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may venture to call an important occasion, was graced by the presence of _ his_ Grace the Duke of Wellington, and also (if the statement pub lished in most of the Papers be correct) by the presence of an Officer now holding a situation by the express and personal appointment of the King, and a Gentleman moreover the frequency of 'whose recent visits to Windsor has excited considerable attention.-11/lorning Post: We return, according to promise, It the charge of Lord Chief Justice Best to the Wilt shire Grand Jury. Hit Lordship eloquently observed, that " a country may truly be said to be great, when the mass of the people are in the enjoyment of comfortable and easy circum stances—a state in 'Which alone they can always be expected to be virtuous—and he is the great est benefactor who tends his aid to introduce such . a state among them . ;" and he justly attri buted the extension of crime and vice among the peasantry—no longer their country's pride—to their poverty arid state of dependence. " There can no greater curse befal a country (he said) than that it should be reduced to a state in which the _virtue of the peasantry is undermined by - the destruction of that self-esteem, and that honest, industriolis, manly pride, which makes a peasant prefer his vwn exertions to any other mode of obtaining a subsistence." No greater curse can befal a country, according to his Lordship, than to be in the situation - in which this country is unfortunately placed ; and- -if the object of go vernment be the greatest happiness of the great est number, that country in whiCh the greatest number_ is vicious and criminal, because degra ded and dependent, is truly suffering under a heavy curse. " The greatness of the country does not 'consist in the extent of its empire," nor, he might have added, in the number of great Lords with large rent-rolls. But is it possible to remove the great curse 'which has befallen the country ? and, if possible, how'? We observed on Wednesday, that his LardshiP did not seem to us to know the cause of the poverty and de pendence which he so feelingly lamented ; and not knowing the causes, it is not to he Wandered at that he should be equally at a loss with regard to the remedy. He allows that religion can only act with effect on a full belly, and that, con sequently, the Clergy are for the present power less. • So far so good. But how are the peasantry to be eleVated to a Clergyable condition . ? " Both the eltiquence and example of the Clergy will, I fer, have but little effect, unless those who use thin are assisted . by other causes. The first of these, I think, may be found in giving the peasantry such a rate of wages as shall render 1 them independent of the assistance afforded by poor laws. • You must better their condition, in order to teach them that manly and proper pride that formerly distinguished them. You must then reserve,' for the accidents and infirmities of age, to which all, even the most prudent, are liable, that' relief which was at first intended only for those whom natural causeshad rendered incapable of providing for themselves; and you must cease to practise that system of making up the wages of the . peasantry from the contributions of th e poor rates—a system which destroys all pits= dence 'and foresight, which weakens the self esteem of the peasant, which annihilates all sti mulus to active exertion, and which can be pro ductive of no consequences that are not alike -injurious to the individual and the community." His Lordship imagines that the Wiltshire 'Squires have only to will the raising of the wages of the peasantry to a sum sufficient for their maintenance, without aid from the poor rates, to have that object effected, with as much ease as a man in full health and activity raises his foot or his hand by - Merely willing it, by an inex plicable connection between the will and the body operated on by it. ". You must better their condition," you must raise their wages. But if the bettering the condition has always been in the power -of the 'Squires, they are, if we know any thing of logies necessarily the cause of the vice and ' crime of the peisintrythe cause of the accursed state .into which the coun try has fallen. If :it depends on them to remove the evil, they are. the cause of the conti nuance of the evil. But thaugli , we are no great admirers of Aristocracy, and so far from thinking, with Sir Francis Burdett, that it is'the glory of this country, we firmly believe that it is the rotten part of our system—that it is to the union between the Crown and the People that England was in debted for all that advantageously distinguishes it from other nations, and that the stupidity of the Stuarts threw the people into the jaws of their 'natural enemies,' the _Aristocracy, who ope rate like a drag-chain: on the wheel's of national activity, and who, froM the profligate expenditure necessary to satisfy. their insatiate maw, have pauperized and demoralized the great mass of the population in a frightful degree ; though, we say, we are fully sensible' of the injury the country sustains froni the Aristocracy, we 'will not do 'Them the_ injustice to maintain that they have only to wish to raise wages to a given amount, to be able to effect that object. W a ges cannot,- as Chief Justice Best seems to think, be either arbitrarily raised or arbitrarily lowered. Why is it that the American labourer has his 65., or at. least a &Mir a day, the Wiltshire labourer six shillings or seven shillings a week, and the Irish labourer only fourpence a day ? If the Wiltshire 'Squires can raise the labourers' wages to two shillings and sixpence a day, so may the Irish 'Squire. In the Glasgow Chronicle, which we received yesterday, it is stated " that on Sun day' last, four steam-boats arrived at' the . Bromic- law, from Ireland, each of which brought about one hundred passengers of the same destitute class who have been arriving in such numbers during the - last four or five weeks; and another, which. arrived in the ..course of the day, added another hundred to. the number. . Such was the