The Sun. — London, England, 1827-07-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Much has appeared within the past week re specting the warlike preparations of Turkey— her defiance of the Great Powers now united for the protection of Greece—and her pompous call for aid and support to all within the sphere of her influence. These threatening indications, coming to us through the atmosphere of Aus trian diplomacy, of course lost nothing in their passage. The possibility that such a State as Turkey should be able to resist the armed in tervention of the thssee Great Powers of Europe. united in the holy cause of the preservation of Greece, and determined on effecting her com plete separation for every piacticat purpose from the Turkish Empire, is too absurd a proposition to be entertained for moment. It might as reasonably be contended that Spain, in her present state, would be-able to resist the designs of Eng land and France, supposing those two Powers had agreed on the emancipation of Cuba front . the Spanish yoke. No ! happily for the wa t ts such despotisms possess no real, strength. 'lhey may—like the expiring tapersesaled on the eve of their extinction a wild and transitory glare ; •they can scare only the most timid and tints fleeting—the life is out, to revive no more. We, on the contrary, rejoice at, any symptoms of, blind and impotent rage on the paft of the AF..s sulman, as they afford additional ritsoof of the more than probable rejection of the mediation offered by the Allied Powers. It will be borne in mind, that they have already announced their determination, in that event, immediately to send Consuls to the Greek Government, and to maintain with it. relations of amity and good will. And, as we showed in s former article, the actual and unqualified recognition of the independence of Greece is the consequence. But, in opposition to any such inflated state ments and short-sighted reasoning on the power and means of resistance of Turkey, we have one fact, but no trifling one, to teeth's!, for it involves a further dismemberment of the Ottoman territo ries. It is no less than the secession of the Paella of Egypt from the dominion of the Porte. We can now announce most positively, that he has communicated his determination to withdraw from all further participation in the bloody -struggle (too long carried on) between Greece and her oppressors. This hitherto dreaded and most powerful instrument of Turkish tyranny has thus, then, opportunely dropped out of its hands —a tolerably decisive specimen of the success likely to attend any appeal from the Sublime ; Porte to her vassals. The attentive observer of passing events will recognize at once the tremen dous importance, at this conjuncture, of the reso lution of the sagacious and powerful ruler of Egypt. He will not overlook the support which Greece and Egypt can mutually afford to each other, but see at a glance the facilities and de spatch thus given to the work of completely li berating Greece—a work that has too long lingered. We are informed that the Pacha first made known his determination andviews through the medium of the British Consul at Alexandria,. in order to ascertain how far he might rely on the concurrence of the Allied Powers. The answer returned to so welcome an overture, at a moment when the fleets of England, France, and Russia were actively arming in defence of Greece (and the ships of the latter Power are only de-, tained by contrary winds for our ports) is obvious., The case admitted but of one course ; and it is, understood that the British Government. acted, ow this emergency with all the promptitude which the occasion deserved. • We have been disposed; to lament—perhaps to blame—pit delays; but the issue now, at least, whilst it cannot be doubt ful, will not long be protracted, nor will it, sVe., think, fall short of the cxpectations of the best friends of Greek independence.— Times. We have copied from the Leeds Mercury an account of a Vestry Meeting, held in Leeds on Thursday last, called for the purpose of laying a rate for the necessary repairs of, and for defray ing other expences connected with, the three new churches recently built in the parish. The parish of Leeds is one of the most populous and wealthy in the kingdom, and the meeting has been looked forward to with considerable anxiety by the people of every part of England. The question, as was truly stated by Mr. Baines, the . intelligent and respectable proprietor of the ,Leeds Mercury, is a national question ; it affects every one of the 199 Churches built or building through the land. It appears that,though every effort had been made by those who called the meeting to procure supporters, so general, among all classes, was the disapprobation of the principle on which these Churches were built, that out of the most numerous meeting ever held in the Parish Church, consisting of at least 4,000 per sons, not more than 40 or 50 persons supported the motion. From the first we were opposed to the building of these new Churches, as a most unprincipled and unnecessary waste of the public money, and the experience of every day seems to confirm us in our opinion. The reason assigned for this demand on the public was, that the po pulation in many places had outgrown the capa city of the Churches, and that therefore it be came necessary to build additional Churches to supply the wants of the existing population. But the people are best acquainted with their own wants, and an increase of people brings with it increased ability to supply wants. Humanity, might di c t a t e th e b u ildi ng a dditional Churches or Chapels in places at a distance from a Parish Church, where the inhabitants were unab*, from their poverty and paucity of numbers, to supply the want themselves ; but in large, populous, and, wealthy places like Leeds, no such assistance is; necessary. Those who belong to the national Church must be supposed as willing as thel different denominations of Dissenters to erect : additional places of worship, when the ca pacity of the old is insufficient for tlieir in creasing numbers ; and the very circumstance of additional Churches not having been built in'. any place was at once a proof' that they were; -;' not wanted, or that the cause lay in some obsta cle quite different from that of a deficiency of goodwill and a