the wrong hin. Witness—l know I did, for it was you as pointed it out. I knowed nothing about it whatsomdever. lie knows he's telling a whopper, and if I was you, my Lord, I wouldn't believe a word he says. —(Laughter.)—Remanded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A man of decent appearance was brought into the office charged with having committed robbery. He was remanded for the present. CHEAP ALMANACKS —A tradesman living in Regent-street brought a fellow before Mr. DYER for the tullowiug imposition:— Hearing the man bawling out, "Moore's Alma necks, a penny a piece," he sent his servant out and purchased one. Whet► he came to inspect it, he found that the first part was defaced, some of the leaves torn in half, and that it was not for the pre sent year. Conceiving he had been imposed upon, he determined to have a magistrate's advice on the subject. The defence of the man, which was conducted with much impertinence, was that he had sold " Moore's Almanack," and therefore that he had committed no fraud. Mr. DYER said it was clear that he sold his goods by a trick, but it was not of a nature which he could take cognizance of. MAR YLEB ONE. A young woman was placed at the bar, charged by policeman Patmore, D 67, who stated that on the previous evening he found the prisoner sitting on some steps in Harley-street, quite drunk. She refused to give her name, and used the most infa mous language. Mr. HOSKlNS—Perhaps you';l tell me what your name is ? Prisoner—l'll see you first. lam well known in this parish; that's all I've got to say to you. Mr. Hosmss—Then you won't give up your name? Prisoner—No, I won't. Mr. How lNs—Lock her up. Prisoner—Lock me up and be —, you old fool. She was then removed by the gaoler. QUEEN-SQUARE._ Thomas Haaury, of Welford, in Leicestershire, was brought from St. Margaret's station-house in the New-way, Tothill-street, charged with being drunk and disorderly in the public streets, and in capable of taking care of himself. He had been in dulging in his potations at the Swan Tavern, in Bridge-street, Westminster-bridge, and drank too freely of rum and water. He was found by the police in Bridge -street, hallooing, with -a steworian voice, sundry unintelligible phrases, which might be called the " Unknown Tongue," as no person could possibly understand his meaning. At one time he appeared to be imitating the bleating of a calf. A policeman was at last compelled to take him to the station-house, where he was locked up. In the cell he amused the persons at the station-house with his calf music for upwards of two hours. Mr. GREGORIE—Do you deny the charge of being drunk ? Halibut-y-1 do not. Mr. GREGORIE—Then you will be fired 54. for drunkenness, and be diicharged. lie immediately paid the money, and was dis charged. THAMES POLICE. CAPTURE OF A THEATRICAL COMPANY.—George Dodd, Thomas Becket, John Hewett, William Luke, John Pegg, James Hill, Thomas King, and James llfitchell, all young men, were charged with being lopes and vagabonds, in performing the drama in an unlicensed theatre. The wardrobe and properties were produced, and covered the floor of the office. Ewart, a police sergeant, No. 27 K, stated that for the last three months a penny theatre had existed in New Gravel-lane, Shadwell, which was an intolerable nuisance to the inhabitants, who had frequently complained of it. The building was for merly a chapel, and it was now called the New Brunswick Subscription Theatre. On Friday even ing, at the conclusion of Don Juan, or the Libertine's Fate, witness and a party of policemen entered and took the prisoners into custody. Osman, a policeman, 61 K, stated that he pur chased a penny ticket at a house opposite the theatre, which admitted him to see the performances. The building was fitted up as a