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TII E LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY .artracts from the Morning Papers,Dec. 15, 1825. [NEW TIMES.] There is but one Subject that now occupies public attention, and that. is. the sudden, and striking distress of the monied world. It is a gratifying consolation to us, that from the first moment of alarm we have steadily opposed its progress. It is still more gratifying, that the suggestions which in. our earnestness to restore confidence we have ventured to offer, have been in Accordance with the general feeling of those eminent persons whose judgment on such subjects must 'be deemed decisive. On Monday we said, " Atsuch:a moment we think the great body of merchants :and bankers should make a common effort to restore public credit." Atrd on Tues day, after--quoting the " laudable example set at Plymouth, when, on the stoppage of Sir W. Elford's Bank,. the Nobility, Gentry, and Traders of the County, came forward to declare.. their confidence in the other Ply mouth Bank,"' we said, " whatever practical measure may be adopted to restore confidence, we'are decidedly of Opinion, : that it should ori ginate without a moment's delay, in the great body, of 'lVlerchants and. Traders of London." Yesterday .our hopes and wishes were fulfilled. The Lord Mayor, with the concurrence of his brother Magistrates, called toether a Meeting, of which it is sufficient to say, that the bossiness was opened by two of the City Members, and the Resolutions were moved and . seconded by Mr. Baring and Mr. Irving. The simple object of such a.Meeting was to establish, on undoubted atOority, a few propositions of which the mere publicity must almost of necessity lead to a prac tical remedy, for the, existing evil. After the dis cussion at this Meeting, a report of which will Jae found in another coluMn, no one will doubt htit that the wealth and solid resources orthelcountry are unbroken, and that, nationally speaking, the sole evil at present existing is a want of confidence. Confidence is essential to credit, and credit is the main engine of our national greatness. Why are we more powerh. than nations far larger in territory, and far more numerous in population than ourselves it is be. cauSeour forces are doubled, tripled, quadrupled by the mutual reliatice which we have On each other. But if an incendiary creep into' the. com mercial world, and whisper a way credit, he is like a traitor creeping in among a regiment and seduc ing the soldier from his reliance on his officer. If confidence bet Ween Man and min be destroyed, adieu - atonce to commercial, greatness.. Well and truly was it observed by Mr. Baring at the meet ing of yesterday, that in a state' of ;Ilium like the present, it is not . the rash and incautious' spe culator that suffers, it is the prudent and upright and honourable .banker. Look at the facts (and most important facts they were) that were elicited in the course of yesterda'y's discussion. One eminent house has stopped with a surplus (after payipg every body 20 shillings in the pound),of a hundred'and seventy thousand pounds on the partnership books, besides large landed estates,and 100,0001, in the private property of the partners. This is Sir Peter Pole's case. Another house stops, with 500,000/. in solid securities, and the Janded , property of the chief partner. This is Mr. Williams's case. A third stops, and is likely soon to .resume business; the, heel of the firm has a large entailed estate of many thousands a year ; and his - son, with an honourble feeling that does him the. highest honour, declares he will join in cutting off the entail rather than suffer his father's creditors to be losers. Here then we see that the want of confidence has been ihewn towards persons in whom the utmost confidence might and ought to 'have been placed, both on account of their property and of their honour.— We see that the panic which has seized so'many persons has - been altogether blind and'indiscrimi hate. Indeed, how should it be otherwise, when it 'was nurtured, we may say 'created, by the grossest ignorance, or,else the blackest malignity,. f MORNING ,POST.] We mentioned in our last that further failures in the Banking interest's were expected in the City, and we regret to find that the anticipation has been confirnied. At the usual hour for open ing business yesterday, it was announced that the firms of Everett, Walker, Maltby, and Co., and SykeS,Snaith, and 'Co., had been compelled to suspend their payments ; and the alarm occa sioned by this information, caused Consols for Account to open at 811 81, a fall of LI per Cent. from the closing price of the preceding even ing. EVen this price may be considered ficti tious, for Money Stock Three per . Cent. was offer ed at 754, and the Three per Cent. Reduced at 74 to 75 ; per Cent. at that period were without purchasers at 80. As the day ad vanced:there were various rumours, all tending to check the ,existing • panic ; one was, that Messrs. Everett and Co. would immediately re sume their payments; but it proved unfounded. The remit of the meeting held at the Mansion- House also had the effect of advancing Consols for Account to 82f,1, but at the termination the Consols closed at 817} 2..EXchequer Bills during the day were as .low as .38 discount, but large purchasers advanced theta to 17 dis count. Towards the latter part of the market there were ndquotations for them, but-the price was regarded,steady at about %) to 25 discount.