state of misery and destit u ti on which. they exhibited , that they were refused lodgings by: many of their own c . optrymen. This evil, so far from diminishingos increasing to an extent which; We have repeatedly pointed out, threatens the most ,gerious consequences to the population of the whole of the West of Scot land." Now here is matter for illustration. The people of Ireland being too 'numerous for the work-for them, compete with each other till their Misery becomes so extreme that they emigrate in shoals to this' country. The population of this Island, already excessive, is' every day augmented by these shoals oli f Irish, - who necessarily reduce the wages of the British labourers. The British labourers must and -will inevitably be brought to the leVel• of the Irish labourers ; for it is as im possible that where a passage can be effected for threepenc e or fourpence, there can be perma nently two conditions of the labouring classes, as it is for water not to find its level. As long as there is an excess of labourers in the market, wages will necessarily be low ; the Magistrates cannot raise them : if circumstances were such as to admit of a .rise -of wages, the labourers would thenisellieslaiic_thent, without the aid of farmers or Magistrates. All , that can be done, i s to tax property. in =aid of wages, which, by destroying the connectio n between labour and its reward, adds to the evil, by destroying all prudential habits in the laboitrer, aria also de grading and deMoraliiing him. England mist folk* the fate of Ireland, and the cure of the misgovernment which her nobles and great men have sanctioned-will press the English .people to the . earth: It ts, indeed, no such easy matter as Chief Justice Best suppo'ses to remedy the evil. Eight millions of uncivilized beings are at our.door, in circumstances which we have neither the courage nor the wisdom to grapple with. As to our Legislators, they have not even enough of sense to know that there is any bene tit in in q uiry and deliberation. What is to be expected from the Legislature, when even men of the best talents in the House of Lords can declare that they never bestow a moment's care on inquiries connected with what influences the happiness or misery of a nation ? How low, how despicably low must the morality of that body be, in which its leading Members, notwith standing the heavy responsibility which attaches to the trust reposed in them, of providing for the ~velfare of the people, can yet declare with non uha/ance, that they never thought of devoting a moment to the subject ! That men should reconcile this indolence with their conscience is intelligible—that they should repose undisturbed on their pillow is intelligible—but that they ,hould make the avowal is strange, passing •strange. Does any man wish for the data fbr the understanding of his real situation ?-Itforn- Chronick. The charge of the Chief Justice of the. Com- mon Pleas to the- Grand Jury at Salisbury has made, as it is well calculated to do, a strong im pression throughout the country ; and, to say nothing of its eloquence, a quality of which the learned person engrosses nearly all that is to be found on the Bench, shows a liberal, enlightened, ,ind truly British spirit, more accordant with the .spirit of the age than any thing of the kind which the country has long since witnessed. The Wiltshire Gentlemen, to whom it was addressed, seem to have been quite overpowered with rap tures _by it, and in eliciting from the Learned Judge a per Mission to have it printed, have, un .!onsciously no doubt, obtained a great point for the Press, in a tacit acknowledgement from so high and peculiar an authority that there is at least one description of ex-parte proceedings in criminal justice which it is no sin to promulgate. We were particularly struck with the force and justice of that part of the charge in which Sir William Best points out, both in theory and practice, the demoralizing effects of the lament able—we might say dishonest and criminal, prac tice of paying the labourer out of the Poor -rates —a practice more rife, we believe, in the county of Wilts than almost any other in the kingdom. The valuable remarks of the Learned Judge on this subject, addressed to a body of Magistrates, in the hearing of many more, as well as of a great proportion of the yeomanry of the county, cannot fail to produce a strong, and, we trust, useful impression. Such an address as this sinks much deeper, and has a much more wide and lasting effect in the prOvinces, than if deli vered in the metropolis, where new topics are every day arising tq wipe out the impression of the last. Where there. is so much to admire, and so wide a scope of observation com prised, we are unwilling to appear to com plain of any omission ; yet we do wish that it had occurred to the Learned Judge to recol lect that he was delivering this address to the Grand Jury of a county in which one over-ruling source of demoralization, the Game Laws, was m more than ordinary activity, and that he was addressing persons, some of whom, no doubt, had themselves been instrumental in thronging the gaols ; and we may add, therefore, in mann facturing many of the very criminals on whose crimes they were then about to sit themselves in judgment. We wish' most heartily that the Learned Judge had handled this part of the subject in the same powerful way he has the rest; and had included these abominable laws in that extention of judicial reform to which he has so no bly lent the sanction of his name and office. Ge nerally speaking, it would be well for the coun try, and much to the honour of the Judges, were addresses of this sort more common than they are. The Circuits of the Judges afford an ex cellent opportunity of promulgating sound ideas upon most topics of general interest, and of ren dering Grand Inquests (which is the more cor ,rect term 'than that of Grand Juries), as they are intended to be, something more than mere tinders and throwers-out of indictments. We cannot part with this subject without remarking, •that in the metropolis these bodies are rendered of the least value, in some measure, by the omis sion of any such addresses as the above to them (except it be to the term Grand Jury), by their `being generally composed of lower grades of per ' sons than are to be found composing them in other counties ; and principally froth a want of that subdivision of their labours, which exists every where else, except in those places where, from the multiplicity of business, it is most re 1-ph:ed.