regular theatre, with proscensium, seats, &c. Upwards of 100 boys and girls composed the audience. He could only iden tify Dodd, who performed an old woman. Two police sergeants said they had frequently warned Hewett, who was the manager, that he was doing wrong. Hewett, in defence, said that he was engaged by a mar, named Petersen, who was the proprietor of the concern, to act as stage-manager, and lam the other performers their parts. Hewett said he had served his time to the business of a silver-chaser; Becket said he was a painter ; Pegg, a gun-maker ; and a fourth said he was a printer. Mr. COMBE remarked that they wire a set of foolish young men, who would sooner "strut and fret their hour" on the stage than work at their re spective occupations. A respectable housekeeper complained of the nuisance, and said that it attracted a nightly assem blage of boys and girls. Mr. COMBE said that if the prisoners offended again he would send them to the treadmill ; and he was sorry that Peterson had not been taken, for he ought to be indicted. The prisoners were then or dered to seek for histrionic fame elsewhere. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) The letter of our correspondent at the Cape of Good Hope, which we received this morninz, dwells with con siderable interest upon the effect which the Slave Com pensation Bill will have on the holders of that condemned property in the colony, We subjoin an ex rct : " Cape of Good Hope, Nov. 6. " The slave question kteps ell very intent upon whatever bears upon the subject. But although great interest is taken about it here, it will no doubt be quietly arranged. The compensation money clause does not appear to be well understood, but yet sufficiently to operate on the slave market prices Slaves are more valuable here than in the West India colonies. They are now worth more than 100/. each, To liberate them, therefore, for 40/. will prove ruinously hard upon the holders here, especially as, with few exceptions, they are all mortgaged for much more than the compensation of them. The difference, in very many instances, must be paid out of the goods and chattels of the proprietors, and bankruptcy must ensue. The slave trade appears to be on tie increase on the west coast ; and all slavers are in fact pirates, so that we need an increase of ships to keep a v gilant look-out for them. Our good Admiral keeps his squadron constantly at sea. The Trin culo came into port on the 31st, having taken two laye vessels, with full cargoes. The Pelorus will sail hum.- diately for the coast. We do not expect the Isis to return from lu r six months' cruise until next month. " A most unusual quantity of rain has fallen here this have fallen nearly one half—say about 51. the bag, and year, and standing, areit w co n e o xp •Ct ed t o tT very h e g w o o h d e . a t Barley crops, andno tw t a h t; wheat at 1/. for a bag of 1901 b. A much greater depte. ciaiion is expected in the ensuing three months. We ale anxiously expecting the arrival of our new Governor (Sir Benjamin d'Urban), who is, it is said, to bring with him abl list of reductions and alterations among the officials. Some are redly needed; our court of justice salaries are quite sufficient for half a dozen colonies. Money is now 61. per cent here, but we fully expect that our approictAng slave and mercantile operations will reduce it to 41. per cent. Several families on the frontiers of the colony have been murdered by the Corannas, and their flocks stolen. A party of them were lately pursued by a commando of farmers, who rode after them 44 hours on horseback ; came up with them near the great Orange 'River, when a determined battle tcok place, in which one farmer was killed and several wounded. They, however, retook all the cattle and