deficiency o f mea ns. The plan' originated in a sort of low cunning on the part : of certain pretended friends of the Establishment We know, they said :to themselves, that the ca pacity of the Parish Churck and the increase of the population are quite distinct questions ; and that if there were more people belonging to the Establishment than could be contained in its churches, additional ones would have been built and that ~consequently the old are sufficient ; but let us avail ourselves of this increase of popula tion to build additional churches at the expence of the nation, and to throw the expence of fur nishing them, . and keeping them in repair, on the Dissenters as well as the Church-goers, and who knows but when we have thus provided for the building and repairing of the Churches at the expence of the Dissenters, we may succeed in drawing over many of these very Dissenters to the Establishment? But this politic plan, like many other politic plans, has not produced the anticipated effect. In the case of Leeds we have seen that' in a meeting- of four thousand persons, all but forty or fifty were hostile to the object of the meeting. If we take the numbers of this meeting to represent the respective inte rests. 'Of the Establishment and the Dissenters, then how unjust is it to compel Dissenters to pay for Churches which evidently are not required. If, on the other hand, we assume that a very great number of those who voted for the Amend ment belong to the Establishment (which we believe to be the case), this proves that they are opposed to the principle oh Which the new Churches have been erected, as being unjust to ' wards the Dissenters, and therefore cal culated to injure the national religion. The Churchmen are, it appears, opposed to the plan on other grounds. In populous towns, the Church. can oillv ma'te hca% against the secta rians, by l'aving recourse to the means by which lii sliti7s Fail their chapels. A popular preacher dre. , ,Y:.; a large congregation ; and a large congre gation secures a proper return to the capitalist who holds the chapel, ehel a suitable income to the preacher: Hence, says the Members of the Ettablislinient, we must also have men of energy and talents to draw congregations ; and if we vote assessments, We vote a premium for apathy. A Lige congregation requires a large church ; but a large church alone will not secure a large congregation. Were that the eA:Z it would not happen that we crainot obtain more than twenty hearers for one of the most capacious, of our new Churches ? Ih country parishes, where there are no Dissenters, we can afford a display of apathy Oil the part of the Clergyman ; but, in a populous town, the Clergy will be left without hearers, if they do not possess popular talents.--- If it be said that the Establishment disdains the popular arts of the Dissenters, the circumstance of the inability to erect churches without dipping into the public purse proves that, without having recourse to popular Means, followers cannot be obtainetl. As the income of the Clergyman is Made to depend on the pew rents, the principle of the necessity of popularity is, to a certain ex tent, adopted ; but, it is obvious, that all aid from the public purse ; and from assessing Dis senters, is at variance with that principle. For the Established Church a large provision has been appointed. It has been thought that the State ought not, in so important a matter as re ligion, to trust to accident, and that to guard against the circumstance of any portion of the people being without religious instruction, a cer tain share of the fruits of the earth should be set apart for the instructors. But in a country in which a complete toleration is allowed, and where, consequently, all religions are deemed equally be neficial, it is preposterous, in addition to the churches every where provided, and paid for out of the tithes, to build other churches, which, where the people already frequent Dissenting Chapels, cannot possibly be wanted.—Morning Chronicle. It may be taken, we believe, almost as an un erring rule, that there is, generally speaking, no surer way of reaching the conscience than through the pocket. Pecuniary loss, like sickness, brings down the pride, the folly, and froth of the mind, to a stagnant state, and a more reasonable tem perament ; and so universal is this influence, that we are not sure that were Mr. Soames him- ' self to be robbed of his expected gains by any of his fraternity, Mr. Soames would not, for the moment at least, condemn picking-pockets as a nefarious and abominable traffic. The gentle men of the Stock Exchange seem to have been seized with a somewhat similar kind of amiable, but, we fear, temporary morality, by the recent conduct of one of their body, whom they have denounced " from authority," in good set terms of conduct, which, aftei describing it, they.pro nounce to be " almost without • parallel in the history of the Stock Exchange." Your almost, like your if, is a mighty softener down on such occasions ; and amounts pretty nearly, in itself, to the contradiction we mean to give to their as sertion ; for though the transactions in question may be quite as fraudulent and disreputable as these gentlemen are pleased to describe them to be, yet that they are wholly, or even almost with out precedent, we do take upon ourselves positively to deny. But even if they were,wh at right have those who live by and encourage the practices alluded to to complain of them ; or can they wonder that those who are trained up to plunder each other, should in time become greater adepts than their masters ? Are the gentlemen of the Stock Ex change such greenhorns or such simpletons as to suppose that vice and roguery are the only qualities in which mankind make no advances, and that too when splendid fortunes are every day acquired by their open every-day pillage of each other, and of the public ? Without prece dent, indeed ! Why, the immorality and (Es ' honesty of the thing, which is what they profess to arraign, has a precedent every day and every hour in the goings-on of nine-tenths of their own body ; and though the biters may not often be biqen so severely, the disease—the mania, the livd-ophold.----is not the less rife, the less ,1an...