—Morning Herald. As the new Administration of last Session postponed all the real business (money grants excepted) till the next Session, on the ground, that at such period they should be more conso lidated in their places, and consequently ketter prepared to carry their ameliorating and reform ing views into effect, it is to be hoped that time may not have the effect of injuring their memo ries, especially if they should find themselves somewhat firmly seated in office. Amongst nu merous reforms that have been indirectly pro- ....,..,.. mised,... there are few that exceed in importance the monstrous charges connected with the con duct .of .the. private business of Parliament — 'namely, the enormous costs, in the shape of offi cial fees, on the passing of bills connected with Roads, Trusts, Enclosures, &c. Our attention has been attracted to this subject, in consequence of. a Return, just printed by order of the House :of Commons, of the expenses in the shape of House fees, &c., for that one branch of the Le 'gislature, on the renewal of Road or other Pri vate Bills. The hardship presseS peculiarly in such cases ; for, though it might operate as a judicious controul on new undertakings and pro jects, it will require all Mr. Canning and Mr. : Brougham's eloquence to show that people ought to be put to 2001. expense for the Commons' fees and charges alone, on the renewal of a Bill that had been found to be useful. There are, afterwards, the Lords' fees and charges ; and all these are independent of lawyer, surveyor, and agents' charges for bringing in .and conducting such Bills. So that even a trifling bill for the renewal of some local Act seldom costs less than 6001., or 800/., often 1,200/. if those bills ori ginated in a " rage" for ~l egislation, any means that - would check the prevailing influenza on such subject would be a national benefit ; but when there is too much reason to fear that the Parliamentary privilege of charging enormous costs alongside such prodigal fees, and when even Parliamentary- clerks act as agents for con- Pucting Private Bills through their own Houses, pr as solicitors to Noblemen, ice., is it not to he ' i tpprehended that the said privilege of charging -wavily, and almost endlessly, in reality encou rages i jobbers, attorneys, and surveyors, to be !cterna ly looking out for pretexts to bring in new t . ,private bills, or for the renewals of old ones rake away the large, and therefore tempting re wards attendant upon such jobs, and the neces !shy for so many bills would wonderfully dimi nish ; Consolidations of Acts by the score would 'then take place ; or a new Act would embrace Italia county, instead of the halves of two or three lanes, as is now too often the case.—lbid. Our contemporaries, and the Merchants in the City, we see have been speculating on the cause of the advance in the public funds, and different theories are of course put forth by dif ferent parties. By some it is asserted to be connected with a superabundant currency. We could have wished, in the first instance, that the fact of the superabundance had been clearlyrnade ,out, for to us it seems extremely dubious. There are no symptoms of depreciation either from the market prices of bullion, or the rate of the exchanges. One of our contemporaries argues, that as the interest would be paid in the same depreciated medium, a superabundant currency, of itself, could not affect a rise. We think it could for a time. If more currency be poured into circulation than the ordinary business of the community can fairly absorb, what is to be done with it if we do not invest it in Government securities ? And will not the funds rise in pro portion to the demand for them, in the same way as every thing else ? When, however, the superabundance of currency had produced its natural effect—a corresponding rise of nominal prices—then it would cease to influence the funds, because, in fact, it would then cease to be superabundant. It seems, however, unnecessary to discuss a case, of which, as we have said, the facts are not admitted. The-Times, which generally deals in the lugubrious, seems to, think that we are on the verge of destruction from the rise of Consols, and has found out, that though the rise might have gladdened the heart of Lord Bexley, it must have a very diffe rent effect on Mr. Canning. There is one fact opposed to our contemporary's gloomy forebo dings, namely, that during peace, when it must be admitted that commerce is -exposed to fewer impediments, and, in the nature of things, more profitable than during war, the funds are inva riably highest. A rise in the funds per se, is not, therefore indicative of any difficulty of pro , fitably investing capital in traffic. And, conse quently, it by no means necessarily follows that the late rise has been produced by such a cause as the Times seems to imagine. We must in deed shut our eyes and stop our ears, not to be sensible that the Trade and Commerce of the country is in a more prosperous state at present than at this time last year ; when, if the theory of the Times held good, Consols would have been higher than they are now. Although, therefore, at first sight it seems a necessary con sequence, that when the profits of Commerce fall, men should invest their capital in Govern ment Securities, and that the decline of the one should invariably be accompanied by the rise of the other, we see that no such consequence is observable in fact. And the plain rea son we take to be, is this, that a losing trade and a diminishing capital are the same 'thing, and that he who finds it difficult to ay his bills, will be generally more inclined to sell stock, if he have any, than to buy. We do not find fault with a political economist