sheep, and recovered seven poor children, of families which they hail formerly murd. red. Six of the Corannas were killed in the contest. Our Cape farms, are very fine shots ; they rest their pieces on their saddles, for what is neat,s., and rarely miss their mark. We have been favoured with an extract from a letter (rain an officer in the Pacific, of so late date as Nov. 3d (receive•d overland), a hich states that the Samarang, 28, Captain C Paget, was on her way to San Blas, whence she was to return to Callao, with specie, in May, calling at the intermediate ports for increased remittances f.r Europe. At Callao the treasure would be tranferred to the Dublin, 50, Lord James Townshend, which ship, if the Blonde had previously arrived out, the Samarang w.,uld proceed with to England. The letter states that the Gover nor of Peru, foolishly guided by his mistress, was pursuing measures that greatly distracted affairs in t' at country; in the course of which several hundred mvicts had escaped from Lima, and, seizing all the horses they could, had, joined by numbers of the natives, corn mi-nced a warfare of robbery and pillage, stopping many of the sources of trade, and even rendering the road between Ca'lao and Lima unsafe for travellers. His Majesty's schooner Nimble, L;eut. Charles Bolton, captured on the 7th ult., off the Isle of Pines, and carried his prize into the Havannah, the fine fast-sailing Spanish schooner Manuelita, having 485 slaves on board, and a crew of 34 men. The Nimble, on the 3d of the previous month, near the same place, captured the Spanish schooner Joiquine, o ith 329 slaves, and 25 men, which vessel withstood a i'esperate resistance of one hour, in which the slave Captain was killed. She also, a few days afterwards, drove on shore the Spanish schooner Amisc.id Habenera, on a part of the Isle of Pines inhabited by only a few fishermen. After landing the slaves the crew blew up their vess Ito prevent capture. The success of the Nimble has so mortified and exasperated the slave mer chants at the Havannah that they have determined to fit out a large slaver or pirate to mount 20 guns to capture her. There were several large armed vessels preparing on the 7th ult. at Havannah to engage iu this infamous traffic. The zeal of the Commander-in,Chief on that station will no doubt discover itself in their early capture or destruction. Lieu.enant Bolton has in less than nine months captured three vessels and upwards of 1,000 slaves. On Wednesday evening the Nimrod, 20, Capt. M‘Dou gall, arrived at Plymouth in sixty hours from Santander, bringing intelligence to Government of the change in the Spanish Ministry. Captain M'Dougall proceeded to the Admiralty with the despatches from the Spanish Govern ment. The Nimrod also brings accounts of the loss of the Spanish frigate Lealtad, wl.ich was driven on shore near Santander, in a gale of wind, and was totally wrecked ; the crew saved. This sh ; p hid been watc h ing the northern coast of Spain for some time , in expec tation that Don Carlos would attempt to make his escape thence, but the Nimrod did not bring any intelligence of that Prince's movements. The Nimrod unfortunately lost the boatswain and thirteen of her crew (out of fourteen), by the swamping of one of her boats, whilst employed in at tempting to supply the Lealtad with an anchor and cable. The Nimrod is ordered into this port (as well as the Revenge, 78, from Lisbon), to be refitted. MOVESIENTS ON FOREIGN STATIO NS. —Barbadoes, Dec. 3.—Arrived the Vestal, from England and Bermuda; Sapphire and Arachne, from Antigua, Dispatch, flow St. Thomas's. Sailed the Ariadne, for Martinique; Victor, for Tobago. Jamaica, Dec. 12 . — Sailed the 'h a d a: e Oct.lL Africa. Arrive d the Lima, Dublin Oct. Rhada msnthus, for St. Domingo; Thunder, on a crui se; R over, i ed the Samarang,thie west coast from ti Valparaiso, and sailed f for Cartbagena ; Pigeon packet, for Mexico. St. H e l ena , Dec. 7.