-;e:nus, or apparent, to all eyes but their own. But when they tell the world that they have re solved unanimously that some decisive steps should be immediately adopted to mark in the most unequivocal manner their sense of the con duct they complain of upon the occaFion, we can tell them that the best step which they can take, is to abstain themselves from such practices in future ; as, in Mr. Soames' case, the best earnest he could give of his ." sense" of the im propriety of picking pockets, would be to abstain himself from picking pockets for the future. If their sense of the matter be only to produce what may be called " honour among thieves," and to deprecate what appears to have been practised on this occasion, the mere robbing of each other, such a sense, though very convenient, will have but little weight with the world at large. It is the systeni—which has converted the Stock Ex change into a mere hell, and more than half its members into mere gamesters of the worst de scription—which requires altering. Till that is done, and done effectually, it will be in vain for these gentlemen to swagger, and talk big, or re solve unanimously; for while the practice con tinues, and they continue to thrive by it, they must expect to be told—in the sentiments, if not in the language of Cicero, " Hoc non concedo ; ut quibus rebus gloriemini in vobis, iisdem in all s reprehendatis."—Morn ing Herald. We have mentioned elsewhere the arrival of intelligence at Portsmouth of a Treaty of Peace having been concluded between Brazil and Buenos Ayres. This event, though not in it self, yet in its consequences, we consider to be of very great importance. The refusal, or, at least, reluctance of Don Miguel, to proceed, in obedience to the commands of his Royal Bro ther, to Brazil, and his formal demand of the Regency, in terms which seem to deny the au thority of the Constitutional Charter, which the French Papers, received last night, mention as having actually been made to the Infanta, could not fail to inspire hopes in the fictions of Por tugal which inight lead to serious results. While Don Pedro was engaged in Brazil by a war which required all his time and all his energy to conduct, their plots •-were to be feared the more, inasmuch as they•assumed something like the aspect of law. We are by no means pre pared to concede that the plots have yet been very distinctly formed, or • very widely ramified, nor are we of opinion that any great danger to the existing Order of things is to be anticipated from them ; but they might have . disturbed what they could not overthroW. The presence of Don Pedro in Portugal will put down even the inur mrir of opposition. Whether his subjects regard the new arrangements as lawful or unlawful, they will not reltise obedience to one, who combines in himself all the rights to their homage, both under the old form of Government, and under the new. A great deal of foolish impatience has been oh. servable among the friends of constitutional or der, with respect to the petty commotions in Por tugal. They have forgotten that no system can be overthrown, however tyrannical or absurd, without breaking idOse an infinity of ties, that bind up men of influence with the support ofgo vernment ; and that no system, however free and wise, can all at once gain the reverence even of its admirers, though it may their approbation. The revolution of 1688, in so far as the consti tution alone was concerned, did not intro duce any change, and the relief which it brought, and the evils that it remedied, were of the most direct and palpable character.— Yet how long did the legitimates of Great Britain cling to their abstractions, and with what devotedness, when, sixty years after, those who had only studied them in history, were content to walk to the scaffold in their defence ! For ourselves we were prepared to expect heart burnings and plotting,, concealed and open, from the change of system in Portugal, and our only surprise has been, that in a country so long under the sway of tyranny and bigotry, so few have appeared, and those so in significant. If it be said that the handfill of English soldiers has kept them down, we an swer, that had Portugal been insular, as, hap pily, we are, or had Spain been honest, they never would have• arisen.—Mtv Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION- HO USE. SAT Liana r.— GeorgeDatton, who, it will be recollected, discharged a pistol at his own bead about two months ago, upon being charged with hav ing committed some irregularity about a bill, of which Messrs. Sewell and Cross, the mercers 'and haberdashers, were supposed to be the acceptors, was brought before the Lord Mayor. Six bullets lodged in his head. H e was taken to the Middlesex Hospital, and four of the bullets were extracted. The other two remain in the head. It is believed that Dutton will never be in complete posses sion of his senses, so desperate is the injury he has sus tained. He was almost carried up the steps of the Mansion-house, by two officers. His head was tied up, and he presented a most ghastly appearance. The LORD MAYOR having read the warrant, which stated the charge against the prisoner to be that of having forged a bill for 2301., asked whether there were any wit nesses against him ? Mr. GATES (the Solicitor for the Society of Bankers for Protection against Forgery and Fraud) stated that he did not believe there Were any witnesses present. The Loan MAYOR.—Then I must discharge the prisoner.—Discharged accordingly. MR. SMITE, THE PREACHER.