talking about transfers of capital, for he speaks only of ultimate results, but, when our contemporary talks in the same strain in respect to t d occur rences of a week or a month, it woul o well to recollect that a merchant, or manufacturer, cannot convert. his spinning-mills, his ships, or his bale goods, into Three per Cents. with the same ease that he can shift his purse from one waistcoat pocket to the other. But there is another fact which seems generally to escape the notice of those who treat of the funds, namely, that buying and selling of stock constitutes in itself a trade, and no unimportant' one, and that the quantum of capital vested in that trade has very little reference to the dividend. There is, indeed, a part of the funds, and that no small one, which is seldom touched—we mean that belonging to annuitants, but these are merely sleeping.partners. The capital in the funds, on which their rise or fall depends, circulates as ra pidly as the capital in other branches of trade.— Netv Times. THE ARMY. A detachment belonging to the 71st Reginient of Foot, is ordered to embark, this morning, on board a steam vessel in the River, for Hull. A Detachment belonging to the 46th Regiment of In fantry, is ordered to embark, this morning, on board a steam-vessel in the River; for Gravesend, on route to Chatham. A detachment belonging to the 40th Regiment of Foot, is ordered to embark, this morning, on beard a steam vessel in the river, on route to Sheerness. A detachment belonging to the 15th Hussars, is ordered to embark, this morning, on hoard a steam-vessel in the river, for Gravesend, on route to Canterbury. The public are not generally aware that the very splendid Anatomical Museum, belonging to the Col lege of Surgeons, in Lincoln's-Inn-fields, is open for the inspection of visitors, every Monday and Friday, by a tiekct from any Member of the College. In this very extensive collection is the skeleton of the celebrated O'Brien, who exhibited himself many years ago as the Irish giant. His figure was well proportioned, with the exception of a slight narrowness of the'chest ; and the height of the skeleton is eight feet two inches, so that the individual, when alive, must have been something taller; but even as it is, an ordinary tall man, when standing on a table, very barely equals the height of this colossal skeleton. Two other objects well worthy of notice , are the hear t and the brain of an elephant. The heart i s shorter and t hicker in its figure than that of a bullock ; and in point of size, would about fill a half-bushel measure; but the ,bra in of this most sensible quadruped is so small in proportion to its general dimensions, that it is hardly double the size of the brain of one of the large oxen that may be seen in Smith field market. In this Museum, there are specimens of two modern attempts at preserving human bodies after the manner of the Egyptians ; andat the further end of it may be seen two wooden cases, containing what were once two living females, and the visitor, by means of a pane of glass at the top and bottom of each case, sees the face and the feet of each of them ; but it is quite 'clear from ,the inspection, that the medical practitioners of this country, have not come at all near the ancient Egyptians in the art of embalming, as both these remains of frail humanity present a shrivelled and horrible appearance, and are quite unlike the Egyptian mummy brought to this country by M. Belzoni, for, although the individual had been dead and buried 2,000 or 3,000 years, and was become of a brown copper colour, yet his features were nearly as round as when the man lived; and his teeth, nails, and eyebrows, as perfect as they ever had been. The great defect in this large col lection is, that the names of the different objects are not written on or near them. It is true that visitors receive every attention from Mr. Cliffe, a very clever eurgeon, who is the curator of the Miseum ; but still no visitor Can ora lly receive information, even as fir tdiAlie • *Mee of 20,000 objects ; but if thu name, were affixed to . each, he might learn for himself what every, particular thing was, and then inquiri for any further information respecting any object that particularly attracted his attention. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. . MANSION-HOUSE.—The LORD MAYOR sat yester day an hour before his usual time of sitting, and there were only two cases in the paper, hut, in consequence of the ab sence of the officers With their prisoners, these charges would not be gone into, his Lord4ip, therefore, had to wait ppwards of an hour, when Joseph Cohen was placed at the bar, charged with as saulting John Gregory, an officer, in the discharge of his Gregory deposed that he Was called in on the preceding lay to quell a riot and disturbance in Dunning's-alley, Bishopsgate-street, as well as to assist a broker in levying some distresses for rent on the goods of the defendant, and others in that neighbourhood ; they succeeded in levying the distresses and impounding the property previous to its being kept five days before being sold,. when the defendant followed them to the , house where the property was im pounded, called out that they had robbed him, challenged 'them down to fight, and threatened to stab or shoot them if they refused—he eventually, upon complainant's coming Flown stairs, struck him violently in the face, which drew blood. _ _ The broker and his employer confirmed this statement; the latter stated that he was himself also struck, and his Boat torn to pieces by the prisoner. The prisoner, in defence, denied having struck the Facer, but said he merely inquired why his property had been seized, and, in return, the officer immediately seized )iiin by the collar, and he only struggled to extricate him ielf from the grasp of the constable. lie admitted that lie ;was irritated at the time, in consequence of all his goods, as well as those of his neighbours, being suddenly seized i.and carried away, without any notice, and, as they sup 'eed, without any right. The LORD MAYOR said all this might be true, but offiCers must be protected