• One of the Brokers of the Exchange,' connected, we believe, with Messrs. Sykes and Co. was dedared a defaulter, but as,he was not a very large spe culator, the mischief is not expected to. he exten sive: „Several of the houses in the• City had a most trying run upon. them, but it was 'met with activity and energy.—Money, however, continued extremely scarce. In the Foreign Market every thing was lower of - course, but it will be sufficient when we say, that Foreign Securi ties of whatever description, if offered to any extent, could , not have been disposed. of on the Stock Exchange for want of purchasers.-- - Colombia Bonds were, offered at., one period as low as 53, but subsequently advanced to 551, and closed at 55. In Shares there was nothing to notice. We Teirn, in addition to the above, that one of the most respectable Banks in the Midland Counties lis'lleen compelltiefo/suspend its payments, and that such was . the agitation created amongst the multitude, that the military were obliged to be called out to preserve order. The leading partner of the firm, however, is said to have obtained of the Bank Directors a suffi cient sum to meet•the immediate exigencies ; and as he left town immediately, it was expecsed the Bank would resume its payments on his arrival. • [TIIL PUBLIC, LEDGER.] It is not for want of timely, as well as repeat ed, warnings, that the present distress has come on the Commercial World; but the voice of rea son was drowned in the din of the Stock Ex change ; and it is our duty to say this, that the blamer may attach where it is really merited. The reckless (we do not wish to use a harsher though far more appropriate epithet), we say the reckless spirit of adventure, which pre vailed during a great part of this year, is now producing the effects that all considerate persons anticipated, and which the most en 7 lightened men in the Cabinet attempted in vain to deprecate. It is due to justice and truth to make this,explicit declaration, as the responsibi lity might be otherwise shifted from those who have originated the present distress, to such as tried to avert it by early and solemn warnings.— Moreover, if the case were not depicted in its true colours, the same spirit of giddy adventure would revive almost as soon as the present pres sure were removed, and once more consign the hard earnings of the honest and unsuspecting to the Harpies of the Share-market. To prevent the recurrence of either the one or the other, and to impress at the same time the necessity of a re turn to those fair and circumspect principles, from, which the' commercial community has de parted too much of late, is the sole object-of the present animadversions; and we shall be reward ed for our pains, if th e y but answer the end for which they were written. It is on a bed of sick ness, brought on by intemperance, that the wild votary of dissipation is accessible to the maxims of wisdom, which he had before spurned, as too old fashioned for a person of his dashing charac ter; and it is in the midst of commercial distress, solely brought on by extravagant speculation, that precepts, based upon the experience of the best times, are sure to be listened to with due at tention. [BRITISH PR ESSg The Paris Papers of Monday, including, as usual, the Etoile dated the following morning, arrived yesterday. In the latter we find advices from the Havannah, respecting the supplies of food and ammtlnition lately thrown into the for tress of San Juan d'Ulloa, in anticipation of the expeditions fitting out in the ports of Colombia and Mexico. The intelligence from Greece is by no means such as to induce us to despair of the cause of independence, if the Greeks remain true to themselves. It seems that the Moreotes have hitherto offered no oppositiop to Ibrahim Pacha, whom they have suffered without resistance to traverse and ravage their country from one coast to the other. His ; force, however, it appears from an article which we have given in another column, has neverthe less been reduced from fifteen thousand men to less than seven. Since the capture of Navarino, he has not succeeded in making - himself master of one single military position. He had finally been obliged to retire to Corona where he was await ing the reinforcements from Egypt. The last accounts from Alexandria represent the much vaunted expedition which sailed from that port, under the command of the Copitan Pacha, as considerably inferior in every respect to the ex aggerated descriptions that have been giv en to