—Tbe Rev. Mr. Smith, of Penzance, who has been preaching the Gospel to the poor in the markets and other public places in the cities of London and Westminster, came to the Mansion House, on Saturday, for the purpose of asking the Lord Mayor whether there was any fund in the City of London which might be . applied to the assistance of the distressed ieamen, with whom the metropolis abounds? The Lord Mayor took this opportunity of cautioning Mr. Smith against the practice of gathering together crowds in the public high ways of the City, as it endangered the peace, and gave em ployment to pickpockets and thieves. He had reason to knew that riots and disturbances had taken place in conse quence of Mr. Smith addressing the people in the streets; and if he persevered in making the City of London the scene of his operations, he would take measures to put a stop to it. Mr. Smith said he would pay strict attention to the order, and again asked if there was any fund in the City which might be applied to the relief of the distressed seamen ? The Lord Mayor said he knew of no such fund, and Mr. Smith then left the Justice Room. The inhabitants of several neighbourhoods in the metro polis have recently been often roused at six or seven o'cloek in the morning by a deep-toned voice, thundering forth words of terrible import, or else by loud psalm-singing ; and on getting up to ascertain the cause of the extraordinary disturbance, their surprise was not diminished on finding the Reverend Gentleman► mounted on a barrel or a tub, de claiming to such a crowd as had never before been seen on the spot. This system of preaching he has carried on with great activity for several weeks past, and has successively visited every quarter of the metropolis. He glories in the fact of his having been a sailor, and served for many years at sea before he received " his call." He has made pro digious exertions to obtain floating chapels and other esta blishments for seamen. At Wapping, he has long held un divided sway over the consciences of all those sailors in the port of London who are piously disposed. Like Whitfield he is felicitous in adapting his phraseology to this class of his congregation, whom he will frequently apostrophize in the following style :—" Ah ! Tom ! if I could but see the water running out of your head scuppers, owing to the pomp of prayer being manned and worked below, I should have some hopes of your safety." But it is in pourtraying the horrors of a storm that he shakes the obdurate, and is acknowledged to be most eloquent. Then the winds are let loose with resistless fury; the waves roll mountain high ; the lightnings glare, and the thunder peals over a sinking ship of perishing souls who cry out for help. He keeps a sort of a diary of his proceedings, which he calls his " Log Book," a copy of which he bestowed upon our Reporter, together with some tracts for his amend ment, hoping at the same time, for his soul's salvation, that he had nothing to do with the Sunday Newspapers. In Leadenhall-market, he said, that, when he gave out a hymn, the butchers swore they would do for him if he preached. When he commenced the hymn, in the leather market, the butchers groaned and shouted ; the Blackivall coachmen hissed and sneered ; and the public-house hosts laughed him to scorn. He persisted; and the butchers finding the general sense of the people against them, gradually_ slunk out, and took their pipes near the public house. He rejoices that he has succeeded in saving the souls of two carcase butchers, and one salesman, and is thereby in spired with hopes for the class. In Smithfield he was better received. Among the group who surrounded him was a poor chimney sweep, who leaned on the rail and wept much. stood A boy, with his arm full of S unda y n ewspapers, with marked attention and seriousness, and joined in the doxology. At Billingsgate, his BUCCeS9 was signal. He was patronised by upwards of 1,000 fisliwomen, who pulled any one down who attempted to oppose him, and said " that no one should injure the gentleman who came to Billingsgate to instruct poor people who could not read." He was introduced by the Inspector to some gentlemen of the neighourbood, who said he bad nothing to fear while he bad the sanction of the inhabitants. At Newgate-market he preached to about 1,000 souls. He also visited Clare-market, the Borough, and Green wich. He promised to do still more, had not his career been cheekcd by the Lord Mayor, probably from an ap prehension of the tumult and disturbance that must be created, if his example brought forward less important imitators. He has yet encountered iniquity in those markets, where it is displayed only in ounces and pounds; but we understand he had his eye upon a citadel of the Evil one, and was determined to appear before Capel court, to try how they could stand against what he calls " Bethel powder and shot." GUILDHALL—Saturday Win. Anderson and Chas. Totman were charged with defrauding John Harrison of a hay horse. It appeared that Harrison was sent by Mr. Phillips, of Peckham, to Smithfield, to sell two horses. One of thorn he sold, and received the money ; but whilst he w as standing in tie market with the other, Totman and another man came up and said the horse would suit a man whom they knew, and who drove coaches on the Padding ton road. Harrison was then taken to a public house, and introduced to Anderson, who consented to give 121. lbs. for the animal ; but as he had not so much money in his possession, he wished Harrison to take a bill for 14/. 10s., drawn in favour of Anderson, by one John Owen. Harri son did not like to accept the bill, as his instructions were to return home with either horse or money: However, as Anderson said the bill would be duly ho❑oured, and as a respectable looking man, named Brown, who was sitting in the room, said it was a capital one, he con sented to accept it in payment for the horse, but upon the understanding that Brown would instantly cash it. The horse was then formally delivered to Andersen by Harrison; and Brown began to fumble in his pockets to find the money. He, however, said, he had not enough of gold in his possession to cash the bill, and that he must go home. Harrison was now alarmed, and while he was endeavouring to descry which road the horse with Ander son and the other man had gone, Brown made his escape. Anderson and Tottnan were taken on Friday; in their defence they said, that there bad heel► a regular sale of the horse ; hut they were committed for stealing the animal. M ARY-L A-BONN E. On Saturday,Jo,cplt Mayfey, carter in the employ of Mr. Jonah Parkes, the contractor for repairing the Edgeware-road, was charged by Lord William Lennox, with having seriously damaged his Lord ship's phaeton, by his negligent driving. From his Lord ship's statement, continued by his footman, and Wiliam Moore, coachman to a lady named Sneyd, it appeared, that his Lordship was driving his phaeton, in which was her Ladyship, along the Edgeware-road, on Wednesday after noon ; the phaeton was on the pear side of the road, con sequently there was sufficient room on the other side of the road for the defendant (who was not guiding his horses, but Sitting on the cart), to have passed. The