—Arrived from the Cape the Pelor us , an d sa il e d 2 f for Panama. r —A A c e r n r n Valparaiso, and 22.—Arrived and Pylades ; the former is to proceed to Lima, the latter for the Intermedios. next d i l scua V pn c mai i e ty ) A ;ns d iif m nru gr i ,rsa the hnmeSduier Mediterranean. r o ß si oj a b( s )es riat s, Rowley, ( nw c he oi ß lem,t a hl p r e t a . snfll K : pd . g e w . ba B yrars . i , Tv h eeh o dtor i smut on his flag on Tuesel ay on board the Endymion frigate, s Tiiphook, Esq , his secretary, proceeded to London to re ceive his final i nstruct i ons. Shou ld t h e w i n d become fair the Endymion will sail about Thursday next. The Belvi&ra, 42, Captain C. B. Strong, is destined to the West I n di a stat i on, to re li eve t h e P a llas, 42, C apta in Walpole, M r . Ch at fi e ld , C onsu l a t Guatemala, will take his passage. The Tyne, 28, Captain C. Hope, was paid i off into or dinary this morning. A steamer of 700 tons s ordered to be laid down in this dockyard. We have had nearly another stormy week of weather, the wind varying from S.S.W. to W.N. W. To .day it was more moderate, with some appearance of a change. All the outward bound remain safe. At Spithead—Endymion. In Harbour—Victory , Royal George, Excellent, Edin burgh, Blonde, Belvidera, Sparrowhawk, Rainbow, Cha rybdis Nautilu9, Jupiter, Sparrow, and Firebrand and Lightning eteamers. PrtomurroNs AND APPOINTMENTS. Lieut. S. U. Fremantle, to the command of the Arachne, vice Coin- sunder Agri., deceased ; Commander Brazier and Lieut. A Slade, Caledonia ; Lieu'. Thomas Harvey, Asia ; Mr. J. Cook (a) surgeon, Scorpion ; Mr. J. Maconchy, super numerary assistant surgeon, Victory; Mr. Robertson (b), assistant-surgeon, Vernon ; Mr. Mitchell, clerk, Victory; Mr. H.w€, clerk, Nautilus; Mr. William Rowe, clerk, Romney; Mr. John Barrett, to be the schoolmaster of the Th underer. The Lords of the Admiralty have been pleased to pro mote the following Captains' Clerks to be Pursers of the Royal Navy:—Messrs. Pope, Confiance; Lash, Victory; Marsh, Victory ; Wallis, Challenger; Cotsell, Flamer ; Beddeck, Hillyer, Almiral's office; Young, Simpson, and Harden, late of the Rainbow. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. 1 Barley. Ter Quarter. Carlisle.. Hexham..., %.rurpeth _ Penrith Sheffield Winchester s. to s. 1 s. to s. 47 '23 149 53 25 29 36 48 26 29 49 I 26 49 31 43 52 21 28 ;s. (1. s. d. F. d. j 5 3 58 26 29 X7O 76 29 40 80 8 9 46 50 I 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 18 0 8 6 4 0 4 8 69 72 29 36 90 11 0 3 0 46 120 14 6 8 0 86 106 126 70 83 110 166 86 90 110 120 86 90 S. 8. 40 -- 32 38 Per Bushel. Carmarthen Cowbridge Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton Swansea Warwick 42 44 s. d. r. d. 00 00 56 60 50 53 56 6 0 6 0 6 1 00 0 6 56 6 Q Per 8011. B arnardcastle Durham Richm on d Stockton ----a." 86 100 86 100 86 90 86 90 Oats. s. to s. 19 22 16 21 18 22 s. d. s. d. 1 5 I'9 23 2 6 30 34 33 40 30 34 19 22 20 33 46 60 43 60 50 64 40 48 n o , r : ks .v.rit hir e Wheat, W Iced,ik i c E White N F 0 : . r E f 0 : 1 .. k u . . and . .c . . o . . 5. R ... N .fib... 5 .1.k 1 . ................................................ 5550: - . at, Lin. and Cam. -s. 425. to 465. fine 485. if b II .11. . .. :. ... ... . .... ... ... ' I. . . ss . ... 4°3 2. tt ° t to 28 5.s 475. . Barley, Norfolk and Su .............. 275. to fine 325. -orei Y g - Yorkshire Wold ...... ............ ... 255. to 265. fine 395. o fi fin n ne e e.3oss so! -s. to -s. fine -- 0, Beans, Old -- New Ms ' to 38 3. one 405 - Lincolnshire Oats, Potato -- 19s. to 225. fine 235. - Poland -s. 17s. to 19s. tine 20s. - Friezland and Small -s. 164. to 18s. fine 19s. - Mealing ... 