it. The number of troops, , it seems, does not exceed 4.000, and they are neither well equipped nor well disciplined. One day of success, it is yet probable, may save Greece. At the worst, ano ther campaign will be necessary for its subjuga tion. By the private correspondence from Madrid we learn that some salutary measures are about to be adopted by the Spanish Government, at the instance of the Consultative Junta. One of these is the division of the Peninsula into departments like France. Under the Cortes this division was made, and it was productive of the most beneficial results. It tended strongly to annihilate local jealousies, and give energy to the proceedings of the Go vernment, which, under the present system, are too frequently resisted, or, in effect, neutra lized by the provincial authorities. Another good decision of the Consultative Junta regards the everlasting subject of the purifications. They recommend that all the Juntas of purification should forthwith be suppressed, and the treat ment of each individual regulated entirely by the King's pleasure. If the Duke del Infantado has firmness to act upon these principles, he may ren der many and important services to his country. [THE, TIM ES.] The French Papers of Monday arrived last night. The Journal des Debuts contains a part of the representation made by the Hungarian States to the Emperor of Austria, which called forth from his Majesty the indignant and menacing answer to which we alluded some days ago. We have now the ground on which the Imperial Cen sor proceeded in his haughty lecture about the obedience of the subject and the authority of the sovereign. That obedience would seem to-be un touched, if we place any reliance on the assurances of the Assembly; but it does not go the length of a total surrender of national rights, or an absolute abandonment of constitutional protection. They address their King as his " Sacred, Imperial, cc Royal, and Apostolic Majesty —their very " Gracious Lord ;" but they at the same time tell him, that their unlimited confidence in hiq parternal sentiments has not led them to neglect the maintenance of their ancient institutions. Speaking, therefore, with the frankness which became them, they declare their alarms " at see cc ing that, in open defiance of the fundamental " laws of the kingdom, and in contravention of ar " tides adopted in 1790 and 1791 (by which the " wounds of the Constitution had been closed), they " had been dePrived of tbe protection °tam laws cc in the exercise of their principal immunities, " rights, and prerogatives, without any regard to " the enormous sacrifices which they had made " since that time ; that the Constitution had 46 been again attacked 3, that the respect due to " the fundamental laws had been violated ; and " that the whole edifice of their ancient privileges 44 had been shaken to its foundation." The States then enumerate the articles which had been vio lated, and announce their grievancei with a fear lessness and an energy which the Austrian Go vernmentcannot easily withstand orsafelydespise. The people of Switzerland are still engaged in examinations and discussions respecting the alleged assassination of one of their magistrates, M. Kel-, -ler.—A letter from Madrid states, that the- Con sultative Junta has recommended that no more of , the Government officers be dismissed for their conduct during the revolution, without being heard in their own defence. It is lamentable that such a'recommendation should be necessary at any time, and more especially three years after the events happened in which the parties are ac cused of being implicated. [MORNING CHRONICLE.j The Journal des Debats of Monday contains part of a very important document, the Repre sentation of the Hungarian Diet with respect to the invasions of their Constitutional Rights by the Imperial Government of Austria. In this docu ment the Hungarian Nobles tell the Emperor that they " speak to him with all the frankness of children addressing themselves to their father." Say,with the frankness rather of children on whom their parents are dependent for support,and who think it expedient when they dole out their money to accompany it with a little homely advice. They roundly charge his Imperial Majesty with having contravened the fundamental laws of the king dom, confirmed by the diploma of hi s s coronation with having violated their principal rights, pri vileges, and immunities ; and, in short, with having shaken the whole edifice of their an cient Constitution in its principal foundation." It is a remark of Burke, that no men are so tenacious of their rights and liberties, as the masters of slaves', for liberty acquires a n6w value with them, from the constant spectacle of the misery produced by the want of it ; and accord ingly, in all times-the Austrian Government has been exposed to many galling mortifications from the Hungailen Aristocracy, while the happy and often wealthy peasantry of Austria Proper, never give the least trouble to it. We may