when discharging their duty. A Mr. Stanning, a respectable tenant on the saint pro perty, observed that this was really a very hard case on these poor people who had been distrained upon ; the property was all disputed property, and they (the tenants) had re peired notice after notice, fist to pay rent to one, and then to pay to another ; that, -in fact, they knew not who to pay it to ; and on the day in question, all of a sudden, the agent of one of the 'claimants came with the broker, and exclaimed, " Now stand at nothing, 'but, - y ou , priter," which the - broker immediately did, and instantly -errioved all these poor people's goods, not leaving them a rug to he on, which certainly much exasperated theni, and :they perhaps behaved in a manner differently to what they right otherwise have done. The LORD MAYOR said that the tenants could not take f advantage of this circumstance to dispute their tenancy to the parties distraining. Several of the parties swore that the defendant never truck the constable; and one woman asked for a warrant ,against the agent to the claimant of the property for as saulting her. The officer said that the prisoner had that morning con fessedhis sorrow for what he had done on the preceding day, and under these circumstances he had no wish to press the charge. - The Loan MAYOR then discharged the prisoner, and granted a summons to one of the females against the agent of the claiming parties for an assault. The LORD MAYOR then rose to attend a Court of Al dermen. GUILDHALL.—WHITECROSS-STREET PRISON. -One William Lee was brought before Mr. Alderman THOMP SON on Wednesday, charged with having attempted to convey spirituous liquors into Whitecross-street He had more than a gallon and a half of rum and gin con cealed about his,person in half-yard pieces of ox-bowels. Some of them were er,ncealed in his night-cap, some in his stockings, and some in his galligaskins. He had nothing to say in his defence ; and, being unable to pay the miti gated penalty of ten pounds, he was sentenced by the Alderman to three months' hard labour in the House of Correction. _ _ Yesterday, a woman, .named Ann Rider, was placed at the bar on a similar charge. She presented herself at the prison lodge, apparently far advanced in the family way, saying she wished to see a particular friend of her's—one Mr. Cooke.—" What sort of a man is Mr. Cooke?" de manded the turnkey. " A very pale-faced gentleman," was the reply ; and as the only Mr. Cooke then within the prison happened to be a very red-faced g entleman, the turnkey concluded there was " something wrong in the concern," and called the Governor. The Governor, per ceiving her delicate condition, asked her " How long she had to go ?" To which she replied, " Not long ;" and truly she replied, for the Governor instantly handed her over to one of the nurses, and in less than five minutes she was safely delivered of two fine bladders of gin. The, twin bladders, containing something more than half a gallon of the pure spirit, were produced before the Alder man ; together with the sack, or pouch, in which they had been suspended round her waist, so as to give her the in teresting appearance above alluded to ; and a very ingenious contrivance it was—" ingenious enough," as the nurse said " to deceive any but the most experienced person." In her defence, she said she did not know there was any harm in what she had done ; and that she was employed to do it, " by a lady who employed many women to carry gin into the, prison in the same way." And upon this show - ing, the Alderman remanded her for further examination. It was stated, that men and women are not the only persona engaged in carrying spirits into this most spirituous prison ; but that children of tender years are employed in the same service. On Sunday last, a little boy, not more than five years old, was detected in endeavouring to pass into the prison with a bladder of gin concealed in the hinder part of his full-bottomed trousers.—" Freedom and whisky gang together," sung Rob Burns; and possibly it may be so.in Scotland ; but here, in London, it is very evident, that yin will gang where there is no freedom at all. HIGIIWAY Roe stair. Charles Smith, otherwise Reedieft, was charged with having violently assaulted and robbed one Charles Jones, on the King's highway. The following were the facts, as stated in evidence : Charles Jones is a victualler out of business, and at present residing at the Poulterers' Arms, in Honey-lane market, Cheapside. On Wednesday night, about eleven o'clock, as he was passing through Honey-lane, on his way to hie lodgings, he was suddenly struck on the face with great violence by some person whom he did not see— for he was not previously aware that there was any per son near him. The blow stunned him, so that he could not see at all ; at the instant he received it a violent snatch was made at his watch. He had instinctively clapped his hand upon his fob at .the moment he was struck ; and as the watch was snatched out, he caught the seals in his hand; but, in the struggle which ensued the steel ring, by which it was attached to the ribbon, broke ; and the robber ran off with the watch. Hecould not follow, for he was still unable to see; so that all he could do was to cry " Stop tliief!" His cry was heard by a watchman, named John Barker, who, seeing the prisoner running, and no other person in sight, concluded he must be the thief, and therefore stopped him. The•watchman is but a very little fellow, and somewhat sickly withal, but he contrived to hold his prisoner fait,, though he struggled furiously to get away, and was well able to struggle with effect, being a stout healthy young man, half a head taller than the watchman. "Whilst We were scuffling," said the valiant little guardian of the night, "I saw him throw something away—l did'ut know what it was, but it was something bright and shining. !' says I, 'you have dinq'd it, have you? Then I must take a firmer grip of you.' So I threw clown my stick, and seized him with both hands, and in that manner I dragged hi►n along in the direction he had thrown the something, and, about five or six yards off, I found a silver watch." The watch so found was now produced before the Magi strate, and fully identified by the prosecutor, as the one so violently taken from him. The prosecutor's face was horribly disfigured by the blow he had received. The prisOner made no defence, except a general denial of the facts; and he was fully committed to Newgate for trial. HOW-STREET.