defendant, however, drove his vehicle so close to Lord William Lennox's carriage, that one of the wheels of his cart came in contact with the hinder wheel of the phaeton, and the shock was so great that the phaeton was turned completely round, and almost shattered to pieces. Her Ladyship was naturally very much alarmed, and her screams brought his Lordship to her assistance, who took her out attne phaeton, and placed her in Mrs. Sneyd's carriage, which was following close behind ; and he then went in pursuit of the defendant, whom he overtook at a short distance from the spot. The careless driving was clearly proved, fur it was stated that a carriage had passed the phaeton before the defendant arrived opposite to it; and his Lordship added, that on passing up the Edgeware road, on Friday, he observed three or four cart s in a li ne , which were employed in repairing the road, committing precisely the same offence as that with which he charged the defendant. In consequence of the injury his Lord ship's phaeton had sustained, her Ladyship, accompanied by Lord William, proceeded home in Mrs. Sueyd's carriage. The defendant said he attempted to get out of the way as quickly as he could ; hut Mr. Hoskins informed him that he should convict him in the full penalty of 40s. ; and he wished it to be understood, that if any of his com panions were brought before him, he would fine them as heavily as the law allowed him. His Lordship considerately agreed to pay half the ex pence of repairing the phaeton (between 301. and 400, the other half, of course, to be defrayed by Mr. Parkes. UNION-HALL.—Saturday, a young man, named M. Loman was charged with exciting Mr. Bobbett to fight a duel. It appeared that Ht. Loman and Mr. Bobhett dined with a large party of gentlemen at a tavern, where they all 'got pretty well drunk. Mr. Loman and Mr. Bobbatt left the tavern together, and on the road borne, Mr. Bobbett said that Mr. Loman made himself very ridi culous by accosting several females, and in the Waterloo road, he insulted a poor ragged boy in such a manner, that Mr. Bohbett was induced to inform Mr. Loman that he acted very ungentlemanly, and if he persevered in such conduct, he would quit his company. On the road Mr. Loman dwelt very much on the term ungentlemanly, and when he got home (they both reside in the same house), he sent up a challenge to Mr. Bobbett (who had retired to bed) to fight him instanter. Mr. Bobbett immediately got up, slipped on his trowsers, and came down stairs to ask some explanation ; and Mr. Loman, seeing Mr. Bobhett without coat or waistcoat, thought he ac cepted the challenge, threw himself into a pugilistic atti tude, and gave Mr. Bobbett such a blow in his side, as almost to deprive him of breath. Mr. Bobbett made the best of his way to bed again, and having no relish for such encounters, he took out a summons, and demanded that Mr. Loman should be bound over to keep the peace. Mr. Loman explained, that when he saw Mr. Bobbett enter the parlour without coat or waistcoat, he thought he came there to beat him ; and he was therefore, determined to have the first blow. He was now sorry for it, and had no intention of calling Mr. Bobbett out. This apology was accepted, and Mr. Bobbett and Mr. Loman left the Office. , THE LATE REV. MR. WATERHOITSE. HUNTINGDON, JULY 2S.—The most streni!ous exertions continue to be made to obtain the fullest proof against Slade, the wretched young man about to take his trial at our Assizes for the murder of Mr. Waterhouse. Within these few days a pond near the Rectory has been carefully searched, but with out effect. During the period the corpse of the Rev. J. Waterhouse was laid in its coffin, several of the late Rector's parishioners attended the par sonage-house to take a farewell glimpse of his remains previous to their interment. Amongst those visitants was Slade. We are informed that he did not evince the least emotion at the sight of the horrid spectacle, but very coolly remarked, " that the wounds could not have been made with a knife," and left the premises with the greatest till ' concern. When the vault was preparing, a brick layer, who was employed, and who was unacquaint ed with the persons looking at him whilst' at his work, observed, " This concern looks very suspicious against Slade. Why did lie say he was here and there at the time of the murder, and contradict him self so many times ?" The bricklayer was asto nished by a youth instantly rejoining, " My name is Slade; it does not signify where I was at the time of the murder; I now am here."—" All I have to say (replied the bricklayer), is what I have said before, that it looks -- s uspicious against you;" to which Slade made no reply, but remained with the greatest unconcern, gazing at the place of burial. We have before mentioned, that the late Mr. Waterhouse had been repeatedly robbed.— Shortly after sustaining one of these losses, having business to transact with a shopkeeper of this place, the conversation turned upon the Rev. Gentleman's losses, in the course of which he was considerably affected. "Ah ! well, (said the Pastor), I know the offender."—" Then why do you not prosecute him 2" rejoined the tradesman. The old gentleman, after some hesitation, replied, " I cannot—the thing will discover itself." MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY..-MTBDNE9DAY, Ann. 1. Arnitt, F. Thirsk,—Red Lion, York Bennett, J., Whitecroft, St. Briavils—George coffee-house, Gloucester Boughton, J., Tewkesbury—Anchor, Tewkesbury 5 Chamberlayne, W., Leamington Friars—Crown inn, Lea mington Critchley, R., Gloucester—Spread Eagle, Gloucester Ellrington, C.,Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham l2 Hulley, W., howbent—Messra. Law, Manchester Pooley, J., Hu'me—Star, Manchester 2 Ramscar, M., Pancras-lade, Bucklersbury—Wellington Bridge inn, Stockport lO Stanley, J., Charlton Kings... Spread Eagle, Gloucester Welsh, J., Manchester—Star, Manchester 9 INSOLVENTS APPLYINI Petitions to be heard at Pertus TO B 1 DISCHARGED, -street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, AUGUST 2, AT NINE. Aunereau, 1., Borough-road Lyddon, J., Bishops Lydeard, Ashinead, W., Cheltenham Somersetshire Bowe, J. Manchester M.Naughtan, J., Park-street Bryant, J., Lambeth Ralph, W., Union-street Dowsett, J., Redcross.street Ritchie, J.,Guernsey Eden, T., City-road