easily con ceive what the danger is which besets the Aus trian Government in this quarter, supposing in the only other country of Europe in which there is a strong Aristocracy, we mean England (in which, by the bye, the peasantry seem fast ap, proaching to the condition of slaves, to make the parallel more resemblant), that the Government was not at present in the Aris tocracy, but in the King, as, in the times, of the Stuart.s Were Hungary and the other Slave States kept in check by the German States, in which the power of the Crown is greater, the Aristocracy would soon gain a complete as cendancy. We lately, in alluding to a corre spondence from Paris in The London Magazine, noticed a comparison between the state of society in Vienna and London. The resemblance has struck many observers. In the Travels through Germany, France, England, end Italy, in 1819\ and 1820, by Professor Molbech, of Copen. hagen, an excellent woik, in Danish, pub lished in 1822, it is observed, speaking of Austria :—" There prevails, unquestionably, a good deal of Aristocracy, in Austria ; Nobility still 'signifies something here; its splendour and its political influence have not disappeared as in France and other countries. But still the tone in Vienna allows of no striking pride or haughtiness on the part of the great. The Court, which scarcely displays' its imperial splendour once or twice in the year, is, upon the whole, extremely simple ; and the Citi zen of Vienna, who is not deficient in respect to rank, is not, however, slavish or degradingly submissive. lie is as little disposed to allow him self to be trodden in the dirt, as to imagine that the Prince and the Cobler are on the same foot ing. He entertains no exaggerated notions of the magnatis.TheA ristocracy here cannot he compared with the English ; for the Nobles have neither such immense wealth nor such immense. influence. Austria is essentially a much more Monarchical State than England. The Nobility, indeed, play an important part at the Diet, but the Emperor is not a mere shadow in the Enipire ; but two such popular Rulers as Joseph and Francis, have been a good counterpoise against the Aristocracy." [MORNING HERALD.] The general distress so long prevalent here is day by day increased. Yesterday morning opened with the an nouncement of the suspension of payment of the b an ki ng h ouse of Messrs. Everett, Walker, Maltby, and Co., in .Mansion house-street, and also of its near neighbour, the house of Messrs. Sikes, Snaith, and Co. Messrs. Everett, Walker, and Co. were intimately connected with thirteen other banks, the names of which are as under:—Chesterfield, J. Collier, Maltby, and Co, ; Croydon, Piper and Co.; Dorking, Piper and Co. ; Hastings, 'Smith and Co.;Hastings, Breeds and Co.;Mans field, Ma lt by and. Co. ; ' Qundle, Smith and Co. ; ' Reigate, Piper and Co. ; Rotherham, Walkers and Co. ; Sheffield, -Walkers and Ce.; Warminster, Everett and Co. ; Romsey, T. Sharp and Son ; Sarum, Seward, Everett, and Co.—Of Messrs. Sikes, Snaith, and Co. little is known : there was only one country bank that drew on them—that of Watkins and Son, of Daventry. We do not hear of any cause being assigned for the failure, beyond the general distress of the times. The imme diate effect of thenews of these failures, added to those of Sir Claude Scott and Co. (the West End branch bank of Williams and Co.), and of Messrs. Whittaker the booksellers, caused an immediate decline in Consols of full one per cent., but it was difficult to make a'price for any Stock; even the most daring speculators were compelled to suspend operations. In the meantime the Money Stock Market was in a still worse situa tion, for Stock to a most enormous amount was brought on the Market, but. money could not be procured to bity it. The French Funds coming lower, and yesterday being the tirstday of the advance of the rate of discount by the Bank Directors, tended to increase the distress, and happy was the man who could procure 'Money. Private transfers were made in Consols as low as 75:1 and 76; and Exchequer Bills were at 36 and 40 shillingo diacount. It was then announced that a Meeting was to be held at the Mansion-house of a number of first-rate Mer chants, specially summoned, at which the Lord Mayor was to preside, in order to take into consideration the desperate state of the commercial and monied interest; this circumstance, added to the Bank having been more than ordinarily liberal in the discounting of paper yesterday, slightly tended to enliven the Market, and, after much struggling, Consols reached 82 for the current Account, whilst Exchequer Bills improved to 18s. dicount. The result of the proceedings of the Meeting was not known at the close of the Market ; but all persons were anxiously. inquiring as to its result, and numbers waited beyond the usual hour of business to ascertain it , after which Consols were currently done out of doorS for the 4 ccoupt at 0.24. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEc. 14. - DE PONT V. DE TASTET.' The LORD CHANCELLOR said,. that after taking much pains with the consideration of this case, he was, of opinion that the money in question must be paid into Court. • CAUSES OF DELAY. Three of the Counsel, Mr. HEALD, Mr. HourzE,*and Mr. SCGDEX, claimed priority of Motions : each of them had one which was appoint& to be taken the first thing on!this day,. being seal-day. The dispute occasioned a conversation between the Court and the Bar of no very interesting importance. The LORD CHANCELLOR did not blame the Counsel, but he found fault with the practice of allowing several matters to be set down to be taken first on any particular day. His Lord ship also remarked the great . increase of motions latterly; and, appealing to Mr. Hart to vouch it, said, that within his time, two or three days in each term used to be enough to take mo tions, whereas now the Court could scarcely get through them all, if it were to take nothing else. One of the Counsel observed that a,practice had very much prevailed of late years of contriving td dispose of causes Upon motion. LATHAM V. PARRY. This case is to go to a higher tribunal, by means of a bill of exceptions. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DEC. 14. PETO V. FAULKNER AND OTHERS, EXECUTORS OF JOHN GOSLING, DECEASED'. Mr. GIRDLESTONE moved that an-injunction which had been granted in this ex-parte, should be dissolved. The in junction was granted upon a bill filed, in support of which affidavits had been put in, stating that, the deceased Mr. Gos ling was indebted to the plaintiff in a sum of more than four thousand pbOnds. This debt was incurred for the building of a large inn in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, called the Kent and Essex Inn, which Mr. Peto, in his trade of a builder, had erected for Mr.G . That person was lately dead, and left the defendarit, Mrs. Faulkner, who had lived with him for se veral-years previous to his decease, and a Mr. Rose of Marl borough, another defbndant, the executers of his will. The bill alleged that the defendants, without having proved the will; had proceeded to act under it, and had sold some part of the property of the deceased. • The plaintiff, therefore, under the apprehension that if they were not prevented from further deal- 1 ing with the property, he might be without the means of ob taining the payment of his debt, applied to the Court for an injunction to restrain the defendants from disposing of any part of the estate, real or personal, of which the deceased had died possessed. The bill concluded with the usual prayer, that a receiver might be a pp o i n t e d. Th e d e f en d ants Counsel now contended that the injunction could not be allowed to stand, on the ground - that the plaintifrhad not y e t ma d e o u t hi s c l a i m in such a manner as to entitle him•to any other than his corn. • mon.law remedy; and he suggested moreover, .that the .de fenanis, not having yet proved the will in the usual manner, could`not be considered executors, so as to bring them. within the jurisdiction of the Court. - • Mr. SUODEN was heard in support of the injunction. He said, that unless it were allowed to subsist, the'„plaintiff would be deprived of the only chance he bad of getting- his money; because the•delay would enable the defendants to do that which it was the object of the injunction to prevent. The VICE-CHANCELLOR thought the Court had no power to pronounce the order prayed for. Until the defendants proved the will, they could not be regarded as executors. They were, 11JweVer, under the authority of the PrerogatiVe Court, and could eithi4 be restrained from asiy misconduct, or punished if they should venture to commit it. The injunction from this Court must therefore be discharged. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, D.E.C. 14. nATHAWAY V. ;WII.LIAMSON. This was an action brought to recover 641. Bs. the value of certain newspapers, and the defence set ap was, that the de fendant was not personally responsible for the debt ; but that 'he was only liable in conjunction with his partner, a Mr. Jones. The plaintiff had served a Morning Paper upon the defendat4's house - of b us i ness i n P ac k er ' s - yar d, Basingliall-, street, from Ist June, 1818, to September, 1825, and the - charge for which amounted to 641.85. Jones had retired from his partnership with the defendant in 1820, and from this period the defendant had • 'offered to pay the plaintiff ' his de mand, referring him for his prior claims to a Mr. Adams, who, he said, had undertaken to .settle the partnership ac counts: During the period from June, 1818, to the dissolution of partnership between the defendant and Jones, the name of Williamson and Jones had been printed over the doors of the defendant's warehouses. It appeared in evidence that Jones, even whilst in the firm, had had nothing to ao with the news papers in question, but that they weie supplied to the defen dant for his personal use, and that after reading them, he had always sent them to one of his connections in Gloucestershire.— Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 64/. Bs. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 14. FRANCE V. LUCY. This was an action to recover the amount of a bill of ex_. chant;, of which the defendant was the drawer. The defendant denied his liability, on the ground that he had had no notice of the bill having been dishonoured. The bill was accepted by a banker, as an accommodation- to defendant. He had at the time funds in his banker's hands, but withdrew thetn • before the bill hicame due, and it was in consequence dishonoured. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE held that, under such circurn stances, the defendant was not entitled to receive a notice of non.paYinent—The verdict was for the plaintiff. PULLEN V. HEARN. _ -.—...,. This was an action to r ecover compensation in damages for injury suffered by plaintiff, who had been knocked down by a coach driven by defendant's servant.—Mr. MOODY opened the ca.se. Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE stated it to the Jury. It appeared from this statement, and the evidence of several witnesses, that the plaintiff, who is a horse-keeper belonging to one of, the Tring coaches, called the " Good Intent," was, in July last, standing in the street at l3erkhamstead by his coach, which was at that moment taking up a passenger. The defendant's coach (the " Young Pilot"). drove rapidly by,' and so close to the " Good Intent," as to knock the plaintiff down, by which he was much injured. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN (with whom was Mr. TALrounD) addressed the jury for the defendant, and contended that it was plaintiff's own fault, as he might have got out of the way if he had been sober that day. Several witnesses were called, who stated that the defendant's coachman ivas driving at his proper side of the road, and at a proper pace ; but that plaintiff was drunk, and fell up against the coach as it came up. There was full room between him and the coach, and he might have avoided the accident if he had been sober. The Jury, however, gave credit to the plaintiff's witnesses, and found a verdict for him—Damages 10/. FORTUNE HUNTER.—Some time ago a Gentle, man of the sister Country being determined to get a wife whoie pecuniary circumstances bore some proportion to his accom plishments, went to France upon the adventure. He laboured hard in the matter for some time without success, and was about to give it up, wben he met an old friend who asked him to his house,. at Dieppe, informing him , at . the same time, that although his lady was not ceremoniously his pro perty, she was his by all the rules of honour, and moved in the most elevated society. • The invitation was accepted, and the- hero of this story was surprised and delighted to find the sister of a gallant Admiral- of the English navy at the house. • Ile availed himself of the opportunity, was received with warmth, pressed 'his suit, and was married after a very short courtship. The couple livediu a state of the most anxious hope for a few weeks but h bap - prima MLA the arrant began to subside at the same time, and the moment of ex planation arrived at last. It then appeared that 10/. was all, they had in the world ; but the lady, whose spirits were ex tremely vivacious, desired her husband to hope for .the best, and wrote to her brother upon .the subject of their poverty.— He consented, with a sigh. Her brother replied with all the haste that might have been expected. *He rejoiced that his sis ter had united herself to so respectable a person, but added that as his father had settled all his property. upon his legitimate children, there was, unfortunately, nothing for her to expect : that he hoped she had reformed her little wild tricks, and not spent the 7001. which had been given to her by her father's re lations. This was a thunderbolt to the honour of the husband: but he had by this time ascertained that it would be advisable to be silent in the presence of his wife. They agreed to travel over to this country. They stopped to dine at,Rochester, on their Sway to London ; and after having, approached London a few miles more, the husband wi s h e d for a ghtsis of brandy and water, and the wife, desired him to put his hand in lier reticule, and take out some silver. • ne did so; and silver he certainly found, but it was silver spoons, which his amiable partner had taken at ROchester, as a recompence for an overcharge which she thought had been inflicted upon them by their landlord. The unfortunate fortune-hunter now had the additional con, viction that he had a thief for his wife. The Admiral, Upon,. hearing of the facts, resolved to do a service to his new relation and procured him a situation. in foreign service of considerable emolument.