—Yesterday a Major Byrne, was • brOnght up before Sir R. Mutat, from St. Clement's watch-honse, to which place he had been cOnsigried the night before by the driver of the hackney-coach, No. 641, who charged him with having purloined, or been a party concerned in purloining, his number-plates. The coachman, a short, fat, quiet-spoken body, stated his complaint, in substance, as follows :—The Major and three other gentlemen, took his coach . at the Cafe de l'Europe, in the Haymarket, and ordered him to drive to Catherine-street. He did so, awl when he got down from his box to let the gentlemen out, he perceived . that the plate was gone from the door. He went round to the other door, and finding the plate gone from that also, he opened the coach-door, and asked the first gentleman who alighted, whit had become of his plates. " You be , and your plates too !" said the first gentleman.— The second gentleman alighted; and to him the same question was addressed ; "You be _, and your plates too !" answered the second gentleman, at the same time knocking the coachman's hat over his eyes. The third gentleman alighted. " Come, Sir," said the eoachman, " the plates was all right when you got into my coach, and I won't stand no nonsense." " You be —, and your plates too!" replied the third gentleman, seizing the coaChwan by the chin, and using it as a handle whereby to . shake the rest Of br a pe' i;on. ' The Coachman, as will he naturally inferred, must be a marvellous quiet and peace iblvditposed catlehrtan to put up with all this; but it ap ii eared. that he did pit np witivitittpd.appWApkthe 11 1 1ajor, he foOrth and last gentleman who alighted, for that satis action which the other gentlemen Intel in sosentlemanly a anner refused iiim; but from the Major no other answer ould he.-get to his repeated and urgent expostnlations bout his plates, than this, " Your fare is eighteen-pence, Sir ; here are two shillings--give me sixpence." " I han't take it—give me my plates !" cried the coachman in :a rage. " Take your fare," coolly repeated the Major ; bbut the coachman would not take his fare ; and, losing all patience, he called for the watch ; and the watch coming 'to his call, he gave the Major in charge, and would have iven his companions in charge also, but they had wished I,the Major a good night s and walked away a few minutes before. One of the missing' plates was produced by a man; who stated that he saw the coach start from the Haymarket, and one of the gentlemen, .as it was going along, put his arm out of the window, and try•to take the plate off. In a minute after he found a plate in the road, and suspecting. it belonged to this coach, he followed it into Catherine- Street, where he arrived in time to witness the row. The Major disclaimed any share in the transaction, or oven a knowledge that his ,friends had done anything of the sort. He did not believe they had, for they were all men of honour ; and he was sure, had they done so, they would have come forward to remunerate the 'coachman. Sir R. BIRN IE said, as the coachman swore to the charge, he was bound to believe him. Some people might call Stealing coach -plates fun, but for his part, be could not see ;where the fun lay, The law made the offence a felony ; to it would give great pain to him to commit the Major to take his trial for it at, the Old Bailey. The hint was sufficient; and the Major speedily re tired to settle the matter in a less awkward manner with the coachman. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—John Artis, a young fellow who was in custody a few days ago upon suspicion of being concerned in the robbery of Mr. Horace Twiss, but who was then discharged from want of evidence, was yesterday placed at the bar of this office, charged with robbing a gentleman's footman of his watch and appen dages, near the very spot where the fokmer robbery was committed. . _ - The complainant stated that he was standing at the end of George-street, formerly Dyot.street, St. Giles's, the pre ceding evening, in eonversation with a female, when a man ,came behind him and snatched his watch from his fob. He could not swear the prisoner was.the man that took it, but ,there was a witness present who , ow the watch in the prisoner's possession. The witness alluded to by the last witness, swore that he saw the watch in the prisoner's hand, but he did not see him snatch it from the person of the complainant. • Reardon, an officer of St. Giles's said, that the prisoner was a notorious character, having been' committed several times, and when he took him into custody he found five silk handkerchiefs on his person. Prisoner—How can you say that, you know there was L only three ? MAGISTRATE—Quite enough for any moderate man. The prisoner was remanded for further examination. Thomas Collins, the driver of one of the Richmond stages, was summoned before the Magistrates by Joseph 'Goodwin, Esq. clerk of his Majesty's stables, for furiously driving against his (Mr. Goodwill's) phaeton, on the 2Sth ult. Mr. Goodwin stated the circumstances of the case, from which it appeared that Collins was racing his horses to prevent another stage from getting before him. That in the narrow part of Richmond the defendant attempted to pass full gallop at the time a carriage was coming in the opposite direction ; the consequence was that he drove against Mr. Goodwin's phaeton, damaged it, and had it not been for Mr. Goedwin's servant pulling up, with all his strength, the carriage would have been dashed to pieces, and, perhaps, some lives lost. Collins took no notice whatever of the mischief he had done, and sever stopped until he arrived at the Inn, where; upon Mr. Good win remonstrating with him upon his conduct, he used the grossest abuse. - Mr. Goodwin's servant corroborated his master's tes timony. Collins attempted now to exculpate himself. by saying when the accident occurred• there was room for four car riages to run abreast. MAGISTRATE—Then there is leas excuse for your driving against this gentleman. I shall fine you 405., and hope it will teach you to conduct yourself better in future. Collins paid the fine, together with costs. Mr. Goodwin directed his moiety of the fine to be added to the funds of the poor-box of the office. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Ave. 2. IDE TASTET V. LOPEZ. In this case, which has been so frequently before the Court and the public, Mr. HORNE appeared for Don Pedro Lopez, the defendant in the cause, to move his Lordship to dis solve the injunction granted, and to order that a sum amounting to 1.5,0001. should be paid to his client by the plaintiff. The Learned Counsel observed that it would be apparent, on looking at the case, that the Court of, Chancery. had been rendered available for the purpose of inflicting injustice and oppression on a poor and helpless foreigner, who had the misfortune, in 1816, to be engaged in some com mercial speculations with Mr. De Tastet, a merchant of considerable influence in the City. Mr. PEPYS, counsel for . the plaintiff, here came into Court, and objected to the farther proceedings in the motion, on account of the notice not having been sufficient. Mr. HORNE said, that notice had been given for the hearing of the cause before Lord Eldon. That Noble Lord had certainly heard the case, but he had never pronounced judgment in it, aad this he (Mr. Horne) submitted was equivalent to no hearing at all. Mr. PEPYS contended that such an inference was not correct. The LORD CHANCELLOR ruled that it was not necessary to give a second formal notice, as the mo tion had never been, in point of fact, decided. Mr. HORNE then proceeded with the case. In 1818, a bill was filed by the plaintiff, and the prayer was, that it might bedeclared that Mr. De Tastet had an equitable interest in the cargo of the ship. There had been two orders 'to amend this bill—the one obtained in Sept. 1818, and the other in Oct. 1819, and the bill, in its amended form, amounted to 1,600 folios. A supplemental bill was filed on the 29th November, 1819; on the 4th December, in that year, an answer wa g s put in; on the 18th of December a further answer; and on the 14th Jan. 1820, a second further answer. To these proceedings succeeded the filing of a second bill supplemental to that which had been twice amended; and thus the whole proceedings were commenced de novo. The Learned Counsel then called the attention of the Court to certain affidavits,' in which it was stated (and that statement had not been contradicted) that Mr. James Lowe had declared that " he would keep the cause in the Court of Chancery for ten years; that it should not be brought to a termination while he (Mr. Lowe) was alive; and that he would ruin Mr. Hartley (the solicitor of the defendant) by the expellees of the suit." .„.... The-LORD CH ANCELLOR, observing that the cause had nog' been upwards of nine years.in the Court of Chancery, inquired what was the age of Mr. Lowe ? Mr. HORNE continued—The object in filing the second supplemental bill was to. make Mr. Hartley a defendant in the suit, in order to torment him. The plaintiff amended his second supplemental hill in September, 1824,.in order to make a dead man a e p o a i r i t t y m u t e o t h t e h e su s it Ui w t. cal lV d l b r. Lo e tolerably determination a te tt c : i • by the fact of his having hit upon the ingenious arti fice of bringing a dead man into the field. - • The, LORD CHANCELLOR inquired, if it were really true, that the bill had been filed against a dead man? Mr. Hoarse said, it was filed against a person called Hijspolito Joseph Da Costa, who had been quietly deposited in his grave thirteen months be fore the bill was filed ; and moreover, not only was the man dead, but Mr. Lowe was very well ac quainted with that fact when he filed the bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR _tidied how that ap peared ? Mr. HORNE said, that it appeared from affidavits, which it had not been attempted to deny. The LORD CHANCELLOR—What reason was given for such a proceeding ? Mr. WAKEFIELD replied, that the only answer which had been given was, thattit was the practice : . of the Court. The LORD CHANCELLOR wished to know -what . took place afterwards ? . Mr. WAKEPIELD said, that the plaintiff put in a Beef Mutton _ Lam] Suckling Calves fret ' St third supplemental bill against the widow of Da. Costa, and this being demurred to, the demurrer was allowed. _ _ Mr. 'BICKERSTETH, Mr. WAKEFIELD, and Ml'. MONTAGUE, were heard on the same side. Mr. PEPYs Wag about to reply, when The 'Lqat CHANCELLOR said, that the ,!!ay was tOo far advanced for him to hear the reply. As to morrow was appointed for petitions, this cause could ,not be proceeded with ; but he would ap ;point an early day before the vacation for concluding the hearing of the case, and giving his judgment upon it. ADMIRALTY COURT, AUG. 2 This was the first default day after Trinity Term> THE VrILDI%IAN. This was au action in .the Instance Court, by a mariner, for wages due for service on board a South Sea whaler. The balance due was 741., and tiv , Court granted a decree and monition, against the ship_ Dr. DAUBENY sat as toeuni tcnens for the Judge. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.-Aug. 1 At this day's market, whiCh was largely supplied, arid not very numerously attended by buyers, each kind 'of :,toek met with a heavy sale, at- the following : prices. per stone of Slb. to sink the offals Reef ---. Gd. tols. Gd. I Veal Is. Id. to ss. 2d Mutton 3 4 4 4 I Pork t 9 5 0 Lamb - ...... . The foregoing quotations are, Beef 2 d. per stone lower than on this day sc'nnight. In price.; of ether kinds.of meat no altera tion. A considerable propdrtion of the supply left the market unsold. lIAILSHAM MARKET.—Aug. 1. Beef 4s. Od. to 4s. 6d. VeaLw....:..M. Od. to,ss. Od 4 2 5 0 I Pork 0 0 0 0 Lamb --4 s. 41. to hs. 04. A large supply, and, on the whole, a very dull trade,. though a iew of the primekt Sheep and Beasacomnianded high prices. .STEYNING MARKET.