Thomas, ~ Carnarvon Hance, .1., Maldon Thorpe, R., Camberwell Jordan, S., Little Suffolk-street, Webb, H., Fitsroy-square Borough Wiles, R., Hammennuith Joshua, M., Whitechapel Wilson, E., Sheffield Lowther, J., Lambeth Worthington, J., Brook-markt. Lunt, W ., Finsbury , We have authority to state, that at a Meeting held on Saturday the 28th of July, of those members of the Stock Exchange who were creditors of J. lixrPrr, it was resolved that a Committee be appointed to enquire into all the circumstances connected with his late failure. On fur ther discussion it was also unanimously resolved, that decisive steps should be immediately adopted to mark, in the most unequivocal manner, the sense which his creditors entertain of his conduct, which has been accompanied by cireu instances of such aggravated dishonesty, as to be almost without pa rallel in the history of the Stock Exchange. Whether such conduct be considered in reference to the enormous extent of the speculation entered into professedly without means—the evasions and concealment by which it was ac companied—or the heartless indifference manifested by him towards the sufferings so wantonly and suddenly inflicted upon others. • TUNNEL UNDER THE THAMES. As our previous accounts have faithfully detailed, it has never been the intention of the projector of this undertaking to remove the water which has re cently been permitted to remain in the tunnel since the late irruption, until his arrangements were car ried beyond the possibility of doubt. Strong pre cautionary measures have been adopted, both on the part of the engineer and his son ; and they have now arrived at a successful issue. The water has been completely drawn out, with the exception of that portion of it in the immediate neighbourhood of the shield. The apprehension which exists as to the ultimate success of the undertaking has deterred many per sons from visiting it ; whilst, on the other hand, those who have seen it, generally speaking, felt a gratification in the exhibition. After descending the shaft, which is effected with great facility, by means of a spiral staircase, the mouth of the tunnel is met with. This passage, from shore to shore, consists of two contiguous arched roadways, separated by a middle pier of brick-work ; the west arch forming a communication from south to north, and the eastern archway from north to south. The size of each archway is 13 feet 6 inches wide, and 16 feet 8 inches high. The whole fabric is built of the best hard bricks, assisted by Roman cement of a superior quality, mixed with an equal quantity of sand, which sets with remark able quickness. The strength of the walls and arches have been calculated by several eminent engineers and mathematicians, and are found to exceed the maximum. of power required for the support of the superincumbent weight. The method of building the brick-work is ex tremely curious. By means of what is termed " over hanging," several bricklayers are enabled to work above each other at the same time. An inverted arch, two feet three inches thick, is turned under on each archway, and supports the external wall, anti half the middle wall, on either side. The external walls are battered, or sloped inwards, in order the more effectually to resist the pressure of the earth. Openings, six feet wide, and arched at the top, are cat in the middle wall, at a distance of 12 feet from each other, thus forming a communication between the two arches, for the accommodation of the pass ing pedestrian. In each of these openings, a brilliant gas lamp is suspended, the gas supplying which is manufactured on the premises. The road-way of the Tunnel descends three feet in 100, to the extent of about 400 feet from the base of the Shaft, and it then proceeds on a level, until it reaches the same distance from the north shore. It is the intention to have the road Mac adamized, and the pathways will be paved with three inch Yorkshire flag, edged with granite curb. In deed, at the present moment, the western archway, which is now cleansed, or partially so, and hitherto appropriated to the reception of visiters, is already arranged in this manner. If the exertions of the engineer and his assistants continue favourable, the , public will be enabled to visit the undertaking as formerly, in the course of a very few days. It is at present open to public in spection, and on Friday last an immense concourse of fashionable parties were on the works. THE LATE STAGE-COACH ACCIDENT. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Thomas Beagly Naylor. of Mattock, Somerset, and a student at Oxford, was on the box of the Defiance at a quarter past one o'clock on the morning of the 18th ; when he first saw the Celerity, it. was coming down the hill ; they were in the flat when he first saw the Celerity, the Defiance was by no means travelling at a quick rate; when the Celerity was approaching, the coachman of the Defiance said to me, " Sir, we shall he over;" the morning was rather foggy, but we could see by the assistance of the lamps; shortly after there was a crash ; the Celerity was upset, and the Defiance immediately afterwards; the Defiance was not near the centre of the road, but very much on the left, on the turf; the Celerity passed the ifore part of our coach, and we were instantly overturned ; they struck the fore wheel of the Defiance, and carried away the cap; the fore wheel of the Celerity also struck be tween the hind wheel and the spring, and struck off the hind wheel of the Defiance ; decidedly the Defiance was on the right side; he was thrown from the box on the bank; as soon as he got up, he took hold of the wheel horses ; they were plunging ; the coachman of the Defiance came up to him, and said, " you see, sir, that I am not to blame ;" was much confused when the coachman told him they should be upset; was perfectly satisfied that no blame whatever attached to their coachman, who said, on the coachman of the Celerity coming up, " Malk, this is the way that you are always serving me." An altercation then took place ; I begged them to desist, as the passengers were in a state of great suffering. Had the Celerity not gone out of its road, the Defiance would not have been over turned. When down, the Celerity lay full across the road. On the approach of that coach, the De fiance pulled up to let