—(lllqrn.ing Paper.) , • As a characteristic of Sufeolk cheese, it is said that a vessel once laden, one half with grindstones,'and the other half with .the above commodity-, on arriving at its destination it wss fotin.d.that the rats had consumed all the grindstones but j left the cheese untou4bed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE• MANSION-HOUSE. , Ate rdol Moss AT BANKING-I-10173E5.—A boy was y-- , f o r brought up before Mr. Alderman LUCAS, (Who presideobii, a time during the absence of the Lord Mayur at the V' t he meeting), on a charge of having caused an obstruction t a d public highway : One of the City officers stated, that h been in attendance before the Banking,house of Messrs. 1 1 3, terman and Cq., in Nicholas-lane, for the purpose of ke• ing the thoroughfare- clear.- A coach had arrived with a .01 siderable sum of money, and ther e was at that time a crielicit of between two and three hundred p keefsons assembled, , cj a caused a great obstruction b e fore the door. The witness . 1 it sottio.' of his .brother, officers, exerted themselves to el', clear; but they met with the n. - ,st determined resistance:l, The prisoner was one of the fellers, and was asked torero On, but he refused, when h e was t a k en into custody. l' l bo y persons came forward to state that they believed the the was doing nothing, but going, about his business, whe a ro i, officer interfered with him most improperly. It aPp ea b i,,,i , however, when the boy hinaself was questioned, that his A i d ness was to carry a letter to the Post-office, and that he stepped down Nichola4-lane, which 'was out of his way. derman LUCAS expressed his approbation of the OfECer'S duct, and after admonishing the boy, discharged him. Police, he observed, w ere blamed for allowing such crowds 15 collect, lout when they were active in removing the idle, Pe r : o 7.,, ooffif a c p er p s ar s e ta n t t e r d es t :e a c t t s a i b m il i i l t a y r t c v r e o r w e d n s e o v f er i : i f l o e u ri n , d pe 7 so nt n i s ng eon to st : ,, ,t h e forward, as in .the present case, .and make-complaints. 4.,., in assembled round other houses. Of the ' crowd assembled this instance, not one perhapsin the Whole two or three haf c i tired w ndo h w a i cl i, an y a b w u a s t in ci e l ss fo a r t t h h o e ti h r :w t s h e t ; o a i n ,d d ina b r t y i tchlivesrisn'esisailos, she others would if they were suffered to remain, climb uP t he office, not minding the rain. GUILDHALL. serape, .HOII3E-STEALING—W. Payne, a hOrse-deater , r--orier, Dartford, appeared before Sir CitAttrals Ft.covE,o3al been account for the possession of a bla c k co b , whie" ) ,;,n stel e " traced into his hands. -The horse in ques ti on Lad jiey, along with another, from the fields belonging te? 11 " and coachmaker at Cheshunt, Herts, about six wee ° a f r a ' 053 it was discovered at Smithfield, in the preMiSeS h Or' named Ellerson, and who, when apprehened, said the o ffice' chased the animal of Mr. Payne, who was then in D ' e d in bi ,l 'Mr. Payne admitted having sold the horse, but he stat e „, wan,. defence, that he had purchased the animal of a Y° ll ''' c is named Rust, with whose. father he had dealt for tholl 3 i n , ror pounds. Rust bought it about a fortnight ago, and .s°l(s b i e su - Mr. Payne produced' persons who tlndertook to search swerable for his appearance, and he was permitted tog`! fromof Rust. Yest e rd a y, M r . Payne: produced a cert ificat f o ver, the keeper of Maidstone gaol, stating that Rust is a I' ll :, bii .with a man named B rown , and that the y had admitted I"yr. (the keeper's) pres e n ce , th at they sold the black COb Payne on the 26th Nov.—Sir C. FLOWER decmcd this nation sufficiently exculpatory on the part of PaYi l e ,ll .dence charged him. M r . K ey was di recte d to h ave a ll the so t against Rust taken at Cheshunt, and a detainer lodge d , tlg ne ing him, in case he sh ou ld escape t h e prosecut i ons a lreadY 113 " over him. MA RLItOROUGH STREET. ef PRIVATE LUNATIC ASYLUms.—Yesterday two personbt'te the names of Carter and G ar di ner, prese n te d t h e rnselvea, to be Alr.Dtiroraßn,aflitliceiallviitawgilsiitcrhathe,eanrdesetnhteedf,oramned which rrecine ste" ibea sworn cont 3 _f severe charges against a gentleman, who is the Proprietoriothe Private Lunatic Asylum at —. The Magistrate re% to affidavit with great attention, and referred to t h e Statutertbe obtain information as to the power he possessed to adminisroc• balt;and observed, th a t the horrible conduct complained o' coming to the affidavit) was committ e d un d e r the sanction ofa f iied e male, who was keeper of the mad -house alluded to. C a rter ttP e ,,, that such was the fact, a nd th a t h e h a d b een a se rvant at the I it; blishment, a nd b a d w i tnesse d t h e t reatment stateclin the ata' B ,„g belled heard of the cruelties practised there p r ior to his engaPo-se himself as servant, an d he engaged himself m - e rely for the , n r s Pk e t! of discovering the truth o f the allegations.—Alr. fr""" e tiset` 'Mr. Carter`h ow h e came to hear of a tr o cities being P.