9d. to Mid. per Stone. Shelling Zs. to 265. Od. per Load. Malt 3ss. 395. fine 425. per Load. Rapeseed ginnshir!!.. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley Oats. Beans. Oatmea% ..--...... Aberdeen ...... 35 45 24 28 14 20 1 -__ 21 24 Berwick 30 34 15 19 12 14 .18 21 26 28 Coldstream .- 35 42 18 19 13 14 20 22 .... •••• upar - . 48 56 26 31 18 22 22 26 -. •••• Dundee -.... 50 60 30 3.3 20 25 30 31 -.-• Elgin--........ 40 50 24 26 16 20 23 30 -. ...I Inverness..-. 38 44 25 26 15 17 23 26 18 ••-• Kelso 33 36 10 20 14 16 23 •••• Kirkaldy—. 48 61 23 29 16 20 45 48 43 44 Perth 50 56 23 26 20 22 22 25 .- •-• I«The size of the measure varies throughout the countrY: We haTa I ro N i ll dd U li ß og Gr opp C l O y o R f N all M k A in ß ds K o l. f :T. G — r j a a in n. tofd . ay, and the sales were bri s k. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First s9s Cd 31s Od 20s Od 30s ed 30s Cd Second s4s Od 28s Od 18s Od 28s Od 28s Od Third 44s Od 24s Od 14s Od I 263 lkl 26s Od • -- - PRICES OF PROVISIONS, & C . - Heel, per lb. Os. 3id. to Os. 7d. Fresh Butter, lb. s. 10d. to Os. 96 Mutton.—......„—, 03f 0 7 Salt Ditt0........., 0 8 0 9 Veal 0 6 010 Ditto, per ca t. 70 0 0 0 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 011 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 3 0 3 6 OatStraw(kp'.) 6 6 7 0 Fallow, cwt.... 35 0 37 0 Wheat Ditto..., 5 6 6 0 Quartern Loaf 0 0 0 7 Barley Ditto,,,, 5 0 5 6 Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 5 0 0 Hay,perst........ 0 8 0 9 EDINBURGH MEAL There was a good supply of and the sales were ready, at Is. p , Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £l 7 0 Second ditto 1 6 0 Barleyineal I 3 0: Peaseraeal 1 3 6 Pot Barley—No. 1, pei cwt. 12i. M A It IC F.T.- —Jan. 21. Oatmeal at this day's marker , er sack under last week's priCcg' Per Stone ol 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £0 1 6 Second ditto Barleymeal 0 1 4 Peasemeal 0 1 4 ;.-2el. 145.-3 d. 168.—Paatl 180._ G L ASG OW CORN M A RKET.—Jan. 22. The trade is rather heavy, with little alteration in prices. , Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. f Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. 5."„; British, old 26 0 to 28 01 Irish l4 Oto 1 6 I '. new 22 0 25 0 , British l4O /6u Canada, free 2B 0 29 0 ' Beans, per 2601 b. 0 Irish - 0 ..'": Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish l5 0 11 0 English 0 0 Pease, Scottish ... 16 0 1 10 , a Scottish 2O 0 22 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b. 13 0 I,IE, Irish CORNWALL. ➢tARKETS. Tnuao—Wheat (average) 206 .0d.—Barley, 98. Od.—Oats, 85. ST. AusvELL—Wheat, —s. to 2 0s.—Barley, Os. to 105.-oa* 7s. to Bs. Od. PEN7ANCE—Wheat, 19s. to 20s.—Barley, 9s. to 10s..—OatOs i's. to 7s. 6d.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to 51d.—Pork, od. to 34. Butter, 121 d. per lb. I,Autsc 'Tort—Wheat (average) 19s. 6d.—Barley, Bs. Od.—Oath 6s. o.l—Beef, 54;1—Mutton, 6d. Os. LasKEsao—Wheat, —s. to 13s. 611—Barley, 6s. 6d.—.oatst t ) Cs. 6d. BooasN—\Vheat (average) 21s.—Barley, Ins. 01—Oats, 71 6do HELsToN—Wheat, 20s. Od.—Barley, lOs Od. ST. Comma—Wheat, 20s. to 21s.—Barley, 9s. to 106.—8ee 6 Ind Mutton, 50. to 6d.—Veal, Od.—Lamb, Od. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt' ,2uantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thurday:3,ls9 0 Average I'roduce - ................. 854 0 Quantity of fine C0pper..................—................................. 268 q Amount of 5a1e,:19,7251.15. Od.—Average Standard. 1051. 175.0 d. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, JAN. 2S. M. It st I 2' . S. Barber, mercer, Drury-lane 2 t J. Slater, coal-merchant, Henley-upon-Thames IL Congreve, patent medicine proprietor, College-street, le Chelsea J. Cumberlege, jun., stock-broker, Old Broad street 2 15 1). Davies, silversmith, Castle-street, H oun d s di tc h 2 I? D. Rankine, merchant, Martin's-lane, C a n non-s t ree t I ' i I'. Cooper, shoemaker, Stafford-row, Pimlico 1 DIVIDENDS. N . I'. Denn's, grocer, Grange-road, Bermondsey at /g 10 111.1Milnes, tailor, Sackville-street; J. S. Gadd, linen-draper, Woolwich, Kent G. Southall and W. Mills, coal-merchants, Pedlar's-acre wharf 1 W. Joy, bookseller, bt. Paul's Churchyard LORD BATHURST'S STEWARD.—This delis' quent has not been traced. In addition to the apprepris' twit of nearly 9,000/. of his master's money be has bee' successful in other rogueries, namely, forged checks cel bankers, and overdrawing accounts. Even the Cirer cester firm are losers of 7401., a proof of the confidence placed in the culprit. It is a proverbial expression in Epirus to de' note the utter impracticability of an attempt, "Ali Paebe could not do it." If a mule-driver wishes to enforce upc° you in the strongest terms the necessity of dismounting a g a step part of the road, he says, " Ali Paella could not go down such a place on horseback." BIRTHS. On the 24th inst., Mrs. Joseph Rock, of Bread.street, CheaP' side, of a daughter. Grote, Aloleti Esq., n t A h y e i 2 w 4 i t n h , i o n f sta.,sionn.Mark-lane, Mrs. John Reay, of a soy. On the 24th inst., a t L ower Thames-street, Mrs. Geo rg° On the 24th in s t ., at Clapham-common, the lady of An dre q. , 24th inst., BengalCivili Bedford B Service , or dw hire. o ad au c ghhte r. On th r of a son. istopher Heat,' On the :24th inst., at Plaistow lodge, Mrs. John Saunders,o' a son. On the Md inst., in Ely place, the wife of Henry Willia o Bull, of a daughter. On the 24th inst., in Doughty-street, Mrs. Underwood, a son. On the 23d inst., at Taplow Court, the Countess of Orkney' of a son. MARRIED. , nn ot e, L e i l n d c e o s i t n d s au ln gh n. ter of the lat e On the 25th inst., at Chiswick Church, Thom as Edwards' On the 23d inst., at Northfleet, Kent, the Rev. John Bow" man, B. A., of Milton next Gravesend, to Mary, eldest daught er of Mr. Weeks, Shrewsbury, and niece of Captain WOO' F Es r g an . W o odhayne, Honiton, Devon. On the 23d inst., at the Church of St. A n th o li n , W a tling' cis street, Mr. Edward Archer, of Altamont and Roxford, W e sterP W W e il Y l b ia r m id s g S e' an to de E rs i , iz E a s A q. River, Van Diemen's Land, to Susannah, eldest daughter o f Mr. John Moore, of the City-road. On the 21st inst., at St. James's, Newport, Isle of Wigh t. William Spencer, - second son of the late George Spawfort hs Esq., to Jane, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Foster' of the Hon. East India Company's Bengal Establishment. DIED. On the 2d of last July, at Cherrapoonjee, Bengal, aged 05 ', Captain John S. Pitts, Bengal European Regiment, son 0 ' Lieut.-Colonel Pitts, formerly of Burlington Quay, in tI county of York. This is the fourth son (officers in the Aria and Navy) this family has lost in the service of the country, bi ( whose premature death the Bengal Army has been deprived ° a most efficient and valuable officer. We regret to say he b °6 left a widow and five children to lament his irreparable loss. On the 2.-Ith inst., at Grove-house, Twickenham, the Rev' Haydock James Hill, in his 52r1 year. On the 22d inst., Mrs. Mary Willis, in Bishopsgate.stree t ' without. On the 11th inst., aged 31, Miss Elizabeth Mary Mein, eld daughter of Pulteney Mein, Esq., of Forge, Dumfriesshire. On the 27th ult., in the Island of Madeira, John Josiah' eldest son of Jonathan Bullock, of Faulkbourn Hall, Essex, his 22d year. PRINTED AND PUBLIVIIED BY MU RDO YOUNO,ATTO° SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND. Beans