them pass. There was a scramble among the horses, but that entirely arose from the coachman of the Defiance pulling up to avoid coming in contact with the Celerity. The luggage on the Defiance was not heavier than usual; there was a box large but light, for he lifted it up, and assisted in replacing the luggage on the coach. The language of Maule was very bad—it was very impertinent; had travelled two stages with the coachman of the Defiance; he had drank nothing-- was perfetly sober ; and never met with a more I civil and well-behaved man ; the guard was equally so. When witness went to a ssist in lifting up the Celerity it was lying across the road, and from its position, there could not have been sufficient room for the Defiance to pass. When he lifted up the deceased, lie placed a box for his head to recline upon. The guard of the Defiance said, " Here's one poor fellow dead !" One of the lamps was broken. It was the opinion of witness, that from the' rapidity with which the Celerity's coachman was driving, he must have lost the command of his horses, or have done it on purpose.—[This witness was lame from the injuries he had received in the upsetting of the coach, and was accommodated with a chair.] Wm. Rendle (inside passenger, ironfounder in Clerkenwell, who was also lame and equally accom modated) confirmed the testimony of the last witness. Joseph Cannon, guard of the Defiance, stated that they were travelling at the rate of about four or five miles an hour when the accident. happened. After a strict investigation, the Jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against John Maule, the coachman of the Celerity ; and a deodand of 40s. on the coach. Maule was admitted to bail, himself in 1001,, and Messrs. Woodward and Pratt (two of the pro prietors of the Celerity) in .501. each, for his appear ance at the Salisbury Assizes, which will be held on Monday next. It is said the sister of Mrs.. Crossland is since dead. CULTURE OF BEES IN FORESTS.—It has been a custom in Livonia, from time immemorial, to make cavities in the trees of a forest, for the purpose of receiv ing and rearing the swarms of bees. Some of the pro prietors have hundreds and even thousands of bee trees. Those which are chosen for this use are large oaks, firs, pines, alders, 84c. It has been objected to this system, that it destroys the forest and diminishes the quantity of build ing wood ; but m. Buttner observes, that it is not neces sary to choose the finest trunks, and that stunted trees are equally serviceable for this use, if they have sufficient size. He states also that a bee tree is worth more than if sold for wood ; that the old hollow trees will serve for an age or two, spread seed around, and cause the production of young suckers, which would be obtained with difficulty, by destroying the old trunks. He adds, that the pure air of the higher regions agrees better with the bees than the air inclosed in hives, which receive the exhalations of the earth, and in which contagious diseases sometimes make great ravages. The proof he offers is, that whoa garden bees swarm they are directed instinctively towards the woods, whilst the bees of the wood never swarm towards the gardens.... Bulletin COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, JULY 23.---Our market for British Plan— tation Sugars remains firm ; the sales consist of about 600 hhds. at full prices ; besides which, 600 bags Bengal Sugar were taken by the Grocers at 765. to 775. per cwt. West India Molasses continue in good request; 220 punchy• have been sold this week ; Trinidad at 30s. and St. Vincent at 31s. per cwt. The demand for Coffee is stilt limited to the home trade, and the business done consisfs of 150 tees. Jamaica, taken by the grocers at former rates. In Cocoa and Ginger nothing done worthy of notice. Some small parcels of Pimento have been sold at 94d. per lb. .and 9P. is now demanded for middling quality. In Rome little doing ; prices remain steady. Our Cotton market has been without interest this week, the demand from the trade being rather limited, but there is no alteration to notice in the prices of any description. The sales amount to 7,200 bags, consisting of 2,566 Boweds, at 6d. to 70., chiefly at 6-, t -d. to . 6P., fot mid ling fair to fully fair; 1,220 Orleans 6P. to Bd., chiefly at bid. to 7-14. ti'ir middling to good fair; 1,320 Alabama and Mobile at 6d. to 6P. ; 490 Sea Island at 10d. to 15d. ; 30 Stained ditto at bid. to 7d. ; 150 Pernambuco at 9d. to 9P. ; 250 Maranham at Bp. to 8-14. ; 310 Bahia at 7p. to 84-d. ; 500 Egyptian at 6P. to 81d, chiefly at 70. to lid. ; 60 Demerara at Tid. to 81d. 30 Cumana at 6P. ; 180 Carthagena at SP. 100 Surat at 4P. to sd. The arrivals are 15,121 bags. Imported into Liverpool, from the 21st to 27th July, in clusive :—By 1 vessel from Barbadoes, 1 Jamaica, 1 St. Vincent and Trinidad, 1 Trinidad, 1 Cuba, 2 Que bec, 4 New York, 1 Philadelphia, 3 Virginia, 4 Charles ton, 2 New Orleans, 2 Maranham, 1 Paraiba, 1 Dant zic, 1 Christianstadt, 1 Alleaborg, 1 Stralsund, and Alexandria : Sugar, Jamaica, 530 hhds. 76 tons, 5 brls. ; St. Vin cent, 72 brls. ; Trinidad, 235 hhds., 8 tons, 27 brls. Barhadoes, 225 hhds., 41 tons ; Brazil, 62 , cases ;. Mo - lasses, 320 casks ; Rum, 162 puns., 43 hhds. ; Cotton, West India, 13 bales; New Orleans and Mobile, 1,581 bales ; Rest United States, 9,499 bales ; Brazil, 4,331 bales ; Coffee, 25 brls. ; Cocoa, 30 bags ; Ginger, a brls.„ 202 bags ; Tobacco, 322 hhds. ; Rice, 100 tees., 4 half tees. ; Flour, Canada, 540 brls. ; Wheat, 2,873 qrs., Baltic, 1,959 qrs. ; Turpentine, 1,708 brls. ; Tar, Baltic, 1,767 bus. ; Loa - wood, 55 tons ; Fustic, 25 tons ; Barwood, 10 tons ; Mahogany, 119 logs ; Palm Oil, 1,220 casks ; Elephant Teeth, Na. 190 ; Hides, Cow and Ox, No. 200. The only transaction this week in rough Turpentine is the resale of 1,500 barrels at 12s. to 12s. 3d. per cwt., being a parcel recently brought here for another port. Two parcels, together 1,700 brls. now landing, will be offered to-day by auction. No further imports of American Tar have been received, this description is much wanted for sheep smearing ; two cargoes of Stockholm, together with 1,800 barrels, have met a ready sale at 15s. 6d. per brl. ; also 500 barrels to arrive at the same price. -Rosin is steady.