--rriea there ?'lfe replied, that a young woman whom he had tu , had lived servant in the..establishment, at the head °J the was - Mrs. --, and she (his w if e ) informed him (bog major part of the'facts stated in his affidavit.---M r ' t el. interrogated Mr. Cart er further, as to his witnessing the 'led ties which were detailed in ,his affidavit. Mr. Carter greeds that he,had, and said, that many of the patients, wil'' se l i t paid nine guineas a week for their board, - . Ste. " re -- n e tatO starved ; he had seen them pick up crumbs, and eat {' con parings. Mr. Gardiner, the other applicant, said that t I,lr , duct of Mrs. -- was notoriousl cruel and unteclirg' of Dyrx asked how many 'patients there under the care , 0 the said female ? Ile was informedthavitethere were th i rty' ladies and gentlemen.—Mr. DYER asked if th ere i 7,i>rrtv apothecary belongin g t o the establishment ? He WS • ' l OO ed that there was not, and that the patients were more , T d of a supply of food titan of }nedicine.—Mr. DYER as k , - „f Carter if he was fully prepared to substantiate the tru'L , v, ta a whenever the th A e lr ii C ag ar is t t e r r ti r te epl r i e e ci d ui t r h ed at , h w e it w h as tile and ey id e nce•--4` t y of every man, and more Particularly DYER—If what'you have stated be true, it is the bounden doss an immediate investigation - into the - charges; I shall t nrai nitY cause an inquiry to be instituted, and give you 8n . ° PP„",,r ye s davit. In about a week I shall be re o a f d a y of proVing the truth of the statement contained m w elt" W olllt l .fr. to at te 'oha amintition.—Mr. Carter and his friend promised the time required.—Mr. DYER said that such pract tpre not be made too .public, fbr humanity shuddered at to narration of such atrocities. to ge.titBtterr3tien'tobwiter_e,:ar4, UNION-HA LL. nic' ai . Two young gentlemen, rivals of Viirene) end Ileeve• 4 l,4 (153' w or i t i l o y to flourish in the annals'of " Life in London," were 'l l OO brought up from the Surrey watch-house, charge] by a o che' the acts p w ar h t i i c e h s . with having taken . !::..?.. plates ofF the coach, and varicui to after being reprimanded. - , otit' , William Ilarris was charged with having stolen 0 'llOO msuakternreedn by their eir H f a o v n iz itnhaeydesrveepraeradtiioctgruged of wearing apparel and a counterpane, the property of 1, b 0 Swinges, of South La m b e th. Hi s c ompanion was rescue( ho, Will not lon g escape , as t h e o ffi cers are on the alert afteirvor-. They obtained admi ss i on by ta ki ng a l a dder from a neig I le of ing hay-stack,'and succee d e d i n secur i ng a b o ut two ban n f :jfr• clothes. The pri soner state d t h at h e l e ft the eirrloY. ° ,,d li: Stewart, of Forest-hill, on Saturday last, and reeeis-„,hic., wages.. He gave a confused strtemerit of the mann er 'a I . he passed his time since that period.-=Remanded one '''' ' rn L i ng . SINGULAR ESCAPE.--Soin . e boys - ;7,1f0 i-str e noise, 'caused a horse. to take fright in Gu ll '• - y - c c t r i ' h ,. a: /o tic , Borough, yesterday evening, which was hell by great e , v l er e 16 years- of age.. • The animal went:on with the city for some:minutes ; a child, cnssing the,t4reet nor : i dle 0' started from, in endeavouring to escape, fell in t he inur four the road, and th e horse cleared it• with a leap by thre e o , ern s feet. _Providenti a lly, no :accident . occurred--the; I ' Or , v3 s r e stopped by being turned up a yard to which.the re thoroughfare. I, ,, A nfi ß e K k ;Ez io , , • Eiiiin g worth, c° 4ls A r,(l2l -.wylain, 39s 6d—Walls Bud 1.1% 40s—ilar r3t° Ships at market -5 Sqps 'ol :BIRTHS. . On Monday, the 12th inst., at Burton-lodge , near I , e cjs, s tlit wife of Mr. Robert Busk, of a son. laug h"' On Monday, the 12th inst., Mrs. H. Teape, of a On Tuesday kilt, at Gosforth.Chtirch, ' :111ARR MTh the Rev. John Collinson, A. 111., Rector of G a te , •hea 4l, ,,..„ of S Tr William Hawks, 8.C.L., Rector of Gateshead l'ell , • An na' Robert Shafto Hawks, of Neweastle-upon-Tyne, t eldest daughter of Joseph Croser, Esq., of that. town. 1 N i g t!t4 . On the 6U inst., at St. George's Bloomsbury, Sar°esielnof.'' ingale, of Museum-street, to Mary l Aim Smith, a St* t sr , Museum -street, Kent. ' t ree., 1 4. . On the 14th. inst ., at. St. Stephen's, Colenntr'S 10 03 Charles Ebsworth,,to Eliza, youngest ,daughter of the Riley, Esq., of Abbey-hous L l' - I Y • ,e-n-o , ( se • _____....--'''' N 0t t 1 1 u al b e rt h t : r e (I li ,04 , . Brews S } u 7.B n q d . a , y o . f t th i _ m a t place, DIED. p , - cottt e lver, Bucks, Dlrs.,Jane Kent, ' lltli inst , at her residence, 6 2P '. 'el i'' . sister eche late ivatnat:iii,A ei, London, cr. j 3, On the Ist of October, at Quebec Ostate,, St- inear bc° and of Lime-street, malca, Thomas Quin, Esq.; of hir• Alajesty's late , Regiment, aged 36. •' le 0 hoo ° a~• On Friday, e 9th inst. in her 2-ttlt year, Maria. t ele poP Josephtßaker, E`sq., of York-buildings, New-road, lth ' he S°l4 Printed and Published for the PuornIETOUS , 3t IRS, OFFICE, OFFICE, No, 112, Strand, by j..D, CAnsT