—JuIy 30. Beef 4s. 2d. to 4c Sd. Veal 4a. 4d. to 4s. 10c1 Mutton 4 0 4 10 I Pork--.. 0 0 0-. 0 Lamb 4s. Od. to se. Od. Supply moderately gOod, and trade rather, dull. A RUNDEL .MARKET.—JuIy 31. Reef Mutton 310 4 8 0 0 0 0 Lamb Oct. to 4s. 10d. A good supply, and a sluggish trade. ►IFORD MARKET.—Aug. 1. a. d. to S. d. . g. d. tog. ii. ~ 3 6 - 4 6 Veal . 3 4 4 4 Pork 4 2 5 2 kb 44,0d. to Si. Od. ail 14a. i to :36a ; Quarter old Piga gs. to 14s. each. lupply good. and trade dull. . .. N ITARKETS DURIICG THE WEEK, CHICHESTER MARKET.—Aug. 1. 3s. 10d. to 44. 6d. Veal 44. 4d. to 43.'101. 'Mutton 3 8 4 6 I Pork • 0 0 0 0 • Lamb 44. Ad. to 44. 10d. • With Store Stock the trade was tolerably brisk, at rather im proving prices, with. Fat Stock dull, at somewhat declining prices. ;Supply moderately good. RU DI COUNTRY CO Wheat. Barley. I Oats.' Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. a. to s. Blandford 65 40 Brigg 55 60 34 38 26 32 42 48 Cambridge — 57 27 47 Chard Huntingdon 25 38 47 59 Louth Lynn Newark --- 60 63 38 46 30 37 53 64 Norwich 55 62 36 40 24 28 40 41 Nottingham 5$ 65 40 47 30 40 54 59 Peterborough._.. 58 60 . 30 34 Plymouth 56 66 37 38 23 29 Sherborne —s6 42 • 35 fiy 54 62 h 4 49 28 32 42 Wisbech 52 60 -- 22 30 48 50 , York ...» 54 62 .38 42 21 30 54 56 LEEDS CORN MARKET ', July 31 There was a large supply of Wheat, but only middling of other Grain ; fine fresh Wheat met dull sale at last week's prices, and other descriptions were nearly unsaleable. In Barley, Oats, Shelling, and Beans, there was very little do ing, and prices were much the same. Rapeseed as list advised. Wheat, Norfolk and Suliblk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. ....... Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire finding Beans Oats, Potatoe —.Waling, Foreign lid. to 15d....English 16d. to 161 d. per st• Shelling 34s. to 365. per load. Rapeseed, English, 201. to 231. MANCHESTER SMITHFIELD.—Aug. 1. At per lb. sinking the olThl. Cattle .w.» 4d. t'6 6 l. 1 88 340 le 3,1 14. Pigs 2,lne ba at 44d. to 6d. r tot. MANCHESTER POTATOE MAR/MT....J u l y 2g. Potatoes, Os. Od., —s., 65. , and is. 6d. per load of 12 score and 121bs. ; New ditto, 6s, 65., Os. 6d., and 78, per ditto.; Turnips, Os. Oct., Os. Od. and Os. Od , . per load of 16 peeks ; Onions, small, Od. per lb. MANCHESTER YAW No. d. d. Throstle Twist, 20 30 111 to 12} 13 14 40 Mule copTwistl 30 for warp l'.—July 31. 3E) 1I to 12 12 13 50 16 17 00 171 14 70— 201 22 80 w 21 26 100-30 32 120 31 36 10 8 94 11-- 9 9 18 10 1 10 11 tN MAAK: 1 . 8 IP Mule Cop lle In 14 15 17 19 20 21 2 26 I Weft from 28 31 waste BIRTHS. On the Ist inst., at Stoke Newington, Mrs. Francis Rivas, of a daughter. On the Ist inst. in Gloucester-place, the lady of Gee. Simpson, jun. Esq. of a, daughter. On the 2d inst., in Devonshire-street, Portland-place, Mrs. A. Mackintosh, of a son. MARRIED. On the 2d inst. at West Ham, Essex, Mr. John Lart, of Wood-street, Cheapside, to Mary, daughter of Mr. Geo. Taylor, of Stratford. On the Qd inst. at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Mr. Charles Kinder, of Blecklenburgh-street, to Miss E. Newport, of North-place. Yesterday, Wm. Dowler, Esq. late of Bombay, to Eli-, zabetb, youngest daughter of W. Horsey, Esq. of Camo mile-street, Bishopagate. Yesterday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, Francis L. Holyoake, Esq., eldest son of F. Holyoake, Esq., of Tet tenhall, Staffordshire, to ,Elizabeth Martha, second daugh ter of ,the late George Payne, Esq. of Sulby, Northamp tonshire. Lately, at Harper's Ferry, Mr. M'Kenny to Are. Mary Jackson, he being the lady's fifth husband, and she only in her 28th year. On the 31st ult., at St. Andrew's, Holborn, R. W. Webb, Esq., to Maria, second daughter of the late Samuel Knight, Esq., Lower Edmonton. On the 27th ult., at St. Pancras New Church, William Swinton, Esq., of the Hon. East India Company's service, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Coshead Stevens, Esq., of Stamford-hill, Middlesex, and niece of Joseph Henly, Esq., of Waterperry-park, Oxon. On the Ist inst., at Lillingstone Lovel, Oxfordshire, by the Rev. Win. Lloyd, A.M., James Reid, Esq., AI. D., of Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury-square, to Maria 'Augusta, only daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Herbert Lloyd, lion. East India Company's service. Yesterday, at Enfield Church,,Mr. Augustus Noithcote, of London, to Miss Beauchamp, of Enfield. On the Ist just. at St. Luke's, Air. W. Sole, of Alderman , bury, to Sarah, eldest daughter of J. Wreford, Esq., Ar- Finsbury. ' On Tuesday, the ptst ult., at waithamstow, Wm. son of the late John Ramsay, of Barra, Esq. county of Aber deen, to Eliza, daughter of the late J. Morley, Esq• of the Forest, Essex. DIED. On the 14th July, at Boulogne-sur-mer, Mrs. Carpen ter, after a few days' illness. On the 2d instant, Mrs. J. Selig, of Gould-square, Crutched-friars, sincerely beloved, and deeply regretted by her family. On the Ist instant, at Sudbury-hall, Derbyshire, the Right Hon. Alice Lucy, Lady Vernon, in the 61st year of her age. On the 30th ult., at Brighton, Philip Jaekson, Eaq. late of Rainton-hall, county of Durham. On the 27th tilt., at Brighton, Catherine. eldest sur viving daughter of the late M. L. Newton, Esq., of Great Prescot-street. On the tat inst. at Kennington, Mr. T. Shepherd, jun. of a rapid consumption,, which he bore with Christian pa tience and resignation. On the 30th alt. at Guishorough, York, aged '79, Mrs. Clarke, widow of H. Clarke, Esq. one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace. On the 28th ult., Charlotte Maria, relict of the late David Barclay, Esq. and daughter of the fate General Hay, R.A. Governor of Newfoundland, and sister-in-law to the late John Campbell, . Esq. of Liston Hall, near Sudbury. On the Slat ult. at Exmouth, James Halliwell, Esq. only son of the late James Halliwell, Esq., of Cheethara. hill, near Manchester, aged 36 years. Pantrwo and PutLiman by 31.,,Y0UNG, at the SuN-Orrics, •rf 0. 1-12,-•StfatuL