-There is less inquiry for Ashes, the sales of the week do not exceed 120 barrels Montreal Pot, at 255. to 25a. 6d. for old, and 265. d. for brand 1826, with about 50 barrels Montreal Pearl at 245. 6d. for seconds, and 265. 6d. to 275. for Ist. Nothing done in States' Ashes. The business in lly-ewoods has been confined to 160 tong Can - peachy Lugwood at 71. 15s. to Si. ; 20 tons Jamaica ditto, at 61. 15s. ; 165 tons small Nicaragua 'Wood, at 71. Ss. to Si. 15s. per ton warehoused, and 90 tons good large solid ditto, at 151. 15s. to 16/. per ton, from the quay, with a few tons Camwood, at 14/, per ton. In Quereitron Bark and rough Brimstone nothing done. The public sales of Indigo, tee. have been the principal attraction to the dry salters this week : they commenced on Thursday with 746 scrolls Caraccas, on which day 517 serous were sold with tolerable spirit at 3g. V. to 9s. sd. per lb. duty paid, one fine soon bringing 10a. per lb. Yesterday the sale was continued, when the remainder of the Caraccas sold briskly at an advance of 2d. to'3d. per lb. ; the sales of Bengal then commenced, when 329 chests and 14 cheats Manilla were offered ; of the former 257 chests cold from ss. 6d. to I I s. 6d., and the whole of the latter at 2s. 2d. to 4s, 7d. per lb. in bond. The remaining sales of Indigo, Cochineal, Safflower, Galls, and Turmeric, will take place this day- The Bengal Indigos have brought full prices ; the Caracas have gone lower than previous sales by 4d. to 6d. per lb. About 200 bags Saltpetre have been taken at 245. to 275. per cwt. Sicily Shumac is lower; 200 bags last year's import have been sold at 10s. 6d. ; Verona, in small par cels, brings 7s. 6d. to 7s. 9d. ; Malaga, being very scarce, brings 16s. ; some Faro has been sold at 9s. per cwt. A sale of 15 casks white Naples Argol has been effected at 575. per cwt., and some French Tartar at 775. per cwt. e l ar o e l d . to for lo A l 7 s 7 . ic p a e n r isr t : ; W t ax be , o a n n ir d al p bl a oo r r e ue e t l i r n e l m utio a l i ny n e i h n : g osl i d n a t pa le importers' hands is held for 1 01. 1 0 - per cwt. The reduced price of Malaga Olive Oil has occasioned tom e inquiry, and about 25 tons have been sold at 351. 15s. to 36/., with 10 tone Gallipoli at 41/. per ton. Seed Oils remain steady. Some transactions have taken place in Pale Seal Oil, and holders appear now inclined to wait for better prices. Palm Oil ie offering in quantity at 26/. 10s: per ton. Oil of Turpentine dull. More business is doing in Rice ; 300 casks new Carolina have been sold at 19s. to 205., a few casks very ordinary old at 155., and 20 bags East India at 17s 3d. per cwt. There is a good demand for Hides, at improving prices ; the sales are 500 Buenos Ayres salted Ox and Cow at 64d., 620 dry salted Brasil at 7d. to 71d., and 990 salted New York at qd. to 4jd. per lb. ; with 15,000 Horse at ss. to 6e. 6d. each. Hemp and Tallow remain very dull; a sale of Odessa Tal low has been effected at 38s. per cwt. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. -------- ---- -- —.....—;--;* Per Quarter. s. to s. 5. to s. s. to s. s. to s. Andover- 54 53 81 40 30 34 Carlisle--- , 69 . '73 41, 48 31 57 0S Hexham. 62 79 42 47 35 43 Morpetli 56 62 39 42 99 36 48 54 Newcastle .. 56 67 28 .S 8 26 33 50 52 Romsey Sheffield len 63 84 4 5 26 35 60 63 Winchester ..... 163 —•— Per Bushel. !s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s, d. ti. d. 6. d. Birmingham I7O 44 50 56 39 43 7 4 8 8 Coventry i 76 80 S 0 54 44 52 7 4 8 0 Newcastle (Staff.) 10 0 10 6 70 78 50 56 96 10 0 Northallerton .4. i 8 0 9 6 0 0 0 0 4 3 4 6 7 0 7 6 Penrith Stafford . 9 4 00 70 7 6 0 0 00 96 100 Warwick 76 80 50 53 46 5,3 76 80 Worcester 78 80 60 63 40 50 78 84 Per 8011. Barnardc.astle 13 0 IS 0 0 0 10 6 8 0 10 6 0 15 0 Darlington Durham 1 Stanhope —.....—... 112 6 13 9 1 00 10.0 70 00 00 .00 Stockton.....--........ 14 3 16 6 0 0 00 60 90 00 00 Wolsingham CORNWALL MARK] TRURO.—Wheat (average) 265. Od.—Barl HELSTON—Wheat, 265. 10d.—Barley, 16 ST. AUSTELL—Wheat, '27S. to 286.—8ar 14s. to 15s. BODMIN—Wheat (average) 27L Od.—Barley, 16s.—Oats, 15s. Od. LAUNCESTON—Wheat (average) 255. Od.—Barley,:l3s. 6d.—Oafs. 10s. Od.—Beef, 7d.—Mutton, 6d. LISKEARD—Wheat, 244. 9d. to .Vis.—Barley, 15s. 9d.—Oats, —s. to —s. Od. Sr. CoLusla—Wheat, 265. tol7c—Barley, 13s. to 144.—Beef. and Mutton, 5%d. to 7d.—Veal and Lamb, Od to 4)d. ETS. ley, 16s.—Oats, 14s. 3d. a. Od. ley, 15s. to 17s.—Oats, the t e e r o a; tl e e dr r ua g e l : e: 6 dot the e l d y ow the pne - SCOTCH MARKETS. HA.DDINGTON CORN MARKET.—JuIy 2;, A dull market in Oats and Barley, 191 quarters of the former. top price of Barley the same as last day, average down about Is. ; . half priAco o the middling he each b a same sold; ,seu aos Is., p 1 of we ek, average about ;id. lower. There were 20 quarters of Beans sold, average Is. 7d. down. Only one quarter of Pease sold, at Is. Cd. below the last average. and toir op f3r pace e o of r Wheat,t Oats a e Wheat. Barley. Oats, Pease. Beaus. First 63s Od 40 4 Od 41. Od as Od 49s Od Second 5BB Od 32s Od 34s Od —s Od 48s Od tsb l t a uit t p te s i ies w Third There were 322 qrs. of Wheat in market, 294 whereo were sold. 12 ...at 63s. Od. 34 ...at 6os. Od. 5 ...at B7s. od . 40 15 It 18 ,TH CORN MARRE ;rain at this day's mar) sales heavy at last wee Barley. Oats. 36s Od 33s Od 33s Od 361 Od , 30s Od 27s Od 7.—July 26. ket was middling sup'- it's prices. Pease. 48s Od 465 Od 42s Od Beans. 460 Od 46s Oct 42s Od DALKEI The quantity of ply for the season; Wheat. First 6'7s Od Second Od Third ZONING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. QUantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth l ast T hu r sda y 2,726 0 Average Produce 96 0 Quantity of fine Copper r 236 S Amount of Sale, 12,1781.9 x. Ode —Average Standard, 1121. 18s. Od. MARRIED. On the 28th inst., Mr. Frederick Searle, of Portman place, to Isabella, eldest daughter of l'tlr. Garnett, of Wig more-street. DIED. On the 27th inst., in Hampstead-road, J. Daniell, Esq. aged Mi. On Saturday, the 28th inst. Miss Woodhouse, of St. Dunstan's Hill. On the 26th inst., aged 79, deeply regretted, particu larly by the• poor, Eleanor, the relict of the late Mi. Kibblewbite, of Liddiard, near Wootton-Bassett. . - Part4TED -and PUBLISHED by N. YOUNG, at the SUN-OFFICE, hp. 112, Strand. 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